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TEST 90’

I. Choose the word in each line that has different stress pattern. (1p)
1. A. coffee
B. rupee
C. trainee
2. A. kangaroo
B. Taiwanese
C. guarantee
3. A. Canadian
B. introduce
C. Guyanese
4. A. prehistoric
B. economic
C. linguistic
5. A. sensitive
B. biology
C. adventurous
II. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. (2p)
1. Before the meeting finished, they had arranged when______next.
A. they met
B. they to met
C. to meet
2. Lac Long Quan missed his life in the sea;______, he took 50 sons back there.
A. therefore
B. moreover
C. otherwise
3. A_______person is intelligent and gives good advice.
A. unwise

B. clever
C. wise
4. Ba is strong enough______ his father with the work on the farm.
A. helping
B. help
C. helps
5. Last week my child_______ to the biggest zoo in town by my wife.
A. took
B. were taken
C. went
6. I tried my______not to laugh, but I couldn’t.
A. good
B. well
C. best
7. Are you proud______your country and its tradition ?
A. about
B. on
C. of
8. I want to ask my parents ______ some money.
A. from
B. for
C. with
9. You are very different ______ your brother.
A. to
B. for
C. with
10. I am better ______ English than Nam.
A. than
B. with
C. at

11. He seldom goes fishing, ______?
A. doesn't he
B. is he
C. does he
12. Heavy rains ______the plane for several hours
A. stopped
B. prevented
C. delayed
13. You must go to school _______the ages of 5 and 16. it is compulsory.
A. from
B. over
C. during
14. Sorry to keep you______.
A. wait
B. waiting
C. to wait
15. If only he______accept some help with the work instead of trying to do it alone.
A.will
B.may
C.would
16. He always_________
A. avoids to meet me
B.avoiding to meet me
C. avoids meeting me
D. to avoid meeting me
17. After a month, Hoa got used to______in her new school.
A. study
B. studying
C. studied
18. He likes_______him "sir"

A. to call
B. calling
C. to be called
19. He has his sister______his homework.
A. to do
B. do
C. doing
20. The college got some money by selling one of its ____________old pictures.
A. helpful
B. usual
C. valuable

Mark

D. agree
D. symbolise
D. absentee
D. optimistic
D. multimedia
D. meeting
D. however
D. cunning
D. to help
D. has gone
D. better
D. for
D. about
D. from
D. for
D. isn't he

D. kept
D. between
D. waited
D.were

D. is studying
D. to be calling
D. done
D. useful


III. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in bracket. (1p)

1. Bell_________demonstrated his invention.
SUCCESS
2.Many rural areas in Viet Nam have been_________for the last few years.
URBAN
3. These shoes look smart but they’re so_________.
COMFFORT
4. The_________by the school girls is good.
PERFORM
5. He finds it_________to live in the jungle alone.
DANGER
6. My father can repair household _________very well.
apply
7. I watch the news everyday because it is very_________.
INFORM
8. _________, the step mother was cruel to Little Pea.
FORTUNE
9. We’ll_________our room with some roses.

BEAUTY
10. What is your_________? - I am Australian.
NATION
IV. Choose the underlined word or phrase that is incorrect, then correct it.(1p)
1. The wind is blowing, it rains, and the sky looks gray.
A B C
D
2. I need my CD player if you don’t using it at the moment.
A
B
C
D
3. My parents take me to a zoo in North America on a fine Sunday.
A
B
C
D
4. We work very hardly but we have fun working together.
A
B
C
D
5. My brother didn’t have money enough to buy the dictionary he liked.
A
B
C
D
V. The reading is followed by several questions about it. There are four possible answers (A, B, C or D)
for each question. Choose the best answer. (1 p)
Benjamin Franklin

