Sở Giáo dục & Đào tạo Cà Mau KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI ĐỒNG BẰNG SÔNG CỬU LONG
Trường THPT Chuyên Phan Ngọc Hiển Năm học 2007 – 2008
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PART 1: PHONETICS

A. Pick out the words whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest.
1. A. confuse B. resume C. abuse D. consume
2. A. lengths B. roofs C. clothes D. myths
3. A. promise B. devise C. premise D. wisdom
4. A. laughs B. ploughs C. photograghs D. coughs
5. A. of B. graph C. feat D. photo
6. A. bought B. sought C. drought D. fought
7. A. wicked B. naked C. learned D. kicked
8. A. convenient B. contaminate C. company D. carbon
A. conspicuous B. delicious C. dangerous D. poisonous
A. question B. quantity C. queue D. quarter

B. Pick out the word which has the different main stressed syllable from the rest.

A. sulphuric B. solidify C. advertise D. unreasonable
A. sometimes B. newspaper C. advertise D. magazine
A. investigate B. intimacy C. impudence D. industry
A. irrigate B. lightning C. natural D. organic
A. resources B. reclaiming C. timber D. unpleasant
6. A. decent B. cement C. recent D. comment
7. A. deficiency B. deficit C. reference D. income
8. A. contents B. continent C. constant D. consider
9. A. nature B. mature C. culture D. measure
10. A. committee B. refugee C. employee D. absentee

PART 2: PREPOSITION
A) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition or adverb:
The smoke curled (1) _____up_____ (2) ___over_______ the chimneys and melted (3) ___in_______ the morning air.
Are you brave and honest enough to say right (4) ___in_______ his face what you are saying (5) ____behind______ his back?
Before they hire anyone they should check (6) ___up_______ (7) ___on_______ his background.
He was far (8) ____from______ satisfied (9) _____with____ the way things had turned out. He sat lost (10) ___in_______ thought.
B) Put the verb in brackets in the correct form.
Situation: Margaret and Paul arranged to meet outside the cinema in the centre of town, yesterday. Paul arrived half an hour late The next day, Margaret tells her flatmate what happened.
A: Morning, Margaret. Did you have a good time last night?
M: No, I didn’t! I (look) __had been looking(1)____ forward to it all week but it was a disaster.
A: What happened ?
M: I (stand) ___had been standing(2)____ outside the cinema for twenty minutes when it started raining. Until then I (imagine) ___imagined(3)_____ all sorts of excuses for Paul but after it started raining, I just felt angry.
A: How long you (wait) ___had been waiting(4)_____ when he finally arrived?
M: I (walk) ___had been walking(5)____ up and down outside that cinema for at least half an hour when he finally came! The rain (get) ___was getting(6)_____ heavier and heavier and I (grow) ___was growing(7)___ angrier and angrier. But I (not say) ___did not say(8)_____ anything when he eventually arrived.
A: Why not?
M: Because he was angry with me! He (wait) ___had been waiting(9)____ outside the theatre! I was so angry I couldn’t speak. I just (come) ____came(10)___ home.

C) Circle the letter that best complete the following sentences:
1. Many people want to master English but ___ is very small.
A. a number of successful students B. a number of successful student
C. the number of successful students D. the