TEST 48
I. Chọn từ thích hợp (ứng với A hoặc B, C, D) để hoàn thành câu sau:
1. I aplozised ……………… my being late yesterday.
A. with B. on C. to D. for
2. The houses ……………… we bought last Sunday are nice.
A. which B. what C. where D.
when
3. The house ……………… we stayed last month is over 200 years old.
A. which B. what C. where D.
when
4. The village ……………… I used to live three years ago is very poetic.
A. which B. that C. where D.
what
5. ……………… the house is the more comfortable it is.
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A. More expensive B. The more expensive
C. The most expensive D. The expensive
6. We always have a ……………… life. We can buy anything we need.
A. conveniently B. inconvenient C. inconveniently D.
convenient
7. The police prevented us ……………… getting into the military area.
A. for B. at C. in D.
from
8. When he came ……………….
A. I am watching TV B. I have been watching TV
C. I was watching TV D. I watched TV
9. Nobody was injured in the accident, ………………?
A. wasn’t it B. was there C. were they D.
was he
10. The more she smiles, ……………… she becomes.
A. more graceful B. the most graceful C. the more graceful D.

told
21. She needs ……………… on diet because she is overweight.
A. to go B. going C. to going D.
gone
22. Soldiers protect us ……………… the enemy.
A. against B. into C. out of D.
from
23. She tried to study harder in order that ……………….
A. can keep pace with the others in her class. B. could keep pace of the others in
her class.
C. couldn’t keep pace with the others in her class. D. could keep pace with the
others in her class.
II. Đọc kỹ đoạn văn và trả lời các câu hỏi ( bằng cách chọn phương án đúng, ứng
với A hoặc B, C, D) từ câu 24 đến câu 28:
Jack London was the famous American novelist and short story writer. He was
born in Sanfrancisco in 1876. He quit school at fourteen to become a sailor. He was a
self-taught student. He finished his high school and college education during six months.
He led an adventurous but poor life. His view point was in favour of the poor and
socialism. He read a lot of books of Karl Marx. He was influenced by Marxist Party
theory and the October Revolution. In 1895, he joined the Socialist Labour Party but in
the last years of his life, he moved away from the working class and in 1916 he left the
party. In 1916 he committed suicide because of despair dream. He used an overdose of
morphine and drowned himself in the sea. He was an adventurous novelist, a Socialist
reformer and a prominent socialist who often signed under the line “Yours for the
revolution, Jack London.”
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24. Why did he commit suicide?
A. He used to have a dream.
B. Because of socialism.
C. Because he left the party.

36. Billy has called his lawyer last night to tell him about his problems, but he was told
that
A B
C
the lawyer had gone to a lecture.
D
37. It is very kind to her to help me a lot with my homework.
A B C D
38. They have been asked me to visit them for ages, but I have never had the time.
A B C D
VI. Chọn câu (ứng với A hoặc B, C, D) thích hợp với câu sau:
39. “People said that he lived here many years ago.”
A. It was said that he lived here many years ago.
B. It is said that he lived here many years ago.
C. He is said to live here many years ago.
D. A & C are correct.
40. “He lost his job three months ago.”
A. They are three months since he lost his job.
B. It is three months ago since he lost his job.
C. It is three months since he lost his job.
D. It has been three months ago since he has lost his job.
VII. Chọn từ thích hợp (ứng với A hoặc B, C, D) để điền vào chỗ trống trong đoạn văn sau,
từ câu 41 đến câu 50:
Why did English become the …(41)… language? In the middle of the nineteenth
century, French was the international language. …(42)… Britain became very powerful
in the world. England started colonies in North America and India in the seventeenth
century. By 1900 England also had …(43)… in other parts of Asia,

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Africa, and the South Pacific. The people in the colonies had to use English. Slowly it

borrowed