THE FIRST MID-SEMESTER TEST - Mã đề: 482 pps

NAME: ........................................... THE FIRST MID-SEMESTER TEST

CLASS: 12/ ......... Time: 45 minutes

Mã đề: 482

I. READING (1.25pt) Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer.

"Where is the university?" is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear

answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom

buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students

and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges.

Cambridge was an already developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago.

It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew

much faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and

now it has the population of over 100,000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge . Thousands of people

from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.

1. The university began to appear around in the ________________ century.

A. 15th B. 13th C. 8th D. 9th

2. The town really began to develop after _____________.

A. 875 B. 1951 C. 1845 D. 800

3. Most visitors come to Cambridge ________________.

A. to see the university B. to find the classroom buildings

C. to study in the colleges in Cambridge D. to use the libraries of the universities

4. People named Cambridge the "city of Cambridge " because _______________.

A. the river was very well-known B. it was a developing town

C. there is a river named Granta D. there is a bridge over the Cam

5. From what we read we know that now Cambridge is _______________.

A. a city without wall B. visited by international tourists

C. a city of growing population D. a city that may have a wall around it

II. PHONETICS: (1.5pt)

* Which word has the different stress from the rest?

6. A. university B. application C. secondary D. mathematics

7. A. September B. physical C. carefully D. general

8. A. discuss B. polite C. walking D. keenness

* Which word has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest?

9. A. student B. tutor C. curriculum D. education

10. A. primary B. divide C. service D. science

11. A. amazing B. campus C. state D. vacancy

I. WRITING (2pts)

* Find an error in each sentence that needs correcting.

12. Computers are using in many fields such as business, medicine and education.

A B C D

13. If he works more slowly, he wouldn't make so many mistakes.

A B C D

14. My close friend, that has just got Sacombank's scholarship, is an excellent student.

A B C D

15. I don't know the reason which he refused such a good job.

A B C D

* Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.

16. This is the bank. We borrowed the money from it.