ĐỀ LUYỆN THI ( SỐ 3) I. NGỮ ÂM Exercise 1. Chọn từ mà phần in nghiêng đậm gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với các từ còn lại. 1. a. purple b. thirst c. journey d. there 2. a. chooses b. houses c. rises d. horses 3. a. boat b. road c. broad d. coast 4. a. massage b. carriage c. voyage d. dosage 5. a. hasty b. nasty c. tasty d. wastage 6. a. ginger b. ginseng c. gypsy d. girl 7. a. frog b. from c. Eros d. clog 8. a. senate b. series c. sensible d. separate 9. a. would b. look c. who d. foot 10. a. key b. mean c. quay d. great II. NGỮ PHÁP Exercise 1. Cho dạng đúng của động từ 1. Why hasn’t Mary come here? – I don’t know . She (1 – sleep)______ late. 2. He suggested that his problem (2 – be)______ solved at once. 3. I’d rather (3 – live)______ in ancient Greece 4. You are (4 – take)______ over my business while I go away. 5. We eat too much sugary food, (5 – result)______ tooth decay. 6. The boy was made ( 6 – work)______ like a horse by his stepmother. 7. Sometimes I can’t get my car (7 – start)_____ in the morning. 8. Now I remember (8 – work)______ with you in those days. 9. I broke a tooth when I (9 – bite)______ into a piece of hard candy. 10. I (10 – get)_____ off the train at Central Station and (11 – walk)_____ down the High Street to the Town Hall. At first, I (12 – think)_____ nothing (13 – change)_____ but then I (14 – notice)______ that the old shopping centre (15 – disappear)______ and a new department store (16 – take)______ its place. As I (17 – go)_____ past the Town Hall, I (18 – look)______ for the old clock which always (19 – be)_____ five minutes slow, but this too (20 – go)______ . I (21 – continue)______ my walk, trying to find the street where I (22 – grow)______ up. I soon (23 – get)_____ lost because everything (24 – change)______ . Blocks of high-rise flats (25 – replace)_____ the streets of old houses and the park (26 – vanish)______. I (27 – see)______ enough so I (28 – hurry)______ back to the station to catch the next train. I (29 – want)______ to keep my memories safe. Exercise 2. Điền giới từ thích họp vào ô trống dưới đây 1. She always gets _______ her work at 5 and came home at about 5.15 2. Don’t count ______ Frank to lend you any money because he has none. 3. Have you heard _______ Mary recently? 4. How long did it take you to figure _______ the cost of that machine? 5. I was just ______ to leave when you telephoned. 6. The police are looking _______ the past record of the suspect. 7. I have tried many times to give _______ smoking. 8. I promise to call ______ her at home at seven- thirty. 9. Try ______ this brown suit next 10. The teacher told him to shut _______ and not to say anything about it. Exercise 3. Viết lại câu bắt đầu bằng từ đã cho sao cho nghĩa câu không thay đổi 1. It’s my opinion that you should take more exercise. If I ____________________________________________________________. 2. Without his wife’s constant support lie would never have achieved his ambition. If he ___________________________________________________________. 3. Follow this instructions carefully and you won’t have any problems. As long as ______________________________________________________. 4. Tear has was released as soon as the thieves touched the safe. No sooner ______________________________________________________. 5. They had such a fierce dog that nobody would visit them. So ____________________________________________________________. 6. I was going to leave, but because of what she said, I didn’t She persuaded ___________________________________________________. 7. Six years ago we started writing to each other. We have ________________________________________________________. 8. She acted brilliantly in the school play. She gave ________________________________________________________. 9. They were married in the summer of 1999. Their wedding ___________________________________________________. 10. John is fat because he eats so many chips. If ______________________________________________________________. Exercise 4. Viết lại câu có sử dụng các từ in hoa ( không nhất thiết bắt đầu câu bằng từ đó) sao cho nghĩa câu không đổi. 1. He can speak French well enough to go to the conference. FLUENT______________________________________. 2. Sarah wore dark glasses so that no one would recognize her. AVOID ______________________________________. 3. I wonder if you could possibly open the door for me. MIND _______________________________________. 4. If only you had tried harder, you might have passed the exam. EFFORT _____________________________________. 