I)-Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
1. | A. | alien | B. | but | C. | because | D. | because of |
2. | A. | exploration | B. | accommodate | C. | environment | D. | experience |
3. | A. | forgetful | B. | wonderful | C. | beautiful | D. | waterless |
4. | A. | sighting | B. | climate | C. | attempt | D. | System |
5. | A. | astronaut | B. | Mercury | C. | Jupiter | D. | computer |
II)-Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.
6. | An astronaut has to wear a spacesuit ___________it may be very cold in space. |
| A. | so | B. | but | C. | because | D. | because of |
7. | The UFO landed on a ____________area. |
| A. | grass | B. | grassy | C. | grassed | D. | Grassing |
8. | Scientists have been trying to find ___________ of aliens. |
| A. | amounts | B. | records | C. | traces | D. | sights |
9. | There have been many UFO _____________reported. |
| A. | sights | B. | signs | C. | signals | D. | sightings |
10. | Mars is called the Red Planet due to its ___________ surface. |
| A. | red | B. | redder | C. | reddest | D. | reddish |
11. | In the mid-19th century, scientists discovered that Mars had some similarities _____________ Earth. |
| A. | to | B. | with | C. | of | D. | from |
12. | Neptune is bright blue __________it is named after the Roman God of the sea. |
| A. | because | B. | but | |
| C. | so | D. | or | |
13. | There is a lot of interest in doing experiments in the __________conditions. |
| A. | weigh | B. | weighing | C. | weight | D. | weightless |
14. | Titan, one of Saturn's ____________, has a thick atmosphere. |
| A. | satellite | B. | spaceships | C. | moons | D. | comets |
15. | Scientists believe that Mars also __________seasons just as the Earth does. |
| A. | spends | B. | experiences | C. | experiments | D. | takes |
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llI)-Fill in each blank in the following sentences with words ending in -ful or -less.
16. Bob is full of hope. He is ____________ of receiving a job offer.
17. Water is ___________.It has no colour.
18. He lost everything, and finally he sold his house. He became ______________.
19. Mary’s arm is full of dirty clothes. Mary brought in a/an _____________of dirty clothes.
20. We ate a/an ____________ meal in the new Japanese restaurant. It was full of wonder.
21. Without a thought, Mi really hurt Duong's feeling with that comment. She is sometimes ____________________.
IV)-Rearrange the sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation, writing the letter (A-J) in each blank. Then practise it with your classmate.
22. ____________A. Mai: If we are lucky, we may live on another planet like Kepler-452b in the near future.
23. ____________B. Mai: And the greenhouse effect might indicate life on it.
24. ____________C. Nick: Mai, recently scientists from NASA have announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, the most Earthlike planet.
25. ____________D. Nick: I think so. Scientists may have to invent a special spaceship to travel over 1,400 light years - to take people from the Earth to this new planet.
26. ___________ E. Nick: Kepler-452b is about 60 percent larger than the Earth. The orbit is nearly the same, and its year is about 20 days longer than the Earth’s.
27. ____________F. Nick: Yes, there are. The heat from its sun might cause the new planet to lose its oceans, but there might be lakes, pools and rivers left. Scientists think that the new planet might soon experience a greenhouse effect.
28. ____________G. Mai: Really? Are you kidding? Does it have the same size as the Earth?
29. ____________H. Nick: The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. So it is a little bit hotter on the new planet
30. ____________I. Mai: How about its temperatures? Is it too hot or too cold to live on the new planet?
31. ____________J. Mai: Maybe the temperatures are OK. Are there any signs of life on it Nick?
V)-Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Long ago a lot of people (32) ________ the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big (33) __________ of cheese!
The telescopes were made, and men saw that the moon was really another world. They Wondered (34)__________it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20, 1969, that dream came (35) _________. Two American astronauts landed on the moon. (36) ___________names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered (37) ___________ dust. The dust is so thick that the men left (38) _______________where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could (39) __________there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men (40) _________ rocks to bring back to Earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they were off on their long trip (41) _____________ the earth.
32. | A. | thought | B. | guessed | C. | told | D. | said |
33. | A. | form | B. | stone | C. | ball | D. | round |
34. | A. | how | B. | which | C. | that | D. | what |
35. | A. | real | B. | true | C. | unreal | D. | untrue |
36. | A. | Their | B. | His | C. | Its | D. | Theirs |
37. | A. | by | B. | for | C. | to | D. | with |
38. | A. | fingerprints | B. | footprints | C. | handprints | D. | prints |
39. | A. | go | B. | remain | C. | put | D. | run |
40. | A. | got up | B. | gave up | C. | picked up | D. | set up |
41 | A. | back to | B. | from to | C. | into | D. | onto |
VI)-Read the following passage carefully, then write True (T) or False (F) for each statement.
