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Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.. Read the article below and put a cross on the letter next to the word that best fits each space.. As far as I am concerned,

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LEVEL: PRE-INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE

I Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

1 Darwin was a brilliant scientist in the nineteenth century.

II.Read the passage and then choose one answer for each of the following questions:

Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived during a period of earth’s history called the Mesozoic Era,which is also known as the Age of Reptiles The first dinosaurs appeared more than 200 million years ago For many millions of years, they dominated the land with their huge size and strength Then about 65 million years ago, they died out rather suddenly, never to reemerge.The word “dinosaurs” comes from two Greek words meaning “terrible lizards”, but their appearance could be truly terrifying The biggest ones weighed more than ten times as much as

a mature elephant and nearly equaled the size of most modern day whales The famous kinds of dinosaurs, including the brontosaur and tyrannosaurus rex, reached 80 to 90 feet in length Not all dinosaurs were giants, however; some were actually not larger than a chicken

Scientists still do not know what caused dinosaurs to disappear One theory involves a change in the earth’s climate It is believed that temperatures dropped significantly towards the end of the Cretaceous Period Too large to hibernate and not having fur or feathers for protection, it is possible that the climate became too chilly for dinosaurs In contrast, other species having protection, such as the mammals and birds, were able to survive

1.What is the best title for this passage?

a.The History of Parth

b.Parth’s Largest Reptiles.

c.The Metabolism of Dinosaurs

d.The Momination of the land

2.It can be inferred from the passage that the Age of Reptiles lasted about 135 million years.

a 135 million years.

c 80 million years

b 200 million years

d 65 million years.

3 In line 6, the author use the phrase “never to reemerge” to indicate that the dinosaurs became extinct.

a went into hiding

c lost their way

b became extinct

d never died out

4.According to the passage, what is true about the size of dinosaurs?

a.It was rather uniform

b.It guaranteed their survival

c.It made them the largest creatures ever on earth

d.It varied quite greatly.

5 The paragraph following the passage most likely discusses another theory about the

disappearance of dinosaurs.

a.the ability of mammals to survive

b.other changes in the climate

c.another theory about the disappearance of dinosaurs.

d.the protection of other species

III Read the article below and put a cross on the letter next to the word that best fits each space.

Dear Editor,

I went to Newzealand on a student programme last year and I’d like to (1) tell you about it It was very (2) excited when I knew I was going to Newzealand because I had never been there before I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English (3) until I met my host family At

first I couldn’t communicate with them because my English was so bad All the eight years I

(4)had been learning wasn’t much use at all, (5) because we didn’t have real practice at school

Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t My problem is pronouncing “I” and “r” For example, Newzealand people often asked “What do you eat in Thailand?” I wanted

to tell them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice” My host mum

helped me a lot by (6) correcting my bad pronunciation I usually practiced by talking to

myself when I had a shower, so no one could hear me After four months my English was

(7) muchbetter Apart (8) from English I learn to make my own breakfast and lunch I had to

ride a bicycle to school everyday I went swimming and tried water-skiing and sailing,

(9) which was wonderful But the most valuable thing was that I learn to be (10) by myself and

When you are (1) invited to a meal in Thailand, the words of the invitation literally (2) meancome and eat rice Indeed, nearly all Thai (3) dishes are eaten with rice, (4) which grows there very easily (5) as the climate is warm and there is (6) plenty of rain The food is always (7) served in neatly cut pieces, so there is no (8) need to knives and forks but, instead, (9) special spoons and forks are used The Thais used to eat with their (10) hands and there are still some people who eat this way There is a particular way of doing

it First they wash their right hand in a bowl of (11) water they only eat with their right hand They are careful not to let the food (12)tough the palm of their hand After the meal, the hand is

again carefully washed

The meal is usually made up (13) of several different dishes, all of which are spicy They are served in bowls which everyone shares, (14) though each person has their own bowl of rice As Thailand has a long coastline, it is not surprising that fish and shellfish (15) play an important

part in Thai cooking

V Use the word to make sentences.

