Đề học kì 1 Tiếng anh 10

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the others (1 point)
1. A. polite	B. literature	C. guide	D. kind
2. A. heat	B. scream	C. meat	D. dead
3. A. wood	B. cook	C. blood	D. look	
4. A. head	B. ready	C. peasant	D, realize
II. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D (4.25 points)
1. Would you mindthe door, please?.	
A. closing	B. to close 	C. close	D. to closing
2. My family.in Ho Chi Minh many years ago. 
A. live 	B. has lived 	C. lived	D. had lived
3. My father didn’t  coffee for breakfast.
A. used to drink 	B. use to drink 	C. use to drinking 	D.use be drink
4. Our class ...a picnic at Huong Pagoda this Sunday .
A. am having	B. will have	C. is going to have	D. have
5. Tom’s illness, he had to cancel the appointment.
 A. Because	B. Because of	C. Though	D. In spite of
6. The boy..talked to our teacher yesterday is our new classmate.
 A. who	B. which	C. that	D. A & C are correct
7. We’re going to make a two – day  to visit Huong Pagoda
A. travel 	 	B. excursion 	C. voyage 	D. gone.
8. We decided at home this weekend
A. stay	B. to stay	C. staying	D. be stay
9.When we arrived, the children ________ “ Hide and Seek”. 
A. was playing B. had played C. Played D. were playing 
III. Complete the following sentences with since, for or ago: (0.75 point)
1. I have not met her ...................... she got married.
2. We have lived in Vung Tau ........................ one month.
3. I bought this computer five days ..........................
IV. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting(2 points).
About one hundred buildings and houses have destroyed in the earthquake.
 	A 	B 	C 	D
April 1st is the day when is called April Fool’s Day in the West.
	A 	B 	 C 	D
She taught me how use the photocopier. 
	A 	B 	C 	D
One of the effective means of communication are language.
	A 	B 	C 	D
V. Read the passage and answer the questions ( 2 points)
Charles Dickens was born into a poor clerk family in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on February 17th 1812. When Charles Dickens was two, his parents moved to London and from that time on, Charles Dickens spent most of his life there.
As the father of a large family, Mr. Dickens was constantly in debt. Later, when he could not pay his debt, he was imprisoned. Consequently, twelve year old Charles, who had been taken from school at eleven, was sent to work in a factory labeling bottles for six shillings a week
Where was Charles Dickens born?
	2. Did Charles Dickens spend most of his life in London?
	3. Why was Mr. Dickens imprisoned?
	4. How old was Charles Dickens when he had to work in a factory labeling bottles?