PRACTICE TEST 12

I. Choose the best answer:

1. Annette is a short story writer. She ______ several books of short stories, and she ______ several
rewards for her books.
A. wrote/ won B. has written/ won
C. writes/ win D. has written/ has won
2. At the moment, she ______ a detective story.
A. writes B. wrote C. is writing D. has written
3. Linh ______ in Hanoi but her brother Minh ______ in Thai Nguyen.
A. lives/ is living B. lives/ lives C. living/ living D. live/ living
4. I have to leave before seven, so ______.
A. can you B. do you C. are you D. have you
5. My brother is not keen ______ pop music.
A. to listen B. listening to C. on listening D. on listening to
6. You ______ better be careful not to miss the train.
A. would B. should C. did D. had
7. It is written English, which is not systematically phonetic that ______ difficulties to foreigners.
A. causes B. gives C. makes D. does
8. Isaac Newton was an English physicist ______ theory of gravitation is famous throughout the
world.
A. which B. who C. whose D. that
9. ______ among young people is now a serious problem in many countries in the world.
A. Employ B. Employment C. Unemployed D. Unemployment
10. John is from England. He is not used ______ on the right side of the road.
A. to drive B. to driving C. of driving D. driving
11. I'm glad. I've succeeded ______ persuading him to phone her.
A. in B. at C. with D. of
12. It rained so ______ that after only half an hour everywhere was flooded.
A. heavy B. heavier C. heavily D. more heavily
13. Are you free ______ Saturday evening?
A. in B. at C. on D. for
14. His father was a farmer who died before his son's birth. His mother, uncle and grandmother
took care ______ him
A. for B. after C. of D. in
15. His son became famous ______ the age of 21.
A. with B. at C. for D. in
16. In 1669 Isaac Newton was appointed professor and began giving lectures ______ mathematics.
A. on B. for C. in D. with
17. He wasn't interested in ______ until he grew older.
A. mathematics B. mathematician C. mathematical D. mathematic
18. You look ______ in a new dress.
A. more beautiful B. beautify C. beautifully D. more beautifully
19. His first ______ experiment was carried out in 1658.
A. physics B. physician C. physical D. physicist
20. ______ who invented the steam engine, was a famous Scottish inventor.
