PRACTICE TEST 3

USE OF ENGLISH
I. Choose the best answer.
1. It is ______ knowledge in the village that Mr. and Mrs. Jones quarrel violently several times a week.
A. common B. complete C. normal D. usual
2. Driving in London is supposed to be confusing but I didn’t find it ______ difficult.
A. at first B. at all C. at once D. at least
3. There weren’t any ______ in the offices for bilingual secretaries.
A. spaces B. situations C. vacancies D. offers
4. Mary Smith decided to give up her job for the ______ of her children. for the sake of: vì quyền lợi của
A. care B. reason C. concern D. sake
5. The newspaper contained ______ important information.
A. many B. another C. an D. a lot of
6. He missed the lecture, so I lent him my notes ______.
A. after all B. afterwards C. at last D. finally
7. John sings in the choir on Sunday, ______ does Mary.
A. as B. so D. like D. also
8. John swims very well, and ______ does his brother.
A. also B. as C. so D. too
9. It’s an awful ______ your wife couldn’t come. I was looking forward to meeting her.
A. harm B. sorrow C. shame = pity D. shock
10. There is a fault at our television station. Please don not ______ your set.
A. change B. adjust : điều chỉnh C. repair D. switch
11. In pain as a result of the fall, he ______ slowly home.
A. stepped B. wound C. sped D. limped
12. It is usually better not to ______ things, in case they are not returned.
A. lend B. lose C. offer D. borrow
13. The old sailing boat was ______without trace during the fierce storm. be lost without trace
A. vanished B. disappeared C. crashed D. lost
14. His performance was ______; the audience was delighted.
A. unmarked B. faultless C. imperfect D. worthless
15. Things ______ quite dramatically in the last few years.
A. have changed B. was changing C. had change D. change
16. I think we ought to ______ a party for Tim’s birthday.
A. drop B. put C. throw D. cast
17. I don't like doing business with him because he ______ such a hard bargain.
A. makes B. drives C. leads D. arranges
18. She would rather go shopping than ______ at home. drive a bargain
A. to stay B. to staying C. stay D. staying
19. Don't worry - the documents are safe ______ lock and key at my place
A. under B. on C. in D. within
20. Two months ______ ample time to allow for the job to be completed.
A. are B. being C. is D. were

II. Fill in each gap with one suitable particle or preposition.

1. back
She held __________ some very important information which she refused to reveal.
2. over
Even though the police went __________ the evidence many times, they didn’t find anything.
 bring sb round/around: persuade sb 1. persuade sb /make sb agree
sb comes round/around 2. make sb conscious

3. after
Even though the police went __________ the criminals, they didn't catch them.
4. They aren’t at school because they broke __________
up for the summer holidays last week.
5. Sam doesn’t agree with our plans but Karen should be able to bring him __________.
round
6. off
Whoever would have thought that their plan to own a multinational company would come __________.
7. up
If the weather clears __________, we’ll go out this afternoon. = improve
come off: success
8. down
They have closed __________ the old cinema because the new one has opened.
9. in
The young actor fell __________ the world-famous actress.
10. in
I’m determined not to give __________ to her this time. She can’t always have what she wants.
come off = carry off = take off sth comes off = bring sb off
give in = surrender
III. Supply the correct form of the word given.
1. tendency
The drug is effective but has a _______________ to cause headache. TEND
2. container
The _______________ of the media course includes scripting, editing and camera work. CONTAIN
3. acknowledge her a genius in her field. KNOW : công nhận
Historians generally _______________
4. There is a very _______________ statue of him in the town. LIFE :looks real
livelike
5. tasetful
Their house is very _______________, but it doesn't have any soul. TASTE
6. emotionless
I sat completely _______________ as the spider crawled along my arm. MOTION
7. adulthood
People in Britain legally reach _______________ at 18. ADULT life -> lifelike - lifelong - lifetime - lively
8. disapproving
She gave me a very _______________ look when she saw that I wasn’t wearing the correct
uniform. APPROVE
inaccessible
9. We'll have to walk to the village - it's _______________ to cars. ACCESS
enraptured
10. When I first saw the island I was completely _______________ by the wonderful view. RAPTURE
rapture(n): a feeling of pleasure/joy
IV. There are ten mistakes in the text below. Find, underline and correct them.
Britain have a general mild temperate climate. The weather, however, tends to 0. have has
be changed (though not necessarily unpredictable) as a result of the constant changeable
__________ __________
of
influence on different air masses. The prevailing winds are southwesternly, __________ __________
which bring warm air in from across the Atlantic. There are a few extremes in __________few __________
0 0
temperature, which rarely goes above 32 C or below -10 C. In summer, __________ __________
southern Britain is warmer than northern Britain because of its latitude, but in __________ __________
milder
winter the North Atlantic Drift – a warm sea current – keeps the west mild than __________ __________
the east. Consequently, Wales and the southwest Peninsula has the most __________ have __________
moderate climate and eastern England the most extremely. These differences, extremes
__________ __________
arising
are not great however, and local variations arise from factors such as altitude __________ __________
distributed
and pollution are often greater. Annual rainfall is fairly evenly distribute, but __________ __________
ranges from more than 1,600 mm in the mountainous areas of the west and __________ __________
north far less than 800 mm over central and eastern parts. This is because __________to __________
and
depressions from the Atlantic bring frontal rainfall first to the west but because __________ __________
western Britain is higher and so gets more relief rain. __________ __________
vary(v) 1. variation: changes 2. variant: new version of sth 3. variety: - a variety of
READING - types
I. Read the text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap.
PROOF THAT SILENCE IS GOLDEN FOR STUDYING
The combination of music and study has long been a (0) ______ of disagreement between adults and children.
Parents and teachers alike maintain that silence is important when learning, (1) ______ youngsters insist that
their favourite sounds help them concentrate.

