Đề thi học sinh giỏi lớp 10

Sở GD- ĐT Nam Định Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi Trường PTTH Xuân Trường B Môn : Tiếng Anh 10- Năm học 2009- 2010 Thời gian làm bài : 120 phút Question 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D.(2p) 1. A. research B. season C. resemble D. organization 2. A. breather B. feather C. spread D. pleasure 3. A. played B. finished C. toxic D. technology 4. A. ache B. orchestra C. charity D.chorus 5. A. tidy B. biology C. sky D. system 6. A. says B. plays C. pays D. stays 7. A. plough B. town C. cow D. show 8. A. never B. benefit C. describe D. any 9. A. pollution B. attention C. question D. nation 10. A. rain B. radio C. today D. mountain Question 2: Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence by circling A, B, C or D. (3p) 1. _____ you do better work than this, you won’t pass the exam. A. Although B. If C. Unless D. When 2. If you want to join the History Society, you must first _____ this application form. A. make up B. write down C. fill in D. do up 3. It’s ten years since we _____ school. A. left B. leave C. had left D. has left 4. He is very stubborn, so it will be difficult to _____ him to go. A. suggest B. persuade C. make D. prevent 5. I remember _____ you. I distinctively gave you $50 last week. A. pay B. to pay C. paid D. paying 6. She remembered the correct address only _____ she had posted the letter. A. since B. afterwards C. following D. after 7. Mary: Did you first see them at my last birthday party? John: No, I _____ them before. A. had met B. met C. meet D. has met 8. The young _____ enthusiastic in their voluntary work. A. is B. are C. be D. are being 9. Sheila couldn’t come to the party, _____ was a pity. A. who B. that C. which D. whose 10. More than 50 films _____ in Hanoi since June. A. show B. were shown C. have been shown D. showed 11. How long do you think it will _____to get there? A. give C. last B. cost D. take 12. You’ll _____ yourself a lot of time if you take the car. A. spend B. make C. save D. spare 13. He says he’s been to _____ restaurant in town. A. many B. every C. all D. most 14. _____ more carefully, he wouldn’t have been in the hospital now. A. Had he driven B. C. If he drove D. If he drives D. If he hadn’t driven 15. She is travelling to work by train today because her car is being _____. A. stopped B. broken C. serviced D. rented Question 3: There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it. (2p) 1. One of the reasons why he was late for the meeting was because the bad weather. 2. There is a six years old boy standing near the school gate. 3. They are doing plans for their picnic in the countryside. 4. It was so good weather that we decided to go to the beach. 5. Thomas told Mary go to see the doctor. 6. Nobody watched, so the boy took the packet of sweets from the shelf and putting it in his pocket. 7. He seldom goes to the market, doesn’t he? 8. My brother, who will be taken to the museum by my mother, feels happily . 9. He drove enough slowly to stop just in front of the accident on the way home. 10. What did you have for lunch? A few rice and some oranges. Answers 1) ________  ________2) ________  ________ 3) ________ ________ 4) ________  ________ 5) ________  ________ 6) ________ ________ 7) ________  ________ 8) ________  ________ 9) ________________ 10) ________  ________ Question 4: Give the correct forms of the words in brackets.(2p) 1. The film we watched last night was really __________, so we didn’t sit for it until the end. (INTEREST) 2. ____________, the train had already left when we arrived. (LUCK) 3. Sam works as a ______________ in an office in the town centre. (TELEPHONE) 4. She always pays ______________ to what she is told. (ATTEND) 5. Thank you for your clear ___________________. I can understand the lesson thoroughly. (EXPLAIN) 6. Water pollution has _________________ animal life. (DANGER) 7. It is a / an _________________ memory. I’ll remember it eternally. (FORGET) 8.We may never know the true cost of the _________________of the rainforests. (DESTROY) 9. Thanks to medical _________________, we may all expect to live longer than people in earlier times. (DISCOVER) 10. He does not agree with the _________________ that there is life on other planets. (BELIEVE) Answers 1) ________ 2) ________ 3) ________ 4) ________ 5) ________ 6) ________ 7) ________ 8) ________ 9) ________ 10) ________ Question5:Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same meaning as the sentence given. Use the word in bracket.