KT009

VINH PHUC
EDUCATION & TRAINING SERVICE
Lien Son High School
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WRITTEN test
Time allowance: 45 minutes
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 Nội dung đề số 971
I. Choose from the four given options (marked A, B, C or D) the one that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others of the same group.
01. A. averaged B. accompanied C. terrified D. influenced
02. A. furious B. frustrate C. rubbish D. punctual
03. A. theatre B. throughout C. thunder D. therefore

II. Choose from the four given options (marked A, B, C or D) the one that has the different stress pattern from the others of the same group.
04. A. custom B. excite C. busy D. label
05. A. optimum B. enterprise C. reliable D. interesting

III. Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best answer to complete each sentence by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
06. A lot of American people have to move to ____ the Hurricane Rita.
A. escape B. prevent C. run D. fight
07. There will be many ____ performance in Hanoi next month.
A. musical B. music C. musics D. big
08. She _____ the nurse for another blanket.
A. said B. asked C. spoke D. requested
09. Next year, there will be a ____ -choice test for English subject.
A. multiple B. single C. simple D. simply
10. These two children do not look ____ to me. Are they brothers?
A. likely B. likeness C. like D. alike
11. It`s ____ to break into someone`s home.
A. legal B. illegal C. legally D. illegally
12. While Tom was listening to the radio, he ____ asleep.
A. fell B. was falling C. fall D. fallen
13. The ____ cat on the sofa jumped up when the telephone rang.
A. sleep B. slept C. sleeps D. sleeping
14. This is an old and valuable medicine for a ____ of aches and pains.
A. any B. much C. number D. many
15. If the lift fails to work, you will have to use the ____.
A. escalator B. elevator C. stairs D. sidewalk
16. The woman was waiting in _____ of the restaurant.
A. middle B. front C. behind D. back
17. Have you seen her ____ .
A. lately B. later C. latter D. late
18. Lan loves ____ the piano and we play together everyday.
A. playing B. play C. plays D. to play
19. The boy had a very _____ childhood with his caring parents.
A. joyed B. joyful C. joy D. joyless
20. What do you think the weather _____. in the next few days?
A. is like B. is going to be like C. will be liking D. is going to be

IV. Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best answer to complete each of the gaps below by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
Can you imagine a world without words? The main way that we communicate with each other is by using words. We can communicate either by speaking and listening or by writing and reading. With words, we can give and receive information, ideas, orders and instructions.
People have used writing to communicate for about 7000 years. At first, they used to draw simple pictures to represent objects, such as people and animals. Then people started to put pictures together to represent something more difficult, like a sentence. The next step in the development of writing was to use symbols, or signs. These symbols represented the sounds of words and not their meanings.
Finally, the alphabet from which modern English comes was invented in about 1500 BC. The people who invented the alphabet used a set of symbols to represent the sound “o”. This symbol is still used to the same sound today. Many languages are written with letters of an alphabet, including Vietnamese.
21. What is the most suitable title for this article?
A. writing and reading B. alphabets and their meaning
C. listening and speaking D. words and writing
22. An alphabet is a set of letters that represent