Đề thi học kỳ II môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Năm học 2014-2015

Class 10 TEST-The 2nd time-The 2nd semester-2015 Mark
Name:____________________ Time allowed: 35 minutes
I/Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.(0.5 pt)
1.A. of 	 B. fiction 	C. form	 D. photo
2.A. hear B. ear 	C. wear D. near	
II/Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the others.(0.5 pt)
1.A. establish	B.preserve 	 C. engrave	 D. educate	
2.A. detective	B. exciting	 C. horror	 D. cartoon
III/Choose the best answer (A,B,C, or D) that best completes each sentence (2 pts)
1.Sperm whale population are at risk due to hunting.
A. in extinction	B. in fewness 	C. on the decrease 	 D. in danger
2. Few businesses are flourishing in the present economic climate.
A.closing down 	B. setting up	C. growing well	 D. taking off 
3. What would Tom do if he ......................... the truth?
A. would know	B. knew 	C. knows	D. has know
4 'John went to the hospital alone.' 'Did he? If he .. me, I  with him.'
	A. told/ would go	B. told/ might have gone
	C. had told/ could go	D. had told/ would have gone
5. 'Would you like tea or coffee?' 'Oh, I .......... coffee, please.'
A. am going to have	B. have	C. will have	D. am having
6.The staff are .working at weekend ................. delay the project any further.
A. so that not to	B. not to	C. so as not to	D. for not
7. 'The students all went to the circus yesterday.' I heard it was really ..	
A. amused	 B. amusing C. amuse	D. amusingly
8. I'd like to invite him to ...........dinner next week, if that's OK with
A. a	B. the	 C. θ	D. an
IV/Read the passage and choose the correct option A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps (1 pt)
Whales are (1)_____ that live their entire lives in the water. Some whales are huge. The blue whale, for example, grows to 30 meters in length and over 200 tons in weight. It is the largest animal that has ever (2)_____ on earth. Whales may also be the most intelligent animals in the ocean.
Whales like to feed in the cold oceans where there is a lot of krill-their (3)_____ food. Cold waters in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and North and South Pacific Ocean are good feeding grounds for whales. Some whales are known to migrate (4)_____ warm waters to bear their calves.
1. 	A. animals	B. fishes	C. mammals	D. herbivore
2. 	A. lived B. taken	C. moved	D. spent
3. 	A. much	B. large	C. small	D. favourite
4.	A. to	B. into	C. at	D. for
V/ Fill in one correct preposition (0.5 pt)
1. Do you take part _____ the school football game? – No, I can’t not play football so well.
2. In the final match, our school team defeated the visiting one by 4 _____ 3.
VI/Find and correct the mistake (1 pt)
1.My father would has bought me a motorbike if he had had enough money.
2. There’s an university near my house.
VII/Sentence transformation (1.5 pts)
1.You don’t understand this because you don’t speak English.
→ If_________________________________________________________________________________
2. He crashed his car because he fell asleep while driving.
→ If__________________________________________________________________________________
3. He turned on the radio so that he could listen to the news. (rewrite, using to infinitive)
→ __________________________________________________________________________________
4. We listen to music to relax.(Make question for the underlined words)
→ ____________________________________________________________________________________
5. I didn’t get up until half past ten. 
→ It was not until________________________________________________________________________
6. She likes pop music. 
→What kind of music____________________________________________________________________?
VIII/Read the passage and then do the tasks below (1 pt)
Pop music has always been influenced by other forms of music. An important form is folk music. Folk songs are the songs composed and sung by country people. The songs may be hundreds of years old, so nobody knows who originally composed them. Modern music is often music for dancing. In Britain, it was traditionally played with instruments like flute, accordion, etc. 
In the 1950s and 1960s the people who wrote folk songs and played them with acoustic guitars were also called folk singers. The songs were often “protest songs”, complaining of bad things happening in society.
— Decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F)
 _______ 1. Pop music has been influenced by folk music.
 _______ 2. Everyone knows who originally composed folk music.
— Answer the following questions
1. According to the passage, what is modern music often used for?
.............................................................................................................................................................................
2. Who sings folk songs?
.............................................................................................................................................................................
 The end.
KEY-GRADE 10
I/Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.(0.5 pt)
1.A 2.C	 
II/Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the others.(0.5 pt)
1.D 2.C	
III/Choose the best answer (A,B,C, or D) that best completes each sentence (2 pts)
1.D 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.C 6.D 7.B 8.C
IV/Read the passage and choose the correct option A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps (1 pt)
1.C 2.A 3.D 4.B
V/ Fill in one correct preposition (0.5 pt)
1. in 2. to
VI/Find and correct the mistake (1 pt)
1. has -> have 
2.an -> a
VII/Sentence transformation (1.5 pts)
1. If you spoke English, you would understand this.	
2. He crashed his car because he fell asleep while driving.
3. He turned on the radio to listen to the news. 
4.What do we listen to music for? (Why do we listen to music?)
5. It was not until half past ten that I got up.	
6.What kind of music does she like?	
VIII/Read the passage and then do the tasks below (1 pt)
— Decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F)
1T 2.F
— Answer the following questions
1.For dancing
2. Country people 
TEST MATRIX-GRADE 10- the 2nd term -2015
 Topics
Knowledge 
Comprehension
Application
Total 
 Phonetics:
- Pronunciation 
- Stress
2
2
2
2
 Structures and vocabulary:
-If sentences
-Phrase of purpose
-attitudinal adjective
- articles
-Vocabulary
- will + bare inf/ be going to + bare inf
-Prepositions
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
2
Writing:
+ Identifying error
+Transformation
2
1
2
1
2
2
6
Reading
-True or False
-Questions
- Fill in the blank
1
1
2
1
1
2
2
2
4
Listening
-True or False
-Fill in the blank
2
2
2
2
4
4
 TOTAL SENTENCES
 TOTAL MARKS
 PERCENTAGE
20
5
50 %
11
3
30 %
7
2
20 %
38
10
100 %