1 I / remember / see / Dr Nam / television / times

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I remember seeing Dr Nam on television several times 2 parents / used / drink tea / dinner

My parents used to drink tea after dinner 3 take / them / years / build / bridge

It took them 3 years to build the bridge 4 accident / happen / while / drive / highway

The accident happened while he was driving on a highway 5 When / meet / her / talking / teacher

When I met her she was talking to the teacher 6 you / hear news / radio / this mornings ?Did you hear the news on the radio this mornings ? 7 book / interesting / that / read / twiceThe book was so interesting that I have read it twice

8.We / not know / when / manager / return We do not know when the manager returns

9.doctor / whom / see / party / friend

The doctor whom you saw at the party is my friend 10 train / arrive / Hanoi / in hour

The train will arrive in Hanoi in one hour

VI Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one printed before it.

1 Couldn’t you find a better hotel?

Is this the best hotel you could find?

2.John began playing the piano ten years ago John has been playing the piano for ten years.3.They won’t be able to come on Sunday

It will be impossible for them to come on Sunday 4 Se needs to study harder

She doesn’t study hard enough

5.I only paid a few hundred pounds for the car The car cost me only a few hundred pounds.6.My mother made these curtains

These curtains were made by my mother

COMPOSITION

Which season of the year do you like best? Why ?

(Mùa nào trong nămlàmbạn thấythích nhất? Tại sao?)

I was born in Northern VietNam, where are four clear seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Each season has its own charms and attractions For example, Spring is the season which offers beautiful flowers and warm weather; Summer is the season of nice holidays when

we can enjoy lots of outdoor activities such as picnicking, camping, swimming, fishing etc… Autumn is so beautiful with its ideal weather while Winter can give us such delight as gathering

by a fire to chat or tell each other funny stories As far as I am concerned, I like Autumn best

because of the following reasons:

During Autumn, which lasts more or less from late July to early October, it is sunny most of the time The Autumnal sun is often splendid, dying nature yellow The weather is also ideal because it is not too cold nor too hot Then the coldish northwesterly wind, which blows gently, thrills everyone with the breath of Autumn The leaves of the trees turning yellow or red put a gorgeous coat of colours on nature Autumn is such a wonderful season that many poems and songs have

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been composed to sing the praises of the season Autumn is also a season which reminds me of

my first day at school, when my mother took me by the hand and led me to school for the first time

Last but not least, Autumn is the time when I can enjoy my favourite fruit and dish which are the Japanese persimmons and the green rice flakes These are found only in Autumn

TEST 4

LEVEL: PRE-INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE

I Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

1 My mother can’t stand seeing me at home all day

Had they arrived at the fair early, they would have found what they wanted.

a would have found

II Read the passage and then choose one answer for each of the following questions:

Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world An Arab traveller in India in the year

900 wrote that it was played “long, long ago” Chess was probably invented in India, and it has been played everywhere from Japan to Europe since 1400 The name “chess” is interesting When one player is attacking the other’s King, he says in English, “Check”; when the King has been caught and cannot move anywhere he says “Check mate” These words come from Persian “Shah mat” means” the king is dead”, that is when the game is over and one player has won

Such an old game changes very slowly The ruler have not always been the same as they are now For example, at one time the queen could only move one square at a time Now she is the strongest piece on the board It would be interesting to know why this has happened! Chess takes time and thought, but it is a game for all kinds of people You don’t have to be a champion in order to enjoy it It is not always played by two people sitting at the same table The first time the Americans beat the Russians was in a match played by radio Some of the chess masters are able to play many people at the same time The record was when one man played 400 games! It is said that some people play chess by post This must make chess the slowest game in the world

1.Which of the following is known to be true?

a.Chess is an old Indian travelling game

b.Chess is the oldest game in the world

c.Chess was played in Japan and Europe before 1400

d.Chess was played in India long before 900

2.One player has won the game when the other player’s King can not move anywhere.

a.he attacks the other player’s King

b.he says some Persian words

c.the other player’s King can not move anywhere

d.he says “check” to the r other player

3.According to the old rules of the game the queen could move no more than one square at a time.

a.the queen was the attacked all the time

b.the King had to attacked all the time

c.the queen could move no more than one square at a time

d.the king could not move anywhere

4.Which of the following will you hear when one player has won the game?

a “Shah mat”

c “the King is dead”

b “check”

d “check mate

5 Which of the following is NOT correct?

a.All kinds of people can play chess

b.only two people can play chess sitting at the same table.

c.Some people write each other playing chess

d.The Russians lost the game player by radio

III Read the article below and put a cross on the letter next to the word that best fits each space.

