Bài kiểm tra môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Số 2 - Thạnh Hóa High School

THẠNH HÓA HIGH SCHOOL
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PRACTICE TEST FOR THE GCSE EXAM 
 No 2
	 Date:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
1: 	A. study	B. reply	C. apply	D. rely
2: 	A. teacher	B. money	C. return	D. ruler
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
3: 	A. churches	B. chairman	C. chemist	D. changes
4: 	A. heat	B. seat	C. great	D. meat
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
5: I'm sure Bill .............. the job. He has a lot of experiences.
A. was getting	B. getting	C. had got	D. will get
6: If I were you, I ........................... a new car.
A. will buy	B. bought	C. would buy	D. buy
7: We need more sugar. There is .................. sugar in the pot.
A. much	B. many	C. any	D. little
8: The teacher told the boys to stop .................... .
A. play	B. played	C. playing	D. being played
9: This student is not very good ............... Physics.
A. at	B. in	C. with	D. to
10: Peter works for a factory ................... makes motorbikes.
A. what	B. which	C. who	D. whom
11: She will help you ................. she has some free time.
A. how	B. where	C. when	D. what
12: What is the name of the girl ......................... bicycle was stolen?
A. whose	B. who	C. which	D. when
13: We are very fond .......... folk music.
A. in	B. at	C. with	D. of
14: My father is a ....................... . He works in a garage.
A. farmer	B. mechanic	C. teacher	D. doctor
15: John drives very............................ ; he has never had any accidents.
A. careful	B. carefully	C. carelessly	D. careless
16: Many people want .................. for that job.
A. to apply	B. applying	C. apply	D. applied
17: ............................ stamps is my hobby.
A. Collect	B. Collecting	C. Collected	D. Collection
18: Do you mind .................... the cooking?
A. doing	B. to do	C. for doing	D. do
19: Would you like .................... to the cinema?
A. to go	B. going	C. gone	D. go
20: .................. your homework finished last night?
A. Was	B. Did	C. Are	D. Do
21: Sara speaks so .................... that I can't understand her.
A. fast	B. fastly	C. faster	D. fastest
22: Each student ................... the lesson very well.
A. understand	B. understands	C. understanding	D. to understand
23: It began to rain while he ................... .
A. was fishing	B. is fishing	C. fishes	D. has fished
24: That book is ............, so I don't want to read it.
A. bored	B. bore	C. boringly	D. boring
25: Nam is 5 years ........... than Hoa.
A. old	B. older	C. elder	D. eldest
26: You'll fail the exam ..................... you learn harder.
A. if	B. unless	C. where	D. or
27: My parents are interested in ............ football matches on TV.
A. watching	B. to watch	C. watched	D. watch
28: Jane ............... to me twice a month.
A. was writing	B. are writtting	C. was written	D. writes
29: Mary is the ................. student in my class.
A. tallest	B. taller	C. tall	D. as tall as
30: It has ................ a lot this week.
A. rains	B. raining	C. to rain	D. rained
31: She used ................... as a typist.
A. work	B. to work	C. working	D. to working
32: Susan is looking for something .................... .
A. eat	B. to eating	C. to eat	D. eating
33: Gold, as well as silver, .................. in price.
A. have risen	B. has risen	C. rise	D. are rising
34: He ............... to New York three times this year.
A. had been	B. was	C. is	D. has been
35: I remember .................... you about this before.
A. tell	B. to tell	C. telling	D. told
36: Each of you ............ a share in the work.
A. have	B. has	C. having	D. to have
37: We are made ................... all the cleaning in the house.
A. to do	B. do	C. doing	D. done
38: He let the letter ................ onto the floor.
A. fall	B. falls	C. falling	D. fell
39: .......................... all my warnings, he tried to fix the computer himself.
A. Instead of	B. In spite of	C. Although	D. Because
40: I ....................... television a lot but I don't any more.
A. was watching	B. was used to watch	C. used to watch	D. have been watching
41: Have you decided to apply .................... the job yet?
A. for	B. to	C. into	D. off
42: Mr. Brown has .................... many patients .................... he is always busy.
A. too/that	B. very/until	C. such/that	D. so/that
43: We are very fond .......... folk music.
A. in	B. at	C. with	D. of
44: The children, ............... parents work late, are taken home by bus.
A. that	B. whom	C. whose	D. their
45: He wanted to know the reason ............... I was late.
A. as	B. for	C. why	D. because
46: She doesn't understand ................. I am saying.
A. what	B. that	C. whose	D. where
47: We have to start early .............................. we won't be late.
A. so that	B. that	C. because	D. because of
48: The place .................... we spent our holiday was really beautiful.
A. what	B. who	C. where	D. which
49: She goes .................... a lot. She hardly ever spends an evening at home.
A. out	B. down	C. along	D. over
50: There are small .................... between British and American English.
A. differences	B. different	C. difference	D. differently
51: Some species of rare animals are in .................... of extinction.
A. danger	B. dangerous	C. dangerously	D. endanger
52: We are .................... of the long journey.
