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A. Phonetics

1. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined. Read the words aloud.

1. A. allow                        B. follow

   C. yellow                       D. fellow

2. A. exhaust                    B. hour

    C. honest                      D. house

3. A. mood                        B. moon

   C. soon                          D. good

4. A. Dutch                       B. Russian

   C. just                             D. use

5. A. descent                    B. dissent

    C. discontent                D. continent

Answer: 

• 1A    2D   3D    4D    5D

2. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. A. consequently                  B. advantage

    C. apologise                         D. complain

2. A. relationship                     B. arrangement

   C. challenging                        D. eliminate

3. A. prescription                      B. profession

   C. mechanic                            D. calculate

4. A. Japanese                            B. English

    C. Indian                                 D. Netherlandish

5. A. emphasize                         B. equipment

   C. improvement                     D. distinguish

Answer: 

• 1A    2C    3D    4A   5A

B. Vocabulary & Grammar

1. Name the pictures below.

 Answer: 

• 1. Vint Cerf
• 2. Do Duc Cuong (Vietnammese)
• 3. Albert Einstein
• 4. Willis Carrier
• 5. John McCarthy
• 6. Marie Curie

2. Turn the adverb of time in the box into indirect speech/reported speech.

Answer: 

3. Choose the correct option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

1. Lien told me that .............  a biology teacher.

A. she wants to become            B. she wanted to become

C. she will become                     D. she wanted becoming

2. We reminded Lily ..............  late for our appointment the next day.

A. to be not                                 B. not to be

C. to don’t be                              D. don’t be

3. My sister asked:" ...........  the dress for me?"

A. You used to buy                    B. You would buy

C. Will you buy                           D. You buy

4. “ .............. for a cup of tea?” I asked my friends.

A. We will meet                         B. We are meeting

C. We shall meet                      D. Shall we meet

5. Mother asked Lorie...............  in her tests.

A. if she will do well               

B. whether she did not do well

C. why did she not do well     

D. why she did not well

6. We advised Sue not to be a spend thrift and that she.......... more money.

A. not to save                            B. was saving

C. should save                          D. not save

7. The teacher said ........ a week off on the occasion of the International Labor Day.

A. we will have                         B. we didn’t have

C. we have                                D. we would have

8. Tomoko and Kiko said that they .............  cycling the day after tomorrow.

A. will go                                   B. have go

C. would go                              D. has gone

9. “The Sun ............ “  declared my younger brotherconfidently.

A. sets in the west                   B. are setting in the west

C. are set in the west              D. set in the west

10. The teacher told us ...........  of failure if I try all my best.

A. don’t be afraid                     B. to be don’t afraid

C. not to be afraid                     D. to don’t be afraid

Answer: 

• 1B    2B    3C    4D     5D   
• 6C    7D    8C    9A   10C

4. Fill each blank with a suitable word in the box to complete the passage.

working    by     for     questions     invented

there    all    are    information     However

Nowadays a lot of important inventions (1) ………… carried out by scientists (2) ……….. for a large industrial firms. (3) …………….., there are still opportunities (4) …………. Other people to invent various things. In Britain, (5) ………….. is a weekly television program which attempts to show (6) …………. the various devices which people have recently (7)………….. The people organizing the program receive (8) …………. About 700 inventions a year. New ideas can still be developed (9) ………… private inventors. However, it is important to consider these (10) ……………. Will it work? Will it be wanted? Is it new?

Answer: 

• (1) are    (2) working    (3) However,
•  (4) for    (5) there    (6) all    (7) invented 
• (8) information      (9) by  (10) questions. 

C. Reading

1. Choose the correct tenses given in column A with suitable tenses in column B to make sure when you turn into reported speech.

Answer: 

• 1. Present simple (Thì hiện tại đơn) – f. Past simple (Thì Qúa khứ đơn)
• 2. Present continuous (Thì hiện tại tiếp diễn) - b. Past continuous (Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn )
• 3. Present perfect (Thì hiện tại hoàn thành) -  d. Past perfect (Thì quá khứ hoàn thành)
• 4. Past simple (Thì Qúa khứ đơn) - d Past perfect (Thì quá khứ hoàn thành)
• 5. Will – e. Would (sẽ)
• 6. Can – a. Could (có thể)
• 7. May – g. Might (có thể)
• 8.  Must – c. Had to (phải)

2. Read and choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the passage.

Bicycles

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not (1) …………. Earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci had drawn picture for bicycle and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced (2) ………… long after he died.

A person riding a bicycle use (3) ………….. energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so in developed (4) …………., most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not work. It’s because (6) ………… cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes (7) ………… to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work (8) ………… their cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious. (9) ………….. the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths only for bicycle and to make (10) ………….. so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.

