TEST 2

IV. LANGUAGE FOCUS

Each line of the folloeing passage has one error. For each line, find and underline the error and then write the correct (Mỗi dòng của đoạn văn sau đây có một lỗi. Đối với mỗi dòng, tìm và gạch chân lỗi, sau đó viết đúng)

1. My brother bought a laptop computers in the USA

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2. He paid $1.500 with it. The laptop is expensive

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3. but it's really great. It is made in Japan in 1999

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4. It has a color screen so it't easily on the eyes

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5. The computer have a battery so he can use it without

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6. electricity for eight hour. It he wants to send a fax,

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7.he can sends it clectronically

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8. He could connect the Internet, too. My brother

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9. plans to take his laptop on a airplane when he

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10. takes a vacation abroad. It is a very smallest

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11. computer, so he takes them everywhere with him

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VI. Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Write down the mistake and your corrections in the       spaces provided on the right. The first one has been done for you as an example. (10 pts)

Language is considered a significant means for communication in                                                                                                                  (0) ____ for_____  _____of _____

international relations. People in modern world have not longer been kept                                                                                                                  (1) ____________  ____________

to their own countries. Moreover, in older to keep pace with rapid scientific                                                                                                                  (2) ____________  ____________

developments nowadays, they must widen them cooperative relations with                                                                                                                  (3) ____________  ____________

those highly developing nations in other parts of the world. Due to the fact                                                                                                                  (4) ____________  ____________

that no one is unable to communicate with any natives in the world, it is                                                                                                                  (5) ____________  ____________

necessary for people to choose to learn a foreign language like a worldwide  (6)____________  ____________

common means of communication. That is why English has being chosen                                                                                                                  (7) ____________  ____________

by almost people to be a foreign language to master. More and more people                                                                                                                  (8) ____________  ___________

use English and the number of those who learns English as a foreign                                                                                                                  (9) ____________  ____________

language has been increasing so fast and that it is the highest nowadays.     (10) ____________  ____

V. Each sentence below contains an error. Underline it and write the correct answer in the space provided.( Mỗi câu dưới đây có một lỗi. Hãy gạch dưới nó và viết câu trả lời đúng vào chỗ trống cho sẵn.)

1.   My sister’s pictures are exciting but she’s school marks are quite bad.                    ______________

2.   Tom forgot his homework, but his brother didn’t forget him.                                  ______________

3.   In mine free time I play the piano with my mother.     ______________

4.   They have got a little dog but I don’t know it’s name.                                             ______________

5.   If you lend me your novel. I will lend you my.                                                        ______________

II. Each line in the following passage has one mistake. Find, underline and correct it. There is number (0) as an example .

(0) friend => friends

Answer

This passage contains ten mistakes. Each line has one, underline it and write the correct one in the numbered space. 0 is done as an example. (Đoạn văn sau đây có 10 lỗi sai. Mỗi dòng có một lỗi, gạch chân và sửa lại nó vào chỗ trống. 0 là một ví dụ)

X: There are 11 mistakes in the following passage. Read, underline then correct them. The first one has been done for you as an example.

   An increased number of people is now going on trip to Egypt. last year, for example, about one or a half million tourists visited Egypt. The people of Egypt is about fifty million and the capital is El Qahira, a busy city of just under nine millions people. Although the temperature is hot, dry and most of country is desert, but average climate from October to March is not too high. Most famous sights are the Pyramids at Giza. However it's also pleasant to see Alexandria and several other places.

Your answer:  0. increased -> increasing

      1........................->..........................    6..........................-> ...........................

      2........................->..........................    7..........................-> ...........................                                       

      3........................->..........................    8..........................-> ...........................

      4........................->..........................    9..........................-> ...........................   

      5........................->..........................   10.........................-> ...........................

            Each sentence below contains an error. Underline it and write the correct answer in the space provided.

14. Take the one left and the market is on your right.

        A            B          C                         D

15. Ha Noi is crowdeder than Da Nang City.

                  A         B          C                    D

16. The bakery is between the hotel or the restaurant.

                  A                       B           C           D

Underline the mistake in each sentence. Write the correct word on the line.

(Gạch chân vào lỗi sai trong câu. Viết lại với từ đúng vào dòng cho sẵn.)