Đề kiểm tra học kỳ 1 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Đề 19 (Có đáp án)

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest.
1. 	A. eats	B. dates	C. days	D. kits
2. 	A. played	B. waited	C. phoned	D. involved
3. 	A. end	B. express	C. expensive	D. central
4. 	A. increase	B. position	C. pleasure	D. reason
5. 	A. lakes	B. houses 	C. photographs	D. cakes
Choose the best option:
6. ___________is a family unit that consists of a father, a mother, and their children.
	A. extended family	B. nuclear family	C. single-parent family	D. big family
7. There weren’t any ___________in the company for secretaries. 
	A. situations	B. spacies	C. vacancies	D. locations
8. We can use either verbal or non- verbal forms of communication to ___________someone’s attention.
	A. get 	B. attract	C. pay	D. both A and B
9. ___________where all children can attend without paying fees.
	A. Public schools	B. State schools	C. Independent schools	D. both A and C
10. She’s keen ___________playing with dolls.
 	A. on 	B. at	C. of	D. with
11. Helen asked me___________the film called “ Star Wars”.
	A. have I seen	B. have you seen	C. if I had seen	D. if had I seen
12. They were too late. The plane___________off ten minutes earlier.
	A. took	B. has taken	C. had taken	D. was taking
13. How long ago___________Susan?
	A. did you see	B. you saw	C. have you been seeing	D. would you see
14. How ___________since we ___________school?
	A. are you/left	B. have you been/.have left C. were you/left	D. have you been/left
15. If I had had a car, I___________you.
	A. would lend	B. would have lent	C. will lend	D. would have lended
16. He said that he ___________his bicycle.
	A. has lost	B. loses	C. had lost	D. lost
17.How are you? I haven’t seen you ___________ages.
	A. since 	B. for	C. in	D. at
18. When I came home, my father ___________a magazine.
	A. read	B. reads	C. was reading	D. has read 
19. The boy___________to the hospital yesterday is my brother.
	A. taken	B. taking	C. was taken	D. take
20. If I ___________a billionaire, I would help the disabled.
	A. was	B. be	C. am	D. were
Which sentence expresses the same idea as the given one ?
21. “ Don’t play video games all the time!” he said.
	A. He told the boy not to play video games all the time.	
	B. He said to the boy not play video games all the time.
	C. He told to the boy not to play video games all the time.
	D. He said the boy not play video games all the time.
22. “ Where are you going ?’’ he asked her.
	A. He asked her where she is going.	B. He asked her where you were going.
	C. He asked her where was she going.	D. He asked her where she was going.
23. They spent a lot of money on food and clothes.
	A. Money was spent a lot on food and clothes.	B. A lot of money was spent on food and clothes.
	C. A lot of money were spent on food and clothes.	D. A lot of money on food and clothes were spent.
24. It has been a long time since they met.
	A. They haven’t met since a long time.	B. They haven’t met for a long time.
	C. They didn’t meet for a long time.	D. They didn’t meet for a long time ago.
25. “They will build a new school in our town.”
	A. A new school will be build.	B. A new school is built in our town.
	C. A new school will be built in our town.	D. A new school will be build in our town.
Read the passages below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C, D.
Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made us of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communication accomplished through sign language in which motions stand for letters, words, and ideas. Tourists, the deaf, and the mute have had to resort to this form of expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.
Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally or unintentionally. A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking. A nod signifies approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction. Other forms of nonlinguistic language can be found in Braille ( a system of raised dots read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals. Road maps and picture signs also guide, warn, and instruct people.
While verbalization is the most common form of language, other systems and techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.
26. Which of the following best summarizes this passage ?
	A. When language is a barrier , people will find other forms of communication.
	B. Everybody uses only one form of communication.
	C. Nonlinguistic language is invaluable to foreigners.
	D. Although other forms of communication exist, verbalization is the fastest.
27. Which of the following statements is not true?
	A. There are many forms of communication in existence today.
	B. Verbalization is the most common form of communication.
	C. The deaf and mute use an oral form of communication.
	D. Ideas and thoughts can be transmitted by body language.
28. Which form other thanoral speech would be most commonly used among blind people ?
	A. picture signs	B. Braille	C. body language	D. signal flags
29. How many different forms of communication are mentioned here ?
	A. 5	B. 7	C. 9	D. 11
30. Sign language is said to be very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally except for__________.
	A. spelling	B. ideas	C. whole words	D. expressions
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE SINCE “DOI MOI”
The “ Doi Moi” policy has produced remarkable economic success. Macroeconomic and structural reforms initiated in the late 1980s (31) ______ stabilized the economy and yielded high levels of income growth. Not only has the economic decline of the 1980s been halted, but Vietnam has also become one of the fastest growing economies in the world with widespread and visible improvements in living (32) ______ for the large portion of the country’s population.
HIGH AND STABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
Despite the adverse impacts of the regional economic crisis that (33) ______ out in 1997, the country’s GDP increased by an average of 7% per year during the 1994-2004 period. The growth (34) was 8,4 % in 2005.
The share of GDP by economic sectors has been changing (35) ______. As a proportion of the economy, agriculture has (36) ______to 21.8% in 2004 from 40.8% in 1990. Industry (including construction) (37) ______up 40.1% of the economy, up from 22.8% in 1990 while the share of services increased slightly from 36.4% (38) ______ the same period. New services are (39) ______and expanding rapidly, such as insurance, auditing, consultancy, business development services (40) ______technology transfer.
31 	A. has	B. have	C. become	D. get
32. 	A. costs 	B. levels	C. standard	D. scales
33. 	A. broke 	B. took	C. acted	D. came
34. 	A. rank 	B. amount	C. number	D. rate
35. 	A. well 	B. positively	C. better	D. brightly
36. 	A. climbed 	B. moved 	C. dropped	D. been
37. 	A. took 	B. made	C. put 	D. look
38. 	A. during 	B. between	C. at 	D. while
39. 	A. existing 	B. coming	C. emerging	D. showing
40. 	A. too 	B. as well	C. also 	D. and
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