English test – The second semester grade: 11 - Code: 117

NGUYEN TRAI HIGH SCHOOL	ENGLISH TEST – THE SECOND SEMESTER
Name	Grade: 11
Class:	Time allowed: 45 minutes	CODE: 117
I/ Choose the word with different pronunciation of the underlined part
1: 	 A. allowed	 B. published	 C. played	 D. planned
2: 	 A. ground	 B. house	 C. four	 D. mouse
3: 	 A. public	 B. summer	 C. rugby	 D. music
II/Read the following passage and then choose the best answer.
The first man (4) ______the theories of space flights was a Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovski. He was born in September 1857, (5) ______exactly one hundred years before the launching of the first artificial satellite of the world.
The people who made Konstantin Tsiolkovski’s dream come (6) ______and scored the first great result in putting his theories into practice were Russian scientists. It was (7)______who were the first to succeed in using a liquid fuelled rocket with several stages to send(8)______man – made satellite into outer space in 1957.
4: 	 A. supplying	 	 B. to supply	 C. supplies	 	D. supplied
5: 	 A. most	 B. almost	 C. most of	 D. mostly
6: 	 A. true	 B. truth	 C. truthful	 D. truly
7: 	 A. they	 B. their	 C. them	 D. theirs
8: 	 A. the	 B. an	 C. a	 D. some
III/ Choose one word whose stress pattern is different.
9: 	A. hero	B. occur	C. centre	D. body
10: 	A. telegram	B. engineer	C. national	D. cosmonaut
IV/ Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question
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.
11: It can be inferred from the passage that the author
 A. only loves the stories his father told him
 B. loves reading picture books and funny stories 
 C. loves reading books very much
 D. loves reading about the world’s wonders rather than space travel
12: The author learned to read.
 A. when he was told about the world	B. when he went to sleep
 C. right after his father told him stories	D. as soon as he could
13: When he started reading, he
 A. read picture book and funny stories 	B. read for facts and information
 C. read everything he finds interesting and useful 	D. read about human achievement
14: Which of the following is true?
 A. Books help him enter the world.
 B. Reading books helps him a lot in his studies.
 C. By reading books, he knows how to live and behave well.
 D. Thanks to books, he knows more about space.
15: He considers books as
 A. a company	 B. a facilitator of learning C. an idol	 	 D. a friend
V/ Choose the sentence which means the same or nearly the same as the given one.
16: I want the car. It made in Japan
 A. The car is made in Japan which I want	B. The car I wanted made in Japan. 
 C. I want the car making in Japan	 D. I want the car made in Japan
17: Mr. Green is my teacher and he is my great friend, too.
 A. Mr. Green is my teacher and so is he.
 B. Mr. Green is neither my teacher nor my great friend.
 C. Mr. Green is either my teacher or my great friend.
 D. Mr. Green is not only my teacher but also my great friend.
18: The fence surrounds the villa. The fence is painted green
 A. The fence surrounding the villa is painted green.
 B. The fence surrounds the villa is painted green
 C. The fence surrounds the villa which is painted green.
 D. The fence surrounded the villa is painted green.
19: He spends all his free time fishing.
 A. He goes fishing whenever he has free time.	B. He is busy fishing all time.
 C. He likes eating fish.	D. He has no time for fishing.
20: He is keen on collecting stamps
 A. He is interesting in collecting stamps.
 B. It is stamps that he is interested in collecting.
 C. It is collecting stamps that he is fed up with
 D. Collecting stamps is that he keen on.
VI/Vocabulary and structure: choose the best answer.
21: The panda’s .habitat is the bamboo forest
 A. natural	 B. nature	 C. naturally	 D. naturalized
22: People are destroying the air by adding.to it.
 A. polluted	 B. pollutants	 C. polluters	 D. pollution
23: He is .a teacher nor a doctor
 A. neither	 B. not only	 C. either	 D. both
24: Either I or my motherto prepare for our meals
 A. having	 B. to have	 C. have	 D. has
25: These are seriously ill patients you have to look carefully
 A. at	 B. up	 C. for	 D. after
26: Armstrong became the first person to set.on the moon.
 A. legs	 B. feet	 C. leg	 D. foot
27: Both I and my brother ..classical music.
 A. like	 B. to like	 C. likes	 D. liking
28: I .all my free time doing karate. I joined a club three years ago.
 A. spend	 B. waste	 C. take	 D. use
29: Either he or I ..wrong.
 A. am	 B. is	 C. are	 D. be
30: Do you know the girl a long white dress?
 A. wear	 B. wears	 C. wearing	 D. wore
31: Yuri Gagarin was the first..to fly into space 
 A. spaceman	 B. spacesuit	 C. spaceship	 D. spacecraft
32: Our house needs.
 A. be repainted	 B. repainting	 C. to repaint	 D. repaint
33: I sent ato my mother saying I had arrived safely.
 A. telescope	 B. telegraph	 C. telephone	 D. telegram
34: The job..is very dangerous.
 A. for it he applied	 B. which he applied for it 
 C. he applied for	 D. he applied for it
35: It ..Lan who always helps him in his trouble.
 A. was	 B. is	 C. were	 D. be
VII/ Circle the letter of the one underlined word or phrase that is not correct.
36: 
The man who name is Hung gave you this letter.
 A B C D
37: 
Tell me about the city which you grew up
 A B C	 D
38: 
It was them that killed the manager
 A B C D
39: 
It was Linda and Tom that I often go to the cinema with.
 A B	 C D
40: 
Neither she nor I has been to England
 A B C D
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