A. James Watt B. Faraday C. M. Curie D. Einstein
21. If you let an object off your hand, it will certainly ______.
A. fall B. fly C. run D. move
22. If our sources of energy ends, our life ______.
A. will destroyed B. destroys C. will destroy D. will be destroyed
23. Mary looks very ______.
A. success B. successful C. successfully D. sadly
24. Children enjoy ______ in the river.
A. swim B. swimming C. swam D. to swim
25. I ______ many young men since I came here in June.
A. has seen B. saw C. have seen D. see
26. Sleep is ______ to our health.
A. necessity B. necessary C. necessarily D. necessitate
27. Football is one of the most ______ games of English people.
A. popular B. popularly C. popularity D. popularize
28. We ______ English as an effective means of communication.
A. speak B. have C. study D. find
29. She tried to work ______ so that she could pass the exam.
A. hardly B. harden C. hard D. hardship
30. The peace ______ Oxford once knew has been swept.
A. which B. who C. whom D. where
31. Those are your shoes, ______?
A. aren't those B. aren't you C. aren't they D. are not they
32. If man continue cutting down forests, the life on the earth ______ affected.
A. will be B. would be
C. could be D. would have been
33. Hyde Park has Speakers' corner ______ one may say anything one pleases.
A. which B. that C. when D. where
34. English ______ in many parts of the world.
A. speaks B. is spoken C. is speaked D. is speaking
35. Someone has stolen my bicycle. My bicycle ______.
A. has stolen B. has been stole
C. have been stolen D. has been stolen
36. A/ An ______ is a person who gives lectures, especially at a university or college.
A. story teller B. orator C. lecturer D. speaker
37. I'm fed up with ______ the same TV programme every night.
A. watch B. watching C. to watch D. watched
38. He'd like to buy a ______ newspaper.
A. week B. dayly C. weekly D. day
39. A person who studies life of plants and animals is called a ______.
A. geologist B. physicist C. biologist D. chemist
40. This is my friend, ______ I went to the zoo yesterday.
A. with whom B. whom C. who D. whose
41. The earth moves round the sun without ______
A. stoping B. stop C. to stop D. stopping
42. She is ______ to come from city.
A. likely B. like C. seem D. alike
43. I don't know where ______from.
A. does she come B. she does comes C. she comes D. is she comes
44. Michael's afraid ______ spiders.
A. about B. from C. for D. of
45. I remember ______ him before.
A. to have seen B. saw C. to see D. seeing
II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer:
 Mercury is the smallest member of the sun's family. It is only 3.100 miles across. It is also
the sun's swiftest planet. Its yearly journey round the sun is only 85 days.
Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun. On this side it is always day, on the other
side always night. We only see the lighted side.
Mercury appears to us like a yellowish orange star. The nearest planet to the sun, it is
always seen near the sun, either just before sunrise or soon after sunset. People sometimes call
mercury the morning star or evening star.
Mercury is half the size of the earth. Because it is much lighter, it has much less gravity. If
you can visit Mercury in a spaceship, you will find it a strange world. Its low gravity makes you feel
very light. If your weight on earth is 100 pounds, your weight on Mercury is only 27 pounds.
Looking at the sun from Mercury, you can see that it's much more brilliant than it is seen
from the earth. And the yellow centre of the sun appears three times bigger from Mercury.
On its lighted side, Mercury's temperature is about 300 degrees centigrate. But the dark
side is extremely cold, but 150 degrees below zero so mercury is probably the coldest as well as
the hottest of the planets.
46. A. Mercury is ______
A. the sun's fastest planet B. the coldest planet
C. the hottest planet D. all are correct
47. We cannot see the dark side of Mercury because ______.
A. it moves very fast.
B. it always appears just before sunrise or soon after sunset.
C. it always keeps one side towards the sun.
D. it is too far for us to see.
48. When can we see Mercury? - We can see it ______.
A. just before the sunset B. just before sunrise
C. after the sunset D. both B and C are correct
49. Why do we weigh much on the earth than on Mercury? - Because ______.
A. Mercury is nearer to the sun.
B. Mercury has got less gravity than the earth.
C. Mercury is much hotter.
D. none are correct.
50. Why does the sun look bigger when it is seen from Mercury?
- Because ______.
A. Mercury is the smallest planet of the sun
B. Mercury is nearer to the sun
C. Mercury is a light planet
D. it only takes Mercury 88 days to move round the sun

