SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO X ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ I Trường THPT X X X MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 10 Thời gian: 60 phút I. Vocabulary and structure: choose the best answer 1: I enjoy______ to the radio while I am driving. A. hearing B. seeing C. listening D. watching 2: The man…she respects is her teacher. A. whose B. whom C. which D. when 3: Will you pick me…after the party? A. in B. over C. on D. up 4: “We ……………a party on Sunday 12th November. Can you come?” – “ Yes, I’d love to”. A. will be having B. are having C. were going to have D. will have 5: Do you know the girl… is wearing a long dress? A. whose B. which C. whom D. who 6: Let's__________for a walk. A. go B. went C. to go D. going 7: This computer isn’t capable…………………….running this software. A. on B. in C. off D. of 8: We …here since 1989. A. have live B. lived C. living D. lives 9: The boy, …bike I borrow, speaks English well. A. that B. whose C. who D. whom 10: The meeting had been cancelled ………………the chairman’s absence. A. although B. because of C. in spite of D. because 11: I haven’t seen Tom …8 years. A. for B. when C. ago D. since 12: Thousands of people……… in the earthquake so far. A. have been killed B. was killed C. have killed D. killed 13: Ann quit her job at the advertising agency, ………………….surprised everyone. A. who B. which C. that D. whom 14: The Sun…in the East and….in the west. A. rose/ had set B. rises/ set C. rises/ sets D. has risen/ has set 15: We have recently studied the….of stones. A. formation B. excursion C. building D. structure II. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer You may use the telephone every day but how much do you know about it? The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Later he went to live in the US. Alexander Bell was always interested in sound. He wanted to be able to send sound through a wire. He had a workshop in his house in America and did many experiments there. One day, while he was doing an experiment in his workshop, he was careless and spilt some burning liquid onto his clothes. Talking into his telephone, Bell said: “Mr. Watson, I want you to come over here immediately, please.” His assistant, Watson, was in another room far away from the workshop. However, he heard Bell clearly on his own telephone. Quickly, he ran to Bell’s workshop. “Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said!” Watson shouted excitedly. Bell finally succeeded. He had invented the first telephone. Later other inventors made better ones. 16: Which of these following is true? A. Bell was the owner of a workshop in his house in America. B. Bell did only one experiment and he succeeded. C. Bell invented the telephone in Scotland. D. Bell discovered the telephone in 1847. 17: Where did Bell settle down? A. In the US B. In Scotland C. In the U.K D. In New Zealand 18: What did he have an interest in ? A. Sound B. Physics C. music D. Philosophy Trang 1 19: What did he do many experiments for? A. to hear his assistant’s voice. B. to send sound through a wire. C. to give a request to his assistant. D. to express feelings through musical instruments. 20: What did other inventors do later? A. made telephones disused B. made telephones better C. made telephones unpopular D. made telephones useless III. Choose the underlined word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct 21: I like the present whom you gave me on my birthday. A B C D 22: Ann has invited to her best friends’ wedding. A B C D 23: She was sad after she reads her friend’s letter. A B C D 24: I enjoy to talk with my classmates about their future plans. A B C D 25: They don’t allow us playing football here in the park. A B C D IV. Read the following passage and then choose the best answer to fill each blank. E-mail offers a cheap and easy alternative to traditional methods of correspondence. It is faster and easier than (26)______ letters and cheaper than using the telephone. Of course, there are disadvantages, (27)______. It is not as personal as a (28)______ letter and not as reliable, either. If you spell the name of the street wrong in a conventional address, it is not too difficult (29)______ the post office to work out what you mean. However, if you spell anything wrong in an e-mail address, your mail will not be (30)______ You might get it sent back to you or you might never realize. 26: A. reporting B. writing C. creating D. noting 27: A. too B. also C. either D. neither 28: A. handmade B. handwritten C. handy D. handed 29: A. as B. of C. with D. for 30: A. asked B. solved C. delivered D. divided V. Choose the sentence which means the same or nearly the same as the given one. 31: They will build a new house in our town. A. a new house will be built in our town. B. our town will be build a new house. C. a new house will be build in our town. D. our town will be build a new house. 32: How do people learn languages? A. How languages are learned? B. Languages are learned how ? C. How are languages learned by people? D. How are languages learned? 33: Somebody cleans the room everyday. A. The room everyday is cleaned. B. The room is every day cleaned. C. The room is cleaned by somebody everyday. D. The room is cleaned everyday. 34: It was a rainy day. He was born on that day. A. It was a rainy day in which he was born. B. It was a rainy day on which he was born. C. It was a rainy day whom he was born. D. It was a rainy day who he was born. 35: The man is smiling at you. Do you know him? A. The man who you know him is smiling at you? B. Do you know the man who is smiling at you? C. The man who do you know is smiling at you? D. The man is smiling at you who do you know? VI. Choose the word with different pronunciation of the underlined part 36: A. invention B. site C. trip D. city 37: A. deaf B. teach C. sleep D. read 38: A. hat B. fat C. all D. sad 39: A. flow B. brown C. know D. slow 40: A. cloud B. town C. show D. how VII:Rewrite the following sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the given one:(1.5ms) 1.Mrs Quyen taught the deaf, but she doesn’t do it any more. Mrs Quyen used to……………………………………………………… Trang 2 2. He has bought a bunch of flowers. A bunch of flowers ………………………………………………… . 3. Mai didn’t come to the class yesterday. It made all of us surprise. Mai didn’t come……………………………………………………… 4. A dictionary is a book. It gives you the meaning of words . A dictionary is ……………………………………………………… 5. I like the man. He is wearing a blue shirt. I like………………………………………………………………… VIII.Reading comprehension (1.5ms) Read the following passages then answer the questions Louis Braille was born in France in 1809. His father was a shoemaker who made shoes and other things from leather. When Louis was small, he liked to help his father make shoes. One day, when Louis was cutting some leather, he suddenly slipped the knife which hit him in his eyes. He soon became completely blind. When he was ten, he went to study at the National Institute for the blind. One day, his class went to a special exhibition where he first knew the code which was used to send the messages. Louis thought a lot about the code. Then he decided to write other codes which the blind could " read" with their fingers. It was very difficult to feel the differences between the letters in codes, so Louis used signals called six dots. He rearranged the dots with each groups of dots matching with a letter in the Alphabets. And Louis invented the Braille Alphabets which the blind can read and write easily. 1. What did Louis's father make things from ? ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2. Where did Louis begin to study When He was ten years old? ……………………………………………………………………………………… 3. What did a special exhibition show in codes? ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4. Which helps the blind can read and write easily? ……………………………………………………………………………………… 5. Where and when was Louis Braille born? ……………………………………………………………………………… --------------- THE END --------------- Trang 3