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I. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose bold and underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest. 1. A. looked B. watched C. stopped D. carried 2. A. bath B. father C. theater D. health 3. A. danger B. angry C. language D. passage 4. A. whole B. when C. where D. while 5. A. improvement B. equipment C. comment D. development II. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following questions 6. She went to market without ____________ anything.

A. buy B. to buy C. bought D. Buying 7. ____________ she plays the piano! A. How well B. How good C. What well D. What good 8. The new shopping mall is quite ____________ the present shopping area. A. different from B. the same C. like to D. similar 9. There were _________________ flowers that I couldn’t dicide what to buy.

A. so many B. so few C. so little D. so much 10. Of my parents, my father is _________________

A. the stricter B. the strictest C. strict D. stricter 11. Would you _________________ cleaning the floor for me?

A. like B. please C. mind D. rather 12. I’ve never seen such an interesting _______________ A. performing B. performer C. performance D. performed 13. I’m sorry. I’m not ___________ to help you lift the table.

A. enough strong B. too strong C. strong enough D. enough strength. 14. I usually go to work by bus, but ________ and then I use my motorbike

A. again B. once C. now D. ever 15. There are not _____________ jobs for all of us.

A. so B. such C. too D. enough III. Complete the following questions with the correct preposition. 16. She isn’t here ________________ the moment. 17. Warm clothes protect us ________________ bad weather. 18. What do you often do ________________ weekends. 19. We haven’t seen him _____________ last month. 20. He had an accident and was taken __________ hospital. 21. We regarded him ____________ a famous doctor. 22. You’re better ask __________ the information desk. 23. He borrowed $ 100 ______________ his father 24. “ Hamlet” is ____________ Shakespeare. 25. Jane fell _________ her bike and hit head on the road IV. Fill the blanks with the right form of the CAPITAL words provided in the right column. 26. Their children have quite _____________ characters. DIFFERENCE 27. What is the correct ______________of this word? PRONOUNCE 28. Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more _________ COMFORT

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29. She is one of the greatest ______________ to appear in this theater. PERFORM 30. My house is on the top of a hill. It’s very __________ there in the fall WIND 31. It is _______________ to eat too much sugar and fatty food. HEALTH 32. During his _____________ the family lived in Cornwall CHILD 33. Bell ______________ demonstrated his invention. SUCCESS 34. Every day, there are two _________ from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. FLY 35. ______________, dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. SUDDEN V. Give the correct form of the verb in brackets. 36. Will you wait a minute while I (look) ____________ through the text ? 37. I hear you’ve bought a new house. -Yes, I ( move ) __________ in next week. 38. Look at those black clouds. It ( rain) __________ 39. The film ( begin) ___________ at 7.30 or 8.00 this evening ? 40. Mai (telephone)____________ you when she comes back. 41. The pens ( produce ) ___________ by Thien Long Company are usually cheap and good. 42. “Do you mind if I sit here ?” – “ I ‘d rather you ( sit ) __________ over there” 43. The price ( become ) __________ more and more expensive these days. 44. Mr Binh ( know) ______ how to drive a car although he ( not learn) ________ it yet. VI. Complete the following passage by choosing the best option, A, B, C or D.

For many people, traveling by plane is an exciting experience. Others, however, find the whole idea quite terrifying, (45) _____ flying is no more dangerous (46) __________ any other form of travel and some experts say it is considerably safer. It is known, however, that most accident occurs (47) …