At the age of sixty five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a series of novels for young people.. based on her early experiences on the American frontier.[r]
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I Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the others in pronunciation
II Choose the word that differs from the other ones in stress pattern
III Choose the underlined part that needs correction
6 I (A) look forward to (B) have the resolution (C) to the problem (D) I have mentioned
7 I (A) was listening to the (B) radio last night (C) when the door bell (D) rings
8 (A) Aren’t you afraid that they will sack you if you (B) didn’t start coming (C) to work (D) on time?
9 I (A) had to drive to (B) the factory (C) to pick up my brother, (D) who’s car wouldn’t start
10 (A) Mr Smith is going (B) to buy a (C) new Japanese car, (D) doesn’t he?
IV Choose the best option to complete the sentence
11 John lost his job………his laziness
12 Please write me you arrive in New York
13 He studies hard fail in the exam
14 He went to work……… his headache
15 When the trucks left the police station, the ground was covered………….……trash
16 She was sick yesterday, ……… she was absent from school
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17 She’d love to take part in the evening class ………, she has to look after the baby in the evening
18 ‘Where is Linh now?’ - ‘She……… be in the school library.’
19 He grew very quickly and soon he was………his brother
20 That desk……… several times this year
A has been repaired
B has repaired
C repairs
D is repaired
21 When she comes, I……… her the news
A tell
B will tell
C would tell
D would have told
22 Lan has learnt English since she……… a small girl
23 I am angry because you didn’t tell me the truth I don’t like………
24 It's no good……….about your failure
25 The maths exercise was so difficult that……….students could finish it
26 He wanted to know how long……….in the shopping mall
27 “Buy me a dictionary on your way back,……….?”
A will you B don’t you C can’t you D are you
28 The Pikes put ……….their trip because of bad weather
29 Neither Linh nor her classmates……….the National Museum so far
30 I'm very……….to you for putting in so much hard work
Trang 3A thoughtful B grateful C considerate D careful
31 If you hadn’t watched that late movie last night, you……….sleepy now
A wouldn’t have been
B wouldn’t be
C might have not been
D wouldn’t have been being
32 He asked me……….Robert and I said I did not know………
A that did I know / who were Robert
B that I knew / who Robert were
C if I knew / who Robert was
D whether I knew / who was Robert
33 I talked to a woman……….car had broken down on the way to the party
34 Mrs Tam has never lost her……….for teaching
35 According to the boss, John is the most……….for the position of executive secretary
V Choose the word that has the closest meaning to the underlined one
36 I came across these old photos when I was tidying the closet.
A looked at something intensively
B spent a lot of time looking for something
C pulled something to pieces
D found something by chance
37 After four weeks, they saw a ship and the ship rescued the refugees
A saved B served C helped D found
38 As a newspaper reporter, she always wanted to get information at first hand
A quickly B directly C slowly D easily
39 Our company has made a donation of 200 million VND to the disaster fund
40 His hair started to fall out when he was 35
VI Read the passage then choose the correct option that best fits each gap (Question 41-45)
Ha Long Bay, Bay of the Descending Dragon, is located in north eastern Vietnam
The bay has a 120 km long coastline and is approximately 1,553 spare kilometres in size
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international tourists One of the (42) of Ha Long Bay is its calm water and
limestone mountains
The Bay’s water is clear (43) the spring and early summer Upon
arriving in Ha Long City, visitors will go along to Chay Beach From the beach, visitors
can hire a boat and go out to the Bay It is here that visitors will find some of Southeast
Asia’s most (44) sites You can visit Dau Go Cave in which General Tran
Hung Dao hid (45) stakes to beat the Mongols on Bach Dang River in 1288
VII Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to answer the question (Question 46-50)
At the age of sixty five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a series of novels for young people based on her early experiences on the American frontier Born in the state of Wisconsin in 1867, she and her family were rugged pioneers Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon
in Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, returning to Wisconsin in 1871, and travelling
on to Minnesota and Lowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879 Because of this continuing moving, Wilder’s early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room schools From age thirteen to sixteen she attended school more regularly although she never graduated
At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder They bought a small farm in the Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their lives Their only daughter, Rose, who had become
a nationally known journalist, encouraged her mother to write Serving as agent and editor, Rose negotiated with Harper’s to publish her mother’s first book, Little House on the Big Woods Seven more books followed, each chronicling her early life on the plains Written from the perspective
of a child, they have remained popular with young readers from many nations Twenty years after her death in 1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they had been translated into
Trang 5fourteen languages In 1974, a weekly television series “Little House on the Prairie” was produced based on the series from the Wilder books
46 What is the main topic of the passage?
A American pioneer life
B Children’s literature
C A weekly television series
D Laura Ingalls Wilder’s career
47 Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing novels
A when she was a child on the frontier
B right after she moved to the Ozarks
C when she was a young mother
D after her sixty-fifth birthday
48 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family lived forever in
49 Laura Ingalls Wilder died at the age of
50 It can be inferred from the passage that
A Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote scripts for the television series
B the Wilders were not happy living in the Ozarks
C Wilder’s daughter was not a successful writer
D the Wilders’ books have a universal appeal
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