Should smoking be banned in public laces?

Statistics (1) show beyond doubt that cigarette smoking can (2) damage the health, yet a surprisingly large number of people continue to smoke (3) in spite of all warnings By doing so

they are not just shortening their own lives, they are also affecting the health of

(4) those around them It is time that non-smokers fought bach!

Personally, I think smoking should (5) definitely be banned in public places In the first place, it is very unpleasant (6) to sit in a smoke-filled room, such as a restaurant or cinema, if you do not yourself smoke (7) added to this, smoking can be a serious fire risk, especially in crowed places (8) like discos Finally, in my opinion, nobody should be asked to risk his heath

just because of another person’s bad habits

Smokers may (9) protest that they should be free to do as they like They say that we already

have no-smoking areas in public places, and that this should be enough To my mind, however,non-smokers should also be free to go anywhere they choose without risking their health

Smoking is harmful not just to smokers but to non-smokers too If some people are foolish enough to continue this dangerous habits, it seems to me that they should at least be prevented

(10) from doing so in public.

IV Fill in each gap in the passage below with one suitable word.

For over a hundred years, the (1) people of London have gone to bed and (2) got up in the morning to the deep sounds of the world (3) famous bell called Big Ben The (4) bell appeared

in Westminster Tower a year before the clock, in 1858 It (5) weighs 13.5 tons, and it is the (6)largest bell in all England.

As we have (7) mentioned the clock that the bell serves appeared one year later, in 1859 Each of the clock’s four (8) faces is almost 6.5 metres (9) in deameter The munute hand is over

4 metres

(10)long and weighs over 100 kilograms.

(11)Although the clock is so big, it is very exact, it is seldom more than one second (12)wrong in 1924 hours English scientists use an original method to correct (13) mistake in

the clock There is a small tray in the middle of the pendulum.If the clock is running slow, they

put a penny coin in the tray, and the clock begins to run (14) faster If the clock begins to run fast, they take (15) away the penny The little coin is enough to make the giant clock run a

second faster or slower every day

V Use the word to make sentences.

Dear Betty

1.Thank you / invite me / your birthday party Thank you for inviting me to your birthday party.2.I / afraid / not be able / come

I’m afraid I’m not able to come

3.We / have / many things to do / this week We have got many things to do this week

4.The boss / ask / me / work overtime

The boss asked me to work overtime

5 I / promise / do so / and / have to keep / promise

I promise to do so and have to keep my promise

6 I / wish / can go to party

I wish I coould go to the party

7 If I / be there / all of us / have good time

If I were there, all of us would have good time

8 I’ll be thinking / you / when I / type / piles of letters

I’ll be thinking of you when I type these piles of letters

9 I / hope / your party / a success

I hope your party will be a success 10 I / wish happy returns

I wish you many happy returns

VI Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one printed before it.

1 He started investigating the case a week ago

He has been investigating the case for a week.

2.I’m quite sure that she didn’t steal the necklace She can’t have stolen the necklace.

3.The flat’s very noisy but we enjoy living there/

Even though the flat’s very noisy we enjoy living here.

4.“If I were you I wouldn’t trust Peter”, she told John She advised John not to trust Peter.

5.She is a far serious student now than she used to be She studies far more seriously now than she used to.

6.Your car does not give as much trouble as mine

Your car gives less trouble than mine.

COMPOSITION Smoking damages our health

(Smoking is harmful to our health)

(Việc hút thuốc có hạiđến sức khoẻ củachúng ta)

Over the last thirty years, thanks to the efforts of various branches of science and technology, research has proved that smoking damages health and shortens man’s life-span

According to a diagram released by the World’s Health Organization (WHO), the number of people who die of diseases connected to smoking is increasing more and more The more

science and technology learn, the more damage caused by smoking is discovered Therefore, it seems that we can never put a final stop to the list of harm caused by smoking.

