Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 1 BÀI TẬP NÂNG CAO KIẾN THỨC ANH VĂN I. Choose one word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest 1. A.lose B.vote C.control D.social 2. A.rear B.bear C.gear D.year 3. A.please B.peace C.seat D.spread 4. A.deny B.legal C.respect D.better 5. A.overlooks B.beliefs C.towards D.rights II. Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern 1. A. neglect B.nonsense C.rubbish D.status 2. A.cultural B.advocate C.involvement D.childbearing 3. A.discriminate B.intellectual C.philosopher D.enlightenment 4. A.consumption B.consider C.establish D. atmosphere 5. A.economic B.recognition C.continuous D.diplomatic III. Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences 1. Mary is excited about going back home to see her family. She leaves New York next Sunday. A.at B.in C.to D.for 2. Angela has applied several jobs in the airline industry, but she hasn’t got interview yet. A.to B.with C.of D.for 3. Poor Peter. Noone laughed his history evethough it was supposed to be funny. A.over B.at C.from D.about 4. It’svery difficult to discuss serious matters John. He always tries to make jokes. A.to B.about C.with D.at 5. Army helicopters were bought in to help search the missing children. A.for B.to C.in D.on 6. Yeasterday we had to for the bus for 30 minutes. A.glance B.wait C.point D.apply 7. He carefully explained the regulations me. A.of B.for C.to D.with 8. Some of my friends me to the symphony. A.threw B.spoke C.listened D.invited 9. The boy threw the ball me and I easily caught it. A.for B.to C.at D.with 10. I could see him at me and telling the other guests what I said. A.pointing B.talking C.waiting D.with IV.Complete the following sentences with correct prepositions: 1. How much did you pay that beautiful dress? 2. A: Did you talk the manager returning that book? B: No, He didn’t arrive the bookstore while I was there. I waited him for half an hour and then left. 3. I listened you very carefully, but I didn’t understand anything you said. 4. When I graduated university, my father and mother told everyone we knew that I had graduated. 5. A: This sauce is delicious! B: Well, it consisits tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice all blended together. 6. There were ten people at the meeting and ten different opinions. Noone agreed anyone else the best way to solve the club’s financial problems. 7. I have to complain the mangager. Both the food and the service are terrible. 8. We’ve invited only family members our party. I hope our friends aren’t offended. 9. Please don’t argue. I insist lending you the money for your vacation. 10. That thin coat you’re wearing won’t protect you the bitter cold wind. V. Each sentence below contains an error. Underline it and the correct answer in the space provided. 1. Tomorrow I’m going to ask my father about a ride to school. 1/ 2. The restaurant owner talked over the management changes with her staff. 2/ Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 2 3. I couldn’t understand why they were all laughing about. 3/ 4. I must remember to listen up to the news at noon. 4/ 5. I intend to speak for the manager about the way I have been treated. 5/ 6. She is so busy that she doesn’t have time to write for her friends. 6/ 7. Mr. Thanh arrived in the airport early he wouldn’t miss his flight. 7/ 8. I woke up frightened after I dreamed for falling off the roof of a building. 8/ 9. When Tom lost his job, it took him several weeks to get by the shock. 9/ 10. Our office will need several days to look up your request for medical report. 10/ VI. Complete each sentence with the correct form of one of the verbs in the list and the correct preposition. Use each verb once only. accuse apologise belong concentrate object operate recover remind resign succeed 1. Maria her job after she was offered another with more responsinility and a higher salary. 2. You must the road when you are driving! 3. The surgeon her immediately and saved her life. 4. It will take her weeks to such a major operation so she won’t be back at work for some time. 5. I’ve kept the lugguage label as a souvenir to me the wonderful holiday we had. 6. After trying for an hour Jane fianally starting the car. 7. Some guests have having to pay extra to use this swimming pool. I’m not surprised they are annoyed! 8. That coat Trung and this is Phong’s. 9. He wrote a letter all the trouble he had caused and asking her to forgive him. 10. The policeman him breaking into the house but he said he could prove he had been somewhere else. VII. Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. WOMEN DOCTORS Throughout history have had (0) – responsibility – RESPONSE for healing the sick. Howerver, it is only in (1) COMPARE recent times that they have been allowed to train as doctors at (2) MEDICINE schools in Britain. Yet in that short time, they have made an enormous (3) CONTRIBUTE to modern medicine. The first female doctors were priestesses who gave (4) ADVISE about diseases and (5) INJURE prepared medicines. In ancient Roman, women healers were considered (6) SKILL and respected. In Britain, for centuries male doctors were (7) SUSPECT of women and who practised medicine (8) PROFESSION and in 1512 a law was passed making it (9) LEGAL for them to do so. Women couldn’t study medicine at universities until the 19 th century and they only began to gain (10) EQUAL with male doctors in the 20 th century. VII. Fill in each numberd blank of the following passage with a suitable word. Women hold up half of the sky. This is an old Chinese saying. However, research (1) that perhaps women do more than their share of “holding up the sky”. In 1975, the United Nations (2) the Decade for women. In 1985, it published a report on the conditions and (3) of women throughout the world. Some of the news in the report is very good. For (4) , 90 per cent of all countries now have official organisations to improve the live of women. More than half of the countires have laws to (5) the rights of women. Ninety per cent of the countries have passed laws to give women equal pay (6) equal work. WHO (World Health Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) have programs to (7) the health of people in the Third World countries, especially women and children. Half of the women in the world now have birth-control (8) available. Forty-one per cent of the children in schools now are girls, a big change form the past, (9) in many countries education was not available to girls. The report also has bad news. (10) most countries have official organizations to improve women’s lives, many of these organizations don’t do (11) . Fifty per cent of the world’s population (12) women, but in nearly two-thirds of all working hours the work is done by women. They do Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 3 (13) of the domestic work, for example, cooking and washing clothes. Millions also work (14) the home. Women hold 35 per cent of all the world’s jobs. For this work, they earn only 40 to 60 per cent as (15) as men, and of course they earn nothing for their domestic work. IX. