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ĐỀ CƯƠNG ANH VĂN KHỐI 12 NĂM HỌC 2007 – 2008
I/. PRONUNCIATION AND WORD STRESS:
A. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others in each
group:
1. A. remove B. open C. closed D. home
2. A. great B. treat C. heat D. east
3. A. gorilla B. wild C. risky D. will
4. A. wise B. fine C. surprised D. wilderness
5. A. instead B. release C. season D. feature
6. A. wear B. near C. hear D. ear
7. A. box B. taxi C. example D. mixture
8. A. chat B. action C. character D. place
9. A. moving B. motion C. old D. spoken
10. A. industry B. size C. cinema D. ship
11. A. habit B. life C. worldwide D. title
12. A. champion B. school C. beach D. match
13. A. held B. letter C. hero D. set
14. A. certain B. club C. score D. cup
15. A. season B. team C. defeat D. area
16. A. thin B. theater C. they D. thing
17. A. thank B. brother C. then D. there
18. A. speak B. east C. leading D. theater
19. A. city B. control C. cover D. could
20. A. south B. thousand C. bought D. grounds
21. A. imagine B. mind C. excited D. nice
22. A. lung B. put C. but D. cut
23. A. what B. who C. why D.where
24. A. some B. home C. done D. one
25. A. minute B. umbrella C. cut D. but
26. A. business B. bustle C. hundred D. number

55. A. holiday B. out C. ground D. now
56. A. wanted B. needed C. visited D. cooked
57. A. tolerated B. needed C. collected D. looked
58. A. sheer B. shop C. sugar D. sense
59. A. wear B. way C. where D. whole
60. A. thin B. three C. month D. this
61. A. buy B. bomb C. bring D. cab
62. A. shake B. sugar C. sure D. soap
63. A. careful B. are C. aware D. fare
64. A. atmosphere B. where C. there D. therefore
65.A. any B. matter C. land D. man
B. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others:
1. A. interesting B. surprising C. amusing D. successful
2. A. understand B. engineer C. benefit D. Vietnamese
3. A. applicant B. uniform C. yesterday D. employment
4. A. enjoy B. daughter C. provide D. decide
5. A. begin B. pastime C. finish D. summer
6. A. comfortable B. employment C. important D. surprising
7. A. variety B. irrational C. industrial D. characterize
8. A. attraction B. government C. borrowing D. visitor
9. A. passion B. aspect C. medium D. success
10. A. complain B. machine C. music D. instead
11. A. doctor B. modern C. corner D. chinese
12. A. capital B. tradition C. different D. opera
13. A. become B. carry C. appoint D. invent
14. A. professor B. digestion C. mechanic D. engineer
15. A. engine B. battle C. career D. rabies
16. A. evolution B. development C. discovery D. philosopher
17. A. attract B. destroy C. level D. occur
18. A. another B. energy C. centigrade D. gravity

A. watch B. watching C. to watch D. watched
3. She used ………………………………as a typist.
A. to working B. work C. working D. to work
4. John drives very ……………………………… ; he has never had any accidents.
A. carelessly B. careless C. carefully D. badly.
5. ………………………………stamps is my hobby.
A. collecting B. collect C. collected D. collection.
6. My father is a ……………………………… . He works in a garage.
A. farmer B. teacher C. doctor D. mechanic
7. Sara speaks so ……………………………… that I can’t understand her.
A. fast B. fastly C. fastest D. faster
8. This book is ……………………………… , so I don’t want to read it.
A. boringly B. bored C. boring D. interesting
9. I remember ………………………………you about this before.
A. tell B. to tell C. telling D. told
10. He let the letter ……………………………… on to the floor.
A. fall B. falls C. falling D.fell
11. There are small ……………………………… between British and American English.
A. differences B. different C. difference D. differently.
12. Some species of rare animals are in ……………………………… of extinction.
A. danger B. dangerous C. dangerously D. endanger
13. We are ……………………………… of the long journey.
A. tire B. tiring C. tired D. to tire
14. Hai speaks English more and more ………………………………
A. fluently B. fluent C. influent D. fluency
15. Who is the ……………………………… boy in your class?
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A. tallest B. taller C. tall as D. talling
16. Who is the ……………………………… pupil in your class ? and the ………………… one ?

