TIẾNG ANH 12: ÔN THI HỌC KỲ 2

1. Pick out the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently
from the rest.
a. . count
b. should
c. round
d. ground
2. I ___________ to get up early when I lived in London.
a. didn't use
b. wasn't used
c. used not
d. a and c
3. The book is _____________ interesting ___________ informative.
a. no word / and
b. not only / but also
c. both / and
d. all are correct
4. The _____________ acted promptly and the operation was successful.
a. physicist
b. chemist
c. surgeon
d. worker
5. Don't be _____________ Everything will be OK.
a. overanxious
b. overeating
c. over weight
d. overnight
6. Mary is used to asking her mother to ___________ her son when she is on
business.
a. make allowance for

open it.
a. at / at
b. on / at
c. up / in
d. at / on
13. Up to now, we ____________ the pollution problems yet.
a. haven?t solved
b. are not solving
c. hadn?t solved
d. will not have solved
14. He pulled the telephone to pieces. He __________.
a. broke the telephone up into parts.
b. dropped the telephone.
c. threw the telephone away.
d. put the telephone aside.
15. Everybody admires their _____________.
a. friend
b. friendly
c. friendships
d. friendless
16. I haven't seen him _________ 1990.
a. for
b. since
c. in
d. from
17. Pick out the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently
from the rest.
a. . adult
b. sun
c. summer

a. freezes
b. vaporises
c. melts
d. disappears
24. The teacher was explaining the lesson slowly and clearly __________.
a. . to make his students to understand it.
b. in order that his students can understand it.
c. so as to that his students could understand it.
d. so that his students could understand it.
25. Automobile's exhaust system gave off foul smelling fumes.
a. erected
b. blew
c. emitted
d. emote
26. The environmental ___________ is doing harm on us.
a. destroy
b. destructible
c. destruction
d. destructive
27. Some workers are so poor that they don?t want to quit their job
__________ they are ill-treated.
a. as though
b. although
c. since
d. if
28. I can't speak Chinese, ________.
a. So can't Peter.
b. Peter can't, too
c. Either can't Peter
d. Neither can Peter

c. Draining
d. Guardkeeping
35. "I'm always nervous when I travel by plane." means __________
a. Although I travel by plane I am always nervous.
b. Flying always makes me nervous.
c. Flying always makes me to be nervous.
d. Being nervous I travel by plane.
36. Shaking hands is a _____________ greeting.
a. formal
b. conventional
c. extraordinary
d. unusual
37. We were confused __________ the cross word puzzles.
a. on
b. with
c. of
d. for
38. Thank you for the __________ gift.
a. unexpect
b. unexpected
c. unexpectedly
d. unexpectedness
39. At last I had to force him away. I couldn't tolerate him.
a. put aside
b. put up with
c. keep up with
d. be fed up with
40. The situation is ___________ e can't do anything to improve it.
a. useless
b. childless

a. visit
b. to visit