PRACTICE TEST 7

SECTION I: LEXICO-GRAMMAR
1. Pick out the word whose bold part is pronounced differently.
1.A. harm B. wash C. talk D. call
2.A. brought B. through C. ought D. thought
3.A. bought B. daughter C. cough D. sight
4.A. shut B. hut C. nut D. bury
5.A. gained B. hoped C. booked D. stopped
2. Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently.
6.A. retail 1 B. pursue 2 C. consult 2 D. direct 2
7.A. agency B. memory C. encounter D. influence 2
8.A. advancement B. chemical C. conception D. deposit
9.A. require B. endless C. portrait D. fancy
10.A. people B. worry C. success D. apply
3. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D to complete each sentence:
1. The technological and economic changes of the 19th century had a marked …………….. on workers (collocation)
A. cause B. effect (nhấn mạnh sự C. impact (nhấn mạnh kết D. consequence
ảnh hưởng) quả cảu ảnh hưởng)
2. The government …………………….. the flood victims with food, clothes and money.
A. gave B. provided C. offered D. presented
3. 4. The first sign of vitamin A disorder is night ……………………..
A. loss of sight (mù) B. lack of vision (thiếu tầm C. invisibility (vô hình) D. blindness (không nhìn rõ
nhìn) vào ban đêm)
5. When you take ice out of the freezer, it ……………………..
A. melts B. dissolves C. softens D. disappears
6. There are many …………………….. of pollution in our modern world
A. ressources (nguồn tài B. sources C. bases D. foundation
nguyên)
7. Many people …………………….. that natural resources will never be use up
A. view B. regard C. consider D. believe
8. Using the computer competently is an important ……………….. to help one get a good job.
A. reason B. aspect C. factor D. issue
9. George wants #1000 for his car, but I don’t think it’s …………….. as much as that.
A worth. B. cost C. valued D. priced
10. “Did jenny say anything about her sister?”-No, she didn’t …………….. her at all.
A. remind B. remark C. refer D. mention
4. Supply the suitable form of the words in brackets:
31 .Andrea's blunder was the cause of much merriment in the class. (merry)
32 .That would embody(bao gom, dai dien) the values of achievement and efficiency. (body)
33 .When I was a child, I often got weekly allowance of 15 dollars. (allow)
34 .Their study is getting on (tien bo) satisfactorily. (satisfy)
35 .John always knows how to enliven the party with his jokes. (to make smt more interesting) (lively)
36 .They were so alike. It's sometimes difficult to differentiate between them. (different)
37 .He has few friends because he is so unsociable. (society)
38 .It's a theoretical possibility, but I don't suppose it will happen. (theory)
39 .The current hurricane caused widespread damage. (wide)
40 .The price of the book is $8, including postage and packing. (post)
5. Put the verb in parentheses in correct tenses:
John has always traveled a lot. In fact, he was only two years old when he first flew to the US. His mother is Italian
and his father is American. John was born in France, but his parents 1(meet) met in Cologne, Germany after they 2
(live) had been living there for five years. They had met one day while John’s father was reading a book in the library
and his mother 3 (sit) sat beside him. John 4 (travel) travels a lot because his parents also travel a lot. As a matter of
fact, John is visiting his parents in France at the moment. He lives in New York now, but 5 (visit) has been visiting his
parents for the last few weeks. He really enjoys living in New York, but he also loves coming to visit his parents at least
once a year. This year he 6 (fly ) has flown over 5,000 miles for his job. He has been working for Jackson & Co. for
almost two years now. He 7 (be) is pretty sure that he 8 (work ) will be working for them next year as well. His job
requires a lot of travel. In fact, by the end of this year, he 9 (travel) will have traveled over 120,000 miles! His next
journey will be to Australia. He really doesn’t like going to Australia because it is so far. This time he 10 (fly) is going to
fly from Paris after a meeting with the company’s French partner. He will have been sitting for over 18 hours by the time
he arrives!
6. There are 10 mistakes in the following paragraph. Identify and correct them.
When I got to London, I went to the accommodation office in my English school to find a family to live with. They
gave me an address and a map so that I could find the right house, the bank, the supermarket and the laundress
(launderette) tiem giat la. Of course I also wanted to know where the doctor’s was. When I arrived, the new landlady
wasn’t at home; she was at the hospital and her children were at school, but her husband was there at the house
unfortunately. He was very worried and asked me to go to the chemist’s with(for) him immediately. He waited (was
waiting) for his children to come home so that he could take them to the hospital to see their grandmother who had ran
over. It turned out that they were a very nice family but I arrived on a bad day!
