Lecturer: (Signature & Full name) (Date) (Date) Approved by: (Signature, Position & Full name) FINAL EXAM Semester/ Academic year 02 Date Course title UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY – VNUHCM FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER ENGLISH 1A Course ID Duration 50 Question sheet minutes code *Note: Submit the question sheet together with the answer sheet. I. PRONUNCIATION AND STRESS: A. Which word is stressed differently from the others? 1. A. creative B. journalist C. apartment D. equipment 2. A. waiter B. butter C. saucer D. prevent 3. A. librarian B. candidate C. salary D. elegant 4. A. valley B. pilot C. receipt D. pepper 5. A. disappointed B. fascinated C. politician D. expiration B. Which underlined part is pronounced differently? 6. A. eats B. books C. gives D. stops 7. A. architect B. chocolate C. watch D. chest 8. A. meat B. threat C. ease D. treat 9. A. shared B. curved C. designed D. adopted 10. A. valley B. cave C. glacier D. flat II. VOCABULARY Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence. 11. He worked as a/an _______ in a psychiatric hospital. A. farmer B. nurse C. waiter D. engineer 12. I've told you many a time not to ride your bike on the _______. A. pedestrian B. restaurant C. district D. pavement C. grill D. roast 13. I'll _______ steak rather than fry it. A. bake B. boil 14. The milk overflowed when she poured it into the _______. 2020 A. jug B. box C. jar D. saucer 15. I would just love a nice _______ of this bread toasted with butter, yum! A. bunch B. slice C. tin D. glass 16. A/ An _______ is an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running through it. A. valley B. ocean C. coast D. cliff 17. He had a woollen _______ around his neck. A. ring B. pocket C. glove D. scarf 18. We should _______ or bike whenever we can to reduce pollution. A. walk B. clean C. talk D. plant 19. These plants cannot _______ in very cold conditions. A. destroy B. survive C. collect D. break 20. I love this place, but the _______ is too high, so I’ll have to find somewhere cheaper. A. property B. accommodation C. neighbor D. rent 21. Let’s use a thinner _______ because it’s getting warm at night now. A. pillow B. duvet C. cushion D. wardrobe 22. He wasn't wearing a _______ and his shirt was open at the neck. A. button B. tie C. watch D. ring 23. This coat was half-price - a real _______. A. label B. receipt C. cash D. bargain 24. The temperature is hotter so the _______ is much smaller this year. A. cliff B. coast C. glacier D. stream 25. I'm tired of asking you to _______ your messy room. A. make B. do C. take D. tidy 26. Karen likes her job because she earns good _______ for it. A. salary B. fund C. budget D. payment 27. I usually eat a _______ of cereal for my breakfast. A. glass B. tin C. bowl D. bunch C. astronaut D. firefighter 28. A/ An _______ travels in space. A. doctor B. postal worker 29. My teacher is very _______ and doesn’t get angry if you make a mistake. A. patient B. shy C. confident D. cheerful 30. My father worked as a doctor for 45 years, but now he’s nearly 70 and is _______. A. unemployed B. lonely C. retired D. jobless III. GRAMMAR Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence 31. “How many pages _______ so far?” A. have you studied C. do you study B. did you study D. had you studied 32. In my country it’s _______ warmer than in Japan. A. more B. many C. lot D. much C. which D. Why 33. I don’t know _______ to do. A. what B. where 34. After our guests _______, we sat down to dinner. A. arrived B. arrive C. were arriving D. have arrived 35. She and I _______ each other since we were at secondary school. A. know B. knew C. have known D. has known 36. _______ I was a child, I used to play football. A. As soon as B. While C. When D. If 37. He used to _______ with his friends on the field when he was small. A. playing B. played C. play D. plays 38. She didn’t know how _______ that machine. A. using B. used C. uses D. to use 39. _______ you cannot do your homework, just ask for help. A. If B. Before C. As soon as D. While 40. What _______ you _______ at 6.00 yesterday morning? A. are - doing B. was - doing C. were - doing D. did - do 41. I’m exhausted! I _______ tennis for 2 hours. A. ’ve play B. ’ve been playing C. played D. am playing 42. When I came home yesterday, my wife _______. A. cooks B. cooked C. cooking D. was cooking 43. My mother was worried because I ____________ in touch for a long time. A. had B. had been C. was D. hadn’t been 44. My father doesn’t have to go to work. He _______ retired. A. has B. is D. isn’t C. was 45. I didn’t enjoy _______ book you lent me. A. a B. an C. some D. the IV. CLOZE TEXT Read the following passage and choose the best word (A, B, C or D) to fill in each blank. More often than not, you can't just "order up a job" by responding to an online posting and have it delivered in one or two days as if you were buying something on Amazon. Even as employers are hiring at a higher rate than they have in the last several years, it can often take months to work your way through the job search process. If you are a new (46) _______ yet