A. tire	B. tiring	C. tired	D. to tire
53: I remember ............. you somewhere before.
A. meet	B. meeting	C. met	D. to meet
54: Would you mind .................... me a hand with this bag?
A. give	B. giving	C. to give	D. to giving
55: He ............... to New York three times this year.
A. had been	B. was	C. is	D. has been
56: She would never forget............. the Himalayas for the first time.
A. see	B. seeing	C. saw	D. to see
57: No one knows how many documents ..................... been lost.
A. has been lost	B. had lost	C. have been lost	D. has lost
58: If energy .................... unlimited, many things in the world would be different.
A. is	B. will be	C. were	D. would be
59: We need more sugar. There is .................. sugar in the pot.
A. much	B. many	C. any	D. little
60: ...................... is Oxford from Cambridge?
A. How long	B. How far	C. How long away	D. How often
61: Peter wanted to win the race. He ran ........................ .
A. so fast as he can	B. fast as he could	C. fast as he can	D. as fast as he could
62: It .................. me two hours to get home because of the traffic jam yesterday.
A. take	B. spends	C. took	D. spent
63: I am worried ............. taking my final exam.
A. that	B. of	C. to	D. about
64: My father is a ....................... . He works in a garage.
A. farmer	B. mechanic	C. teacher	D. doctor
65: Don't............ the door. The paint is still wet.
A. touch	B. leave	C. keep off	D. watch
66: This town is so ............. in the evening - there's never anything happening. 
A. bore	B. to bore	C. bored	D. boring
67: We came late ..................... .
A. because of the bad weather	B. because the bad weather
C. because of the badly weather	D. because the badly weather
68: - "When ............................?"	- "In 1928."
A. penicillin was discovered	B. did penicillin discovered
C. was penicillin discovered	D. did penicillin discover
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
69: Jane is a better cook than Daisy.
A. Daisy can't cook as good as Jane.	B. Daisy isn't a cook as good as Jane.
C. Daisy can cook as badly as Jane.	D. Daisy can't cook as well as Jane.
70: The problem is difficult to solve.
A. It is difficult problem to solve.	B. It is a problem difficult solve.
C. It is difficult to solve the problem.	D. It is difficult solve the problem.
71: Learning English is not easy.
A. It is not easy to learning English.	B. It is easy learning English.
	C. It is not easy to learn English.	D. It is not difficult to learn English.
72: The coffee was too hot for me to drink.
The coffee is so hot that I can't drink it.	B. The coffee is so hot that I can't drink.
C. The coffee was so hot that I couldn't drink.	D. The coffee was so hot that I couldn't drink it.
73: I didn't have an umbrella with me, so I got wet.
If I had had an umbrella, I wouldn't get wet.
If I had had an umbrella, I would get wet.
If I had had an umbrella, I wouldn't have got wet.
If I had had an umbrella, I would have got wet.
74: Every day I spend 30 minutes watering the flowers.
Every day it takes me 30 minutes water the flowers.
Every day it takes me 30 minutes to water the flowers.
Every day it took me 30 minutes water the flowers.
Every day it took me 30 minutes to water the flowers.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
75: My uncle lived in Hanoi since 1990 to 1998, but he is now living in Hue.
	 A	 B	 	 C	 D
76: I'd like to go on a holiday, but I haven't got many money.
 	A	 B	 C	 D
77: I was listening to the radio last night when the door bell rings.
	 A	 B	C	D
78: When I came in, everyone were watching a film.
	A	 B	 C	 	 D
79: My family spent an interested holiday in Europe last summer.
	 A	 B	 C	 	D
80: He stopped to smoke because it is harmful to his health.
	 A	B	 C	 D
81: I’m only interesting in what he did.
 A	 B	 C	D
82: Basketball has become increasingly popular from 1891.
 A	 B	 C D
83: We had better to review this chapter carefully.
	A	 B	 C	D
84: I really like students who works very hard in their class.
 	 A	 B	 C	 D
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
As you turn on the radio for your favorite music programmed, do you ever wonder how you can ......(85)... those sounds? How do they travel through the air and ...(86)... your radio exactly as they are sent out?
It all began nearly a hundred years ago when a young Italian called Guglielmo Marconi discovered ......(87)...... to send sounds through the air. Marconi was born in Bologna ......(88)...... northern Italy, in 1974. His father was a rich Italian businessman, and his mother was a Scot
......(89)...... had lived in Ireland and had gone to Italy to study music. The family lived in a country house just outside Bologna.
......(90)...... he was a boy, people did not think that Marconi was clever. He was a quiet boy who spoke little ......(91)...... thought a lot. He liked to sit and read science books ......(92)...... his father's big library. He also loved to ......(93)...... experiments with electricity. For most of his early life, he was ......(94)...... at home. He did not go to school.