First of all, smoking brings about the decline of our memory because each cigarette we smoke destroys 15,000 cerebral cells

Smoking is considered the number one cause of cardio-vascular trouble, pneumonia, lung cancer etc … The main offending agents are carbon monoxide and nicotine in the smoke These9

cancer – causing agents are also the ones which cause pharyngeal cancer The toxic effects of smoke make the smoker’s voice hoarse Additionally, the visible effect is that the tobacco or opium tar sticks to the teeth, and causes them to become dark or dirty-yellow, diminishing our good looks and charm

In conclusion, I would like to quote our well-known scholar “Le Quy Don” as saying some hundred years ago that smoking was like taking a toxic drug, the smoke of which wasted our health and diminished our life-span; yet, few people heeded his sage advice

TEST 5

LEVEL: PRE-INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE

I Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

The three friends all applied for the same job.

d both b and c are correct

11 I managed to find the book I was looking for.

13 Did anyone clean the windows?

No, they should have been cleaned but they weren’t

a.should clean

b.should have been cleaned

c.should have cleaned

c had been studying

b has been studying

d would have studied

c being rewritten

b to rewrite

d rewriting

II Read the passage and then choose one answer for each of the following questions:

The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things: the invention oflabor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce “In Europe,” said Thomas Jefferson, “the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant.” It was in the United States, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth- century agricultural machinery first came

At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs; by 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow As early as 1790 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune introducing his invention The formers, howerer, were not interested in it, claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow Nevertheless, many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in

1869 James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow

1.What is the main topic of the passage?

a.The need for agricultural advances to help feed a growing population

b.The development of safer machines demanded by the labor movement

c.Machinery that contributed to the agricultural revolution.

d.New Jersey as a leader in the agricultural revolution

2.The expression “make the most of” in line 5 is closest in meaning to get the best yield from a.get the best yield from.

b.raise the price of

c.exaggerate the worth of

d.earn a living on

3.Which of the following can be inferred from what Thomas Jefferson said (lines 4-6)?

a.Europe was changing more quickly than the United States

b.Europe had greater need of farm machinery than the United States did

c.The United States was finally running out of good farmland

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d.There was a shortage of workers on United States farms.

4.What point is the author making by stating that farmers could carry nearly all their tools on their

backs?

a.Farmers had few tools before agricultural revolution.

b.People in the United States were traditionally self-reliant

c.Life on the farm was extremely fifficult

d.New tools were designed to be portable

5.According to the passage, which of the following statements about Charles Newbold is true?a.He was James Olive’s assistant

b.He was born in Europe.

c.He was opposed to scientific agriculture

d.He spent his own money to promote his invention.

III Read the article below and put a cross on the letter next to the word that best fits each space.

When you (1) shop for a new car, you should start by using consumer magazines You can find them is the (2) reference section of a library You can read about the advantages and disadvantages of each new car and get (3) an idea of how much you should pay When you decide (4) on which make and (5)model you want to buy, you should go to a dealer and test- drive the car to see (6) if you like it The salesperson will tell you the sticker price You should bargain with the salesperson and make (7) an offer based on what you learned from the

consumer magazines Then you should go to one or two other dealers to see if you can get a better price Sometimes you have to go back and for the several times between dealers to bargain for the best price

When you agree on a price with a salesperson, you usually have to leave a small

(8) depositThe salesperson writes up a contract that you both have to sign When the dealer (9) delivers the car, you have to pay the balance or get a loan Most people make a down

payment and take out a loan for the rest You can get a loan from a bank or sometimes from the

auto company You can (10) pay off the loan over o period of time, usuallly from two five

well Is this idea fact or myth?

Is it true that children learn a foreign language more efficiently than adults? On the

(5) contrary, research studies suggest that the opposite may be true One report, on 2,000 Danish children studying Swedish, (6) concluded that the teenagers learned more, in less time,

than the younger children Another report, on Americans learning Russian, showed a direct improvement of

(7) ability over the (8) age range tested, that is, the ability to learn increased as the age (9)increased, from childhood to adulthood.

