Bài tập ôn thi vào lớp 10 môn Tiếng anh - 1

I. Circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others in each line.
1. A. missed 	B. pleased 	C. stopped 	D. washed
2. A. adventure 	B. mature 	C. nature 	D. pleasure
3. A. great 	B. meat 	C. seat 	D. repeat
4. A. club 	B. habit 	C. plumber 	D. pub
5. A. control 	B. respond 	C. novel 	D. deposit
6. A. cement 	B. crazy 	C. climate 	D. costly
7. A. hug 	B. pollute 	C. funnel 	D. dump
8. A. regularly 	B. minority 	C. style 	D. scenery
	9. A. climate	B. comprise	C. notice	D. divide
	10. rather	B. ethnic	C. although	D. without
II. Circle the best answer.
1. Liz is interested ___ the beauty contest. (on, with, at, in)
2. They ___ in Nam Dinh for 15 years. (live, are living, lived, have lived)
3. The children ___ when the mailman came. (sleep, slept, were sleeping, have slept)
4. Would you mind ___ the window? (to open / open / opening / opened)
5. I’d love to go to a football match with you, ___ I’m too busy.(because, but, and, so)
6. The air in big cities is very dirty. It is ___ . (dusty, fresh, healthy, polluted)
7. My mother showed me how ___ clothes. (to make, making, make, made)
8. This book is ___ for you to read. (enough interesting, interesting enough, so interesting, too interesting)
9. Football ___ all over the world. (to play, plays, is playing, is played )
10. There are more and more people concerning about ___ pollution. (environment, environmental, environmentally, environmentalist)
11. She arrived early ___ order to get a good seat. (on/in/out/at)
12. What time ___ Sally be here? (shall/could/will/may)
13. I am ___ that you broke the record. (delighting/delight/delightful/delighted)
14. The radio was ___ by Tim yesterday. (repaired/repairing/repair/repairs)
15. It’s ___ to believe that he passed the exam. (hardly/hard/difficultly/difficulty)
16. People in the countryside are ___. (friend/friendship/friendly/friendliest)
17. City dwellers are afraid ___ traffic jams. (of/off/at/in)
18. Would you ___ cleaning the floor for me? (like/please/mind/rather)
19. Most sports and games ___ in England are also popular in Australia. (play/playing/played/plays)
20. We had to call an ambulance because of an ___ person. (injured/injure/injuring/injury)
III. Fill in each blank with a suitable word to complete the following passage.
Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all ways by which man pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air (1)_____________ gases and smoke, poisons the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with (2) _____________ many fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his surroundings in various (3) _____________ ways. For example, people ruin natural beauty by scattering junk and litter (4) _____________ the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles (5) _____________ fill the air with disturbing noise.
Environmental pollution is (6) _____________ of the most serious problems facing mankind today. Air, water and soil are (7) _____________ to the survival of all living things. Badly polluted air can (8) _____________ illness, and even death. Polluted water kills fish and other marine life. Pollution of soil (9) _____________ the amount of land that is available for growing food. Environmental pollution (10) _____________ brings the ugliness to man’s naturally beautiful world.
IV. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the original sentence.
1. When he lived in Hanoi, he often went to Thu Le Park. àHe used ____________________________________________
2. Witcom L. Ludson invented the zipper in 1893. àThe zipper _________________________________________________
3. She last ate this kind of food in January. àShe hasn’t ______________________________________________________
4. He hasn’t chatted with his friends through internet for ages. àIt’s ages ________________________________________
5. We haven’t seen her since we left university.àThe last _____________________________________________________
àWe last ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. “Please turn down the radio for me,” said my mother. àMy mother told ________________________________________
7. “You should concentrate on your study,” The teacher said to the students. 
àThe teacher advised ________________________________________________________________________________
8. I’ll write to Liz because I want to invite her to my birthday party. 
àI’ll write to Liz so as _________________________________________________________________________________
9. Tom usually go to the library. He wants to enlarge his knowledge. 
àIn order __________________________________________________________________________________________
10. He is too young to go to school.àHe is not _____________________________________________________________
V. Complete the following sentences with the correct prepositions
1. He lives _____ that house _____ the second floor.
2. This tooth is bad. It mustn’t stay _____ your mouth a moment longer; we must take it _____ straight away.
3. What are those children doing _____ the roof? Tell them to get _____ immediately.
4. A: Can I speak _____ Ms Tomlinson, please?
 B: I’m afraid she isn’t _____. She went _____ half an hour ago.
5. They go _____ work _____ bus.
6. Sometimes we can’t open the door, and then we have to climb _____ the window.
7. My birthday is _____ May, and my wife’s is _____ Christmas Day.
8. Sara was born _____ 2 o’clock _____ 17th August.
9. Mr. Thanh isn’t here _____ the moment. He’ll be back _____ a few minutes.
10. We were _____ the seaside _____ two weeks.
11. I haven’t seen Liz _____ Monday.
12. Mrs. Huong has gone away. She’s been away _____ Saturday.
13. Where’s Alice? – She should be here _____ now.
14. There are usually a lot of parties _____ New Year’s Eve. 
15. Can I meet you _____ 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.?
16. Her parents were very proud _____ her when she got the scholarship.
17. This suit is different _____ the one I saw yesterday.
18. The passage is written _____ English.
19. Vietnamese women usually wear the ao dai, sometimes _____ work, and especially _____ special occasions.
20. They named their daughter _____ their favourite singer.
VI. Complete the sentences with the suitable form of the words.
1. His son’s _____________________ has not improved much. (BEHAVE)
2. He draws cartoons for a _____________________ magazine. (HUMOR)
3. The gas from the chemical factory is extremely _____________________. (HARM)
4. Their _____________________ has lasted a lifetime. (FRIEND)
5. We are now fully aware of the _____________________ of natural resources. (CONSERVE)
VII. Use the following key words to write meaningful sentences.
1. you/take/medicine/yet?//à____________________________________________________________________________
2. My uncle/aunt/move/Dalat/1989/and/live/there/then.//
à_________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Her bicycle/not/same/yours.//à________________________________________________________________________
4. He/work/that company/6 years.//à_____________________________________________________________________
5. There/used/grocery store/here/corner.//à_______________________________________________________________
VIII. Read the text carefully and then choose the best answer among A/B/C or D.
Footprints on the Moon
Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball of cheese!
The telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there.
On July 20,1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off.
The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to earth for study. They drug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft.
Next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that waited for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to earth. Behind them they left the plains and tall mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up. And they left footprints that may last forever.
1. This story tells _____.
A. about the first men to walk on the moon.	B. how men found footprints on the moon.
C. what the men brought back from their trip to the moon.	D. who had left footprints on the moon before the two men landed there.
2. A telescope _____.
A. makes balls of light seem brighter.	B. turns the moon into another world.
C. makes many of men’s dreams come true.	D. makes faraway things seem closer.
3. The men brought rocks and dirt from the moon because _____.
A. they wanted something to show they were there.	B. people wanted to use them to learn about the moon.
C. they wanted to keep them as souvenirs.	D. they might sell them to scientists.
4. The Americans’ machines will most likely stay on the moon until _____.
A. someone takes them away. 	B. a storm covers them with dust.
C. rain and wind destroy them.	D. they become rusty and break to pieces.
5. The next people who go to the moon most likely could _____.
A. find that the machines have disappeared.	B. leave the first set of footprints on the moon.
C. find the places where Armstrong and Aldrin walked.	D. find that dust had wiped off the two men’s footprints.
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