The nineteenth of Sept, 2008 GV: nguyễn Phan Cẩm Tú
Practise Test 1
A, Phonetics.
I. Pick out the word whose underlined anh bold part is pronounced differently from that of the words.
1. a. fills b. adds c. stirs d. lets.
2. a. shops b. notes c. mouths d. blacksmiths.
3. a. books b. bats c. days d. photographs
4. a. works b. plays c. stops d. shifts
5. a. dates b. matches c. boxes d. cases
B. Vocabulary and structure.
I. Choose the best answer among a, b, c or d that best completes each sentence.
11. A..........knit community is the one in which relationships are very close.
a. close b. closely c. tightly d. b & c.
12. Mr Brown is bored with doing the ................chores.
a. household b. domestic c. housework d. a & b.
14. There has been a shift of .................from manufacturing to service industries.
a. change b. alteration c. emphasis d. movement.
15. Our parents join hands to give us a nice house and a happy home.
a. deal with b. manage c. help together d. work together
16. They tried to ...................astonishing feats of engineering by building the tunnel.
a. perform b. attempt c. achieve d. all are correct.
17. It’s time for you to ...................a profession.
a. enter b. go in to c. join d. all are correct.
18. He’s ................slowly after the operation.
a. mending b. recovering c. reliening d. a & b.
19. When I last saw him, he................in London.
a. has lived b. is living c. was living d. has been living.
20. We ...............Dorothy since last Saturday.
a. don’t see b. haven’t seen c. didn’t see d. hadn’t seen.
21. The train ......................half an hour ago.
a. has been leaving b. left c. has left d. had left.

A. is doing B. had done C. was doing D. did
6. We were told that the workers ….. an old bridge at that time.
A. were repairing B. are repairing C. repaired D. would repair
7. She suddenly remembered that she …… her keys at home.
A. had forgotten B. has left C. has forgotten D. had left
8. We…. to catch the 9.30 train, but we…..it was gone.
A. had hoped / found B. hoped / had found C. hope / have found D. have hoped / found
9. ….. that dress when your boyfriend saw you in the street ?
A. Have you won B. Did you wear C. Were you wearing D. Are you wearing
10. When their first child was born , they……… for three years.
A. had been married B. had got married C. had married D. got married
III. Choose the item among a, b, c or d that best answers the question about the passage.
The nuclear family, consisting of amother, father, and their children , may be more an American
ideal than American reality. Of course, the So-called traditional American family was always more
varied than we had been led to believe, reflecting the very different recial, ethinic, class, anh
religious customs among American groups.
The most recent goverment statistics reveal that only about one third of all current American
families fit the tradittional mold anh another third consists of married couples who either have no
children or have none still living at home. Of the final one, about 20 percent of the total number of
American househokds are single people, usually women over sixty- five years old. A small
percentage, about 3 percent of the total, consist of unmarried people who choose to live together, and
the rest, about 7 percent, are singlem usually divorced parents, with at least one child. Today, these
varied fmily types ae typical, and therefore, normal. Apparently, many Americans are achieving
supportive relationships in family forms other than the traditional one.
41. With that topic is the passage mainly concerned?
a.. The traditional American family. b. The nuclear family.
c, The current American family d. The ideal family.
42. The author implies that
a. there have always been a wider variety of family arrangements in the United States.
b. racial, ethnic, and religious groups have presented the traditional family stucture.