đề 9
đề 9
đề 9
I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
others
A. has been
B. is
C. was
D. will be
A. study
B. studies
C. studied
D. is studying
3. My brother got wet ________ he didn’t bring the umbrella with him.
A. but
B. so
C. because
D. and
4. They say that solar energy doesn’t cause _________.
A. pollution
B. pollute
C. polluted
D. pollutant
A. is playing
B. was playing
C. played
D. plays
A. whom
B. which
C. who
D. whose
A. carefully
B. care
C. careful
D. carelessly
A. more fluently
B. more fluent
C. more faster
D. more better
A. don’t we
B. do we
C. shall we
D. will we
A. You’re welcome
B. No, thanks
D. Yes, of course
III. Complete the sentences by writing the correct tense of the verbs in blankets
Almost a hundred thousand people were killed (1) ________half a million homes
were destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began
a minute before noon (2) _______ people were cooking their midday meals.
Thousands of stoves (3) _______ overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As
a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. It was impossible (4)
_______fire fighting equipment. Consequently, over ninety percent (5) _______ the
damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings.
VII. Read the passage and then answer the questions below
Mark Twain was a famous American writer. His real name was Samuel Langhorne
Clemens and “Mark Twain” was his pen name. He was born in a small town on the
Missouri River in the USA. The boy had many friends at school and when he became
a writer, he described them in his stories.
When he was twelve, his father died and the boy began to work and learned the
profession of a printer. He always wanted to be a sailor and when he was twenty, he
found work on a river boat. Then he left the boat and lived in California. Here he
began writing short stories under the name of Mark Twain. He sent them to
newspapers. The readers liked his stories very much. His best novel “The Adventure
of Tom Sawyer” was published in 1876.
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VIII. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly
the same as the sentence printed before it.
→ I haven’t _________________________________________________
→ It was ____________________________________________________