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BÀI TẬP NÂNG CAO TIẾNG ANH 12 – BÀI SỐ 2
I. Choose one word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest
1. A.wounded B.mounted C.founded D.counted
2. A.struggle B.support C.suffer D.destruction
3. A.foothill B.cook C.flood D.childhood
4. A.victim B.initiate C.poverty D.adopted
5. A.examine B.determine C.famine D.mine
II. Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern
1. A. appall B. devote C.provide D.prgramme
2. A.dedicate B.existence C.tsunami D.civilian
3. A.catastrophe B.emergency C.epidemic D.activity
4. A.conference B.official C.delegate D.medical
5. A.protection B.impartial C.objective D.volunteer
III. Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences
1. This cold has lasted too long, I feel like I’ll never get it.
A.away B.back C.over D.with
2. This hike is pretty axhausting. I don’t think I can go any further. I need to rest.
A.on B.out C.in D.to
3. There you are at last! I was wondering when you’d up!
A.look B.turn C.hold D.give
4. That’s him off that bus over there!
A.dropping B.taking C.going D.getting
5. I seem to spend all my time forms!
A.going away B.trying out C.filling in D.lying down
6. With that bad temper he certainly after his father. He’s exactly the same.
A.takes B.looks C.goes D.puts
7. Bob takes other children’s toys and doesn’t want to give them .

3. My arms hurt, so I put the baby for a minute. But he started crying right away, so picked
him again.
4. You still owe me the money I lent you. When you are going to pay me ?
5. A: Why are you wearing yyur new suit? –
B: I just put it to see what it looks like.
A: It looks fine. Take it and hang it up before it get wrinkled.
6. A: I found this notebook in the wastebasket. It’s yours, isn’t it?
B: Yes. I threw it . I don’t need it anymore.
7. A: I’m afraid I’ve lost Jan’s address. Tell me again, and I’ll write it .
B: Just a minute. I have to look it in my address book.
8. In physics class today we had a big test. When I looked it over, I realised that I couldn’t figure
any of the answers. Our teacher had handed the wrong test! I hadn’t covered that
material yet.
9. You’d better take those clothes and put something clean and dry before you go to
work.
10. A: Wake ! It’s 7 o’clock! Rise and shine!
B: What are you doing? Turn the light and close the window certain!
VI. Match the statements or questions on the left with the correct responses on the right. Use each item only
once.
1. Why were you so late?
2. When do you get up?
3. Where’s the sugar?
4. This programme’s very boring.
5. When are you setting off?
6. How are you getting on at school?
7. Can I speak to Tricia, please?
8. This exercise is too difficult.
9. Where did you spend your childhood?
10. How do you spell “committeee”?
A. Sorry, we’ve run out of it.

Moruroa again. Someone working for the French Government put a bomb on the Ship and it sank. The
explosion killed one man.
Greenpeace also (7) to save animals. Every year hunters killed thousands of baby seals in
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Norway and Canada and sell the (8) to make coats. Members of Greenpeace sail to the Area and
stand between the hunters and the seals. When ships (9) whales, Greenpeace sail to the area, and
then members go in small boats (10) the Whaling ships and the whales.
Many countries put their chemical and nuclear (11) in the sea. Although the seas and oceans
are huge, we are beginning to (12) them with our wastes. Greenpeace is trying to protect the seas.
Green peace believes that all forms of life on earth (13) on each other. All the forms of plant
and animal life fit (14) in the environment. We need all of them. Greenpeace also believes that
there is a limit to all of our natural resources. We need to take (15) of them and use them carefully.
We need to protect the earth for our children.
IX. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
UNICEF
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, serves the children of the world. It serves the children of
(1) races, nationalities, religions, and political systems in more than 100 developing countries. Its
(2) is to help provide a better life for children and their mothers. It gives both long-term assistance
and (3) help.
This programme is very necessary. Today 800 million humans (4) in conditions of poverty
and hopelessness. Two-thirds of them (5) children and mother of small children. Four-fifths of
these children have no regular health services. Nine (6) ten are not protected against childhood
diseases. One hundred million do not have (7) of the right foods. Most of them drink impure water.
Unsafe water is not one of the (8) millions of people die every year.
UNICEF works (9) governments to provide three kinds of services. They plan and organise
programmes, they (10) people to work in the programmes, and UNICEF provides supplies and
equipment.

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5. What was the reason for their late arrival?
turn Why did so late?
6. You can stay here for the night.
put I can here for the night.
7. That noise is driving me crazy!
put I can’t that noise any longer.
8. He feels supervior because he is so rich.
looks He other people because he’s so rich.
9. If you don’t take care of those shoes, they won’t last for long.
look Unless you , those shoes won’t last for long.
10. I offered to help her but she said “No, thanks.”
turned She of help.
XI. Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question.
THE UNITED NATIONS
In one very long sentence, the introduction to the U.N.Charter express the ideals and the common
aims of all the peoples whose goverments joined together to form the U.N.
“We the people of the U.N. determined to save succceeding generations from scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought untold suffering to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental rightd, in
the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and
other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of
life in large freedom, and for these ends, to practise tolerance and live together in peace with one another as
good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the
acceptance of principles and the instruction of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the
common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of economic and social
advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims”