Tuyển chọn đề vào 10 chuyên Anh – Đề 11
B. ĐỀ THI NĂM HỌC 2008 – 2009
ĐỀ SỐ 11
(Đề thi tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 THPT Chuyên Quang Trung, Bình Phước)
(Thời gian: 150 phút)
I. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
| 1. A. fond | B. gorilla | c. colleague | D. monument |
| 2. A. cleared | B. heart | c. beard | D. feared |
| 3. A. celebration | B. cigarette | c. castle | D. ceiling |
| 4. A. pressure | B. mission | c. assure | D. massive |
| 5. A. terrorist | B. techno | c. program | D. sociable |
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II. Pick out the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others. |
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| 6. A. preference | B. colorful | c. continue | D. favorite |
| 7. A. cotton | B. baggy | c. ignore | D. label |
| 8. A. material | B. completely | c. economy | D. tropical |
| 9. A. memory | B. neighbor | c. typical | D. sincerity |
| 10. A. hamburger | B. blanket | c. relax | D. picnic |
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III. Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. |
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11. Vietnam is a_ country of ASEAN.
| A.friend | B.member | C. region | D. foreign |
12. My mother often_________ spends hours reading about cooking in the magazines.
| A.essays | B.guidelines | C. lessons | D. articles |
13. After dinner we used to go for a walk _______after lunch.
| A.along the sea | B.along the shore | C. in the beach | D. in the sand |
14. I usually write emails or ______ with my friends about our hobby.
| A.chat | B.tell | C. speak | D. reach |
15. We had a day______ to my friend’s village last Sunday.
| A.travel | B.trip | C. went | D. reach |
16. Stirring is a ______ town not far from Edinburgh.
| A.medium—large | B. medium-sized | C. medium | D. middle-sized |
17. The Browns___ a lot of maize on their farm.
| A.rise | B.raise | C. grow | D. feed |
18. What foreign languages you know_______ English.
| A.together | B.apart | C. besides | D. next |
19. When learning English, you should have a dictionary to _______the new words.
| A.look in | B.look after | C. look for | D. look up |
20. On the way to the village we saw a man_______ with his buffalo.
| A.plowing | B.feeding | C. raising | D. collecting |
21. If you ________her this weekend, could you ask her to call me?
| A.see | B.will see | C. saw | D. would see |
22. Does your father enjoy ________tennis?
| A.play | B.playing | C. to play | D.to playing |
23. The books _____ at least by next Monday.
A. must returned
B. must have returned
C. must be returned
D. must is returned
24. You________free this weekend, aren’t you?
| A.are | B. aren’t | C. do | D.don’t |
25. I__________reading this book by next weekend.
A. finish
B. will be finishing
C. have finished
D. will have finished
26. ________ you arrived on time, you would have understood the lectures.
| A.If | B. Had | C. Unless | D.As long as |
27. The baby___ when her mother____ home.
A. was sleeping/came
B. was sleeping / comes
C. was sleeping / was coming
D. slept / came
28. Each of the room _______ a different color.
| A.have | B. has | C. to have | D.are having |
29. He prefers______ .
A. go for a swim to study
B. going for a swim to study
C. going for a swim to studying
D. go for a swim to studying
30. We left early _______avoid the traffic jams.
| A.so that | B.in order that | C. so as | D.in order to |
31. The town crier shouted the news as he was walking.
| A.late | B.later | C. latest | D.lately |
32.I’d like Ao dai because it is both traditional and _______.
