TEST-1 - thì là zậy đó làm gì làm là sao là sao là sao PDF

Preview

Summary

TEST 1A. MULTIPLE CHOICEChoose the best option to complete the following sentences 1. The government needs to ______ businesses that have been trying to evade the tax. A. put the screws on B. get into gear C. put one over on D. wipe off the map 2. Being a _____ entrepreneur, you will have to make a ...

Description

TEST 1 A. MULTIPLE CHOICE Choose the best option to complete the following sentences 1. The government needs to ______ businesses that have been trying to evade the tax. A. put the screws on B. get into gear C. put one over on D. wipe off the map 2. Being a _____ entrepreneur, you will have to make a special effort for people to take you seriously. A. successful B. budding C. blossoming D. flowering 3.My mother decided to ________ early yesterday while I stayed up to watch Korean movies A. doze off B. let up C. get off D. turn in 4. What I like about this amusement park is that there is _______ parking space right outside it. A. copious B. ample C. expanded D. manifold 5. Last weekend, _______ nothing to watch on TV, we played chest together. A. there being B. there having C. having had D. being 6. The major political party is ________ the campaign for tighter gun controls in the wake of last month’s shooting. A. procuring B. solidifying C. spearheading D. fulfilling 7. Scientists warn that global warming will soon go beyond ______. A. the U-turn B. the firing line C. the red line D. the point of no return 8. The prime minister tried to ______ the country’s deep-seated problem for fear of being criticized. A. blot out B. stow away C. paper over D. salt away 9. I’d sooner you ______ a noise last night; I couldn’t get to sleep. A. wouldn’t make B. didn’t make C. haven’t made D. hadn’t made th 10. On 6 August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing thousands of citizens and almost _____ the city. A. overthrowing B. annulling C. eradicating D. annihilating 11. After living one month in New York, I finally _____ A. get in the swing of things B. get in on the ground floor B. get a grip on myself D. get ahead of myself 12. The students, __________ are graduating this year, are as thick as thieves. A. of whom five B. five of whom C. whose five D. A and B are correct 13. The community should take the doctor’s advice into consideration since he’s in ________ earnest about the epidemic. A. mortally B. fatally C. deadly D. gravely 14. His fight to ________ four black men of the rape of a seventeen year old white girl two years ago partially inspired the group to protest. A. exculpate B. exonerate C. bereave D. misappropriate 15. When the cost was ________ the advantages, the scheme looked perfect.

A. set against B. pit against C. counted against D. weighed up against 16. Lionel Messi was ________ over his team’s victory against Brazil. A. delighted B. ecstatic C. jubilant D. blissful 17. That old building hasn’t been used for nearly four decades, hence it looks so _______ A. decrepit B. battered C. glitchy D. derelict 18. When the long holiday ends, we will go ___________ A. back on our feet B. back to square one C. back to the salt mines D. on the back burner 19. On his desk _______, which he usually sits in front of and looks at. A. stood the picture of us B. the picture of us stands B. standing the picture of us D. stands the picture of us 20. After getting a 7.5 score in IELTS, Ha hardly makes significant progress but she is ______ nicely. A. propping up B. ticking over C. wading through D. forging ahead B.WORD FORM I. Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank 21. Like his famous _namesake__, young Washington had a brave, adventurous spirit. (NAME) 22. She has a softly _mellifluous__________voice that would melt anyone listening to her singing. (FLUENT) 23. The history of the territory is _ pictorially_________ illustrated in the book. (PICTURE) 24. Don’t you think she is _photogenic_? She always looks good in her photographs. (PHOTO) 25. Hardly a day goes by without Tim being _ desirous_______ of eating sweets. (DESIRE) II. Put the words given in the correct blanks. You have to use their correct forms to make a meaningful passage 26._Cleanup__ (clean) efforts were under way in Henan province and the capital city Zhengzhou on Thursday, after a 27.___record-breaking (record) rain storm flooded the city’s streets and subway, damaged dams and reservoirs, collapsed roads, cut power to at least one hospital and was linked to a massive explosion at a factory in Dengfeng city. Authorities said 200,000 people were 28. displaced__ (place) by the floods and more than three million people were affected. Thousands of rescuers were sent in to assist northern Henan, where dozens of counties were hit by flooding on Wednesday night and Thursday, with reports of overflowing reservoirs, 29. submerged_ (merge) roads, and cars and trucks being washed away. The Henan disaster has prompted public scrutiny over the preparedness of authorities, in particular the 30. apparently___ (appear) inaccurate weather forecasts and the confusing disaster alert system. Many also questioned the decision to keep the subway operating throughout the deluge. (Adapted from the Guardian) C. OPEN CLOZE Fill in the each blank one suitable word.

