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Mac Dinh Chi High school
Full name: …………………… The second semester test 1
Class:11A… ( Time allowance: 45’)
I. Language Focus(2.5p): Circle the best answer.
1. Elvis Presley, …….died in 1977, earned millions of dollars.
A. who. B. whom. C. that . D. x(
nothing).
2. Mr and Mrs Simpson neither came………sent a message.
A. or. B. neither. C. nor. D. either.
3. You have never believed in the story your grandmother told us the other day,………?
A. do you. B. did you. C. have you. D. haven’t
you.
4. Yuri Gagarin became the first person to eat and drink in……..
A. weigh. B. weight. C. weightless. D. weightlessness.
5. It was last year………I last visited her.
A. who. B. which. C. since. D. that.
6. The thieves escaped but the police………..arrest them later that evening.
A. could. B. can. C. were able to. D. should.
* Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:
7. A. matched. B. watched. C. reached. D. managed.
8. A. decrease. B. peace. C. release. D. great.
9. A. pressure. B. challenge. C. congress. D. venture.
10. A. attention. B. prevention. C. recreation. D. question.
II. LISTENING(2.5p) Listen and choose the best option
1. Valentina’s father was killed in…………
A. 1959 B. 1939 C. 1839 D. 1858
2. Valentina started school when……………………..
A .she was ten B. she was twelve C. she was twenty D. she was
five
3. Valentina later moved to live with ……..
A. her grandfather B. her grandmother C. her mother D. her parents
4. She became a cosmonaut ……….when she volunteered for the Soviet space program.
A. in 1961. B. in 1951. C. in 1916. D. in 1861.
5. She married to another Soviet……….and had a daughter.
A. teacher. B. cosmonaut. C. worker. D. scientist.
iii. reading:(2.5p)Read the passage and decide whether each of thestatements is true
( T) or false (F).
There is now increasing concern about the world’s energy resources, particularly about
those involving fossil fuels. In less than a hundred years we shall probably exhaust all the
present sources of oil and gas. The world’s coal reserves should last longer but, once used,
these cannot be renewed. It is important, therefore, that we should develop such alternative
sources of energy as solar energy and nuclear energy as well as water and wind power (

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classed as renewable energy). Until these energy supplies are widely used, is it important
for the developed countries to reduce energy consumption as much as possible.
1. T / F…..Fossil fuels, one of the world’s energy resources, are particularly concerned
about.
2. T / F…..Coal is a source of renewable energy.
3. T / F…..Alternative sources of energy such as solar energy, nuclear energy, and
water and wind power should be developed.
4. T / F……Water and power is classed as non- renewable energy.
5. T/ F…….Oil and gas supplies will only last in less than a hundred years
III WRITING (2.5p): From the information given below, write the biography of Isaac
Newton, a great scientist, who found out the law of gravity
1642: December 25,born in Lincolshire, England.
1656 : Be brought home from school to run the farm
1660 : Go to Cambridge university
1665 : Take a B.A degree
1665-1667: School closed because of Great Plague / Go on with his studies at home./Laid
the foundations for his famous discoveries in mathematics and physics.
1667 : Go back to Cambridge and become a professor
1727 : March 20, die ,be buried in Wesminster Abbey
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Mac Dinh Chi High school
Full name: …………………… The second semester test 2
Class:11A… ( Time allowance: 45’)
Language Focus: Circle the best answer.
1. What’s the name of the man………gave us a lift?
A. whom. B. who. C. he. D. whose.
2. We can………..go to the cinema,…………..stay at home.
A. either- nor. B. neither- or. C. either- or. D. either-
either.
3. Tomorrow is your birthday,……….?
A. isn’t there. B. won’t it. C. isn’t it. D. is it.
4. British people are interested in such sporting activities as…………..
A. walking and swimming. B. to walk and swim.
C. to walk and to swim. D. walk and swim.
5. It is Mary who………harder than anybody else inthis company.
A. work. B. worked. C. works. D. working.
6. When I was a kid, I………..swim at all. I only learnt when I was twenty.
A. could. B. was able to C. couldn’t. D. must.
* Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:
7. A. children. B. sign. C. kind. D. line.
8. A. biography. B. astronaut. C. capture. D. aspiration.
9. A. managed. B. watched. C. matched. D. reached.
10. A. venture. B. challenge C. pressure. D. congress.
II. LISTENING(2.5p) Listen and choose the best option
1. Valentina’s father was killed in…………
A. 1959 B. 1939 C. 1839 D. 1858
2. Valentina started school when……………………..
A .she was ten B. she was twelve C. she was twenty D. she was
five
3. Valentina later moved to live with ……..
A. her grandfather B. her grandmother C. her mother D. her parents
4. She became a cosmonaut ……….when she volunteered for the Soviet space program.
A. in 1961. B. in 1951. C. in 1916. D. in 1861.
5. She married to another Soviet………and had a daughter.
A. teacher. B. cosmonaut. C. worker. D. scientist.
iii. reading: Read the passage and decide whether each of thestatements is true ( T) or
false (F)
There is now increasing concern about the world’s energy resources, particularly about
those involving fossil fuels. In less than a hundred years we shall probably exhaust all the
present sources of oil and gas. The world’s coal reserves should last longer but, once used,
these cannot be renewed. It is important, therefore, that we should develop such alternative
sources of energy as solar energy and nuclear energy as well as water and wind power (

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classed as renewable energy). Until these energy supplies are widely used, is it important
for the developed countries to reduce energy consumption as much as possible.
1. T / F….The world’s energy resources, are concerned about.
2. T / F…..Coal is a source of non-renewable energy.
3. T / F…..Alternative sources of energy such as solar energy, nuclear energy, and
water and wind power should be developed.
4. T / F……Water and power is classed as renewable energy.
5. T / F…..Oil and gas supplies will only last in less than a hundred years.
III WRITING (2.5p): From the information given below, write the biography of Isaac
Newton, a great scientist, who found out the law of gravity
1642: born in Lincolshire, England.
1656 :Leave school and help his mother/ the farm.
1660 : Enter University of Cambridge and become famous.
1664 : begin /study the theory of gravitation
1665-1667: School closed because of Great Plague / Go on with his studies at home./Laid
the foundations for his famous discoveries in mathematics and physics.
1667 : Go back to Cambridge and become a professor
1727 : March 20, die ,age 85
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