Đề kiểm tra học kì 2 - Đề số 2

Choose the word marked A, B, C, or D which is stressed differently from the rest.

Choose the word marked A, B, C, or D which is stressed differently from the rest.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Billy, come and give me a hand with cooking.

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Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.

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 I am tired because I went to bed late last night.

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It was not until 1915_______the cinema really became an industry.

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She is very _______ in playing computer games online. It is not a good habit.

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Blindfish, which spend their whole lives in caves, have _______ eyes nor body pigments.

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She has an ________response to water and feel very calm when she's underwater.

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It is ________ book that just a few people like it.

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I would have gone if I________time.

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Bill is becoming_______

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Claire wanted to know what time ________ .

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The young boy denied________the women's purse.

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What a lovely baby! He certainly ________his father.

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________of my friends are very good at mathematics.

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_______, the young mother appeared visibly very happy after the birth of her child.

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Ann: " You really have a pretty hat, Linda, I have never seen such a perfect thing on you" - Linda: "_______."

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Salegirl: "Can I help you? We 've got some new shirts here." - Customer: " Ok, Thanks._______."

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This is the girl for which I am waiting.

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The early we leave, the sooner we will arrive.

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An increased number of city dwellers has made the obsolete infrastructure worse and required a lot of repairs in these days.

Many scientists (1) _____________the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase in the world's temperatures

According to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts, even more (2) _____________and causing sea levels all around the world to rise.

Environmental groups are putting pressure on governments to take action to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide which is given (3) _____________by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at its source.

They are in favor of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, (4) _____________ could then replace existing power station.

Some scientists, (5) _____________, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait several hundred years to notice the results.

What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?

The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ______.

What does the author think teachers do which they should not do?

The word “those” in paragraph 1 refers to _____.

According to paragraph 1, what basic skills do children learn to do without being taught?

Exams, grades and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only be estimated by_____.

The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are____________

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Jane missed the bus. She went to school late.

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I'd love to come, but I am snowed under at the moment.

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The car was so expensive that I didn’t buy it.

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We last went to cinema two months ago.