Few people can embody the spirit of early America as much as Benjamin Franklin. He lived through
almost the whole of the eighteenth century, being born six years after it began, and dying ten years before it
ended. In this time he saw the American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation, and he also
contributed much to the development of the new state.
At the age of 17 Franklin ran away to Philadelphia. He had already received some training as a printer’s
apprentice, and this helped him seven years later, with his first publication, the Pennsylvania Gazette. He also
received a contract to do government printing work, which helped him to rise from his poor background to
become a successful entrepreneur. Some of his experience in business was shared in his famous Poor Richard’s
Almanak, which established his reputation throughout the American colonies. In another of his works, the
Autobiography, which was written toward the end of his life, he shows the same quiet common sense.
He was deeply interested in science and natural history, and his experiments with electricity and
lightning led directly to the invention of the lightning rod. He was also interested in improving the conditions of
his fellow men. He was involved in a number of projects in his native Philadelphia, including the setting up of a
library, a university, a philosophical society, and - because he was a pragmatic man - a fire prevention service.
In 1753 he became Postmaster-General of the colonies. Through this experience he began to develop the idea
that the colonies of North America should be a single nation. Later, he went to London to try to persuade the
British government to change the conditions, especially the taxes, that later led the American colonists into
rebellion.
Whatever Benjamin Franklin’s personal feelings about the rebellion of the American states, he worked
hard to make it succeed. As ambassador to France, he encouraged the French to help George Washington. After
the war he attended the American constitutional congress. This was his last contribution, for he died later that
year. He is still fondly remembered by Americans as one of the creators of the United States.
1. What is a good description for this text?
A. An autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. B. The life of Benjamin Franklin
C. The works of Benjamin Franklin.
D. Franklin and American Independence.
2. When was Benjamin Franklin born?


A. 1806

B. 1794
C. 1717
D. 1706
3. Which of these happened first?
A. Franklin trains as a printer.
B. Franklin runs away to Philadelphia.
C. The American colonies rebel.
D. Franklin starts his first publication.
4. What was Poor Richard’s Almanak about?
A. Franklin’s reputation.
B. How to succeed in business.
C. How to do government printing.
D. The text does not say.
5. In which countries did Franklin live?
A. England and France.
B. Philadelphia and England.
C. London and America.
D. England, America and France.
VI. Read the passage and do the task that follows. (1p)
An aggressive publicist of the Scientific Revolution and one of its greatest contributors was a Florentine,
Galileo Galilei. Both Copernicus and Kepler had worked with the naked eye. Galileo, informed of a new optical
instrument developed in the Netherlands, the telescope, constructed one for himself and turned it toward the
heavens. Through the lens of the fantastic instrument he was the first human being to see that Jupiter had moons
like the earth's, and that the earth's own moon was made of material similar to that found on earth. The
momentous conclusion was that heavenly bodies were not made of more perfect material.Rather, they
resembled the earth and were governed by the same laws.
Galileo's conclusions were equally revolutionary when he turned to consider the behavior of bodies in
motion.Traditional theories of dynamics, geared to the assumption that the natural state of a body was at rest,
attempted to explain what caused motion to occur. For Galileo, there was no "natural" motion of the
body;rather, if a body was in motion, it would continue in a straight line at the same speed forever unless

deflected, quickened, or retarded by another force - illustrating the principle of inertia. Thus what concerned
Galileo was not why things move but why changes in motion occur and how one describes these changes
mathematically.
1. In this passage, the word "dynamics" is closest in meaning to ________.
A. theories
B. motion
C. objects
D. planets
2.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Galileo built on the work of Copernicus and Kepler.
B. Galileo built his own telescope.
C. Galileo made revolutionary discoveries.
D. Galileo discovered that Jupiter had moons.
3.The passage states that traditional theories attempted to explain ________.
A. what caused motion to occur
B. why planets had moons
C. why the earth had a moon
D. what planets were made of
4. According to the passage, Galileo discovered that the earth's moon was ________.
A. made of the same material as the moon of Jupiter.
B. made of the same material as the earth.
C. travelling faster than the earth.
D. travelling more slowly than the moon of the Jupiter.
5.What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?
A. To entertain the readers with amusing anecdotes.
B. To persuade the readers that Galieo was an important Renaissance scientist.
C. To explain important theories of Renaissance science.
D. To inform the readers about Galileo's discoveries.
VII. Rewrite these pairs of sentences using “such…that” instead of “so…that”. (1,5p)



1. The room is so tidy that it took us one hour to clean it.
→ It is__________________________________________________________________________________
2. The man is so fool that no one took any notice of him.
→ He is _________________________________________________________________________________
3. The film is so long that they can’t broadcast it on one night.
→ It is___________________________________________________________________________________
4. The books are so interesting that we have read them many times.
→ They are_______________________________________________________________________________
5. The news was so bad that she burst into tears on hearing it.
→ It was__________________________________________________________________________________
6. The food was so hot that it turned my tongue.
→ It was__________________________________________________________________________________
7. There is so much rain that we can’t go out.
→ There is such____________________________________________________________________________
8. The boy is so fat that every calls him Stuffy.
→ He is __________________________________________________________________________________
9. The milk is so excellent that all the children want some more.
→ It is ___________________________________________________________________________________
10. The weather was so warm that they had a walk in the garden.
→ It was__________________________________________________________________________________
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