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EXAM PRACTICE 1
A. PHONETICS (1 pt.)
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the others. Write
your answer A, B, C or D in the space provided (0.5 pt.)
1. A. chapter B. yacht C. manage D. panel 1. _____
2. A. example B. feed C. ink D. inhumane 2. _____
3. A. junior B. humour C. stew D. purify 3. _____
4. A. asked B. advised C. wished D. promised 4. _____
5. A. computer B. situation C. telephone D. teacher 5. _____
II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from those of the others. Write your answer A,
B, C or D in the space provided (0.5 pt.)
1. A. dormitory B. mausoleum C. satisfactory D. celebration 1. _____
2. A. collapse B. collect C. comment D. compose 2. _____
3. A. practicality B. politician C. uncontrollable D. comfortable 3. _____
4. A. career B. customer C. habitat D. animal 4. _____
5. A. ability B. difficulty C. simplicity D. discovery 5. _____

B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (4 pts.)

I. Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answer
A, B, C or D in the space provided (1.5 pts.)
1. I succeed in my job through sheer hard _____. 1. _____
A. labour B. effort C. industry D. work
2. Our local youth club tries to _____ for all interests. 2. _____
A. cater B. apply C. equip D. organize
3. When I have some free time, I tend to do nothing _____ laze about. 3. _____
A. only B. and C. but D. like
4. When I enquired about the times of trains, I was given a _____. 4. _____
A. timetable B. itinerary C. schedule D. programme
5. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work I _____ last week. 5. _____
A. should do B. should have done C. could do D. must have done
6. The problem has been _____ about by the increase in the global warming. 6. _____
A. thought B. brought C. written D. caused
7. It takes me years to _____ up enough money to travel around the world. 7. _____
A. pay B. take C. save D. put
8. I haven’t been feeling very well _____. 8. _____
A. of late B. not long ago C. currently D. by now
9. Nigel Kennedy, the _____ violinist, will perform at the concert. 9. _____
A. known B. recognized C. defamed D. celebrated
10. It’s time you _____ home, but I’d rather you _____ here. 10. ____
A. go – stay B. went – stay C. went – stayed D. go – stayed
11. The station platform was crowded _____ people waiting for the train. 11. ____
A. of B. with C. about D. at
12. I talked to Anna throughout the evening, _____ nothing I said changed her opinion. 12. ____
A. yet B. and C. otherwise D. so that
13. If I _____ to the party last night, I _____ tired now. 13. ____
A. go – will be B. went – would be C. had gone – would be D. had gone – would have been
14. The number of homeless people _____ dramatically during the last ten years. 14. ____
A. increased B. was increasing C. has increased D. have increased
15. He made the soup by mixing _____ meat with some rice. 15. ____
A. little B. few C. a little D. a few
II. Give the correct forms of the words in the brackets to complete the passage (1 pt.)
Public opinion surveys show that people are becoming (1. INCREASE) _____ 1. __________
concerned about a range of problems associated with traffic. It is clear from simple (2. 2. __________
OBSERVE) _____ that the traffic on our streets is increasing (3. DRAMA) _____ year by 3. __________
year. It is also a fact that many drivers don’t observe the speed limit in (4. OPERATE) 4. __________
_____ in the town centers. In fact, most drivers go (5. CONSIDER) _____ faster. 5. __________
What is equally (6. WORRY) _____ to many people is the pollution caused by 6. __________
traffic, which causes many health problems. So what should be done about the problem? 7. __________
One possible (7. SOLVE) _____ to the problem is the (8. ADOPT) _____ of Park-and Ride 8. __________
schemes by local councils. These work in the following way: councils provide cheap (9. 9. __________
PARK) _____ facilities on the outskirts of town and free bus services to the town center. 10. _________
Another is to stop the building of out-of-town shopping centers, which people rely on their
cars to get to. A (10. REDUCE) _____ in the cost of using public transport might also help
to persuade us to leave our cars at home.
III. Complete the passage by writing one suitable preposition into each gap (0.5 pt.)
1. Everyone tried to blame Janet __________ the mistake.
2. When I retired, I devoted myself __________ improving my golf.
3. Mary specialized __________ designing theatres and concert halls.
4. I’m afraid that the parking regulations apply __________ everyone, sir.
5. I’m really not used __________ being treated like that.
IV. There is a mistake in the underlined parts of each sentence. Identify the mistake by circling it and
then correct it (0.5 pt.)
1. I don’t want to cause you angry but I can’t agree with you. 1. _________________________
2. It was kind to you to help me do my housework. 2. _________________________
3. The oceans contain many forms of life that has not yet been discovered. 3. _________________________
4. Look! That man tries to open the door of your car. 4. _________________________
5. The furniture in my grandparents’ houses are very beautiful. 5. _________________________
V. Put one word in each space. Each word is a form of a verb listed below (0.5 pt.)
pride concern distract succeed account manage pay
1. We _____________ in finding Ann’s house at the second attempt.
2. Alan _____________ himself on his punctuality.
3. I was _____________ from doing my work by the music.
4. The idea of marriage doesn’t _____________ to me.
5. Have you _____________ for the wind speed in your calculations?

