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(1)Đề KSCL vào lớp 10 năm học 2009
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-I/ Pick out one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A-b-C or D on your answer sheet
1 A.alien B.alike C.amount D.appear
2 A.jeans B.caps C.pants D.shirts
3 A.cheerful B.machine C.chance D.champion
4 A.bath B.bathe C.both D.breath
5 A.covered B.showed C.dressed D.sleeved
II/
Circle the best option from A, B, C or D to fill in the blanks in the following sentences:
I suggest _up the beach
A clean B to clean C cleaned D cleaning
7 Thuy's grandmother turned the television _ to see the weather forecast
A off B on C up D down
8 There is too much traffic _, the air is polluted
A Since B Therefore C However D But
There are _good programms on TV that I rarely watch it
A such few B such little C so few D so little
10 It’s important that he _the book for me
A finds B will find C found D find
11 Let’s go somewhere for a drink, _?
A shall we B we C will you D you
12.He never stopped until his last minute of life
A.to work B to be working C working D to have worked
13 I hurried I wouldn’t be late for class
A.since B.so that C as if D unless
14 If people _energy, there will be no shortage of electricity
A save B will save C saving D would save
15.The children laughed _when they are watching a comic
A happily B happy C happiness D unhappy
16 he worked hard, he couldn’t pass the exam
A So B Because of C Even though D Therefore
17 + Can you tell me when is?
_ Yes It’s on the third Sunday in June
A Mother’s Day B Father’s Day C Tree Planting Day D Thanksgiving Day
18 Miss Hanh, sings very well, is my English teacher
A whom B who C which D that
19 What would you if you me?
A are B have been C were D will be
20 Three thousand cars _ next year
A produced B were produced C will produce D will be produced III/ Choose the best answer to complete the passage.
There has been a revolution in the world of newspapers Not many years (21)…………., newspapers were still being produced using techniques unchanged for (22)………… hundereds years
The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an editor, who passed them on (23)……… the printer The printer, who was a (2) …………skilled man, set up the type (2)……….was then collected to make the pages When the pages were completed, the printing machines could be (2)………
Nowadays what (2)…………? The journalist types their stories into a computer The (28 )……… checks their spelling, plans the pages, shape the articles When the pages are ready, another computer may control the spelling
(2)21 A before B.after C ago D yet
22 A a B some C an D over
23 A.to B.by C.through D with
24 A hardly B mostly C partly D very
25 A They B Which C This D All
26 A swiched B started C stopped D moved
27 A gives B occurs C goes D happens
28 A computer B editor C typist D priter
29 A It B There C You D We
30 A skill B work C business D management
IV Read the text caefully, and then choose the correct answers.
To well at school, college or university you usually need to wellin exams All the students hate exams’ may be a
generalization, but it is fairly true one Certainly, all of the students I’ve known disliked doing exams None of them thought that the exam system was fair; to well in an exam you simply had to be able to predict the questions which would be asked This was the case as regards two students in my class at college Both of them were exceptionally bright, but in the final year exam neither of them got an A grade In fact, they both got Cs The exam had tested us on questions which had come up the previous year They had both assumed that the same questions wouldn’t come up again, and hadn’t prepared for them
31 Students need todo well in exams………
A in order to well at school
B Because they need to well at school C So that to well at school
D Therefore they have to well at school
32 The statement All the students hate exams is……….
A extremely true B completely true C quite true C very true 33 Which of the following sentences is Not true ?
A All of the students the writter have known thought that the exam systerm was unfair
B To well in an exam you simply had the ability to predict the questions which would be asked C None of the students the writter have known disliked doing exams
D All the students hate exams’ is fairy true generalization
34 Why did the two students in the writers class get C garades in the final exam?
A Because the exam was really difficult
B Because they didn’t prepare for the questions that had come up the previous year C Because they were dull students
D Because the questions weren’t in their lessons
35 The writers main purpose of writing the passage is to………
A describe the importantance of exams B discuss how exams effect on the students C expalin the equality in examinations D criticize the exam system
V: Rewrite the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one
36 They had bad marks because they were lazy
They were 37 “Don’t go to bed too late” My mother said to me
My mother asked .” 38 I’m sorry I won’t be home tomorrow
I wish 39 They enjoy walking in the rain
They are 40 She moved to that house in 1973
She has _