7. Fill in each gap with a suitable preposition.
The star 1 of the largest scale opera performance over staged 2 in Britain pull out 3 on its opening night 4 on Sunday.
Yerdi’s Aida is being performed 5 at London’s Earl’s Court Arena 6 with a cast of 600 singers, dancers and actors.
American soprano Grace Bumbry 7 in the title role was suffering 8 from hay fever, but had promised to be “ all right on
the night even if my nose drops like the Nile”. Half way 9 through the performance she was unable to continue and was
replaced 10 in mid-performance 11 by Russian soprano Ghena Dimitrova who was sitting 12 in the audience watching
the show . She was taken 13 to a dressing room where she put on Ms Bumbry costume and was made up. She was
ready to go 14 onto the stage 15 after a longer than usual interval.
Tuesday’s performance 16 in the presence (với sự hiện diện của) 17 of the Prince and Princess of Wale will go ahead
18 without Ms Bumbry- her role will be taken 19 by Martina Arroyo 20 from Italy.
SECTION II : READING
1. Read the passage and choose the best answer to complete it.
An unlucky day
Helen packed a small suitcase, said goodbye to her mother and hurried out of the house to (1) ______to the
station. There was no one (2) ______waiting at the bus stop, so it looked as if a bus had just left. Helen looked at her
watch anxiously; it was already two o’clock. Her train left at two thirty, and since it would (3) ______at least twenty
minutes to reach the station, she did not have much time to (4) ______ even if a bus came along at once.
Just then a taxi came slowly down the road. Helen knew that the (5) _______ to the station was at least two
dollars, which was more than she could (6) ______, but she quickly made her (7) ______ that it would be well (8)
_______ the extra expense in order to be sure of catching the train. So she stopped the taxi and got in. she told the
driver that she had to catch the train which left at half past two. The man nodded and said that he would take a short (9)
______ to get her to the station in good time.
All went well until, just as they were coming out of a side street into the (10) ______ that lead to the station, the
taxi ran (11) ______a car. There was a loud crash and Helen was thrown (12) ______ so violently that she hit her head
on the front seat. Both drivers got out and began (13) ______ each other. Helen got out as (14) _____ to ask them to
stop quarrelling, but (15) ______ took any notice of her at all.
1. A. go on bus B. get the bus C. drive taxi D. catch the bus
2. A. else B. other C. person D. more
3. A. be B. take C. waste D. lose
4. A. spend B. wait for C. spare D. go
5. A. cost B. expense C. fare (tiền xe) D. money
6. A. pay B. afford C. give D. have
7. A. decision B. mind C. head D. own
8. A. cheap B. done C. for D. worth
9. A. time B. way C. cut D. road
10. A. main road B. main side street C. alley D. train
11. A. off B. up C. for D. into
12. A. forward B. over C. up D. hard
13. A. shouting B. to shout at C. to shout for D. shouting to
14. A. well B. soon C. much D. if
15. A. none B. no one C. neither (of them) D. both of them
2. Read the passage and choose the best answer to the questions or to complete the statements .
A pilot cannot fly by sight alone. In many conditions, such as flying at night and landing in dense fog, a pilot
must use radar, an alternative way of navigating. Since human eyes are not very good at determining speeds of
approaching objects, radar can show a pilot how fast nearby planes are moving. The basic principle of radar is
exemplified by what happens when one shouts in a cave. The echo of the sounds against the walls helps a person
determine the size of the cave. With radar, however, the waves are radio waves instead of sound waves. Radio waves
travel at the speed of light, about 300,000 kilometers in one second. A radar set sends out a short burst of radio waves.
Then it receives the echoes produced when the waves bounce off objects. By determining the time it takes for the
echoes to return to the radar set, a trained technician can determine the distance between the radar set and other
objects. The word “radar”, in fact, gets its name from the term “radio detection and ranging”. “Ranging” is the term for
detection of the distance between an object and the radar set. Besides being of critical importance to pilots, radar is
essential for air traffic control, tracking ships at sea, and for tracking weather systems and storms.