| A.funny | B.fashionable | C.moveable | D. comic |
33. I wish I ______ money to buy laptop.
| A.have | B.had | C.will have | D. shall have |
34. I wish I ______ very far from the school.
| A.don’t live | B.won’t live | C.haven’t lived | D. didn’t live |
35. This color TV_____ for over ten years.
| A.was using | B.was used | C.has been used | D. is using |
36. A new supermarket ____ in our town.
| A.is build | B.is being built | C.has built | D. was building |
37. I arrived in Singapore_____ last everning.
| A.in | B.on | C.at | D. Ø |
38. Danny was out when I came, ______ I left a message.
| A.so | B.so that | C.such | D. such that |
39. He asked me if I ____ at that school.
| A.study | B.am studying | C.will study | D. studied |
40. Jenny said that she had to leave_____.
| A.now | B.tonight | C.this afternoon | D. the following day |
41. My sister has just bought a small house _____ of the town.
| A.in the distinct | B. in the edge | C.in the suburb | D. on the outskirts |
42. People _____ new words, borrow words from other language.
| A.discover | B.invent | C.excavate | D. try on |
43. My youngest brother always wanted to be an actor when he
| A.grew | B.brought | C.settled | D. came |
44. If you like skiing, there’s a ski _____ under an hour’s drive from Madrid.
| A.station | B.ressort | C.place | D. port |
45. The word Jeans comes from a kind of_______ that was made in Europe.
| A.furniture | B.tool | C.material | D. clothes |
46. Harrods, in London, is probably one of the best-known _______in the words.
A. department store
B. department stores
C. department shops
D. departmental shops
47. Bob told me he______ that book.
A. read already
B. have just read
C. had read
D. already read
48. He set up a new world record. He_____ a new record.
A. did
B. played
C. created
D. found
49. The guard told the prisoner_______.
A. not to smoke
B. to not smoke
C. not smoking
D. no smoking
50. If you _______ attended the English course last year, you wouldn’t have been given that scholarship.
| A.shouldn’t | B.didn’t | C.hadn’t | D. wouldn’t have |
51. I will have your car_____ soon.
| A.being repaired | B.to repair | C.repairing | D. repaired |
52. She could find the book _____ at the library______ at the bookstore.
| A.rather / than | B.so / as | C.such / as | D. neither / nor |
53. After I_________ the grass, it_________ to rain.
A. have watered / will begin
B. water / began
C. had watered / began
D. had watered / will have begun
54. “The last time I saw him was in 1999.” Means_____.
A. I have usually seen him since 1999
B. I have not seen him since 1999
C. I have not seen him for 1999
D. I saw him since 1999
55. He is a person who loves party. He is always the first _______and the last________.
A. coming / leaving
B. to come / leaving
C. to come / to leave
D. coming / to leave
56. I think you need to have_______ .
A. your fridge repaired
B. repair your fridge
C. fridge repaired
D. repaired your fridge
57. Look ! They’ve put up a road block. I wonder what’s going_____.
| A. over B. through | C. on | D. in |
| 58. Since they had that big argument, he crosses the street whenever he | ||
| A. saw B. sees | C. will see | D. is seeing |
| 59. I live in a small apartment | the ground floor. | |
| A. under B. by | C. in | D. on |
| 60. This broken window cannot | ||
| A. repair B. repairing | C. be repaired | D. to be repaired |
| 61. Unless he harder, he won’t succeed. | ||
| A. will try B. tries | C. is trying | D. has tried |
| 62. My brother has in the military. | ||
| A. joined B. entered | C. served | D. participated |
| 63.________ Hong Kong used to be part of the British Empire.
A. The B. A C. An D. no article |
64. Let’s save our energy, _______ ?
A. do we
B. will you
C. shall we
D. don’t we
65. He asked what time the bank _________ .
A. close
B. closed
C. closing
D. to close
66. The new motorway_________and built last year.
A. was planned
B. was planning
C. planned
D. had planned
67. _______ to take you fishing when you were younger.
A. Did you father use
B. Did your father used
C. Use your father
D. Would your father
68. If I ______ ill, I wouldn’t have been absent from school.
A. had been
B. hadn’t been
C. would have been
D. weren’t
69. The north-west of Scotland is_______ and there are a lot of lakes.
A. country
B. woody
C. hills
D. mountainous
70. They’ve ________a horrible new tower block where that lovely old building used to be.
A. put up
B. put down
C. pushed up
D. pulled down
71. The Browns live in a four bed roomed bungalow in a very nice______area.
A. resident’s
B. residence
C. residential
D. residents’
72. It’s high time Tommy got a steady job and________ . He’s almost thirty.
A. turned in
B. turned down
C. titled in
D. settled down
73. I enjoy my job as a baker but it’s taken me over five years to________ to working at night.
A. be use
B. get used
C. used
D. getting used
74. I remember Betty as a spotty young girl but she has turned_________ a beautiful woman.
A. to
B. in
C. into
D. on
75. Goals _______ were first tamed more than 9,000 years ago in Asia, have provided people with milk, meat, wool since prehistoric times.
A. which
B. that
C. what
D. where
76. If the weather _______ good, we’ll have a picnic beside the river.
A. will be
B. is
C. were
D. would be
77. The old man ______a black suit is a skilled mechanic.
A. to wear
B. wearing
C. whom is wearing
D. is wearing
78. Each of the students________ready for the oral test.
A. is
B. be
C. were
D. would be
79. Doing mathematics puzzles _______very interesting to me.
A. were
B. is
C. are
D. have been
80. The suffixes of “hope” are_______ .
A. -less
B. -ful
C. -ness
D. A and B are correct
IV. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
In school boys and girls study math. Counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing are parts of (81)______what they learn. Schools teach (82) ______because it plays (83)______ an important part in our lives. How could we do such things (84)______ figure time, make change, build houses, or even keep score for a game without knowing (85)______ numbers?
Simple (86)______with numbers, or arithmetic, is one branch of mathematics. Among the many (87)______ branches are geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Mathematics has grown (88)______ the need for it has grown.
