Grade 9 THE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAM-037 Choose the word that has the underlined part pronouned differently from that of the rest. 1. A. watched B. stopped C. cleaned D. worked 2. A. their B. thank C. that D. they 3. A. house B. home C. holiday D. hour 4. A. live B. drive C. advise D. nice 5. A. dangerous B. play C. paper D. garden Choose the best answer to complete the sentence. 6. I wish Susan__________harder for her examination. A. will work B. worked C. has worked D. works 7. Mary was really__________by the beauty of Hanoi. A. impress B. impression C. impressed D. impressive 8. Would you mind if I__________your dictionary? A. borrow B. am borrowing C. borrows D. borrowed 9. Mary__________write to me last year. A. uses to B. used to C. is used to D. was used to 10. He is going to be late__________school. A. at B. from C. for D. in 11. She __________a letter when the telephone rang. A. wrote B. was writing C. was written D. has written 12. I like the composition__________you wrote. A. whose B. whom C. which D. who 13. I’m not tired __________working all day. A. although B. in spite of C. though D. despite of 14. I suggest __________volleyball. A. play B. to play C. playing D. plays 15. She would come to see you if she __________your address. A. have B. has C. having D. had Choose the underlined part that need correcting. 16. This is the book that I buy at the store yesterday. A B C D 17. Despite he is a good singer, he is not famous. A B C D 18. Mr. Hung is going to buy a new house, is he? A B C D 19. If I was you, I would buy that expensive car. A B C D 20. This book was written from Mr. Van last year. A B C D Give the correct form of the word in brackets. 21. He is a carefull driver. He drive a car________________. (care) 22. The World cup is now very________________. (excite) 23. They couldn’t do that exercise________________because it was so difficult. (correct) 24. These flowers look very________________. (nature) 25. How ________________the street is! (danger) Give the correct form of the verb in brackets. 26. They ________________ this house for 3 months. (build) Page 1 THE SECOND SEMESTER Grade 9 THE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAM-037 27. Would you mind ________________ me where I can go to post the letter? (tell) 28. When Mr. Robinson was young. He used to ________________ very much. (smoke) 29. Where you ________________ next summer vacation? - To Dalat. (go) 30. At 6.30 last night, when I was having dinner my friend______________ me. (phone) Rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning. 31. Nam is too young to drive a car.  Nam isn’t _____________________________________________________________________ 32. He gets up late this morning so he is late for school.  If he_________________________________________________________________________ 33. She couldn’t come to my birthday party because she was busy.  She was busy __________________________________________________________________ 34. “Don’t play on the street” He said  He told us_____________________________________________________________________ 35. It took Mai five hours to go to the seaside last week.  Mai spent _____________________________________________________________________ 36. The police arrested the thief.  The thief______________________________________________________________________ 37. “Why do you come too late?” she asked me.  She asked _____________________________________________________________________ 38. “I will go to China next week”, she said to me.  She said to me _________________________________________________________________ 39. The house was so old that it needed reparing.  It was such ____________________________________________________________________ 40. I’m sorry I don’t know the way to your house.  I wish ________________________________________________________________________ Read the folowing passage and answer the questions below. Nam went to Australia on a student program last year and he likes to tell me about it. It was very exciting when he knew he was going to Australia because he had never been there before. He didn’t think about the problems of speaking English until he met his family. At first he couldn’t communicate with them because his English was so bad. For five years he had been learning English wasn’t much used at all because they didn’t have real practice at school. Even though his grammar was good, his pronunciation wasn’t. His problem is pronouncing ‘l’ and ‘r’. For example, Australian people often asked “What does he eat in Vietnam?” he wanted to tell them that he eats rice, but they didn’t understand when he said “He eats lice”… Questions: 41. Where did he go last year?  _____________________________________________________________________________ 42. Was it exciting?  _____________________________________________________________________________ 43. Why couldn’t he communicate with his family?  _____________________________________________________________________________ 44. Does he eat rice in Vietnam?  _____________________________________________________________________________ 45. How long has he been learning English?  _____________________________________________________________________________ THE END Page 2 THE SECOND SEMESTER . _____________________________________________________________________ 36. The police arrested the thief.  The thief______________________________________________________________________ 37. “Why do you. __________your address. A. have B. has C. having D. had Choose the underlined part that need correcting. 16. This is the book that I buy at the store yesterday. A B C D 17. Despite he is a good singer, he. to buy a new house, is he? A B C D 19. If I was you, I would buy that expensive car. A B C D 20. This book was written from Mr. Van last year. A B C D Give the correct form of the word in brackets. 21.