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SOUNDS – ÂM VÀ CÁCH PHÁT ÂM
Sound
s
/I/

/i:/
/e/
/ æ/
/o/
/o:/
/Λ/

/a:/
/u/
/u:/

/ ә/
/ з:/

/ ei/

/ ai/
/ oi/
/ au/

Letter
Words
s
Vowel sounds (nguyên âm)

u
shut
o
some
ou
tough
ar
card
ear
heart
u
pull
ou
could
oo
good
u
pollution
oe
shoe
oo
moon
ui
fruit
er
reader
or
actor
er
prefer

Sound
s
/ t∫/
/ k/

Letter
s
ch
k
c
ch
q

Words

Notes

choice
kitchen
concert
chemist
conques
t
/ h/
h
hike
wh
whoop
Voiced consonants (phụ âm hữu thanh)
/ b/

l
little
/m/
m
monk
/n/
n
name
/ ŋ/
n
think
ng
sing
/r/
r
rural
/w/
w
with
wh
when
/j/
j
jam
y
young
u
music
/ф/
h


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ow
o
ow
ew
ear
ere
ere
are
air
our
ire
yre
yer
ower
ower
our
ayer
eyer
oyer

now
/ әu/
cold
slow

pen
/ f/
f
five
ph
physics
gh
laugh
th
throw
/θ/
/ t/
t
teach
ed
looked
/ s/
s
site
c
centre
/∫/
sh
sheep
ch
machine
s
sugar

/t+/

/fj/

pure
train
twice
tube
class
cream
quite
cure
blow
bring
burial
glass
grow
dream
dwell
duty
flow
fry
furious

/θr/
/θw/
/vj/
/mj/
/∫r/
/nj/
/spr/
/spl/


A. earning

B. learning

C. searching

D. clearing

3.

A. pays

B. stays

C. says

D. plays

4.

A. given

B. risen

C. ridden

D. whiten

5.



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8.

A. gas

B. gain

C. germ

D. good

9.

A. bought

B. naught

C. plough

D. thought

10.

A. forks

B. tables


C. clothing

D. strengthen

14.

A. has

B. bag

C. dad

D. made

15.

A. kites

B. catches

C. oranges

D. buzzes

16.

A. student

B. stupid


C. engine

D. regard

20.

A. feather

B. leather

C. feature

D. measure

21.

A. geology

B. psychology

C. classify

D. photography

22.

A. idiom

B. ideal


C. hoped

D. waited

26.

A. name

B. natural

C. native

D. nation

27.

A. blood

B. food

C. moon

D. pool

28.

A. comb

B. plumb


C. station

D. question

32.

A. dew

B. knew

C. sew

D. few

33.

A. asked

B. helped

C. kissed

D. played

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34.


A. blood

B. tool

C. moon

D. spool

38.

A. height

B. fine

C. tidy

D. cliff

39.

A. through

B. them

C. threaten

D. thunder

40.


A. book

B. blood

C. look

D. foot

44.

A. pan

B. woman

C. sad

D. man

45.

A. table

B. lady

C. labor

D. captain

46.


A. name

B. flame

C. man

D. fame

50.

A. how

B. town

C. power

D. slow

51.

A. harm

B. wash

C. call

D. talk

52.


A. alone

B. home

C. go

D. foul

56.

A. timid

B. tidy

C. timer

D. kite

57.

A. trousers

B. route

C. shout

D. amount

58.

C. check

D. cholera

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

PRACTICE TEST (Phần I– Bài 2)
Find the one whose stress pattern is different from the others of the same group.
A. paper
B. tonight
C. lecture

B. machine
C. music
D. instead
A. writer
B. baker
C. builder
D. career
A. provide
B. adopt
C. happen
D. inspire
A. result
B. region
C. river
D. robot
A. constant
B. basic
C. irate
D. obvious
A. become
B. carry
C. appoint
D. invent
A. engine
B. battle
C. career
D. rabies
A. attract
B. destroy
C. level

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

PRACTICE TEST (Phần I– Bài 2)
Find the one whose stress pattern is different from the others of the same group.
A. interesting
B. surprising
C. amusing
D. successful
A. understand
B. engineer
C. benefit
D. Vietnamese
A. applicant
B. uniform
C. yesterday
D. employment
A. dangerous
B. parachute
C. popular
D. magazine
A. beautifully
B. intelligent
C. redundancy

B. individual
C. population
D. unemployment
A. biology
B. redundancy
C. interviewer
D. comparative
A. conversation
B. isolation
C. traditional
D. situation
A. capital
B. tradition
C. different
D. opera
A. inventor
B. physicist
C. president
D. gardener
A. biology
B. interviewer
C. redundancy
D. America
A. encourage
B. consider
C. constitute
D. inhabit
A. industry
B. holiday
C. adventure

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.

