PRACTICE TEST FOR THE GIFTED TEST 1 - ĐỘI TUYỂN QUỐC GIA TIẾNG ANH 2015 - THPT LƯƠNG VĂN CHÁNH Mã A970367

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PRACTICE TEST FOR THE GIFTED

TEST 1

A. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

Part 1: Choose the word/ phrase that best completes each of the following sentences. Write your answer in

the corresponding numbered boxes.

1. We weren’t close friends but she ________ me well when I left college. A. hoped B. boded C. wished D. bade 2. I don’t want to be too ________ on Alice, but I think I should tell her that her work isn’t good enough. A. stringent B. stern C. strict D. hard 3. The management are making ________ to increase the company’s efficiency. A. measures B. steps C. moves D. deeds 4. I was told yesterday that the car had been fixed but it’s broken down ________ again! A. up B. still C. yet D. on 5. The anthology contains________ the work of modern poets, but it includes a few significant older works as well. A. mostly B. most C. at most D. uppermost 6. Son: “This herb smells horrible!” Mom: “Be that as it may, it will do you a ________ of good” . A. power B. wealth C. strike D. visit 7. As a matter of ________, we have six security guards on the premises at all times. A. wisdom B. prudence C. foresight D. acumen 8. It was such a sad movie that we were all reduced ________ tears. A. for B. with C. into D. to 9. She marched into the shops, as bold as ________, and demanded for her money back. A. bass B. grass C. brass D. glass 10. Jane is out in the garden mulling________ a problem to do ________work. A. over/ with B. away/ without C. in/to D. Into/for 11. It was the best holiday ever because for once everyone got along _____________. A. distinctively B. famously C. notoriously D. scandalously 12. She had a(n)______________ mind which kept her alert and well-informed even in old age. A. examining B. demanding C. enquiring D. querying 13. They say he was a _____________ dictator, but the catalogue of human rights abuses during his time in power contradicts this entirely. A. benevolent B. inhumane C. callous D. corrupt 14. She’s rather bitter and sarcastic, but when you consider what she’s been through, you can’t_____________ her A. hold it up to B. hand it to C. hand it down to D. hold it against 15. Some people regard double-barreled names, such as Armstrong-Jones, as a form of___________. A. aristocracy B. pretense C. snobbery D. elevation 16. Bad living conditions _________ social and welfare problems. A. give rise to B, give in to C. give up D. rise through 17. How voters will react to this latest political scandal ________ to be seen. A. is B. remains C. has D. waits

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18. The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I ________ a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below. A. go for B. make for C. join in D. see about 19. Ever since he'd given her that power of attorney she'd been ____________ herself. A. looking up B. getting above C. getting out D. looking out 20. Ministers have been fighting _______________ over this issue. A. ups and downs B. head and heels C. alive and kicking D. tooth and nail Part 2: The text below contains 5 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and write the corrections in the space

provided. (5 pts). There is an example at the beginning (0)

No educational media better serves as a means of spatial

communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with

such valueless information as population distribution and

density. One of the best, Pennycooke’s World Atlas, has been

widely accepted as a standard owing to the quality of its maps

and photographs, which not only show various settlements but

also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact, the very first

map in the atlas is a clever designed population cartogram that

projects the size of each country if geographical size were

proportional to population. Followed the proportional layout, a

sequence of smaller maps shows the world’s population density,

each country’s birth and death rates, population increase and

decrease, industrialization, urbanization, gross …