(2p) 1. The furniture was so expensive that I didn’t buy it. (SUCH) It was ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2. A train leaves at eight o’clock every morning. (A) There is ………………………………………………………………………………… 3. She couldn’t get to work because of the heavy snow. (GETTING) The heavy snow …………………………………………………………………………. 4. Although he is intelligent, he doesn’t do well at school.(HIS) In spite……………………………………………………………………………………. 5. He started to play the guitar ten years ago. (PLAYING) He’s …… ………………………………………………………………………………. 6. I was kept waiting for half an hour by the bank manager. (KEPT) The bank manager ………………………………………………………………….……. 7. He always complains so (WOULD) Unless …………………………………………………………………………………… 8. I don’t find it difficult to study late at night. (USED) I ……………………………………………………………………………… Question6: Use the suggestions to make complete sentences.(2p) 1. Tell/ when/ want me/ start/ work/ for you. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. He/ take/ bus/ town then / got/ taxi/ come/ my house. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. She/ stood/ doorway/ scare/ hide/ man/ follow. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 5. I can’t/ continue/ study/ same subjects. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 6. Jane/supported/ elder brother/ while/ student. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 7. I’ve/ orange juice/ often/ I/ rather tired/ it. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 8. I/ very impressed/ all work/ you/ done/ on your house. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 9. If it/ not been so late/ we/ call/ you. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 10. had/ learn/ do/ myself. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Question7:Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the questions about the passage.(2.5p) According to the census of 1800, the United States of America contained 5,308,483 persons. In the same year the British Islands contained upwards of fifteen million; the French Republic more than twenty-seven million. Nearly one fifth of the American people were black slaves; the true political population consisted of four and a half million free whites, or less than one million able-bodied males, on whose shoulders fell the burden of a continent. Even after two centuries of struggle the land was still untamed; forests coved every portion, except here and there a strip of cultivated soil; the minerals lay undisturbed in their rocky beds, and more than two thirds of the people clung to the seaboard within fifty miles of tidewater, where alone the wants of civilized life could be supplied. + tame (v) chế ngự + slave (n) người nô lệ + able-bodied (a) Sung sức + cling (v) bám vào 1. In the United States of America in 1800 A. One out of every twenty-five Americans was a black slave. B. One out of every four Americans was a black slave. C. One out of every three Americans was a black slave. D. One out of every five Americans was a black slave. 2. Free white men in America numbered. A. about four fifths of the population. B. about four and a half million. C. less than 1,000,000. D. 5, 308, 483. 3. Two thirds of the American people A. lived where the wants of civilized life could not be surpplied. B. lived in Washington C. lived on the seaboard. D. lived within fifteen miles of tidewater 4. The struggle to tame the American continent had been going on A. about two hundred years. B. about fifty years. C. a little more than a century. D. since 1750. 5. The description of the United States in 1800 suggests that A. most of the new nation was undeveloped. B. the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent. C. strips of cultivated land were everywhere. D. settlers were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new continent. Answers 1) ________ 2) ________ 3) ________ 4) ________ 5) ________ Question8: Fill in each gap with only suitable word.