Grammar test a unit 1+2

GRAMMAR TEST A UNIT 1+2
I. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences
1. He has written four novels ______.
A. so far	B. one year ago	C. last year 	D. yesterday
2. I’ve played the piano ______.
A. two years ago	B. since 1995	C. before 1995	D. tomorrow
3. He ______ me about it last night.
A. tells	B. have told	C. has told	D. told
4. ______ you ______ from George recently?
A. Has / heard 	B. Did / heard	C. Have / heard 	D. Have / hear
5. Everything is going well. We ______ any problems so far.
A. haven’t had 	B. hasn’t had 	C. haven’t 	D. hasn’t
6. I am tired. I ______ since breakfast.
A. have been working B. work 	C. will work 	D. am working
7. It hasn’t rained ______.
A. last night 	B. today 	C. a month ago 	D. yesterday
8. Have you hear from John ______?
A. recently 	B. for two days 	C. two days ago 	D. since two days
9. He hasn’t driven a car ______.
A. since June 	B. ready 	C. two years ago 	D. yesterday morning
10. That is the third time he’s phoned her ______.
A. last night 	B. for two hours 	C. yesterday 	D. this evening
11. The meeting will ______ in London next week.
A. be held 	B. is held 	C. be hold 	D. are hold
12. Bananas ______ to Europe every year.
A. are exported 	B. exports 	C. is exported 	D. exported
13. The liquid ______ to a boiling point.
A. heat 	B. be heated 	C. heated 	D. is heated
14. Eggs ______ in a freezer.
A. shouldn’t be keep 	B. shouldn’t be keeped 
C. shouldn’t be kept 	D. shouldn’t been kept
15. I’m hungry. I ______ anything since 8 am.
A. hasn’t eaten 	B. haven’t eaten 	C. haven’t eated 	D. don’t eat
16. When did you buy this car? ______.
A. since ten years B. ten years ago 	C. for ten years 	D. in ten years
17. I ______ this man 10 years ago.
A. have met 	B. met 	C. is met 	D. meet
18. These designers ______ inspiration from Vietnam’s ethnic minorities since last year.
A. have taken 	B. took 	C. has taken 	D. take
19. I ______ a lot of people in the last few days.
A. met 	B. meet 	have met 	D. has met
20. ______ you ______ a lot recently, Jane?
A. Did /travel 	B. Have /traveled 	C. Has / traveled 	D. Do / travel
21. We can’t go along here because the road ______.
A. been repaired 	B. repair 	C. is being repaired D. repaired
22. The story I’ve just read ______ Agatha Christie.
A. was written 	B. was written from C. was written by 	D. wrote
23. Some film stars ______ be difficult to work with.
A. are said 	B. is said 	C. say to 	D. are said to
24. She wishes she ______ a palace now.
A. owns 	B. owned 	C. is owning 	D. would own
25. This is the most interesting novel that I have ______ read.
A. ever 	B. yet 	C. never 	D. now
26. I’d like to borrow this book. Has Anna read ______?
A. still it 	B. yet it	C. it yet 	D. just
27. Ben writes very quickly. He’s ______ finished his essay.
A. already 	B. still 	C. yet 	D. for
28. I’ve ______ to Paris. I went there in July.
A. been 	B. just 	C. gone 	D. yet
29. For centuries, poets, writers and musicians ____ the Ao dai in their poets, novels and songs.
A. mention 	B. mentioned 	C. has mentioned 	D. have mentioned
30. Have you ______ any skiing?
A. just done 	B. ever done 	C. ever did 	D. long done
31. I haven’t seen that coat before. ______ have you had it?
A. How 	B. How old 	C. When 	D. How long
32. It’s nice to see you again. We ______ each other for a long time.
A. haven’t seen 	B. hasn’t seen 	C. didn’t see 	D. don’t see
33. The girls have ______ gone to the cinema. They won’t be back until ten o’clock.
A. since 	B. still 	C. yet 	D. just
34. I haven’t seen my parents ______ last Christmas.
A. already 	B. for 	C. before 	D. since
35. This is the first time I ______ away from home.
A. lived 	B. have ever lived 	C. lives 	D. has lived
36. This program must be new. I’ve ______ seen it before.
A. ever 	B. since 	C. for 	D. never
37. ______ you ______ a holiday this year?
