Bài tập bám sát và nâng cao môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Unit 3: People's Background - Đỗ Bình

UNIT 3: PEOPLE'S BACKGROUND
I. Choose the word that has the letter (s) pronounced differently fro the others. 
1. 	a. language 	b. package 	c. mathematics 	d. marvelous 
2. 	a. chemistry 	b. prepare 	c. receive	d. degree
3. 	a. private	b. diploma	c. guide	d. writer
4. a. trouble 	b. study	c. tutor	d. subject
5. a. received 	b. worked	c. obtained	d. harbored
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
1. a. background 	b. career	c. secondary	d. private
2. a. scientific	b. atomic	c. impossible	d. professor 
3. a. obtain	b. determine	c. award	d. harbour
4. a. ambitious	b. difficulty	c. brilliant	d. mature
5. a. education	b. difficulty	c. champion	d. Institute
III. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
1. Marie Curie was born................November 7, 1867.
	a. in.	b. from	c. at	d. on
2. Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood.
 	a. make up	b. find out	c. take over	d. put up
3. Let me give you a little .................................about the president of the company.
	a. specialization	b. concentration	c. background	d. degree
4. Jane is always determined to do anything she wants. She's a.....................woman.
	a. ambitious	b. strong-willed	c. brilliant	d. humane
5. He passed his exams with flying colour.
	a. successfully	b. difficultly	c. badly	d. easily
6. She harbored her hope of being a teacher.
gave up her hope of being a teacher c.had her hope of being a teacher
kept her hope of being, a teacher in her mind d.built her hope of being, a teacher
7. He behaved like an adult. I think he is more.................... than the other boys at his class.
	a. intelligent	b. mature	c. ambitious	d. developed
8. The new road should help ......................traffic problems.
	a. raise	b. create	c. ease	d. cause
9. There is no................... explanation for what happened.
	a. scientist	b. scientific	c. scientifically	d. since
10. The new surgeon will ...................her post in May.
	a. go on	b. get over	c. take up	d. look after
IV. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence.
The man looked familiar. I ................... him somewhere before.
	a. saw	b. have seen	c. had seen	d. see
Last night a tornado swept through Rockville. It ................. everything in its path.
	a. destroyed	b. was destroyed 	c. had destroyed 	d. has destroyed
In spite of.................., we decided to go out.
	a. we felt very tired 	b. feeling tired	c. all of us felt tired	d. tired	
4.	When we.........................the bill. we left the restaurant.	
	a. had paid	b. were paying	c. paid	d. had been paying.
5.	When the firework....................off, the dog....................away.
	a. had gone/ ran	b. went/ had run	c. went/ ran	d. went/was running
In 1903, Marie became the first woman...................a Doctor of Science degree.
	a. receiving	h. receive	c. receives	d. to receive
The police officer stopped us and asked us where........................
	a. were we going 	b. are we going	c. we are going	 d. we were going
8. . Annie found the souvenirs ................. she wanted at the gift shop.
	a. that	b. which	c. θ	d. all are correct
The manager made his employees ................. the computer evening class.
	a. attending	b. attend	c. to attend	d. attendance
10. Marie Curie....................a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
	a. awarded	b. was awarded	c. had awarded	d. had been awarded
11. Could you please come over? I need you.................the refrigerator.
	a. help me moving	b. helping me to move c. to help me to move	d. help me to move
12. Martina Hingis................. her first tennis racket at the age of two
	a. picked up	b. has picked up 	c. had picked up 	d. was picked up
13. John F. Kennedy was the first president of the United States ........................
	a. born in the twentieth century 	b. was born in twentieth century
	c. born on the twentieth century 	d. to be born in the twentieth century 
14. By the time she was twelve. she a. has already decided
	a. had already decided	 b. already has decided c. had already decided	d. already decided
15. in Slovakia. Martina has lived in Switzerland for many years.
	a. To be born	b. Born	c. Being born 	 d. Be born
V. Identify the one underlined word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that mast be changed for the sentence to be correct.
Before she became a film star, she has been a stand up comedian
	A B C	 D
I'm trying to persuade my sister to drive.	 but I can’t get her do it
	A	B	C	 D	
After a week, we finally got to Miami, that my aunt lives.
	A B	C D
Since I begin school. I haven't had much spare time.
