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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐĂK LĂK TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN NGUYỄN DU -----o0o----- ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ, MÔN TIẾNG ANH 10 KỲ THI OLYMPIC 30-4, LẦN THỨ XXIII
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST (40 PTS) I/ PHONOLOGY (5 PTS) A. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group. 1. A. exist B. exhaustion C. explorer D. exhibit 2. A. eternal B. energy C. eradicate D. eliminate 3. A. submarine B. doubtful C. climbing D. subtle 4. A. argue B. tongue C. dialogue D. plague 5. A. lyrical B. rhythm C. mythology D. lyre B. Pick out the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. 6. A. argumentative B. psychological C. contributory D. hypersensitive 7. A. admirable B. advantageous C. conscientious D. analytic 8. A. delicacy B. internship C. inventory D. interrupt 9. A. complacent B. democrat C. jeopardy D. competence 10. A. painstakingly B. condolence C. communism D. obstinacy Keys: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. B II/ WORD CHOICE (5 PTS) Choose the best alternative to fill the gap in each of the following sentences 11. The flood was a terrible ______; hundreds of people died. A. calamity B. accident C. event D. rebellion 12. Micah admired his grandparents’ ______. During the Great Depression they lost their jobs, but they never lost their strength of purpose or their dignity. A. fortitude B. antecedents C. anomalies D. indifference 13. Even under tremendous public pressure, the planning committee would not commit itself wholeheartedly to the proposal and have only tentative approval to the ______ waterfront development plan. A. ambiguous B. unnecessary C. provisional D. total 14. Employees who have a ______ are encouraged to discuss it with the management. A. hindrance B. disturbance C. disadvantage D. grievance 15. I’m so ______ under with work at the moment – it’s awful! A. iced B. snowed C. rained D. fogged 16. The series became so popular that it was moved to the ______ time spot of 8 pm. A. leading B. prime C. main D. major 17. The Post-Modern architectural style is ______; it combines diverse elements, including classical columns, Baroque ornamentation, and Palladian windows. A. a diatribe B. a conjecture C. an anarchronism D. an amalgam 18. The local press has been pouring ______ on the mayor for dissolving the council. A. blame B. hatred C. disapproval D. scorn 19. I offer you my most ______ apologies for offending you as I did. A. abject B. repentant C. servile D. candid 20. The current economic ______ is very good for small businesses. A. disposition B. whirlwind C. climate D. daze
Keys: 11. A 12. A 13. C 14. D 15. B 16. B 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. C III/ GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5 PTS) 21. Business has been thriving for the past few years. Long ______ it continue to do so A. could B. does C. may D. might 22. How annoying! You ______ again! A. have made the self-same mistake yet of yours B. may yet make the same mistake C. have made the same mistake D. have yet to make the same mistake 23. The Mayflower was bound for Virginia, but a hurricane ______ off course. A. blew it B. to blow it C. it blew D. blowing it 24. The greenhouse effect occurs ______ heat radiating from the Sun. A. when does the Earth’s atmosphere trap B. does the Earth’s atmosphere trap C. when the Earth’s atmosphere traps D. the Earth’s atmosphere traps 25. The Rose Bowl, ______ place on New Year’s Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate football game in the United States. A. takes B. which takes C. it takes D. took 26. Experiments ______ represent a giant step into the medicine of the future. A. using gene therapy B. use gene therapy C. they use gene therapy D. gene therapy uses 27. ______ off the Hawaiian coastline are living, others are dead. A. Coral reefs B. Some types of coral reefs C. There are many types of coral reef D. While some types of coral reefs 28. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ______ came about as a result of the National Security Act of 1947. A. what B. it was C. was what D. it was what 29. Oil shale is a soft, fine-grained sedimentary rock ______ oil and natural gas are obtained. A. from B. is from C. is which D. from which 30. ______ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion. A. The Moon B. That the Moon C. When the Moon D. The Moon which Keys: 21. C 22. C 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. D 30. B IV/ PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 PTS) 31. Our plans to have a party fell ______ with Mum and Dad coming back a week early from holiday. A. down B. back C. out D. through 32. Having decided to rent a flat, we set ______ contacting all the accomodation agencies in city. A. to B. about C. off D. out
33. Bad living conditions ______ social and welfare problems. A. give rise to B. give into C. rise through D. take the rise out of 34. The launching of the Soviet Sputnik in 1957 ______ a subsequent space race with the US. A. blew up B. finished off C. touched off D. wrapped up 35. He had his money ______ in a secure bank account. A. hammered away B. jabbered about C. slaved away D. squirreled away 36. He hit the other boy reluctantly as his friends ______ him on. A. happened B. egged C. ground D. played 37. The poor old woman couldn’t ______ through after the operation and passed away. A. muddle B. plough C. pull D. run 38. The company was rife ______ rumors concerning possible redundancies. A. for B. on C. about D. with 39. The shop assistant was arrested ______ thefts from the store. A. in response to B. in connection with C. referring to D. with regard to 40. When you do something, you should ______. A. weigh up the pros and cons B. turn over a new leaf C. go down well with D. get through to Keys: 31. D 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. D 36. B 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. A V/ READING COMPREHENSION (10 PTS) Read the following passages and choose the best answer Passage 1 Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace. One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character. The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers. Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialised readership on the other.