Bài kiểm tra số 1 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Unit 3: People's background (Kèm đáp án)

UNIT 3: PEOPLE'S BACKGROUND
TEST 1
I. Tick (P) the correct sound for the letters in bold in the words below.
/e/
/&/
/A:/
/V/
1.
 ready
£
£
£
£
2.
 father
£
£
£
£
3.
 bank
£
£
£
£
4.
 fun
£
£
£
£
5.
 anything
£
£
£
£
6.
 answer
£
£
£
£
7.
 romantic
£
£
£
£
8.
 son
£
£
£
£
II. Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the other words. 
1. A. study 	B. music 	C. member 	D. become
2. A. passage 	B. receive 	C. about 	D. career
3. A. November 	B. scientific 	C. impossible 	D. continue
4. A. difficult 	B. private 	C. extremely 	D. prejudice
5. A. condition 	B. engineer 	C. magazine 	D. cigarette
6. A. harbor 	B. tutor 	C. woman 	D. mature
7. A. professor 	B. following 	C. together 	D. position
8. A. laboratory 	B. concentration 	C. education 	D. mathematics
III. Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the words in parentheses.
1. He is engrossed in doing......................research. (science)
2. I found it hard to keep my......................on my work because there was so much noise outside. (concentrate)
3. The bus is late again. It's .....................for me to be there before 8.00 pm. (possibility)
4. I'm......................sorry for the delay. (extreme)
5. I am studying English so that I can speak to....................... .(foreign)
6. Their plans to complete the project ahead of schedule seem very ......................to me. (ambition)
7. It is......................of you to expect us to work overtime every night this week. (reason)
8. Although I......................you whistling at all, I have to admit you do it very well. (like)
IV. Underline the correct alternative in this description of a terrible evening.
 After I (1) had waited / waited for half an hour, she finally (2) had arrived / arrived. We (3) had gone /went to the cinema but she (4) had seen /saw the film before. She (5) hadn 't been / wasn't hungry because she (6) already ate / had already eaten. But we (7) went / had gone to a restaurant because I (8) didn’t eat / hadn't eaten. When we (9) had looked / looked at the menu, we (10) ordered / had ordered two pizzas. She (11) was / had been tired because she (12) had got up / got up early. When we (13) got / had got back to my car, I found that someone (14) stole / had stolen the radio.
V. If the verb form is wrong, cross it out and write the correct form. Put a tick (P) if the sentence is correct.
1. Katherine had got up after her parents had gone to work. 	.......................
2. After she had had a shower, she made herself some breakfast. 	.......................
3. As soon as she had eaten her breakfast, she had cycled into town. 	.......................
4. She arranged the day before to meet her friends at 10.00.	.......................
5. But it was 10.15 now and her friends left.	 	.......................
6. After she'd waited for a few minutes, she went into a shop.	.......................
7. Then she had remembered she had forgotten to lock her bike.	.......................
8. When she came out, her bike disappeared. 	.......................
VI. Make sentences about Ho Chi Minh from the sets of words and phrases given.
1. Ho Chi Minh / Vietnamese / politician / poet.
 .......................................................................
2. He / be born / Nghe An /1890 / study / Hue / Saigon.
 .......................................................................
3. Later / visit North Africa / U.S.A / England / France / work / ship / sweep snow / Paris / work as / photographer.
 .......................................................................
4. He / be / founder / People's Republic of Vietnam / work / his life / liberate / unify / country.
 .......................................................................
5. It was only after / death / dream / come true.
 .......................................................................
VII. Read the passages and do the tasks that follow.
A. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564. He was a mathematician, astronomer and physicist and made valuable discoveries in all these fields. For example, he discovered sunspots for the first time. Galileo was a student at the University of Pisa when he was young, and later a professor at different universities in Italy. He was famous for his lectures, and students came from over Europe to hear them.
B. Amelia Earhart was a famous aeroplane pilot. She was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1898. When she was 22. she stopped her studies at Columbia University. New York, to learn to pilot a plane. Flying lessons were expensive and she took several jobs to pay for them: once she worked as a lorry driver because the pay was good. In 1932 she was the first woman to fly her own plane across the Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
C. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She later went to Paris, where she met and married Pierre Curie. The Curies were both physicists, and became famous for their work. One of their first discoveries was the element radium. They were both professors of physics at the Sorbonně, and they shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903. 
[1] Match the name with the phrases.
1. Galileo 	A. Nobel prize
2. Earhart 	B. lorry driver
3. The Curies 	C. famous for lectures
[2] Match the word in A with its definition or meaning in B.
A
B
1. astronomer
a.
a person who flies a plane
2. sunspot
b.
have or use something with others
3. lecture
c.
a person who studies the sun, moon, stars, planets.
4. pilot
d.
a chemical element
5. share
e. an educational speech on a particular subject
 made before an audience
6.
radium
f.
dark patch on the sun
[3] Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false information.
a.............. Galileo made valuable discoveries in such fields as mathematics, astronomy and physics.
b.............. Galileo was a professor at different universities in Italy when he was very young.
c.............. Galileo discovered sunspots for many times.
d.............. Marie Curie met Pierre Curie in Poland.
e.............. The Curies were famous for their discoveries, one of which was the element radium.
f. ............. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.
g.............. Amelia Earhart was a famous aeroplane pilot.
h.............. Amelia stopped her studies because she was too poor.
i............... Amelia was the first woman to fly her own plane across the Pacific Ocean.