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. The Women’s Liberation movement has become an important social movement (1) much of the world today. In the past few decades, it has become one of the most important social movement in the U.S. Women have been (2) for equal rights in the United States since the early 1900s, but it was really in the 1960s and 1970s that women began to (3) equal rights and treatment in the fields of politics, education, employment, and the home. As for the field of politics, today’s politicians are well (4) that women have become a powerful political force in this century. One of the reasons for this is that there are about 70 million women of voting age. There are, (5) , 7 million more women of voting age then there are men of voting age in the U.S today. Not only are there more women voting age these days and (6) the political structure of the country, but more of them are becoming (7) educated. Today’s young American women is much more (8) to be a college student than her mother was. In 1950, only 7% of all womeneighteen to twenty-four years old were (9) in college. By 1980, 30% of all women in this age group were college students. To be sure, this is 2,3 million fewer than the (10) of American men with college degrees, but the number is growing each year. 1. A.over B.throughout C.above D.in all 2. A.competing B.playingq C.fighting D.shooting 3. A.gain B.enhance C.win D.maintain 4. A.amused B.fond C.worried D.aware 5. A.of course B.in fact C.however D.consequently 6. A.influencing B.obeying C.promising D.powering 7. A.more B.better C.farther D.greater 8. A.equally B.hopefully C.likely D.brightly 9. A.attended B.entered C.matriculated D.enrolled 10. A.number B.sum C.total D.datum X. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Use the word given and other words as necessary. Do not change the form of the given word. 1. Joseph is giong to Athens for graduate work in archeology LEAVING 2. Why is that man continuing to look at me? STARING 3. I checked ten books out of the library. I’ll return them next week. BORROWED 4. Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. CONSISTS 5. The skiers wanted snow for the holiday weekend, but it rained instead. HOPE 6. Paul rewrote the French book in English. TRANSLATED 7. I don’t understand the reference of this phrase. TO 8. Collecting stamps gives me a lot of pleasure. DERIVE 9. You haven’t explained exactly how the money disappear. ACCOUNTED 10. The death of over fifty people were caused by the storm. RESULTED XI. Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question. DYING FOR THE VOTE The suffragette movement started in the middle of the 19 th century. Women demanded not only the right to vote, but also better education for girls. However, there was strong opinion. Many men argued that women were less intelligent and more emotional than men, and therefore could not make important decisions. The first suffragettes believed in being legal and peaceful. They used to write letters to Parliament and organize petitions. Nothing happened. Nobody noticed them. By 1903, a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Chirstabel and Sylvia decided they needed publicity for their cause. They encouraged women to break the law. Soon the newspapers were full of shocking stories about these new-style suffragettes. Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 4 What did they do? They marched through the streets. They used to paint VOTE FOR WOMEN on walls, and break shop windows. Some women chained themselves to the railings outside Parliament and 10 Downing Street. They had to be very courageous, because angry crowds came and threw tomatoes, eggs, and flour at them. Many women went to prison. There they refused to eat, and so prison officers used rubber tubes to force food into them. The most shocking event was on Derby Day in June 1913. A suffragette called Emily Davison ran in front of the King’s horse and was killed. She was the first martyr for the cause. Gradually, opinion changed. Many membersof Parliament now wanted votes for women, but still nothing happened. During the First World War, women had to do men’s jobs, and they did them well. It was only after this that women aged thirty and over got the vote. Ten more years passed before, in 1928, women of twenty-one could vote. 1. The suffragettes demanded . A.other things as well as the right to vote B.only the right to vote C.a better education than men D.a better health care. 2. Emmeline Pankhurst encuraged women to break the law because . A.she was tired of writing letters to Parliament B.she wanted more pulicity for the suffragettes C.the first suffragettes did nothing D.she herself could not do that 3. Many women went to prison because . A.they fought against the government B.they told shocking stories to the newspapers C.they threw tomatoes and eggs at the crowds D.they used to do things that were against the law 4. Emily Davidson was a martyr because . A.the King’s horse killed her B.she killed the King’s horse C.she refused to eat and died D.she shocked all the people at the Derby 5. After the First World War . A.members of Parliament changed their positions B.women did men’s jobs C.women finally got the vote D.men voted for the women THE END . Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 1 BÀI TẬP NÂNG CAO KIẾN THỨC ANH VĂN I. Choose one word in each group that. 1/ 2. The restaurant owner talked over the management changes with her staff. 2/ Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 2 3. I couldn’t understand why they. women, but in nearly two-thirds of all working hours the work is done by women. They do Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12 Lyn1982vn@gmail.com Lê Nga CBT - 2010 3 (13) of the domestic work, for example,