Nguyễn Thị Nguyệt - THPT Anh Sơn 3 - Nghệ An SECTION A - PHONETICS

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:
1. A. orchestra B. orchard C. school D. chemical
2. A. pool B. soon C. stood D. shoot
3. A. knowledge B. know C. promise D. often
4. A. possessive B. hesitate C. design D. basic
5. A. says B. plays C. days D. raise
II. Identify the word whose stressed pattern is different from that of the others:
6. A. appear B. audience C. government D. talented
7. A. inspire B. resign C. dangerous D. exchange
8. A. producer B. consume C. companion D. situation
9. A. direction B. community C. garbage D. utility
10. A. secondary B. expectation C. supervision D. sociologist
SECTION B - VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D:
11. He says he’s been to _____ restaurant in town
A. many B. every C. all D. most
12. The purpose of the examination was to _____ the students’ knowledge.
A. try B. inspect C. prove D. test
13. The discovery was a major _____ for research workers
A. breakthrough B. breakdown C. break-in D. breakout

A. but B. except C. other D. apart
22. I will recommend _____ to the director.
A. the student to speak B. that the student speaks
C. that the student speak D. that the student speaking
23. I wanted some coffee but there was _____ in the pot
A. any B. no C. none D. nothing
24. Today _____ seems more expensive than usual.
A. most of everythings B. almost everything
C. most of everything D. almost everythings
25. The bank is on _____ side of the street.
A. another B. other C. the other D. the rest
26. Do you believe that ghosts _____?
A. exist B. are existed C. are existing D. are being existed
27. Why don’t you buy bananas when they are much _____ apples?
A. less expensive than B. not expensive than
C. expensive than D. expensive lesser than
28. This house _____ five rooms.
A. consists B. consists of C. is consisted D. is consisted of
29. He will take us to the town _____ we can see old temples.
A. which B. where C. that D. at it
30. The more we learn, _____.
A. we become wise B. we become wiser
C. the wiser we become D. wiser we become
II. There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it.
31. Are you leaving? Yes, but I wish I don’t have to go.
32. He is the world champion. We all know how well he is at boxing.
33. My dog as well as my cats eat twice a day.
34. He could not make anybody believing that he was innocent.
35. Nobody nkows what the reason of the explosion was.
36. It was clear that the young couple were capable in taking charge of the restaurant.

D. one out of every five Americans was a black slave
52. Free white men in America numbered.
A. about four fifths of the population. B. about four and one half million.
C. 5,308,483. D. less than one million.
53. Two thirds of the American people
A. lived where the wants of civilized life could not be supplied
B. lived in Washington
C. lived on the seaboard
D. lived within fifteen miles of tidewater
54. The struggle to tame the American continent had been going on
A. about two hundred years. B. about fifty years.
C. a little more than a century. D. since 1750.
55. This description of the United States in 1800 suggests that
A. most of the new nation was undeveloped.
B. the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent.
C. strips of cultivated land were everywhere.
D. settler were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new continent.
II. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to fill in the gap in the following passage.
Around the age of sixteen, you must make one of the biggest decisions of your life. Do I stay
on at school and hopefully go on to university (56)_____? Do I leave and start work or beginning a
training (57)_____ ?
The decision is yours, but it may be (58)_____ remembering two things: there is more
unemployment (59)_____ who haven’t been to university, and people who have the right (60)_____
will have a big advantage in the competition for jobs. If you decide to go (61)_____ into a job, there
are many opportunities for training. Getting qualifications will (62)_____ you to get on more quicky
in many careers, and evening classes allow you to learn (63)_____ you earn. Starting work and taking
a break to study when you are older is (64)_____ possibility . This way, you can save up money for
your student days, as well as (65)_____ practical work experience.
56. A. after B. later C. then D. past
57. A. school B. class C. course D. term

Only later……………………………………………………………………………………
III. Write about 150 - 200 words on the following topic:
Give advantages and disadvantages of watching television. Nguyễn Thị Nguyệt - THPT Anh Sơn 3 - Nghệ An

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ĐÁP ÁN VÀ BIỂU ĐIỂM MÔN TIẾNG ANH 12

SECTION A (2 points)
I. 1.B 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.A
II. 6.A 7.C 8.D 9.C 10.A

SECTION B (8 points)

74. I suggest you (should) ask her yourself
75. Only later did I realise who he was
III. (3 points)