Đề cương ôn thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Unit 3

UNIT 3
Choose the word that has the letter (s) pronounced differently from the others. 
1. A. hat B. band C. sand D. hate
2. A. she B. ten C. sent D. red
3. A mat B. bag C. had D. classmate
4. A. make B. made C. date D. dad
5. A determine B. professor C. education D. remember
Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
1. a. background 	b. career	c. secondary	d. private
2. a. scientific	b. atomic	c. impossible	d. professor 
3. a. obtain	b. determine	c. award	d. harbour
4. a. ambitious	b. difficulty	c. brilliant	d. mature
5. a. education	b. difficulty	c. champion	d. institute
Choose the sentence or phrase that best completes the dialogue. 
Tony : (1)___________ Ann : In a house near Brighton.
Tony : (2) __________ Ann : For three years.
Tony : (3) __________Ann : The house we had before was too small. We need somewhere bigger. 
Tony : (4) __________Ann : I work in a bank.
Tony : (5) _________ Ann : I doesn't earn much. Just about £ 15.000 a year.
1a. What's your address? b. Where are you?	c. Where you live?	 	d. Where do you live?
2.a. You have lived there for how long?	b. How long have you lived there?
	 c. How many years have you lived there? 	d. Hoy long do you live there?
3.a. Why did you move? 	b. Why you moved?	
c. Why did you moved? 	d. Can you tell me the reason why did you move?
4.a: What do you work'?	b. What your job is?a	c. What you do'?	d. What do you do?
5.a. How much do you earn?	b. How much money do you take?
c How about money do you earn?	d. Do you earn how much money?
 Choose the correct answer:
1. Lindsay Lewis _________research at Bristol University in the 1980s.
A. did B. made C. had done D. had made
2. His ___________are collecting stamps and swimming.
A. preference B. hobbies C. enjoys D. joys
3. She is a _________student. She has a fully developed mind.
A. old B. young C. mature D. middle
4. When Marie first went to Paris, she had very little money to live____.
A. in B. on C. at D. by
5. After her husband's tragic death, she_________ up his position at the Sorbonne
A. got B. received C. took D. accepted
6. She had determined the atomic _________of radium.
A. weigh B. load C. length D. weight
7. I wish to apply________ the post of receptionist in your company.
A. of B. on C. with D. for
8. There are two__________ in a school year in Vietnam.	
A. periods B. semesters C. stages D. parts
9. This morning his father got ___________because he had gone out all night without permission.
A. happy B. sad C. very angry D. glad
 10. This is my________. He is my uncle's son.
A. nephew B. niece C. brother D. cousin
GRAMMAR	The past perfect
a. Cách thành lập 
- Câu khẳng định :	S + had + V3/ed 
- Câu phủ định : 	S + had+ not + V3/ed 
- Câu hỏi: 	Had + S + V3/ed? 
b. Cách dùng chính Thì QKHT dùng để diễn tả: 
- Một hành động xảy ra và hoàn tất trước một thời điểm hoặc một hành động khác trong quá khứ. 
Ex: We had had dinner before eight o’clock last night. / Lucie had learned English before she came to England. 
- Một hành động đã xảy ra nhưng chưa hoàn thành, tính đến một thời điểm nào đó trong quá khứ. 
Ex: I had taught there for ten years by the time I left that school.
2.The past perfect vs. the past simple 
Để diễn tả hai hành động xảy ra trước sau trong quá khứ, ta dùng HAD + V3/ed cho hành động trước, V2/ed cho hành động sau. Ex: After Nam had finished his homework, he went to bed. 
 1.Angel asked me how to use the photocopier. She .................... (never/ use) it before, so she............... (not/ know)
 2.Karen ...................... (not want) to come to the cinema with us be cause she.............. (already/ see) the film. 
 When the students..............(do) the experiment, they what to do.
 3. Two days a go I................ (meet) an old friend who I ................ (not see) for years .............. (write) a report on it.
 4. Before John ( go)out last night, he ( lend).. me his motorbike.
Circle A, B, C or D as the best choice to complete each sentence. 