A. paper
A. interesting
A. element
A. damage
A. biology
A. ancient
A. person
A. eternal
A. ruler
A. revolution
A. sentence
A. bacteria
A. attack
A. pyramid
A. accompany
A. provide
A. cinema
A. design
A. exercise
A. excellent
A. beautiful
A. theatre
A. amuse
A. especially
A. policeman
A. advice
A. prepare
A. famous
A. vacation
A. theatre

B. enormous
B. river
B. responsible
B. suggest
B. dangerous
B. defeat
B. pharaoh
B. responsibility
B. improve
B. telephone
B. garage
B. example
B. exactly
B. elephant
B. unknown
B. imagine
B. beautifully
B. performer
B. beauty
B. practice
B. curious
B. colleague
B. career
B. business
B. cinema
B. unknown
B. tonight

C. mechanic
C. experiment

C. environment
C. contain
C. department
C. market
C. holiday
C. dangerous
C. already
C. absence
C. interest
C. quickly
C. engineer
C. picture
C. prevent
C. anxious
C. pupil
C. cinema
C. stranger
C. hospital
C. visit
C. today

D. engine
D. philosophy
D. philosopher
D. gravity
D. experiment
D. remedy
D. satisfy
D. significance
D. treatment

D. dinner
D. surprise
D. lately
D. assistant
D. postcard
D. provide
D. delicious
D. teacher
D. gallery
D. return
D. concert
D. confirm
D. tomorrow

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55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.

A. vegetable
A. coffee
A. eleven
A. preparation
A. leather
A. mirror
A. discovery
A. descendant
A. resounding
A. difference
A. devilish
A. arithmetic
A. honorable
A. militarism
A. support
A. apology
A. oblivious
A. librarian
A. architect
A. utterance
A. ferocious
A. occurrence

B. article
B. tractor
B. remember
B. semester
B. interesting
B. lesson
B. machine

C. detect
C. rubber
C. potato
C. improve
C. Wednesday
C. paper
C. energy
C. television
C. iron
C. wallet
C. aero-plane
C. ornamental
C. reconcile
C. reference
C. glorify
C. artificial
C. participate
C. eventual
C. bilingual
C. adverbial
C. scandalous
C. terrific
C. military
C. performance
C. orient
C. spectator

D. edition
D. fireman
D. resemble

Rewrite the sentences as suggested.
1. Mr. Minh often spends fifteen minutes leading the buffalo to the field.
 It often takes ____________________________________________________________
2. Quan always walk to school.
 Quan always goes ________________________________________________________
3. I found it a bit difficult to get into work this morning.
 Getting _________________________________________________________________
4. Their game of badminton is always on Tuesday.
 They __________________________________________________________________
5. I started to play the piano when I was six.
 I have __________________________________________________________________
6. I’m in England for the first time in my life.
 This ___________________________________________________________________
7. The children are too young to see horror films.
 The children aren’t _______________________________________________________
8. The children couldn’t go swimming because the sea was rough.
 The sea was too __________________________________________________________
9. My father said I could use his car.
 My father allowed ________________________________________________________
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10. Why don’t you put your luggage under the seat?
He suggested ____________________________________________________________
PRACTICE TEST (Phần II– Bài 2)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. I’ll finish the work tonight if you like.
 Would you like __________________________________________________________

6. Jim was travelling in Paris. He met his old friends there.
 While __________________________________________________________________
7. First Jane checked all the prices. Then she bought a new car.
 Jane bought _____________________________________________________________
8. Jack went to Vietnam in 2002. He returned home in 2005.
 Jack ___________________________________________________________________
9. They finished work and then left the office.
 They __________________________________________________________________
10. We started learning English about 5 years ago.
We’ve _________________________________________________________________
PRACTICE TEST (Phần II– Bài 4)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. How much do you pay for this computer?
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 How much does __________________________________________________________
2. The last time Joe heard from his family was in June.
 Joe hasn’t ______________________________________________________________
3. How long have you been living in this new house?
 When __________________________________________________________________
4. This is my third visit to Hồ Chí Minh City.
 I have __________________________________________________________________
5. Jack wants to drive to work, but he doesn’t have a car.
 If Jack _________________________________________________________________
6. We were late because of the heavy traffic.
 If it ____________________________________________________________________
7. Why don’t you ask your teacher for advice?