30. A race for hores is called ………………………………
A. a running-race B. a racing-horse C. a race-horse D. a horse-race
31. A brush with which we brush our teeth is called ………………………………
A. a brush-teeth B. a teeth-brush C. a brush-tooth D. a tooth-brush
32. A pool in which you may swim is called ………………………………
A. a swimming-pool B. a pool-swimming C. a swim-pool D. a pool-swim
33. A table used for writing is called ………………………………
A. a table-writing B. a writing-table C. a writting-table D. a written-table
34. A lamp which burns oil is called ………………………………
A. an oiling-lamp B. an oiled-lamp C. an oil-lamp D. a burning-lamp
35. This man gets ……………………………… benefit because he has no job now.
A. employ B. employment C. unemployment D. employer
36. She is out of work . She has been ……………………………… for two months .
A. unemployed B. employed C. employment D. employee
37. English pronunciation causes me a lot of ………………………………
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A. difficult B. difficulty C. differ D. difficulties
38. There are fifty ……………………………… for this job, but they only receice fifteen people.
A. applications B. applicants C. apply D. appliance
39. He is the …………………… man in our village. His father died at the ………………of 130.
A. eldest / old B. oldest / age C. older / age D. old / ages
40. Septemper 2
nd
is the ……………………………… Day of Vietnam.
A. depend B. dependent C. indepence D. dependence
41. There weren’t any ……………………………… in the company for secretaries .
A. situations B. vacancies C. spacies D. locations
42. She was filling in the ……………………………… form.
A. application B. applicant C. apply D. appliance

A. govern B. governer C. government D. governmental
58. Faraday did not have much ………………………… when he was young .
A. school B. scholars C. studying D. schooling
59. James Watt, whose …… of the steam engine is famous throughout the world, is a scottish ……..
A. invention / inventor B. inventor / invention
C. invent / inventing D. inventions /writer
60. Isaac Newton was a great ……… . His ………. inventions was famous throughout the world.
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A. science / scientist B. scientist / scientific
C. scientists / scientific D. scientific / science
61. He made much progress in ………………………… .He was a good ………………………… .
A. electricity/electrician B. electric / electrify
C. electron /electrical D. electricity / electrification
62. Engel was a German ……………………… . He studied philosophy .
A. philosopher B. philosophic C. philosophize D. philosophy
63. The keys were locked inside the car . ……………………… , a side of a window was open.
A. luck B. lucky C. lucklessly D. luckily
64. She ……………………… 80 kilos now and she want to loose ……………………… .
A. weighes / weight B. weight / weigh C. weight-lifting / weight D. A & B
65. His theory of gravitation is very ……………………… .
A. well-known B. welcome C. famous D. A & C
66. A man who studies language is called ……………………… .
A. a writer B. a linguist C. a linguistic D. a scholar
67. What is your ………………………sports ?
A. interesting B. favourite C. liking D. exciting
68. It is ……………………… to drive without a driving lisence .
A. dangerous B.danger C. dangerously D. in danger
69. Have you ……………………… any plans for this summer holiday?
A. found B. done C. worked D. made

84. Our body can get energy from food thanks to the process of ………………………
A. digestion B. digestive C. digest D. digestively
85. A newspaper which is published everyday is called a ………………………
A. weekly newspaper B. daily newspaper C. monthly newspaper D. yearly newspaper
86. Under the sun heat , water on earth ………………………
A. melts B. evaporates C. rises D. floats
87. ……………………… energy is the energy that we get from the sun .
A. wind B. tidal C. hydro D. solar
88. Physical ……………………… and overeating can cause overweight .
A. activity B. inactivity C. exercise D. movement
89. Cancer is a ……………………… disease .
A. deadly B. killing C. dead D. A &B
90. If you didn’t ……………………… rid of smoking , your health would be affected .
A. go B. get C. make D. take
91. In recent years we have ……………………… good advances in finding a cure for pneumonia .
A. got B. done C. brought D. made
92. Heart disease, cancer, and pneumonia ……………………… more deaths than other diseases .
A. cause B. causes C. kill D. bring
93. Smoking is ……………………… to our health .
A. good B. harmful C. a great harm D. B & C
94. Bacteria are tiny ………………………
A. animals B. birds C. fish D. organisms
95. Bacteria help ……………………… the bodies of dead plants and animals .
A. destroy B. damage C. demolish D. decay
96. People living in our area didn’t realise the ……………………… of a good environment.
A. importance B. important C. importances D. impatience
97. The system of living things that exist together is the ………………………
A. econo-system B. eco-system C. echo-system D. living-system
98. A doctor who studies and treats mental illnesses is called a ………………………
A. physicist B. doctor C. psychiatrist D. surgeon

