Đề cương ôn tập học kỳ 1 môn Tiếng Anh Khối 12

Revision - 12
Part 1: Phonetics
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. 
1. 	A. eliminate 	B. elephant 	C. endanger	 	D. erosion
2. 	A. worked	B. stopped	C. watched	D. visited
3. 	A. peasant 	B. please	C. reason 	D. ease
4. 	A. waited	B. mended	C. invited	D. faced
5.	A. traveled	B. stared	C. landed	D. fastened
6.	A. occupation	 	B. college	C. comfortable	D. knowledge 
7.	A. determined	B. researched	C. obtained	D. harboured
8.	A. mingling	B. simplicity	C. variety	D. difficulty
9.	A. insect	B. apes	C. seal	D. whales
10.	A. forest	B. resort	C. reason	D. visit
11.	A. summary 	B. multiply	C. subtract	D. instruction
12.	A. brushed 	B. punched	C. pumped	D. stimulated
13.	A. mandkind	B. cancer	C. alcohol	D. survival
14.	A. humans	B. dreams	C. concerts	D. songs
15.	A. communicates	B. mistakes	C. complains	D. developes
16.	A. manages	B. laughs	C. photographs 	D. makes
17.	A. eight 	B. weight	C. height	D. freight
18.	A. contribute	B. tiny	C. disaster	D. investigate
19.	A. nature	B. native	C. natural	D. nation
20. A. compete 	B. decide 	C. announce	D. necessary
21. 	A. different	B. world	C. disaster	D. practised
22.	A. of	B. off	C. profile	D. prefer	
23.	A. defeat	B. dead	C. leader	D. pleasing
24.	A. involved	B. offered	C. outnumbered	D. helped
25.	A. dishes	B. oranges	C. experiences	D. chores
26.	A. romantic	B. private 	C. marriage	D. attract	
27. 	A. fills	B. adds	C. stirs	D. lets
28. 	A. clapped	B. noted	C. deleted 	D. confided
29.	A. furious	B. butter	C. culture	D. multiple
30.	A. welfare	B. effort	C. longevity	D. secure
31.	A. population	B. studio	C. punctuality	D. mutuality
32.	A. temper	B. resistance	C. section	D. preference
33.	A. missed	B. worked	C. realized	D. watched
34.	A. says	B. bays	C. days	D. rays
35.	A. repeats	B. coughs	C. amuses	D. attacks
36.	A. walks	B. begins	C. helps	D. cuts
37.	A. learned	B. sacred	C. believed	D. decided
38.	A. moaned	B. presented	C. viewed	D. robbed
39.	A. liked	B. learned	C. laughed	D. stopped
40.	A. honourable	B. honesty	C. historic	D. hour
41.	A. excuse	B. example	C. existence	D. executive
42.	A. apologize	B. approach	C. ancestor	D. attention
43.	A. decent	B. argument	C. marvelous	D. compliment
44.	A. kidding	B. know	C. knowledge	D. knife
45.	A. supportive	B. maximum	C. argument	D. submit
46.	A. compulsory	B. confide	C. contractual	D. conical
47.	A. curriculum	B. universal	C. uniform	D. university
48.	A. general	B. education	C. secondary	D. remember
49.	A. primary	B. kindergarten	C. childhood	D. light
50.	A. wholesale	B. category	C. hostess	D. snowy
II. Choose the word which has different stress from the others.
1. 	A. technical 	B. introduce 	C. villager 	D. family
2. 	A. technology 	B. important 	C. popularity 	D. impossible
3. 	A. result 	B. hardly 	C. method 	D. farmer