A. interested
B. interesting
C. to be interested
D. to be interesting
6. John hasn’t got a job. He has to live on------ benefit.
A. employ
B. employing
C. unemployment
D. employment
7. She’s proud of her ------.
A. successful
B. success
C. succeed
D. succeeded
8. Anna can’t get the job because there are too many ------ for it.
A. engineers
B. interviewers
C. applicants
D. workers
9. There are many ------ ways to learn English vocabulary.
A. different
B. differences
C. differ
D. differing
10. Nam stopped ------ two years ago.
A. smoking
B. smoke
C. to smoke
D. smoked
11. A ------ storm has swept a hundred of houses away.

A. tired
B. tiring
C. to tire
D. tire
18. My teacher is a ------ smoker. He smokes 30 cigarettes a day.
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A. much
B. heavy
C. many
19. Her parents can't stand ------ her at home all day.
A. to see
B. see
C. seeing
20. I am tired ------ watching the same program every day.
A. in
B. on
C. with
21. While she ------, the phone rang.
A. was cooking
B. cooked
C. cooking
22. My mother is used to ------ a speaker.
A. to be
B. being
C. have been
23. She doesn't have time to go shopping because she's too ------ with her work

8. There are only_____ few seats left for_____ tonight’s musical at_____ university.
9. _____ Lake Erie is one of_____ five Great Lakes in_____ North America.
10. What did you eat for_____ breakfast this morning?
11. Louie played_____ basketball and_____ baseball at_____ Boy’s Club this year.
12. Rita plays_____ violin and her sister plays_____ guitar.
13. David attended_____ Princeton University.
14. Harry has been admitted to_____ School of Medicine at_____ Midwestern university.
15. Phil can’t go to_____ movies tonight because he has to write_____ essay.
16. Last night there was _____ singing outside my house.
17. _____ chair which you are sitting in is broken.
18._____ Florida State University is smaller than_____ University of Florida.
19. Scientists sent_____ expedition to_____ Mars during_____ 1990s.
20. Mel’s grandmother is in_____ hospital, so we went to visit her_____ last night.
21. I’m on night duty. When you go to _____ bed, I go to _____ work.
22. Sorry, I can’t find the number. I remember writing it on _____ back of an envelope.
23. _____ gold is perhaps _____ most highly treasured metal.
24. _____ Mekong River is _____ longest river in _____ Vietnam.
25. _____ winter is usually cold, but ______winter of this year is warm.
26. _____ money you gave me is not enough to buy _____ bicycle.
27. Look at _____ sun. It is rising.
28. We watch television after _____ dinner.
29. Mr. Brown bought _____ new car _____ last week.
30. He usually travels to _____ Philadelphia by _____ train.
31. Miss Linda speaks _____ Chinese very well although she is from _____ UK.
32. _____ swimming is _____ good sport.
33. Please open _____ door.
34. _____ United States is _____ world’s biggest consumer of energy.
35. Peter likes to play _____ volleyball, but he is not _____ good player.
36. My daughter is learning to play _____ violin at _____ school.
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4. We visited Canada and _____ United States.
A. an
B. a
C. X
D. the
5. I fell in _____ love with him because of his kind nature.
A. a
B. the
C. X
D. an
6. _____ schooling is compulsory in Australia between _____ ages of six and seventeen.
A. The / X
B. A / an
C. X / the
D. The / an
7. In _____ most social situations , _____ informality is appreciated.
A. X / X
B. the / an
C. a / the
D. the / a
8. _____ love is _____ very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically attracted to.
A. The / the B. The / X
C. A / the
D. X / a
9. London is _____ of England.
A. a capital B. capital
C. one capital
D. the capital
10. Do you know exactly_____ number of Siberian tigers in China?
A. a

