1. The United States became independent _______ English in 1776.

A. on                           B. with                        C. of                D. for

2. The village is very small. There are ______ houses.

A. a few                      B. only a few              C. some           D. only a little

3. My brother has a big __________ of foreign coins.

    A. collect                 B. collection                C. collector      D. collecting

4. He hurried ________ he wouldn’t be late for class.

A. since                       B. if                             C. unless                      D. so that

5. Does he tell you how he is getting ______ his new colleagues?

A. on with                   B. on of                       C. away with               D. out of

6. Lighting ....................... for 30 percent of our electricity bill.

   A. puts                     B. accounts                 C. does                        D. take for

7. _________ the TV. There’s nothing interesting on.

A. Turn off                 B. Turn on                   C. Turn up                   D. Turn down            

8. She had a _________ fix the leaking pipe.

A. plumber                  B. mechanic                C. consumer                D. electrician

9. An ​extremely ​large ​wave ​caused by a ​violent ​movement of the ​earth under the ​sea is called a _____.

A. tsunami                   B.  cyclone                  C. tornado                   D. volcano

10. I had _________ to the countryside last month.

   A. a two-day trips    B. a two-days trip       C. two-day trip            D. a two-day trip        

11. The man asked me _________ I ________ the way to The Great Wall.

   A. if / know              B. whether / knew       C. if / knew                 D. Both B and C are correct               

12. English _________ as a foreign language in Vietnam.

   A. speaks                  B. spoke                      C. is spoken                 D. is speaking

13. Do you know the man ........................... you met yesterday?

   A. whose                  B. which                      C. whom                     D. Both B and C are correct

14. It’s high time Jack ________ some work for his examination.

A. does                        B. has to do                 C. did                          D. do

15. She has a house that is twice ________ mine.

A. as large as               B. as larger as              C. large as                   D. so large as

16. Two people ________ in an explosion early this morning.

A. were reported to injured                 B. were reported being injured  

C. were reported to be injured                        D. were reported to injure

17. Mark is very set in his way, but John has a more ______ attitude to life.

A. changeable             B. flexible                   C. moveable                D. fluid          

18. I _______ this letter around for days without looking at it.

A. am carrying            B. will be carrying      C. carry                       D. have been carrying

19. If I _____ following that other car too closely, I would have been able to stop in time instead of running into it.

A. wasn’t                    B. weren’t                   C. hadn’t been             D. would have been

20. Our village had ______ money available for education that the schools had to close.

A. so little                   B. such little                C. so much                  D. such much