Bài tập luyện thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12

PHẦN THỨ HAI
BÀI TẬP THỰC HÀNH
BÀI TẬP VỀ PHÁT ÂM - PRONUNCIATION
Find the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others of the same group.
A. geology
B. psychology
C. classify
D. photography
A. idiom
B. ideal
C. item
D. identical
A. children
B. child
C. mild
D. wild
A. both
B. myth
C. with
D. sixth
A. helped
B. booked
C. hoped
D. waited
A. name
B. natural
C. native
D. nation
A. blood
B. food
C. moon
D. pool
A. comb
B. plumb
C. climb
D. disturb
A. thick
B. though
C. thank
D. think
A. flour
B. hour
C. pour
D. sour
A. handed
B. booked
C. translated
D. visited
A. car
B. coach
C. century
D. cooperate
A. within
B. without
C. clothing
D. strengthen
A. has
B. bag
C. dad
D. made
A. kites
B. catches
C. oranges
D. buzzes
A. student
B. stupid
C. study
D. studio
A. wealth
B. cloth
C. with
D. marathon
A. brilliant
B. trip
C. tripe
D. tip
A. surgeon
B. agent
C. engine
D. regard
A. feather
B. leather
C. feature
D. measure
A. candy
B. sandy 
C. many
D. handy
A. earning
B. learning
C. searching
D. clearing
A. pays
B. stays
C. says
D. plays
A. given
B. risen
C. ridden
D. whiten
A. cough
B. tough
C. rough
D. enough
A. accident
B. jazz
C. stamp
D. watch
A. this
B. thick
C. maths
D. thin
A. gas
B. gain
C. germ
D. good
A. bought
B. naught
C. plough
D. thought
A. forks
B. tables
C. beds
D. windows
A. moon
B. pool
C. door
D. cool
A. any
B. apple
C. hat
D. cat
A. book
B. blood
C. look
D. foot
A. pan
B. woman
C. sad
D. man
A. table
B. lady
C. labor
D. captain
A. host
B. most
C. cost
D. post
A. dear
B. beard
C. beer
D. heard
A. work
B. coat
C. go
D. know
A. name
B. flame
C. man
D. fame
A. how
B. town
C. power
D. slow
A. dictation
B. repetition
C. station
D. question
A. dew
B. knew
C. sew
D. few
A. asked
B. helped
C. kissed
D. played
A. smells
B. cuts
C. opens
D. plays
A. decided
B. hatred
C. sacred
D. warned
A. head
B. break
C. bread
D. breath
A. blood
B. tool
C. moon
D. spool
A. height
B. fine
C. tidy
D. cliff
A. through
B. them
C. threaten
D. thunder
A. fought
B. country
C. bought
D. ought
A. loved 
B. appeared 
C. agreed 
D. coughed
A. thereupon 
B. thrill 
C. threesome 
D. throne
A. chin
B. chaos
C. child
D. charge
A. wasted
B. practiced
C. laughed
D. jumped
A. coast
B. most
C. lost
D. whole
A. energy
B. gain
C. gesture
D. village
A. population
B. nation
C. question
D. station
A. meat
B. sweat
C. leaf
D. seat
A. antibiotic
B. pant
C. ant
D. want
A. height
B. myth 
C. type 
D. climb
A. harm
B. wash
C. call
D. talk
A. brought
B. ought 
C. thought
D. though
A. call
B. curtain
C. cell
D. contain
A. measure
B. decision
C. pleasure
D. permission
A. drought
B. fought
C. brought
D. bought
A. builds
B. destroys
C. occurs
D. prevents
A. deal
B. teach
C. break
D. clean
A. supported
B. approached
C. noticed
D. finished
A. unity   
B. suite  
C. studious  
D. volume
A. climber  
B. subtle  
C. debtor  
D. probable
A. bush      
B. rush     
C. pull     
D. lunar
A. bought      	
B. sought      	
C. drought      
D. fought
A. killed      	
B. cured   
C. crashed
D. waived
A. thunder
B. prefer  
C. grocer  
D. louder
A. tells 
B. talks     
C. stays 
D. steals
A. stomach	
B. watch
C. change
D. church
A. attacks	
B. repeats
C. roofs
D. trays
A. drought	
B. fought
C. brought
D. bought
A. builds	
B. destroys
C. occurs
D. prevents
A. name	
B. nation
C. native
D. natural
BÀI TẬP VỀ TRỌNG ÂM – STRESS
Find the word whose stress pattern is different from the others of the same group.