2. Don’t sit _____ the floor.
3. I’m going away _____ the end of January.
4. I met Tom _____ the street yesterday.
5. They sent me a cheque _____ $ 50.
6. There has been some decrease _____ military spending this year.
7. Nobody knows what the cause _____ the explosion was.
8. Do you think we’ll find a solution _____ this problem?
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9. Have you ever read any books _____ Mark Twain?
10. It’s unreasonable ____ you to expect her to love you at first sight.
11. They were furious _____ me _____ not inviting them to the party.
12. Were you disappointed _____ your examination results?
13. Everybody was shocked _____ the news.
14. She is scared _____ going out alone.
15. I’m not ashamed _____ what I did.
16. My sister won’t have dinner _____ 11.30 p.m.
17. She is engaged _____ an American.
18. Who was responsible _____ all the noise last night?
19. Your writing is similar _____ mine.
20. Ann wasn’t keen _____ going out in the rain.
21. The city centre was crowded _____ tourists.
22. I always try my best to get along _____ other officers.
23. Why don’t you apply _____ a position in that company?
24. He is very selfish. He doesn’t care _____ other people.
25. Don’t look out of the window. Concentrate _____ your work!
26. He lost control of the car and crashed _____ a wall.

D. The most
05. We decided not to travel, ____ the terrible weather forecast.
A. having heard
B. we heard
C. having been heard D. being heard
06. _____for their strong fiber include flax and hemp.
A. Plants are grown
B. Plants grown
C. Plants that grow D. To grow plants
07. I think you must be _____me for someone else.
A. confusing
B. reminding
C. mistaking
D .considering
08. ‘John won’t come tomorrow.’
‘Did he say he ____next week?’
A. will come
B. would come
C. is coming
D. had come
09. Pests occur in large numbers, and they can ____terrible damage, particularly to growing crops, that
in some parts of the world people frequently suffer from famine.
A. do such
B. do so
C. make such
D. make so
10. The new magazine about maintenance _____tomorrow.
A. comes down
B. comes off
C. comes on

01. They have grown roses here------ 1990.
A. for
B. since
C. during
D. in
02. You'll miss the train ------ you don't hurry up.
A. if
B. When
C. since
D. unless
03. He is my ------ brother. But he looks younger than me
A. elder
B. older
C. old
D. young
04. It took me forty five minutes to ------ to office everyday
A. getting
B. get
C. get
D. got
05. I don't mind living ------ my own in a big city
A. with
B. by
C. at
D. on
06. If you hear the fire ______, leave the building quickly.
A. alarm
B. caution
C. notice
D. publicity

13. Women workers wear hats in _______their hair gets caught in the machinery.
A. course
B. case
C. occasion
D. event
14. There are many ------ ways to learn English vocabulary.
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A. different
B. differences
C. differ
15. I don’t mind living------ my own in a big city.
A. with
B. by
C. at
16. She was filling in the ------ form.
A. applicant
B. application
C. apply
17. It was ------ to listen to the story .
A. exciting
B. excited
C. excite
18. My brother and my sister have many------.
A. different
B. difference
C. differ

 I’m ____________________________________________________________________
7. He was in the habit of getting up very late.
 He used ________________________________________________________________
8. He is talking to the girl with long hair.
 The girl whom ___________________________________________________________
9. “You’d better go to see the doctor immediately.”
 She advised _____________________________________________________________
10. They want to buy a bigger house but they don’t have enough money.
 If they _________________________________________________________________
PRACTICE TEST (Phần III– Bài 1)
Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence.
01. Mt. Everest is ------ highest peak of ------ Himalayas.
A. a/ the
B. the/ a
C. the/ nothing
D. the/ the
02. Nothing in your room ------ since you were sent to the hospital.
A. have been moved
B. has been moved
C. have moved
D. has moved
03. Water plays a vital ------ in developing agriculture.
A. part
B. importance
C. vision
D. character
04. The weather in the South of Vietnam seems ------ than ------ in the North.
A. more pleasant/ it
B. more pleasant/ that C. pleasant/ the weather D. more pleasant/ those
05. It’s more ------ to use gas instead of electricity to warm up the house.

A. inhabited
B. are inhabited
C. were inhabited
D. were inhabiting
11. He is from Tokyo. He speaks------.
A. Japan
B. Tokyo
C. Japanese
D. Chinese
12. He wore dark glasses so that nobody could------ him.
A. recognize
B. recognition
C. recognized
D. recognizable
13. Modern English is different------ old English.
A. of
B. in
C. from
D. on
14. It is necessary to learn a foreign------.
A. tongue
B. story
C. country
D. language
15. He arrived in Singapore ________ Monday evening.
A. in
B. from
C. on
D. at
16. Unless we hurry, we’ll ______ the bus.

