Designer: Thuy Trang

Advanced English Review 1

I.

Write the following sentences, using the key words provided. You can add
some more words or change the given words when necessary.

1. My sister/ tall/ slim/ girl/ long/ black hair/ brown eyes.

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2. Hung/ usually/ bad mark/ because/ he/ not/ hard-working/ student.
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3. He/ seem/ not/ sociable/ person; he/ not/ speak/ much/ class
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4. She/ humorous; her/ joke/ usually/ make/ us / laugh/ a lot.
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5. Her/ English/ not good/ enough/ understand/ what/ he/ say
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II.

Choose the option whose bold part is pronounced differently from those
of the others.

1. a. annoy

b. character

c. orphanage

d. machine

2. a. slim

b. sociable

c. rise

d. seem

3. a. outside

b. reserved

c. straight

d. generous

4. a. generous

b. after

c. character

d. helpful

5. a. character

b. school

c. children

d. chemistry

III. Give the correct form of verbs

1. My grandparents (visit)..us next Sunday.
Would you like (meet)..them?
2. The Moon (go)around the Earth, and the Earth (revolve)
.around the Sun.
3. Paul (be).born in France, but now he (live)..in
America with his uncle.
4. What Ms. Lan (look)..like?
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She (be).slim, and she (have).wavy hair

5. I hope my sister (send)..me a letter soon.

Designer: Thuy Trang

IV.

Fill in the blanks with the suitable words

Among many of my friends, Quan is (1).best one. We became good

friends (2)we were in primary school. Quan is thin and tall. His
eyes (3)large. When he (4).to school, he usually
wears a white shirt, black trousers and gray sandals. Quan is sociable. He is also helpful
and generous. When I meet a difficult exercise and ask (5)., he explains
to me carefully. I am lucky (6)to have a friend like Quan.
V.
In

Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions

On

To

Of

At

With

Hang is fourteen years old. She is a pretty girl (1).long black hair. She
goes (2).school five days a week and usually goes swimming (3)
some friends (4)Saturday mornings. She lives (5)a large
house (6)her mother, father and younger brother (7)2/34 Nguyen
Trai Street. Hang has a lot (8)..friends. (9)..all her friends, Nga and
Thuy are the one she spends most of her time (10)..They are all like listening
(11).music and playing sports (12)..their free time
VI.

Read the passenger and decide the statements are True (T) or
False (F)

Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was a young man of twenty three
he moved with his parents to Canada. Before the year was over, young Graham had left
his family and gone to Boston. Though he was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker
and a man of action. Boston, where he worked day by day as a teacher of the deaf, he
worked into the night experimenting with the electrical transmissions of the sound. This
led to the invention of the telephone
1. Alexander Graham Bell was born in England
2. He emigrated to Canada in 1865.
3. He went to Boston when he was twenty-three
4. Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston.