VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HOCHIMINH CITY Student’s Full Name: _______________________________

UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Student ID: _______________________________________
FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS Class Code: ______________________________________

Full-Time Program
Instructor: _______________________________________

FINAL EXAMINATION
Course: ADVANCED GRAMMAR C1
Time Allotted: 80 minutes Exam Date: December 10, 2019
Approved by Proctors
Examiner(s) Total Score
(CBCT)
1. 1. In figures:

2. 2. In words:

Notes: Materials and dictionaries of all kinds are NOT allowed.

Students write their answers on the answer sheet.
ANSWER SHEET
SECTION 1 GAP FILLING (2 points) ______ x 0.1 = ______/2
1. _______ 5. _______ 9. _______ 13. _______ 17. _______
2. _______ 6. _______ 10. _______ 14. _______ 18. _______
3. _______ 7. _______ 11. _______ 15. _______ 19. _______
4. _______ 8. _______ 12. _______ 16. _______ 20. _______

SECTION 2 ERROR CORRECTION (2 points) ______ x 0.1 = ______/2

error correction error correction

21. _________________ ____________________ 22. _________________ ____________________

23. _________________ ____________________ 24. _________________ ____________________

25. _________________ ____________________ 26. _________________ ____________________

27. _________________ ____________________ 28. _________________ ____________________

29. _________________ ____________________ 30. _________________ ____________________

SECTION 3 VERB FORMS (2 points) ______ x 0.1 = ______/2

31. _________________ 36. _________________ 41. _________________ 46. _________________

32. _________________ 37. _________________ 42. _________________ 47. _________________

33. _________________ 38. _________________ 43. _________________ 48. _________________

34. _________________ 39. _________________ 44. _________________ 49. _________________

35. _________________ 40. _________________ 45. _________________ 50. _________________

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 SECTION 4 WORD FORMATION (2 points) ______ x 0.1 = ______/2

51. _________________ 56. _________________ 61. _________________ 66. _________________

52. _________________ 57. _________________ 62. _________________ 67. _________________

53. _________________ 58. _________________ 63. _________________ 68. _________________

54. _________________ 59. _________________ 64. _________________ 69. _________________

55. _________________ 60. _________________ 65. _________________ 70. _________________

SECTION 5 SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (2 points) ______ x 0.1 = ______/2

Write ONLY your answers (the missing words) here.

71. I’ve just noticed that _______________________________________________________ left in the car.

72. Mr. Dupont _____________________________________________________ a newly-qualified dentist.

73. She __________________________________________________________________ herself very much.

74. She objected _________________________________________________________________ so badly.

75. Would ________________________________________________________________ the door for me?

76. It is recommended ___________________________________________________________ at this shop.

77. I could not find ________________________________________ me, apart from some in black leather.

78. Were ______________________________________________________________________do this job.

79. It will not ________________________________________ Jane’s husband returns from South America.

80. Only _____________________________________________________________ become a good athlete.

TOTAL: _______/10

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Full Name: ______________________________ Class Code: ________ Student ID: _______________

