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Yen Hoa High School ENGLISH 12
School year 2018 - 2019 REVISION FOR THE SECOND TERM EXAM
Part 1: The Matrix
TOPIC CONTENT Sentences
1 PHONOLOGY Word stress
Underlined parts
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2 ERROR
IDENTIFICATION
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3 VOCABULARY,
STRUCTURE &
GRAMMAR
Word formation, Collocations, Verb tenses,
Gerund and Infinitive
Participles, Passive voice, Subject – verb
agreement, Subjunctive, Modal verbs, Reported
speech, Conditional sentences, Relative clauses,
Articles, Prepositions, Phrasal verbs, Idioms ...
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4 CROSS – CULTURAL
SITUATIONS
Social responses, Questions and answers,
Requests and permission ...
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5 SYNONYM Closest in meaning 2
6 ANTONYM Opposite in meaning 2
7 WRITING The sentence that is closest in the meaning
The sentence that best combines each pair of
sentences
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8 READING Guided Cloze Text
Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1
- Passage 2
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TOTAL 50
Part 2. Content
UNIT TOPIC GRAMMAR POINTS
UNIT 6 ENDANGERED SPECIES - The future perfect
- Double comparatives
UNIT 7 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- The active and passive causatives
UNIT 8 THE WORLD OF WORK - Reported speech: reporting order, request, offers,
advice, instructions, …
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UNIT 9 CHOOSING A CAREER - Phrasal verbs
- Adverbial clauses of condition, comparison,
manner, and result
UNIT 10 LIFELONG LEARNING - Conditionals Type 3
- Mixed conditionals of Type 2 and Type 3
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined
part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
1. A. interfered B. accompanied C. implemented D. performed
2. A. repeats B. coughs C. avoids D. attacks
3. A. school B. blood C. choose D. bamboo
4. A. telephone B. interpreter C. perverted D. restaurant
5. A. measure B. decision C. permission D. pleasure
6. A. hand B. bank C. sand D. band
7. A. academic B. grade C. behave D. examination
8. A. introduces B. leaves C. practices D. wishes
9. A. concentrate B. confine C. convention D. conceal
10. A. great B. wheat C. break D. brake
11. A. struggle B. support C. suffer D. destruction
12. A. measles B. meant C. leader D. teacher
13. A. needed B. afforded C. advanced D. invented
14. A. agency B. attainment C. aquatic D. awareness
15. A. while B. white C. which D. who
16. A. cheap B. children C. chemist D. church
17. A. continents B. purchase C. forecast D. closed
18. A. breathe B. Southern C. teeth D. clothes
19. A. brush B. rush C. push D. crush
20. A. cooks B. loves C. joins D. spends
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
1. A. extinction B. animal C. classify D. primary
2. A. entertainment B. information C. difficulty D. understanding
3. A. agency B. temporary C. initiate D. conference
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4. A. committee B. emergency C. catastrophe D. colony
5. A. university B. information C. optimistic
D. compulsory
6. A. primary
B. October
C. general
D. separate
7. A. preservative B. congratulate C. preferential D. development
8. A. president B. physicist C. inventor D. property
9. A. economy B. unemployment C. fidelity D. particular
10. A. annual B. announce C. formal D. sculpture
11. A. maximum B. windowpane C. enjoyment D. organize
12. A. confide B. maintain C. require D. decent
13. A. preventive B. counterpart C. argument D. terrorist
14. A. tremendous B. causality C. communicate D. digital
15. A. geologically B. obsolete C. picturesque D. refugee
16. A. advertise B. practice C. advise D. promise
17. A. commuter B. compliance C. competent D. computer
18. A. participant B. accidental C. parentheses D. industrial
19. A. competence B. compliment C. comfortable D. companion
20. A. perversity B. character C. distinguish D. reflective
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of
the following questions.
1. We have to apply effective measures to save many plant and animal species ……. extinction.
A. from B. out of C. off D. away
2. The world's biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, which makes wildlife …….
A. prosperous B. perfect C. vulnerable D. remained
3. I caught ……. of a lion lying under the tree, and my heart jumped.
A. view B. sight C. look D. scene
4. Even though he was bored ……. doing the same thing every day, he was nervous …….
making a change.
