I.

Circle the word which has the underlined part pronounced

differently from the rest
Example: 00. A. man B. bad C. many D. manage
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champagne B. chest C. chance D. switch

gather B. thanks C. ethnic D. three
ploughed B. published C. ordered D. prayed
could B. ground C. should D. would
women B. many C. men D. education
plough B. enough C. young D. country
garbage B. garage C. sewage D. carriage
focus B. cancer C. facial D. chemical
bone B. home C. tone D. one
heal B. deal C. head D. feel

II. Give the correct form of the verbs in bracket

- I (11. phone) you as soon as I arrive in Ho Chi Minh City.
- Tam, dont forget (12. post) my letter.
- You ever (13. try) Indian food?
- He (14. live) in oxford for two years and then in 1989 he (15. move) to
London.
- He talked about cooking as if he (16. be) a very good cook.
- If I (17. know) you were coming, I (18. wait) for you.
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III. Choose the correct answer.
How are things with you? Since I last saw you, Ive been very ill. By the
time I arrived home after seeing you on Monday, I (19)... an awful
headache. I thought that perhaps my eyes were tired (20)... Id been
working so hard, so I took some aspirins and went to bed. However, when I
woke up the next morning, the headache was (21)... than ever, and my
throat was sore. I tried to get up but my arms and legs (22)... stiff.
I saw the doctor and she (23)... me I had a temperature. She saidI probably
had flu. She advised me to take some medicine and (24)... in bed. The
medicine tasted horrible and it didnt make (25)... feel any better. I felt sick
and I didnt want to eat anything at all, although I was very (26)... . I have
almost (27)... now, and I am going to start work again tomorrow. I still have
a slight cold and a cough, but my chest doesnt hurt when I (28)... . Can we
meet on Saturday? Im looking forward to seeing you.
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felt B. had C. was D. caught

as B. though C. while D. during
worse B. hard C. more D. painful
sensed B. moved C. felt D. looked

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examined B. told C. denied D. said

stay B. sit C. lay D. stand
my B. me C. them D. its
ill B. heavy C. hungry D. thirsty
improved B. decided C. recovered D. succeeded
breathe B. ache C. cure D. bleed

IV. Fill in each numbered blank ONE suitable word.

This year, the school is offering new summer courses, which sound very
good indeed. They are able to offer many more conversation classes (29)...
before. And for about half of these classes the students will be working
(30)... groups of seven or eight. Courses on reading and writing will also be
given. Theres a completely new reading course, in fact, (31)... the
students will find very interesting. Teachers will use current newspaper
articles and other material. (32)... the first time this year, the school is
running a computer course, too. The school will be also continuing the
video course, which was very popular last year. Benfield School has some
new video equipment and the teachers know a lot about video.
All this sounds like hard work! But there will be a lot of leisure activities too.
The school has arranged (33)... students to use the sports centre near the
school in the afternoons and evenings, (34)... greatly reduced prices. And it
has planned a lot of visits to places of (35)... . There will be some special
surprises for the students (36)... well. The school has organized a group
visit to a television studio, as a suitable end to the video course. Some
students will be (37)... to take flying lessons at the airport. The school only
takes (38)... forty and fifty students at a time. Although it is a small school,
only a few of the students stay at the school itself, in one of two flats in the
main building. Most of the summer students will stay with families in the
town.
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V. Give the correct form of the words in bracket.
All languages have rules for forming words and for ordering those words in
(39. meaning) sentences. In written languages, meaning is expressed
through a system of characters and rules for combining those characters.
In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds
and rules for combining those sounds. Word order is more important in
English than it is in some languages such as (40. Russia).
Like other languages English is always changing, but it changes very
(41. slow). People invent new words, borrow words from other languages,
and change the meaning of words as (42. need). For example, the English
word byte was invented by computer (43. special) in 1959. The word

tomato was borrowed from Nahuatl, an (44. America) Indian language

(45. speak) in Mexico. The word meat once referred to food in general.
People learn English as well as (46. language)by listening, copying what
they hear, and (47. use) the language. Most school children learn their first
language (48. easy) and sometimes other languages as well.
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VI. For questions 49 63, read the text below and look carefully at
each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word
which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick ( ) on the
dotted line. If a line has a word which should not be there, write
the word on the dotted line. There are two examples at the
beginning (0 and 00).
An unlucky day
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Last Sunday was definitely not a good day

