English test – The second semester grade: 11 - Code: 116

NGUYEN TRAI HIGH SCHOOL	ENGLISH TEST – THE SECOND SEMESTER
Name	Grade: 11
Class:	Time allowed: 45 minutes	CODE: 116
I/ Read the following passage and then choose the best answer 
My hobby is reading. I started when I was a small child. I loved the story my father told me every night before I slept and kept in my mind until now. As soon as I could I learned to read. I read picture books and funny stories. Now I read everything I find interesting and useful.
Reading enables me to know so many things. From the books I learn how people live, how things around us go on, learn about the wonders of the world, space travel, human achievements and many other things. Books provide readers with facts and information. The wonderful thing about reading is that it teaches me how to live and behave well, how to avoid the danger in life. Books will be good friends forever.
1: It can be inferred from the passage that the author
 A. only loves the stories his father told him
 B. loves reading books very much
 C. loves reading about the world’s wonders rather than space travel
 D. loves reading picture books and funny stories 
 2: The author learned to read.
 A. when he went to sleep	 B. when he was told about the world
 C. right after his father told him stories	 D. as soon as he could
 3: When he started reading, he
 A. read for facts and information	B. read picture book and funny stories
 C. read everything he finds interesting and useful	D. read about human achievement
 4: Which of the following is true?
 A. Books help him enter the world.
 B. Thanks to books, he knows more about space.
 C. Reading books helps him a lot in his studies.
 D. By reading books, he knows how to live and behave well.
 5: He considers books as
 A. a friend	 B. an idol	 C. a company	 D. a facilitator of learning
II/ Choose the word with different pronunciation of the underlined part 
 6: 	 A. planned	 B. allowed	 C. published	 D. played
 7: 	 A. summer	 B. rugby	 C. public	 D. music
 8: 	 A. four	 B. mouse	 C. ground	 D. house
III/ Choose one word whose stress pattern is different.
 9: 	A. national	B. engineer	C. cosmonaut	D. telegram
 10: 	A. body	B. hero	C. centre	D. occur
IV/ Circle the letter of the one underlined word or phrase that is not correct.
 11: 
Tell me about the city which you grew up
 A B C	 D
12: 
It was Linda and Tom that I often go to the cinema with.
 A B	 C D
 13: 
Neither she nor I has been to England
 A B C D
14: 
It was them that killed the manager
 A B C D
 15: 
The man who name is Hung gave you this letter.
 A B C D
V/ Read the following passage and then choose the best answer.
The first man (16) ______the theories of space flights was a Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovski. He was born in September 185, (17) ______exactly one hundred years before the launching of the first artificial satellite of the world.
The people who made Konstantin Tsiolkovski’s dream come (18) ______and scored the first great result in putting his theories into practice were Russian scientists. It was (19) ______who were the first to succeed in using a liquid fuelled rocket with several stages to send (20) ______man – made satellite into outer space in 1957.
16: 	 A. supplied	 B. supplies	 C. to supply	 D. supplying
17: 	 A. most of	 B. almost	 C. most	 D. mostly
18: 	 A. truly	 B. truthful	 C. true	 D. truth
19: 	 A. their	 B. them	 C. theirs	 D. they
20: 	 A. some	 B. the	 C. a	 D. an
VI/ Choose the sentence which means the same or nearly the same as the given one.
21: The fence surrounds the villa. The fence is painted green
 A. The fence surrounded the villa is painted green.
 B. The fence surrounds the villa is painted green
 C. The fence surrounding the villa is painted green.
 D. The fence surrounds the villa which is painted green.
22: He spends all his free time fishing.
 A. He has no time for fishing.	B. He likes eating fish.
 C. He is busy fishing all time.	D. He goes fishing whenever he has free time.
23: Mr. Green is my teacher and he is my great friend, too.
 A. Mr. Green is either my teacher or my great friend.
 B. Mr. Green is not only my teacher but also my great friend.
 C. Mr. Green is my teacher and so is he.
 D. Mr. Green is neither my teacher nor my great friend.
24: I want the car. It made in Japan
 A. The car I wanted made in Japan.	B. The car is made in Japan which I want.
 C. I want the car making in Japan	D. I want the car made in Japan
25: He is keen on collecting stamps
 A. It is stamps that he is interested in collecting.	B. Collecting stamps is that he keen on.
 C. He is interesting in collecting stamps.	D. It is collecting stamps that he is fed up with
VI/ Vocabulary and structure: choose the best answer.
26: Either he or I ..wrong.
 A. am	 B. are	 C. Is	 D. be
27: Armstrong became the first person to set.on the moon.
 A. leg	 B. feet	 C. foot	 D. legs
28: Yuri Gagarin was the first..to fly into space 
 A. spaceman	 B. spacecraft	 C. spacesuit	 D. spaceship
29: He is .a teacher nor a doctor
 A. neither	 B. not only	 C. either	 D. both
30: The job..is very dangerous.
 A. which he applied for it 	 B. he applied for it
 C. for it he applied	 D. he applied for
31: People are destroying the air by adding.to it.
 A. pollution	 B. polluted	 C. polluters	 D. pollutants
32: Both I and my brother ..classical music.
 A. liking	 B. like	 C. to like	 D. likes
33: Either I or my motherto prepare for our meals
 A. having	 B. to have	 C. have	 D. has
34: The panda’s .habitat is the bamboo forest
 A. naturalized	 B. naturally	 C. nature	 D. natural
35: Our house needs.
 A. to repaint	 B. repainting	 C. be repainted	 D. repaint
36: These are seriously ill patients you have to look carefully
 A. at	 B. for	 C. up	 D. after
37: I .all my free time doing karate. I joined a club three years ago.
 A. take	 B. waste	 C. spend	 D. use
38: I sent ato my mother saying I had arrived safely.
 A. telescope	 B. telegram	 C. telegraph	 D. telephone
39: It ..Lan who always helps him in his trouble.
 A. be	 B. was	 C. were	 D. is
40: Do you know the girl a long white dress?
 A. wearing	 B. wears	 C. wore	 D. wear
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