There are several possible (10) explanations for these (11) findings For one thing, adults

know more about the world and therefore are able to understand meanings more easily than

children Moreover, adult can use (12) logical thingking to help themselves see pattern in the

language Finally, adults have more self-discipline than children

All in all, it seems that the (13) cammon idea that children are better language (14) learnersthan adults may not be facts, (15) but myth.

V Use the word to make sentences.

1 I / happy / get / letter

I am happy to get your letter 2 How long / you / waiting / answer

How long have you been waiting for the answer? 3 When / I / her / talking / John

When I saw her she was talking to John 4 father / impossible / home / lunch

My father finds it impossible to come home for lunch 5 He’ll / seventeen / old / SaturdayHe’ll be seventeen years old next Saturday 6 I / interested / films / children

I am interested in films for children 7 advise / not / to go to / bus next time

He advise me not to go to by bus next time 8 jacket / small / not fit / me

The jacket is so small that is doesn’t fit me 9 We / go / airport / meet him / tomorrow

We will go to the airport to meet him tomorrow 10 After / I / entered / house / it / to rain.After I had entered the house it began to rain

VI Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one printed before it.

1 I was drowning, but he saved me

If he hadn’t saved me I would have drowned.

2.Sally is the cleverest student in the class Nobody in the class is cleverer than Sally.

3.I have never read such a romantic story

This is the most romantic story I have ever read.

4 We can’t afford to buy the car

The car is too expensive (for us) to by.

5 His parents make him study for his exams

He was made to study for the exams by his parents.

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6 We started cooking for the party four hours ago

We have been cooking for the party for four hours.

COMPOSITION

Describe your best friend and tell why you like him/her

(Mô tả một người bạn tốtnhất của bạn và nói tại sao bạn thíchcô/cậu ấy)

Of all my friends, Thanh Lan is my best friend since we enjoy each other’s company so much that we’ll miss each other greatly if we don’t meet at least once a week Thanh Lan is twenty-twoyears old but everyone thinks she looks much younger She’s not so pretty but she’s charming She has a fair complexion that makes her look very healthy, here eyes are clear and expressive

She is a very reliable, mature girl with a great sense of humour She is very earth”and is often shy She has been with me in both good and bad times to either rejoice over something with me or to comfort me She has a strong personality with crystal clear view of

“down-to-“right and wrong” She’s an honest, a loyal and a warm humanitarian Some people wonder how we can become such good friends because she is so quiet and I’m very energetic and outgoing I think (that) the idiom “opposites attract” is the answer

TEST 6

LEVEL: PRE-INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE

I Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

1 It is of immense size It is huge

16.Children can be instructed in swimming.They can be taught how to swim

a learnt to swim

c taught how to swim

b learnt swimming

d learnt how to swim

17 They can be instructed in swimming in spite of the fact that they are very young a in spite

c in spite of

b.in spite of the fact that d despite

18.I would like to visit Australia some time in the future.

II Read the passage and then choose one answer for each of the following questions:

Every year about two million people visit Mount Rushmore, where the faces of four U.S presidents were carved in granite by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son, the late Lincoln Borglum The creation of the Mount Rushmore monument took 14 years-from 1927 to 1941-andnearly a million dollars There were times when money was difficult to come by and many people were jobless To move the more than 400,000 tons of rock, Borglum hired laid-off workers from the closed-down mines in the Black Hills area He taught these men to dynamite, drill, carve, and finish the granite as they were hanging in midair in his specially devised chairs, which had many safety features Borglum was proud of the fact that no workers were killed or severely injured during the years of blasting and carving During the carving, many changes in the original design had to be made to keep the carved heads free of large fissures that were uncovered However not all the cracks could be avoided, so Borglum concocted a mixture of granite dust, while lead, and linseed oil to fill them

Every winter, water from melting snows gets into the fissures and expands as it freezes, making the fissures bigger Consequently, every autumn maintenance work is done to refill the cracks The repairers swing out in space over a 500-foot drop and fix the monument with the same mixture that Borglum used to preserve this national monument for future generations

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In line 13, the word “fissures” refers to cracks