Grade 12
THE SECOND SEMESTER EXAM-019
Which word has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest?
1.
A. hats
B. grapes
C. chairs
D. roofs
2.
A. seat
B. heat
C. meat
D. great
3.
A. wanted
B. liked
C. established
D. poached
4.
A. Christmas
B. character
C. chemistry
D. chocolate
5.
A. biology
B. shift
C. trick
D. decision
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
6. Can you tell me some sports which are closely related ________ water?
A. in

B. on
C. with
D. to
7. I don’t want anyone to know. You ________ tell anyone.
A. must
B. needn’t
C. mustn’t
D. don’t have to
8. More and more women have become _______ and do research on many fields as men do.
A. science
B. scientific
C. scientifically
D. scientists
9. Peter _______ for thirty minutes before Mary arrived.
A. would be waiting B. has been waiting
C. had been waiting D. was waiting
10. 200,000 spectators ________ to witness the three-hour ceremony.
A. were gathered the park
B. have been gathered the park
C. gathered at the park
D. gathered the park
11. Student A: “____________” - Student B: “My mother? She’s a loving mother and a faithful wife.”
A. What does your mother feel like doing?
B. What’s your mother like?
C. What does your mother look like?
D. What does your mother like?
12. Nothing can prevent him ________ the final match.
A. from winning
B. to winning
C. to win

D. win
13. ________ that it frightened everyone in the room.
A. The noise was very loud
B. The noise was so loud
C. The noise was very loud
D. The noise was loud enough
14. It is very ________ of you not to look in the eyes of the listener while talking.
A. polite
B. dishonest
C. impolite
D. honest
15. David doesn’t work very hard. I work ________.
A. more hard
B. more hardly
C. hardlier
D. harder
16. Do you know a shop ________ I can buy a computer?
A. in which
B. which
C. in where
D. whose
17. The bomb _________with a loud bang which could be heard all over the town.
A. went on
B. went down
C. went over
D. went off
18. Lan: “What do you think of Korean films?” Ha: “_____________.”
A. Yes, I do
B. I like them
C. No, I don’t

D. I think of them very much
19. - “How often do you meet your friends?” - “ _____________ .”
A. Once a week
B. Yesterday
C. Yes, I love to
D. No, thanks
20. Mary is going to have her car _____________.
A. repair
B. to repair
C. repairing
D. repaired
21. Yesterday, they came to the meeting on time _____________ the heavy traffic.
A. although
B. however
C. in spite of
D. despite of
22. The narrower the road is, _____________
A. the more accidents will take place on it. B. many accidents will happen on it.
C. the narrowest accidents will take place on it. D. the more will accidents happen on it.
23. One of the main goals of WHO is conducting research on medical development and health care.
A. going by
B. giving away
C. carrying out
D. looking up
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24. I seldom forget _____________my teeth before going to bed.
A. brushing
B. brushed
C. to brush
D. brush
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25. How many _______________took part in the 22 SEA Games?
A. compete
B. competition
C. competitor
D. competitors
Read the text and choose the correct answers.
The Asian Beach Games is a multi-sport event held every two years among athletes representing
countries from Asia. The Games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia. The first Games were
held in 2008 in Bali, Indonesia.
This Games will be composed of sports with the strong television appeal such as windsurfing,
kiteboarding, swimming, beach volleyball, beach handball, beach soccer, and dragon boat racing.
The Asian Indoor Games is a multi-sport event held every two years among athletes representing
countries from Asia. The Games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia. The first Games were
held in 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand.
This Games will be composed of sports with TV broadcasting potential and not included in the
Asian Games and Winter Asian Games Programs and are not Olympic sports. The sports program will
comprise from six to eight exciting sports with strong television appeal, including electronic sports,
extreme sports, aerobics, indoor athletics, dance sports, inline hockey, fin swimming, and 25 metres
short course swimming.
26. The Asian Beach Games and Asian Indoor Games ________________.
A. will be shown on TV
B. will not be shown on TV
C. are held at the same year

D. do not get the permission from the Olympic Council of Asia
27. How many sports will there be in the Asian Beach Games?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
28. The Asian Beach Games and Asian Indoor Games are held every _________years.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
29. According to the writer, _________________________.
A. only amateur athletes can attend the Games
B. the Games are only for the Asian athletes
C. the Games are for all athletes
D. all professional athletes can attend the Games
30. The passage is about _________________________.
A. the Asian Beach Games and the Asian Indoor Games
B. the Olympic Council of Asia
C. the Asian Games and Winter Asian Games Programs
D. the Asian Indoor Games and Winter Asian Games Programs
Choose the underlined part that needs correcting.
31. You shouldn’t look after every word in the dictionary. You can guess word meaning from context.
A
B
C
D
32. The suitcase seemed to get heavy and heavier as I carried it along the road.
A
B

C
D
33. All competitors must observed the rules of the Games in the true spirit of sportsmanship.
A
B
C
D
34. When he came, we were having dinners.
A
B
C
D
35. Read the book careful and you can find the information you need.
A
B
C
D
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Rewrite the following sentences as directed.
36. If you practise harder, you will have better results.
 The harder___________________________________________________________________
37. You needn't do this work right now.
 This work ___________________________________________________________________
38. Mary must return the book which she borrowed yesterday. (use reduce relative clause)

 The book ___________________________________________________________________
39. They reported that the president had suffered heart attack. (change into passive)
 The president is_______________________________________________________________
40. This mountain is very high, we can’t climb it. (use too…to…)
 This mountain _______________________________________________________________
From questions 41 to 50, read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct words coming from the
words in CAPITALS. Your answers must be written in your answer sheet.
An (41)_____________ proverb says, “You can’t judge a book by
its cover”. This means that you can’t tell what people are like just by
looking at them. But most people feel they can (42)_____________
something from reading someone’s face. If nothing else, they try to
read people’s faces to tell how they are feeling at a given moment.
Consider the smile. It is one of the most easily (43)_____________
human facial expressions. We can see a smile on someone’s from
hundreds of feet away. But, there is a subtle (44)_____________
between a genuine smile and a false one. For example, when two
old (45)_____________ meet, they smile with their eyes as well as
their lips. The muscles of the face contract and pull the lips up while
the muscles around the eyes wrinkle the skin around the corners of
the eyes. On the other hand, when a clerk in the grocery store smiles
(46)_____________, the lips move but the smile doesn’t
(47)_____________ reach the eyes.
We may be able to (48)_____________ common emotions like joys,
sadness and anger from facial expression, but that’s not all.
Research suggests that we also tend to judge characters based on
their faces. In her book “Reading Faces”, Professor Leslie Zebrowitz
shows in her research that baby- faced adults (People with big eyes
and round cheeks) make the rest of us feel (49)_____________ as
we do towards children. In one study of cases in a Boston
courtroom, Zebrowitz found that people with “baby faces” were

more likely to be (50)_____________ than people with more
mature- looking faces.

AGE
LEARNER
RECOGNIZE
DIFFER
FRIENDSHIP

POLITENESS
NECESSARY
READER

PROTECT
SUCCESS

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