Bài tập theo từng unit

Unit 1: HOME LIFE

Exercise 1: Hãy chọn một câu trả lời đúng nhất:

1. My mother works _______a nurse in a big hospital. She examines the patients. 

A. for                             B. as                                C. in                               D. at

1. She had to work on _______last night, so she is very tired this morning. 

A. the roof                      B. the table                       C. the bed                       D. night shift 

1. My father is very busy with his work at the office. He usually comes home very _______at night. 

A. late                            B. early                            C. on time                       D. past

1. My mother _______very early in the morning to prepare our breakfast. 

A. cries                          B. sleeps                          C. gets up                       D. stays up

1. My mother is a _______woman. She does all the household chores to make us more comfortable. 

A. caring                        B. careless                        C. harmful                      D. boring

1. In my free-time, I often help mom with _______the house. 

A. to clean                      B. clean                            C. cleaning                     D. cleans

1. I take responsibility to _______my little brothers because they are sometimes very naughty. 

A. look after                   B. get up                          C. sit down                     D. shut up 

1. My responsibility is to wash dishes and _______the garbage. 

A. take off                      B. take out                        C. take care of                D. take over

1. My brothers love joining my dad in _______things around the house at weekends. 

A. mend                         B. mended                        C. to mend                      D. mending

1. Whenever problems come up, we discuss frankly and find _______quickly. 

A. solve                         B. solution                       C. solved                        D. to solve

1. Mai is my closest friend. We are always willing to _______feelings to each other. 

A. tear                            B. cut                               C. share                          D. shake

1. My family is the base from which we can go into the world with _______. 

A. confide                      B. confidence                   C. confident                   D. confiding

1. I like doing _______such as cooking, washing and cleaning the house. 

A. house-keeper             B. white house                 C. lord of house          D. household chores

1. My father is a _______He often does researches with animals and plants. 

A. botanist                     B. biologist                       C. chemist                      D. mathematician

1. In my family, both my parents _______to give us a nice house and a happy home. 

A. join hands                  B. get out                         C. shake hands               D. clutch hands

1. My brothers are often very _______to what I say. They are really lovable. 

A. obey                          B. obedience                    C. obedient                    D. obstacle

1. Unlike most men, my uncle likes _______very much. I like his eel soup very much. 

A. having a shower         B. drinking beer                C. playing cards              D. cooking 

1. My responsibility is to _______my little brothers. 

A. take care of                B. join hands                    C. take over                    D. work together

1. Although my father is very busy, he tries _______much time taking care of his children. 

A. to spend                     B. spending                      C. to get up                     D. getting up

1. My father is very helpful. He is always _______give a hand with cleaning the house. 

A. will to                        B. will                              C. willing                       D. willing to

Exercise 2: Hãy xác định một câu có phần gạch dưới cần được sửa lại cho đúng:

1. My brothers love joining my dad in to mend things around the house at weekends. 

                                      A                             B                    C                              D

1. I am now in my attempt winning a place at the same university to my brother. 

                                    A           B                    C      D

1. My mother works in a doctor in a big hospital. She examines the patients. 

                A                 B                                  C                    D

1. My responsibility is to wash dishes and take off the garbage. 

                    A                     B                            C                  D

1. In my free-time, I often help mom with cooking the house. 

                      A             B                        C        D

1. My father and my mom joins hands to give us safety, security and happy family. 

                                                    A             B              C          D

1. Once a week, my mother have to work on a night shift at hospital. 

        A                                       B                                C                D

1. His eel soup is the best one I have ever eat. 

                  A           B            C              D

1. I’m now under study pressure, so I feel very fine all the time. 

                                  A        B                                 C            D

1. After hospital, my mother rushes to the market, then hurried home for the dinner. 

                    A                                     B                                C                  D

Exercise 3: Hãy đọc đoạn văn và chọn một câu trả lời đúng nhất cho mỗi chỗ trống tương ứng sau:

The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are traditional, (1)_______ a father, a mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families in the United States, there are no children. These (2) _______ couples may believe that they would not make good parents; they may want freedom from responsibilities of childbearing; or, perhaps they (3)_______ physically able to have children. Other families in the United States have one adult (4)_______ a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a person who joins a family by marrying a father or a mother. 

Americans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States people have right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what type of family group they must belong to. They respect each other’s choices regarding family groups. Families are very important (5)_______ Americans. 

1.     A. consist of                       B. consisting of                C. consisting                  D. including of

2.     A. childish                         B. childlike                       C. childless                    D. childhood

3.     A. are not                           B. can’t                            C. couldn’t                     D. weren’t

4.     A. who is                            B. is                                 C. which is                     D. which has

5.     A. for                                 B. of                                 C. in                               D. to

Exercise 4: Hãy đọc đoạn văn và chọn một câu trả lời đúng nhất cho mỗi chỗ trống tương ứng sau:

One evening Dr. Peterson was at a party. A woman came up to him and began to talk about her back. "Its very painful (1)_______ I've worked for a long time in my garden", the woman said. "You've hurt it by bending for too long", Dr. Peterson replied. He than showed her (2)_______ to do some exercises. However, (3)_______ the woman left he felt very angry. He went up to a friend of his who was a lawyer. He told him about (4)_______ the woman and asked him for his advice. "Do you think I (5)_______ to send her a bill?" he asked. The lawyer thought for a moment and nodded. "How much should I charge (6)_______ giving all that advice?" Dr. Peterson asked. "Change her your usual fee" they lawyer said. The next day Dr. Peterson sent the woman a bill. (7)_______ a few days later he was surprised (8)_______ letter from the lawyer. (9)_______ he opened the letter, he saw the following brief note: "Please find a bill for $50 for the advice (10)_______". 

1. A. because                       B. for                               C. by                              D. as soon as
2. A. what                            B. why                             C. when                         D. how
3. A. when                           B. because                       C. if                                D. for
4. A. meet                            B. meeting                        C. to meet                       D. he met
5. A. should                         B. had better                     C. ought                         D. must
6. A. by                                B. because of                   C. owing to                     D. for
7. A. However                     B. In addition                   C. Therefore                   D. Alternatively
8. A. by receiving                 B. to receive                     C. for receiving              D. receive
9. A. Because                       B. When                           C. Until                          D. For
10. A. gave you                      B. What I gave you           C. when I gave you         D. I gave you

Exercise 5: Hãy đọc đoạn văn và chọn một câu trả lời đúng nhất cho mỗi câu hỏi theo sau:

Mrs. Sand was having a lot of trouble with her skin, so she went to her doctor about it. However the doctor could not find anything wrong with her, so he sent her to the local hospital for some tests. The hospital, of course, sent the results of the tests direct to Mrs. Sand’s doctor, and the next morning he telephoned her to give her a list of the things that he thought she should not eat, as any of them might be the cause of her skin trouble. 

Mrs. Sand carefully wrote all the things down on a piece of paper, which she then left beside the telephone while she went out to a ladies' meeting. 

When she got back home a couple of hours later, she found her husband waiting for her. He had a big basket full of packages beside him, and when he saw her, he said, "Hello, sweetheart. I have done all your shopping for you. " 

"Done all my shopping?" she asked in surprise. "But how did you know what I wanted?"