Revision Test 20
Exercise 1. Cho dạng đúng của động từ trong ngoặc.
When John got home, he ( 1 – find )__________ that someone ( 2 – break )________
the lock on his front door. He rushed into the house just as a young man ( 3 – climb
)_________ out of the living room window. He ( 4 – try )__________ to catch him but (
5 – not be )_________ quick enough. Luckily, the robber ( 6 – not take )__________
anything. He ( 7 – try )_________ ( 8 – disconnect )____________ the VCR when John
interrupted him. He called the police and then , while he ( 9 – make )__________ himself
a cup of coffee, he told his wife what ( 10 – happen )______________.
Exercise 2. Chọn đáp án đúng
1. The _________ of the island is approximately 5000
A. population B. generation C. habitation D. content
2. She ___________ into the room so quietly that nobody heard her.
A. ran B. crept C. crawled D. jogged
3. They were hoping to sell fish and chips in Italy but the idea didn’t ____________
A. like B. carry on C. play D. catch on
4. He __________ me by the neck and demanded all my money.
A. pointed B. touched C. carried D. grabbed
5. The younger _________ is more interested in fashion than we were.
A. people B. group C. population D.
generation
6. I don’t think we have very much ____________ , we are very different people.
A. together B. in common C. the same D. similar
7. There is more __________ of global problems then there was when I was young
A. awareness B. information C. knowledge D. influence
8. The baby couldn’t walk yet, but it slowly ___________ towards the door
A. crawled B. crept C. went D. made
9. They ran off with thousands of pounds yesterday after __________ the
supermarket.
A. catching up B. carrying on C. catching on D. holding up
10. They were walking too fast and I found it difficult to _____________
A. catch up B. catch on C. hold on D. hold up
Exercise 3. Cho dạng đúng của từ trong ngoặc
1. An ( 1 – OFFICE ) ________ annoucement about it is expected tomorrow.
2. These shoes may be ( 2 – PRICE )__________ but they are very good quality
3. Our company is one of world’s largest footwear ( 3 – MANUFACTURE )______
4. The committee ( 4 – PRESENT ) __________ all the workers.
5. The factory’s ( 5 – PRODUCT )___________ has increased by 5% in the last year
6. She has a really strong ( 6 – PERSON )____________
7. Sports ( 7 – SPONSOR )____________ can bring in more money than advertising
8. ( 8 – ACCOMMODATE)___________ is arranged in hotels or private apartments
9. Cupid was the ( 9 – WING )__________ God of Love in ancient Roman.
10. It’s difficult for small companies to survive in a ( 10 – COMPETE )_________
market .
Exercise 4. Viết lại câu sao cho nghĩa câu không đổi
1. Mary insisted on being told the complete story.
Nothing but ___________________________
2. People suggested abolishing income tax
It ___________________________________
3. The room seemed to have been unoccupied for weeks.
It looked _____________________________
4. I didn’t see her again for five years
Five years ____________________________
5. People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to
The smoking __________________________
Exercise 5. Thay thế những cụm từ gạch chân dưới đây bằng
động giới từ thích hợp
1. Many things are so badly made nowadays that they often break into pieces after
only a few weeks. Come __________
2. He was caught shop – lifting but since this was his first offence he was allowed to
go free with a warning . Let ___________
3. I didn’t really want to play football on Sartuday , but since there was no one else
to take my place I couldn’t really escape from doing it. Get ___________
4. Could you help me wrap this parcel, please Tom? Do ___________
5. I don’t know how she tolerates him. She must have the patience of a saint
Puts ___________
Exercise 6. Điền từ thích hợp vào ô trống
A person’s choice of occupation is probably the most ( 1 _____________). One that
ever has to be ( 2 __________ ) . Many people today decide ( 3 ___________ ) their
careers when they are very young, when they have little or no ( 4 ____________ ) of the
work. As things are today , it’s a once in a life time ( 5 ___________ ) . And it’s just bad
luck if , after five or ( 6 __________ ) years , you find you don’t like your ( 7
___________ ). Future generations may handle the matter differently. The choice may be
postponed until a person has had a ( 8 __________ ) to know a number of ( 9
___________ ) occupations. He then will be justified in advertising himself and who
knows ? Continuing to work ( 10 ____________ ) he is a hundred.
Exercise 7. Hoàn thành câu bằng một từ hoặc cụm từ thích hợp.
1. It’s _____________ that’s used as an official language in 44 countries
2. Put on your sweater: _____________ you will get cold
3. Animals like the great apes , the whales, seals, etc. are thought to be in
____________ extinction.
4. ____________ is a paper which is published everyday
5. The phone is not working: it is out ______________.
6. _________ are very small living things that can only be seen with a microscope.
7. A person who ____________________________ is a botanist.
8. If we could find out ___________ to cure AIDS, we would save a lot of people.
Revision Test 25
Exercise 1. Cho dạng đúng của động từ trong ngoặc.
On October 30.1938, perhaps the most famous broadcast in the entire history of radio ( 1 – take place)
_______ . ( 2 – Hear )________ all over the United States, the broadcast ( 3 – report )_______ that a
spacecraft from Mars ( 4 – land )________ in a small town in New Jersey. It was said that the Martians ( 5 –
attack )________ the surrounding area with a “ death ray”. Radio reporters also ( 6 – claim )_________ that
three huge war machines ( 7 – emerge )________ from the spacecraft. After much destruction, it ( 8 – report
)________ that the Martians ( 9 – die )_________. Specialists ( 10 – suggest )________ that the Martians ( 11
– have )_________ no resistance to Earth’s infectious disease.
