Đề thi tuyển sinh vào Lớp 10 môn Tiếng Anh - Đề số 2

ĐỀ 2
Part I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. A. although	B. plough	C. country	D. though
2. A. education	B. question	C. pollution	D. collection
3. A. although 	B. laugh	 	C. paragraph 	D. enough
4. A. pictures 	 	B. watches	 	C. buses	D. brushes
5. A. buffalo	B. minority	C. gold 	D. close
Part II. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
6. How many	__________________ do you want?
A. milk	B. eggs	C. cooking oil	D. sugar
7. At 8 a.m. tomorrow, Janet_______ a test on the importance of technology in the next 20 years.
A. will be taking	B. will being take	C. take	D. was taking
8. If I were you, I _____________ for a new car to buy.
A. would look	B. will look	C. look	D. looking
9. - "What is your _____________ ?" - "I'm Vietnamese".
A. nationality	B. national	C. nation	D. nations
10. Nga likes ________ with her close friend on Saturday evenings.
A. window shop	B. window to shop	C. window shops	D. window shopping
11. She is always _____ on something nice and cute even though they are useless.
A. addicted	B. interested	C. hooked	D. fallen
12. - “Children in my village often fly their kites in dry rice fields.” - “................”
A. It’s right up my street!	B. That’s awesome.	C. Exactly what I want.	D. How interesting!
13. There isn’t ______airport near where I live._______ nearest airport is 70 miles away.
A.an - A	B.an - The	C. the - A	D. the - The
14. He’ll come _______ to pick you ________ .	
A. over / up	B. over / on	C. in / up	D. on / in
15. She suggested that they _____________ her a birthday party.
A. should give	B. shall give	C. would give	D. will give
Part III. Each of the following sentences has one mistake. Identify the mistake by writing the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
16. Peter has bought a new MP3 player yesterday but I haven’t seen it yet.
	 A B C D 
17. He told me that he had left home yesterday.
 A B C D
18. Because he was sick so he couldn’t go to school.
 A B C D
19. Despite of the heavy traffic, she still went to the film company in time yesterday.
 A B C	 D
20. In six years' time, we will be travelled across town by flying taxi. 
 A B C D
Part IV. Fill in the numbered blanks in the passage with ONE suitable word from the box. Write your answers on the answer sheet. 
hold picks up even help 
 after thickly little hillsides
Wind, water, air, ice and heat all work to cause erosion. As the wind blows over the land, it often (21)__ picks up ___ small grains of sand. When these grains of sand strike against solid rocks, the rocks are slowly worn away. In this way, (22) ___ even ____very hard rocks are worn away by the wind.
When particles of rocks or soil became loosened in any way, running water carries them down the (23) ___ hillsides ____Some rocks and soil particles are carried into streams and then into the sea.
Land that is covered with trees, grass and other plants wears away very slowly, and so loses very (24) ___ little ____ of its soil. The roots of plants help to (25) ___ hold ____ the rocks and soil in place. Water that falls on grasslands runs away more slowly than water that falls on bare ground. Thus, forests and grasslands (26) ___ help ____ to slow down erosion.
Even where the land is (27) ___ thickly ____ covered with plants, some erosion goes on. In the spring, the melting snow turns into a large quantity of water that then runs downhill in streams. As a stream carries away some of the soil, the stream bed gets deeper and deeper. (28) __ after _____ thousands of years of such erosion, wide valleys are often formed.
Part V. Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is in danger. Many species of animals are threatened, and could easily become extinct if we do not make an effort to protect them. There are many reasons for this. In some cases, animals are hunted for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies. Some birds, such as parrots, are caught alive, and sold as pets. For many animals and birds, the problem is that their habitat – the place where they live – is disappearing. More land is used for farms, for houses or industry, and there are fewer open spaces than there once were. Farmers use powerful chemicals to help them grow better crops, but these chemicals polluter the environment and harm the wildlife. The most successful animals on earth – human beings – will soon be the only ones left, unless we can solve this problem. 
29. What does the word extinct in line 2 mean?
A. dead	B. no longer in existence 
C. not in a place because of illness	D. suffering from a mental or physical handicap 
30. The word this in line 3 refers to
A. wildlife 	C. the fact that people are more aware that wildlife is in danger	
B. danger	D. the fact that many species of animals could easily become extinct
31. According to the passage, one of the reasons that people hunt animals is 
A. They want their fur or other valuable parts of their bodies	B. they want to kill them 	
C. they consider this a sport 	D. they want to sell them as pets if they are dead.
32. Which of the following is not true?
A. Human beings are the most successful animals on earth 
B. If we can solve the problem, we will soon be the only ones left 
C. Farmers use chemicals in order to grow better crops 
D. Chemicals pollute the environment 
33. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Birds are in danger 	B. the threat to the environment 
C. the most successful animals	D. protect our earth 	
Part VI. Use the following sets of words or phrases to write complete sentences
34. My best friend/ not/ like/ mountain climbing/ because/ he/ afraid/ heights.
My best friend does not like mountain climbing because he is afraid of heights	
35. I/ download/ some songs/ yesterday/ but I/ not listen/ to them yet.
I downloaded some songs yesterday but I have not listened to them yet.	
Part VII. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the provided sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
36. Some people will interview the new president on TV.
-> The new president will be interviewed on TV
37. The workers only called off the strike after a new pay offer. 
-> Only after a new pay offer did the workers call off the strike
38. The people were very nice. We visited them yesterday.
-> The people	 whom We visited yesterday were very nice.
39. The project was shorter than we thought at first.
 (adjer/more adj + than -> not as +adj(trái nghĩa) as)
-> The project was not as long as we thought at first
40. Get up early and you won’t be late for the bus.
-> If you get up early, you won’t be late for the bus.