Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted PRACTICE TEST 7

Name:............................................. Class:….. Time allowance: 60 minutes MARK:….

PART A. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others (0.5 pt.)
1. A. young B. discount C. drought D. sound 1.........................
2. A. hire B. assistant C. blind D. itinerary 2.........................
3. A. brochure B. character C. chemistry D. Christmas 3.........................
4. A. behaviour B. nature C. separate D. arrange 4.........................
5. A. competition B. promise C. conscious D. chore 5.........................
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from that of the others (0.5 pt.)
1. A. relative B. cinema C. continue D. suddenly 1..........................
2. A. cartoon B. open C. paper D. music 2..........................
3. A. important B. community C. organize D. diseases 3...........................
4. A. education B. geography C. occupation D. information 4...........................
5. A. dramatic B. tornado C. historic D. injury 5............................
PART B. USE OF ENGLISH
I. Choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences (1pt.)
1. Sydney Opera House……..in 1973. 1.........................
A. completed B. complete C. is completed D. was completed
2. It was a …….. contest. 2.........................
A. cooking-rice B. rice-cooking C. rice-cook D. ricing-cooked
3. He asked me if I ………. play tennis. 3.........................
A. can B. could C. may D. must
4. The girl ……. next to me is a newcomer. 4.........................
A. sitting B. sit C. sat D. sits
5. Nhi asked Nga …….she knew My Son or not. 5.........................
A. how B. what C. whether D. where
6. A person who ……. the bagpipe is called a piper. 6.........................
A. plays B. makes C. entertains D. does
7. Emergency teams are still removing the ……. in many parts of the country. 7.........................
A. dirt B. debris C. dust D. damage
8. The team’s success was greatly …….. to her efforts. 8.........................
A. thanks B. with a view C. in order D. so as
9. We don’t have many carnivals in Vietnam. ……., we have many traditional festivals. 9.........................
A. If so B. While C. Nevertheless D. Because
10. When I came, the whole family ……. dinner around a big dining table. 10.......................
A. is having B. have C. had D. was having
II. Use the correct form and tense of the verb in brackets to complete each of the following sentences (1pt .)
1. When I arrived at school, the students (gather) in the school yard. 1..............................
2. He (have) any problems, he can contact this hotline, 911. 2..............................
3. Which TV programme you (watch) at 9 p.m. tomorrow evening? 3..............................
4. Vegetable matter (decompose) and becomes a fertilizer for the fields. 4..............................
5. If (untreat), the illness can become severe. 5..............................
6. If I were you, I (not sunbathe) for so long. 6..............................
7. You should avoid (use) too many abbreviations in formal essays. 7..............................
8. It’s ages since I (start) working for this company. 8..............................
9. Most people (leave) by the time the volcano erupted. 9..............................
10. Jane always (complain) about other people's minor mistakes. 10............................
III. Use the correct form of the given word to complete each of the following sentences (1 pt.)
1. I’m (skepticism) about his chances of winning the lottery. 1..............................
2. In the interests of (hygienic), please wash your hands. 2..............................
3. She often goes to church. She is very (religion). 3..............................
4. Over 200 (compete) entered the race. 4..............................
5. All (participate) finishing the race will receive a medal. 5..............................
6. Most tourists like visiting some (tribe) villages. 6..............................
7. Volcanic eruptions can be very (destroy). 7..............................
8. These products are (environment) friendly. 8..............................
9. What's a (pollute)? It's a substance that contaminates something. 9..............................
10. People of this (legend) land have contributed many of the world’s inventions to humankind. 10............................
IV. Underline word or phrase that needs correcting in each sentence and provide correction (2pts .)
1. The winners are the first ones making a fire. 1..............................
2. He won the race so he tried his best to run fast. 2..............................
3. Jim wanted to know what time could he call me. 3..............................
4. It’s dangerous to drive fastly in busy streets. 4..............................
5. Many people claim there were other wonders that the ancient Greeks knew nothing. 5..............................
6. The table is in the living room, among the armchair and the sofa. 6..............................
7. Liz told that she was interested in joining the beauty pageant. 7..............................
8. The teacher told the students in class 8C don’t talk in class. 8..............................
 9. A British man had someone designed a card to send Christmas greetings to his friends. 9..............................
10. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is often called the “Red Planet” as the iron oxide 10............................
prevalent in its surface gives it a reddish appearance.