85:
86:
87:
A. hear
A. make
A. how
B. see
B. reach
B. how much
C. smell
C. travel
C. how many
D. look
D. go
D. how can
88:
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. to
89:
A. whom
B. which
C. who
D. whose
90:
A. If
B. Where
C. So
D. When
91:
A. because
B. but
C. for
D. as
92:
A. on
B. from
C. in
D. by
93:
A. do
B. run
C. open
D. read
94:
A. made
B. taught
C. discovered
D. invented
The Korean education system basically consists of primary schools, ...(95)..... schools, high schools, and colleges ......(96)...... universities, with graduate courses leading to Ph. D. degrees.
......(97)...... education is compulsory for children aged six ......(98)...... eleven. The basic primary school curriculum is generally divided into eight ......(99)...... : the Korean language, social studies, science, ......(100)...... , ethics, physical education, music and fine arts. Students in secondary schools
are required to take a number ......(101)...... additional subjects, such as English, and can take electives, ......(102)...... as technical or vocational courses. Afterwards, students can ......(103)...... between general education and vocational high schools. ......(104)...... general, high school tends to be strict, as college and university admission is very competitive.
95:
A. second
B. secondary
C. among
D. half
96:
A. as
B. or
C. but
D. so
97:
A. Primary
B. High
C. College
D. University
98:
A. from
B. for
C. with
D. to
99:
A. subjects
B. courses
C. topics
D. titles
100:
A. mathematician
B. mathematics
C. mathematically
D. mathematical
101:
A. of
B. with
C. for
D. to
102:
A. so
B. such
C. like
D. alike
103:
A. choose
B. test
C. wish
D. consist
104:
A. On
B. In
C. Of
D. For
Approximately 350 million people ......(105).... English as their first .....(106)...... . About the same number use it .....(107).... a second language. It is the language .....(108).... aviation, international sport and world trade. 75% of the world's .....(109).... is in English, 60% of the world's radio stations ....(110).... in English, and more than half of the world's newspapers are .....(111).... in English. It is an official language in 44 countries. In .....(112).... others, it is the language of business, commerce and technology. There are many.....(113).... of English, but Scottish, Australian, Indian and Jamaican speakers of English, in spite of the differences in pronunciation, structure and vocabulary, would .....(114).... that they are all speaking the same basic language.
105:
A. say
B. speak
C. tell
D. talk
106:
A. language
B. languages
C. linguistics
D. linguist
107:
A. of
B. with
C. as
D. in
108:
A. on
B. to
C. from
D. of
109:
A. mail
B. parcels
C. envelopes
D. letters
110:
A. broadcast
B. travel
C. write
D. show
111:
A. spoken
B. printed
C. sold
D. taken
112:
A. an
B. more
C. many
D. much
113:
A. varieties
B. kind
C. type
D. sort
114:
A. use
B. keep
C. invent
D. recognize
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.
I was born in Newcastle, a city in the North East of England. Newcastle is on the bank of the River Tyne. It is quite big, with a population of about 200,000 people. There is a cathedral and a university. There are five bridges over the River Tyne, which link Newcastle to the next town, Gateshead, where there is one of the biggest shopping centres in the world. A few years ago, the main industries were shipbuilding and coalmining, but now the chemical and soap industries are important. I moved to London ten years ago but I often return to Newcastle. I miss the people, who are very friendly, and I miss the beautiful countryside near the city, where there are so many hills and streams. 115: Newcastle is ............................ .
A. a city near the North East of England	B. a small town in England
C. a city in the North East of England	D. a city in the North of England
116: The population of Newcastle is .................... .
A. 200,000 people	B. much less than 200,000 people
C. much more than 200,000 people	D. about 200,000 people
117: Gateshead has one of ................................ in the world.
A. the largest rivers	B. the most important shipbuilding industries
C. the most beautiful countrysides	D. the biggest shopping centres
118: According to the passage, the writer ...................... .
A. is still living in Newcastle	B. has never returned to Newcastle
C. doesn't live in Newcastle any more	D. has come back to live in Newcastle
119: Which of the following is NOT true about Newcastle?
A. Its people are friendly.	B. Its main industry now is shipbuilding.
C. It has a cathedral and a university.	D. It is next to Gateshead.
David Hempleman Adams is an explorer and adventurer. In April 1984, he walked through northern Canada to the North Pole. He walked 400 kilometres in 22 days. He was 27 years old when he did it. David was the first person to walk to the North Pole by himself. Other people travelled to the North Pole before David but they had a sled and a dog team. David didn't have a dog team. David was a brave man to go on this adventure on his own. He was also a lucky man because the bear and the icy water didn't kill him.
120: Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
David drove to the North Pole.
No one travelled to the North Pole before David.
David was the first person to walk to the North Pole alone.
It was very cold in the North Pole.
121: David travelled to the North Pole with..................... .
A. a group of people	B. a dog team	C. another person	D. nobody
122: Which of the following is NOT true?
He was killed by the bear.
He walked to the North Pole alone.
He walked 400 kilometres.
He was 27 years old when he travelled to the North Pole.
123: The phrase "by himself" can be replaced by .................. .
A. alone	B. successfully	C. with other people	D. on foot
124: Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. A Lucky Man	B. A Walk to the North Pole
C. Without a Dog Team	D. Icy Water
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