A. Have / had 	B. Did / have 	C. Do / have 	D. Has / had
38. I wish this school ______.
A. were bigger 	B. is bigger 	C. are bigger 	D. was bigger
39. I don’t think Jane will leave this Sunday. I wish she ______.
A. won’t 	B. will 	C. wouldn’t 	D. isn’t
40. My house ______ broken into last night.
A. are 	B. is 	C. was 	D. were
41. The meal ______ cooked when I came.
A. was be 	B. was being 	C. is	D. is being
42. How ______ this word ______?
A. is / pronounced B. are / pronounced C. were / pronounced D. is / pronounce
43. A lot of money ______ in the robbery.
A. were stolen 	B. were steal 	C. was stolen 	D. was stole
44. Do you ever wish you ______ a doctor some day?
A. will become 	B. would become 	C. becoming 	D. was
45. When ______ the telephone ______?
A. were / invented 	B. were / inventing 	C. was / invented 	D. was / inventing
46. Somebody ______ the car already.
A. have cleaned 	B. clean 	C. has cleaned 	D. cleaned
47. She has ______ to Hue University.
A. be accepted 	B. been accepted 	C. is accepted 	D. were accepted
48. We have ______ how to cook.
A. been teach 	B. be taught 	C. been teacher 	D. been taught
49. My purse ______ yesterday.
A. have taken 	B. was taken 	C. have took 	D. is taken
50. The details should ______ carefully.
A. is checked 	B. check 	C. was checked 	D. be checked
51. Doctors _____ an answer to AIDS yet.
A. have found 	B. found 	 C. haven't found 	D. hasn't found
52. Do you mind _____ up?
A. wash 	 B. washing	C. washed 	D. to wash.
53. He _____ to give up smoking since last week.
A. was trying 	B. have tried 	C. has tried 	D. tried.
54. He enjoys _____ in the rain.
A. walk 	B. walks 	 	C. to walk 	D. walking.
55. Would you like _____ to my party?
A. come 	 	B. to come 	C. coming 	D. came.
56. My sister likes _____ and _____.
	A. dance/sing	B. to dance/sings	C.dancing/singing 	D. dancing/to sing
57. This school _____ ten years ago.
A. be built 	B. is built 	C. was built 	D. built
58. He _____ since the day we left school.
A. hasn't seen 	B. hasn't been being seen 
C. wasn't seen 	D. hasn't been seen
59. We spent half a year _____ this hotel.
A. to build 	B. built 	 	C. building 	D. with building
60. My friend is fond of _____ TV in the evening.
A. watching 	B. to watch 	C. watch 	D. watched
61. There is a _____ on the table.
A. lamp reading 	B. read lamp 	C. reading lamp 	D. reading lamps
62. While I _____ TV, my sister _____ to music.
A. was watching/ listening 	B. watched/ listened 
C. was watching/ was listening 	D. watching/ listening
63. She is bored _____ getting up early.
A. with 	B. of	C. in 	D. to
64. I am not used _____ up early.
A. get 	B. to get 	C. getting 	D. to getting
65. She can't stand _____ her at home all day.
A seeing 	B. see 	C. to see 	D. saw
66. He drives very _____ and has got two accidents this year.
A. careless 	B. carefully 	C. carelessly 	D. careful
67. You'd better _____ at night. It's dangerous.
A. not go out 	B. don't go out 	C. to go out 	D. not to go out
68. I'd rather _____ at home than _____ to see that film.
A. stay/ to go 	B. staying/ going 	C. to stay/ to go	D. stay/ go
69. He was surprised _____ her action.
A. for 	B. with 	C. to 	D. at
70. He feels like _____ in a big city.
A. live 	B. to live 	C. living 	D. lives
71. They are trying to look _____ new jobs.
A. after 	B. at 	C. for 	D. forward
72. They are looking forward _____ Tet holiday.
A. to have 	B. having 	C. to having 	D. have
73. He looked at me_____.
A. angry 	B. angrily 	C. anger 	D. angryly.
74 This is Kensington Garden _____ every visitor from abroad admires.
A. which 	B. what 	C. from where 	D. where
75. This is a store _____ you can buy almost everything from.
A. which 	B. where 	C. what 	D. in which
76. It is in this house _____ he was born.
A. where 	B. which 	C. that 	 	D. in which
77. He is the most intelligent student _____ I've ever taught at school.
A. who 	B. whom 	C. which 	D. that
78. Uncle Ho was born _____ Kim Lien village.
A. in 	B at 	C. from 	D. on
79 That man can tell us where _____.
A. does John live	B. is John living 	C. John lives 	D. John living
80. When I saw him, he _____ a black suit.
A. wore 	 B. was wearing 	C. wearing	D. wears
81. Your car is different _____ mine.
A. to 	 	B. in 	 	C. from 	D. for
82. I found history very _____.
A. amusing 	B. amused 	C. amuse 	D. to amuse
83. Her _____ include swimming and reading.
A. interests 	B. interesting 	C. interested 	D. interest
84. Great Opera _____ of the world can be heard at the Sydney Opera House.
A. sing 	B. singings	C. singers 	D. to sing
85. English is the _____ language on one- fifth of the land area of the world.
A. office 	B. official 	C. officer 	D. officially
86. English tends towards _____.
A. simple 	B. simplicity	C. simplier 	D. simply 
87. He looks _____ today than yesterday.
A. good 	 	B. well 	 C. better 	 	D. goodly
88. There is a _____ difference between the north and the south.
A. region	B. regional 	C. regionally 	D. regioner
89. He went to a seaside resort because he was keen on _____.
A. windsurf 	B. windsurfing 	C. to windsurf 	D. to windsurfing
90. The teacher told the boys to stop _____.
A. to make 	B. played 	C. playing 	D. being played
91. Mark Twain is a famous _____.
 	A. American writer 	B. American playwright 
 	C. English writer 	D. English playwright
92. He used _____ next to me in class.
A. to sit 	B. sit 	C. to sitting 	D. to sat
93. Are you looking for my sister? - She isn't at home now. She _____ to the library.
A. went 	B. goes 	C. has gone 	D. is going
94. While I was swimming yesterday afternoon, someone else _____ my clothes.
A. stealed 	B. was stealing 	C. was stolen 	D. stole
95. Who _____ the bicycle?
A. invents 	B. was invented 	C. invented 	D. did invented
96. I like your car. How long _____ it?
A. have you had 	B. did you have 	C. you have had 	D. do you have
97. He couldn't stand _____ for her so long.
