Trắc nghiệm tiếng anh 12 unit 13: The 22nd Sea Games (P1)

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

Question 1:

• a. events
• b. spirit

• c. Asian

• d. silver

Question 2:

• a. gold

• b. region

• c. organize
• d. game

Question 3:

• a. trained
• b. proved 

• c. impressed

• d. performed

Question 4:

• a. competitor
• b. medal
• c. level

• d. development

Question 5:

• a. honor

• b. high
• c. host
• d. hold

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Question 6: Vietnam was host country of the 22nd SEA Games.

• a. a
• b. an

• c. the

• d. Ø

Question 7: The 22nd SEA Games Mascot is Golden Buffalo.

• a. a
• b. an

• c. the

• d. Ø

Question 8: To prepare for the 22nd SEA Games, Vietnam carried out _____ intensive program for the athletes.

• a. a

• b. an

• c. the
• d. Ø

Question 9: How many ______ took part in the 22nd SEA Games?

• a. compete

• b. competitors

• c. competition
• d. competitor

Question 10: The second part of the program in the 22" SEA Games opening ceremony was named “ _____ for Peace”.

• a. Cooperate

• b. Cooperation

• c. Cooperative
• d. Cooperatively

Question 11: The ______ wanted to reduce the breadth of the games, with many events currently having small fields and weak competition.

• a. organize
• b. organization
• c. organizable

• d. organizers

Question 12: In 2006, Viet Nam made a deep impression _____ other countries in the region by successfully hosting the Southeast Asian Student Sport Festival.

• a. with
• b. for
• c. in

• d. on

Question 13: The Southeast Asian Student Sport Festival is the biggest sport event ______ the youths in the region.

• a. for

• b. on
• c. in
• d. of

Question 14: At his last attempt the athlete was successful _____ passing the bar.

• a. in

• b. for
• c. with
• d. on

Question 15: The number of Vietnamese sport officials and referees of international standard taking part in regional tournaments has increased rapidly.

• a. hosting

• b. participating

• c. achieving
• d. succeeding

Question 16: At the 23rd SEA Games, Viet Nam proved its position in the region by ______ third behind the host - the Philippines and second-ranked Thailand.

• a. finishing

• b. playing
• c. preparing
• d. performing

Question 17: In the 22nd SEA Games in 2008, the country _______ the competition with 340 medals, including 156 golds, 91 silvers and 93 bronzes.

• a. defended
• b. cost

• c. topped

• d. ranked

Question 18. To improve its athletes’ ____ Viet Nam has regularly exchanged delegation of sport officials, coaches, referees and athletes with other countries.

• a. team
• b. competitor
• c. appearance

• d. performance

Question 19: ______ is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.

• a. Wrestling

• b. Bodybuilding

• c. Weightlifting
• d. Badminton

Question 20: He is a great sports ______. He rarely misses any sport games although he was busy.

• a. enthusiast

• b. player
• c. energy
• d. programmer

Question 21: As she did so, her parents became ______.

• a. the angriest
• b. the most angry
• c. the more angry

• d. angrier and angrier

Question 22: People should eat _____ and do ________ to reduce the risk of heart disease.

• a. less fat / more exercise

• b. less and less fat / the more exercise
• c. the less fat / the more exercise
• d. fatter / more exercise

Question 23: He spent a year in India and loves spicy food. _____ the food is, _____ he likes it.

• a. The hotter / the more and more

• b. The hotter / the more 

• c. The more and more hot / the more
• d. The hottest / the most

Question 24: Of course you can come to the party. _____.

• a. The more the merrier

• b. The more and the merrier
• c. The more and merrier
• d. The more and more merrier

Question 25: I feel _____ I did yesterday.

• a. much more tired than

• b. many more tired than
• c. as many tired as
• d. as more tired as

Question 26: She is ____ a spectator.

• a. more an athlete than

• b. more of an athlete than

• c. an athlete more than
• d. an athlete of more than

Question 27: His house is _____ mine.

• a. twice as big as

• b. as twice big as
• c. as two times big as
• d. as big as twice

Question 28: _____  live in Ho Chi Minh City than in the whole of the rest of the country.

• a. As much as people

• b. More people

• c. Asmany as people
• d. People more

Question 29: It gets ______ to understand what the professor has explained.

• a. the more difficult
• b. more difficult than
• c. difficult more and more

• d. more and more difficult

Question 30: You must drive slower in built up areas. ______ you drive in the city, it is ______ that you will have an accident.

• a. The faster and faster / the more probable

• b. The faster / the more probable

• c. The more and more fast / the more and more probable
• d. The more fastly / the probable

Error Identification. 

Question 31: The Southeast Asian Games, also knowing as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current eleven countries of Southeast Asia.

• a. knowing

• b. biennial
• c. involving
• d. of Southeast Asia

Question 32: The SEA Games are under regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia.

