Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:
Question 1:
- a. community
- b. developing
- c. conditioner
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d. interested
Question 2:
- a. county
- b. mention
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c. disease
- d. luggage
Question 3:
- a. continue
- b. importance
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c. different
- d. directed
Question 4:
- a. medicine
- b. opposite
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c. pollution
- d. capable
Question 5:
- a. collapse
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b. healthy
- c. dislike
- d. appear
Choose the correct words to complete the sentences:
Question 6: I'll pay you double _____you get the work finished by Friday.
- a. unless
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b. if
- c. even if
- d. as long as
Question 7: He's welcome to come along, ____ she behaves himself.
- a. supposing that
- b. even if
- c. unless
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d. provided that
Question 8: I don't want to go and _______, I haven't been invited.
- a. on condition
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b. in any case
- c. supposing
- d. unless
Question 9: You can't get a job ____ | you've got experience.
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a. unless
- b. so long as
- c. if
- d. in case
Question 10: _____ you take a taxi, you'll still miss your train.
- a. As long as
- b. Provided
- c. Supposing
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d. Even if
Question 11: He ____ us of his extraordinary childhood.
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a. told
- b. said
- c. asked
- d. greeted
Question 12: I ____ when the train would leave.
- a. said
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b. asked
- c. told
- d. reported
Question 13: I've ___ the application forms into three groups.
- a. greeted
- b. reported
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c. ordered
- d. said
Question 14: The teacher ___ each child with a friendly "Hello!"
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a. greeted
- b. said
- c. told
- d. asked
Question 15: I ____ the guard the time of the train's departure.
- a. said
- b. told
- c. ordered
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d. asked
Question 16: Because of forest destructions and hunting for food, a lot of wild animals are ___ danger.
- a. along
- b. with
- c. as
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d. in
Question 17: The news you have got from the Internet is not really a reliable ____.
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a. source
- b. well
- c. procedure
- d. resource
Question 18: Not all of the films shown on TV are ____ enough to see through.
- a. excite
- b. excited
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c. exciting
- d. excitement
Question 19: ____ all the students had done the test poorly, the teacher decided to give again.
- a. Although
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b. Because
- c. In spite of
- d. Despite
Question 20: Daisy said that ____.
- a. I am going to apply for another job next month
- b. she is going to apply for another job next month
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c. she was going to apply for another job the following month
- d. she had been apply for another job the following month
Question 21: Sam will not graduate ____.
- a. if he passed all the tests
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b. if he does not pass all the tests
- c. unless he passes all the tests
- d. unless he had passed all the tests
Question 22: ____ we cannot continue our journey.
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a. If there is not enough food
- b. If only there is not enough food
- c. Only if there is enough food
- d. If there was enough food
Question 23: At last Thomas could get a scholarship to study in the Oxford, ____ made his parents proud.
- a. that
- b. where
- c. who
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d. which
Question 24: The stranger asked me _____.
- a. where is the post office
- b. the post office is where
- c. where the post office is
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d. where the post office was
Question 25: Of the two new films, “Home Alone” is _____.
- a. most interesting
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b. the more interesting
- c. more interesting
- d. as interesting
Question 26: _____ since they left for London last year.
- a. Because I have not kept in touch with them
- b. In spite of not keeping in touch with them
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c. I have not kept in touch with them
- d. That I have not kept in touch with them
Question 27: It is the football season. He stayed up late and watched TV _____ he got sick.
- a. such many that
- b. much so that
- c.so many that
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d. so much that
Question 28: Have you ever queued ____ ?
- a. ago
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b. before
- c. now
- d. then
Question 29: Neither Peter nor his friends ____ their test yet.
- a. finishes
- b. finished
- c. has finished
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d. have finished
Question 30: In these days, students have ____ homework to do that they can hardly find time to play a sport game.
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a. so much
- b. so many
- c. much
- d. many
Error Identification.
Question 31. Don commune, where is about 50 kilometers from Ban Me Thuot city, is the native land of the best elephant hunters and trainers throughout Southeast Asia.
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a. Don commune
- b. from
- c. the native land
- d. the best elephant hunters
Question 32: Ede ethnic group with more than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants ives in Dac Lac Highlands. Besides farming and to breed, they hunt wild animals, tame elephants, and pick fruits.
