ENGLISH 11 – UNIT 5 ILLITERACY

TEST 1
I. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
1. a. illiterate b. education c. eradicate d. minority
2. a. province b. country c. campaign d. ethnic
3. a. primary b. promotion c. effective d. consider
4. a. struggle b. lesson c. village d. remote
5. a. farming b. technique c. receive d. number

II. Choose a, b, c or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; substitutes the underlined part; or
has a close meaning to the original one.
6. He is helping the police …………… their enquires.
a. in b. at c. with d. for
7. Many students take part …………… the campaign for illiteracy eradication.
a. for b. in c. from d. on
8. When preparing …………… a report, I can never keep track of time.
a. of b. with c. on d. for
9. They have to work overtime because the requirements for …………… have not been fulfilled.
a. complete b. completion c. completed d. completely
10. The program has been conducted …………… so more and more people can read and write.
a. effect b. effective c. effectiveness d. effectively
11. As …………… we are keen to ensure that our students can find the best ways to learn.
a. educate b. education c. educators d. educative
12. …………… is the state of not knowing how to read and write.
a. Literacy b. Illiteracy c. Campaign d. Struggle
13. Have you completed your application form yet?
a. ejected b. promoted c. eradicated d. finished
14. There are 54 …………… minorities in Viet Nam.
a. national b. primary c. ethnic d. main
15. A …………… for illiteracy eradication was lauched by the Viet Nam Society of Learning Promotion in
the summer of 2000.
a. battle b. campaign c. design d. project
16. Every summer, hundreds of students participate in a campaign to eradicate illiteracy.
a. get rid of completely b. promote c. provide d. volunteer
17. Their economy has …………… rapidly, while ours, by contrast, is declining.
a. struggled b. expanded c. reached d. enlarged
18. …………… number of illiterate people are trying to learn how to read and write.
a. A b. An c. The d. No article
19. “Don’t talk in class”, the teacher said.
a. The teacher told his student do not talk in class.
b. The teacher told his student did not talk in class.
c. The teacher told his student not to talk in class.
d. The teacher told his student not talking in class.
20. “……………”, the doctor advised his patient.
a. You had better stop drinking. b. I would like you to drink
c. You had better to drink d. Please drink some more
21. “I will do it for you, Mary”, Peter said.
a. Peter advised Mary to do it. b. Peter advised Mary not to do it.
c. Peter promised to do it for Mary. d. Peter wanted Mary to do it.
22. “ I …………… good at English, my son,” Mr. Pike said.
a. would like you have been b. had better have you to be
c. would rather you to be d. would like you to be
23. Before they left, they promised to come back the next year.
a. “We will come back next year,” they said before leaving
b. “We had better come back the next year,” they said before leaving
c. “Let’s come back next year,” they said before leaving
d. “Don’t come back next year,” they said before leaving
24. “Susan, can you remember to buy me some sugar?” said Billy
a. Billy advised Susan to buy him some sugar.
b. Billy reminded Susan to by me some sugar.
c. Billy reminded Susan to by him some sugar.
d. Billy wanted Susan to buy me some sugar.
25. The secretary said, “Sorry, I will never work on Sunday”.
a. The secretary promised not to work on Sunday.
b. The secretary refused to work on Sunday.
c. The secretary refused not to word on Sunday.
d. The secretary reminded not to work on Sunday.
26. “Don’t stay up late. You should go to bed early,” Peter told me
a. Peter told me not to stay up late and promised to go to bed early
b. Peter promised not to stay up late and told me to go to bed early
c. Peter told me do not to stay up late and advised me to go to bed early
d. Peter told me not to stay up late and advised me to go to bed early
27. “……………”, John advised me.
a. You ought to work harder b. I would rather work harder
c. It is my duty to work harder d. It is worth working harder
28. “……………”, the mother warned her sons
a. Boys, don’t go near the lake b. Boys, you will not go near the lake
c. Boys, let’s go near the lake d. Boys, you would like to go near the lake
29. “Mary, please come to dinner tonight,” Henry said.
a. Henry invited Mary to come to dinner tonight.
b. Henry invited Mary to come to dinner that night.
c. Henry warned Mary to come to dinner tonight.
d. Henry told Mary please to come to dinner that night.
30. “I will bring you some food”, he said to me.
a. He invited me to eat some food b. He offered to bring me some food.
c. He told me to bring some food. d. He advised me to bring some food.

