REVISION of UNIT 1

REVISION UNIT 1
I. Pronunciation: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other three
1. A. letter B. friend C. pretty D. pleasure
2. A. character B. classmate C. happy D. photograph
3. A. enough B. volunteer C. public D. humor
4. A. shy B. curly C. lucky D. library
5. A. comes B. lives C. rises D. smiles
II. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence
1. My sister’s hair is not _____________.
A. slim B. fat C. curly D. sociable
2. It’s a_____________ to meat you, Thu.
A. pleasure B. kind C. nice D. lucky
3. He is my_____________. We are in the same class.
A. character B. classmate C. principal D. neighbor
4. I_____________ a letter from my friend yesterday.
A. sent B. took C. received D. gave
5. The boy is a_____________ student. He always gets good grades.
A. generous B. reserved C. humorous D. hard-working
6. The moon_____________ around the Earth.
A. rides B. moves C. makes D. takes
7. I find he is not communicative. He’s rather_____________ in public.
A. outgoing B. reserved C. sociable D. humorous
8. He’s tall and thin. He has_____________.
A. black hair short B. short black hair C. hair short black D. black short hair
9. _____________. Are you Mr. Thanh?
A. I’m sorry B. Excuse me C. Hello D. Certainly
10. Would you like to go to the movie with me tonight? - _____________.
A. Yes, please B. I’m sorry. I’d love to
C. No thanks D. Yes. I’d love to
III. Match a word in column A with its synonym in column B
A
B

1. slim
2. reserved
3. short
4. beautiful
5. generous
6. sociable
7. annoy
8. hard-working
9. friend
10. voluntary
a. kind
b. pretty
c. mate
d. outgoing
e. thin
f. willing
g. small in height
h. shy
i. make angry
j. diligent

IV. Match a word in Column A with its antonym in Column B
A
B

1. slim
2. outgoing
3. quiet
4. rise
5. generous
6. curly
7. beautiful
8. please
9. tall
10. confident
a. shy
b. annoy
c. short
d. reserved
e. set
f. fat
g. noisy
h. selfish
i. straight
j. ugly

V. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. People in my country are very warm and_____________. (friend)
2. An_____________ is a child whose parents are dead. (orphanage)
3. L. A. Hill is a_____________ writer. (humor)
4. I’m_____________ sorry for the delay. (extreme)
5. She looks more_____________ than her sister. (beauty)
6. I am_____________ enough to have a lot of friends. (luck)
7. They enjoyed the_____________ summer evenings in the countryside. (peace)
8. Those cats look_____________. (love)
9. It was_____________ of him to offer to pay for us both. (generosity)
10. Role-play is_____________ in developing communication skills. (help)
VI. Read the passage and choose the best answers
Last year I (1) _____________ on a home stay to the United States. I lived (2) _____________ the Johnsons in California. When I (3) _____________ there, I went to school with my American sister, Julie. At first, speaking English (4) _____________ day was hard. I was homesick. But then I started to enjoy my home stay. English was (5) _____________. School (6) _____________ fun. I liked (8) _____________ a camping trip. Now I am back home with my parents. I often write (9) _____________ my American family and they write to me. Next year the Johnsons are (10) _____________ to visit me.
1. A. go B. went C. gone