ôn tập ngữ pháp cho kỳ thi thptqg – p17 (practice test 11)

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THPTQG – P17 (PRACTICE TEST 11)
Time allotted: 90 min
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose stress pattern is different from
the others’ in each line.
Question 1: A. migration
B. observation
C. ridiculous
D. respectful
Question 2: A. enterprise
B. prevention
C. fertilize
D. implement
Question 3: A. hazardous
B. prosperous
C. dangerous
D. courageous
Question 4: A. private
B. belong
C. indeed
D. emit
Question 5: A. property
B. nitrogen
C. surgery
D. furthermore
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 6: Although he was ____, he agreed to play tennis with me.
A. exhaustion
B. exhausted
C. exhausting
D. exhaustive
Question 7: Vietnam becomes ____ to foreign tourists.
A. more and more attractive
B. most and most attractive
C. the more attractive
D. much and more attractive
Question 8: I was in this house ____.
A. where I was born
B. in which I was born
C. that I was born
D. I was born
Question 9: There is ____ in my bed room.
A. an old square wooden table
B. a square wooden old table
C. an old square wooden table
D. a wooden old square table
Question 10: ____ popular opinion, many Welsh people do not speak Welsh.
A. Contrary to
B. Despite
C. Opposite
D. Against
Question 11: In 1837 the University of Michigan became the first state university ____ by a board of regents
elected by the voters of the state.
A. under the control
B. to be controlled
C. it was controlled
D. being controlled
Question 12: Jim was furious! The vase that he’d paid $200 for at the auction turned out to be ____.
A. priceless
B. invaluable
C. worthless
D. costly
Question 13: He is doing very badly but he tries to ____ appearances.
A. stick to
B. hold on
C. make out
D. keep up
Question 14: It’s high time ____ hard.
A. to study
B. studying
C. study
D. to studying
Question 15: A: I’m awfully sorry I can’t go with you.
B: ____? Haven’t you agreed?
A. Why don’t you
B. How is it
C. What is it
D. Why do you think
Question 16: The guests at the restaurant enjoyed it very much but refused to eat raw fish.
A. uncooked
B. rotten
C. fresh
D. marinated
Question 17: ____ his advice, I would never have got a job.
A. As for
B. Apart from
C. Except
D. But for
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Question 18: ____ children like ice-cream. That’s quite natural.
A. The most
B. Most of
C. Most
D. The most of
Question 19: I can’t understand why you have to make such a ____ about something so unimportant.
A. mess
B. fuss
C. stir
D. bother
Question 20: ____ has the behaved like that before.
A. Never
B. Only by
C. For
D. When
Question 21: - “I’d rather you ____ home now.”
A. came
B. come
C. will come
D. would come
Question 22: Do you know any ____ solution to the problem?
A. altered
B. alternatively
C. alter
D. alternative
Question 23: She ____ on her computer for more than two hours when she decided to stop for a rest.
A. was working
B. had been working
C. has been working
D. has worked
Question 24: “Has Mary arrived yet?” – “No. She ____ an hour ago.”
A. had better come
B. must come
C. should have come
D. must have come
Question 25: In Mathematics, a variable is a symbol ____ some element of a set.
A. represents
B. and representing
C. represents that
D. that represents
Question 26: ____ she was under the weather, I wouldn’t have asked her to join us.
A. If had I known
B. If I knew
C. If I hadn’t known
D. Had I known
Question 27: Peter has got very ____ feelings about taking on more responsibility at the moment.
A. mixed
B. jumbled
C. puzzled
D. muddled
Question 28: You should close your ____ eye while I’m having a check up on the eyesight of one eye.
A. others
B. another
C. other
D. the other
Question 29: - “How fast can she run?” – “____.”
A. Well, he does
B. He can
C. Yes, that’s for sure
D. Very. I think so
Question 30: A country which wants to develop its tourist trade must ____ its efforts by advertising abroad.
A. back up
B. pull up
C. hold up
D. push up
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines the pair of sentences in each of the
following questions.
Question 31: The man wanted to get some fresh air in the room. He opened the window.
A. The man opened the window in order to get some fresh air in the room.
B. Having opened the window, the room could get some fresh air.
C. The man wanted to get some fresh air in the room because he opened the window.
D. The man got some fresh air in the room, even though he opened the window.
Question 32: The agreement ended six-month negotiation. It was signed yesterday.
A. The agreement which ends six-month negotiation was signed yesterday.
B. The agreement which was signed yesterday ended six-month negotiation.
C. The agreement which was signed yesterday lasted six months.
D. The negotiation which lasted six months was signed yesterday.
Question 33: There was a terrible flood. The villagers, who had received a warning of the impending flood,
escaped to safety.
A. All of the villagers had been warned but only some escaped.
B. All of the villagers had been warned and all escaped.
C. Only some of the villagers had been warned and only some escaped.
D. Only some of the villagers had been warned and all escaped.
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Question 34: I’m sorry I wasn’t in the office when you phoned. I know I promised to be.
A. I should be in the office when you phoned.
B. I should have been in the office when you phoned.
C. I must have been in the office when you phoned.
D. I might be in the office when you phoned.
Question 35: The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.
