STRUCTURE - PREPOSITION Choose the letter of the correct answer: 20m 11.. said that if he had asked me, I would have accepted B.. told me if he had asked me, she would have accepted C.
Trang 1THE FISRT-SEMESTER EXAM
GRADE: 11 TIME ALLOTTED: 90’
I PHONETICS
A Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others: (5m)
B Choose the word which has a different stress syllable: (5m)
II STRUCTURE - PREPOSITION
Choose the letter of the correct answer: (20m)
11 Can I speak _ Jenny? Is she _? No, she’s _
12 I’m writing to complain _ the poor service provided _ your restaurant
13 The Internet allows accessing _ information stored _ other computers far _
14 “If he had asked you, would you have accepted?” she said to me She _
A said that if he had asked me, I would have accepted
B told me if he had asked me, she would have accepted
C asked me whether I would have accepted if he had asked me
D asked me whether I would accept if he asked me
15 ¼ is read _ and ½ is read _
16 Robert _ tomorrow morning on the 10:30 train
17 “How did you enjoy your dinner with Mr Jackson?” “It was boring He talked only about himself, _ almost put us to sleep.”
18 “I would keep a horse if I could afford it,” my uncle said My uncle _
A said that he would keep a horse if he could afford it
B said that he would have kept a horse if he could have been afforded it
C told that he would keep a horse if he could afford it
Trang 2D asked that he will keep a horse if he can afford it
19 They asked me a lot of questions, _ I couldn’t answer
20 One of the children who _ the windows _ in the suburb
21 _ many times, he still couldn’t understand it
22 _, we would have to put off the visit to the Marble Mountains
23 Despite their team _, they _ the match
24 If you hadn’t watched that late movie last night, you _ sleepy now
25 _ no proof, the judge refused to sentence him to death
26 The population of cities in Eastern and Northern areas of the United States is declining, while _ Southern cities is growing
27 She was singing an old American folk song, a favorite of _
28 Could I speak to Susan, please? _
29 Is Dane in? No, he’s out _?
30 Mr Brown _ his newspapers in the evenings Mrs Brown _ but she _ tonight
A is always reading / sometimes knits / doesn’t knit
B has always read / has sometimes knitted / knits
C always reads / sometimes knits / isn’t knitting
D always read / sometimes knit / has knitted
III MISTAKE-RECOGNITION
Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that need correcting: (10m)
31 We (A) must do (B) something (C) Until we act quickly, (D) it’ll be too late
32 Let’s meet (A) ourselves at 8 o’clock, (B) shall we? (C) Everyone should make sure to be (D) on time
33 My father said (A) that if I (B) left the next day, I (C) could have met him in Paris (D) on Friday
34 Can you (A) name some (B) countries (C) which English is spoken (D) as the first language?
Trang 336 (A) Two-third of (B) the field (C) in my village was (D) under water
37 Why (A) didn’t you come to my party? It will be difficult (B) to forgive you (C) for (D) breaking your promise
38 The letter (A) that I (B) opened it wasn’t for me It was (C) just an accident I didn’t (D) mean it
39 Antarctica (A) covered (B) with a huge ice cap containing (C) 70 percent of the (D) earth’s fresh water
40 The person (A) from whom Sue bought (B) her bike was (C) a 82-year-old woman from (D) Germany
IV READING
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each question below: (10m)
According to the census of 1800, the United States of America contained 5,308,483 persons
In the same year, the British Islands contained upwards of fifteen million; the French Republic more than twenty-seven million Nearly one fifth of the American people were black slaves; the true political population consisted of four and a half million free whites, or less than one million able-bodied males, on whose shoulders fell the burden of a continent Even after two centuries of struggle, the land was still untamed; forests covered every portion, except here and there a strip of cultivated soil; the minerals lay undisturbed in their rocky beds, and more than two-thirds of the people clung to the seaboard within fifty miles of tidewater, where alone the wants of civilized life could be supplied
41 In the United States of America in 1800, _
A one out of every twenty-five Americans was a black slave
B one out of every four Americans was a black slave
C one out of every three Americans was a black slave
D one out of every five Americans was a black slave
42 Free white men in America numbered _
43 Two-thirds of the American people _
A lived where the wants of civilized life couldn’t be supplied
B lived in Washington
C lived on the seaboard
D live within fifteen miles of tidewater
44 The struggle to tame the American continent had been going on _
45 This description of the United States in 1800 suggests that _
A most of the new nation was undeveloped
B the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent
C strip of cultivated land were everywhere
D settlers were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new nation
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Fill in each blank with one appropriate word (10m)
Among the festivals celebrated (46) _ some of Asian people is the Moon Cake Festival, also known (47) _ the Mid-August Festival Large (48) _ of small round moon cakes (49) _ eaten on this day, and children (50) _ carrying colourful paper lanterns that come in all shapes; the more popular (51) _ are shaped like fish, rabbits, and butterflies (52) _ to them, the moon (53) _ brightest on the night of the Moon Cake Festival As the moon (54) _, tables are placed outside the houses and women make offerings of fruit and moon cake (55) _ the Moon Goddess
VI WORD FORMS
Put the word in brackets in the correct form: (10m)
56 They are considering the _ of the new system (IMPLEMENT)
57 The room was _ small (DISAPPOINT)
58 China gains a lot of benefits from their _ priced good (COMPETE)
59 She is a much loved and highly _ teacher (RESPECT)
60 They went hiking in a _ region (MOUNTAIN)
61 The _ of computer data along telephone lines becomes very popular (TRANSMIT)
62 It was a long and slow film I nearly died of _ (BORE)
63 The club provides a variety of _ including tennis, swimming and squash (ACT)
64 The changes were made with _ little difficulty (SURPRISE)
65 Don’t behave _ (CHILD)
VII SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence: (20m)
66 Thanks to Laura’s support, I was able to finish the project
Had Laura ………
67 She urged her husband to write the letter
She urged that ………
68 I want to see the manager, not his assistant
It is ………
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The day ………
71 Arthur said he was sorry he had hurt my feelings Arthur apologized ………
72 They had finished their work and they went home After having ………
73 They are going to brush up a little Spanish Spanish is ………
74 They are friendly people and everyone likes them They are such ………
75 Most of the world’s coffee comes from Brazil Brazil is the place ………
VIII WRITING Imagine “Get-together 2008” in Ly Tu Trong Specialized High School is coming near and you are one of the class leaders Write a proposal (about 100 words) for the celebration of that day (10m) ………
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