TEST PAPER
ADVANCED GRAMMAR C1 – December 10, 2019
Note: Materials and dictionaries of all kinds are NOT allowed.
Students write their answers on the answer sheet.
SECTION 1 GAP FILLING (2 points)
Questions 1-20: Choose the lettered word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
The first has been done as an example.
0. Water _______ at 100 degrees Celsius. A. boiling B. boils C. is boiling D. boil
The gap can be filled with “boils”, so on the ANSWER SHEET write __B___.
1. A great attraction ________ the antique shops in the old part of the town.
A. is B. are C. has been D. have been
2. They’re not at the reception desk so they ________ outside the main entrance.
A. can’t have waited B. must have waited C. must be waiting D. needn’t have
waited
3. “Have you seen the new movie playing at the Bijou?” ---- “No, but it ________ sad. Many people
leaving the theater seem to have been crying.”
A. must be B. might be C. is D. may have been
4. Although she promised to come, Alice didn’t turn up. And ________.
A. Kate did neither B. Kate didn’t to C. so didn’t Kate D. neither did Kate
5. ________ ghosts in the house.
A. It is said to be B. There are said to be C. It is said D. There are said
6. Don’t worry, sir. We’ll soon ________ like new.
A. run your car B. get your car to run C. have your car D. get your car run
running
7. My cousin has ________ good knowledge of ________ history of ________ southern Vietnam.
A. a / the / X B. X / the / X C. the / the / X D. the / the / the
8. “Do tourists come here?” ---- “Yes, but ________ buy things or contribute to the local economy.”
A. quite a few of them B. a good few of them
C. some of them hardly D. hardly any of them
9. “Barman, another double whisky!” ---- “Sorry, sir. I think you’ve had ________ to drink already.”
A. rather enough B. quite enough C. pretty enough D. quite much
10. I’d like to buy a ________ pullover.
A. blue new sleeveless woolen B. sleeveless new blue woolen
C. new sleeveless blue woolen D. blue sleeveless new woolen
11. Miss McCrea was ________ anyone could have had. She never lost her temper with even the naughtiest
students.
A. as patient a teacher as B. a teacher so patient as
C. so patient a teacher as D. a teacher as patient as
12. The Chinese ambassador explained how ________ for developing nations to reduce levels of
greenhouse gases.
A. much it would be harder B. harder it would be
C. harder it would be much D. much harder it would be
13. According to weather reports, temperature will drop ________ freezing point over night.
A. under B. below C. beneath D. underneath

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 14. To everyone’s surprise, Cynthia ________ her engagement just before the wedding.
A. broke up B. broke out of C. broke off D. split up
15. How can you justify ________ so many lives at risk like that?
A. putting B. to put C. to have put D. to putting
16. The government has undertaken ________ more than a dozen helicopters from the U.S. military.
A. to buy B. buying C. to buying D. to have bought
17. The question was ________.
A. if she would take the job or not B. if or not she would take the job
C. or not she would take the job D. whether or not she would take the job
18. She left her address with a request that any mail ________ to her.
A. to be sent B. be sent C. will be sent D. is sent
19. ________ the wrong bus, Mark found himself in an unfamiliar part of the city.
A. Because taking B. On taking C. Having taken D. To take
20. What our town ________ careful development. May I hear your proposals?
A. needs are B. need are C. needs is D. needs to be

SECTION 2 ERROR CORRECTION (2 points)

Questions 21-30: Identify the error in each of the following sentences and then make changes to correct
the sentence. The first has been done as an example.
0. In his twenties, Lawrence has spent many years travelled around Spain.
The error lies in “travelled”, so on the ANSWER SHEET write ___travelled___ è ___travelling___
21. I can’t understand why Tom hasn’t arrived yet. I suppose he could be having a breakdown or a puncture
or something.
22. Telling exactly what to do, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t embarrass myself.
23. If the exit doors hadn’t blocked, the people could have escaped from the burning hall.
24. The Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal subrange
of the Himalayas.
25. According to a spokesperson, the results make little or none difference to the government’s determination
to carry out the reforms it has been elected to carry out.
26. We need a person who is a good engineer as well as an efficient manager. In my opinion, unfortunately,
this candidate is either.
27. I don’t know how you could even contemplate to allow Vicky to go on holiday with her friends.
28. I watched the play until the end of the first act, at that point I felt I had seen enough. I got up and left.
29. Several members have not replied for over three years and their names have nonetheless been removed
from the mailing list.
30. Scarcely we had arrived at the hotel when there was a power cut.

SECTION 3 VERB FORMS (2 points)

Questions 31-50: Complete the following passage/ sentences by supplying the correct forms of the verbs in
parentheses. The first has been done as an example.
He (0. always / come) __________ chocolate after lunch. The gap can be filled by “always comes”, so on the
ANSWER SHEET write _always comes_.
Ali and Mustafa (31. complain) ________ to the landlord many times since they (32. move) ________ into
their apartment, but to date nothing (33. do) ________ about the leak in the roof and the broken window in
the bedroom.

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Bananas (34. originate) ________ in Asia. They (35. introduce) ________ to the Americas in 1516. Until
the 1860s, bananas (36. eat) ________ principally by people of the tropics. Today bananas (37. export)
________ to all parts of the world.