for me. It
was all started when I got into my car and it
refused
to start. I immediately realised that I had left
the
lights on and the battery had gone flat. I
telephoned to
my friend George and he came round and
helped me
start the car. I then drove into town to see a
friend. I
had arranged to meet him at six thirty, but
by
the time I got to there, it was ten past seven
and my
friend he was not there, I waited for him for
an hour
despite of the freezing weather, but he
didnt come.
When I had returned to my car, I saw that
someone
had been broken into it, probably looking for
the radio.
Luckily, I never leave the radio in the car!
There
was nothing I could do but get into my car

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friend and discovered out that he
had waited for only the half an hour and left.
He didnt
even apologise himself for not waiting for
me longer!
VII. Fill in each numbered blank ONE suitable preposition.
Paper was invented by the Chinese (64)... the first century A.D. The art of
papermaking took 700 years to reach the Muslim world and another 700
years to get to Britain (via Spain, France and Germany).
Most paper is made (65)... wood. When the trees are cut down, they are
carried (66)... land or water to paper mills. Here they are cut up and the
wood is broken up into fibres, mixed (67)... water and chemicals. This
woodpulp is then dried up on a machine and made (68)... paper.
Papermaking is an important British industry, and paper from Britain is
exported (69)... South Africa, Australia and many other countries. Some of
the wood used in British papermaking industry comes (70)... trees grown in
Britain, but wood is also imported (71)... other countries such as Norway.
One tree is needed (72)... every 400 copies of a forty-page newspaper. If
half the adults in Britain each day buy one daily paper, this uses up over
40,000 trees a day. Trees are cut (73)... faster than they can be replaced,
so there may be a paper shortage before the year 2020.
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VIII. Finish each of the following sentence in such a way that it
means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it
74. Why didnt you switch off the light before leaving the room?
You should ..
75. Lan can speak English more fluently than I can.
I cant ..
76. Now he doesnt smoke any more as before.
He used
77. The play was so boring that we left in the interval.
We
78. Im sorry I didnt phone you about that said Lan.
Lan apologized
IX. Read the following passage, then circle the correct answer.
In the UK we each use about two hundred steel food and drink cans every

year. Steel cans are popular because they are convenient, easy to store
and unbreakable. But when you have finished with a can, what do you do
with it? Do you throw it away and forget all about it? Probably! But behind
the scenes there are people whose job it is to make sure that the steel is
never wasted. In fact, recycling or reusing steel cans is so successful that
every day of the year more than five million cans start new lives in new
steel products.
After you have thrown away your can, what happens? Well, first of all it is
collected by the men who empty your dustbin each week together with all
the other household rubbish. Then the rubbish is sorted and the steel cans
are taken separately to a special factory which turns dirty old cans into
high quality steel. Its this steel which may well find its way back into your
home in the form of knives and forks, garden equipment and, of course,
food and drink cans. So next time you open your fizzy drink just remember
where your can may have been.
79. 80. What is the writer trying to do in the text?
A. To advertise canned drinks. C. To provide some information.
B. To describe the steel industry. D. To describe rubbish collection.
81. 82. Why would somebody read the text?
A. To learn about the soft drink industry. C. To find out more about how
steel is made.
B. To understand how rubbish is collected. D. To discover what happens to
old cans.
83. 84. How do we know that reusing steel is very successful?
A. Every person uses 5, 000 cans a year.
B. All cans and tins are now made from steel.
C. Over 5,000,000 cans are recycled daily.
D. It reduces the amount of waste to collect.
85. 86. What does the writer suggest about our attitude to old cans?
A. We are not interested what happens to them.
B. We should be more careful where we throw them.
C. We could help by sending them to the factory.
D. We are making things difficult for the dustbin men
X. Many serious diseases are now caused by pollution. What do
you think that man should and must do to reduce pollution? Write
a composition, not more than 150 words. (87 100)
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