5. She was dismissed because her typing was poor. LOST _______________________________________. III. TỪ VỰNG Exercise 1. Cho dạng đúng của các từ trong ngoặc 1. A list of (1 – come)______ events will be posted on the notice board. 2. There’s not much ( 2- private)______ in these flats because of the large windows and thin walls. 3. The noise ( 3 – less)______ as The plane go farther aways. 4. Governments should help to make rents ( 4 – afford)______ to students living on grants. 5. He still has great talent, but he has lost (5 – unfaithful)______ in himself. 6. He lost in the election because he was a weak and (6 – decide)______ leader. 7. Unfortunately, the film got (7 – favour)______ reviews. 8. My new car has ( 8 – remove)______ back seats. 9. The car in front braked ( 9 – expect)______ and I crashed into it. 10. The police car collided with a fire ( 10 – engineer)_______. Exercise 2. Chọn đáp án đúng 1. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, ______ help you with yours. a. leaving aside b. not accounting c. let alone d.apart from. 2. Heavy snowfalls have _______ all trains. a. cancelled b. postponed c. delayed d. omitted 3. He _______ her into buying his car. a. talked b. persuaded c. asked d. convinced 4. The telephone rang and interrupted my _______ of thought. a. chain b. series c. line d. train 5. The meat was beautifully cooked, I agree, but the vegetables were a bit too salty for my ______. a. appetite b. desire c. liking d. favour. 6. It was only _______ he told me his surname that I realised that we had been to the same school. a. then b. until c. as soon as d. when 7. He got an excellent grade in his examination____ the fact that he had not worked particularly hard. a. on account of b. because c. in spite of d. although 8. Her business must be going rather well, ________ by the car she drives. a. deducing b. deciding c. inferring d. judging 9. It turned out that we _______ rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed by several hours. a. hadn’t b. should have c. needn’t have d. mustn’t 10. I’m afraid this vase, is anything but antique- in fact , it’s _______ a. pointless b. worthless c. meaningless d. hopeless 11. _______ for the fact that he was working abroad, he would willingly have helped with the project. a. if it had been b. if it had not been c. had it been d. hadn’t it been 12. Whenever he had an important decision to make, he ________ a cigar, supposedly to calm his nerves! a. had lit b. would have lit c. would light d. would be lighting 13. Many children who get into trouble in their early teens go on to become _______ offenders. a. persistent b. insistent c. consistent d. resistant 14. He had repeatedly warned the children ________ playing too near the canal. a. of b. with c. about d. for 15. I remember ______ the letter a few days before going on holiday. a. to receive b. receiving c. received d. to have received 16. She had to pass all her exams or _______ she would have no holiday. a. instead b. else c. therefore d. though 17. _______ the time you reach the station, the train will have left. a. at b. on c. by d. in 18. People believe there is a ______ between the two crimes. a. join b. chain c. link d. connector 19. If you can’t find what you want in this chapter, look it up in the _______. a. reference b. index c. catalogue d. directory 20. You can _______ me the details. I don’t want to know about your argument with your boss. a. spare b. save c. deprive d. avoid IV. ĐỌC HIỂU Exercise 1. Bài đọc English villages change but little. Now and again a person dies and pretty frequently someone is born; but on the whole the tide of time creeps on very imperceptibly, and though in the course of nature the entire population is changed every 60 years or so, nobody realizes that it is changing. There is so little in such places by which to mark the change. The same church- tower makes a landmark to the eye as it did centuries ago to the eyes of our ancestors, and the same clouds sweep across the same blue space above it. There are the sameold houses, the same streams, and above all, the same roads and lanes. If you could put one of our Saxon forefathers down in the neighbourhood of most of your country- towns, he would have little difficuty in finding his way about. It is the men who change, not a place 1. The English villages change a. very quickly b. totally c. completely d. without the villagers’ noticing 2. The English villagers have no idea of time because a. time passes away peacefully b. nobody cares for what is going to happen c. people live among nature d. all are correct 3. The writer of the passage is a. an Englishman b. an American c. a villager d. a cityman 4. In the above passage, the writer describes a. a special village b. a modern town c. a typical English country-town d. an old city 5. The best title for the passage is a. English population b. English nature c. English villages d.The change of men. Exercise 2. Điền từ thích hợp vào ô trống The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signalling engineer. It was installed the Houses of Parliament in 1868. It (1)______ like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas . (2)______, it exploded and killed a policeman, and the accident discouraged rather development until cars became common. Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red- green systems were installed in Cleveland in 1914. Three colour signals, (3)______ by hand from a tower in the (4)______ of the street, were installed in New York in 1918. The first lights of this (5)______ to appear in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. Jame’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic (6)______ were installed (7)______ year later. In the past, traffic lights were (8)______ . In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did not just change silently, but would ring bells to (9)______ the sleeping motorist of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10)______ by standard models which are universally adopted. Exercise 3. Tìm và sửa lỗi sai ở những câu dưới đây. I still remember this dream very well, even though I had it since _________ four years ago. I was trying to persuade to my girl friend to get into _________ a small aeroplane with me. She didn’t want to, but finally she agreed _________ me. Started the engine, we took off. I wanted to impress on her so I _________ started doing some dives and other things. Then I noticed that the _________ weather had turned into bad. Suddenly the engine stopped. I wonder me _________ what was wrong “ What’s it happenning ?” my girlfriend asked me. _________ I tried to make her to believe that everything was all right. While that _________ I was trying to start the engine again, I realized that we had run out _________ of the fuel. Then I looked down and suddenly saw that we were very _________ much near a moutain. “ This is all your fault”, my girlfriend said. _________ Then we were crashed. _________ Exercise 4. Chọn đáp án đúng Iam going to the Mediterranean for my holidays next week. I (1)______ to stay with my grandfather in the country. He is (2)______ man and always (3)______ cheerful but I (4)_____ be with my friends, though I wouldn’t like (5)_______ by (6)______ so. I am going to Mallorca with Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth (7)______ there before. She is looking forward to (8)______ on the beach all day. Of course, the weather is (9)______ in England . They say it is very hot there at the moment, so I hope it is (10)______ fine when we arrive. 1. a. go usually b. usually go c. am usually going d. going usually 2. a. an old wondeful b. an old and wondefu l c. a wonderful old d. a wonderfully old 3. a. looks b. looks like c. looks to be d. looks that he is 4. a. would better b. would better to c. would rather d. would rather to 5. a. him upsetting b. upsetting him c. that he upset d. to upset him 6. a. saying b. telling c. saying to d. telling to 7. a. has been b. has gone c. had gone d. went 8. a. lay b. lie c. laying d. lying 9. a. better than b. better that c. more good than d. so good 10. a. already b. no longer c. still d. yet V. VIẾT Exercise 1. Dùng từ gợi ý, viết thành đoạn văn nói về nhà văn Langston Hughes. 1. Langston Hughes / greatest American writer / 20 th century. 2. He / bear / Missourri / move / Clevalang / age / 14. 3. He / return / the US / attend / Lincoln University / where / win / writer Bynner / Prize / undergraduate poetry. 4. After / graduate / 1928 / travel / Spain / with / help / a fellowship. 5. A man / talents / Hughes / also / lyricist / librettist / journalist. . ĐỀ LUYỆN THI ( SỐ 3) I. NGỮ ÂM Exercise 1. Chọn từ mà phần in nghiêng đậm gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với các từ còn lại. 1. a. purple b. thirst c. journey d. there. (2 )______ man and always (3 )______ cheerful but I (4 )_____ be with my friends, though I wouldn’t like (5 )_______ by (6 )______ so. I am going to Mallorca with Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth (7 )______. Hall, I (1 8 – look)______ for the old clock which always (1 9 – be)_____ five minutes slow, but this too (2 0 – go)______ . I (2 1 – continue)______ my walk, trying to find the street where I (2 2