A. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the rest by writing your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box.

A. excursion
B. fur
C. hurt
D. bury


A. seizure
B. measure
C. confusion
D. tension


A. food
B. mood
C. foot
D. shoot


A. thus
B. thick
C. thing
D. thin


A. off
B. of
C. safe
D. knife


A. daughter
B. laughter
C. taught
D. caught


A. promise
B. devise
C. surprise
D. realise

II. Choose the word that has different stress pattern in each line.

A. suggest
B. report
C. profit
D. career


A. volcano
B. jungle
C. marine
D. surround


A. attend
B. public
C. damage
D. practice

B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box.
1. “ Who sings best in your school?” – “Mai ………..”
A. sings
B. is
C. has
D. does

2. “ Will you come to the party tomorrow?” – “ I will if I ……….. no visitors.”
A. have
B. will have
C. had
D. am having

3. Please, ask them ……….. in this area.
A. don’t smoke
B. not smoke
C. to not smoke
D. not to smoke

4. I think he ……….. better not encourage the students to take extra lessons.
A. will
B. should
C. could
D. had

5. Every body in both cars ……….. injured in the accident last night.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were

6. ……….. to have lunch with us today?
A. Do you like
B. Would you like
C. Will you like
D. Have you like

7. Let’s go out for a walk, ……….. ?
A. do we
B. don’t we
C. won’t we
D. shall we

8. Drinking and smoking will do great harm ……….. people’s health.
A. to
B. for
C. with
D. in

9. He always ………..
A. avoids to meet me
B. avoiding to meet me
C. avoids meeting me
D. to avoid meeting me

10. My parents are going to take three days ……….. next month to help my brother move his house.
A. at
B. over
 C. off
D. out

11. In my class, Trung was responsible ……….. the teacher ……….. keeping the class in order while she went out.
A. to/ for
B. to/ in
 C. with/ for
D. for/ for

12. The scheme allows students from many countries to communicate ………..
A. with other
B. themselves
 C. each other
D. with one another

13. Have you ever read anything ……….. Earnest Hemmingway?
A. by
B. of
 C. from
D. for

14. Not a good movie, ……….. ?
A. did it
B. didn’t it
 C. was it
D. wasn’t it

15. Hurry up! They have only got ……….. seats left.
A. a lot of
B. a few
 C. a little
D. plenty of

II. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find and write your answers in the numbered box. (10 p)
1. Would you mind if I help her solve these mathematics problems?
A B C D
2. Christmas songs are performed for people in towns and villages eight hundred years ago. A B C D
3. Do you remember to try this kind of food somewhere else before?
A B C D
4. The police have not found the stealing jewels since last Monday.
A B C D
5. There was no explaination for his absence from class yesterday.
A B C D
III. Supply the correct tense or form of the verb given in brackets. (10 p)
1. When Mary (arrive) ………….... here, you (show) ………….... her to her room?
2. The last time she (see)