C. READING (3 pts.)
I. Read the passage and fill each gap with one suitable word (1 pt.)
There are at (1) _____ 2,000 different languages in the world. Of all these languages, English is the
most (2) _____ used. It is used by business people, airline pilots and sea captains all over the world. It is also
the first language (3) _____ sports and science. So it is very important to learn English.
Chinese is also an important language because it has the greatest (4) _____ of speakers. There are
not only over one billion people living in China today, but also many Chinese people living (5) _____ China.
Chinese is widely spoken in many (6) _____ of Asia and Africa. Russian is spoken in (7) _____ Europe and
Asia. French is widely understood (8) _____ Europe and in parts of Canada, Africa and Asia.
From more than 2,000 languages, the United Nations has (9) _____ six of them for business. (10)
_____ are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
II. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following passage (1.5 pts.)
Research has shown that over half of the children in Britain who take their own lunches to school do
not eat (1)_____ in the middle of the day. In Britain schools have to (2) _____ meals at lunchtime. Children
can (3) _____ to bring their own food or have lunch at the school canteen.
 One shocking (4) _____ of this research is that school meals are much healthier than lunches
prepared by parents. There are strict (5) _____ for the preparation of school meals, which have to include
one (6) _____ of fruit and one of vegetables, as well as meat, a dairy item and starchy food like bread or
pasta. Lunch boxes (7) _____ by researchers contained sweet drinks, crisps and chocolate bars. Children (8)
_____ twice as much sugar as they should at lunch time.
The research will provide a better (9) _____ of why the percentage of overweight students in Britain
has (10) _____ in the last decade. Unfortunately, the government cannot (11) _____ parents, but it can
remind them of the (12) _____ value of milk, fruit and vegetables. Small changes in their children’s diet can
(13) _____ their future health. Children can easily develop bad eating (14) _____ at this age, and parents are
the only one who can (15) _____ it.
1. A. appropriately B. properly C. probably D. possibly
2. A. give B. provide C. make D. do
3. A. prefer B. manage C. want D. choose
4. A. finding B. number C. figure D. factor
5. A. standards B. procedures C. conditions D. ways
6. A. piece B. portion C. bowl D. kilo
7. A. examined B. found C. taken D. investigated
8. A. take B. contain C. consume D. consist
9. A. view B. knowledge C. understanding D. opinion
10. A. increased B. expanded C. extended D. added
11. A. criticize B. instruct C. order D. tell
12. A. nutritional B. healthy C. positive D. good
13. A. damage B. predict C. destroy D. affect
14. A. behaviors B. styles C. attitudes D. habits
15. A. prevent B. define C. decide D. delay
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
III. Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each question below (0.5 pt.)
Chen likes to get his news from the paper. Lemma turns on the television to find out what’s going on
in the world. Eve subscribes to more magazines than she can keep track of, whereas Kobi chooses to listen to
radio talk shows that cover issues thoroughly to tap into what’s going on in the world. All these people are
touched by the media.
What is the media what constitutes the media? The media consists of all the ways that news and
information is distributed to a mass audience. The media covers everything from hard news, which is
investigative reporting, to stories that are purely entertaining, such as whether your favorite movie star was
on the “Best Dressed / Worst Dressed” list. Whether in print or broadcast on TV, the stories are the product
of the reporting of many journalists who write the stories, and editors who give out the assignments, assess
the quality of the writing and research, and make the decisions about where and when the stories run.
The news has immediate impact. The Internet puts global news onto the personal computer on your
desk. Almost all browsers have links to up-to-the-minute news stories from various news services. You can
get constant news updates from a variety of sources via your personal computer, providing you with the most
up-to-date and in-depth coverage.
1. According to the writer, _____. 4. The word “browsers” in line 13 refers
A. people’s life can be changed by the media to_____.
B. newspapers, magazines, television and radios are all A. programs used by computers for doing
the mass media particular jobs
C. people can only get news from the paper B. people who look for information on the
D. radio talk shows cover thorough issues Internet
2. According to the passage, the media _____. C. people who design the web
A. spreads not only news but also entertainment to D. computer programs that allow users to
audiences look at and search through information on
B. investigates news reports that will be covered the Internet
C. only distributes hard news to people
D. consists of news and information all over the world
 3. Which of the followings is not a responsibility of 5. An advantage of Internet news reports is
editors? that _____.
A. Judge the writings and researches. A. they can be constantly updated
B. Assign tasks. B. they link news from various news
C. Write reports on the stories. services
D. Decide when and where the stories run. C. they provide a variety of information
D. they can be put onto the personal
computer

D. WRITING (2 pts.)
I. Rewrite the following sentence using the given words so that it has the same meaning as the original
one (1 pt.)
1. It was wrong of you to allow a four-year-old child to walk home alone.
You should ……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..
2. I could realize how important the family is only after I left home.
Not until ……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..………………..
3. I could hold a big party thanks to my mom’s help.
Had it ……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..…………………..
4. Nobody does it better than Jackson.
There isn’t ……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..
5. Is it all right if I come to the club with you tonight?
Would you mind ……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………………..

III. Rewrite the following sentence using the word cue in the bracket (do not change the word in any
way) (1 pt.)
1. The children are excited about going to the circus. (LOOKING)
The children ……..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..…………
2. When did you start learning English? (AGO)
How …………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..…..
3. “Let’s elect Ha Long Bay to be one of the World Wonders.” said the teacher. (ELECTED)
The teacher suggested ……..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..
4. She talks too much in class. (WISH)
I ……..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..…...
5. Without air, there would be no life on this planet. (IF)
……..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..………..…….
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