SINGAPORE

Singapore is an island city of about three million people. It's a beautiful (1) ........... with lots of parks and open spaces. It's also a very (2) ................. city.

Most of the people (3) ................ in high rise flats in different parts of the island. The business district is very modern with (4) ........... of high new office buildings. Singapore also has some nice older sections. In China town, there (5) ................. rows of old shop houses. The Government buildings in Singapore are very (6)................. and date from the colonial days.

Singapore is famous (7).......... its shops and restaurants. There are many good shopping centers. Most of the (8) .......... are duty free. Singapore's restaurants (9) ........ Chinese, Indian, Malay and European food, and the (10) ............ are quite reasonable.

1. A. district B. town C. city D. village

2. A. large B. dirty C. small D. clean

3. A. live B. lives C. are living D. lived

4. A. lot B. lots C. many D. much

5. A. is B. will be C. were D. are

6. A. beauty B. beautiful C. beautify D. beautifully

7. A. in B. on C. at D. for

8. A. good B. goods C. goodness D. goody

9. A. sells B. selling C. sell D. sold

10. A. priced B. price C. prices D. prier

Put a phrase from the box in each gap to complete the following passage.

it is a modern means of transport

the suburban raiway is the interchange

Athens metro is the quickkest solution

they can take you anywhere at any time

visitors can use in the city of Athens

There are many means of transport that (1)________, the capital of Greence. In order to move around inside the city there is a wide network of buses leading to different areas of Athens, then there are trolleybuses which move with the help of electricity and cover a wide area as well.(2)_________ but since it is quite new in Greece it doesn't yet cover every single prefecture but there are plans for expansion so that other locations are served as well. The metro has connections with the railway train os Athens which can take you trom the Port of Piraeus to the northern suburbs with many stops in between. (3)_________ of the metro which will take you to the Athens Airport and a few more areas which are a bit far from the center of Athens but inside the prefecture of Attica. Moving on with the tram, (4)________ preferred by many people sice it connects areas that didn't have adequate transportation before and it passes by locations where there are no metro stations. Taxis are cheap in comparison to other European countries and (5)_________ since they are easy to find and quick if there is no traffic.

GRADE 7 – PRATICE TEST 3
I. Circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others. 
1. A.decision B. sure C. measure D. vision

2. A. hot B. pot C. bottle D. sport
3. A.sausage B. sauce C.aunt D.laundry
4. A. exhibition B. question C. collection D. tradition
II. Put the words given into the correct columns.
milk, meat, tomato, lemon, apple,, onion,
 banana, water, egg, rice, .
Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns
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III. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. 
1. __________ bananas are there on the table. (How many / How much / What /Where)
2. Hoa hates apples and Thanh doesn’t, _______ (and / too/ either / but)
3. He is different _________ his brother. (from / as / same )
4. There is _________ rice left from lunch. (some / a / any /an )
5. There aren’t ___________eggs in the fridge. (a / any / some / or )
6. _________ water do you drink every day? (How many / How much / When / Who)
7. I look forward __________ you there. (see / seeing / to seeing / to see) 
8. What is your favourite ________? - It is beef noodles soup. (drink / food / vegetables /milk)
IV. Read the passage, and then answer the questions.
There are many activities after school hours in Lan’s school, so she and her classmates can 
take part in them. Lan and Mai join the school theater group and they are also the members of 
the stamp collectors’ club. They are rehearsing a play for the Teacher’s Day. Hung and Tuan 
are members of the school sport club. They play for the school football team. Ha and Thanh 
are the members of the school art club, and they want to be good artists one day in the future.
1. What are they doing now?
_______________________________________________________________________
2. Who are the members of the stamp collectors’ club?
_______________________________________________________________________
3. Who plays for the school football team?
_______________________________________________________________________
4. Do Hung and Tuan want to be good artists one day ?
_______________________________________________________________________
V. Read the following passage then decide if the statements are true or false.
Vietnamese people of have three meals a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner. People in thecountryside usually have rice with meat or fish and vegetables for breakfast but people in the cities often have light breakfast with a bowl of Pho or instant noodles or sticky rice before 
going to work. For lunch, they often have rice, meat, fish and vegetables. People in the 
countryside often have lunch at home but people in the cities often have lunch at the canteens 
or at the food stalls. Most people prepare their dinner at home. They eat many kinds of meat, 
seafood, fish, fresh vegetables and rice. Many people say dinner is the main and the best meal 
of the day.
Statements True False
1. Vietnamese people often have three meals a day
2. People in the countryside usually have rice with meat or fish and vegetables 
for breakfast
3. People in the cities often have big breakfast before going to work
4. People in the countryside often have lunch at the canteens or at the food 
stalls 
VI. Make the sentences as directed.
1. Classical music is interesting. Folk music is interesting. (as…….as )
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
2. I am a singer. He is a singer. (too)
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
3. I don’t like pop music. He doesn’t like pop music. (either)
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
4. This car/ be/ different/ that car (Viết thành câu hoàn chỉnh)
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
VII. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
1. together/Beat the eggs/ flour, and milk/ with sugars, 
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
2. at a time / into the pan /pour ¼ cup of the mixture 
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
3. over a medium heat/ Heat the oil/ in a frying pan/
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….
4. the pancake /Serve/ some/with /vegetables
 ……………….…………………………………………………………………………….

