De thi hoc ki 2

The Second Term Test
(Time: 30 minnutes)
A- PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM (7đ):
I. Choose the word of which the stressed syllable is different from the others.
1.
A. ability
B. activity
C. accompany
D. entertainment
2.
A. president
B. possible C. astronaut D. engineer
II. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the
others.
3.
A. miles
B. words
C. accidents D. tensions
4.
A. without B. earth
C. death
D. thank
III. Choose the correct answer that best completes the sentence.
5. Only 489 athletes took part in the first Asian Games.
A. participated in B. got rid of C. gave up D. added to
6. I often collect stamps in my free time.
A. spare
B. bed
C. allotted D. engaged
7. Which is the most popular recreation _________summer?
A. for

B. at C. on D. in
8. A/ An _________is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.
A. engineer
B. scientist C. astronaut D. technical
9. My father was a very clever man. He _________speak 5 languages.
A. wasn’t able to B. could
C. isn’t able to
D. can
10. I am late, _________?
A. am not I B. aren’t I
C. don’t I
D. won’t I
11. You have got a new car, _________?
A. do you B. don’t you C. aren’t you
D. haven’t you
12. I _________play football now, but when I was young I_________play very well.
A. am able to/ was able to
B. cannot/ could
C. am not able to/ was not able to
D. can/ was able to
13. A: “Would you like something to drink?” -B: “_________.”
A. No, I won’t.
B. Not at all
C. I’m not thirsty. Thank you.
D. Yes, I will.
14. Alice: “Mike, can you take these books back to the library for me? I’m running late.”
Tom: “_________.”
A. I’m late too. Sorry B. No.
C. Never mind.
D. No, I don’t.

15. Linda: “Excuse me! Where’s the post office?” - Maria: “_________.”
A. It’s over there B. Don’t worry
C. I’m afraid of
D. Yes. I think so
16. The man_________the bank is a millionaire.
A. is entering
B. entering C. to be entered
D. enters
17. Research and teaching are of _________ importance.
A. equal
B. equally
C. equality D. equalize
IV. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, or D that needs correcting.
18. Either you or John are going to help Peter with his work.
A
B
C
D
19. It was the event that had talked about a lot.
A
B
C
D
20. John neither plays football and runs fast.
A
B
C
D
V. Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.
21. Yuri Gagarin/ born/ Russia/ March 9, 1934.

A. Yuri Gagarin was born in Russia in March 9, 1934.
B. Yuri Gagarin was born on Russia on
March 9, 1934.
C.Yuri Gagarin was born in Russia on March 9, 1934.
D. Yuri Gagarin was born on Russia in
March 9, !934.
18. She likes both ice-cream and candies.
A. She likes not only ice-cream but also candies.
C. She doesn’t both like ice-cream or
candies.


B. She doesn’t like neither ice-cream nor candies.
D. She likes either ice-cream or candies.
19. She is intelligent, and she is beautiful.
A. She is not intelligent nor beautiful.
B. She is both intelligent and beautiful.
C. She is neither intelligent nor beautiful.
D. She is either intelligent or beautiful.
VI. Read the text carefully and then choose the correct answer
We are all slowly destroying the Earth. The seas and the rivers are too dirty to swim
(24)_________. There is so much smoke in the air that it is (25)_________to live in many of
the world’s cities. In one famous city, for (26)_________, poisonous exhaust from cars pollute
the air so much that traffic policemen have to wear oxygen masks.
We have to cut down so many trees that there are now vast areas of waste land
all over the world. As a (27)_________, farmers in parts of Africa can not grow enough to eat. In
certain countries in Asia there is too little rice. We must act now before it is too late to do
anything about it. Save the (28)_________!
24.
A. in

B. on
C. from
D. to
25.
A. healthy
B. health
C. unhealthy
D.
healthily
26.
A. as
B. example
C. so
D. that
27.
A. result
B. complete
C. end
D. last
28.
A. Moon
B. Sun
C. Mars
D. Earth
B- PHẦN TỰ LUẬN (3đ)
VII. Do as directed.
29. A leg injury prevented him from active participation in the (compete) __________________.
(Give the correct form of the word in the bracket.)
30. She doesn’t know. She doesn’t care what happened. ( Using “Neither … nor …”)
 _____________________________________________________________________________

31. My parents go to the cinema. My cousins go to the cinema. (Using “Not only … but also …”)
 _____________________________________________________________________________
32. I wanted to see different kinds of paintings at the Trang Tien exhibition. (Using “It was…that…”)
 _____________________________________________________________________________
33. My son has just learned some of irregular verbs by heart. ( Using “It is … that …..” in passive)
 _____________________________________________________________________________
34. The letter which was left in the mailbox was for me. (Reduce relative pronoun.)

_____________________________________________________________________________
35. She had some close friends. She wanted to send her cards to them.(Combine sentences using
relative pronoun.)

_____________________________________________________________________________
VIII. Read the passage and answer the questions.
When you have a post-office box, the postman does not bring letters to you, but you go to the
post office and get your letters and parcels from your box. The box is locked, and you have the key,
so the letters are quite safe.
One day, the headmaster of a school wrote to the post office and asked for a post-office box for
his school. He soon got an answer. It said, “We will give you a post-box in one month.” Three months
later, the headmaster wrote to the post office again and said, “Why haven’t we got a post- office box
yet?”
This was how the post office answered: “Dear sir, We gave you a post-office box two months
ago and wrote to you then to tell you. Here is the key to your box. You will find your letter to you in
it.”
36. What happens when you have a post-office box?
 _____________________________________________________________________________
37. Why are letters safe when they are in a post-office box?
 _____________________________________________________________________________
38. Why did the headmaster write to the post office?
 _____________________________________________________________________________

39. Why did he write to the post office three months later?
 _____________________________________________________________________________
40. Did the headmaster receive the key to his post-box?
 _____________________________________________________________________________


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