PART C. READING
I. Read the passage below and decide which option best fits each space (1pt.)
SPRING FESTIVAL
From (1) .......... times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most
important Christian festivals is Easter, (2) .......... Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter, however, is not the (3) .......... spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of the winter by making
(4) .......... bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of Holi. In some villages children are
(5) .......... round bonfires by their mothers to protect them (6) .......... danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand
soak (7) .......... in water when celebrating their New Year, which (8) .......... in the middle of April. In Antigua in
Guatemala they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (9) .......... colourful, but (10) ..........
flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets.
1. A. earliest B. latest C. previous D. old 1....................
2. A. which B. when C. because D. by then 2.....................
3. A. single B. one C. only D. lonely 3....................
4. A. giant B. tremendous C. extreme D. huge 4....................
5. A. gone B. carried C. brought D. run 5....................
6. A. in B. out of C. against D. of 6....................
7. A. through B. one other C. each other D. mutually 7....................
8. A. falls B. appears C. happens D. occurs 8....................
9. A. the same B. as C. not less D. equally 9....................
10. A. instead of B. on behalf of C. in spite of D. place of 10..................
II. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word whose 1 st letter is given to complete the following passage (1pt.)
A tornado is a dark funnel-shaped cloud (1) m…..... up of violently rotating winds that can 1...............................
(2) r…..... speeds of up to 300 m.p.h. The diameter of a tornado can vary (3) b…..... a few feet 2...............................
and a mile, and its track can extend from less than a mile to several hundred miles. 3...............................
Tornadoes generally travel in a northeast (4) d…..... at speeds ranging from 20-60 m.p.h. 4...............................
Tornadoes are most often spawned by giant thunderstorms (5) k…..... as "supercells." These 5...............................
powerful and highly organized storms form when warm, moist air along the ground rushes 6...............................
upward, meeting (6) c…..... and drier air. (7) W…..... the rising warm air cools, the moisture it 7...............................
carries condenses, forming a massive thundercloud, sometimes growing to as (8) m…..... as 8...............................
50,000 ft. in height. The conditions that lead to the (9) f…..... of tornadoes are usually (10) 9...............................
m…..... in the central and southern U.S., where "tornado alley," spreads roughly from the Rocky 10.............................
Mountains to the Appalachians. .
PART D. WRITING
I. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one (1pt.)
1. It is said that these burglars were caught red-handed while trying to break in his house yesterday.
 These burglars...............................................................................................................................................................
2. It’s noisy here so I cannot hear what you are saying.
 If ……………..................................................................................................................................................................
3. “I will go camping with my classmates tomorrow”, Lan said.
 Lan said..........................................................................................................................................................................
4. “Did you do your homework yesterday?”, the teacher said.
 The teacher asked ………..............................................................................................................................................
5. Is it all right if I take a photograph of you and your partner?
 Would you mind...........................................................................................................................................................?
II. Rearrange the given words to make complete sentences (1pt.)
1. be/ largest/ because/ Angkor Wat/ really/ a/ wonder/ it/ the/ temple/ known/ in/ as/ the/ world/ should/ is/. (17 words)
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2.Students/ about/ find/can/ post/ to/ the/ messages/ to/ students/ on/ with/ the/ bulletin board/ same interests/ other/
talk/ and/. (18 words and phrases)
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3. Natural disasters/ should/ familiar/ also/ the/ can/ force/ become/ people/ to/ with/ leave/ their/ guidelines/ homes/
so/ for/ you/ evacuation/. (19 words and phrases)
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4. Natural disasters/ damage/ can/ large/ or/ wreak/ to/ are/ cause/ havoc/ devastating/ loss/ areas/ across/ of/ and/
because/ they/ life/ property/. (20 words and phrases)
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5. One Christmas Eve/ it/ in/ spread/ in Latvia/ early 1500s,/ the/ quickly/ some/ in/ and/ people/ decorated/ a/
throughout/ Europe/ tree/ and/ put/ market place/ this custom/ the/. (22 words and phrases)
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