Read the text and fill one suitable word in each numbered blank:

If you travel around the world,you will learn that _____ country has different customs.It is what _____ travelling so interesting! If you visit Thailand in April , you will see the Songkran celebrations - and you might ______ very wet! Songkran is the Thai New Year , and it is ______ to throw buckets of water at passers - by on the street! If you did that in London , you might get arrested!

Different countries have different laws, so you _______ to be careful. Of course stealing and murder are illegal everywhere, but some laws are surpring. In England, if you buy a stamp with the Queen's head on it, you must make ______ you stick it on your letter the right way up. It is illegal to stick the stamp on a letter upside-down. It shows that you do not respect the Queen.

Many laws in England were made centuries _______ . As time passes, they are not important any more, but they have not been changed. For example, did you know that it is illegal to wear a top hat in the city of London? And in the seventeenth century Oliver Cromwell banned _______ mince pies on Christmas Day. Mince pies are a traditional Christmas treat, so millions of people in UK break that law every Christmas. There are hundreds of laws ______ this, which seem stupid to us now. _______ 1965 over 2000 old laws have been changed, but there are thousands more - so be careful!

1/ In 1960 most people in Viet Nam had a TV set. 2/ The people with TVs were popular.

3/ The neighbors would gather around the TV in the morning 4/ More people have a TV set today.

5/ Now they don/t spend much time together.

1/ It took Mr. Hoang half an hour to walk to work yesterday. Mr. Hoang spent.......................................................

2/ What is the price of this cap ?

How much.................................................................?

3/ You shouldn’t eat too much meat. You’d............................................................................

4/ Lan is the youngest of the three sisters.

Lan has .....................................................

5/ Our house is older than any other house in the living centr Our house......................................................................

6/ Mai usually works hard.

Mai is usually a………………………....

7/ There are eight hundred stamps in Hoa’s collection.

Hoa’s collection.......................................................................

8/ How heavy is the chicken?

What ......................................................................................?

9/ How much is this book ?

What is..............................................................................?

10/ Listening to music is more interesting than watching TV

VII. Give the correct form of the words in capital letters to complete the following sentences.

1. China has a great number of places of ________. INTERESTING

2. In the USA, there are ______ newspaper articles about the film and how it is made. DAY

3. If you can give a reasonable ___­­­­____for your bad behavior last night, I’ll forgive you. EXPLAIN

4. Their children have quite ___________ characters. DIFFERENCE

5. I like the city life because there are many kinds of __________. ENTERTAIN

6. The scouts do the ___________ work. VOLUNTEER

7. She is one of the greatest ___________ to appear in this theater. PERFORM

8. Taxi drivers have to have very good ___________ on the street names. KNOW

9. The more expensive a hotel is, the more ____________ it is. COMFORT

10. __________, dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. FORTUNATE

