Đề thi thử tiếng Anh- ôn thi Tổng cục thống kê, chi cục thống kê- TEST 1

I/ Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

1. A good clock always keeps accurate time.
2. She has earned a lot of money in her new job.
3. Would you mind me opening the windows now?
4. We can get over the difficulty without too much effort
5. Fewer people go the movies now than ten years ago
6. We don’t know the rules of the game.
7. We had to ues our neighbor’s telephone because ours was out of order
8. It was such a boring speech that I felt asleep
9. I think you had better not tell him truth.
10. What he says makes no sene to me
11. He said that he had been badly sick since he returned from a broad.
12. The speaker said almost nothings worth listenning to.
13. If you had come to the party, you would have met Her
14. The manager had his seretary type the report for him
15. He will have been working in this office for ten years by next Monday.
16. No sooner had he left the office than the phone rang.
17. Neither the director nor his assistant havent’t com yet.
18. It is necessary that you be here at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
19. The village both b and c are correct. We are going to visit is far from here
20. She wishes she hadn’t told you the bad news yesterday.

II/  Read the passage and then choose one answer for each of the following questions:

A gold rush is the rapid relocation of large numbers of people to an area where gold has been discovered. Gold rushes capture the imagination and participation of many people because of the magical lure of gold and the potential for overnight affluence. The greatest gold rush in united States history was the California Gold Rush of 1849.
1.what is the best title for this passage?
The california Gold Rush of 1849.
2.According to the passage, people join gold rushes because………………..
They believe they have a chance of becoming affuent.
3.According to the passage, where was gold first discovered?
At Stutter’s mill.
I4.t can be inferred from the passage that the California gold rush…….
Greatly Speeded up the development of carlifornia.
5.According to the passage, what qualifire California to be admitted to the union?
The great increase in population.

III/ Read the article bolow and put a cross on the letter next tho the word that best fits each space.

Shopping in the Mappstone is a must if you are visiting the area.
There (1) are Many shops and services all within walking distance (2) of The cetal square. The city is particularly busy during (3) the summer months  of june, July and August when tourists visit Mappstone from all over the (4) world One of the main streets of the central square – Cedar Avenue – is the most popular shopping area for not (5) just visittors but residents too. Stores line both sides of the avenue and often (6) stay Open late into the evenung. Most of the shops in this avenue are small and expensive (7) but In nearby streets shoppers can find almost anything at more reasonable (8) prices  Tuorists wiil find that many of these shops offer and export service and goods (9) can be posted direct tho the buyer’s home country. Shops ara usually closed on Mondays but ortherwise open from 9 am in the morning (10) until 8 pm in the evening.

IV/  Fill in each gap in the passage lelow with one suitable word.

One of the greattest (1) difficulties for foreign students in American universities is the lecture system. The professor (2) Lectures and the students take (3) Notes These notes are later used to study for (4) Examinations .If the notes aren’t good, it will be (5) hard for the student to (6)prepare for a subsequent exam. It is not easy to take good notes from a lecture in a (7) Foreign. Language. You try to write every (8) Word. The professor says, then you are writing at the same time the professor is lecturing, this kind of note (9) taling means that you will fall far (10) Behind the lecture, and the notes wiil be confused. They may be (11) useless For later study.
What can you do to take better notes? The first skill to learn is how to write only the most (12) Important Words, not whole sentences. (13) Significant words are the ones that present new information. The most important words are often the focus of intonation. They are usually emphssized by pith change, and this should be your signal of (14)  importance. Content words, like nouns and verds, are usually be focus of information, so your notes should be almost entirely (15) content Words. Remember that you need information, not sentences.

V/ Use the word to make sentences.

1. Please/not forget/put/names/on them.
-> Please don’t forget to put your names on them.
2. although/they/brothers/they/not look/alike.
->Although they are brothers, they don’t look alike.
3. I/really/not want/dessert.
->I really don’t want any dessert.
4. It/never/late/ go back/school.
->It’s never too late to go back to school.
5. Jeff/bought/a twenty dollars sweater/half price.
-> Jeff bought a twenty – dollar sweater for half price.
6. Study/all night/good/for/neither/your grades/nor/health.
->Studying all night is good for neither your grades nor your heatth.
7. we’ll/have/leave/eight o’clock/get/ office/before nine.
->We’ll have to leave at eight o;clock to get to the office before nine.
8. Mary/lost/ a lot/ weight/ her diet
->. Mary has losta lot of weigh   on her diet.
9. I/appreciate/your offering/me/ride.
->. I appereciate your offering me a ride.
10. They/lucky/get/ the only two seats left/ the play.
->They were lucky to get the only two seats left for the play.

VI/ Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one printed before it.

1. We spent five hours getting to LonDon.
It took (us) 5 hours to get to London.
2. She doesn’t usually stay up so late.
  She’s not used to staying up late.
3. If i were you, I’d look for another job.
I suggest (that) you look for another job.
4. He lost his money simply because he wasn’t careful.
If he had been more careful, he wouldn’t have lost his money.
5 They last visited me five years ago.
They haven’t visitted me for five years.
1.       All him suits were made in paris.
He had all his suits made in Paris.