Đề kiểm tra 1 tiết lần 1 học kỳ I môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10

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ENGLISH TEST
Time: 45m
Choose the underlined pronounced differently from the others
a. rough
 b. sum
c. utter
d. union
2.
a. knit
b. hide
 c. tide
 d. fly
3. a. technology	 b. teaching	 c. purchase	 d. lunch
4. a. neighbors 	 b. friends 	 c. relatives 	 d. photographs
a. invited 	 b. attended 	c. celebrated	d. displayed
Choose the correct option to complete the sentence
The house was very quiet when I got home. Everybody ................. to bed.
	a. have gone	b. went	c. had gone	d. goes
It was the most............... experience of my life.
	a. frighten 	b. frightening	c. frightened	d. frightful
.............. I sympathize with your point of view. I cannot accept it.
	a. Although	b. In spite of	c. Because	d. As 
9.............. a long time for the bus.
	a. We have to always wait	b. We always have to wait
	c. We have always to wait	d. We have to wait always
10. .................. do you want? ~ A box of chocolates.
	a. What	b. Which	c. Who	d. How
.................... did the package come from? ~ London.
	a. When	b. Where	c. Which	d. Who
Johnny.................the paper when I............. him.
	a. read/ interrupted	b. read! was interrupting
	c: has read/ interrupted	d. was reading. Interrupted
We were told.................and fasten our seat belts.
	a. to sit down	b. sitting down	c. sit down	d. that sit down
I ....................at six o'clock, but ......... to be up by five.
	a. normally get up/ I have sometimes 	b. normally get up/ sometimes I have 
	c. get normally up/ sometimes I have 	d. get normally up/ I sometimes have
15 . Most students find the course very ......................	
	a. enthusiastic	b. anxious	c. enjoyable	d. convenient
She is interested in teaching.................because she loves working with children.
	a. semester	b. communication	c. work	d. profession
She was disappointed to fail in two of her four.........................
	a. schools	b. classes	c. lessons	d. subjects
18. Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood.
 	a. make up	b. find out	c. take over	d. put up
19. Let me give you a little .................................about the president of the company.
	a. specialization	b. concentration	c. background	d. degree
20. Jane is always determined to do anything she wants. She's a.....................woman.
	a. ambitious	b. strong-willed	c. brilliant	d. humane
III. Identify the one underlined word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.
Before she became a film star, she has been a stand up comedian
	 A	 B	 C	D
I'm trying to persuade my sister to drive.	 but I can’t get her do it
	A	B	C	D	
23. When the teacher enter, they were talking together.
	A	B	C D
24. Mike usually drives to work.. but today he walks.
 	 A 	B	 C	 D
Hypnosis is sometimes employed as a means of helping people quit to smoke.
	A	B	C	D
Read the passage and choose correct option
	No writer in American literature is more famous or more loved than Mark Twain. 
 When Mark Twain was eleven years old, his father died leaving nothing to his wife and four children. Mark Twain had to leave school and look for a job. His elder brother was working as a printer and he helped the boy to learn printing. For some years, he worked as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his brother, who at that time had started a small newspaper. The two young man published it themselves. Mark Twain wrote short humorous stories and printed them for their newspaper. In 1853, Mark Twain decided to leave home. He went to New York, and then to Philadelphia, where he worked as a printer. When he was a boy, he dreamed of becoming a sailor. At 20, he found a job on a boat travelling up and down the Mississippi, but he had to pay 100 dollars to get the job. On that boat he learned the work of a sailor.
“Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn” are considered Twain’s best works which provide his readers with an excellent picture of his era. His last book was written in 1909, one year before his death. He was then 74 years old.
26. How old was Mark Twain when his father died? 
      A. 12              B. 11                  C. 20               D. 21 
27. Why did he have to leave school?
      A. Because he wanted to work as a sailor.
      B. Because his father died and left nothing to the family.
      C. Because he enjoyed adventures.
      D. Because he disliked school. 
28. What did his brother teach him?
      A. printing              B. writing              C. literature              D. history
29. Mark Twain used to dream of becoming a _______.
      A. teacher              B. writer                 C. sailor                D. printer
30. What did he do in Philadelphia?
 A. printer	B. writer	C. teacher	D. scientist
Write the sentences as directed
31. Mrs. Robinson bought a poster. (Make a question for the underlined)
................................................................................................................................................
32. My father was in Ha Noi last month. . (Make a question for the underlined)
33. I had breakfast. Then, I went to school
After
34. My parents don’t let me go out in the evening.
I am not allowed.
35. He has studied English for five years.
 He started.
Listen to the recording and fill in the blank with missing word
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French (36) .....................and chemist, was a courageous and determined woman. She left her home for Paris to (37)..................... her interest in science. Living in (38).................. , she still (39).............. to graduate at the top of her class. She met Pierre Curie (40)......................... after graduation and married him a year later.