ENGLISH PRACTICE 12

Part I: Phonetics
Choose the word whose stress is different from the other three
1. A. different B. tradition C. opera D. capital
2. A. individual B. unemployment C. difficult D. Population
3. A. apply B. appear C. visit D. attend
4. A. kindergarten B. conventional C. contaminate D. curriculum
5. A. corporate B. different C. engineer D. difficult
6. A. adorable B. ability C. entertainment D. impossible
7. A. company B. customer C. atmosphere D. employment
8. A. university B. institution C. preferential D. indicative
9. A. environment B. difficulty C. inhabitant D. community
10. A. impossible B. entertainment C. adorable D. ability
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the other three
1. A. says B. decay C. clay D. day
2. A. sport B. doctor C. wrong D. boss
3. A. four B. sport C. sock D. walking
4. A. school B. noon C. cook D. food
5. A. pity B. tiny C. hidden D. forbid
6. A. sugar B. school C. sunny D. seafood
7. A. brochure B. chemist C. Christmas D. character
8. A. talked B. arrived C. missed D. watched
9. A. talk B. daughter C. subtract D. walk
10. A. plays B. cleans C. speaks D. understands

Part II: vocabulary and grammar

Choose the best fit
11. The ......... need help from the rich
A. rich B. young C. poor D. injured
12. She didn’t ......... to cry when she was small.
A. use B. used C. uses D. using
13. The .............. can’t talk with people.
A. deaf B. blind C. injured D. dumb
14. This is the book, .......... is very interesting.
A. which B. who C. whom D. when
15. Tomorrow Mai and I ............ to Ha noi.
A. are going B. am going C. is going D. will go
16. She looks different. Has she ......... her hair cut?
A. have B. has C. had D. having
17. My mother is a doctor .......... works in Tan Yen hospital.
A. who B. which C. whom D. when
18. His homework has been ............
A. do B. did C. doing D. done
19. Manh has passed his exams, ........... is good news.
A. who B. where C. why D. which
20. Next week my class is going for a ............ in Ha Long Bay.
A. tour B. trip C. excursion D. travel

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 21. My class decided ............. the zoo.
A. visit B. to visit C. visited D. visiting
22. Hung practises .......... English everyday.
A. speaking B. speak C. spoke D. speaks
23. I don’t like......................water. I prefer fruit juice.
A. the B. a C. any D. some
24. ..........................you swim? – Yes, I learned how to swim when I was seven.
A. can B. able to C. must D. when
25. If he .........................her, she could have had an accident.
A. didn’t warn B. hadn’t warned C. warned D. doesn’t warn
26. Julia had a great holiday. She enjoyed..........................
A. oneself B. himself C. myself D. herself
27. We tried a lot of hotels, but ..................of them had any free rooms.
A. neither B. none C. no D. not
28. Ann is very busy these days. She has ..................free time.
A. a little B. little C. a few D. few
29. If I ...................you, I wouldn’t talk to him any more.
A. be B. am C. was D. were
30. He was unwilling to explain the reason ..................his absence.
A. for B. why C. of D. that
31. Give me a word.........................with “S”.
A. begins B. began C. begin D. beginning
32. It’s not worth ......................out now. It is much too late.
A. to go B. it go C. going D. it going
33. It’s at least a month since ...................................John.
A. I last seeing B. I have last been C. I last see D. I last saw
34. They invited ........................dinner with them.
A. us for having B. us to have C. that we have D. our having
35. He dislikes to .....................the crossword puzzle in the newspaper every day.
A. fill B. make C. do D. answer
36. ........................me to phone them before I go out.
A. Mention B. Make C. Remember D. Remind
37. Music can express one's anger, love, hate and ................
A. friendness B. friendly C. friendship D. friends
38. How long ago ......... Minh?
A. did you see B. see C. have you seen D. you saw
39. Let's get her ............. us some water.
A. bring B. brings C. to bring D. bringing
40. I have just bought ............... interesting book.
A. some B. the C. a D. an

Fill in the blank with the suitable form of verb in the bracket
41. Water .............................at 100o C. (boil)
42. Let’s go for a walk. It ................................raining 2 hours ago. (stop)
43. Normally my sister ............................work at 5 p.m. (finish)
44. ..............................you..............................any good film lately? (see)
45. I .............................Tom and Nancy a few days ago. (meet)
46. Jane .........................for me when I arrived. (wait)
47. Grandpa.........................to the radio in the living-room now. (listen)
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 48. At 8 o’clock yesterday evening, I .......................dinner with (have)
some of my old friends.
49. This is a big factory. Five hundred people .........................here. (employ)
50.The letter.........................a week ago and it.....................yesterday (post, arrive)