Now a study shows that the grown- ups have been (2) ______ all along. Psychologists in Florida tested how

multitasker: people who do many things in the same time

 fast students wrote essays with and without music in the (3) ______. They found that the sounds (4) ______
progress down by about sixty words per hour. ‘This demonstrates clearly that it is difficult to (5) ______ with
listening and writing at the same time,’ said Dr Sarah Randall. She also (6) ______ to the conclusion that it is a
myth that instrumental music is less distracting than vocals. ‘All types of music (7) ______ the same effect,’
she said in her report. ‘One’s ability to pay attention and write fluently is likely to be (8) ______ by both vocal
and instrumental music,’ she added.

Dr Randall claimed the research (9) ______ that the idea that music could improve performance was wrong.
‘Writing an essay is a complex (10) ______. You are recalling information and putting it in (11) ______. An
additional stimulus in the form of music is bound to distract. But music is not the only distractor. What is
(12) ______ worrying is that more and more teenagers are studying in front of the television.’

0. A. basis B. foundation C. source D. reason

1. A. whereas B. unlike C. besides D. despite
2. A. precise B. right C. valid D. true
3. A. setting B. background C. surrounding D. circumstances
4. A. slowed B. reduced C. lowered D. decreased
5. A. manage B. support C. cope D. stand
6. A. reached B. drew C. arrived D. came
7. A. made B. had C. brought D. kept
8. A. disturbed B. interfered C. bothered D. shocked
9. A. pointed B. displayed C. demonstrated D. presented
10. A. project B. concern C. scheme D. task
11. A. order B. arrangement C. line D. pattern
12. A. partly B. largely C. particularly D. mainly
demonstrated = prove
II. Read the text and fill in each gap with one suitable word.
FLOWER POWER
when
Flowers grow everywhere in the world but (0) ____________ people think of tulips, they think of the
Netherlands. The Dutch have a saying: “Flowers love people”, (1) ____________
if this is true, then flowers
really love the Dutch, as flowers have been cultivated in the Netherlands for hundreds of years. In fact, the
so
flower industry has been (2) ____________ profitable that it has been boosting the Dutch economy
since
(3) ____________ the seventeenth century.

having
Recently, however, the Dutch flower growers have been (4) ____________ difficulty in coping with the tough
taken
competition from abroad. The Colombians, for instance, have (5) ____________ the Dutch by surprise. Their
on due
flowers are now (6) ____________ demand all over the world (7) ____________ to the simple fact that they
are cheaper. Within a few short years, the Colombians have brought Holland's domination of the flower
despite
industry to an end. (8) ____________ this fact, the Netherlands is still (9) ____________
in control of over sixty
per cent of the world's flower market.
take sb by suprise = take sb aback = surprise sb
order
In (10) ____________ to help the Dutch growers, the European Commission has decided to promote the
long
flower industry, as (11) ____________ as the growers themselves are willing to cut costs and become more
more
competitive. All this in the hope of making people buy (12) ____________ flowers than they used to. Today the
while
average Dutchman buys 150 stems a year, (13) ____________ the Germans buy 80 stems and the English
unless
only 50 stems. These numbers are constantly declining. (14) ____________ this trend is reversed, many
out
Dutch growers will soon be (15) ____________ of business. though
as long as = so long as = provided (that) = only if do sth on demand: theo yêu cầu
sth be in demand: nhu cầu cần của mọi người
if only = i wish
III. You are going to read a magazine article about air pollution. Choose from the list (A-H) the
sentence which best summarises each part (1-6) of the article. There is an extra sentence which
you do not need to use.