4. 	A. medical 	B. knowledge	C. possible 	D. resurface
5.	A. farmer	B. farewell	C. factory	D. fairy
6.	A. cattle	B. country	C. canal	D. cover
7.	A. money	B. machine	C. many	D. mother
8.	A. borrow	B. agree	C. await	D. prepare
9. 	A. suggest 	B. manage 	C. visit 	D. listen
10. 	A. interesting 	B. direction 	C. knowledge 	D. narrow
11. 	A. decide 	B. educate 	C. supply 	D. provide
12. 	A. ocean 	B. divide 	C. modem 	D. water
13. 	A. pacific 	B. satellite 	C. century 	D. animal
14. 	A. temperature 	B. photograph 	C. information 	D. consequence
15. 	A. organism 	B. investigate 	C. diversity 	D. technology
16. 	A. carnivore 	B. difference 	C. scientist 	D. environment
17.	A. condition 	B. habitat 	C. accident 	D. paragraph
18. 	A. entrapment 	B. gestation 	C. population 	D. intelligent
19. 	A. shortage 	B. complete 	C. release 	D. increase
20. 	A. mysterious 	B. medicine 	C. discover 	D. description
21. 	A. seafood 	B. pollute 	C. mammal 	D. proper
22. 	A. destroy 	B. planet 	C. farmer 	D. forest
23. 	A. destruction 	B. movement 	C. important 	D. appearance
24. 	A. national 	B. establish 	C. tropical 	D. interest
25. 	A. variety 	B. temperate 	C. pagoda 	D. excursion
26. 	A. refusal 	B. acceptance 	C. suitable 	D. minority
27. 	A. endanger	B. invade 	C. invite	D. fauna
28. 	A. recognize	B. contaminate 	C. orphanage 	D. everglade 
29. 	A. survival 	B. wilderness 	C. dependent 	D. intention
30. 	A. composer 	B. artistic 	C. funeral	 	D. musician
31. 	A. express	B. classical 	C. occasion	D. emotion
32. 	A. atmosphere 	B. entertain 	C. industry 	D. joyfulness 
33. 	A. popular 	B. different 	C. integral 	D. expression 
34. 	A. solemn 	B. express 	C. succeed	D. event
35. 	A. anthem 	B. lyric 	C. excite 	D. celebrate 
36. 	A. cinema 	B. character 	C. calendar 	D. disaster
37. 	A. century 	B. thriller 	C. detective 	D. photograph
38. 	A. cartoon 	B. fiction 	C. fascinate	D. horror
39. 	A. voyage 	B. suppose 	C. tragic 	D. iceberg
40. 	A. champion 	B. passionate 	C. equipment 	D. tournament
41. 	A. international 	B. information 	C. elimination	D. competition
42. 	A. retire 	B. compete	C. announce	D. trophy
43. 	A. considers 	B. popular	C. organize	D. continent
44. 	A. promote 	B. defeat 	C. hero 	D. postpone
45. 	A. involve 	B. honour 	C. final 	D. nation
46. 	A. historic 	B. national	C. unusual	D. cathedral
46. 	A. district 	B. control 	C. global 	D. cover
47. 	A. population 	B. information 	C. metropolitan 	D. gallery
48.	A. sickness	B. cancer	C. purpose	D. conserve
49. A. forester	B. policy	C. erosion	D. vegetable
50. A. finance	B. temperate	C. poisoning	D. abandon
Part 2: Grammar and Vocabulary
I. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences
1. Is your father willing to _________ a hand with cleaning the house?
	A. work	B. give	C. join	D. take
2. – What an attractive hair style you have got, Mary! - _________________ .
