PRACTICE TEST

Practice 1
Ex1. Read this conversation between Brian and Sarah. Put the verbs into the correct form (Use present continuous tense)
Sarah: Brian! How nice to see you! What (1)___________________(you/do) these days?
Brian: I (2)______________(train) to be a super market manager.
Sarah: Really? What’s it like? (3)_________________( you/ enjoy) it?
Brian: It’s all right. What about you?
Sarah: Well, actually. I (4)____________( not work) at the moment. I (5)_____________(try) to find a job but it’s not easy. But I’m very busy. I(6)______________( decorate ) my flat.
Brian: (7)__________________( you/ do) it alone?
Sarah: No, some friends of mine (8)__________________help me.
Ex2. Are the underlined verbs right or wrong? Correct the wrong ones.
I’m seeing the manager tomorrow morning
I’m felling hungry. Is there anything to eat?
Are you believing in God?
This sauce it great. It’s tasting really good.
I’m thinking this is your key. Am I right?
Ex3. Complete the sentences using” today/this year/this term………..”
I saw Tom yesterday but I haven’t seen him today.
I read a newspaper yesterday but I………………………………………………………………….
Last year the company made profit but this year……………………………………………………
Tracy worked hard at school last term but…………………………………………………………..
It snowed a lot last winter but…………………………………………………………………………
Football team won a lot of games last season but we…………………………………………………
Ex4. Use the correct form of words in brackets to complete the following sentences 1. What is the correct ................................of this word (pronounce)
2. My uncle lives in a ..................................area of the country (mountain)
3. Ha Long Bay was .......................................by UNESCO as a world heritage site .(recognize )
4. The ............................................she gave last night was marvelous (perform).
5. What is the ................................of Thomas Edition ? ( nation)
6. There are alot of ..........................................festival in Viet Nam (tradition)
7. There are many cultural .................................between his country and mine ( differ)
8. The child should be punished because of his bad................................
( behave)
9. People in the country are very open and ....................( friend)
10. Air........................is a big problem in the city ( pollute)
Ex5. Choose A, B, C or D to indicate the word that has different position stress from each other.
1. A. technical B. introduce C. villager D. family
2. A. technology B. important C. popularity D. impossible
3. A. result B. hardly C. method D. farmer
4. A. medical B. knowledge C. possible D. resurface
5. A. farmer B. farewell C. factory D. fairy
6. A. cattle B. country C. canal D. cover
7. A. money B. machine C. many D. mother
8. A. borrow B. agree C. await D. prepare
9. A. suggest B. manage C. visit D. listen
10. A. interesting B. direction C. knowledge D. narrow
Ex6. Use these cues below to write a complete sentence
1. stamps / a child / Minh / since / collected / was / has / he.
2. tomorrow / can / not / we / somewhere / I / so / working / go / am.
3. back / in / months / England / going / two / are / to / they.
4. information / entertainment / also / is / TV / only / but / not / bringing .
5. struggle / on / always / nature / home / life / at / is / the farm / with / a.
Ex7. Choose the best suitable word in the table to complete the following paragraph
dictionary held improve should took
after year pronunciation bookcase school


In the first year of lower secondary (1)____ I had some different in learning English. My (2) ____ of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not know to (3) ____ them. One afternoon (4) ____ the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She (5) ____ me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass (6) ____ . She also told me how to use an Eghlish-English (7) ____ to improve my English grammar. “ Now I think you know what you (8) ____ do,” said she. I did not know that only one (9) ____ later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking Contest (10) ____ for secondary school students in my hometown.