Đề kiểm tra trắc nghiệm Tiếng Anh 12, unit 11: Books (Đề 2)

A. PHONETICS
 
1-5. Pick out the word whose underlined and bold part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.
 
1. A. dew                   B. threw                       C. flew                        D. grew
 
2. A. scheme            B. school                    C. schedule                    D. scholar
 
7 A. forget            B. forty       C. former    D. fortunate
 
4. A. addition       B. advantage        C. advertise                   D. adventure
 
5 A. breathe         B. breath              C. thank               D. threat
 
6-10. Pick out the words. word that has the stress differently from that of the other
 
6. A. imagine        B. opinion            C. incredible         D. wilderness
 
7. A. personality B. amazingly        C. information      D. conversation
 
8. A. recommend B. thoroughly       C. travelling         D. fascinate
 
9. A. fiction                    B. comic               C. thriller              D. affair
 
10. A. unnoticed   B. reunited  C. incredible        D. survival
 
B. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE
 
11 - 25. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence.
 
11. A …. is a person who likes reading very much.
A. worm     B. librarian                    C. bookworm       D. bookbinder
 
12. He had the satisfaction of seeing his novel become …..  .
A. a best-seller               B. a best-selling book
C. a best sale                  D. A and B
 
13. She sat in the dentist's waiting room, nervously ….. her nails.
A. chewing at       B. biting      C. swallowing      D. A and B
 
14. Discover how eating raw food helps balance your body and ….  digestion.
A. aids .      B. increases                    C. rises       D. All are correct
 
15. Jekyll and Hyde is the classic tale of a man with a ….. personality.
A. mixed     B. multiple           C. split        D. B and C
 
16. I read an interesting …… of information in the newspaper.
A. bit                    B. piece       C. item                 D. A and B
 
17. Spread your visit to the museum over two days if you want to avoid information ………
A. overload                    B. overloaded       C. sufficiency       D. bulk
 
18. These books are …… reading for students of architecture.
A. compulsory     B. required C. must       D. A and B
 
19. Don’t come into the compartment; the berth …..now.
A. is being fixed             B. has been fixed
C. is fixed                      D. is being fixing
 
20. A new underground line ….. now. They say one of its stations ….in my street.
A. is constructed – will be built
B. is being constructed – has been built
C. is being constructed – will be built
D. will be constructed – to be built
 
21. He wants to know when the final decision….. The activities of the committee and their delays already …..about.
A. has been taken – have spoken  B. will be taken – have been spoken
C. will be taken – will be spoken  D. is taken – have been spoken
 
22. It was three o’clock. We …..to hurry up because we …..
A. were told – were being waited  B. had been told – were waited
C. were told – were waiting  D. told – were being waited
 
23. Do you believe that such a problem can …..?
A. solve      B. be solving        C. is solved                    D. be solved  
 
24. It must ….without delay.
A. be done B. have been done C. do D. be doing
 
25. When I came, an experiment ….in the lab.
A. was being holding   B. has been held
C. was being held        D. has held                                                               
                                                                                                                                         
26 - 30. Choose the underlined part among A, B, c or D that needs correcting.
 
26. Buying clothes are often a very time-consuming practice because those
                               A                 B                                                  C
clothes that a person likes are rarely the ones that fit him or her.
                                                 D
 
27. Because they had spent too many time considering the new contract, the
         A                                        B                    C
students lost the opportunity to lease the apartment.
                            D .
 
28. These televisions are all too expensive for we to buy at this time.
              A                                 B                           C                  D
 
29. After she had bought himself a new car, she sold her bicycle.
                         A                B                             C         D
 
30. The next important question we have to decide is when do we have to submit the proposal.
                       A                                      B                                        C               D

31 - 35. Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.

30. Most people get fewer colds in summer than in winter.
A. A person is more likely to get a cold in winter.
B. More people have summer colds than winter colds.
C. People get colder in summer than in winter.
D. Winter is much colder than summer.
 
31. Most students in the class get good marks, but Thomas is the exception.
A. Thomas made the best mark in his class.
B. Thomas is an exceptionally good students.
C. Thomas’s classmates receive good marks, but he doesn’t.
D. Thomas is one of the better students in his class.
 
