The document is a reading comprehension test in Vietnamese for 9th grade students on a unit about a trip to the countryside. It contains multiple choice questions testing pronunciation, word stress, sentence completion, grammar, and a passage about a couple who survived at sea for 66 days after their yacht sank. The questions cover topics like traveling to rural areas, activities people enjoy doing in the countryside, and the lucky survivors who drifted in a life raft for over 2 months before being rescued.
The document is a reading comprehension test in Vietnamese for 9th grade students on a unit about a trip to the countryside. It contains multiple choice questions testing pronunciation, word stress, sentence completion, grammar, and a passage about a couple who survived at sea for 66 days after their yacht sank. The questions cover topics like traveling to rural areas, activities people enjoy doing in the countryside, and the lucky survivors who drifted in a life raft for over 2 months before being rescued.
The document is a reading comprehension test in Vietnamese for 9th grade students on a unit about a trip to the countryside. It contains multiple choice questions testing pronunciation, word stress, sentence completion, grammar, and a passage about a couple who survived at sea for 66 days after their yacht sank. The questions cover topics like traveling to rural areas, activities people enjoy doing in the countryside, and the lucky survivors who drifted in a life raft for over 2 months before being rescued.
The document is a reading comprehension test in Vietnamese for 9th grade students on a unit about a trip to the countryside. It contains multiple choice questions testing pronunciation, word stress, sentence completion, grammar, and a passage about a couple who survived at sea for 66 days after their yacht sank. The questions cover topics like traveling to rural areas, activities people enjoy doing in the countryside, and the lucky survivors who drifted in a life raft for over 2 months before being rescued.
I. Choose the word which is pronounced differently from the other.
1. A. teacher B. scholarship C. chair D. chess 2. A. few B. dew C. new D. sew 3. A. smart B. cart C. carry D. start 4. A. burn B. bury C. curly D. turn 5. A. about B. south C. count D. young II. Choose the word in each line has different stress pattern. 6. A. bamboo B. blanket C. comment D. entrance 7. A. collection B. hamburger C. pagoda D. encourage 8. A. locate B. admire C. forest D. effect 9. A. invent B. remain C. exchange D. gather 10. A. grocery B. collection C. revision D. decision III. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence. 11. After two hours traveling by bus, we ______ Vung Tau. A. came B. got C. reached D. went 12. While going on her summer vacation, Liz took a lot of______ to show the trip to her friends. A. pictures B. things C. signs D. photos 13. They usually go for a walk in the park early in the morning to enjoy the ______ air there. A. fresh B. salty C. windy D. strong 14. After an hour’s walking, everyone felt tired and hungry, so they stopped and had a ______. A. breakfast B. lunch C. supper D. snack 15. We hired a canoe and went______ in the river. A. working B. playing C. boating D. climbing 16. They put up the tent and had a ______ on the river bank. A. way B. picnic C. place D. space 17. Many people go to amusement parks on weekends to ______ after a hard working week. A. see B. watch C. enjoy D. relax 18. He invited me______ his family on a trip to Nha Trang. A. to join B. to come C. to get D. to take 19. Look at the big old tree at the ______to the village. It’s a banyan tree. A. exit B. going C. entrance D. way 20. We started to walk to the village. The______ to the village was tiring but very interesting. A. voyage B. travel C. going D. journey 21. We also walked up the mountain to visit the ______ of a Vietnamese hero. A. place B. shrine C. land D. site 22. They see each other ______ lunchtime and______ night only. A. in/ in B. on/ on C. at/ at D. in/ at 23. I was ______tired that I fell asleep while watching TV. A. such B. very C. so D. much 24. John is ______ kind boy that everyone likes him. A. such B. so C. very D. such a 25. They have known each other______ they were at high school. A. when B. since C. for D. while 26. I wish I ______ play the piano as well as my close friend______. A. could/ play B. can/ plays C. could/ plays D. can play 27. What do you think our children______ when we get home? A. do B. would do C. are doing D. were doing 28. I wish I ______ to my parents. Now it’s too late. A. listen B. would listen C. have listened D. had listened 29. Remember the meeting will be ______ Tuesday, ______ 9 am and 11am. A. on/ at B. on/ from C. on / between D. at/ at 30. The sun ______ when we started our trip to the village. A. shines B. shone C. was shining D. had shone 31. Jack knows his lesson well because he______ it. A. studies B. studied C. has studied D. had studied 32. If only he ______ me the truth, I didn’t treat her badly. A. told B. had told C. tells D. would tell 33. It’s time you ______ to study harder to pass the final exam. A. to try B. tried C. try D. will try 34. It was ______ that we went for a walk in the mountain. A. so nice day B. such nice day C. so a nice day D. such a nice day 35. Hurry up! It’s time we______ for home. A. leave B. to leave C. leaving D. left 36. We plan to go fishing tomorrow. We hope the weather ______ fine. A. is B. will be C. would be D. were 37. Did she ______ to the same school with you? - Yes, but we were not in the same class. A. used to go B. used to going C. use to go D. use going 38. I sometimes dream ______ having enough time and money to have a long holiday. A. with B. by C. of D. about 39. Computers are wonderful recent achievements______ out time. A. at B. on C. for D. in 40. Since I______, I’ve made a lot of friends in the new school. A. come B. came C. coming D. had come 41. After the gas explosion, cars and trucks were stopped and ______. A. kept B. searched C. fined D. watched 42. It’s high time we______ our house. It looks so old. A. repaint B. to repaint C. repainting D. repainted 43. My uncle is a heavy smoker. He gets ______ a lot. A. used to smoke B. used to smoking C. use to smoke D. use to smoking 44. Be careful! The floor______. A. has just been polished B. just has been polished C. has just polished D. just polished 45. He hopes that he______ a pop singer in the future. A. is B were C. will be D. would be IV. Choose the underlined words or phrases that are not correct in standard written English. 