1. What is the main topic of this passage?
A. The nature of radar. B. History of radar. C. Alternatives to radar. D. Types of ranging.
2. According to the passage, what can radar detect besides location of objects?
A. Shape. B. Size. C. Speed. D. Weight.
3. The word “exemplified” in the passage can be replaced by _______.
A. “specified” B. “resembled” C. “illustrated” D. “justified”
4. The word “shouts” in the passage most closely means _______.
A. “exclaims” B. “yells” C. “shoots” D. “whispers”
5. Which of the following words best describes the tone of this passage?
A. argumentative B. explanatory C. humorous D. imaginative
6. According to the passage, the distance between a radar set and an object can be determined by _______.
A. the time it takes for a burst of radio waves to produce echoes when the waves bounce off the object
 B. the term “ranging” used for detection of the distance between an object and the radar set
C. the time it takes for the radio waves to produce echoes and bounce off the object
D. the time it takes for the echoes produced by the radio waves to return to the radar set
7. Which type of waves does radar use?
A. tidal B. sound C. heat D. radio
8. The word “tracking” in the passage most closely means _______.
A. sending B. searching for C. ranging D. repairing
9. Which of the following would most likely be the topic of the next paragraph?
A. A history of flying. B. Other uses of radar.
C. The technology used by pilots. D. Uses of some technology.
10. What might be inferred about radar?
A. It takes the place of a radio. B. It has improved navigational safety.
C. It was developed from a study of sound waves. D. It gave birth to the invention of the airplane.
3. Fill in each space with one appropriate word
Television is one of man's most important (1) means of communication. It brings (2) pictures and sounds from
around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can stay in his house and watch the President (3)
compose a speech or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being fought and statesmen try to (4) bring about peace .
(5) Through television, home viewers can see and learn about people, places, and things in faraway. TV even takes its
viewers out of this world. It brings them (6) coverage of America's astronauts as the astronauts explore of programs that
are (7) designed to entertain. In (8) fact, TV provides many more (9) entertainment programs than any other kinds. The
programs include action packed dramas, light comedies, sporting (10) events and motion pictures.
SECTION III: WRITING
1. Rewrite the sentence as similar in meaning as possible:
1. It is cheaper to go by train than by car.
Going by car is not as expesive as by car.
2. We must go now because our train leaves at 8 A.M.
It’s time we went because our train leaves at 8 A.M.
3. Although he made great efforts, he failed to win the race.
In spite of making great efforts, he failed to win the race.
4. Since she was careless, Mary lost her job.
Because of her carelessness, Mary lost her job.
5. Workers are building a new factory.
A new factory is being built by workers.
6. Who broke the window?
By whom was the window broken?
7. “What’s your job?” Mary asked Tom.
Mary wanted to know what Tom’s job was.
8. The bus couldn’t run because of the fog.
The fog prevented the bus from running.
9. Tim will be eighteen next week.
It is Tim’s eighteen birthday next week.
10. Peter said to Paul, “I didn’t use your mobile phone! Someone else did, not me”.
Peter denied using Paul’s mobile phone.
2. Make all the changes and additions necessary, to produce from the following sets of words or phrases,
sentences that together make a complete letter:
Dear Mary,
1. Thank you/ much/ your letter/ arrive/ few days ago.
Thank you very much for your letter arriving few days ago.
2. It/ be lovely/ hear/ you.
It is lovely to hear from you.
3. I/ be sorry/ I not write/ such/ long time/ but I/ be/ very busy.
I’m sorry that I have not written for such a long time, but I was very busy.
4. As you know/ we buy/ new house/ May.
As you know, we will buy a new house in May
5. It/ be/ very bad condition/ and it need/ a lot/ work.
It is a very bad condition and it needs a lot
6. We finish/ most/ it now/ and it look/ very nice.
We have finished most of it now and it looks very nice
7. John and I/ decide/ give/ house – warming party/ October 2nd.
Tom and I decide to give a house-warming party on Oc 2nd
8. You think/ you / able/ come?
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9. Please give me/ ring/ let/ know/ you/ make it.
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10. I/ really/ look forward/ see you again.
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Love,
Bob
3. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it, using
the words in brackets. Do not alter the word given
1. You could always stay with us for a few day if necessary ( Put)
We could put you up for few day if necessary
2. He’s really keen to start her new job ( Forward)
He’s looking forward to starting her new job
3. Everyone who comes to the city notices the beauty of its architecture ( fails)
Everyone fails to ignore the beauty of its architecture.
4. She was so beautiful that I couldn’t stop looking at her. ( eyes)
She was so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
5. Everyone is sure that he will win the election. ( bound)
He is bound to win the eleciton .
6. With hindsight, we should have been more careful. ( retrospect)
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7. Soon the whole town had heard the news about the bank robbery. ( wildfire)
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8. He didn’t give any reason for his strange behavior that day. ( behaved)
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9. It was a secret, so I promised not to tell anyone else about it. ( hat)
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10. Don’t expect Paul to remember anything. He is very forgetful. ( sieve)
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SECTION 4: LISTENING

1. Alpine Avenue
2. DMX
3. silver
4. Four Star/four star
5. memory card
6. waterproof
7. (big) scratch
8. replacement
9. refund
10. Customer Services/customer services