Đề luyện thi tuyển sinh vào Lớp 10 THPT môn Tiếng Anh - Đề 17 (Có đáp án)

TEST 17

Section I: Vocabulary and Pronunciation:

I. Vocabulary: Choose one best option A, B, C or D to complete each sentence. 1. You should throw these ball pens away. They are _______.

A. use B. uses C.useful D. useless 2. I have to go to the library. I need a lot of ________ books for my report.

A. dictionary B. reference C. periodical D. section 3. She's a _______ student. She often loses her pens and pencils.

A. careless B. careful C. cared D. care 4. Tim made a big _________ yesterday.

A. decide B. decision C. decisive D. decided 5. It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't let it become a ______.

A. usage B. tradition C. habit D. meaning II. Pronunciation: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group: 1. A. watching B. machine C. kitchen D. matches 2. A. cow B. power C. town D. slow 3. A. garment B. hardship C. carry D. garlic 4. A. middle B. mile C. kind D. dine 5. A. smiled B. worked C. picked D. jumped

Section II: Grammar

I. From the four underlined words or phrases (A), (B), (C), or (D), circle the one that is not correct. 1. My Japanese washing machine is gooder than Jane's.

(A) (B) (C) (D) 2. I asked my mother wake me up yesterday morning because I didn't want to (A) (B) (C) be late for school again. (D) 3. He used to playing computer games a lot, but now he studies very hard.

(A) (B) (C) (D) 4. No one knows exactly how many species of animals lives on the earth.

(A) (B) (C) (D) 5. This teacher had teached at our school for forty years before he retired.

(A) (B) (C) (D) 6. Your bike might steal if you leave it outside. (A) (B) (C) (D) 7. Ba often receives a lot of presents on his birthday. He wish today were his

(A) (B) (C) (D) birthday. 8. Children enjoy telling and listening to ghosts stories, especially on Halloween

(A) (B) (C) (D) night.

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9. There was too many bad news on television last night. (A) (B) (C) (D) 10. Everybody who has a fever must go home immediate.

(A) (B) (C) (D) II. Choose the best preposition to complete each sentence: (1 mark) 1. Nam is a good student this semester, so his mother is very proud ........ him.

A. about B. in C. at D. of 2. She is going to participate .............. our group next week.

A. in B. on C. to D. for 3. Where do you live? I live .......... 100 Tran Hung Dao Street.

A. on B. from C. at D.in 4. There is a table .............. the middle ............... the room.

A. on/of B. in/of C. at/of D. to/of 5. My brother is good ........... natural science subjects.

A. in B. about C. on D. at 6. ............ the way, I've got 2 tickets for the game. Would you like to go with me?

A. on B. at C. by D.from 7. We never go out ........... night because we live too far .......... town.

A. at/from B. at/in C.on/from D.in/in 8. The criminals escaped ........... prison yesterday.

A. out B. off C. to D. from 9. We had to use our neighbor's telephone becasue ours was ....... ....... order.

A. out of B. out off C. up to D. out from 10. Do you agree ......... me, everybody?

A. about B. with C. at D. to Section III: Reading

I. Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best option to fit each space

What is money? The pound, the dollar or the franc are actually just like a gram or a kilometer. The difference is that you can exchange money for something (1) _______. A five pound note may buy a book, a huge bag of sweets, or a (2)_______ of cinema tickets. But the note itself is only a printed (3)________ of paper which costs almost nothing to make. Thousands of years (4)_______ , people didn't have money as we know (5)_______. There were no banks (6)_______ even shops. In those days, Mr. Green, the farmer, exchanged the corn he (7)________ grown for Mr. Hive's honey. This was an exchange arranged between two (8)_______, each of whom had something that the other wanted. But in time, most societies invented their own 'currencies' (9)________ that people could exchange more. The …