Semester test grade 11 - Semester I

THUA THIEN HUE EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEP.	 SEMESTER TEST GRADE 11
 HUONG LAM HIGH SCHOOL	 Time: 45 minutes
 Semester I. 
Student’s name: ............................................................
Class: .............................................................................
I/ PHONETICS: (1.25 marks)
Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Identify your answer by circling the correcponding letter A, B, C or D.
1/ 	A. engineer	B. decide	C. celebrate	D. sesame
2/ 	A. threaten	B. throw	C. thankful	D. though
3/ 	A. school	B. teacher	C. each	D. which
4/ 	A. province	B. done	C. volunteer	D. honuorable
5/ 	A. summer	B. number	C. july	D. struggle
II/ VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. (6.25 marks)
Circle A, B, C or D as your best to complete the sentences.
6/ Good friendship should be based on ....................... understanding.
A. suspicous	B. mutual	C. unselfish	D. loyal to
7/ The death of her father had a bad ....................... on her.
A. effect	B. affect	C. effective	D. affected
8/ Nam decided ................... a new car.
A. bought	B. buy	C. buying	D. to buy
9/ Can you explain the .................. for changing salt water to fresh water.
A. method	B control	C. solution	D. figure
10/ These are all ................ : 1, 75, 293.
A. problem	B. recource	C. figures	D. limit
11/ She can ................... very well.
A. sings	B. sang	C. sing	D. sung
12/ Please don’t ever let me ............... . I want to stay here with you.
A. to go	B. go	C. going	D. goes
13/ He ................ Dat Lat last summer holiday.
A. visited	B. visits	C. visiting	D. to visit
14/ The United Nations is a(n) ..................... orgnization.
A. international	B. national	C. local	D. provincal
15/ What ................. doing at 8.00 pm yesterday.
A. are you	B. were you	C. is you	D. was you
16/ I ................... in A Luoi since 2006.
A. has lived	B. have lived	C. have live	D. has live
17/ I were reading English books. He ............... .
A. coming	B. comes 	C. come	D. came
18/ This sport competition is held in our shool every year. It’s a(n) ................. event.
A. annual	B. daily	C. weekly	D. monthly
19/ They congratulated me on ......................... exam.
A. passes 	B. passed	C. pass	D. passing
20/ Before Tet, housewives are always busy cooking .................... foods.
A. special	B. good	C. traditional	D. normal
21/ If you pass the exam, your parents .................. happy.
A. would have been	B. will be	C. should be	D. had be
22/ Lan would buy a house if she ................. a lot of money.
A. was	B. had	C. have	D. having
23/ Marry appologised .................... not phone you earlier.
A. for	B. in	C. on	D. of
24/ Mary ............... a letter to her friend yesterday.
A. send	B. sended	C. sending	D. sent
25/ Did .................. see you?
A. someone	B. no one	C. everyone	D. anyone
26/ It’s two years ..................... I last saw Quoc Anh.
A. since	B. for	C. ago	D. still
27/ We haven’t had a good meal .............. three weeks.
A. ago	B. since	C. at	D. for
28/ The 22th Sea Games in Vietnam was .................... many companies.
A. invested	B. sponsored	C. financed	D. invest
29/ Nam offered .................. me with the luggage.
A. to helping	B. helping 	C. to help 	D. help
30/ ....................... phoned while you were out, but they didn’t leave a message.
A. someone	B. anyone	C. everyone	D. no one
III/ READING. (1.25 marks)
 Read the passage carefully, then fill in the gap with the correct word provided, by circling each capital letter A, B, C or D.
The population of the word (31).................... faster and faster. (32).............. 10,000 B.C., there was probably only 10 millon people. In A.D.1, there were 300 million. It took 1,750 years for the world population to (33)............. 625 million. In 1850, only one hundred years later, the population reached the (34)................ of 1,300 million. In 1950, the figure had more than doubled to reach 2,510 million. In 1985, only 35 years later, there were 4,760 million people. In 2000, the word’s population was about 6.6 billion, and by 2015 it is (35)............. to be over 7 billion.
31/ A. has been increase B. had been increasing C. have been increasing D. has been increasing
32/ A. on	 B. in	C. at	 D. into
33/ A. reached	 B. reach	 C. reaching	 D. reaches
34/ A. figure	 B. figures	C. number	 D. population
35/ A. expecting	 B. expect	 C. expected	 D. expects
IV/ WRITING. (1.25 marks)
 Change direct speech into reported speech . Begin each of the sentences in the way show.
36/ “ Keep quiet,” the teacher said to us
" The teacher told us .....................................................................................................................
37/ “ Could you close the window ? ” John said to Peter
" John asked ..................................................................................................................................
38/ “ I hear you passed your exam. Congratulation!” Nam said to you
" Nam congratulated ............................ on ..................................................................................
39/ “ I’m sorry, I didn’t phone you earlier,” Lan said
" Lan appolozised for ...................................................................................................................
40/ “ It was nice of you to help me. Thank you very much,” Tom said to you
" Tom thanked ...................... for .................................................................................................
Good luck to you
THUA THIEN HUE EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEP.	 SEMESTER TEST GRADE 11
 HUONG LAM HIGH SCHOOL	 Time: 45 minutes
 Semester I. 2007-2008
ANSWERS
I/ PHONETICS: (1.25 marks)
Each right sentence gets 0.25 marks.
1
2
3
4
5
A
D
A
B
C
II/ VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. (6.25 marks)
Each right sentence gets 0.25 marks.
6
B
15
B
24
D
7
A
16
B
25
D
8
D
17
D
26
A
9
A
18
A
27
D
10
C
19
D
28
B
11
C
20
C
29
C
12
B
21
B
30
A
13
A
22
B
14
A
23
A
III/ READING. (1.25 marks)
Each right sentence gets 0.25 marks.
31
32
33
34
35
D
B
B
A
C
IV/ WRITING. (1.25 marks)
Each right sentence gets 0.25 marks
36/ The teacher told us to keep quiet.
37/ John asked Peter to close the window.
38/ Nam congratulated us on passing our exam.
39/ Lan appolozised for not phoning me earlier.
40/ Tom thanked me for helping him.
@The end?