A. for
B. to
C. from
D. A or B
23. I like the work which is easy------.
A. doing
B. to do
C. done
D. for do
24. Chinese is the only language with more------ than English
A. speakers
B. persons
C. pupils
D. many adults
25. They are interested in practicing------.
A. France
B. Spain
C. English
D. Russia
PRACTICE TEST (Phần III– Bài 3)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. She is exhausted today because she didn’t get any sleep last night.
 She wouldn’t ____________________________________________________________
2. The fire destroyed the forest completely.
 The forest ______________________________________________________________
3. I didn’t go to school on time this morning because the bus was late.
 If the bus _______________________________________________________________
4. You can’t visit the USA unless you get a visa.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
5. “Can I borrow your typewriter, Janet?” asked Peter.

B. asking
C. be asked
D. being asked
4. Your sister will be ill if she doesn’t stop ______ so much.
A. to worry
B. worry
C. worried
D. worrying
5. The word “fishing” in “Fishing is his favorite pastime” is a(n)______.
A. noun
B. pronoun
C. gerund
D. adjective
6. He loves______ lies, that’s why we call him “a liar”.
A .telling
B. saying
C. speaking
D. talking
7. The word “stopped” in “He stopped smoking 5 years ago” can be replaced by______.
A. took up
B. came up
C. picked up
D. gave up
8. She’s thirsty. She’d like______ a cold drink.
A. have
B. having
C. to have
D. to having
9. She never gets up late. She’s used to______ up early.
A. get

B. school are
C. school is
D. schools is
16. Be quiet! I______ to listen to some important information.
A. was trying
B. am trying
C. try
D. tried
17. The teacher made us______ hard for the final examination.
A. learn
B. learning
C. to learn
D. learnt
18. Neither Bill nor Norris______ going to the play tonight.
A. was
B. were
C. are
D. is
19. He used ______ on time. But this time he is terribly late.
A. arriving
B. arrive
C. to arrive
D. to arriving
20. He found______ to live on his unemployment benefit.
A. it
B. its
C. it’s
D. it is
21. My hobby is watching the whole city from the______.
A. sky-lift

1. Although he had a good salary, he was unhappy in his job.
 In spite of ______________________________________________________________
2. They haven’t cleaned the streets this week.
 The streets ______________________________________________________________
3. Apples are usually cheaper than oranges.
 Apples are not ___________________________________________________________
4. I advised you to put your money in the bank.
 You’d _________________________________________________________________
5. The restaurant is so dirty that no one wants to eat there.
 It was such ______________________________________________________________
6. John only understood very little of what the teacher said.
 John could hardly ________________________________________________________
7. I haven’t been to Bristol for 3 years.
 The last time ____________________________________________________________
8. Jim will be eighteen next week.
 It’s Jim’s _______________________________________________________________
9. How long is it since they bought the house ?
 When __________________________________________________________________
10. He couldn’t repair the broken vase.
The ___________________________________________________________________
PRACTICE TEST (Phần III– Bài 4)
Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence.
01. He says he’s been to______ restaurant in Viet Tri town.
A. all
B. most
C. every
D. many
02. The ability to work well for long hours is his______.
A. length
B. width

D. charge
09. Long speeches are really______.
A. bore
B. boring
C. bored
D. to bored
10. You shouldn’t______ him all the time.
A. teased
B. tease
C. teases
D. teasing
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11. We won’t have to import electricity if the solar energy is ______ used.
A. large
B. widely
C. widen
D. width
12. Mark Twain is the ______ name of Samuel Longhorn Clemens.
A. pen
B. new
C. career
D. writer
13. His friend __ him a lot in his career. Without their support, he would not have been successful.
A. told
B. encourage
C. taught

D. dying
20. His wife had great influence ______ his books.
A. in
B. at
C. for
D. on
21. James Watt was the ______ of the steam engine.
A. writer
B. inventor
C. engineer
D. worker
22. I live in a house ______ has four rooms.
A. which
B. where
C. in which
D. it
23. ______ we can find new sources of energy, our life will come to an end.
A. unless
B. when
C. if
D. B or C
24. The two books provide us ______ an excellent picture of his era.
A. about
B. with
C. for
D. to
25. Shakespeare ______ Hamlet in 1600 and 1601.
A. writes
B. has written
C. wrote

