ASSESSING VOCABUALRY AND GRAMMAR

HOMEWORK
Group 3:
1. Phạm Trần Nhật Huỳnh - huynhptn.188t@ou.edu.vn
2. Phan Thị Huê - huept.188t@ou.edu.vn
3. Nguyễn Hữu Cường - cuongnh.188t@ou.edu.vn
4. Trần Minh Hà - hatm.188t@ou.edu.vn
ASSESSING VOCABULARY
I. Read the following text and match the words in A with their synonyms in B.

A B

1. eventually a. patron
2. incredible b. screech
3. sponsor c. jest
4. huge d. finally
5. scream e. defeater
6. joke f. giant
7. champion g. unbelievable
Answer
1-d 2-g 3-a 4-f 5-b 6-c 7-e
II. Read the following text and fill in each blank with the most suitable word from the
box.

allowed uniform fashionable away

trouble-makers judge behaving silly

“Do goodies wear hoodies?”

There are lots of clothes shops in the Bluewater Shopping Center in the South of England, so it’s easy to
find _______(1)_______ hooded tops for sale there. However, you can’t wear a hooded top while you are
looking because they are banned. The shopping center believes that teenagers who wear hooded tops often
use them to hide their faces while they’re ______(2)________ badly. That’s why the new rule bans people
wearing “hoodies” (hooded tops) from the shopping center. Baseball caps are also banned. And the
managers of the shopping center say that their new rules are working. More people are shopping there, and
_____(3)_________ are staying away.
The Bluewater Shopping Center is not the only place in the UK where certain clothes are banned. Students
at Maesteg Comprehension School in Wales are not _____(4)_________ to wear hooded tops because the
head teacher believes that they cause bad behaviour. If children wear hooded tops to school, the teachers
make them _____(5)_________, and don’t give them back until the end of term. Most of the parents agree
with this new rule. However, many people, especially young people, believe that these rules are
______(6)________ and unfair. They say that baseball caps and hooded tops are an important part of the
teenage fashion, and it’s impossible to ______(7)________ a person’s personality from the clothes they
wear. The head teacher of Coombeshead College in the South of England agrees. In fact, hooded tops are
now part of the school _____(8)_________ at Coombeshead College.

Answer:
1. fashionable 2. behaving 3. trouble-makers 4. Allowed
5. away 6. Silly 7. judge 8. Uniform
ASSESSING GRAMMAR

I. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting:

1. The Oxford English Dictionary is well known for including many different meanings of words and to
give real examples.
2. Albany, a city on the Hudson River, was the capital of New York State since 1797.
3. Most greetings cards are folding and have a picture on the front and a message inside.
4. The way a child playing with other children reveals a lot about his emotional development.
5. Few natural prairie regions remain in the world because of most of them have been turned into farms
or grazing land.
II. Choose the best word (A—D) to complete each gap.
A 21st century epidemic
While medical scientists are always on the lookout for new and deadly forms of the influenza virus, a few
psychologists (1) _____ started to talk and write about the dangers of a completely different kind of
epidemic: affluenza. The word itself is a mixture of 'influenza' and 'affluent', (2) _____means `wealthy or
rich'. It describes an unhealthy obsession with money and material possessions.
British psychologist Oliver James, (3) _____ has written two books on the subject, defines affluenza as
‘placing a high value on money, possessions, appearances and fame’. He believes that the condition is more
common in English-speaking countries (4) _____ in other parts of the world. The reason for this, according
to James, is that the USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are more obsessed with making
money than other nations. This leads to stress and (5) _____. In support of his theory, James points (6)
_____ that people in English-speaking Countries are twice as likely to suffer mental health problems as
people who live in mainland Europe.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of affluenza is that it is starting to affect people at younger and younger
ages. Teenagers, and (7) _____ young children, make constant demands for possessions, and become
genuinely unhappy if they do not have these things (8) _____ for them. Some experts blame advertising in
schools; (9) _____ think that Hollywood and TV shows are the cause. The only cure seems to be for parents
to spend time (10) _____ their children the value of other things in life, like friendship, charity and laughter.
1. A will have B. have C. had D. were
2. A who B. that C. where D. which
3. A who B. that C. where D. which
4. A that B. as C. for D. than
5. A unhappy B. unhappily C. unhappier D. unhappiness
6. A up B. to C. towards D. out
7. A even B. every C. enough D. each
8. A to buy B. buying C. buy D. bought
9. A another B. others C. each other D. otherwise
10. A teaching B. taught C. to teach D. teach