TIẾNG ANH 12 GLOBAL SUCCESS – UNIT 1
LIFE STORIES WE ADMIRE – ĐỀ 5
PART I: PHONETICS
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.- A. face
- B. save
- C. paper
- D. family
- A. love
- B. home
- C. hope
- D. role
- A. admire
- B. devote
- C. childhood
- D. achieve
- A. successful
- B. powerful
- C. impressive
- D. ambitious
- A. historical
- B. biography
- C. achievement
- D. character
PART II: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Queen Elizabeth I successfully ______ England during a period of political and religious difficulty.- A. translated
- B. adopted
- C. led
- D. attended
- A. were walking / saw
- B. walked / were seeing
- C. were walking / were seeing
- D. walked / see
- A. grown
- B. born
- C. passed
- D. attended
- A. difficulties
- B. characters
- C. childhoods
- D. achievements
- A. speaks
- B. spoke
- C. was speaking
- D. has spoken
- A. determined
- B. ordinary
- C. careless
- D. nervous
- A. adopt
- B. resign
- C. graduate
- D. admire
- A. discussed / was coming
- B. were discussing / was coming
- C. discussed / came
- D. were discussing / came
- A. impatient
- B. unsuccessful
- C. admirable
- D. ordinary
- A. drop out of
- B. go back to
- C. pass away from
- D. grow up in
- A. was reading / was taking
- B. read / took
- C. was reading / took
- D. read / was taking
- A. defeated
- B. translated
- C. devoted
- D. attended
- A. grew up
- B. turned up
- C. gave up
- D. passed away
- A. ordinary
- B. impressive
- C. impatient
- D. unsuccessful
- A. attended
- B. defeated
- C. adopted
- D. resigned
- A. visited / were meeting
- B. was visiting / was meeting
- C. visited / met
- D. was visiting / met
- A. soldier
- B. volunteer
- C. genius
- D. character
- A. put off
- B. grow up
- C. pass away
- D. take after
- A. imaginary
- B. authentic
- C. ordinary
- D. unsuccessful
- A. delivered / was stopping
- B. delivered / stopped
- C. was delivering / was stopping
- D. was delivering / stopped
PART III: READING
Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question.
QUEEN ELIZABETH I – A POWERFUL ENGLISH MONARCH
Elizabeth I was born in England in 1533. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her early life was difficult because her mother died when Elizabeth was still very young. Nevertheless, she received an excellent education and became skilled in several languages.
Elizabeth became Queen of England in 1558 at the age of twenty-five. At that time, the country was facing religious divisions, economic problems and threats from foreign powers. Elizabeth worked carefully to establish greater stability and strengthen the country.
One of the most famous events of her reign was England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Elizabeth also supported exploration, trade and the arts. Literature and theatre developed strongly during this period, and writers such as William Shakespeare produced many of their greatest works.
Elizabeth never married and became known as the “Virgin Queen”. She died in 1603 after ruling England for forty-four years. Her reign is often called the Elizabethan Age and is remembered as an important period in English history.
- A. Religious divisions in sixteenth-century England
- B. The childhood of King Henry VIII
- C. The life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I
- D. The development of English theatre
- A. Twenty-three
- B. Twenty-five
- C. Forty-four
- D. Fifty-eight
- A. the period during which a monarch rules
- B. a battle between two powerful countries
- C. the education received by a royal child
- D. a serious disagreement about religion
- A. Elizabeth showed little interest in trade or exploration.
- B. England experienced no difficulties when she became queen.
- C. Shakespeare produced all his works before Elizabeth became queen.
- D. Elizabeth's leadership helped England become more stable and culturally successful.
- A. Anne Boleyn
- B. the Virgin Queen's mother
- C. Queen Elizabeth I
- D. a foreign ruler