1. Before taking another degree in mathematics, Marie Curie__________ a physics degree.
A. earned B. had earned	C. was earning D. has earned
2. In 1660, Isaac Newton _________to Cambridge University.
A. went B. goes	C. had gone D. has gone
3. He died on March 20, 1772 and ___________in Westminster Abby.
A buried B. has buried	C. was buried D. had buried
4. Shakespeare ________Hamlet at the end of the sixteenth century
A. write B. wrote	C. had written D. was written
5. I was very nervous about my new job, because I _____ with computers before.
A. never worked B. worked never	 C. had never worked D. never had worked
6. She _______ delighted. She had passed all her exams.
A. had been B. was	 C. had D. is
7. We didn't go to the cinema because we ____________that film.
A. saw already B. already saw	 C. already had seen D. had already seen
8. I __________the village because I had been there before.
A. had recognized B. recognize	 C. recognized D. have recognized
9. The Radium Institute __________in 1917.
A. founded B. had founded	 C. was founded D. had been founded
Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer - true, false, or no information 
The great English scientist Isaac Newton. whose theory of gravitation is well-known throughout the world, was born in the little village Wool Thorpe, not far from his own town of Cambridge, on December 25th, 1642. His father was a farmer who died when Newton was fourteen years old. His mother. uncle and grandmother took care of him.When still young. Newton was more of a mechanic than a scholar: His neighbors thought he would probably become a well-known clockmaker, because he had already made a clock his neighbours had never heard of before. It worked by water. Besides the water clock Newton also made a sundial. When he grew older, he became interested in mathematics and physics. His first physical experiment was carried out in 1658, when he was .16 years old.. On Jane 5th, 1661 Newton entered the University of Cambridge where he studied mathematics and soon became famous at the age of 21.When Newton was 22 years old, he began studying the theory of gravitation. In 1669 he was appointed professor and began giving lectures on mathematics at Cambridge. Isaac Newton died in 1727 at the ace of 85.
	a. True	b. False	c. No information
 1.Newton was not a physics, he was a mathematician.
	2. He was born in the town of Cambridge.	
	3. When he was young he was very intelligent 
	4. He wasn't very interested in mathematics until he grew older.
	5. His first physical experiment was carried out when he was not yet twenty.
	6. Newton's Laws explained the between force, mass and movement.
	7. He entered the University of Cambridge at the age of 21. 
	8. He became a professor when he Was not 30.
. Past Perfect:Ex: 	We had finished school before 1990.
They had studied English before they began to go to work.
Cách dùng:
1 hành đơng chấm dứt trước 1 hành động khác trong quá khứ.
Hành động chấm dứt trước 1 thới diểm trong quá khứ.
Các từ đi với thì QKHT:
QKHT + before + QKĐ
QKĐ + after + QKHT
QKĐ + as soon as + QKĐ/ QKHT
QKĐ + until + QKĐ/ QKHT
ngay khi .thì, vừa mới . thì
S + had 
no sooner
+ V3 + than + S + V2
hardly
+ V3 + when + S + V2
barely
scarcely
Ex: He had no sooner come home than the boss rang him.
	= no sooner had He come home than the boss rang him.
 I had hardly locked the door when he came. 
	= hardly had I locked the door when he came.
	Ex: No sooner had we gone out than it began to rain.
	 Hardly had he gone to bed when he heard a shot.
 Ex: He got a job after he had finished high school.
35. Before my brother _____________the university, he had served in the army for 3 years.
A. entered B. had entered	 C. enter D. was entering
36. When they met again, they ______each other for 5 years.
A. haven't seen B. hadn't seen	 C. didn't see 	 D. had seen
37. This morning his mother got very angry because he ___________her wedding ring.
A. break B. broken	 C. has broken D. broke
38. When the police came, the theft_________.
A. had already left B. leave already
C. has already left D. was already leaving
39. Peter no longer owned a bike. He _________it.
A. sold B. had sold
C. sells D. has sold
40. The guide _______us tickets for a film. But my husband had already
seen it.