	 A	 B	 C	 D
5. My mother makes me doing rm., homework so I can't go out. 
	A	B C	D
6. My family lived in Hue since 1990 to 1996, but we are now living in Sai Lion.
	 A B	 C	 D
7. Can you tell me where were you born? — Stockholm.
	 A	B	C	D
8. Computers are often used to control, adjustment, and correct complex industrial operation.
	A	B	C	D
9. He spent most of his time to paint in the studio,
	A	B	C	D
10. We went to Stan's holiday party last year, hadn't we?
	A	B	C	 D
VI. Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank. 
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French (1) ..................... was a courageous and de terminal woman. She left her home for Paris to (2)..................... her interest in science. Living in (3).................. , she still (4).............. to undulate a: the top of her class. She met Pierre Curie (5)......................... after graduation and (6)	  him a year later. Together, Pierre and tylarrie (7)...................... the most famous husband-and-wife (8)....................... in science history. They (9).............	the Radioactive elements, Polonium and Radium. They (10).............. the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
1 . a. biologist	b. mathematician	c. chemist	d. physicist and chemist
a. follow 	b. take 	c. pursue 	d. satisfy
a. poverty	b. loneliness	c. wealth	d. difficulty
a. made	b. managed 	c. harbored 	d. worked'
a. immediately 	b. soon 	c. shortly 	d. rightly
a: married	b. left	c. divorced	d. devoted
a. built	b. organized	c. established	d. formed
a. couple	b. partnership	c. scientists	d.partners
9. 	a. discovered	b. invented	c. built	d. made.
10. a. had awarded 	b. awarded	c. were awarded 	d. were awarding
VII. Read the passage, then choose the one best answer - a, b, c or d.
 Personal computers, or PCs, are an important	 part of out eve everyday lives. Many people cannot imagine life without them. One the most important people in making these machines work is Bill Crams.
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State. He grep up in a rich family. His parents sent him to a private school. There he met his business partner, Paul Alien. When they were in the eight were in the eight grade, they were 	ere writing programs for business computers and making mores.
In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They thought he would get over his obsession with _ and become a lawyer like his father. Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend Allen. They worked eighteen hours a day in 'a dormitory room at Harvard. They were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers. In 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product. Allen became ill with cancer and left Microsoft in 1983. He recovered a few years later and started his own company. Meanwhile, Microsoft became a giant company. By 1990, at the age of thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the United States. He was the "King of Software". He achieved his success with a lot of hard work. For more than ten years, he worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. He had a dream and the will to succeed. By 1997, he was the richest man in the United States.
1. According to the writer, 	
people cannot live without personal computers C. computers play an important part of our lives
Bill Gates invented personal computers D. Bill Gates is the most important people in computer science
2. The words 'dropped out of in line 10 mean	
	a. graduated from	b. got over	c. took part in	d. stopped taking class at
3. According to the passage, 	
Bill Gate's parents wanted him to become a computer programmer.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft they want to sell their program for personal computers
Paul Alien left Microsoft because he wanted to start his own company.
Bill Gates met his business partner at Harvard.
4. How old was Bill Gates when he became the richest man in the United States?
	 a. 34	b. 51	c. 42	d. 44
5. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
In a few years, Microsoft became a very large company.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen first wrote programs for business computers when they were about fifteen.
Bill Gates earned his success by working very hard.
Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States.	
VIII. Choose the sentence (a, b, c	d) which is closest in meaning to the sentence printed before.
1. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.
a.She worked very hard in difficult conditions.
b.She worked very hard but she still lived in difficult conditions.
c.She worked very hard even though her living conditions were difficult.
d.She worked very hard because her living conditions were difficult.
2. It was impossible to find Toni anywhere.
	a. Torn was unable to go anywhere	b. Torn could not be found anywhere.
	c. It was possible to find Torn.	d. Torn could go anywhere he liked.
3. Fewer people came to the meeting than we had expected. 
	a.Too many people came to the meeting.
	b.There were more people at the meeting, than we had expected.
	c.There were not enough seats for all people as we had expected.
	d.We had expected more people to come to the meeting.
4. The results of the research are not only impressive, but also alarming.
a.The results of the research are not alarming. but impressive.
b.The results of the research are alarming. but not impressive.
c.The results of the research are not either impressive or alarming
d.The results of the research are both impressive and alarming.
5. Mark is not interested in teaching..
	a. Mark would like to teach. 	b. Teaching is not interesting to Mark.
	c. Mark didn't think teaching is interesting.	 	d. Mark knows how to teach.
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