Consider the situation of the mysterious “lost colony” established by Sir Water Raleigh in 1585 on the Outer
Banks of what is now North Carolina. It (38. feel) ________ today that the plan for the settlement, which (39.
locate) ________ on Roanoke Island, (40. ill / conceive) ________ from the start. In 1590, all of the colonists
(41. find) ________ by explorers (42. vanish) ________, (43. leave) ________ behind only some refuse and
the word “Croatoan,” the name of a nearby island, written on a tree. No one knows what happened, but today
they (44. assume) ________ (45. kill) ________ or (46. carry) ________ away by neighboring peoples.

I do wish the taxi driver (47. go) ________ so slowly. We’re never going to get there. It is imperative that the
ceremony (48. not / start) ________ without us.

(49. it / not / be) ________ for my dad, I (50. never / start) ________ playing tennis in the first place.

SECTION 4 WORD FORMATION (2 points)

Questions 51-70: Complete the following passage/ sentences by supplying the correct forms of the words in
parentheses. The first has been done as an example.
Whether the exam should be abandoned remains (0. controversy) _________.
The gap can be filled with “controversial”, so on the ANSWER SHEET write __controversial__.
Like other printers in the ADT range, the ADT 55 is (51. character) ________ by its simple operating mode.
At the same time, it displays a (52. versatile) ________ that is otherwise only found on far more (53. cost)
________ devices. Consequently, the (54. execute) ________ of a wide range of tasks is possible. However,
it is (55. advise) ________ to attempt to use the printer before you consult the manual and familiarize yourself
with the controls and operating system. This device is (56. essence) ________ a robust piece of equipment,
but it is by no means (57. destroy) ________.

The history of Britain in the nineteenth century is a tale of social upheaval; the (58. transform) ________
witnessed over this period were unlike anything that had gone before. These changes were linked to, and in
some ways driven by, technological advances that turned the (59. dominant) ________ rural society of the
late eighteenth century into an industrial one that is (60. recognize) ________ an early version of our own.
(61. agriculture) ________ Britain had declined, and the process was (62. reverse) ________; never again
would farming be of such importance to the country. The economy would depend (63. increase) ________
on industrial production and the export of manufactured goods. One might say that the country’s (64. perceive)
________ had changed: Britain now thought of itself as an industrialized land.

The (65. important) ________ of home video recorders is so great that it can hardly be exaggerated. While
there have been other changes in the way we watch television, the advent of the video recorder caused a
fundamental shift in the (66. relate) ________ between viewers and televising schedules. For many (67.
adolescence) ________, life without a video recorder is (68. imagine) ________. Until the 1980s, if you
wanted to watch a television program, you had to be at home – or engage in delicate (69. negotiate) ________
with friends so you could watch it on their set. If you missed some masterpiece, there was nothing you could
do about it. But then along came video recorders, which made television programs more (70. access) ________
than films showing at the cinema.

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SECTION 5 SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (2 points)
Questions 71-80: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using
the word given. Do not change the word given. You should use from THREE to EIGHT words. Write ONLY
YOUR ANSWERS on the answer sheet. The first has been done as an example.
0. Chloe would only eat a pizza if she could have a mushroom topping. ON
Chloe ______________ a mushroom topping when she ate a pizza.
The gap can be filled with “insisted on having”, so on the answer sheet write _insisted on having_.
71. I’ve just noticed that the car has almost run out of petrol. HARDLY
I’ve just noticed that _______________________________________________________ left in the car.
72. A newly-qualified dentist took our Mr. Dupont’s tooth. BY
Mr. Dupont _____________________________________________________ a newly-qualified dentist.
73. It’s unlike she was enjoying herself very much. CAN’T
She__________________________________________________________________ herself very much.
74. She didn’t like the fact that he had been treated so badly. BEING
She objected _________________________________________________________________ so badly.
75. “I wonder if you could possibly open the door for me.” MIND
Would ________________________________________________________________ the door for me?
76. They do not recommend hiring skis at this shop. NOT
It is recommended ___________________________________________________________ at this shop.
77. The only shoes I could find to fit me were in black leather. ANY
I could not find _________________________________________ me, apart from some in black leather.
78. The only thing that makes this job worthwhile is the money. WOULD
Were ______________________________________________________________________do this job.
79. Jane’s husband will be returning from South America quite soon. UNTIL
It will not ________________________________________ Jane’s husband returns from South America.
80. The only way you can become a good athlete is by training hard every day. BY
Only_____________________________________________________________ become a good athlete.

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