A. to wait 	B. waiting	C. wait 	D. waited
98. It's not worth _____ a tax home.
A. taking 	B. to take 	C. take 	D. took
99. Are you interested in _____ football.
A. play 	B. to play 	C. playing 	D. played
100. "Don't _____ in class" said the teacher.
A. speak 	B. talk 	C. tell 	D. say
II/ Rewrite these following sentences keep the meaning as the root one
1.He doesn’t play the guitar as well as Henry.
à Henry plays .................................. ……………………………………......
2.Martha is more talented than Bill
à Bill is .......................................... …………………………………….…….
3.Nobody in our class is more intelligent than Jane is.
à Jane is ......................................... ………………………..........................
4.No animal in the world is as big as a whale is .
à A whale is ..................................... ……………………….........................
5.Laura reads more quickly than her brother does.
à Her brother .......................................... ……………………………….…..
6.Jack is the tallest student in this class.
à No ...................................................... …………………………………….
7.His assignment is different from mine.
à My assignment …….........................................……………………..…….
8.He knows a lot more about it than I do.
à I don’t know………………………………………………………………….
9.Jane is a better swimmer than Mary.
à Jane ................................................... …………………………………….
10. She is a far more careful driver than I am.
à She drives ............................................. ………………………………….
11. She is a slower and more careful driver than I am.
à She drives .............................................. …………………………………
12. Joe dances more gracefully than his partner.
à Joe’s partner ........................................... …………………………………
13. When he is old , he doesn’t like to travel.
à The older ............................................... ………………………………….
14. Is this the cheapest pet food you have got?
à Have you ............................................. ………………………………….?
15. My book isn’t as interesting as yours.
à Your book is………………………………………………………………….
16. His car runs faster than a race car.
à A race car……………………………………………………………………
17. He speaks Spanish more fluently than I do.
à I ……………………………………………………………………………….
18. Her watch isn’t as expensive as mine.
à My watch ..................................... …………………………………..........
19.Tan’s salary is higher than Minh’s.
à Minh’s salary…………………………………………………………………
20.Exercise 1 is more difficult than exercise 2
à Exercise 2…………………………………………………………………….
1. The walk only took five minutes.
=> It is a five-minute walk
2. I started work for the company a year ago
=> I have been working for the company for a year
3. It took us three hours to open the door
=> We spent three hours opening the door
III. Sentence transformation
1.It was a nine-month course
à The course ................................................ ……………………………………….
2.The flight lasts twenty-four hours
à It is .................................................... …………………………………………….
3.The ferry crossing to the island takes two hours
à It is ..................................................... …………………………………………..
4.This contact is for two years
à This is ................................................... …………………………………………
5.It is a twenty- day coach tour 
à The ....................................................... …………………………………………
6.The translation course takes two years.
à It is a ................................................... ………………………………………….
7.Victor started collecting postage stamps twenty- years ago.
à Victor .................................................... …………………………………………
8.He learned to drive when he was eight .
à He has ................................................... ………………………………………..
9.The flight to Moscow lasted three and half hours.
à It took ................................................... …………………………………………
10 . We started investigating the case a week ago.
à We ........................................................ …………………………………………
11.It is a six-hour drive from London to Edinburgh
à It takes .................................................. …………………………………………
12. He spends two hours a week sorting out stamps.
à Sorting out ............................................... ……………………………………….
IV. Combine two sentences into a new one, using so…that or such…that.
1.The ice was thick. There was no danger of the skaters falling through.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. She look il. her parents took her to the hospital.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. The bath was relaxing. He went to sleep.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
4.They were surprised. They could hardly speak.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. He sounded sorry. I just had to forgive him.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
6.I was excited about going away. I couldn't sleep.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
7. The water was very dirty . We decided not to go swimming.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. She speaks English very well. You would think it was her native language.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
9. The road is so narrow that it's difficult for two cars to pass each other.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
10. The weather was so warm that I didn't need a coat.
à ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
V. Suggestion
1. What about going to the concert? 
à Why………………………………….………………………………………………………………?
2. Let’s go to school by bus today	 
à What about …………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Shall we visit Vung Tau?	 
à I suggest ………………………………………………….………………………………………
4. “Why don’t you take a day off tomorrow?” His boss said 
à His boss suggested………………………………………………………………………………