A. uncle
B. machine
C. rubber
D. butter
A. every
B. evening
C. potato
D. factory
A. produce
B. money
C. improve
D. because
A. vegetable
B. university
C. Wednesday
D. television
A. coffee
B. farmer
C. paper
D. deliver
A. eleven
B. elephant
C. energy
D. envelope
A. preparation
B. decoration
C. television
D. exhibition
A. leather
B. paper
C. iron
D. ceramics
A. mirror
B. invent
C. wallet
D. engine
A. discovery
B. calculator
C. aero-plane
D. difficulty
A. provide
B. adopt 
C. happen 
D. inspire 
A. result
B. region
C. river 
D. robot 
A. constant
B. basic 
C. irate 
D. obvious 
A. become
B. carry 
C. appoint 
D. invent 
A. engine
B. battle 
C. career 
D. rabies
A. interesting
B. surprising 
C. amusing
D. successful
A. understand
B. engineer
C. benefit
D. Vietnamese
A. applicant
B. uniform
C. yesterday
D. employment
A. dangerous
B. parachute
C. popular
D. magazine
A. beautifully
B. intelligent
C. redundancy
D. discovery
A. comfortable
B. employment
C. important
D. surprising
A. variety
B. irrational
C. industrial
D. characterize
A. colorful
B. equality
C. dictionary
D. vegetable
A. elegant
B. regional
C. musical
D. important
A. difference
B. suburban
C. internet
D. character
A. beautiful
B. effective
C. favorite
D. popular
A. attraction
B. government
C. borrowing
D. visit
A. difficulty
B. individual
C. population
D. unemployment
A. biology
B. redundancy
C. interviewer
D. comparative
A. conversation
B. isolation 
C. traditional 
D. situation 
A. continue
B. disappear 
C. imagine 
D. inhabit 
A. altogether
B. capacity 
C. eventually 
D. particular 
A. professor
B. digestion 
C. mechanic
D. engine 
A. mathematics
B. biology 
C. experiment 
D. philosophy 
A. evolution
B. development 
C. discovery 
D. philosopher 
A. another
B. energy 
C. centigrade 
D. gravity 
A. evaporate
B. temperature 
C. impossible 
D. experiment 
A. gravity
B. professor 
C. pyramid 
D. remedy 
A. abandon
B. discover 
C. imagine 
D. satisfy 
A. activity
B. epidemic 
C. philosopher 
D. significance 
A. picture
B. business
C. stranger
D. return
A. museum
B. cinema
C. hospital
D. concert
A. performance
B. unknown
C. visit
D. confirm
A. yesterday
B. tonight
C. today
D. tomorrow
A. memory
B. article
C. newspaper
D. edition
A. sorry
B. tractor
C. police
D. fireman
A. interest
B. remember
C. assemble
D. resemble
A. policeman
B. semester
C. exercise
D. attendance
A. vegetable
B. interesting
C. volleyball
D. detective
A. homework
B. lesson
C. detect
D. tennis
A. paper
B. police
C. people
D. purpose
A. interesting
B. important
C. increasing
D. implying
A. element
B. enormous
C. animal
D. elephant
A. damage
B. destroy
C. demand
D. deny
A. biology
B. intelligent
C. environment
D. infrastructure
A. ancient
B. attack
C. alive
D. across
A. person
B. purpose
C. possess
D. pirate
A. eternal
B. enormous
C. enemy
D. Egyptian
A. ruler
B. river
C. retire
D. rapid
A. revolution
B. responsible
C. renovation
D. regulation
A. sentence
B. suggest
C. species
D. system
A. bacteria
B. dangerous
C. government
D. interesting
A. attack
B. defeat
C. believe
D. happen
A. pyramid
B. pharaoh
C. animal
D. possession
A. accompany
B. responsibility
C. environment
D. prepare
A. provide
B. improve
C. contain
D. borrow
A. cinema
B. telephone
C. department
D. restaurant
A. design
B. garage
C. market
D. village
A. exercise
B. example
C. holiday
D. stadium
A. excellent
B. exactly
C. dangerous
D. wonderful
A. beautiful
B. elephant
C. already
D. usually
A. theatre
B. unknown
C. absence
D. dinner
A. amuse
B. imagine 
C. interest
D. surprise
A. especially
B. beautifully
C. quickly
D. lately
A. policeman
B. performer
C. engineer
D. assistant
A. advice
B. beauty 
C. picture
D. postcard
A. prepare
B. practice
C. prevent
D. provide
A. famous
B. curious
C. anxious
D. delicious
A. vacation
B. colleague
C. pupil
D. teacher
A. theatre
B. career
C. cinema
D. gallery
BÀI TẬP VỀ THÌ CỦA ĐỘNG TỪ - VERBS TENSES
Exercise 1: Choose among A, B, C, or D the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. 