Of course, this story ( 12 – be )________ just a radio play, ( 13 – write )_______ and ( 14– produce
)_________ by a famous actor – Orson Welles, but many people ( 15 – believe )_______ it. It ( 16 – report
)________ that there ( 17 – be )________ widespread panic throughout the country, especially in New Jersey.
It ( 18 – suggest )________ that Welles’s broadcast ( 19 – offer )______ many lessons about how the mass
media ( 20 – affect )__________ people.
Exercise 2. Chọn đáp án đúng.
1. I ___________ him as the greatest novelist.
a. look in b. look out c. look on d. look through
2. She is _________ after working for three years without a break.
a. run down b. run out of c. run through d. run over
3. He keeps hearing strange footsteps in the house, so he has hired a private detective to __________ the
matter.
a. look up b. look through c. look into d. look back
4. He’s had the best doctors available but he won’t __________ unless he has the will to live.
a. pull down b. pull through c. pull off d. pull up
5. Peter is leaving. Why don’t you ___________ his job.
a. put by b. put forward c. put in d. put in for
6. He lost his reputation and all his money but he had good friends and they _______ him
a. stood for b. stood by c. stood up for d. stood out
7. A man who has always led an open air life would find it difficult to be _________ in an office job.
a. settled down b. settled up c. settled on d. settled out
8. Whenever you’re in Paris, do __________ my sister.
a. look on b. look out for c. look up d. look ahead
9. Students of English often __________ the words “ lie” and “ lay”
a. mix up b. mix up with c. mix in d. mix together
10. The father was thoroughly dishonest and the son ________ him. He has already been in the courts for
stealing.
a. take back b. take for c. take after d. take to
Exercise 3. Cho dạng đúng của động từ trong ngoặc.
How weather forecasts are done.
Forecasting the likelihood of different types of weather coming in the near future can only be done with an
understanding of what is happening ( 1- current )________ . To acquire this, regular and accurate ( 2 –
measure )__________ are needed., taken in different places to expose patterns of weather change. Weather ( 3
– special )_________ have placed instruments all over the world, for the ( 4 – receive )_________ and ( 5 –
transmit )________ of ( 6 – precision )_________ data to a weather stations. Many of these sites are staffed
by meteorologists. However, in some sparsely ( 7 – population )__________ or completely ( 8 – inhabitant
)________ areas of the world, readings are often sent back by automatic equipment. For the ( 9 – collect
)_________ of data, various instruments are used which can measure air – pressure, wind – speed,
temperature and rainfall, and observations are made at least every day, in some cases ( 10 – hour )_______
Exercise 4. Viết lại câu sao cho nghĩa câu không đổi.
1. Gunman kills 3 people in a bank robbery.
A man ___________________________
2. His appearance was completely unexpected.
His appearance was beyond ___________
3. It was quite unnecessary for you to carry all those parcels home yourself.
You _______________________________
4. Further progress was impossible because of the floods.
The floods _________________________
5. It’s nobody’s fault that the meeting was cancelled.
Nobody ___________________________
Exercise 5. Thay thế những cụm từ dưới đây bằng động giới từ thích hợp
1. If it becomes fine soon, we’ll be able to have our picnic as planned. Clears
_______
2. You’d better not eat that food : it’s gone bad Gone ________
3. Each of the runners was given a number , but they decided to omit number 13 in case anyone was
superstious. Leave _______
4. When do British schools close for the holidays ? Break _______
5. Dinosaurs became extinct million years ago . Died ________
6. Since it was his first offence, he was allowed to go free. Let _________
Exercise 6. Điền từ thích hợp vào ô trống
Many people believe that watching television has resulted in lower reading standards in school. ( 1
_________ ) , the link between television and printed books is not as simple as that. In many ( 2 ________ )
television actually encourages people to read : for example, when a book is turned into a television series, ( 3
________ ) sales often go up.
One study of this link examined six – year – old children who ( 4 ________ ) viewing a special series of
15 minute programmes at school. The series was designed to encourage love of books as ( 5 _______ ) as to
develop the machanical skills for reading. Each progamme is an animated film of a children’s book. The story
is read aloud ( 6 ________) certain key phrases from the book appear on screen , beneath the pictures.
Whenever a word is read, it is also highlighted on the television screen.
One finding was ( 7 ________ ) watching these programmes was very important to the children ( 8
_________ ) anything prevented them from seeing a ( 9 _________ ) they were very disappointed. What’s
more, they wanted to read the books ( 10 __________ ) the different parts of the series were based on
Exercise 7. Điền mạo từ thích hợp vào ô trống dưới đây.( Không có thì bỏ
trống)
1. Tom can’t go to _________ movies tonight because he has to write ______ essay.
2. Dvid attended _________ Princeton University.
3. Harry has been admitted to _________ School of Medicine at __________ mid western University.
4. Mel’s grandmother is in _____ hospital , so we went to visit her ______last night.
5. _____ political science class is taking ____ trip to _____ France in _____ spring.
Exercise 8. Thay thế những từ in nghiêng đậm gạch chân dưới đây bằng một từ
đơn thích hợp
1. The man who controls a tennis match told Conners to start serving ( U________)
2. He was sorry for the way he had behaved ( R ___________ )
3. Many people told beforehand that John F. Kennedy would be assassinated.( F_________)
4. The people who were sitting in the church listened attentively to the vicar’s sermon ( C ____)
5. He had great strength of body to fight tiresness and could run for hours without stopping ( S
___________ )
6. The student said he was sorry for his bad behaviour. ( A ____________ )
7. As a child I always wanted to be a person who performs operations at a hospital. ( S _______)
8. Which room for patients at the hospital is your mother in ? ( W ________ )