Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi Tiếng anh 7 – Đề 34 – Năm học 2011-2012

FIRST-TERM TEST 2

Choose the word having the underlined part pronouced differently in each line.(1p)

1.	A. leisure	B. decision	C. ensure	D. closure
2.	A. sauce	B. caught	C. author	D. aunty
3.	A. congestion	B. literature	C. action	D. architecture
4.A. fragile		B. fragrant	C. originate	D. vegetarian
5.	A. essential	B. dependent	C. shelter	D. heritage

Complete the sentences, using the correct form of the verbs given in the box (active or passive). Insert other words where necessary. (2p)

taste take make play visit try look touch swallow join

• I ………….several Vietnamese restaurants in Australia, but they are not the same as the ones in Viet Nam.
• This milk ………….a bit sour. Did somebody forget to put it back in the fridge?
• When Rivaldo wasn’t playing, Brazil were not the same team. He was the player that ………….the difference.
• Chess is a very popular game, now often ………….on the computer. King, queen, bishop and rook are the names of some of the pieces.
• Many youngers in my neighbourhood………….part in the volunteer campain this summer.
• You have got a bad cough. Do you have any trouble ………….?
• The Temple of Literature – the Imperial Academy ………….by thousands of foreign tourists last month.
• What are you doing here? I hope my things ………….not …………..
• My brother spends most of his free time doing karate. He ………….a club three years ago, and he’s just got his black belt.

10.I like ………….round secondhand bookshops in my spare time.

III.Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each blank in the text. (1p)

Clean Up the World is a community-based, environmental campaign that inspires and empowers communities around the globe to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment. Clean Up the World (1) …………in 1993, and now it is one of the largest community-based environmental campaign in the world. The campaign’s main (2)…………is Clean Up the World Weekend, celebrated globally on the 3rd weekend in September each year; however, Clean Up the World (3) …………and supports groups to carry out activities throughout the year. Organisations and groups can join Clean Up the World, with free membership (4)…………non-business organisations. The Clean Up the World campaign brings together businesses, community groups, schools and government in a range of (5) …………and programs that positively improve local environments. By facilitating local action, Clean Up the World brings about global environmental change.

1. A. establish		B. established	C. is established	D. was established
2.	A. event	B. occasion	C. service	D. time
3.	A. donates	B. encourages	C. benefits	D. volunteers
4.	A. in	B. for	C. with	D. by
5.	A. works	B. collections	C. activities	D. situations

IV.Fill each gap with a suitable word to complete the passage.

Oxford University, located in Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is known to begin in 1096. Oxford University maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free (1) ……………the public. The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world. It has significant

(2)……………of art, including works by Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, Tumer, and Picasso. The University Museum of Natural History holds the University’s zoological. Entomological and geological specimens. Among its collection (3)……………the skeletons of a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, and the most complete remains of a dodo found anywhere in the world. The Museum of the History of Science contains 15,000 artifacts, from antiquity to the 20th (4)……………, representing almost all aspects of the history of science. In the Faculty of Music is the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, a collection mostly of (5)……………from Western classical music. Christ Church Picture Gallery holds a collection of over 200 old master paintings.

V.Choose the best option A, B, C or D to finish the sentences. (2p)

1. The main ……………of measles is little red spots all over your body.

A. problem

B. signal

C. symtom                      

D. inflection

2. The person who directs the performance of an orchestra is the ……………

A. conductor

B. director

C. composer                 

D. musician

3. Probably the most famous ……………in the world is Mona Lisa in the Louvre.

A. smile

B. person

C. photo                         

D. portrait

• Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation, country music has certain common features ……………its own special character.

A. give it that

B. that give it

C. give which              

D. that gives it to

5. Isabel expected ……………to the university, but she……………

A. to be admitted – didn’t

C. to admit herself – didn’t

B. to be admitted – wasn’t

D. being admitted – wasn’t

6. ……………we see them at the gym every week, we don’t know their names.

A. Because

B. Although

C. But                              

D. And

• My mouth is burning! This is such ……………food that I don’t think I can finish it.

A. delicious

B. spicy

C. sweet                         

D. tasteless.

8. I don’t lile rugby and John doesn’t like it …………

A. too

B. also

C. still                              

D. either

9. It is known that mathematics ……………as early as the 6th century B.C.

A. teach

B. taught

C. is taught

D. was taught

10. Van Gogh …………The Sunflowers and many other famous pictures.

A. painted

B. designed

C. composed                

D. took

Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question. (2p)

Pets are kept by many people for pleasure or for pastime. They keep and nurse them at home as a hobby. Some people have special breeds of dogs or cats as pets while others rear birds in cages.

In keeping pets we need to take special care. We have to feed them with the right food at proper times. Any failure on our part could endanger their life. We have to protect them from their enemies. Furthermore, the pets and their cages have to be kept clean. This is to prevent the attack of any diseases from unhygienic surroundings.

If we understand their habits it is easy for us to handle them. Keeping pets

gives us an opportunity to be kind to these creatures. We might learn more about the life and needs of pets. Those who keep birds like parrots are likely to read books about rearing them. Such people do not hesitate to spend money, time and energy for the well-being of their pets.

1.What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Ways of feeding pets

B. Keeping pets as a hobby

C. Preventing attack of diseases

D. Reading books about rearing birds

2. Which of the following is not true, accoring to the passage?

A. Keeping dogs and cats as a hobby

B. Feeding pets properly is important

C. We should know about our pets’ life and needs

D. If we fail to take car of pets, their life is dangerous

3. Our pets may get sick their surroundings are ……………..

A. attacked

B. prevented

C. not clean                  

D. not special

4. Keeping pets is easy if we ………………….

A. understand their habits

C. read books about them

B. give them an opportunity

D. spend more money for them

5. The word “rearing” in the passage is closest in meaning to…….

A. giving food to

C. looking for

B. taking care of

D. learning about

VII.Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. (1p)

1. You’re the best guitarist in the school.

=>No one………………………………………………………

• He didn’t remember anything about it, and I didn’t, either. =>He forgot ………………………………………………………
• School uniforms don’t have to be worn at all times.

=> Students………………………………………………………

4.Don’t fry food which can be grilled =>Avoid………………………………………………………

• With luck, she will win the cookery competition. => If ………………………………………………………

VIII. Write a paragraph about the biography of Vivien Leigh- a famous actress. Base your biography on the following. (1p)

• Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) – born November 5th, 1913, India
• At age 3: first appeared on stage
• In 1931: first played in a British film The Village Squire, had different roles in many films after that.
• In 1939: became successful in Gone with the Wind and won Academy Award for Best Actress.
• Died July 7th, 1967- age 53 – London

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