- a. more than
- b. lives in
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c. farming and to breed
- d. tame elephants
Question 33: I will come to meet Mr. Pike and tell him about your problems if you did not solve them yourself.
- a. will come
- b. about
- c. if
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d. did not slove
Question 34: The poor, whoever and wherever they are, need job training to enable them to work on the farms. where jobs is available and the pay is adequate.
- a. The
- b. whoever and wherever
- c. to enable
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d. jobs is available
Question 35: In the modern time, most children do no have a lot of companonsiip from brothers and sisters as families have got only one and two children.
- a. most children
- b. do not have
- c. companionship
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d. one and two children
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The ostrich has been raised commercially for many years. Ostrich feathers are used in fashion, ostrich meat which is widely consumed in Africa and Europe is favored for low fat, and ostrich leather is used for making shoes, wallets, as well as briefcases. In the past five years, Thuy Phuong Poultry Research Center has proved that they can get high achievement in breeding ostriches. According to the Director, it is Ba Vi District in Ha Tay Province that is the most suitable place for ostriches to survive. However, the farmers in the area have raised cows, pigs, goats, and rabbits for a long time, at first they did not pay attention to ostriches; but later when they began to realize the profit that ostriches could bring to them they switched to this. Up to now, the ostrich farm in Ba Vi has more than 1,000 ostrich breeders, with another 1,000 soon to follow. The specialists try their best to get more success. When an ostrich is 20 months old, it may weighed about 100 kilos and prices many range from VND100,000 to VND150,000 per kilo. Now, the farm has also organized sight-seeing trips and taught farmers and visitors how to raise ostrich. Good news travels fast and more and more farmers become interested in ostriches. Some southern provinces begins to raise ostriches. Marketing campaigns are carried out. The Vietnamese ostrich industry is gathering the international interest and some foreign countries have plans to import the ostriches from Vietnam. The government intends to build some factories to process meat and make products from ostriches.
Question 36: The text is about _____.
- a. products from ostriches
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b. raising ostriches in Vietnam
- c. ostrich exportation
- d. ostrich importation
Question 37: People like ostrich meat because of ____.
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a. low fat
- b. shoes making
- c. fashion
- d. wallet making
Question 38: Which sentence is true?
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a. More and more farmers are interested in raising ostriches.
- b. Vietnamese farmers are not in favor of raising ostriches.
- c. Ostriches cannot survive in Vietnam.
- d. There are not any places in Vietnam that are suitable for ostriches.
Question 39: The farmers in Ba Vi _____.
- a. raise only pigs
- b. appreciate raising ostriches right after Thuy Phuong Poultry Research Center’s experiments
- c. have not raised any ostriches
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d. have begun to raise ostriches
Question 40: According to the text, the Vietnamese ostrich industry _____.
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a. is potential
- b. cannot develop
- c. is not considered
- d. will go down soon
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
In most of Europe villages, a farmer’s house consists (Question 41) _____ two parts home to live in and outbuildings (Question 42) ____ are built separately and are often used (Question 43) ___ sheds and stores. Every morning, the farmers and farm workers (Question 44) ___. their village to work on their land and (Question 45) ___ their animals in distant fields. They have lunch on their field and only return to their village at (Question 46) ____ end of the day. So, social life is focused around the community center, the village.
Throughout most of North America, a different pattern has been established. It was borrowed from northern Europe, but was put even further in the New World (Question 47) ___ land used to be cheap and even free. The farmers live and work on very large, (Question 48) ____ farms. The neighbors live (Question 49) ____ one another. They only meet when they go to the village market or town to buy goods, materials, fuels, and services. The (Question 50) __ associated with American farmers stems from this pattern of farm settlement.
Question 41:
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a. of
- b. in
- c. with
- d. for
Question 42:
- a. who
- b. whom
- c. when
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d. which
Question 43:
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a. as
- b. as if
- c. as though
- d. so as
Question 44:
- a. left
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b. leave
- c. leave for
- d. come
Question 45:
- a. look
- b. chase
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c. breed
- d. graze
Question 46:
- a. a
- b. an
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c. the
- d. no article
Question 47:
- a. which
- b. that
- c. in that
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d. where
Question 48:
- a. isolate
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b. isolated
- c. isolation
- d. isolationism
Question 49:
- a. far
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b. far from
- c. from
- d. far with
Question 50:
- a. dependent
- b. independent
- c. independently
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d. independence