People have been talked about UFOs for ages. Millions of normal people keep saying that they were caught and taken into UFOs.
The first case was in the 1950s when George Adamski said a UFO had taken him to the far side of the moon. Another case took place in 1961, when an American couple, Betty and Barley Hill, were chased by a UFO while they were driving home one night in New Hampshire. The couple stopped to observe the UFO through binoculars. To escape from it, they took the back roads and arrived home two hours later.
Fourteen years later, in 1975, one of the most shocking events happened in a small town in Arizona, when a woodcutter called Travis Walton disappeared with a blue-green light from a flying saucer under his teammates' eyes. Five days later, the missing woodcutter returned home and said, “I woke up on the UFO and found myself among strangers with no hair and half-formed face. They put a mask over my face and I fell asleep again. I remembered nothing else until I awoke in the forest where I had been caught.”
| T | F |
42. It was first claimed that someone had been taken away in a UFO in the middle of the 20th century. | o | o |
43. Betty and Barley Hill live in the USA. | o | o |
44. Betty and Barley Hill were also taken away in a UFO. | o | o |
45. Travis Walton was caught on the road. | o | o |
46. The aliens wore the masks all the time while Travis was staying with them. | o | o |
VII)-Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
Lunar Roving Vehicle
In the late 1960s, NASA began a series of missions to the moon. On the (47) ______________ three missions the astronauts explored on foot only a few hundred meters around their spacecraft, but on the last three missions, they used a small electric car which allowed them to see and do much more on their short visits.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric car which bad a top (48) _____________ of 8 mph, and allowed the astronauts to visit sites five miles away from their landing, and to (49) ___________ samples from a much wider area to help scientists get a better (50) __________ of the moon’s surface.
The LRV had to be (51) __________ to the moon in the bottom part of the spacecraft. A camera was set up in the LRV so that NASA could control remotely (52) ___________ the Earth, allowing them to (53) ___________the astronauts as they explored the moon’s surface in the LRV.
NASA plans to go (54) _____________ to the moon in the year 2020. This time they aim to explore thousands of miles of the surface, staying for months at a time. Right now NASA is working on new ideas for moon cars in which astronauts can live and (55) ______________for up to two weeks. They will be able to deep in the cab, and there is a separate compartment where they can put on the space (56) ___________ to go exploring on foot
VIII)-Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question about the passage.
A UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is any object flying in the sky which cannot be identified by the person who sees it. Sometimes the object is investigated. If people cannot figure out what the object is after an investigation, it is called a UFO. If they figure out what the object is, it can no longer be called a UFO because it has been identified.
Even though UFOs can be anything, people can use the word UFO when they are talking about alien spacecraft. Flying saucer is another word that is often used to describe an identified flying object.
Studies estimate that 50-90% of all reported sightings are identified later. Usually 10 - 20% are never identified. Studies also show that very few UFO sightings are hoaxes (people trying to trick other people). Most UFOs are actually natural or man-made objects that looked strange. 80-90% of UFOs are identified as one of three different things: (a) astronomical causes (for example: planets, stars, or meteors); (b) aircraft; and (c) balloons. 10-20% of UFOs are other causes, such as birds, clouds, mirages, searchlights, etc.
57. | Another word used to describe a UFO is ______________. |
| A. | astronaut | B. | cooking plane | C. | spacecraft | D. | flying saucer |
58. | How many percent of all reported sights are not identified? |
| A. | 10-20% | B. | 20-30% | C. | 30-50% | D. | 80-90% |
59. | Most of UFOs are identified as one of the following things except ________. |
| A. | balloons | B. | Rains | C. | stars | D. | clouds |
60. | Which of the following sentences is NOT true? |
| A. | UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. |
| B. UFO is often used to talk about alien objects. |
| C. | Many UFO sightings are hoaxes. |
| D. Over half of all reported UFO sightings arc identified. |
61. | What does the word “figure out” in paragraph 1 mean? |
| A. | explain | B. | Observe | C. | calculate | D. | require |
1. D
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. A
9. A
10. A