1. A. had                                 B. used     

    C. invented                        D. ridden

2. A. before                           B. when

    C. since                              D. until

3. A. much                            B. quite a lot of

   C. very little                       D. many

4. A. world                            B. countries

   C. land                                D.  earth

5. A. lucky                              B. glad

   C. sorry                               D. tired

6. A. the number of             B. a number of

    C. this kind of                   D. all kinds of

7. A. safe                               B. more dangerous

   C. much                              D. popular

8. A. by         B. in           C. use         D. drive

9. A. Hardly                           B. Maybe

    C. perhaps                        D. Nearly

10. A. it       B. them       C. us       D. that

Answer: 

• 1C     2D    3C    4B     5D   
• 6A    7B    8B    9C    10A

3. Read the passage and fill one suitable word in each blank.

The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaptation and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was (1) ………… as a specialist tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use (2) ………….. undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computations in nuclear physics. (3) ………… world war two computers were developed in order to wage counter espionage and break codes used by the enemy. In the post – war years the scope of computers was expanded to include the military industrial complex and academia. Obviously people needed to (4) …………. around these institutions and so there was a need for early network tools. In the 1960’s an early version of the Internet, ARPPANET, only 10 years later computers were starting to change our lifestyle, the way we do business and many style things (Elliot, 1994) and by the late 1980’s networks were expanding to embrace sections of the general public. The (5) ………. was born.

Answer:

• (1) read        (2) of        (3) During 
• (4) communicate       (5) Internet

D. Writing

1. Turn these sentences into reported speech.

1. “I try to learn hard to pass the entrance exam”.

Nam said................................................................

2. “Jane doesn’t want to come to bobby’s party.”

Mary told...............................................................

3. “My daughter is writing a letter to her French friends now.”

Jane’s mother informed......................................

4. “Kate will be a good teacher in the future.”

The Principal hoped............................................

5. “We may go sightseeing in Sapa next week.”

My friends told me..............................................

Answer: 

• 1. Nam said that he tried to learn hard to pass the entrance exam
• 2. Mary told me that Jane didn't want to come to Bobby's party.
• 3. Jane's mother informed me that her daughter was writing a letter to French friends then.
• 4. The Principal hoped Kate would be a good teacher in the future.
• 5. My friends told me that they might go sightseeing in Sapa the next
• week/ the following week.

2. Turn these sentences from reported speech into direct speech.

1. Albert Einstein stated that once you stop learning, you start dying.

.............................................................................

2. Lan told me that she would go camping with her classmates the next day.

.............................................................................

3. The scientists told us that in the near future, robots in our home would do all the housework for us.

.............................................................................

4. I believed science and technology were the keys to develop in the society.

.............................................................................

5. All of us knew that the way to the success was not easy.

.............................................................................

Answer: 

• 1. "Once you stop learning, you start dying,” Albert Einstein stated
• 2. “I will go camping with my classmates tomorrow," Lan said.
• 3. "In the near future, robots in our home will do all the housework for us” the scientists told us.
• "Science and technology are the keys to develop in the society," I believed.
• "The way to the success is not easy,” all of us knew.

3. There are five mistakes in ten underlined prepositions in this passage. Find out and correct them.

The man who made and lost a fortune manufacturing kitchen furniture is back in business again. 37-year-old Timothy Lindlaw is now designing furniture for offices in the director’s suite to the secretarial office. Lindlaw had always had a lot of good ideas. After he had run a highly successful computer business for two years, he started his second business at a small garage, selling and installing kitchen furniture. He had made his first million pounds of the time he was thirty. Then he went on to earn over five million in three years. But, after quarrelling with the managers of his company, he suddenly dismissed them. Within six months the business had gone bankrupt. And so had Lindlaw “I had made five million pounds before things began to go wrong,” he said. “ I was just unlucky to lose it later. All companies go with good times and through bad times. Now I’ve learnt several lessons which I’ll never forget.” He said that he had decided to call his new company “Office-Fit” and was already very successful. Lindlaw said that it was a market worth hundreds of millions. He added that, until he started, no one had ever thought of designing and supplying furniture to whole business companies, according to their individual requirements.

Answer: 

• In => From
• At => in
• Of => by
• With => through
• To => For

The man who made and lost a fortune manufacturing kitchen furniture is back from business again. 37-year-old Timothy Lindlaw is now designing furniture for offices in the director's suite to the secretarial office. Lindlaw had always had a lot of good ideas. After he had run a highly successful computer business for two years, he started his second business in a small garage, selling and installing kitchen furniture. He had made his first million pounds by the time he was thirty. Then he went on to earn over five million in three years. But, after quarrelling with the managers of his company, he suddenly dismissed them. Within six months the business had gone bankrupt. And so had Lindlaw 'I had made five million pounds before things began to go wrong,' he said, 'I was just unlucky to lose it later. All companies go through good times and through bad times. Now I've learnt several lessons which I'll never forget.' He said that he had decided to call his new company 'Office-Fit' and was already very successful. Lindlaw said that it was a market worth hundreds of millions. He added that, until he started, no one had ever thought of designing and supplying furniture for whole business companies, according to their individual requirements.