to receive a job offer, if you recently moved to a new locale or if you are (47) _______ for any other reason, you may find (48) _______ in your job search by spending time volunteering at a non-profit organization. Both the nonprofit and for-profit worlds need people with many of the same talents. The best volunteer jobs for you to consider are ones where the experience you acquire will be applicable in the "for-pay" position you want to achieve. It's often the case that once you display your passion for the organization, and have demonstrated your abilities, you'll (49) _______ strong consideration when a paying position opens up. Even if you don't have a path to employment at the place you volunteer, by (50) _______ your volunteer experience on your resume, you can prove that you (51) _______ been wasting your time away staying at home watching the grass grow. There are (52) _______ strategies you might adopt when considering at (53) _______ organization you'll want to volunteer. You'll probably want to make a priority of volunteering to do what you've already done, or want to do, in the for-profit sector. Alternatively, however, it might make sense to volunteer to do something where you can turn an area of professional weakness into a new (54) _______. Remember, as well, that nonprofit organizations maintain strong relationships with their corporate sponsors, and you might (55) _______ a volunteer position that would enable you to be that nexus point between the two. And, especially if you are recently out of school, you should look for positions that let you learn about an occupation, a field of interest, or an industry. 46. A. graduate B. graduation C. graduated D. graduating 47. A. unemployment B. unemployed C. employee D. employer 48. A. successful B. succeed C. successfully D. success 49. A. earning B. earn C. earnt D. earned 50. A. highlighting B. highlighted C. highlight D. highlighter 51. A. hasn’t B. hadn't C. have D. haven't 52. A. a few B. a little C. little D. much 53. A. where B. when C. which D. how 54. A. strong B. strength C. strengthen D. stronger 55. A. look for B. look through C. look at D. look up V. READING COMPREHENSION Read the passage and choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each question. Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It's a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don‘t know it's raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn't always reach the ground. Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth's surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world's oxygen. One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world's species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth's rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world. 56. What is the author's purpose in the passage? A. To provide factual information about tropical rainforests for readers. B. To prove that rainforests are indispensable in our lives. C. To explain why people have destroyed a large area of tropical rainforests. D. To prevent people from damaging tropical rainforests. 57. The word “humid” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to A. dry C. cloudy B. moist D. overwhelmed 58. Why don't people know it‘s raining in the rainforests? A. Because the trees grow very tall there. B. Because they are the habitats of millions of flora and fauna. C. Because the branches are too dense for the rain to touch the ground. D. Because it hardly rains in the rainforests. 59. How many percent of the Earth's surface does rainforests make up? A. 6% C. 10% B. 8% D. 20% 60. The following are the facts about rainforests, EXCEPT ______. A. The only places to see rainforests are in tropical zones. B. The rainforest in Western Africa ranks second after the Amazon in South America in the covered area. C. Rainforests account for about one sixth of the Earth's surface. D. There’s a considerable variety of plants and animals in the rainforests. 61. According to the third passage, which don’t rainforests provide us? A. fresh air and water C. seedlings B. medicine D. clothes 62. The word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to _______. A. plants B. the drugs C. rainforests D. pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar 63. The word “countless” in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by _______. A. trivial C. numberless B. meaningless D. derisive 64. What can be inferred from the last passage? A. People are not aware of the significance of the rainforests. B. The consequences of deforestation are greater than what people can imagine. C. The more rainforests are destroyed, the harder people's life will become. D. People’s economic benefits are more important than environmental problems. 65. Which of the idea might be discussed after paragraph 3? A. Humans are taking measures to protect tropical forests. B. The serious impacts of the massive destruction of tropical forests on Earth. C. Habitat of tropical forest animals. D. Preserve plant and animal life in tropical forests. --- END --- Stu. ID: ……………….…… Stu. Full name: ……………………………… 8