1. It’s the pronunciation that causes me a lot of------.
A. difficult
B. difficulty
C. difficully
D. difficulties
2. If you place a bowl of water in the sun, it will ______.
A. evaporate
B. evaporated
C. evaporator
D. evaporation
3. ------ 350 million people speak English as their first language
A. Approximaty
B. Approximately
C. Approximation
D. Approximate
4. “Gone with the wind” was------ by Mrs. Margaret Mitchell
A. written
B. read
C. designed
D. drawn
5. World population will continue to rise if we do not try ______ it.
A. to increase
B. lower
C. to reduce
D. reducing
6. I did all the work------ my own
A. by
B. on
C. for
D. at

A. does
B. has
C. takes
D. makes
14. ______ Sundays, I often go fishing with my father.
A. in
B. on
C. over
D. for
15. It is______ to drive without a driving license in Viet Nam.
A. good
B. danger
C. dangerously
D. dangerous
16. Would you like him______?
A. coming
B. to come
C. come
D. came
17. My mother can play a lot of______ instruments.
A. music
B. musical
C. musician
D. musically
18. The girl spoke with a______ accent.
A. southern
B. southwards
C. south
D. southbound
19. What’s the ______ of Viet Nam?

8. In spite of his age, Mr. Benson runs 7 miles before breakfast.
 Although _______________________________________________________________
9. The bread is so stale that we can’t eat it.
 The bread isn’t __________________________________________________________
10. The zoo keeper feed lions at 3 p.m every day.
The lions _______________________________________________________________
PRACTICE TEST (Phần IV– Bài 1)
Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence.
01. M. Faraday didn’t have much ______ when he was young.
A. school
B. scholar
C. schooled
D. schooling
02. A person who studies biology is a ______ .
A. scientist
B. physicist
C. biologist
D. mathematician
03. Einstein, _____ study of the theory of relativity made him famous, was a German physicist.
A. whose
B. whom
C. who
D. by whom
04. Most of the experiments are carried out in ______.
A. schools
B. libraries
C. factories
D. laboratories
05. He was very good _____ mathematics when he was at school.
A. on

B. and
C. even
D. until
12. He died ______ the age of 85.
A. for
B. at
C. in
D. about
13. Faraday’s father worked very _____, but he could ____ feed the family.
A. hard/ hard
B. hardly/ hard
C. hard/ hardly
D. hardly/ hardly
14. It was Professor H. Davy’s lectures _____ helped Faraday a lot in his later discoveries.
A. that
B. which
C. who
D. whose
15. Scientists and doctors haven’t found the ____ for AIDS.
A. curable
B. curability
C. cure
D. curing
16. Gravity is the force of the earth to ______ everything towards its center.
A. attractive
B. attract
C. attraction
D. distract
17. He’ll go with us ______ it rains.
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C. monthly
D yearly
23. ______ you phone me when you come to England?
A. Do
B. Have
C. Will
D. Would
24. Liverpool won’t win unless they begin ______ better.
A. playing
B. played
C. having played
D. play
25. Life will be destroyed ______ all our sources end.
A. as long as
B. unless
C. if
D. whether
PRACTICE TEST (Phần IV– Bài 2)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. We got lost because we didn’t have a map.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
2. The bridge was so low that the bus couldn’t go under it.
 It was __________________________________________________________________
3. I last saw him when I was a student.
 I haven’t _______________________________________________________________
4. It’s a six–hour drive from London to Edinburgh.
 It takes _________________________________________________________________
5. It’s ages since Alan visited his parents.
 Alan ___________________________________________________________________
6. Mr. Will lost his job because he was late every day.

5. Darwin, ______ was an English physiologist, was born in 1809 and died in 1882.
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A. which
B. that
C. who
D. where
6. Is there anything ______ I can do for you?
A. where
B. that
C. who
D. which
7. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ______ Twain’s best works.
A. consider
B. considered
C. is considered
D. are considered
8. He is working ______ a taxi-driver.
A. at
B. as
C. to
D. in
9. A person who spends his/her whole life writing books is a ______.
A. writer
B. teacher
C. singer
D. worker

16. The driver stopped______ a coffee because he felt sleepy.
A. have
B. to have
C. having
D. had
17. Have you ever considered______ a pharmacist?
A .to become
B. become
C. became
D. becoming
18. I would rather ______ at home than ______ out with him.
A. stay/ go
B. staying/going
C. stayed/went
D. to stay/to go
19. She suggested ______ a break for a while.
A. took
B. take
C. taking
D. taken
20. It is likely that everybody ______ at the age of 45.
A. retires
B. retired
C. are retiring
D. will retire
PRACTICE TEST (Phần IV– Bài 3)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. Having a vacation abroad is interesting.
 It’s ____________________________________________________________________
2. The water was so cold that the children could not take a swim.