	A. Thank you very much. I am afraid	C. Thank you for your compliment
	B. You are telling a lie	D. I don’t like your saying
3. In Vietnam, at Tet holidays we often cook some_________ dishes, such as spring rolls, sticky rice cakes, ets.
A. special	B. specially	C. speciality	D. specialistic
4. I always try to help_________ household chores when I have free time.
A. in	B. with	C. at	D. of
5. We enjoy _______________ time together in the evening when the family members gather in the living room 
after a day of working hard
A. spending	B. sharing	C. taking	D. caring
6. Lan is my close friend. We usually_________ our thoughts and our feelings with each other.
A. share	B. divide	C. give	D. send
7. She has been very _________ during my illness.
A. supporting	B. support	C. supportive	D. supported
8. My mother takes the resposibility ____________ running the household.
A. for	B. in	C. with	D. to
9. I love joining ________ my father ___________ mending things around the house.
A. with / for	B. Ø / with	C. with / in	D. Ø / in
10. It is parents’ duty and responsibility to _____ hands to take care of their children and give them a happy home.
A. shake	B. hold	C. join	D. give
11. My friend often shows her ________________ whenever I have troubles.
A. sympathy 	B. sympathize 	C. sympathetic 	D. sympathetically
12. In Vietnam, two, three or even four generations live _______________ one roof.
	A. in	B. over	C. with	D. under
13. My close friend is often concerned __________ all problems that I mention.
	A. over	B. with	C. in 	D. on
14. The boy learns hard in his____to be the top in every exam,which will leave a good impression on his girlfriend
	A. try	B. attempt	C. way	D. wish
15. A (n) ____________ child means a child who behaves badly and saddens his parents.
	A. active	B. hard – working	C. obedient	D. mischievous
16. Can you explain why some people can work better when they are _______ pressure?
	A. in	B. on 	C. under	D. at
17. With what my parents prepare for me in terms of education, I am ________ about my future.
	A. confide	B. confident	C. confidence	D. confidential
18. The new alarming device is to make sure that you always feel safe and ________ in the building.
	A. secure	B. security	C. secured	D. securing
19. It has been a habit for families here to wait for the ring at 7 p.m. every day to _____ the garbage.
	A. take in	B. take off	C. take up	D. take out
20. Babies have no other way of attracting their parents’ ______ than crying and shouting.
	A. attention	B. attentive	C. attend	D. attentively
21. John cannot make a ____________ to get married to Mary or stay single until he can afford a house and a car.
A. decide 	B. decision	C. decisive 	D. decisively 
22.	Many young people have objected to____marriage,which is decided by the parents of the bride and the groom
	A. sacrificed	B. romantic	C. contractual	D. agreed
23.	The leaf hat is used like an umbrella_______ people from the sun or the rain.
A. to protect	B. protect	C. protecting	D. protected
24.	The Vietnamese hat is made _______ a special kind of bamboo and young and soft palm leaves.
A. of	B. from	C. with	D. in
25.	Do you agree that a happy marriage should be based _______ love?
	A. in	B. on	C. at	D. of
26.	In Vietnam in the past, love was supposed_______ marriage, not precede it.
	A. to follow	B. follow	C. to following	D. following
27.	Are there any_______ between Vietnamese and American culture?
	A. differences	B. different	C. differently	D. differential
28.	Families in Vietnam maintain strong ties and provide each other_______ assistance and support as needed.
A. on	B. of	C. with	D. in
29. Body language is potent form of ______________ communication.
	A. verbal	B. non - verbal	C. tongue	D. oral
30. The lecturer explained the problem very clearly and is always ____________ in response to questions.
	A. attention	B. attentive	C. attentively	D. attentiveness
31. People sometimes _________ not only through words but also through body language.
	A. say	B. communicate	C. exchange	D. talk
32. Can you ______ either verbal or non-verbal forms of communication when you want to speak to someone?
A. do	B. make	C. use	D. take
33.	Nodding the head can mean that a person is _____________ the conversation.
	A. tired of	B. bored with	C. interesed in	D. disappointed with
34. Sometimes when you move out of home or to a new city or town, it can be difficult to meet new people and ___________.
A. to socialize	B. socialize	C. socialized	D. socializing
35. GCSE are often a requirement for taking A- levels, a common type of university ___________ requirement.
	A. entrance	B. enclose	C. attendance	C. assessment
36.	The government encourages all of the students in all parts of the country _______ the compulsory education.
	A. to finish	B. finish	C. finishing	D. finished
37. Primary education must support children______basic understandings of the nature, society and human beings.
	A. in	B. of	C. by	D. with
38.	There is no school fee for primary education _______ books and meals (if students want to have lunch at their school).
	A. beside	B. except	C. unless	D. not
39.	High school education_______ three years, from the tenth to the twelfth forms. (Students are from fifteen to seventeen years old).