Geometry has to (89) ______mostly with form – with (90)______ things angles, triangles, circles and spheres.
Algebra is a sort of mathematical (91)______ . By using algebra we can state many mathematical ideas with just (92) ______letters and signs. If we want to say, for example, (93)_______ in any circles the (94)______ is twice the radius we can write: D = 2r.
Gradually other branches of mathematics (95)______ added. Mathematics today (96) of great use to (97) ______other sciences. Mathematics, however, is much more than a tool. It is a way of thinking – of drawing conclusions (98)_______ facts.
One (99)________advance in mathematics is the building of great electronic computers, or calculating machines. In a few seconds a computer can (100)________ problems that might take a man years to solve alone.
| 81. A. in | B. of | C. on | D. about |
| 82. A. history | B. geography | C. mathematics | D. physics |
| 83. A. so | B. very | C. too | D. such |
| 84. A. like | B. as | C. are | D. is |
| 85. A. in | B. of | C. on | D. about |
| 86. A. calculate | B. calculator | C. calculation | D. calculating |
| 87. A. another | B. other | C.others | D. the other |
| 88. A. as | B. though | C. while | D. but |
| 89. A. do | B. perform | C. make | D. function |
| 90.A. such | B. many | C. so | D. lot of |
| 91. A. abbreviation | B. shorthand | C. writing | D. thinking |
| 92. A. few | B. a few | ‘ C. little | D. a little |
| 93. A. that | B. what | C. which | D. for |
| 94.A. sphere | B. triangle | C. rectangle | D. diameter |
| 95. A. was | B. were | C. has been | D. have been |
| 96. A. are | B. is | C. lot | D. has |
| 97. A. much | B. many | C. a lot of | D. a great deal of |
| 98. A. in | B. upon | C. from | D. of |
| 99. A. modern | B. recent | C. lately | D. soon |
| 100. A. do | B. make | C. get | D. solve |
V. Each underlined sentences has a mistake find and correct it.
101. That (A) was the day (B) which (C) I mislaid (D) my passport.
102. Married (A) customs differ (B) greatly (C) from society to (D) society.
103. I said (A) the old man what (B) his recipe (C) for long life was.(D)
104. The making (A) of leather goods (B) from animal skins (C) is one of the soonest (D) accomplishments of humankind.
105. I’m afraid (A) I hadn’t sent (B) exactly(C) what (D) he asked for.
106. Could (A) we arrange (B) a time on when (C) we’ll (D) be both free?
107. Peter and (A) John are (B) roommates, but (C) they don’t like together.(D)
108. I know (A) a little tavern at where (B) you can get (C) a wonderful meal.(D)
109. It (A) has been known since (B) the eighteenth century that (C) the adrenal glands are essential of (D) life.
110. Do (A) you hope getting(B) married (C) within the next 5 years.(D)
VI. Choose the correct sentence which is closest meaning to the one in bold.
111. When I was in the department store, someone thought I was a shop assistant.
A. I worked as a shop assistant in the department store.
B. When I was in the department store, someone took me to the shop assistant.
C. I met a shop assistant in the department store.
D. When I was in the department store, someone took me for a shop assistant.
112. I would like to know how she learnt to speak English so well.
A. I hope she will show me how to learn to speak English.
B. I wonder how she learnt to speak English so well.
C. I was interested in the way she spoke English.
D. She spoke English so well, which was wonderful.
113. I am totally convinced that our team will win.
A. In my opinion, there is no chance of our team losing.
B. Is there any chance of winning the match?
C. If our team loses, I will be very disappointed.
D. I have good opinion of our team.
114. It’s a good thing you write that letter or we wouldn’t have known what had happened.
A. Unless you write to us. we won’t know what has happened.
B. We didn’t know what had happened because you didn’t write to us.
C. We would like to thank you for having written that letter.
D. We wouldn’t have known what had happened without your having written that letter.
115. They are going to demolish that old pow’er station.
A. That old power station is in bad condition.
B. They are going to work for that old power station
C. That old power station is going to be closed for refurbishment.
D. That old power station is going to be pulled down.
116. My watch is so badly damaged that it wasn’t worth keeping.
A. My watch w’as so badly damaged that there was no point in keeping it.
B. What is the point of keeping this watch.
C. I don’t want to keep my watch any more.
D. I didn’t like my watch because it was badly damaged.
117. I expect he was exhausted after his long journey.
A. He found it tiring to go on a long journey.
B. He must have been exhausted after his long journey.
C. Did he feel tired after his long journey?
D. He had a terrifying journey.
118.It was unfair that the gymnast was given such low marks.
A. The gymnast didn’t deserve to be given such low marks.
B. The gymnast would have been given high marks if he had play fair.
C. The gymnast must have received low marks.
D. The gymnast should have been fairer.
119. “If you wanted to take the car. you should have asked me first” said Tom to his son.
