I. Choose the word whose underlined part is different from the rest:
1. a. poor b. actual c. group d. tour
2. a. nattonal b. question c. population d. station
3. a. establised b. orphaned c. recognized d. endangered
4. a. pair b. beer c. where d. wear
5. a. mountain b. tourist c. mention d. expect
II. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase:
6. Mohandas K. Gandhi, ______ Mahatma, lived a noble life of fasting and poverty in order to work for peace and independence.
a. that was called b. was called
c. called d. calling
7. Your failure is the consequence of not studying hard enough for the test.
a. cause b. motive
c. result d. status
8. She ______ to study more English before enrolling at the university.
a. was recommended b. recommended
c. has recommended d. recommends
9. The teacher asked those who ______ their tests ______ in their papers.
a. completed/ turn b. completed/ turned
c. had completed/ to turn d. completed/ turns
10. Historian Barbara Tuchman was the first woman ______ president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
a. whose election as b. to elect
c. was elected d. to be elected
11. There are believed ______ over 300 species of trees in EI Yunque rain forest in Puerto Rico.
a. to be b. being
c. they are d. there are
12. Rarely ______ last longer than an hour.
a. do tornados b. tornados
c. tornados that d. tornados do
13. ______ for the fact that he was working abroad, he would willingly have helped with the project.
a. If it had been b. If it hadn’t been
c. Had it been d. Hadn’t it been
14. New words are constantly being invented ______ new objects and concepts.
a. to describe b. a description of
c. they describe d. describe
15. A home computer ______ an opportunity for convenient and efficient work at home.
a. provides b. to be providing
c. which provides d. providing it
16. The solar energy can be changed _______electricity.
a. to b. for c. with d. into
17. Do you know the reason_______ she quit her job?
a. that b. which c. when d. why
18. What exactly is the influence of television ____________ children?
a. on b. in c. at d. with
19. The nuclear power plant _______ last year will come to operate tomorrow.
a. completing b. to complete
c. completed d. which completed
20. The staff of that post office are always thoughtful and courteous to customers.
a. kind and beautiful b. helpful and friendly
c. helpful and polite d. nice and arrogant
III. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting:
21. Only a few (A) of the films show (B) at the Gray Theatre are (C) suitable for (D) children.
22. The person sits (A) next to me (B) is someone (C) I’ve never met (D) him.
23. The person about who (A) the novelist wrote (B) were factory workers (C) and their (D) families.
24. Jenny is the seventh (A) student in (B) my college winning (C) the scholarship to study (D) in England.
25. Bogota, that (A) is the capital (B) of Columbia, is (C) a cosmopolitan (D) city.
IV. Choose the word or phrase – a, b, c or d – that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
By 1984, non-renewable (26) ______ fuels, such as oil, coal and natural as, provided over 82 percent of the commercial and industrial energy (27) ______ in the world. Small amounts of energy were (28) ______ from nuclear fission, and the (29) ______ 16 percent came from burning direct perpetual and renewable fuels, (30) ______ biomass. Between 1700 and 1986 a large number of countries (31) ______ from the use of energy from local sources to a centralized generation of hydropower and solar energy (32) ______ to electricity. The energy derived from nonrenewable fossil fuels has been (33) ______ produced in one location and transported to another, as is the case with most automobike fuels. In countries with private, rather than public (34) ______, the age of nonrenewable fuels has created a dependency on a finite (35) ______ that will have to be replaced.
26. a. clean b. unleaded
c. fossil d. solid
27. a. used b. produced
c. supplied d. stored
28. a. produced b. derived
c. extracted d. released
29. a. resting b. leaving
c. restricting d. remaining
30. a. as b. therefore
c. such as d. for
31. a. shifted b. transferred
c. obtained d. applied
32. a. saved b. reformed
c. delivered d. converted
33. a. actually b. increasingly
c. gradually d. consequently
34. a. transports b. transportation
c. transporters d. transportable
35. a. reserve b. material
c. resource d. power
Đáp án
| Câu | Hướng dẫn | Câu | Hướng dẫn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. c | /u:/, còn lại: /ʊə/ | 19. c | |
| 2. b | /tʃ/, còn lại: /ʃ/ | 20. c | thoughtful: ân cần, lo lắng, quan tâm; courteous: lịch sự, nhã nhặn; |
| 3. a | /t/, còn lại: /d/ | 21. B | show → showing/ that show; |
| 4. b | /ɪə/, còn lại: /eə/ | 22. A | sits → who sits/ sitting; |
| 5. c | /ʃ/, còn lại: /t/ | 23. A | who → whom; |
| 6. c | 24. C | winning → to win; | |
| 7. c | consequence: hậu quả, kết quả; (= result) | 25. A | that → which; |
| 8. a | 26. c | ||
| 9. c | 27. a | ||
| 10. d | 28. b | derive: bắt nguồn; | |
| 11. a | 29. d | remaining: đồ thừa, cái còn lại; | |
| 12. a | 30. c | ||
| 13. b | 31. a | shift: sự thay đổi vị trí, sự luân phiên; | |
| 14. a | 32. d | convert: biến đổi; | |
| 15. a | 33. b | ||
| 16. d | change into: biến đổi; | 34. b | public transportation: sự vận chuyển, di chuyển công cộng; |
| 17. d | 35. c | ||
| 18. a |