6. Choose the correct words or phrases to complete the sentences below.

1. I have ……………………(some/ any) food for you if you want some.

2. There is ……………………..(a lot of/ some) pepper in my omlette. Too much. I don’t like it.

3. Can I have ………………………….(some/ a lot of) sauce in my spaghetti? But not too much.

4. I need to buy ………………………..(some/ any) oil because there isn;t (some/any) oil in the kitchen.

5. She is a warm and friendly girl. She has……………………..……. (lots of/ some) friends.

6. I need ………………….(some/ any) sugar for the cakes. Is there…………………….. (any/ a lot of) sugar in the jar?

7. Fill in the blanks with a, an, some or any. 

1.   Have you got __________________ potatoes?

2.   I’d like __________bread, and __________________piece of cheese, please.

3.   For breakfast, I have __________________ham sandwich and __________________orange juice.

4.   Here are __________________ cereals, but there isn’t __________________ milk.

5.   Would you like __________________ beer or would you prefer __________________ bottle of Coke?

6.   Is there __________________ rice left?  I’m afraid there isn’t __________________ rice left,

1. Read the passage carefull, and then do the following tasks.

      Our school has an organic garden . We learn about growing vegetables and looking after them in our food science lessons. In the holidays, we can volunteer to work in the garden. My family live in a flat so it's great for me to have a garden at school. Volunteers can take some vegetables home too, so my parents are very happy that I like working there.

      My aunt and uncle live on a farm in the Red River Delts. It isn't very big but they have hens, pigs, and cows. We always do to stay with them in summer. It's a beautiful place and the food is amazing. All the vegetables are so fresh and, because the farm is organic, we know they are healthy, too.

      We live in Ha Noi and my parents buy food at The Viet Fresh Farm Shop near our flat. It is very famous in our city and all the food they sell is from animals that live on the farm of vegetales that they grow. They organise a food festival once a year and we always do to eat he free food and watch cookery demonstrtions . They are really interesting and you can learn a lot about cooking.

A. Read the passage again. Match the underlined words with the correct meanings ( 1 - 6 )

1. very good_______________________________________________________.

2. something or someone that a lot of people know about________________________________.

3. activities which explain and show how to do something__________________________________.

4. people working or helping because they want to, not for money__________________________.

5. the animals that the meat beef comes from_________________________________________.

6. offer to do something for no money______________________________________________.

B. Read the passge again. Choose the correct answer to the questions.

1. The students at the school__________________.

A. have to work in the school garden.

B. get some free food for working in the garden.

C. have food science lessonsduring the holidays.

D. use the vegetables from the garden in cookery lessons.

2. The student who wrote about the school garden_________________.

A. works there with her parents

B. also helps in her paaren's garden

C. would like to work there in summer but she can't

D. doesn't have a garden at home.

3. We know that the student who writes about the farm of her aunt and uncle certainly______________.

A. goes there every year

B. helps on the farm

C. likes eating met from the farm

D. eatsonly healthy food

4. The Viet Fresh Farm Shop_________________________.

A. is the best farm shop in Ha Noi

B. is famous all over Viet Nam

C. sells only vegetarian food

D. ony sels food from their farm

5. If you go to The Viet Fresh Farm food festival, you____________________________.

A. have to pay for the food

B. can watch how to cook different dishes

C. see animals from the farm

D. have to take food to sell

2. Put one of these phrases in each gap in the passage.

friendly as different from the same as(2) as quiet as as narrow as

My hometown has changed a lot - it's defintely not (1) ............................... it was before. It's not (2) ............................ it was 5 year ago. It' much more noisy, but I prefer it now. There are more shops and restaurants. The restaurants are (3) ......................... the ones we had before. Now we can eat many different kinds of food - Italian,French,and even Mexican!

There have been so many changes. Even the streets are not (4) ................... they were before. They are wider now to make space for the extra traffic.

One things hasn't changed though. The people here are as warm and (5) ............................. before. That's one thing that's (6) ....................... it was before.