A. offer B. has offered
C. offered D. had offered
V. READING COMPREHENSION
A. Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank. 
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French (1) ..................... was a courageous and de terminal woman. She left her home for Paris to (2)..................... her interest in science. Living in (3).................. , she still (4).............. to undulate a: the top of her class. She met Pierre Curie (5)......................... after graduation and (6)	  him a year later. Together, Pierre and tylarrie (7)...................... the most famous husband-and-wife (8)....................... in science history. They (9).............	the Radioactive elements, Polonium and Radium. They (10).............. the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
1 . a. biologist	b. mathematician	c. chemist	d. physicist and chemist
a. follow 	b. take 	c. pursue 	d. satisfy
a. poverty	b. loneliness	c. wealth	d. difficulty
a. made	b. managed 	c. harbored 	d. worked'
a. immediately 	b. soon 	c. shortly 	d. rightly
a: married	b. left	c. divorced	d. devoted
a. built	b. organized	c. established	d. formed
a. couple	b. partnership	c. scientists	partners
9. 	a. discovered	b. invented	c. built	d. made d.
10. a. had awarded 	b. awarded	c. were awarded 	d. were awarding
B. Read the passage, then choose the one best answer - a, b, c or d.
 Personal computers, or PCs, are an important	 part of out eve everyday lives. Many people cannot imagine life without them. One the most important people in making these machines work is Bill Crams.
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State. He grep up in a rich family. His parents sent him to a private school. There he met his business partner, Paul Alien. When they were in the eight were in the eight grade, they were 	ere writing programs for business computers and making mores.
In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They thought he would get over his obsession with _ and become a lawyer like his father. Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend Allen. They worked eighteen hours a day in 'a dormitory room at Harvard. They were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers. In 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product.
Allen became ill with cancer and left Microsoft in 1983. He recovered a few years later and started his own company. Meanwhile, Microsoft became a giant company. By 1990, at the age of thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the United States. He was the "King of Software". He achieved his success with a lot of hard work. For more than ten years, he worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. He had a dream and the will to succeed. By 1997, he was the richest man in the United States.
1. According to the writer, 	
people cannot live without personal computers
computers play an important part of our lives
Bill Gates invented personal computers
Bill Gates is the most important people in computer science
2. The words 'dropped out of in line 10 mean	
	a. graduated from	b. got over
	c. took part in	d. stopped taking class at
3. According to the passage, 	
Bill Gate's parents wanted him to become a computer programmer.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft because they want to sell their program for personal computers
Paul Alien left Microsoft because he wanted to start his own company.
Bill Gates met his business partner at Harvard.
4. How old was Bill Gates when he became the richest man in the United States?
	 a. 34	b. 51	c. 42	d. 44
5. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
In a few years, Microsoft became a very large company.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen first wrote programs for business computers when they were about fifteen.
Bill Gates earned his success by working very hard.
Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States.	
VI. WRITING
Choose the sentence (a, b, c	d) which is closest in meaning to the
sentence printed before.
1. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.
She worked very hard in difficult conditions.
She worked very hard but she still lived in difficult conditions.
She worked very hard even though her living conditions were difficult.
She worked very hard because her living conditions were difficult.
2. It was impossible to find Toni anywhere.
	a. Torn was unable to go anywhere	b. Torn could not be found anywhere.
	c. It was possible to find Torn.	d. Torn could go anywhere he liked.
3. Fewer people came to the meeting than we had expected. 
Too many people came to the meeting.
There were more people at the meeting, than we had expected.
There were not enough seats for all people as we had expected.
We had expected more people to come to the meeting.
4. The results of the research are not only impressive, but also alarming.
The results of the research are not alarming. but impressive.
The results of the research are alarming. but not impressive.
The results of the research are not either impressive or alarming
The results of the research are both impressive and alarming.
5. Mark is not interested in teaching..
	a. Mark would like to teach. 	b. Teaching is not interesting to Mark.
	c. Mark didn't think teaching is interesting. 	d. Mark knows how to teach.