A. leisure with
B. having fun with
C. freed from
D. burdened with
03: Lee doesn’t like conventional dressing. She prefers something modern and shocking.
A. social
B. new
C. old
D. traditional
04: The film is not worth seeing. The plot is too dull.
A. slow
B. simple
C. complicated
D. boring
05: I have to take up my dress. I step on it all the time.
A. make it longer
B. embellish
C. shorten
D. try on
2. Choose the right word or phrases to complete the following sentences.
06: She resented ________ waiting for hours in front of the cinema.
A. being kept
B. to be kept
C. being keeping
D. keeping
07: “Which is more important, luck or effort?”
- “Luck is ________ effort”
A. of the same importance
B. of the same importance as
C. as the same important as

C. unbearable
D. intolerant
15: You look rather _______. Are you worried about something?
A. occupied
B. preoccupying
C. preoccupied
D. occupant
PRACTICE TEST (Phần IV– Bài 4)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. I can’t cook as well as my mother does.
 My mother ______________________________________________________________
2. He wrote the letter in two hours.
 It _____________________________________________________________________
3. It was such hot tea that I couldn’t drink it.
 The tea _________________________________________________________________
4. Because she behaves well, everybody loves her.
 Because of ______________________________________________________________
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5. Unless you water the flowers everyday, they will die.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
6. I have studied English for 3 years.
 I began _________________________________________________________________
7. She didn’t take your advice, so she failed in the exam.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
8. We spend our childhood in that beautiful mountain resort and we always remember.
 We always remember _____________________________________________________

06: The man who _______ had been in the sea for ten hours.
A. had been rescued
B. was rescued
C. rescued
D. had rescued
07: I am sorry but we have to _______ the discussion. We have no more time.
A. put an end to
B. make room for
C. take advantage of D. put effort into
08: The man shouted loudly as if we _______ all deaf.
A. would be
B. had been
C. are
D. were
09: An employer may look with_______ on a young college graduate.
A. suspiciously
B. suspicion
C. suspect
D. suspicious
10: Thanks to the British Channel, __________.
A. it saved England from being invaded for some time B. England was not invaded for some time
C. which helped England not to be invaded for some time
D. they did not invade England for some time
Identify the error in each of the following sentences by marking A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
01: Working all night long, Jim felt extreme hungry and just wanted to have a sandwich.
A. Working
B. extreme
C. felt
D. just
02: She was anxious about the interview because she failed three interviews before.

A. one of the
B. outing
C. for
D. who is
08: How much each dress costs is not mention in the catalogue.
A. How much
B. each
C. costs
D. mention
PRACTICE TEST (Phần IV– Bài 5)
Rewrite sentences using given words.
1. The weather was so bad that we couldn’t go sailing.
 The weather wasn’t _______________________________________________________
2. The plane took off before we arrived at the airport.
 By the time _____________________________________________________________
3. I don’t live in a big city, so I can’t go to the cinema very often.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
4. She never seems to succeed even though she works hard.
 In spite of ______________________________________________________________
5. Jeanie is the tallest girl in her class.
 No one _________________________________________________________________
6. You didn’t plan things at the start, so we are in this mess now.
 If _____________________________________________________________________
7. My father bought a car with a sun roof.
 The car ________________________________________________________________
8. It’s said that English people are quiet and severed.
 English people ___________________________________________________________
9. Fiona had to get on the plane though she was afraid of flying.
 Despite ________________________________________________________________
10. Foxes can use their noses to find their dinners because they have a keen sense of smell.

C. valueless
D. worthy
07: His brother refuses to even listen to anyone else's point of view. He is very_______.
A. open – minded
B. kind – hearted
C. narrow- minded D. absent - minded
08: In most___ developed countries, up to 50% of____ population enters higher education at some time
in their lives. A. the/ θ
B. θ/ θ
C. the/ a
D. θ /the
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