THE CHANGING FACE OF WORKING LIFE The accepted concept of a career 31._path__ followed a similar pattern for decades. After completing their education, people would enter the adult world of work, 32.__setting__ down on to a job which they would likely remain from that point 33.__onward____. Not only would this occupation provide their income for their entire working life, it would also allow them a healthy pension when they retired and moved into 34.__old__ age. Over the past twenty years, 35.__however__, the relationship between a wage earner and their chosen profession has changed enormously. Today, the idea of a ‘job-for-life’ has all 36.__but_ disappeared, to be replaced by an unforgiving world of unstable employment. Some observers even argue that current society to pit old 37.___against______ young in a constant battle to find work of some description, all against a 38._backdrop__ of increasing debt and economic difficulties. At the same time, the government regularly releases figures that suggest the economy is prospering, evidencing this claim with the fact that the unemployment rate continues to fall annually. There are indeed more jobs available. However, a huge number of these are casual, temporary or short-term positions, all of 39.__which__ are low-paid and create little in the way of tax income for the government. This has a number of debilitating long-term effects, not 40._least__ because this assurance of a growing economy is based more in myth than fact. (Adapted from Mindset for IELTS) D. GUIDED CLOZE Despite the continued 41.________ of those early town perks, it wasn't until the Depression that modern Hershey started to take shape. Perhaps the only town in the country actually to 42_________ during the 1930s, it thrived because Hershey vowed his Utopia would never see a breadline. lnstead he 43_________ a massive building boom that gave rise to the most visited buildings in today's Hershey and delivered wages to more than 600 workers. He admitted that his 44____________ were partly selfish: "lf I don't provide work for them, I'll have to feed them. And since building materials are now at their lowest cost levels, I'm going to build and give them jobs." He seems to have 45__________no expense; most of the new buildings were strikingly 46________. The first to be finished was the three-million-dollar limestone Community Center, home to the 1,904-seat Venetian-style Hershey Community Theater, which has played 47______ since 1933 to touring Broadway shows and to music, dance, and opera performances. lt offers just as much to look at when the lights are on and the curtains closed. The floors in the 48_________ named Grand Lobby are polished ltalian lava rock, surrounded by marble walls and capped with a bas-relief ceiling showing sheaves of wheat, beehives, swans, and scenes from Roman mythology. With the 49________ inner foyer, Hershey thumbed his nose even harder at the ravages of the Depression: The arched ceiling is tiled in gold, the fire curtain bears a painting of Venice, and the ceiling is 50_______with 88 tiny lightbulbs to re-create a star-lit night. 41. A. flexibility B. rigidity C. elasticity D. resilience 42. A. prosper B. decline C. get on D. flower 43. A. trusted B. funded C. accounted D. stocked 44. A. pretensions B. objections C. preoccupation D. intentions

45. A. spared 46. A. impoverished 47. A. hosting 48. A. aptly 49. A. dizzying 50. A. holed

B. spent C. allowed D. justified B. unattractive C. poor D. opulent B. housing C. host D. homogeneously B. inappropriately C. seemingly D. frightfully B. gaudy C. dazzling D. bland B. studded C. supported D. magnified (Adapted from Vocabulary Files C1) E. ERROR IDENTIFICATION The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify them and write their correct forms in the space provided in the column. Line 1

5

10

Crime preventing is as crucial in the workplace as it is in the home or neighborhood. Reducing crime is as much a part of good management as prompt delivery, good staff relations, and other accepted management functions. Losses from shops through shoplifting are extremely high and ultimate, those losses are payment for by all of us in high prices. There are many opportunities for shopkeepers themselves to reduce shoplifting. As with all types of criminal, prevention is better than cure. The best deterrent is the present of staff properly trained in how to identify potential shoplifters. There are also many secure devices now available. Video camera surveillance is a popular system, even with quite small retailers. In clothes shopping, magnetic tag marking systems that set off an alarm if they are taken out of the shop have proved their worthlessness. However, there are many simpler measures that retailers should consider. Better lighting and ceiling-hung mirrors can help staff to watch all parts of the display area. Similarly, simply arrangement shelves and display units to allow clear fields of visible is a good deterrent.

15

Number Line Mistakes 51 1 preventing 52 4 ultimate 53 5 payment 54 6 criminal 55 7 present 56 8 secure 57 10 shopping 58 11 worthlessness 59 14 arrangement 60 14 visible F. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION Rewrite the following sentences using the words given

Correction prevention ultimately paid crime presence security shops worth arranging vision

61. After years of separation from my girlfriend, I cheered up when I saw her. SIGHT => After years of separation from my girlfriend, my spirits rose when I caught sight of her. 62. He loses his temper at all things, even the slightest one. OFF => He flies off the handle at all things, even the slightest one. 63. My parents are furious with me for getting a tatoo and so have grounded me. ARMS => My parents, who are up in arms about my getting a tatoo, have grounded me. 64. I resent the way that she clearly feels herself to be superior to me. NOSE => I am angry about the way she looks down her nose at me. 65. Although Jack never means to hurt other people, Jennie always complains about his manner. FAULT => Despite the fact that Jack never means to hurt other people, Jennie always finds fault with his manner....