A. The student next to me kept chewing gum, that bothered me a lot.
B. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothering me a lot.
C. The student next to me kept chewing gum, which bothered me a lot.
D. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothered me a lot.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following
questions.
Question 46: Tom is finally used to cook on an electric stove after having a gas one for so Long.
A
B
C
D
Question 47: Not everyone realizes that the most largest of the human body is the skin.
A
B
C
D
Question 48: The mining of minerals often bring about the destruction of landscapes and wildlife habitats.
A
B
C
D
Question 49: The root of the trees allows the water to go into the soil, that gradually releases it to flow down
A
B
C
D
rivers.
Question 50: Applicants are required to take the National Entrance Examination before admitted to higher
A
B
C
education institutions.
D
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each
of the numbered blanks.
Music is clearly different from language. People can, nevertheless, use it to (61)____ things especially
their emotion and when allied with speech in a song, it is one of the most powerful (62)____ of communication
that humans have. But what, biologically speaking, is it? If music is truly (63)____ from speech, then it ought
to have a distinct processing (64)____ the brain – one that keeps it separate from the interpretation of other
sounds, including language. The evidence suggests that such a (65)____ mechanism does indeed, exist.
Scientific curiosity the (66)____ systems dates back to the mid-19th century. In 1861 Paul Broca, a French
surgeon, observed that speech was (67)____ due to damage to a particular part of the brain, now (68)____ as
Broca’s area and was similarly immortalized. The location of different language (69)____ tasks in Broca’s areas
(found in the brain’s left temporal lobe, above the ear) was one of the first pieces (70)____ that different bits of
the brain are specialized to do different jobs.
(By Jack C. Richards and Samuela Eckstut, Strategic Reading Student’s Book – CUP)
Question 61: A. communicate B. give
C. transmit
D. hold
Question 62: A. means
B. mode
C. way
D. method
Question 63: A. outstanding
B. clear
C. conspicuous
D. distinct
Question 64: A. organ
B. machine
C. mechanism
D. part
Question 65: A. separate
B. outside
C. exclusive
D. private
Question 66: A. ear
B. auditory
C. attentive
D. listening
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Question 67: A. to impair
Question 68: A. known
Question 69: A. having
Question 70: A. approval
B. impairing
B. named
B. working
B. favour
C. impaired
C. considered
C. qualifying
C. evidence
D. impair
D. regarded
D. processing
D. support
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in
each of the following questions.
Question 71: His career advancement was slow and he did not gain any promotion until he was 40, when he
won the position of the company’s Chief Executive.
A. progress
B. elevation
C. rise
D. decrease
Question 72: Using Facebook, you can post update sayings about your life every day.
A. locate
B. displace
C. establish
D. put up
Question 73: Increasing indoor air pollution is urging developing countries to use cleaner fuels and increase
access to more modern cooking and heating appliances.
A. forcing
B. rejecting
C. encouraging
D. asking
Question 74: Because China rises, people can anticipate that more and more people will speak the Chinese
language.
A. doubt
B. assume
C. predict
D. expect
Question 75: After the funeral of her husband, when all her friends and relatives had left, she experienced a
feeling of complete isolation in the large and quiet house.
A. loneliness
B. remoteness
C. affection
D. privacy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence in
each of the following questions.
Question 76: Their chances of success are small.
A. They will definitely be successful.
B. It’s not very likely that they will succeed.
C. It’s very likely that they will success.
D. They won’t have any chance of being successful.
Question 77: The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately.
A. The book is demanded to be reprinted immediately.
B. They will reprint the book immediately.
C. So great was the demand that they had to reprint the book immediately.
D. They demand that the book will be printed immediately.
Question 78: She would eat nothing but small pieces of bread and butter.
A. She wouldn’t touch the bread and butter, but she ate other things.
B. She didn’t eat anything not even the bread and butter.
C. She ate small pieces of bread and butter but didn’t like them.
D. She ate only some small pieces of bread and butter.
Question 79: The film didn’t come up to my expectations.
A. The film fell short of my expectations.
B. The film was as good as expected.
C. I expected the film to end more abruptly.
D. I expected the film to be longer.
Question 80: In the class of twenty, Jack is the third best student.
A. Jack is not as smart as most of the other students.
B. Two students in the class are smarter than Jack.
C. The class has only three smart students.
D. No other students in the class is as smart as Jack.
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ĐÁP ÁN:
1. B
11. B
21. A
31. A
41. B
51. D
61. A
71. D
2. B
12. C
22. D
32. B
42. D
52. A
62. A
72. B
3. D
13. D
23. B
33. B
43. A
53. C
63. D
73. B
4. A
14. A
24. C
34. B
44. C
54. D
64. C
74. A
5. D
15. B
25. D
35. C
45. B
55. A
65. A
75. C
6. B
16. A
26. D
36. B
46. A
56.B
66. B
76. B
7. A
17. D
27. A
37. D
47. B
57. C
67. C
77. C
8. C
18. C
28. C
38. A
48. B
58. C
68. A
78. D
9. C
19. B
29. D
39. C
49. B
59. A
69. D
79. A
10. A
20. A
30. D
40. D
50. D
60. B
70. C
80. B