1. When I got to the station, I_________ John.
A. met	B. had met	C. was meeting	D. have met
2. When I got to the station, John_________ in a coffee shop.
A. sat 	B. was sitting	C. had sat	D. is sitting
3. When I got to the station, John_________ and I didn’t see him.
A. left	B. was leaving	C. had left 	D. has left
4. When I got to the station, John_________ for me for ten minute.
A. has been waiting	B. had been waiting	C. was waiting	D. is waiting
5. When John_________ here tomorrow, I_________ you.
A. A. arrives/ call	B. will arrive/ will call	
C. arrives/ will call 	D. is arriving/ will be calling
6. When you_________ here at this time tomorrow, I_________ the room up.
A. comes/ will tidy	 	B. come/will be tidying 
C. Will come/ will be tidying 	D. come/ will have tidied
7. When you_________ here by this time tomorrow, I_________ the room up.
A. come/ will have tidied	B. come /will be tidying	
C. Will come/ will have tidied	D. are coming/ have tidied
8. When it rains heavily, John usually_________ at home.
A. stay	B. will stay	C. stays	D. will be staying
9. When it rained heavily, John usually_________ at home.
A. stays	B. stayed	C. was staying	D. had stayed
10. I_________ on the street when it rained.
A. was walking	B. have been walking	C. had walked	D. walked
11. John_________ anything since yesterday.
A. didn’t say	B. hasn’t said	C. has said	D. said
12. In a few days, there_________ an important meeting.
A. will have	B. is	C. will be	D. is having
13. How many questions_________ you_________ so far.
A. do/answer	B. will/ answer	C. did/answer	D. have/answered
14. I_________ John. He_________ me about his trip to Singapore.
A. met/told	B. met/was telling	C. have met/told	D. met/ have told
15. Look! A boy_________ run after a little dog.
A. runs	B. are running	C. is running	D. was running
16. This is the best book, I_________.
A. have ever read it	B. have ever read	C. have read	D. read
17. That was the most interesting story I_________.
A. have ever listened	B. had ever listened	C. had ever listened to D. listened to it
18. China_________ to the North of Vietnam.
A. is lying	B. was lying	C. lies	D. lay
19. The police caught the thief who_________ John’s motorcycle.
A. had stolen	B. has stolen	C. was stolen	D. stole
20. I think that John_________ the money before we need it.
A. have returned	B. has returned	C. will have returned	D. had returned
21. When I looked out of the door, I found out that my motorcycle_________.
A. was stolen	B. had been stolen	C. has been stolen	D. had stolen
22. When_________ you first_________ Hanoi?
A. have/visited	B. will/visit	C. do/visit	D. did/visit
23. This is the first time I_________ Hanoi.
A. visited	B. am visiting	C. have visited	D. will visit
24. Right now, I_________ some help. What are you doing? Can you give me a hand?
A. am needing	B. need	C. will need 	D. have needed
25. Last night, while I_________ a letter the phone_________.
A. wrote/rang	B. wrote/was ringing	
C. was writing/was ringing	D. was writing/rang
26. At this time yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s daughter_________ the floor.
A. were cleaning	B. cleaned	C. was cleaning	D. had been cleaning
27. He hardly_________ up before the sun_________.
A. had gotten/rose	B. gets/rise	C. got/rose	D. gets/rises
28. In two weeks, we_________ our vacation in Halong bay.
A. have spent	B. will have spent	C. will spend	D. had spent
29. In the last two weeks, we_________ our vacation in Halong bay.	
A. have spent	B. would have spent	C. spent	D. had spent
30. Mary_________ the meal before her friends came.
A. was repairing	B. had been repairing	C. had repaired	D. repaired
Exercise 2: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
