Đề kiểm tra Anh 10 chuẩn - Học kì 1 - Đề số 8

CửM’gar High School THE FIRST TERM EXAMINATION
Grade: 10 Time: 45’
Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronunced differently from that of the other words.
1. A. around	B. mouse	C. count	D. country
2. A. boss	B. call	C. more	D. talk
3. A. cut	B. fun	C. pull 	D. button
4. A. camera	B. famous	C. glad	D. family
5. A. seat	B. leave	C. increase	D. ready
Vocabulary and structure
Marie Curie harbored the dream of a --------- career which was 
Impossible for a woman her time.
 A. scientist	B. scientific	C. science	D. scientifically 
Look at those black clouds! It ----------------------.
 A. is raining Bowel rain C. is going to rain D. will be raining
The little boy is helping ------------------ across the road.
 A. the rich B. the poor C. the unemployed D. the blind
Yesterday when I ----------------- at the station, the train ------------- for 15 minutes.
 A. arrived/ had left	B. arrived/ left	C. had arrived/ left	D. arrived/ has left
After the death of her husband. She had to take charge ----- educating the children by herself
A. in	B. for	C. of	D. with
When I was a child, I ----- go to the zoo with my father on Sundays.
A. was used to	B. was used for	 C. used for	D. used to
This is Mr. Nam, ------ invention has helped hundreds of deaf people.
A. whom	B. who	 C. whose	 D. that
If he -------- harder, the results will be better.
A. worked	B. works	C. has worked	 D. will work
My house ------------------ since I was five years old.
 A. have been built	 B. has been built C. has built D. was built
I like ---------- to music while I am studying.
A. listen	B. to listening	C. listening	D. listened
Lan is a ---------- student.
A. working hard	B. hard worker	C. hard-working	D. hard- work
Lan is never ----- for school.
A. absent	B. present	C. early	D. late
The meeting has been cancelled ----- the chairman’s absence.
A. because	B. because of	C. despite	D. although
A person who is at the same class as you at school or college is called a ---------------.
A. roommate	B. friend	C. classmate	D. groupmate
We haven’t seen each other ------- we left school.
A. since	B. for	C. before	D. after
I don’t know why he avoids---------- me.
A. to meet	B. meet	C. being met	D. meeting
Mary is interested in -------- Vietnamese.
A. to learn 	B. learn	C. learning	D. learnt
---------- television people can get the latest information and enjoy interesting programmes
A. With	B.Thank to	C. On 	D. On behalf of
Remote controls are used to ----- with TV.
A. interact	B. interacting	C. interacted 	D. interaction
What do you use the Internet---------?
A. to	B. with	C. of 	D. for
Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.
I like the present whom you gave me on my birthday.
 	A B C D
If the weather is fine today, we would go to the beach.
A	 B	 C	D
My friends gave me a big surprise, who made me happy
 A	 B	 C D
One of the most interesting things for me to do are listening to music
 A	 B	 C	 D	
After Tom had finished doing his homework, Tom had gone to bed
 	 A	 B C D
Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.
The thick fog made it impossible for me to drive to work.
I couldn’t drive.
I couldn’t control the car because the thick fog.
I couldn’t control the car because of the fog was thick.
The thick fog prevented me from driving to work.
Despite feeling cold, we kept walking.
We kept walking if we didn’t feel cold.
Although we felt cold, we kept walking.
We kept walking so we felt cold.
We kept walking without feeling cold.
He used to write home once a week.
He enjoys writing home every week.
He never fails to write a weekly letter home.
He doesn’t now write home once a week.
He was forced to write home every week.
She said to us “ Don’t be late!”
She told us not to be late.
She told not to be late.
We can’t come there late.
She didn’t want us to come late
 I haven’t been to the cinema for two months.
The last time I went to the cinema was two months ago.
It’s two months since I last went to the cinema.
I didn’t go to the cinema until two months ago.
Both A & B are correct
Read the text and questions below. For each question, circle the letter you choose A, B, C or D.
The computer age is producing an army of robots- machines that are directed are electronic brain and which replace human labor in industrial operations. Many are artificial arms, which reach into areas man enters only at his peril, such as the inside of nuclear reactor.
	Already in 2000 there were 90,000 such robots working in industrial plants throughout the world. The big change over to robots, however, is likely to come only when their costs go down while workers’ wages continue to rise.
Sentence 1 indicates that robots are used mainly
to fight wars.
To operate computers.
To direct electronic brains.
To take the place of human workers
An observer today is most likely to see robots in operation in
A. military battles	 B. business offices.
C. modern factories	D. scientific laboratories.
The shape of many robots already in use is somewhat similar to that of a human
A. brain	B. hand	C. arm	D. foot.
The passage makes clear that a very valuable use of many robots is to
act as a teacher to human beings.
replace the human brain in producing computers.
aid doctors in medical operations.
do tasks extremely dangerous for humans to do.
Which of the following statements about the last sentence in the passage 
is certainly true?
The cost of the average robot is higher than that of a human worker.
The cost of a human worker is higher than that of the average robot.
Robots are becoming more and more expensive.
Robots are becoming cheaper all the time. 
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THE ANSWER
1. D 6. B 11. D 16. C 21. D 26. B 31. D 36. D
2. C 7. C 12. C 17. D 22. C 27. B 32. B 37. C
3. C 8. D 13. B 18. B 23. B 28. C 33. C 38. C
4. B 9. A 14. B 19. C 24. A 29. D 34. A 39. D
5. D 10. C 15. C 20. A 25. D 30. D 35. D 40. A