test 45 minutes no2 first term

Hanoi Training and Education Department TEST OF ENGLISH GRADE 12 No 2.1 Kim Anh high school Time allowed: 45 minutes Full name: ………... Identify your answer by circling the corresponding

Hanoi Training and Education Department TEST OF ENGLISH GRADE 12 No 2.1

Kim Anh high school Time allowed: 45 minutes

Full name: ………

Class: ………….

PART I PHONETICS A Choose one word which has the underlined part pronounced differently Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (0.5pt) 1 A school B chemistry C character D charming 2 A optional B offer C follow D computer B Choose one word which has different stress pattern from the other three Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (0.5pt) 1 A interview B impression C addition D remember 2 A secondary B requirement C certificate D admission PART II GRAMMAR AND VOCAULARY A Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct forms (2pts) 1 Mary was the last applicant (interview) ………

2 This box (not open) for a hundred years ………

3 The letter (send) to him last week ………

4 When I (have) a bath, the phone rang ………

5 Cars (wash) by his father right now ………

6 He denied (pay) any money by his company ………

7 The contract (sign) next week ………

8 In England, the state school system (pay) for by the state ………

B Choose from the four given options marked A, B, C, or D one best answer to complete each sentence by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (1.5pts)

1 The entrance to universities in Vietnam always takes place in July

2 Schooling is _ from the age of 6 to 14

3 It took me hours to fill in the form

4 The bicycle you lent me badly needed _

5 If she had invited me, I _ to see her while I was in Da Lat

6 Sarah has two brothers, both of are doctors

PART III READING

A Read the following passage and choose the best given answer A, B, C or D to fill in each gap (1.25pts)

I haven’t seen Mr Jenkins (1) I left school But he was my inspiration I wasn’t very good (2) most school subjects But when I came into Mr Jenkins’s science class to prepare for my GCSEs, I became very (3) _ in a subject for the first time Mr Jenkins was full of (4) and made everything interesting He used (5) things with lots of practical examples

M A R K S:

3 A excited B bored C keen D interested

B Read the following passage and choose the most appropriate answer from A, B, C or D to answer the questions (1.25pts)

At the age of 40, Tom Bloch was the head of H& R Block, a huge company that helps people prepare their tax forms He was very successful Although Bloch earned a lot of money, he wasn’t very happy He spent too much time at work and didn’t have enough time to spend with his family

Suddenly, he left H& R Block and became a teacher in a poor neighborhood “I wanted

to………….help people who didn’t have the opportunities I had”, Bloch explained

Learning to control the students was hard at first But the rewards - helping children and hearing

students say he’s their favourite teacher – are great And Bloch is able to spend more time with his

family

1 Tom Bloch’s company operated in

2 He wasn’t very happy because he

A earned a lot of money

B wasn’t very successful

C spent a lot of time for work not for his family

D earned a lot of money but he didn’t have enough time to spend it

3 Tom Bloch suddenly left his company to

4 The word “favourite” in line 7 is closest in meaning to

5 Tom Bloch is very happy now because he _

C spends more money for his family D is a favourite teacher and spends more time with his family

PART IV WRITING

A Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting and correct it (1.5pts)

1 I enjoyed the book that you told me to read it

2 What would Ann do if she was the Miss World?

B Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same (1.5pts)

1 Joe had cleaned all the tables before he left

All the tables………

2 He isn’t strong enough He can’t help me move my piano

If ………

3 I can’t remember the day It last rained heavily on that day (a relative pronoun)

………

Hanoi Training and Education Department TEST OF ENGLISH GRADE 12 No 2.2

Kim Anh high school Time allowed: 45 minutes

Full name: ………

Class: ………….

PART I PHONETICS A Choose one word which has the underlined part pronounced differently Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (0.5pt) 1 A grade B manage C average D applicant 2 A advice B find C interview D time B Choose one word which has different stress pattern from the other three Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (0.5pt) 1 A national B difficult C primary D effective 2 A application B education C academic D examination PART II GRAMMAR AND VOCAULARY A Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct forms (2pts) 1 By the time I got to the party, most people (go) home ………

2 I suddenly realized that I (watch) ………

3 We had a French architect (design) our villa ………

4 Laser (discover) by Gordon Gould in 1958 ………

5 Kevin hoped (select) by the team captain ………

6 A new hospital (just build) in my neighborhood ………

7 Ten thousand cars (make) in our country every year ………

8 Have you ever thought of (kidnap) by a handsome prince? ………

B Choose from the four given options marked A, B, C, or D one best answer to complete each sentence by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D (1.5pts)

1 Do you think preparing _ a job interview can be stressful?

2 The basic _ education lasts 4 years from the sixth form to the ninth form

3 Can you tell me how to reduce the feeling of before an interview?

4 Two new schools _ in my town in 2007

5 If I English, I would translate this article in to Vietnamese

6 Ho Chi Minh City, _ I was born, is the biggest city of Vietnam

PART III READING

A Read the following passage and choose the best given answer A, B, C or D to fill in each gap (1.25pts)

Students frequently complain (1) _ studying for hours on end and then not doing well in their (2) _ exams Many factors can result in poor performances: an illness or a (3) problem Getting high grades can also put a terrible strain on students (4) don’t want (5) their parents down

M A R K S:

B Read the following passage and choose the most appropriate answer from A, B, C or D to answer the questions (1.25pts)

CAMBRIDGE

“Where is the university?” is a question that many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university The university is the city You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges

Cambridge was already a developing town long before the first students and teachers arrives 800 years ago It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called A bridge was built over the river

as early as 875

In the fourteen and fifteen centuries more and more land was used for college buildings The town grew much faster in the nineteen century after the opening of the railway in 1845 Cambridge became

a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100,000 Many young students want to study at Cambridge Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town It has become a famous place all around the world

1 Why do most people come to Cambridge?

2 When was more land in Cambridge used for college building?

3 Why did people name Cambridge the “city of Cambridge”?

4 When did the town really begin developing?

5 What is the population of the city?

PART IV WRITING

A Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting and correct it (1.5pts)

B Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same (1.5pts)

1 My mother is using the computer at the moment

The computer………

2 I saw him talking to a woman Her son died in the disaster (a relative pronoun)

………

3 She didn’t bring the map with her so she lost

If………