Thi HKI - HN-Amsterdam (Ban Tự Nhiên)

Name: __________________________ Class: ______ ENGLISH FINAL TERM TEST FOR 10 TH FORM (10 Toán, Lí, Hóa, Văn, Tin) Time allowed: 45 minutes PART I: PHONOLOGY (4 points) I. Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. 1. A. health B. speak C. meat D. seat 2. A. artist B. arrange C. hardware D. cartoon 3. A. selection B. position C. injection D. question 4. A. vision B. measure C. insurance D. pleasure II. Identify the word whose stress pattern is placed differently from the others. 1. A. family B. disaster C. internet D. comedy 2. A. capable B. glorious C. romantic D. national 3. A. stimulate B. exhibit C. telephone D. memorial 4. A. camcorder B. computer C. inventor D. collector PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (6 points) I. Choose the most suitable option (A, B, C or D) to complete the following sentences. 1. Mary was late yesterday, _________ was unusual for her. A. that B. which C. when D. and 2. His mother _________ she would back in an hour. A. said B. told C. spoke D. asked 3. The teacher doesn’t allow _________ dictionaries in the final exam. A. use B. to use C. being used D. using 4. Radios, providing information aurally, are useless to _________ person. A. blind B. deaf C. mute D. dumb 5. Internet is a very fast _________ convenient way for us to get information. A. but B. or C. and D. so 6. Television _________ only for the last forty or fifty years. A. must be existed B. has been existed C. has existed D. was existed 7. Thousands of animals are said _________ in the forest fire recently. A. were killed B. to have been killed C. are killed D. to be killed 8. It is so sad that some secondary students are still _________ to read and write. A. unable B. disable C. unabled D. disabled II. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense – forms. 1. When we felt thirsty, we stopped (drink) ____________. 2. The girl (sit) ____________ next to me is very clever. 3. That accident (happen) ____________ a year ago. 4. I am afraid that all the documents (destroy) ____________ in a fire yesterday. 5. Although living abroad for 2 years, I still can’t get accustomed to (be) ____________ alone. 6. Do you think the teaching work in the special class (be) ____________ time-consuming. 7. In 1894 Marie (meet) ___________ Pierre Curie in the School of Physics and they (marry) ___________ a year later. III. Give the correct form of the words given. 1. Every (employ) ____________ in this company has received a pay rise. 2. I really like my friend Lien. She’s always so kind and (cheer) ____________. 3. We have already visited a (picture) ____________ fishing village near Ha Long Bay. 4. You should always listen (attention) ____________ to your teacher in class. IV. Find out the mistakes in the following sentences and then correct them. 1. Cleopatra was the rule of Egypt many hundred years ago. _________________________ 2. There are many black cloud in the sky. It is going to rain. _________________________ 3. Marie Curies, who I admire her a lot, was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. _________________________ 4. Despite extreme poor living conditions, Peter still became a famous athlete. _________________________ PART III: READING Read the text carefully and do the tasks that follow. Of the two broad categories of newspaper, the popular and the quality, the former have a readership of millions while the latter, only hundreds of thousands. Yet the popular newspapers seem largely designed for entertainment, with quizzes, competitions, cartoons and light-hearted stories. The quality newspaper put a much higher value on information and a much lower one on entertainment. It is not only in content that the two types of newspaper differ. Also, there us a difference in the style in which the articles are written. The popular newspapers generally use more dramatic language with a lot of word-play. Their journalists tend to use shorter sentences and to avoid fewer well-known vocabulary. This means that popular newspaper are easier for native speaker to understand though they are probably not for non-native speaker. In order to decide whether a newspaper is a quality or a popular one, it is not even necessary to read it, since you can simply tell by the way it looks. Popular newspaper are generally smaller with shorter articles and fewer columns per page. They have bigger headlines and more photographs. However, quality newspaper have greater number of articles per page than popular newspapers. I. Find the underlined words or phrases in the text that means: (1 point) 1. groups of thing with particular ____________ features in common. 2. the second of two things mentioned ____________ 3. exciting or impressive. ____________ 4. be likely to use. ____________ II. Mark the statements True (T) or False (F. (1 points) 1. ____ The text implies that most newspaper readers read newspapers mainly for information. 2. ___ Popular newspapers put great emphasis on entertainment. 3. ____ Quality newspapers have longer articles and more columns per page. 4. ____ Popular newspapers are easy for foreigners to read. III. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word which appears in the above passage. (1 points) The biggest difference between the popular and the quality newspapers is the information (1) __________. The (2) __________ newspaper often put a higher value on entertainment and lower one on information. Besides, these two categories of newspaper have different writing (3) __________. They also differ in the length and (4) __________ of the articles per page. PART V: WRITING Use the cues given to write meaningful sentences. (4 points) Dear Carol, 1. Thank you very much / invitation / spend three weeks / August / you / your family / Scotland//. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2. I / love / come / unfortunately / I / be / unable / accept //. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. My cousins, / who live / Canada, / stay / us / August 3 rd / August 18 th //. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. As it be / first / visit / this country, I plan / show them round //. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. It / be / possible / visit you / September instead //? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6. I certainly need / rest after / cousins go back / Canada //. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Please tell me / if / September / be / convenient //. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 8. I / look forward / see / you all again. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Love, Jane Rewrite these following sentences, keep the same meaning. (2 points) 1. The trip was so interesting that we couldn’t forget it.  It is__________________________________________ 2. We haven’t been to London since 1998.  The last________________________________________________ 3. Because of the heavy rain, they couldn’t go for a picnic.  Because___________________________________ 4. I have never seen such a bad film as that one.  That’s_____________________________________________ _______THE END_______ . language with a lot of word-play. Their journalists tend to use shorter sentences and to avoid fewer well-known vocabulary. This means that popular newspaper. accustomed to (be) ____________ alone. 6. Do you think the teaching work in the special class (be) ____________ time-consuming. 7. In 1894 Marie (meet) ___________