ĐỀ THI CHẤT LƯỢNG ĐẦU NĂM 2011
Exercise 1. Give the correct forms of verbs in brackets.
Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ( 1 – be ) ______ one of America’s best –
loved storytellers. He ( 2 – grow up ) ________ in a small town on the Mississippi River. As a young boy, he ( 3
– greatly admire ) _________ the pilots of the riverboats and dreamed about being a riverboat pilot on the
mighty river. He pursued his dream, and by the age of 22, he himself ( 4 – become ) ________ a riverboat pilot.
Later in life, when he ( 5 – become ) _______ a writer, many of his stories ( 6 – contain ) _________ elements
of his own experiences. He wrote many humourous stories and articles about life on the Mississippi River
before he ( 7 – die ) ________ in 1910 at the age of 74. Sadly, Twain ( 8 – work ) _______ on a new story for
several months before his death, but he ( 9 – never finish ) ________it. Over the years since his death, his
boyhood home in Hanibal, Missouri, ( 10 – become ) _________ a favourite place for Americans to visit to
learn about Twain and life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Exercise 2. Give the correct forms of verbs in brackets.
Almost every part of the world ( 1 – experience ) ____ an earthquake in recent years. Since the ancient
Chinese ( 2 – begin ) ___ to keep records thousands of years ago, more than 13 million earthquakes ( 3 – occur
)______ worldwide by some estimates.
What ( 4 – cause ) _______ earthquakes ? Throughout time, different cultures ( 5 – develop ) ________
myths to explain these violent earth movements.
According to a Japanese myth, a playful catfish lives in the mud under the earth. Whenever it feels like
playing, it ( 6 – wave ) ____ its tail around in the mud. The result ? Earthquake ! From India comes the story of
six strong elephans who ( 7 – hold ) ___ up the earth on their heads. Whenever one elephant ( 8 – move )
______ its head, the earth trembles.
Nowadays, although scientists ( 9 – know ) _________ more about the causes of earthquakes, they still
can’t prevent the terrible damage.
One of the strongest earthquakes in this century ( 10 – happen ) ____ in Alaska, on March 24
th
,1964, at
about 6 o’clock in the evening. When the earthquake ( 11 – strike ) ____ that evening, many families ( 12 – sit )
____ down to eat dinner. People in the city ( 13 – suddenly find ) ____ themselves in the dark because most of
the lights in the city went out when the earthquake occured. Many people ( 14 – die ) _______ instanly when tall
buildings ( 15 – collapse ) ________.

7. Why are you peeling that bit of garlic? I ( 9 – put ) _______ it in the stew.
8. Will you lend me your season ticket ? No, I ( 10 – not lend ) ___ it to you, it’s against the law.
9. That tree makes the house is very dark. Very well, I ( 11 – cut ) ______ it down.
10. I’ve just enrolled at the local technical college. I ( 12 – attend ) ____ pottery classes next winter
11. My brother has just returned from America. Oh good, we ( 13 – ask ) ___ him to our next party!
12. You look frozen. Sit down by the fire and I ( 14 – make ) _______ you a cup of coffee!
13. I haven’t bought any cigarette because I ( 15 – give up ) ______ smoking.
14. I’ve tried to explain but she doesn’t understand French. I ( 16 – say ) _____ it to her in English, perhaps
she ( 17 – understand ) ______ that.
15. Why are you filling that bucket of water? – I ( 18 – wash ) _______ the car.
16. I’ve got a terrible headache. – Have you ? Wait there and I ( 19 – get ) _____ an aspirin for you.
17. I’ve decided to re - paint this room. – Oh, have you? What colour you ( 20 – paint ) ______ it?
18. I can’t work out how to use this camera. – It’s quite easy. I ( 21 – show ) _____ you.
Exercise 5. Give the correct form of verbs in brackets ( Future simple or future continuous )
1. There’s going to be a bus strike. Everyone ( 1 – walk ) _______ to work next week.
2. You’ve just missed that last train. Never mind, I ( 2 – walk ) ________!
3. I’ll ring you tomorrow at six. No, don’t ring at six. I ( 3 – bathe ) __ the baby by then. Ring later.
4. I ( 4 – work ) ____ for Mr Pitt next week as his own secretary will be away.
5. Why did you take his razor? He ( 5 – look ) _____ for it everywhere tomorrow.
6. I hope you do well in the race tomorrow. I ( 6 – think ) ______ of you.
7. I don’t feel well enough to go to the station to meet him tomorrow. I ( 7 – meet ) ____ him for you, but
how I ( 8 – recognize ) _____ him? He’s small and fair, and he ( 9 – wear ) _____ a black and white
school cap.
8. You’ve left the light on. OK, so have I! I ( 10 – go ) ______ and turn it off.
9. I’ve just been appointed assistant at the local library. The you ( 11 – work ) _____ under my sister. She
is head librarian there.
10. I want to post this letter, but I don’t want to go in the rain.
- I ( 12 – post ) ______ it for you. I ( 13 – go out ) _____ anyway as I have to take the dog out.
11. In a few years’time we all ( 14 – live ) ______ in houses heated by solar energy.
12. It’s beginning to get dark: the street lights ( 15 – go on ) _______ in a few minutes.

4. Hurry up and buy your ticket. The train’ll leave / will be leaving soon and I don’t want to miss it
5. I forgot to ask a neighbour to look after the plants while we’re on holiday! When we get home they will
all have died / will all die.
6. Damn! We’re going to be late for the party. By the time we get there, all the others will be eating / will
have eaten, and there will be / going to be nothing left for us.
Exercise 8. Give the correct form of verbs in brackets.
On June 20
th
, I will return home. I ( 1 – be ) _____ away from home for two years by that time. My family ( 2
– meet ) ____ me at the airport with kisses and tears. They ( 3 – miss ) ____ me as much as I have missed them.
I ( 4 – be ) _____ very happy to see them again. When I ( 5 – get ) _____ a chance, I ( 6 – take ) ____ a long
look at them. My little brother will no longer be so little. He ( 7 – grow ) ____ at least a foot. He ( 8 – almost be
)______ as tall as my father. My little sister probably ( 9 – wear ) ____ a green dress because that’s her favourite
colour. She ( 10 – change ) _____ quite a bit, too. She ( 11 – ask ) _____ me a thousand questions a minute, or
so it will seem. My father probably ( 12 – gain ) ____ a little grayer, but otherwise he will be just as I remember
him. My mother ( 13 – look ) _____ a little older, but not much. The wrinkles on her face ( 14 – be ) ______
smile wrinkles.
Exercise 9. Future Perfect or Future perfect continuous?
1. I hope they ( 1 – repair ) ______ this road by the time we come back next summer.
2. Yes, I make jam every week. I ( 2 – make ) _____ about 200 kilos by the end of the summer.
3. He spends all his spare time planting trees. He says that by the end of next year he (3 - plant) 2000
4. Come back in an hour. I ( 4 – do )_____ my packing by then and we’ll be able to have a talk.
5. When he reaches Ha Noi, he ( 5 – walk ) ______ for 3 hours.
6. He’s only 35 but he’s started losing his hair already. He ( 6 – lose ) ____ it all by the time he’s 50.
7. His father left him $400,000, but he lives so extravagantly that he ( 7 - spend) it all before he’s 30.
8. By the end of next year I ( 8 – work ) _____ for him for 45 years.
9. A hundred people’ve died of starvation already. By the end of the week two hundred ( 9 – die) ___.
When are you going to send help ?
10. Apparently Venice is slowly sinking into the sea. Scientists are trying to save it but by the time they’ve
found the answer the city probably ( 10 – sink ) ________.