Fill in the blank with the correct form of word in the bracket
51. What is the ......................................of this tower, please? (high)
52. The whole country is trying to get rid of ....................... (poor)
53. They are looking for the ..................................to the problem. (solve)
54. We should .................................this road for better use. (wide)
55. During the past years computers have ................................our life. (revolution)
56. It is much more ............................to buy that car. (economy)
57. A true ............................lasts throughout life. (friend)
58. The house is big but it is very ..................................to live in. (comfortable)
59. He is ........... because he misses his parents. (happy)
60. His ................................has been considered. (explain)

Part III: reading

Choose the best answer to fill in the blank
The 1990s .. (61) .. great changes in the way people communicate. People could …(62)… mail without
going to the post office, and go ….(63)… without leaving home. The cause of this great change was the
Internet.
The idea for the Internet … (64) ….in the early 1960s in the United States. The Department of Defence
wanted …. (65) …., their computers together to share private information. In 1969, the ARPA net, ….(66)…..
was an early form of the Internet, first connected computers at 4 American Universities. In 1972, scientists
….(67)…. ARPA net with the world. They created a way to send person – to person messages using ARPA
net. This was the beginning of email.
In the 1990s, two important things happened: the birth of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991 and
the creation of the first web browser … (68) …. . 1993. The web made it easier to find … (69) …. on the
Internet, and to move from place to place using links.
Nowadays, computers are an important part of our lives and are changing how we learn, work, shop
and …..(70)…...

61. A. sees B. saw C. has seen D. was seeing

62. A. send B. to send C. sending D. sent
63. A. shopping B. to shopping C. shop D. shopped
64. A. begins B. beginning C. began D. had begun
65. A. to connecting B. connect C. connecting D. to connect
66. A. whom B. who C. which D. that
67. A. shared B. was sharing C. had shared D. have shared
68. A. during B. on C. at D. in
69. A. information B. inform C. informative D. informal
70. A. communicating B. to communicating C. communicate D. to communicate

Part IV: Writing

Find out the mistake and correct it
71. I am very please that we should meet again soon.
A B C D

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 72. Peter introduced Mai with some of his friends in London.
A B C D
73. The police stopped everybody enter the house.
A B C D
74. The pilot and the crew divided the life preserves between twenty frantic passengers.
A B C D
75. Standing among so many strangers, the frightened child began to sob uncontrollable.
A B C D
76. Tom keeps to study hard because he intends to go to dental school.
A B C D
77. When the bell rang, the students have left the class.
A B C D
78. The government has decided voting on the resolution now rather than next month.
A B C D
79. I don’t recommend to eat in that restaurant. Its food is awful.
A B C D
80. One of the primary cause of road accidents is driving after drinking.
A B C D

Rewrite the sentence

81. I started learning English 5 years ago.
=> I have .............................................................................................................
82. This is the first time I’ve ever been to Hanoi.
=> I have never ......................................................................................................
83. The last time I saw him was in 1995.
=> I haven’t ...........................................................................................................
84. Harry left before we reached the hotel.
=> By the time .......................................................................................................
85. We haven’t seen Ann for years.
=> It’s years ...........................................................................................................
86. School uniform must be worn at all times by young pupils.
=> Young pupils ...................................................................................................
87. That school has four hundred pupils.
=> There ...............................................................................................................
88. The map was so old that I could not read it.
=> It was such ......................................................................................................
89. It is against the rules to park your car here.
=> You are..............................................................................................................
90. He didn’t hurry, so he missed the train.
=> If ......................................................................................................................
Essay: In 250 words, write down a passage about the person whom you admire the most

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KEYS – PRACTICE 12
Phần I: Phonetics
Stress
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
b c c a c c d d b b
Pronunciation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A C C B A A B C C
Phần II: vocabulary and grammar
Bài 1:
11 C 21 B 31 D
12 A 22 A 32 C
13 D 23 C 33 D
14 A 24 A 34 B
15 A 25 B 35 C
16 C 26 D 36 D
17 A 27 B 37 C
18 D 28 B 38 A
19 D 29 D 39 C
20 B 30 A 40 D
2: 41. boils 46. was waiting
42. stopped 47. is listening
43. inishes 48. was having
44. have.............seen 4 9. are employed
45. met 50. was posted, arrived
3: 51. height 56. economical
52. poverty 57. friendship
53. solution 58. uncomfortable
54. widen 59. hardship
55. revolutionized 60. explanation
III: reading
61 62 63 64 65 6 67 68 69 70
B A A C D C A D A C
IV: writing
1:
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
B B D C D A C B B B
2: 81. I have learned/ have been learning English for five years (now).
8 2. I have never been to Hanoi before.
8 3. I haven’t seen him since 1995.
84. By the time we reached the hotel Harry had left.
85. It’s years since we last saw Ann.
86. Young pupils must wear school uniform all the time/at all times.
87. There are four hundred pupils in that school.
88. It was such an old map that I couldn’t read it.
89. You are parking your car against the rules/ you are not allowed to park your car here.
90. If he had hurried, he wouldn’t have missed the train.

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