A – USE OF LANGUAGE.

I. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined.

1. A. charity       B. chemistry       C. chemical       D. mechanic

2. A. help       B. benefit       C. elderly       D. prefer

I. Find the word which has different sound in the part underlined. (1p)                                                                                                                                            

1. A. feature               B. chapter               C. literature            D. culture

2. A. game                  B. arrange               C. skate                  D. cake

3. A. cupboards           B. chopsticks          C. tourists               D. laptops

4. A. phoned               B. called                 C. cooked               D. climbed

II. Choose the best answer. (3.0 ps)

1. I ________ marbles when I was young, but now I didn’t.

    A. play                   B. used to play        C. have played      D. didn’t use to play

2. The eel soup that your father has just cooked tastes very ________.

    A. delicious            B. best                    C. healthy               D. well

3. They have decided to ride to work ________  it is good for their health and the environment.

    A. so                      B. but                     C. although             D. because

4. We should ________  the street at the zebra crossing.

    A. walk                  B. walk through       C. walk on              D. walk across

5. “________ is it from your house to the nearest bus stop?” - “About 50 meters’

    A. How far              B. How long           C. How often          D. How much

6. Does your bike ever ________ down on the way to school?

    A. break                 B. take                    C. do                      D.turn

7. How many________  do you eat every day?

    A. orange               B. milk                     C. apple                  D. apples

8. ________ tomatoes do you need to make the sauce?

    A. How much          B. How long           C. How many          D. How often

9. There is ________ tofu, but there aren’t ________ sandwiches.

    A. some-some         B. any-any              C. some-any            D. any-some

10. La Tomatina is ________ in Spain, in a small town.

    A. holds                  B. held                    C. holding               D. hold

11. The test is not ________ difficult ________  it was last month.

    A. as - as                B. so - as                C. more - as       D. A & B are correct.

12. She stays in ________ by exercising daily and eating well.

    A. shape              B. fit                       C. size                    D. health

III.  Circle the mistake in the four underlined parts of each sentence (1p)

1.  How many pork does your mother decide to cook this food? - A kilo.

                A               B                                     C                         D

2. She doesn't like going to cinema, and her sister doesn't too.

              A                B                      C                                D

3. I taught  how to swim well  by my mother because she used to being a swimmer.

            A                   B                                  C                       D

4. My grandfather used to rode a water buffalo when he lived in a small country.

                                 A         B               C                             D

IV. Give the correct form of the following verbs: ( 1.0 p )

1. America ________ (discover) by Christopher Columbus.

2. I (never/ enjoy) ________ Bun Bo Hue before.

3. I think in the future, more people (like) ________ going out by bicycles.

4. How many bottles of oil your family usually  (need) ________ in a month?

V. Give the correct form of the following words: ( 1.0 p )

1. I have a                   in my back. I’m going to lie down.              (PAINFUL)

2. It is               in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.     (TRADITIONALLY)

3. You should choose foods and drinks________ to prevent some dangerous diseases. (CAREFUL)

4. The circle and square of the pavilion _______________ the heaven and the earth. (SYMBOL)

VI. Read the passage, and then answer the questions.(1p)

    The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

    In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Questions

1. Did Ernest Hemingway come from America?

______________________________________________________________________

2. When was The Old Man and the Sea published?

________________________________________________________________________

3. Did  Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Price?

________________________________________________________________________

4. What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

VII. Rewrite the sentences. (2ps)

1. I don’t have time to collect stamps as when I was in primary school.

I used __________________________________________________________________

2. People use computers all over the world.

Computers_______________________________________________________________

3. This bike is 800,000 VND. That bike is 600,000 VND (price … different)

_____________________________________________________________________

4. How far is it from Phu Tho town to Hung King Temple?

What is the distance between __________________________________________

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A. PHONETICS I. Circle A, B, C, D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others in pronunciation. 1. A. nurse B. picture C. surf D. return 2. A. chemical B. charity C. headache D. architect 3. A. cycling B. doctor C. aerobics D. calories 4. A. turned B. preferred C. controlled D. collected II Circle A, B, C, D to indicate the word which has different main stress. 5. A. donate B. headache C. hobby D. homeless 6. A. graffiti B. community C. volunteer D. obesity 7. A. sickness B. feelings C. contain D. service

Điền a/an 
I arrived in the USA last Monday. We left [1]____ Rome, flew over the Alps and made [2]____ quick stop in [3]____ London. There we went shopping at [4]____ Harrods, visited the Tower and enjoyed [5]_____sunny afternoon in [6]____ Hyde Park. On the following day we left for[7]____ New York. The time on board wasn’t boring as there were two films to watch on the monitor.The people on the plane were all [8]____ Italian. Before we landed at [9]____ JFK airport, we saw the Statue of Liberty, [10]____ Ellis Island and the Empire State Building. The hotel I stayed in was on the corner of [11]____ 42nd Street and [12]____ 5th Avenue. I don’t like  hotels very much, but I didn’t have [13]____ time to rent an apartmen