Title 12.5. HS - 2ND TERM TEST.docx ✅

2 ND TERM TEST Exercise 1. Exercise 1. Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part. 1. A. twice B. flight C. piece D. mind 2. A. about B. around C. sound D. young 3. A. cover B. oven C. coffee D. company 4. A. plates B. cakes C. mates D. places 5. A. laughed B. learned C. changed D. arrived 6. A. vanilla B. vacuum C. add D. facsimile 7. A. whiten B. fiber C. zipper D. conveyor 8. A. remove B. wrote C. mold D. cocoa 9. A. follow B. powder C. show D. borrow 10. A. wood B. thousand C. procedure D. hairdryer Exercise 2. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined. 1. A. iconic B. monument C. territory D. difficulty 2. A. Singapore B. Philippines C. Canada D. India 3. A. native B. perhaps C. whisky D. accent 4. A. official B. excursion C. Thanksgiving D. spectacle 5. A. festive B. Arctic C. unique D. speaker 6. A. payee B. Chinese C. coffee D. trainee 7. A. jubilee B. guarantee C. Japanese D. referee 8. A. refugee B. Taiwanese C. absentee D. committee 9. A. Viennese B. Maltese C. Burmese D. Chinese 10. A. reindeer B. volunteer C. mountaineer D. engineer Exercise 3. Find the word which has a different stress pattern from the others. 1. If we go on littering, the environment _______________ seriously polluted. A. becomes B. will become C. became D. would become 2. The boy was very hungry _______________ he ate nothing. A. so B. and C. therefore D. But 3. The man suggests _______________ to the seaside in the summer. A. to go B. go C. going D. goes 4. A dripping faucet _______________ 500 liters of water a month. A. can waste B. is wasted C. waste D. are wasting

A. arrive B. arrived C. arriving D. to arrive 22. From 1865 to 1875, a remarkable _______________ of inventions was produced. A. diversity B. mixture C. variety D. collection 23. People who cannot hear or speak often communicate using _______________. A. pictures B. sounds C. codes D. signs 24. Do you think there _______________ less conflict in the world if all people _______________ the same language? A. would be/ spoke B. is/ spoke C. were / speak D. is/ will speak 25. The team’s success was largely _______________ of her efforts. A. because B. due C. since D. although 26. Water _______________ in the lake has made the fish die. A. pollution B. pollute C. polluted D. polluting 27. All our English teachers are _______________ speakers. A. native B. original C. foreign D. nation 28. The government is sending _______________ to the flood victims. A. touch B. aid C. accommodation D. provision 29. He told his classmates that he _______________ a bicycle when he was ten years old. A. rode B. will ride C. could ride D. can ride 30. Lan asked me _______________ the differences between Mars and Earth were. A. what B. which C. how D. whether 31. Using codes, music or signs to communicate is called _______________ communication. A. verbal B. non-verbal C. public D. non-public 32. A _______________ is a vehicle used for travelling on the surface of the Moon. A. space buggy B. flying car C. seg way D. scooter 33. We've decided _______________ in Ho Chi Minh City for three months. A. stay B. staying C. to stay D. stays 34. They planned _______________ in touch with each other by using emails. A. kept B. keeping C. to keep D. to keeping 35. Hundreds of people were made _______________ after the flood. A. homeless B. helpless C. careless D. endless 36. “No one was killed in the forest fire two days ago.” - “_______________” A. Oh dear B. That’s shocking C. That’s a relief D. How terrible 37. Hundreds of buildings _______________ when an earthquake hit the city.