	A. lasts	B. takes	C. prolongs	D. has
40. Certain courses at this college are compulsory. Others are ____________ .
	A. choices	B. optional	C. selective	D. voluntary
41. A letter of ___________ is sometimes really necessary for you in a job interview.
	A. recommend	B. recommended	C. recommender	D. recommendation
42. Being well-dress and punctual can help you create a good _____ on your interviewer
	A. impression	B. pressure	C. effectiveness	D. concentration
43. The student has to _______ for a place at the university while doing the A- level.
A. send	B. get	C. take	D. apply
44. Can you tell me about the _______ process to tertiary study in Vietnam?
A. applies	B. applying	C. application	D. apply
45. Some days of rest may help you to _____________ the pressure of work.
	A. reduce	B. lower	C. create	D. increase
46. For high school education, final exam is compulsory_______ a certificate to enter the universities or colleges.
A. get	B. to get	C. getting	D. got
47. It is almost _____________ for young people leaving school today to get a job.
	A. possible	B. impossible	C. possibly	D. impossibly
48. You should ask him about your choice because he often made the right _______.
A. decides	B. decision	C. decisive	D. deciding
49. We have decided to interview only ten _________________ for the job.
	A. appliances	B. applicants	C. applicable	D. applications
50. Qualifications and _____ are two most important factors that help you get a good job.
	A. politeness	B. attention	C. experience	D. impression
51. In Vietnamese school, English, literature and mathematics are three ________ subjects, which are compulsory in many important national examinations.
	A. core	B. part	C. centre	D. middle
52. He has not been offered the job because he cannot meet the _________ of the company.
	A. requirements 	B. requiring	C. require	D. required
53. Before the interview, you have to send a letter of application and your résumé to the company
	A. reference	B. photograph	C. curriculum vitae	D. recommendation
54. The entrance_______ to universities in Vietnam always takes place in July.
	A. way	B. road	C. examination	D. path
55. The _______ education lasts four years from the sixth form to the ninth form.
	A. primary	B. compulsory 	C. upper secondary	D. lower secondary
56. The successful _______________ must be hard-working, responsible and honest.
	A. applicant	B. application	C. apply	D. applicable 
57. They didn’t pay ___________ to how many hours you worked, but how you really worked.
	A. attend	B. attentive	C. attention	D. attentively
58. The government has succeeded in reducing the level of _____________ to only 7%.
	A. employment	B. unemployed	C. unemployment	D. employer
59. Can you tell me some information that _______________to the job?
	A. indicates	B. expresses	C. interests	D. relates
60. He was offered the job thanks to his ____________ performance during his job interview.
	A. impress	B. impression	C. impressive	D. impressively
61. Nam has lived with his grandparents since he _________ a little boy so he is quite obedient.
A. is	B. was	C. has been	D. had been
62. How_________ you and each member of your family share the household chores?
A. are	B. is	C. do	D. does
63. What do you attempt _________ after junior high school?
A. to do	B. do	C. doing	D. did
64. In my family, the interest we share closely_________ watching films on TV.
A. is	B. are	C. was	D. were
65. In my family, my father is the person I always talk to before _________ an important decision.
A. make	B. makes	C. making	D. made
66. During the school year, my mother doesn't allow me_________ to bed late.
A. to go	B. go	C. going	D. went
67. I _________ allowed to use my father's motorbike.
A. were not	B. is not	C. am not	D. being not
68. Do you feel safe_________ your close friend your secrets?
A. to tell	B. tell	C. telling	D. told
69. My brother never _________ me use his laptop.
A. allows	B. lets	C. gives	D. permits
70. Jack, _________ I played tennis yesterday, was much fitter than me.
A. with whom	B. with who	C. whom	D. who
71. _________ you were working hard for your exams last week, I was sitting on a plane bound for London.
A. As	B. When	C. While	D. Despite
72. Peter told me that he _________ for the capital the following week.
A. leaves	B. left	C. was leaving	D. is leaving
73. We didn't use to get up late when we _________ in the countryside.
A. live	B. lived	C. are living	D. were living
74. _____________ Tom Cruise’s last movie? – Yes, I _________ it three days ago.
	A. Have you ever seen / saw	C. Did you ever see / have seen
	B. Had you ever seen / had seen 	D. Did you ever see / saw
75. I ____________ a terrible accident while I ____________ on the beach .
	A. see / am walking	C. saw	 / was walking
	B. was seeing / walked	D. was seeing / was walking
76. In England, the academic year is divided into three terms. Each term _______ by a one- week break.
A. separates	B. separated	C. is separated	D. is separating
77. Unfortunately, the gold hunter and his dogs _________ could not manage to find the way out of the snowy storm never returned 
	A. which 	B. who 	C. whom 	D. that 
78. He would understand it if you ___________ it to him more slowly.
	A. explained	B. would explain	C. were explaining	D. explains
79. English ________ as a second language in my country in the future.
A. will use	B. is used	C. uses	D. will be used
80. If you _______ 5 minutes late, you won't be able to get into the examination room.
A. will be	B. were	C. are	D. would be
81. The state school system __________ for by the state.
A. is payed	B. is paying	C. is paid	D. pays
82. Do you get on well with the girl________ shares the room with you?
A. whose	B. who	C. which	D. that
83. I _______ you a letter if I had known your address.
A. would have sent	B. would send	C. will send	D. sent
84. English has become a second language in countries like India, Nigeria or Singapore where it __________ for administration, broadcasting and education.
 	A. is used	B. uses	C. was used	D. is using
85. If you fail the GCSE examination, you ____ not be allowed to take the entrance examination to the university.
A. will	B. would	C. did	D. are
86.	Mangosteens, ________ are my favourite fruit, are very expensive in Vietnam.
A. which	B. what	C. that	D. Ø
87.	The wedding, to ______ only members of the family were invited, took place last Saturday.
	A. which	B. that	C. who	D. whom
88.	Sunday is the day ________ I don’t have to get up early.
	A. that	B. where	C. which	D. when
89.	He would get mark 10 if he _______ again the paper. He made one mistake in it.
	A. read	B. is reading	C. reads	D. will read
90.	He _______ her an opportunity to work in his office if she had had English proficiency.
	A. would have given	B. would have gave	C. would give	D. gives
91.	He got good marks at his exams because all the lessons _____ carefully by him.
	A. are revised	B. had revised	C. had been revised	D. were revised
92.	Nowadays, young people are free to choose their mates and they are encouraged____at least at the age of 23.
	A. marrying	B. marry	C. to marry	D. married
93. The fishermen and their boats _______ were off the coast three days ago have just been reported to be missing
	A. which	B. that	C. who	D. whom
94. When I woke up and looked outside, the landscape had changed. The ground had been lightly_______ with a 
dusting of snow during the night.
A. covering	B. cover	C. covers	D. covered
95. Birds make nests in trees _________ they can hide their young in the leaves and branches.
	A. which	B. where	C. that	D. in where
96. If I ____________ it was a formal party, I _______________ jeans and a jumper.
	A. knew – wouldn’t have worn	C. had known – wouldn’t wear
	B. knew – wouldn’t wear	D. had known – wouldn’t have worn
97. Tom’s company will almost certainly fire him _____________ he improves his attitude.
	A. unless	B. or	C. if	D. if not
98. They _________________ time and money doing such a thing.
	A. were advised not to waste	C. were advising not to waste
	B. advised not to be wasted	D. were advised not wasting 
99. I’ll show you the trees which ________________________________ .
	A. were grown by John yesterday in the backyard	C. were grown in the backyard yesterday by John
	B. were grown in the backyard by John yesterday	D. were grown by John in the backyard yesterday
100. Did they say they ________________ me again ?
	A. will telephone	B. had telephoned	C. would telephone	D. telephoned
II. Choose the one word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct 
1. She is very lazy, she almost never help her mother with the household chores.
	A	 B	C	 D
2. Her father told her take the dog for a walk after breakfast.
A B C D
3. What would happen if the temperature is warmer?
 	 A B C D
4. When it was first establ