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ENGLISH TEST N. 1 A
Time : 45 minutes
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I. Listen and fill in the blanks : ( 1 pt )
Kiatisak is my pen pal . He is ____________(1) years old . He _______ (2) in a town house
with his family in Bangkok , Thailand . Yesterday I ___________ (3) his letter . In the letter
he said “ I usually have boiled rice for breakfast , and chicken with fried rice or a bowl of
noodles for lunch . In the evening , I eat the food my mother cooks .Her food is the best in
the whole world ” . Last week I wrote a letter to him . I introduced ________(4) and sent him
a photograph of my family .
II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentence or do the task as directed : ( 3 pts)
1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others .
A. mountain
B. enough
C. young
D. country
2. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others .
A. humor
B. curly
C. receive
D. orphan
3. Choose the incorrect part indicated by A, B,C or D in the following sentence .
She doesn ‘t go to the cinema with us last Sunday .
A
B

B. washed
C. am going to wash
D. wash
10. I’d like to _______ a call to London , please .
A. make
B. have
C. give
D.do
11. My sister has ____________ hair .
A. long lovely black B. black long lovely C. lovely long black D. long black lovely
12. What ________ he like ?_He’s helpful and generous .
A. does
B. did
C. is
D. was


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III. Write the correct form of words or verbs ( 2 pts ):
1. We always ________ ( go ) over our lessons before the tests .
2. Where is Mary ? _ She ___________ ( read ) a book in the living room .
3. He is worried about the __________ ( safe ) of his family .
4. Each year , fires _______ ( destruction ) homes because someone plays with matches .
IV. Reading : Read the passage and answer the questions ( 2 pts )
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh on March 3 , 1847 . He was a Scotsman
although he later emigrated , first to Canada and then to the USA in the 1870s.
In America , he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University . Soon , Bell started
experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance. This led to the
invention of the telephone .