A. Tom criticized his son for having taken his car without asking him first.
B. Tom asked his son if he w’anted to take the car.
C. Tom told his son to ask him if he wanted to take the car.
D. Tom wondered why his son had taken his car without asking him.
120. Mike rarely goes swimming on Saturday morning.
A. If Mike is free on Saturday morning, he will go swimming.
B. It is unusual for Mike to go swimming on Saturday morning.
C. Mike feels like going swimming on Saturday morning.
D. Mike is used to going swimming on Saturday morning.
VII. Read the text and choose the best answer to each question.
If you want to take the whole family on holiday, and keep everybody happy, then I have found just the place for you. I recent went with a group of friends, to stay at the Greenwood Holiday Village, which is open from May to October.
Built in the center of the forest. Greenwood is a great place to stay whatever the weather. Its main attraction for families is the indoor world of water, where young and old can have fun in different pools. Some of these, however, are for serious swimmers only.
For sporty people, the Country Club offers tennis, squash and badminton. 11′ your children are too young to join in these sports, there are activity clubs. Greenwood is a good place for families as it is traffic-free – you explore on foot or bike. Some people complained that w’as inconvenient, but it was pleased to be out in the fresh air. For evening entertainment, there are shows and cinemas.
Accommodation is in a variety of apartments of different sizes. These have up four bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom, as well as a dining area. Before going. 1 thought the apartment might not big enough for all of us. but I was pleasantly surprised – it was not too crowded at all.
I’ll definitely go back to Greenwood next year. Why don’t you give it a try? Visit their website for more information now.
121. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing the text.
A. to give her opinion of the holiday village.
B. to describe what her family did at the holiday village.
C. to give advice to a friend going to the holiday village. (If you want to take the whole family on holiday, and keep everybody happy, then I have found just the place for you. + I’ll definitely go back to Greenwood next year. Why don’t you give it a try? Visit their website for more information now.)
D. to complain about the holiday village.
122. From the text, the reader can find out ________.
A. the best way to get to the holiday village.
B. the best time of the year to visit the holiday village.
C. what activities are available at the holiday village.
D. how to reserve accommodation at the house village.
123. What does the writer think about the holiday village.
A. the apartments there are not big enough.
B. It is not convenient because you can’t use your car.
C. It can only be enjoyed in good weather.
D. There is something there for all ages.
124. What does the writer say about the apartment?
A. There is not much space between them.
B. Each one has its own bathroom.
C. They all have four bedrooms.
D. Not all of them have dining area.
125. Which postcard would somebody send from the holiday village?
A. Dear, Jane
The children love the beach and all the activities. We’ve got a lovely four- bedroom apartment.
Love, Ann
B. Dear, Jane
As it’s April, the weather isn’t good, but it doesn’t matter as there’s a lovely swimming pool.
Love. Ann
C. Dear, Jane
My parents love the swimming pool, and the children love riding around the forest on their bicycles.
Love, Ann
D. Dear, Jane
We are a bit disappointed that we have to drive everywhere, but there’s a lot to see and do.
Love, Ann
VIII. Read the text and fill in each space with only one suitable word.
The house is situated among a beautiful scenery, two miles from the nearest village, surrounded (126) ______ fields. On a hill a short distance from the house is a wood (127)______AND ______ a small stream flows past (128)______ the end of the garden. (129) ______also contains a small pond. The name of the (130)______, Rose Cottage. (131)______WRITTEN on the garden gate. from (132)______a path leads (133)______the front door (134)______ON or OF?______ the ground floor, there is a large living (135)______. a kitchen and a toilet. In the bathroom (136)__________are three bedrooms. There is (137)______a garage next to the house. The village (138)______ a post (139) , a small shop and a pub, and there is a railway (140) STATION three miles away.
IX. Complete the second sentence so that is has similar meaning to the first sentence. Use the word in the parentheses.
141. Chrissie can’t draw as well as her sister, (good)
—>Chrissie is……………………………….
- Although she had set off late, Jenny caught the train, (managed)
—> Despite …………………………………..
- I can’t run any faster than that, (able)
—> That’s…………………………………….
- Nobody thought Alan was good enough to win the championship, (capable)
—> Nobody thought …………………………….
- The rescuers continued their research for the lost climbers, (gone)
—> The research ………………………………
- “Can anyone cook trout?” She asked (how)
—> She asked if anyone…………………………
- In Britain you can’t ride a bicycle on a motorway, (allowed)
—> In Britain you……………………………..
- We left home too late to catch the 9 o’clock train, (enough)
—> We didn’t………………………………….
- I’d prefer you to start work next week, (rather)
—>I…………………………………
- It was already too late when I discovered the truth, (out)
—> I didn’t …………………………………
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