III. Error identifications

31. Illiterate in developing countries is still growing at an alarming rate and that fact has not changed much.
A B C D
32. Illiteracy continues to be a critical problem, which demanding enormous resources form local and state
budgets. A B C D
33. The International Reading Association estimates that more than as one thousand research papers are
prepared each year on the subject of literacy. A B C
D
34. It is clear that the current high illiteracy rate is directly because of improper approach to reading
A B C D
instruction.
35. The average U.S. household has at least one TV set turned on for about seven hours a day and many
A B
people spend more time watching TV than to read a book.
C D

III. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The United Nations, which defines illiteracy as a inability to read and write a simple message in any
language, has conducted a number of surveys on world illiteracy. In the first survey in 1957 at least 44% of
the world’s population were found to be illiterate. A 1978 study showed the rate to have dropped to 32.5%,
by 1990 illiteracy worldwide had dropped to about 27%, and by 1998 to 16%. However, a study by the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published in 1998 predicted that the world illiteracy rate would
increase in the 21st century because only a quarter of the world’s children got schooling by the end of the 20 th
century. The highest illiteracy rates were found in the less developed nations of Africa, Asia, and South
America; the lowest in Australia, Japan, North Korea, and the more technologically advanced nations of
Europe and North America. Using the UN definition of illiteracy, the United States and Canada have an
overall illiteracy rate of about 10%. In certain disadvantaged areas, however, such as the rural South in the
United States, the illiteracy rate is much higher.
36. Illiteracy is the inability to read and write a simple message in any language.
a. True b. False c. No information
37. As the results of the survey conducted by the United Nations, illiteracy rate is increasing.
a. True b. False c. No information
38. At the end of the 20th century, only one of four children went to school.
a. True b. False c. No information
39. Viet Nam has the highest illiteracy rate in Southeast Asia.
a. True b. False c. No information
40. Illiteracy rates are the same throughout the USA.
a. True b. False c. No information

IV. Fill in each number blank with one suitable word or phrase.
Teaching children (41) ……… is the most important objective (42) ……… educators have to
accomplish. Reading a prerequisite for everything else, (43) ……… in school but also in life itself. Western
civilization has taught its children to read using an alphabetic approach ever since (44) ……… alphabet was
(45) ……… and the Egyptians stopped (46) ……… in hieroglyphics. English is an alphabetic language that,
(47) ……… written, uses letters to represent speech sounds. When students were taught to read, they
consciously (48) ……… the speech sounds and learned to recognize the letters used to represent them. They
were then trained to apply the information to “decode” the names of unknown written words, understand
their (49) ………, and comprehend the information presented (50) ……… a complete thought.
41. a. read b. to read c. for reading d. reading
42. a. that b. whom c. whose d. those
43. a. not b. nor c. not only d. neither
44. a. a b. an c. the d. no article
45. a. done b. discovered c. made d. invented
46. a. to write b. writing c. written d. wrote
47. a. when b. since c. as soon as d. with
48. a. regarded b. took part in c. completed d. identified
49. a. sound b. meaning c. alphabet d. letter
50. a. as b. when c. since d. alike

Notes
 illiteracy eradication (n) xóa mù chữ
 fulfill (v) làm tròn (nhiệm vụ), hoàn thành
 Viet Nam Society of Learning Promotion (n) Tổ chức khuyến học ở VN
 The International Reading Association (n) Hiệp hội xóa mù chữ quốc tế
 estimates (v) đánh giá
 technologically (adv) có tính chất kĩ thuật, kĩ thuật học
 accomplish = fulfill
 prerequisite (n) điều tiên quyết, điều cần làm trước ngay
 hieroglyphics (n) chữ tượng hình
 decode (v) giải mã