46. Jones tried to use chopsticks but he can’t. He isn’t used to use them. A B C D 47. He is one of the most boring people I ever meet. He never says anything interesting. A B C D 48. Ann is going to America next month. She hasn’t never been there before. A B C D 49. I wasn’t able to understand French so I didn’t know what he said. If only he spoke English. A B C D 50. She is a foreigner because she needs a visa to stay in this country. A B C D 51. Tom is good at math. He is fond of attend a higher mathematics course. A B C D 52. After living in England for a year, Long finally gets used to drive on the left. A B C D 53. Summer is coming. We are looking forward to spend our free time relaxing in the sun. A B C D 54. I wish I didn’t tell him the truth. He looks so worried now. A B C D 55. It’s really cold and miserable here in the winter. I hope we would live in a warmer place next year. A B C D V. Read the following passage and choose the best answers. LUCKY SURVIVORS A couple from Miami, Bill and Simon Butler, (56) ______ sixty-six days in a life-raft in the sea of central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good (57) ______. Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their yacht, they met some whales. “ They started to hit the side of the boat”, said Bill, “and then (58) ______ we heard water.” Two minutes (59) ______ , the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go (60) ______ the water. For twenty days they had (61) ______ of food, biscuits, and bottle of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water, two things which (62) ______ their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw. Then the line broke. “ So we had no more fish …58…something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.” About twenty ships (63) ______ them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing brat saw them and (64) ______ them(65) ______ . Their two months at sea was over. 56. A. took up B. went C. spent D. occupied 57. A. condition B. way C. manner D. state 58. A. occasionally B. suddenly C. quickly D. clearly 59. A. later B. after C. soon D. passing 60. A. in B. down C. under D. below 61. A. containers B. tins C. boxes D. packages 62. A. rescued B. helped C. maintained D. saved 63. A. until B. when C. as D. that 64. A. went round B. moved near C. traveled D. passed 65. A. took / on B. pull / on C. picked / up D. moved / up VI. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the given one. 66. “If only I’d learnt to drive”, Carl said. A. Carl thinks there are too many drivers on the roads. B. Carl is glad he learnt to drive. C. Carl wishes he could drive. D. Carl is sorry that he ever learnt to drive. 67. He didn’t write a single card. A. He wrote only one card. B. He didn’t write even one card. C. He wrote just a single card. D. He wrote all the cards except one. 68. His father gave him a new bike on his birthday. A. He bought a new bike on his birthday. B. His father lent him a new bike on his birthday. C. His father gave him a new bike as a birthday present. D. He got a new bike for his father on his birthday. 69. “Let’s go to the jazz concert at the Diamond” he said. A. He suggested going to the jazz concert. B. He asked to go to the jazz concert. C. He wanted us to go to the jazz concert. D. He invited us to go to the jazz concert. 70. Alice and Mary are looking for a part time job in the summer. A. Alice wants a job and Mary are doing a part time job. B. Both Alice and Mary are doing a part time job. C. Alice finds a summer part =time job for Mary. D. Alice is looking for a part =time job and so is Mary. VII. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow The tiny village of Frinley is said to possess a “cursed tree.” Because the tree was mentioned in a newspaper, the number of visitors to Frinley has now increased. The tree was planted near a church fifty years ago, but it is only in recent years that it has gained an evil reputation. It is said that if anyone touches the tree, he will have bad luck; if he picks a leaf, he will die. Many villagers believe that the tree has already claimed a number of victims. The vicar has been asked to have the tree cut down, but so far he has refused. He has pointed out that the tree is a useful source of income as tourists have been coming from all parts of the country to see it. In spite of all that has been said, the tourists have been picking leaves and cutting their names on the tree trunk. So far, not one of them has been struck down by sudden death. 71. Where and when was the tree planted? ______________________________________________ 72. What has the tree got in recent years? ______________________________________________ 73. What will happen to a man if he touches the tree? ______________________________________________ 74. Why is the tree a useful source of income? ______________________________________________ 75. Are the visitors afraid of what has been said about the tree? ______________________________________________