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(Giáo viên chuyên Anh – Trường THPT Nguyễn Thượng Hiền – TP. HCM)
BÀI TẬP
TIẾNG ANH 12
NHÀ XUẤT BẢN ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI
Unit 1:LIFE STORIES
A.PHONETICS
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I. Fill in the blanks, using the right choice given in the box.
1. Nobody can _______ what I tell _______.
2. I have not _______ the _______ cover book till now.
3. Last _______, she was _______.
4. They _______ at the market where they buy .
5. The house _______ was _______ to work for many hours without rest.
6. She _______ on a _______ which was paved with flowers.
II. Complete the (a) sentences with the words in the box. Then write the corresponding homophones to complete the (b) sentences.
1. (a) That poem is very _______ to me.
(b) There were seven _______ grazing in our pasture.
2. (a) I hope my plants don’t _______ in this heat.
(b) Rebecca wants to _______ her hair purple.
3. (a) The recipe calls for two cups of _______.
(b) She put a single _______ in the vase.
4. (a) Have you read the story about the tortoise and the _______?
(b) My _______ is a mess!
5. (a) Vegetarians do not eat _______.
(b) Where shall we _______ for lunch?
6. (a) Let’s go buy a new _______ of shoes.
(b) The fruit contained a banana, an apple, and a _______.
7. (a) Sacrifices were offered on the _______.
(b) She had to _______ her clothes after losing weight.
8. (a) Do not talk _______.
(b) They were _______ to go out.
9. (a) The policeman _______ the whistle to stop the car.
(b) I wear the _______ trousers.
10. (a) We use a kind of wax for _______ letters.
(b) The _______ of the room must be high.
B. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
I. Fill in each blank in the sentences with the correct word from the box.
1. Dang Tien Dong was General Muu, who won the famous _______ battle ofDong Da.
2. Marie is an extremely _______ piano player.
3. What I admire most about him is his _______ to the poor and the deprived.
4. To be successful takes hard work and _______.
5. They awarded her a gold medal for her _______ in sports.
6. Ly ThuongKiet had the _______ of attacking first to dominate enemies, andemploying the swift attacking to break the enemies` plan at the beginning.
7. In 1980, on the occasion of his 600th birthday. Nguyen Trai wasrecognised by UNESCO as a World Cultural Celebrity, and a talented ________.
8. Bui Thi Xuan, a first female general in Vietnamese history, became ahistorical _______ in the Tay Son Dynasty.
9. There is a Vietnamese proverb that states that of a dead tiger we keep theskin, of man his _______.
10.Clive has had a fantastic and _______ career so we listen to what he has to say.
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II. Fill in each blank in the text with the correct verb from the box, using the past simple or the past continuous.
Last summer, I went on a fantastic adventure holiday for teenagers in the RockyMountains in Canada. First, we (1) ________ by coach from the airport to our hotel. We(2) ________ there for one night, then we went by helicopter to our base camp at MountRobson, which is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. I was quite nervous becauseI (3) ________ anyone in the group, but I soon made friends with everyone. We hiked inthe mountains for four days and (4) ________ a lot of wildlife. One day, we(5) ________ near a lake when we met a deer. After that we went rock climbing for twodays. It was really hard work and while I (6) ________ down the mountain on thesecond day, I (7) ________ my leg. Luckily, I (8) ________ it. On our last day wewent white-water rafting. What an exciting sport!
III. Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple or the past continuous.
Steve Jobs
1. Steve Jobs is famous for being a businessman, designer and inventor. He (be) __________ the co-founder and chief executive at Apple.
2. He (be)
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