	John has always traveled a lot. In fact, he was only two years old when he first flew to the US. His mother is Italian and his father is American. John was born in France, but his parents (1. meet)_________ in Cologne, Germany after they (2. live)_________ there for five years. They had met one day while John’s father was reading a book in the library and his mother (3. sit)_________ beside him. John (4. travel)_________ a lot because his parents also travel a lot. As a matter of fact, John is visiting his parents in France at the moment. He lives in New York now, but (5. visit)_________ his parents for the last few weeks. He really enjoys living in New York, but he also loves coming to visit his parents at least once a year. This year he (6. fly)_________ over 5,000 miles for his job. He has been working for Jackson & Co. for almost two years now. He (7. be)_________ pretty sure that he (8. work)_________ for them next year as well. His job requires a lot of travel. In fact, by the end of this year, he (9. travel)_________ over 120,000 miles! His next journey will be to Australia. He really doesn’t like going to Australia because it is so far. This time he (10. fly)_________ from Paris after a meeting with the company’s French partner. He will have been sitting for over 18 hours by the time he arrives!
Exercise 3: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
The world is getting warmer and the oceans are rising. Why this (1. happen)_______? One answer is that it could simply be part of a natural process. After all, there 
(2. be)________ ice ages and long periods of warmth, so we could just (3. experience)_________ another warming trend. This kind of answer (4. have)_______ more supporters a few years ago. What scientists now (5. believe)_________ is that human activity is the cause. 
For more than two hundred years, human (6. gradually change)________ the atmosphere, mainly as a result of industrial pollution. We (7. create)_________ an atmosphere around the earth that, like a giant glass container, (8. let)________ heat from the sun through and then (9. hold)_________ it in temperatures, and sea levels (10. keep)_________ rising? The general answer is unfortunately yes. 
Exercise 4: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim (1. see)_______ monsters in the sea. Though people (2. often laugh)_______ at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many of these 'monsters' which (13. at times sight)_______ are simply strange fish. Occasionally, unusual creatures (4. wash)_______ to the shore, but few of them (5. catch)_______ out at sea. Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar. A small fishing-boat (6. carry)_______ miles out to sea by the powerful fish as it pulled on the line. Realizing that this was no ordinary fish, the fisherman made every effort (7. not damage)_______ it in any way. When it was eventually brought to shore, it was found to be over thirteen feet long. It had a head like a horse, big blue eyes, shining silver skin, and a bright red tail. The fish, which (8. send)_______ to a museum where it (9. examine)_______ by a scientist now, is called an oarfish. Such creatures (10. rarely see)_______ alive by man as they live at a depth of six hundred feet.
BÀI TẬP VỀ TỪ BIẾN THỂ - DERIVED WORDS
Exercise 1: Give the right form of the word to finish each of the following sentences.
They were impressed by the__________ of the local people.
FRIEND
They enjoy the__________ atmosphere in the meeting.
FRIEND
The__________ they made at school will last through their life.
FRIEND
__________ parks and lakes in Hanoi really attract tourists.
BEAUTY
The litter girl is dancing__________.
BEAUTY
The big garden helps__________ the house.