(2.5p) Charles Dickens (1) _____ a social novelist. He was (2) _____ at Portsmouth, from a lower middle class family. His father, (3) _____ poor government member, was arrested and imprisoned for debt. So that (4) _____ had to earn his (5) _____at eleven in a factory. He (6) _____ very little schooling, most (7) _____ his education was acquired from the book he (8) _____ and the experiences he (9 ) _____ later, he taught (10) _____ shorthand and became a newspaper reporter. Answers 1) ________ 2) ________ 3) ________ 4) ________ 5) ________ 6) ________ 7) ________ 8) ________ 9) ________ 10) ________ Question9: Fill in each gap with a suitable preposition.(2p) 1. The prisoner __________to have escaped by climbing over a wall. 2. A dolphin six feet _____length can move as fast as most ships. 3.My mother said she was satisfied ______ my study results the year before. 4. You should speak ______ English in English lessons. 5. What will happen to this river if more chemicals are releases ______ the water? 6. Without plants, most water would run _____ as soon as it falls, taking ______ valuable soil. 7. He died _____ heart failure ______ Saturday night. His wife is still suffering ______shock. Answers 1) ________ 2) ________ 3) ________ 4) ________ 5) ________ 6) ________ / ________ 7) ________ / ________ / ________ Đap an cham de thi chọn học sinh gioi Mon : Tieng Anh 10- Nam học 2009- 2010 Thoi gian lam bai : 120 phut Question 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D.(2p) 1- A 2- A 3- A 4- C 5-D 6- A 7- D 8- C 9- C 10- D Question 2: Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence by circling A, B, C or D. (3p) 1- C 2- C 3- A 4- B 5-D 6- D 7- A 8- B 9- C 10- C 11- D 12- C 13- B 14- A 15- C Question 3: There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it. (2p) 1- because  because of 2- years  year 3- doing  making 4- so  such 5- go to  to go to 6- putting  put 7- doesn’t  does 8- happily  happy 9- enough slowly  slowly enough 10- few  little Question 4: Give the correct forms of the words in brackets.(2p) 1- uninteresting 2- unluckily 3- telephonist 4- attention 5- explanation 6- endangered 7- unforgettable 8- destruction 9- discoveries 10- belief Question5:Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same meaning as the sentence given. Use the word in bracket.(2p) 1. It was such expensive furniture that I didn’t buy it./ The furniture was too expensive for me to buy 2. There is a train which leaves at 8 every morning (There is a train leaving at 8 every morning.) ( There is an eight o’clock train every morning ) 3. The heavy snow prevented/ stopped her from getting to work 4. In spite of his intelligence/the fact that he is/being intelligent, he doesn’t do well at school 5. He’s been playing the guitar for ten years. 6. The bank manager kept me waiting for half an hour. 7- Unless he complained, people would like him. 8. I am used to studying late at night. Question6: Use the suggestions to make complete sentences.(2p) 1. Tell me when you want me to start to work/ working for you. 2. He took a bus to the tow, then got a taxi to come to my house. 3. We are thinking about/ of buying a house near/ next to the office. 4. She stood in the doorway, scared and hiding from the man who followed/ following her. 5. I can’t continue to study/ studying the same subjects. 6. Jane was supported by her elder brother while she was a student. 7. I’ve had / drunk orange juice so often that I am rather tired of it. 8. I am/ was very impressed by all the work you have done/ had done on your house. 9. If it had not been so late, we would have called you. 10. I had to learn (how) to do it by myself. Question7:Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the questions about the passage.(2.5p) 1- D 2-C 3- C 4- A 5- A Question8: Fill in each gap with only suitable word.(2.5p) 1) was 2) born 3) a 4) he 5)living 6)had 7)of 8)read 9)lived 10) himself Question9: Fill in each gap with a suitable preposition.(2p) 1)to 2) in 3) with 4) in 5)into 6) off / away 7) of / on / from . Sở GD- ĐT Nam Định Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi Trường PTTH Xuân Trường B Môn : Tiếng Anh 10- Năm học 2009- 2 010 Thời gian làm bài : 120 phút Question 1: Choose. ________ / ________ 7) ________ / ________ / ________ Đap an cham de thi chọn học sinh gioi Mon : Tieng Anh 10- Nam học 2009- 2 010 Thoi gian lam bai : 120 phut Question 1: Choose the word whose. pity. A. who B. that C. which D. whose 10. More than 50 films _____ in Hanoi since June. A. show B. were shown C. have been shown D. showed 11. How long do you think it will _____to get there? A.