A. Research is being done into electric cars.

B. People refuse to give up their cars in cities.
C. One answer is to persuade people to buy electric cars.
D. Cities where people depend heavily on cars have the worst problems.
E. Electric cars have a major disadvantage.
F. Air pollution appears to be a cause of illness.
G. Air pollution is now a worry for everyone.
H. Cars are destroying the air quality in cities.
H
0. ______
Around the world, governments and their citizens are becoming increasingly concerned about what the motor
car and its internal combustion engine do to the air we breathe. In some cities, air pollution resulting from the
internal combustion engine is so bad that drastic action has had to be taken. In summertime, pollution in some
Southern European cities is now so serious that it is common for half the usual number of commuters to be
forbidden to bring their cars into the city.

F
1. ______
Calculating the number of people who become unwell or even die as a result of air pollution is very difficult. But
recent studies of the effects of car fumes suggest that the health risks may be more severe than previously
thought.

G
2. ______
Suddenly, urban air pollution is no longer a subject just for environmentalists but a cause of widespread public
concern. Ordinary people are beginning to sit up and take notice.

A
3. ______
There are numerous proposed ways of dealing with the problem: one of the most radical is to slowly stop using
the internal combustion engine and to use instead the electric motor powered from a large battery pack. A lot
of money is now being invested by car and battery manufacturers to create 'clean' vehicles.

D
4. ______
Much of the pressure has come from the land where the car is king - California. The United States has no
public transport to speak of (the major car-makers actively contributed to its destruction) so the car is the
average American's only practical means of daily transport. But some US cities, Los Angeles in particular, are
paying a high price for this over-reliance. LA's famous smogs - trapped by the natural 'bowl' of the nearby
mountains - are the result of reactions between the chemicals which come from the city's millions of car
exhausts.
5. ______
Because of this serious pollution problem, California has for over 20 years set tough pollution laws. Even so,
LA's smog problem has not been solved. So now, the 'sunshine state' has taken the first step towards
removing the internal combustion engine altogether from its roads. From 1998, all car-makers who sell their
cars in California will have to offer a proportion of electric cars for sale. In 1998 the proportion of electric cars
offered must be two per cent, rising to five per cent by 2003 and to ten per cent by 2005.

6. ______
Environmentalists argue, with some justification, that only by making laws like this can politicians force change
on the car industry. But others – some of them no less committed to cleaner urban air doubt that the totally
electric car is the right solution to the problem. The difficulty with electric cars is that they can only travel a
short distance at a time. At the moment there is no obvious solution to the transport problems of the world's
cities.

WRITING
I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the one
printed before it.
1 You have to go to Athens to see the Acropolis.
you want to see the Acropolis, you have to go to Athens
If _______________________________________________________________________________.
2. She didn’t take the medication and now she's ill again.
she had taken the medication, she wouldn't be ill again
If _______________________________________________________________________________.
3. They said the president had been in a meeting.
was said to have been in a meeting
The president _____________________________________________________________________.
4. You didn’t need to buy me this ring.
have bought me
You needn’t _____________________________________________________________ this ring.
5. She was very upset, but she managed to behave cheerfully.
as she was, she managed
Upset __________________________________________________________ to behave cheerfully.

II. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the one
printed before it. Use the word given. Do not alter the word given in any way.
1. I used to be familiar with every corner of this school. HAND
know this school like the back of my hand
I used to ________________________________________________________________________.
2. She was so anxious while the results were read out. BREATH
held her breath
She __________________________________________________ while the results were read out.
3. I certainly won’t change my mind about resigning. QUESTION
my mind about resigning is out of the question
My changing ____________________________________________________________________.
4. He is determined to become a doctor. HEART
set his heart on becoming a doctor
He ____________________________________________________________________________.
5. She didn’t cry when the story ended in tragedy. TEAR
a tear did she shed
Not __________________________________________________ when the story ended in tragedy.