PRACTICE TEST 13
I. Choose the best answer:
1. The city is now crowded with people who ______for employment.
A. are looking B. is looking C. look D. were looking
2. What ______when I phoned last night?
A. you were doing B. did you do C. were you doing D. you doing
3. It is 10 p.m. I ______for two hours.
A. am studying B. was studying
C. studied D. have been studying
4. I ______a very good programme on TV last night.
A. saw B. see C. see D. was seeing
5. While I ______this morning, I lost my money. I don't know how.
A. shopped B. was shopping C. am shopping D. shopping
6. Last week the police ______Alan in his car because he ______at over eighty miles an hours.
A. stoped/ drove B. was stopping/ driving
C. stopped/ was driving D. stopped/ drove
7. What's that smell? - Something ______in the kitchen.
A. are burnt B. are burning C. burns D. is burning
8. He ______thirty cigarettes a day.
A. smoke B. smoked C. is smoking D. smokes
9. He spends two hours a day ______the piano.
A. to practise B. practise C. practising D. practised
10. If we don't stop ______down trees, forests ______.
A. to cut/ will disappear B. cutting/ disappear
C. cutting/ would disappear D. cutting/ will disappear
11. He often ______to the zoo on Sunday when he was a boy.
A. goes B. was going C. went D. is going
12. I don't know Carol's husband. I ______him.
A. never meet B. never have met
C. never met D. have never met
13. Hello, Susan. Is Alan here? - No. I'm afraid, he ______out.
A. goes B. went C. going D. has gone
14. What is ______at the cinema tonight?
A. at B. on C. for D. in
15. We saw her ______ football in the schoolyard.
A. to play B. play C. is playing D. playing
16. This town is famous ______its beautiful resort.
A. as B. in C. for D. at
17. I'm sorry ______breaking the disk.
A. about B. for C. in D. of
18. I liked T-shirt ______he was wearing.
A. what B. that C. who D. whose
19. You ______better be careful not to miss the train.
A. would B. had C. should D. did
20. I've never eaten this food before.
A. It's the first time I've eaten this food.
B. It's the most tasty food I've ever eaten.
C. I've never eaten such a good food before.
D. The food is so good that I've never eaten before.
21. It was ______to see him again.
A. wonder B. wonderful C. wonderfully D. more wonder
22. People are ______to discover an intelligent life on the other planets.
A. liking B. liked C. unlike D. unlikely
23. If they knew the danger, they would do it ______.
A. differ B. differently C. different D. difference
24. ______, he didn't get an accident.
A. Lucky B. Unlucky C. Luckily D. Luckyly
25. If we find out the remedy, we would save thousands of people's lives and bring ______to many
people.
A. happy B. happyness C. happily D. happiness
26. The leading causes of ______in many developing countries are now heart disease.
A. die B. dead C. death D. deadly
27. Smoking cigarette is ______to our heath.
A. harm B. harmful C. harmless D. unharm
28. English has become an ______language in many countries.
A. office B. officer C. official D. officially
29. Fresh air is of great ______to our health.
A. use B. useful C. useless D. disused
30. ______is better than the cure.
A. Prevent B. Preventing C. Prevention D. To prevent
31. Lack of ______would lead to the rapid advance of the process of extinction.
A. to attend B. attending C. attention D. attendance
32. Many wild animals are in ______of extinction.
A. dangerous B. danger C. endanger D. dangerously
33. Bacterial are very ______to our life.
A. help B. helped C. helpful D. helpless
34. Some people are ______in animals than in other people.
A. more interest B. more interesting C. interest D. more interested
35. The lessons this year are longer and more difficult than ______of last year.
A. lessons B. that C. these D. those
36. There ______a lot of changes in the past few years.
A. has been B. was C. were D. have been
37. Can you tell me what time ______?
A. did they arrive B. they did arrive C. they arriving D. they arrived
38. I'll phone you when I ______in Paris.
A. arriving B. arrive C. am arriving D. will arrive
39. Who is it?
A. It's she B. She's Marry C. It's Marry D. I'm Marry
40. New Zealand is a/ an ______country.
A. speak English B. English spoken
C. speaking English D. English speaking
II. Read the following passage and choose A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps:
Five thousand (41) ______gathered in a demonstration in front of Parliament House to (42)
______the increase in the price of wheat export. Most of them were (43) ______the North
Eastern part of the country (44) ______has just been hit heavily by the snow fall.
Mr. Naruan, Head of the Wheat Growers' Union of the area (45) ______ our reporter that if
the government had agreed to increase the price of wheat export and lowered the price of machine
import, the farmers' life (46) ______not have been so hard (47). ______also said due to the
government's policy, hundreds of farmers were prepared to (48) ______the country- farming area
in the country (49) ______abandoned. Dairy farming would (50) ______the same problem.
41. A. workers B. farmers C. teachers D. doctors
42. A. ask B. demanding C. demand D. demanded
43. A. at B. from C. on D. for
44. A. which B. who C. whose D. where
45. A. said B. spoke C. tell D. told
46. A. will B. can C. would D. had
47. A. He B. They C. It D. She
48. A. left B. leaving C. leave D. go
49. A. be B. is C. was D. were
50. A. to face B. facing C. faced D. face