113. The manager…………….. three employees because they had demanded a pay increase .
A. sacked B. dismissed C. fired D. All are correct
114. At last, the workers came to a ……………..that it was necessary for them to go on a strike to demand
higher salary.
A. determination B. close C. examination D. selection
115. How much is this sewing ………………………
A. machine B. machiner C. machinist D. machinery
116. I can’t stand ……………………… on underground when it is busy.
A. travel B. travelling C. to travel D. to travelling
117. She hates ……………………… housework at weekends.
A. doing B. do C. to be doing D. being done
118. I had a headache, and the doctor asked me ……………………… some aspirin.
A. took B. to taken C. take D. to take
119. She is keen on ……………………… with a doll.
A. plays B. to play C. player D. playing
120. Every day I spend two hours ……………………… English .
A. practise B. to practise C. practising D. practised
121. I don’t mind ……………………… if you are tired .
A. driving B. to be driven C. to drive D. drive
122. I don’t remember ……………………… the front door when I left home.
A. to lock B. lock C. locked D. locking
123. Children enjoy ……………………… to ghost stories on Halloween night.
A. telling and listening B.tell and listen
C. to tell and listen D. to tell and to listen
124. Have you finished ……………………… the table ?
A. set B. setting C. to set D. to be set
125. Mr Smith decided ……………………… a new TV.
A. to buy B. buying C. bought D. to be bought
126. I can’t help ……………………… him in spite of his faults.
A. admire B. admired C. to admire D. admiring

141. I was reading my books, but I stopped ……………………… a programme on TV.
A. reading to watch B. to read to watch C. to read for watching D. reading watching
142. I want her ……………………… a special effort today.
A. make B. should make C. to make D. making
143. Let’s ………………………to the station right now or we will be late .
A. go B. goes C. will go D.leaving
144.You must try to make ……………………… their teeth .
A. these children to clean B. these children clean
C. these children cleaning D. these children cleaned
145. ……………………… is extremely difficult .
A. At very high speeds driving cars B. Cars at very high speeds driving
C. Driving cars at very high speeds D. Cars driving at very high speeds
146. My mother is busy ……………………… her house work.
A. at B. with C. on D. in
147. I borrowed the umbrella ……………………… a friend of mine .
A. to B. of C. from D. with
148. ……………………… the rain , we enjoyed our holiday .
A. Although B. In spite of C. Despite D. B & C
149. Is Jim satisfied ……………………… his new motorcycle ?
A. with B. to C. at D. in
150. The students are very worried ……………………… the results of the exam .
A. to B. for C. about D. with
151. Tom was proud ……………………… his good marks on the English exam .
A. to B. for C. of D. with
152. My daughter depends ……………………… me .
A.in B. off C. into D. on
153. He spends a lot of money ……………………… cigarettes .
A. in B. on C. into D. about
154. Do you get tired ……………………… watching TV every night ?
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168. She has become very famous ……………………… her novels .
A. from B. at C. for D. in
169. He was absent ……………………… the class yesterday .
A. about B. from C. in D. at
170. They were present ……………………… the meeting last month .
A. for B. from C. on D. at
171. Your opinions are diffirent ……………………… mine .
A. from B. for C. about D.at
172. Are you accustomed ……………………… the heat here ?
A.to B. with C. of D. in
173. The beach is crowded ……………………… tourists in summer .
A. in B. for C. on D. with
174. They are amused ……………………… the funny story .
A. about B. at C. of D. with
175. All of us are surprised ………………………their adventure .
A. at B. of C. about D. in
176. To love and to be loved ……………………… the happiest thing in life .
A. are B. is C. was D. were
177. You ……………………… coffee for breakfast every morning .
A.didn’t have B. do have C. do you have D. have
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