AN EXTENSIVE COURSE
GRADE 12 ADVANCED – 21-9-2008
A. GRAMMAR
I. Give correct form of the verbs in brackets. (Viết dạng thích cho động từ trong ngoặc.)
1. I couldn't understand the problem until the teacher (explain) it again.
2. Jo must have believed fares (go) up or he (not buy) a season ticket.
3. Any photograph from outer space immediately (prove) that the earth is round.
4. Everyone's future depends on the whole world (concern) about the ozone layer.
5. Suppose you (not know) where your next meal was coming from?
6. We'd better (start) early. We don't want to risk (get) caught in a traffic jam.
II. Supply the missing prepositions in these sentences.
1. She tongue-lashed him..........a virtuosity that threw
her classes..........ecstasy.
2. Who will compensate me..........my loss?
3. We heard that Bill wasn't.......... arrest but was helping the police .......... their enquiries. The police are
interested in a bank robbery which took place .......... Bill's last holiday.
4........... a suit like that and .......... a moustache, you'll look at least ten years older.
III. Sometimes an unnecessary word has been added. Sometimes a necessary word has been omitted. Delete
the unnecessary words or supply the necessary ones. Some lines need no change at all. The first is done for
you as an example. (Bài văn sau có một số từ thêm vào không cần thiết, và có khi một từ cần thiết bị bỏ đi. Hãy
xóa từ không cần thiết và thêm từ cần đến. Một số dòng không có lỗi. Dòng đầu tiên làm mẫu.)
Decision - thinking is not poker - it often not only what 1....
you think, but also what others think you think..........Interestingly poker, 2....
that most subjective of games, has often been of considerable interest 3....
to people who they are, by any standards, good thinkers. 4....
The great mathematician John von Neumann, among his many other 5....
accomplishments, one of the originators of games theory. Particular, 6....
he showed that all games fall into one of two classes: there are 7....
what he was called "games of perfect information", games like chess 8....
which are meant to involve no any element of concealment, bluff or 9....
luck - games where the players can, in principle, discover the best 10...

lỗi in ấn. Tìm từ lỗi đó và thay bằng từ khác.)
Example: Gardens dug, widows washed, and chimneys swept, in Swansea area.
Answer: widows  windows
1. He told police officers that he had met a man with a ginger bear in the pub who had offered him £.100.
2. We should all take care of our wildlife as, with the treat of a nuclear war hanging over us, we should be
happy while we can and try to protect all birds.
3. With escalating fuel bills it is essential that your home is properly insulted.
4. Forecast: some bright intervals with shattered showers.
5. Have your Christmas dinner with us in our intimate restaurant with log fires burning and good wood being
served.
6. Unlike most cats, Mrs. P. explained, hers-owing to an eye injury-could hardly pee at all in the dark.
7. Enjoy our large airy rooms for small families. Home-type food, diets catered for Scandinavian pastries,
home-made pies, country fresh eggs. Hospital is the aim here.
8. She lectures on nutrition and health. But they say she is inconsistent and will eat five deserts in a sitting.
III. Choose the word which is closest in meaning to the first three words in each line.
(Chọn từ sát nghĩa nhất với BA từ đâu tiên của mỗi dòng.)
Example: LOVE, LIKE, ENJOY hope, hate, adore, raise
Answer: adore
B o Thoa ả 2
1. KILL, SLAY, ASSASSINATE load, slaughter, die, lead, off
2. REGION, AREA, ZONE district, neighbour, suburb, border
3. DECEIVE, FOOL, CHEAT swindle, lose, lyre, drop
4. EAGER, KEEN, ENTHUSIASTIC careful, interesting, strong, zealous
5. DEPARTURE, WITHDRAWAL, RETREAT arrival, entry, exodus, loss
6. WHOLE, TOTAL, SUM amount, number, entirety, figure
7. WEAK, FEEBLE, POWERLESS stark, slow, impotent, able
8. DISLIKE, HATE, LOATHE vomit, scour, abhor, stand
C. WRITING
I. Make all the changes and additions necessary to produce sentences that together make a complete letter.
(Thay đổi hoặc bổ sung cần thiết để viết các câu sau thành một bức thư hoàn chỉnh.)

9. Urban 10. to breed crime 11. commuter 12. Congestion
II.
1. bear  beard 2. treat threat 3. insulted  insulated
4. shattered  scattered 5. wood  food 6. pee  see
7. hospital  hospitality 8. deserts  desserts
III.
1. slaughter 2. district 3. swindle 4. zealous
5. exodus 6. Entirety 7. Impotent 8. abhor
C.

1. I am the headmaster of International English where you studied from 1960 - 67
2. We have just finished building a/ the new swimming pool.
3. I am writing to ask you if you would/ could perform the official opening.
4. This is on Friday October 10th at three o'clock in the afternoon.
5. I do not know if you will be in Ho Chi Minh City on that date or whether you will have time.
6. I realize you are an extremely busy man and / but I would be most grateful if you were able to attend.
B o Thoa ả 4