Anh 12. Bài kiểm tra 1 tiết, HK 2

ENGLISH 12 YEAR 2008- 2009

ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST

(Time allowed: 45 minutes)

Full name: ……………………………………. Test date: …………………..

PHONETICS (1 POINT)

Questions 1-4. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

1. A. opponent B. post C. foul D. goal

2. A. ball B. crossbar C. shark D. garden

3. A. personally B. swallow C. terrorist D. sure

4. A. awarded B. scored C. ejected D. digested

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (3 POINTS)

Questions 5-12. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

5. Yesterday they _______________ (penalize) for showing up late for class.

6. John was the last man _______________ (reach) the top of the mountain.

7. If I _______________ (realize) that Greg wanted to get up early, I would have woken him up.

8. When I came to see her yesterday, she _______________ (read) a magazine.

9. When my father was young, he used ______________ (get) up early to do the gardening.

10. The television should _______________ (repair). It’s not working now.

11. What _______________ (you often/ do) in the evening?

12. If the company offers me the job, I think I _______________ (take) it.

Questions 13-16. Complete the following sentences with the right form of the words in brackets. Write

your answers in the spaces provided.

13. Water polo is played in a pool that is 1.8 metres in _______________. DEEP

14. Books in the home are a wonderful source of _______________ and pleasure. KNOW

15. Television brings you all the _______________ and stories with colour,

picture and action. INFORM

16. Gases from factories are extremely _______________. HARM

READING (1.25 POINT)

Questions 17-21. Read and circle the correct answer to best complete the following passage.

It is difficult to know how many elephants once lived in the continent, but there (17) _______ at least 3-5

million elephants in Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. People have always hunted elephants for

meat, hides and ivory. As the human population grew and weapons became more advanced, elephants were

under greater (18) _______. In the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a huge decline in the number of

elephants (19) _______ the increase in poaching. It is estimated that there are now about 500,000 elephants

and they are living in a small number of countries. A ban (20) _______ on all international trade in ivory in

1989, and many governments started to give poachers severe punishments. Thanks to such timely actions,

some elephant populations, especially those in southern Africa, have recovered over the last decade. (21)

_______, numerous threats remain for Africa’s elephants.

17. A. may be B. might be C. may have been D. must be

18. A. threat B. threaten C. threatened D. threatening

19. A. because B. in view C. since D. due to

20. A. has been given B. give C. was given D. gave

21. A. But B. However C. Therefore D. So

WRITING (2.25 POINTS)

Questions 22-25. In these sentences, each one has an error. Circle and correct it.

22. President Ho Chi Minh is famous for a great leader. _____________________________

23. That must be Jenny’s father, isn’t it? _____________________________

24. It’s surprised to hear the competition results. _____________________________