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LENGOCHAN LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL REVISION FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER-C

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QUESTION 1-2: Choose the word that has the stress pattern different from the others. 1. A. family B. practical C. conclusion D. uniform 2. A. addition B. musician C. occasion D. confidence

QUESTION 3-4: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others. 3. A. faded B. baggy C. pants D. added 4. A. peaceful B. meat C. wealth D. beaches

QUESTION 5-6: Odd one out 5. A. district B. county C. village D. station 6. A. telephone B. newsreels C. province D. radio

QUESTION 7-18: Choose the best answer 7. There are.............different ways to learn English well.

A. much B. many C. more D. any 8. He thinks that ………….on the Internet is a waste of time

A. chat B. chatter C. chatting D. to chat 9. His lecture was so.............that nobody wanted to hear.

A. boring B. bore C. boringly D. bored 10. Have you ........................gone skiing ?

A. ever B. for C. just D. already 11. Ben writes very quickly . He’s ...........................finished his essay.

A. already B. been C. for D. yet 12. Our friends ......................meet us at the airport tonight.

A. are B. are going to C. will be to D. go to 13. I was born in Scotland but I ..................in England.

A. grew up B. raised C. brought up D. rose 14. I was really impressed by the …………of people here.

A. hospitable B. peaceful C. friendliness D. friendship 15. Exams are never enjoyable,........................?

A. are there B. aren’t there C. are they D. aren’t they 16. This student is very…………………..There are many mistakes in his test.

A. care B. careless C. careful D. cared 17. He told me he …………………..leave the city the following day.

A. will have to B. has to C. have to D. would have to 18. She hopes she can talk to people……………………the world.

A. through B. on C. from all over D. over all

Question 19-32: Read the passage below, then pick out ONE best option (A, B, C, or D ) to answer each of the questions from 29 to 32:

A young man from Germany named Levi Strauss arrived in California in 1850. He went there to sell things to the miners. He saw that the miners needed strong pants, so he began to make them. He used cloth that people made tents from. He put rivets on the pockets to make them strong and lasted a long time. The pants became very popular immediately. Later, Mr.Strauss started making jeans from cotton cloth from Nimes, France. People called this cloth denim. Denim was popular in the fifteenth century. Christopher Columbus used denim for the

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sails of his ships. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants. The word “jeans” comes from the word “Genoa”. Mr. Strauss made the first jeans in the United States, but the idea and the kind of cloth came from Europe. The names came from France and Italy. Jeans were always blue until recently. People used indigo to dye them. Indigo is the oldest dye in the world. Most jeans have blue threads going across and white threads going up and down. These two colors make denim look different from other kinds of cloth.

19. The word “denim” comes from the name of a city in………………… A. France B. India C. Italy D. Germany 20. The word “jeans” is from the name of a city in……………….. A. France B. Italy C. the United States D. Germany 21. Levi Strauss went to California to………………… A.be a sailor B. look for gold C. make jeans D. sell things to miner 22. Rivets……………….. A. make good sails B. make tents strong C. come from Genoa D. make the pockets of jeans strong

Question 23-28:. Read the text and then fill in each blank with ONE suitable word:

IDEAS FOR LEARNING LANGUAGES We’d like to give you some ideas for learning languages. It is one of the most (23) ……………..things you can do with your free time. It’s hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun. These are some things you can do to help (24) ……………. your level in the languages you are studying.

- Do grammar (25) ……………... Grammar is very important. - Chat to lots of …