I.Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others. 1.a. Spanish b.habit c. necessary d.satisfactory 2.a. mend b.semester c. letter d.report 3.a. comment b.promise c. shop d.improve 4.a. meaning b.heart c. eat d.speak 5.a. across b.come c.excellent d.satisfactory II.Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 6.He tried to give up smoking but couldn’t break the_______ . a. hobby b. habit c. pastime d. favor 7.Our team won the game because we played very a. good b. well c. goody d.better 8.You_____ take the baby to the doctor. a. should b. ought c. need d. has to 9.The doctor______ he should take a few days off. a. say b. said c. ask d. tell 10.He was more than a little proud _____ himself. a. about b. to c. of d.for 11.The Chinese team ______ in the competition. a.work very hard b.workedvery hard c.work very hardly d. worked very hardly 12. James is very ill; he ______ to the hospital. a. need to go b. needs to go c. need going d.needs going 13.His ______ towards me is very strange. a. behave b. behavior c. behaved d.behaving 14.I was born in Vietnam; Vietnamese is my______ . a. mother tongue b. first language c. foreign language d. a & b 15.How do you______ your name? a. pronunciation b. pronounce c.pronounced d. pronoun III. Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces. We got up early in the morning. We (16) _____ prepared our food boxes to take with us. We left the house and had to drive (17)____through the town traffic. However in the countryside we drove (18) ____. After an hour we reached the foot of the mountain. We climbed the first part easily, but when we were nearly at the top we naturally slowed down (19) ___it was difficult. We tried (20)___to reach the top and when we did, Dad said we had done (21) ____. 16. a. care b. careless c. careful d. carefully 17. a. slow b. slowly c. lovely d. lately 18. a. fast b. fastly c. quick d. slow 19. a. but b. however c. because d. for example 20. a. hard b. hardly c. best d. most 21. a. good b. well c. fine d. bad IV. Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it. Experts think that it is a good idea for children to learn not just one, but two foreign languages. They say that leaning two foreign languages develops children’s minds and increases their knowledge of other cultures. The experts also believe that the two foreign languages children learn should be completely different from one another, for example English and Chinese, or French and Japanese. In addition, they say that children should start to learn foreign languages as early as possible, from the age of about six. expert (n): chuyên gia increase (v) : tăng thêm 22. According to experts, children _____ . a. shouldn’t learn more than two foreign languages b. should learn just one foreign language c. should learn two foreign languages d. shouldn’t learn foreign languages 23. What does the word ‘they’ in line 2 refer to? a. experts b. children c. languages d. cultures 24. Children should learn ______ . a. English and Chinese b.French and Japanese c.two foreign languages which are completly different from one another d.all are corect 25.Which of the following is not true? a.Children should start to learn foreign languages early. b.Children should start to learn foreign languages from the age of about six. d.Learn foreign languages is good for children .