Bộ 20 đề ôn thi Chuyên Anh năm 2023 (Đề 64)

Use the correct forms of the verbs in brackets

Where have you been, Tom? Look at your face! You are a sight!

- Mummy, you .....................( always grumble).

Why didn't you tell me you could lend me the money? I....................( not borrow) it from the bank.

Fill each blank with the correct form of the words given.

There is a………living-room, with French windows.                 SPACE

I think there is too much…… on T.V                      ADVERTISE

Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word for each space.

Technology        

    When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than ……….(2). Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an example. For many of us, they still represent a ……….(5) to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines. This may be because they seem mysterious, and diffcult to understand. Ask most people what you can use  a home computer for, and you usually get ……….(7) answers about how ‘they give you information’. In fact, even those of us who are familiar with computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of how they work. But it does not take long to learn how to operate a business programme, even if things occasionally go wrong for no apparent reason. Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became ……….(8). What seems to alarm most people is the speed of technological change, rather than change itself. And the ……….(9) that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change is not always an improvement. As discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don’t have to be ………..(10) in to work.

 When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). 

Supply the most suitable word for each blank       

     People who are deprived (1) …… sleep lose energy and become quick-tempered. (2).......... two days without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration ............. (3) difficult. He can force himself to (4) ……   tasks well for short periods, but he is  (5)…….... distracted.  He makes many mistakes especially at routine tasks, and his attention slips (6) …… times. Even a  "sleepless" person experiences periods in which he dozes off for a few seconds or more. He falls completely asleep ............(7) he is kept active continuously. Persons who go without sleep for more than three days have great (8)_____ thinking, seeing, and hearing clearly. They have periods of hallucinations during  (9)…….they see things that do not really exist. They also confuse day dreams with real life and (10) …….track of their thoughts in the middle of a sentence.

There is ten mistakes in  following sentences. Find and correct them.

           My cousin and her husband lived in one of the suburbs of London. One morning they woke up to find at  their dismay that their car had been stolen from outside their house. They immediately phoned the police to report the thief before left for work by bus.

           When they returned home later the same day, they found that their car brought back and was parked in its common place outside their house. Under one of the windscreen wiper was a small envelope.

           They quickly opened it and found a note to apologize profusely for "borrowing" their car. The man who wrote it explained that he didn't have the car itself, and his wife had gone into labour in the middle of the night with their first baby. So he hoped they wouldn't mind too much that he had taken their cars without their permission in order to run her to the hospital as it was anything of an emergency.

The word “coined” in line I could best be replaced by _________

Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

These young men became engineers after five years training.

-> After these young men...........................................

Under no circumstances should you phone the police.

 -> The last................................................................

This is the quickest way to get into the city.

The instructions say you just add boiling water to the soup powder.

-> The soup powder...........................................................

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sen­tence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. 

It has always been her ambition to write a successful novel.            dreamt

 -> She.............................................................a successful novel.

I met her while I was staying in Paris last summer.               stay

 -> I met her......................................................................in Paris last summer.

You got lost because you didn't do what I told you.            instructions

 -> If...................................................................you wouldn't have got lost.

I'll only leave the waiter some money if he's quick.                    tip

 -> I won't..........................................................................he's quick.

Our neighbour says he definitely won't return the ball.            keeping

-> Our neighbour says he......................................................................the ball.