Choose the word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.. 2.5 ptsCOMPUTERS: GOOD OR BAD For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily life.. With the price o
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THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION Subject : English 9
Time allowed : 45 minutes
Date: 10/12 /2012 Marks Overseer 1:(GT1) Examiner: (GK1)
Overseer 1:(GT1) Examiner: (GK2)
I Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest (1 pts)
1 A polite B litter C decide D crier
2 A developed B watched C walked D posted
3 A please B street C break D feel
5 A pollution B rubbish C income D truck
II Choose the word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences (2 pts)
1 They are very , so we like to play with them
2 I used to go to school bicycle
3 He can’t play soccer very well and he wishes he play soccer better
4 She said the boy handsome and very nice
5 English is _language in Indonesia
6 If you want to lose weight, you do exercises
7 He has learned English June
8 I saw your school’s in Today’s Vietnam news
IV Put the verb in the right tense or form (1.5 pts)
1 He (go) to see a movie called “Ghost and Monster” last weekend
2 They wish they (can) visit their parents now
3 She said that she (work) _for a company next week
4 If you come home late, your father (blame) you
5 They (not, visit) Hoan Kiem lake yet
6 Mr Ba likes (read) newspaper in the morning
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COMPUTERS: GOOD OR BAD
For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily life With the price of a small home computer now as low as $50, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in the richer parts of the world will own a computer of some kind Among general public, computers arouse strong feelings People either love them or hate them
The computer-lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and
in the home Apart from all games, you can do on them, your accounts on them, learn languages from them, write letters on them, and in some places even do your shopping with them
Computers, they say will also bring more leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken over by computerized robots
The latter, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment They worry, too that people who spend all the time talking to computers will forget how to talk
to each other Their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over from human being altogether
1 What do experts predict?
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2 What feeling do computers arouse among people?
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3 Give one argument against computers
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4 What is the biggest fear of the computer haters?
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5 Would you like to have a computer? Why (not)?
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V Rewrite the sentences keep meaning as the root ones (3 pts)
1 I don't have my friend's phone number
=> I wish
2 “I'm having a wonderful time here." Cousin Mai said
=> Cousin Mai said that
3 “Do you go to school by bicycle?" She asked me
=> She asked me
4 Because she was tired, She stayed at home yesterday (rewrite using “so”)
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5 They have just introduced a new style of jeans in the USA
=> A new style of jeans
6 I often went to school by bus
=> I used to
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