• a. are

• b. under regulation

• c. with
• d. supervision

Question 33: The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will help promote cooperative, understanding and relations among countries in the Southeast Asian region.

• a. was that
• b. will help

• c. cooperative

• d. among

Question 34: The first SEA Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 12 to 17 December, 1959 comprising more and more 527 athletes and officials from Southeast countries participating in 12 sports competitions.

• a. were held
• b. from 12 to 17
• c. comprising

• d. more and more

Question 35: The next host for the SEA Games is Laos. It is Laos’ the first time as the host for the biannual games.

• a. The next
• b. It is

• c. the first

• d. the host

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

The 23rd Southeast Asian Games were held in the Philippines from November 27th to December 5th in 2005. The games were participated by the eleven nations of Southeast Asia. This was the first time that the opening and closing ceremonies were held in a large open field, despite the fact that Manila has many stadiums. The organization decided to hold the games at an open space to accommodate the large number of participants and spectators. As a result, the 2005 SEA Games ranked as having the largest audience - 200,000 people - during the opening and closing ceremonies. These games were also noted for having the most number of delegates in the history of the SEA Games. In the end, all participating countries received medals.

Events in men’s football actually started on November 20th, prior to the opening ceremony. Water polo events began on November 21st, women’s football on November 23rd, sailing on November 26th, and tennis on November 26th.

The first gold medal of the games was awarded to Singapore on November 25th when their water polo team came out undefeated during the round-robin tournament round. The Philippine team took the silver medal in that event, and Malaysia brought home the bronze.

The Games were also considered a valuable opportunity for athletes to gain competition experience and preparation for the upcoming Asian Games and. Olympic Games. It was purposely created to strengthen friendship, solidarity and understanding among neighboring countries in the region.

This was the third SEA Games to be hosted by the Philippines. The last two times the Philippines hosted the games were in 1981, and again in 1991. There were 1,461 medals awarded, 444 of which were gold, 434 were silver, and 583 were bronze.

Question 36: Up to now, the Philippines has hosted the SEA Games _____ times.

• a. 2

• b. 3

• c. 4
• d. 5

Question 37: According to the first paragraph, _____.

• a. the opening and closing ceremonies were hold in the stadiums of Manila
• b. only four of eleven participating countries got medals
• c. the 23rd SEA Games had been over by the end of November, 2005

• d. the number of audience in the 23rd SEA Games was about 200,000 people

Question 38: Which sport was first competed in the 23rd SEA Games?

• a. Water polo
• b. Tennis

• c. Men’s football

• d. Sailing

Question 39. Which was not mentioned in the 23rd SEA Games?

• a. Peace

• b. Friendship
• c. Solidarity
• d. Understanding

Question 40: Which country got the first gold medal in the 23rd SEA Games?

• a. Vietnam

• b. Singapore

• c. The Philippines
• d. Malaysia

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

That is a program of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union to (Question 41) _____ individuals, domestic and foreign organizations buy and use bicycles during the time (Question 42) _____they enjoy the SEA Games 22 in Ho Chi Minh City then donate the bicycles to poor children. 

Preparing (Question 43) _____ this program, the Organizing Committee has signed a (Question 44) _____ Ss with Martin — a bicycle-making firm — to purchase 1,000 bicycles, at prices from 850,000 to 1,000,000 VND per bicycle - 10% (Question 45) _____ than market prices, with nearly 20 different models. In the mid of November, The Organizing Committee will announce, promote, and (Question 46) _____ the program “SEA Games Iron Horses - For Poor Children” through (Question 47) _____ at airport, on buses, taxis, at information desks, posters, banners, newspapers, and websites of city Youth Union. Besides 1,200 volunteers (Question 48) ______ the SEA Games 22, the Organizing Committee also recruits 100 active volunteers for this program to handle the handover and receiving bikes, instructing participating tourists, giving (Question 49) ______ to questions through hot lines.

This program both conveys practical significance and helps international friends to understand further the nation and people of Viet Nam as well as strengthen the friendship and (Question 50) _____ among nations.

Question 41:

• a. require
• b. contribute

• c. encourage

• d. raise

Question 42:

• a. where
• b. which
• c. that

• d. when

Question 43:

• a. for

• b. on
• c. of
• d. about

Question 44:

• a. document

• b. contract

• c. letter
• d. report

Question 45:

• a. low

• b. lower

• c. the lower
• d. the lowest

Question 46:

• a. public
• b. publicly
• c. publicizing

• d. publicize

Question 47:

• a. book
• b. tickets

• c. leaflets

• d. sheets

Question 48:

• a. serving

• b. taking
• c. running
• d. hosting

Question 49:

• a. enquiries
• b. letters

• c. responses

• d. demands

Question 50:

• a. cooperation

• b. participation
• c. achievement
• d. success