BEAUTY
They enjoyed very__________ moment in the countryside.
PEACE
She is too young, and so in__________ life.
DEPEND
They are old enough to be__________ of their parents.
DEPEND
He is old enough to live__________.
DEPEND
Are you________ in the uniform?
COMFORT
Uniform make students________ of their school.
PRIDE
We celebrate our_________ day on April 30th annually.
UNIFY
May Day is also called__________ Labor Day.
NATION
They wear uniforms to school and________ clothes on the weekend.
COLOR
Both of them like this car because it is________.
ECONOMY
Our________ situation is getting better and better.
ECONOMY
My parent usually________ me to study harder.
COURAGE
In some countries military service is________.
COMPEL
Our________ flag is red and yellow.
NATION
Most________ are written in English.
INSTRUCT
These________ pants are too big for me.
BAG
________ are all looking forward to the village festival.
VILLAGE
Children of the ethnic________ can go afford to go to school.
MINOR
Poets take________ from many things in life.
INSPIRE
People often wear modern________ at work.
CLOTH
Ao Dai is not usually worn at work because it is________.
CONVENIENCE
________, Ao dai is worn by men and women a wedding.
TRADITION
There is a________ football match between Vietnam and Thailand on TV at 7 tonight.
FRIEND
They go to the church every Sunday. They are very________.
RELIGION
You can believe him. He is a__________ person.
DEPEND
Vietnam is an__________ country.
AGRICULTURE
Nga is one of Hoa’s good__________.
CLASS
We are very__________ in temples and museums in Hanoi.
INTEREST
Like Vietnam, Malaysia has__________ climate.
TROPIC
English is__________ language in Singapore.
OFFICE
More__________, my family and my friend’s father used to be classmates.
INTEREST
Finding the film__________. They decided to turn off the TV to go to bed.
INTEREST
Hanoi is very__________ city.
INTEREST
The story the tour guide told us is really__________.
INTEREST
The noise__________ as the plane got farther away.
LESS
An______________ is a person who is concerned about the natural environment and wants to improve and protect it. 
ENVIRONMENT
She had never been greatly concerned about her _____________.
APPEAR
The_____________ of people interviewed prefer TV to radio. 
MAJOR
We can look forward to a period of___________.
PROSPER
Due to___________ the difference between urban life and rural life is more and more reduced.
ELECTRIC
The security of the earth can be threatened by___________ groups.
TERROR
It is reported that humans are the main reason for most species' declines and habitat_____________.
DESTROY
He resigned for a____________ of reasons.
VARY
The Americans are much more concerned than the Indians and the Chinese with physical_______________ when choosing a wife or a husband.
ATTRACT
He stood at the door to make sure that no one___________ the party.
GATE
Her health has_____________ considerably since we last saw her. 
BAD
Jackson had another violent___________ with the referee.
AGREE
This road is so bad that it needs_______________.
SURFACE
Pele____________ Ronaldo to take part in 2002 World cup.
COURAGE
Rescue team held out little hope of finding other___________.
SURVIVE 
___________ of the new system will take several days.	
INSTALL
The practice of being on a diet has now been so______________.
POPULAR
We should____________ all the school’s regulations.
STANDARD
Our___________ has lasted a lifetime. 
FRIEND
He was very_____________ of the work he had done. 
PRIDE
Are there any____________ rivers left in the world? 
POLLUTE
Freedom of__________ is one of the fundamental rights. 
SPEAK
John drives very_____________. He’s never had any accidents.
CARE
We always have a bed ready in the spare room in case visitors arrive________.
EXPECT
Nitric oxide is____________ poisonous. 
HIGH
A doctor may prescribe__________ if the patient has an infection.
BIOTIC
Beauty is in the eye of the____________.
HOLD
It is said the____________ of a Swiss watch is perfect.
PRECISE
We have to decide to interview only the best six__________ for the job.
APPLY
He left the room without any_______________. 
EXPLAIN
Such a kind man would never____________ hurt his friend’s feelings.
INTEND
Her bedroom is________ decorated with her favori