32. Throughout his life, the fisherman suffered from great poverty.
A. The fisherman life was one of great poverty.
B. The fisherman was so poor that died young.
C. Although the fisherman was poor, he lied a great life.
D. Poverty prevented the fisherman from enjoying life.
 
33. It doesn’t matter to them which film they go to.
A. No matter what films are shown, they never go.
B. They have a good taste for films.
C. They don’t mind which film they go to.
D. Which film they go to matters more than the cost.
 
34. With six children on her hands, she’s extremely busy.
A. She's very busy because she always carries her six children.
B. Her six children's hands always make her busy.
C. She's too busy to look after her six children.
D. With the six children to look after, she’s extremely busy.
 
C. READING
 
36 - 45. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
 
Many parents believe that they should begin to teach their children to read when they are (36)….. more than toddlers. This is fine if the child shows a real interest but (37)…… a child could be counter-productive if he isn’t ready. Wise parents will have a (38)….. attitude and take the lead from their child. What they should provide is a selection of (39)….. toys, books and other activities. Nowadays there is a plenty of good (40)….. available for young children, and of course, seeing plenty of books in use about the house will also (41)…..  them to read.
 
Of course, books are no longer the only (42)….. of stories and information. There Js also a huge range of videos, which can (43)…. And extend the pleasure a child finds in a book and are (44)… valuable in helping to increase vocabulary and concentration. Television gets a bad (45)…. as far as children are concerned, mainly because too many children spend too much time watching programmes not intended for their age group.
 
36. A. scarcely               B. rarely               C. slightly             D. really
 
37. A. insisting              B. forcing             C. making             D. starting
 
38. A. cheerful               B. contented         C. relaxed             D. hopeful
 
39. A. bright                  B. thrilling            C. energetic                    D. stimulating
 
40. A. material               B. sense                C. produce           D. amusement
 
41' A. provoke               B. encourage        C. provide            D. attract
 
42 A. source                  B. site                   C. style                 D. basis
 
43 A uphold                  B. found               C. reinforce                    D. assist
 
44. A. properly              B. worthily           C. perfectly                   D. equally
 
45 A. review                  B. press                C. criticism                    D. result
 
46 - 50. Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question about the passage:
 
A good deal of fascinating research has been done about the reading patterns of young people, and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing preferences for particular kinds of books. A recent report which examined in detail the reading habits of primary-school children, showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have clear views about what they want to read. Girls, in general, read more, and far more girls than boys preferred reading stories. Boys were showing a taste for the more instant appeal of picture stories, or else books about their hobbies.
 
These tastes continue unchanged until girls are teenagers. Apparently girls read more in general, but more fiction in particular. You could say that there are more opportunities for girls to read fiction: magazines encourage the fiction habits in girls in their early teens, and by their late teens they have probably moved on to the adult women’s magazines. Teenage boys tend to buy magazines about their hobbies: motorcycles, heavy transport and so on.
 
Adult reading tastes are also the subject of research. Again the number of women who read for pleasure is considerably higher than the number of men. Ít seems that the majority of women still want love stories. There has also been some analysis of what men actually read. Apparently only 38 percent of men read anything, but 50 percent of what they read is fiction in the form of action-packed stories of space or gunmen.
 
46. Recent research into children’s reading has showed that they …….
A. start to read at a very early age
B. have formed their reading tastes by the time they are seven
C. examine in detail what they read at school
D. can read clearly and distinctly in primary school .
 
47. A close look at the reading habits of boys and girls shows that …….
A. schools give more encouragement to girls than to boys
B. magazines appeal more to boys than girls
C. picture stories appeal more to girls than boys
D. girls are more interested in fiction than boys
 
48. Research into adult reading habits has showed that…..
A. the majority of men read nothing at all
B. women do not read about their hobbies
C. 38% of men have difficulty in reading
D. men prefer to read about current affair
 
49. According to the passage , …………..
A. far more boys than girls are interested in love stories
B. there are more opportunities for girls to buy magazines than for men
C. children generally don’t care what they should read
D. teenage boys show a taste for magazines about their hobbies
 
50. The word “fascinating” means most nearly the same as ……
A. having a lot of action
B. having a lot of information
C. having great attraction
D. having great pleasure