A. about/ at B. with/ for C. in/ about D. with/ about
5. Last night, ……. nothing to watch on TV, we went out.
A. there being B. there having C having had D. being
6. I remember ……. him. It was a five-dollar note.
A. paid B. to pay C. paying D. to have paid
7. They ……. the bridge by the time you come back.
A. will finish B. will have finished C. will be finished D. have finished
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8. The passage ……. that the first settlers were Spanish.
A. refers B. instills C. implies D. infers
9. Show me the house …….
A. where they are living in B. which they are living
C. where they are living there D. where they are living
10. I suggest the room ……. before Christmas.
A. being decorated B. be decorated
C. needs decorating C. needs being decorated
11. ……. when I the phone rang.
A. Scarcely I came into the room B. No sooner had I come into the room
C. Not until I came into the room D. Hardly had I come into the room
12. Some people feel that television should give less ……. to sport.
A. programmers B. coverage C. concern D. involvement
13. Boys! ……. away all your toys and go to bed right now.
A. Come B. Lie C. Put D. Sit
14. In conferences, speakers ……. the audience mainly in English.
A. say B. speak C. talk D. address
15. I was woken by a bell …….
A. ringing B. being ringing C. rang D. to be ringing
16. Can you give me the ……. for tomato soup?
A. formula B. recipe C. order D. method
17. Candles ……. from beeswax burn with a very clean fame.
A. are made B. making C. which make D. made
18. The closer we are to our trip to Boston, the ……. my students become.
A. more exciting B. more excited
C. more and more exciting D. more and more excited
19. I met ……. that I decided to book the room right away.
A. such nice a receptionist B. so nice a receptionist
C. a nice receptionist D. a receptionist so nice
20. The Red Cross is aimed ……. providing medical aid and other help to victims of natural
disasters.
A. in B. at C. to D. for
21. Your picture is ……. to the picture in my bedroom.
A. the same B. identical C. familiar D. resembling
22. Kate, ……. I studied with in the secondary school, is now a famous surgeon.
A. that B. the girl C. Ø D. whom
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23. They gave me their address ……. send them a brochure.
A. so as that I B. so that I could C. in order to D. with a view to
24. Africa has always had a large migratory population because of war and ……. famine.
A. a B. an C. the D. Ø
25. The customer had tried ……. some blouses, but none of them suited her.
A. with B. out C. in D. on
26. She's a fast typist, but she usually makes quite a lot of spelling …….
A. wrongs B. mistakes C. faults D. tricks
27. I'm very tired now. ……. over two hundred miles today.
A. I've been driving B. I drive C. I'm driving D. I've driven
28. The student ……. the highest score will be awarded a scholarship.
A. who receive B. receiving C. received D. receives
29. As we walked past, we saw John ……. his car.
A. repairing B. to be repairing C. repair D. being repairing
30. The government made serious attempts to raise the ……. of living.
A. standard B. cost C. level D. mode
31. That popular magazine has many …….
A. denominations B. prescriptions C. subscribers D. spectators
32. By 1890, there were over 60 steamboats on the Mississippi River, ……. were quite luxurious.
A. many of them B. many of which C. which many D. many of those
33. What a heavy fog we have! I'm sure our flight will surely behind …….
A. schedule B. plan C. time D. shipment
34. He ……. in this office for 10 years by next Monday.
A. will be working B. will work
C. will have been working D. is going to work
35. The authority ……. down that building to build a supermarket.
A. knocked B. came C. went D. fell
36. We were shocked to hear the news of your …….
A. having fired B. being fired C. having been fired D. to have been fired
37. You cannot ski on those tracks any longer, for most of the snow has …….
A. broken B. dissolved C. melted D. vaporized
38. She passed the exam with excellent results and was ……. a scholarship.
A. rewarded B. presented C. gained D. granted
39. The building ……. walls are made of glass is the place where I used to work.
A. whose B. which C. by which D. of which
40. A part-time job gives me the freedom to ……. my own interests.