Đề Anh DHBB K10 (15-16) CBN
Đề Anh DHBB K10 (15-16) CBN
Đề Anh DHBB K10 (15-16) CBN
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MÔN: Tiếng Anh 10
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút.
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C. he was rarely talked about.
5. How did Harper Lee find time to write her first novel?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
1. A dog ran on during the match and one of the linesmen caught it.
2. A golfer sneezed at the same time as playing a shot and ended up playing a bad
one.
4. A young boy played a few points because the professional was angry with
himself.
5. When the fight started, the other players didn’t try to stop it.
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Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
III. You will hear part of a talk about dolls. For questions 1 – 10, complete the
sentences. (20 p)
DOLLS
The first known dolls were found in (1) _____________________ in ancient Egypt
On the 17th-century dolls, you can see details like the (4)_____________________
If you can take off the doll's hair, you may see the (8)_______________________
underneath.
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2. The customer returned his order saying its switch was defective, and the online
store agreed to ______ the full amount to his account.
A. magnify B. credit C. discontinue D. charge
3. His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped
inviting him to backyard barbeques.
A. insentient B. magisterial C. preparatory D. restorative
4. Steven is always ______ about showing up for work because he feels that
tardiness is a sign of irresponsibility.
A. legible B. tolerable C. punctual D. literal
5. Candace would ______ her little sister into an argument by teasing her and
calling her names.
A. advocate B. provoke C. perforate D. expunge
6. The dress Arid wore _______ with small, glassy beads, creating a shimmering
effect.
A. titillated B. reiterated C. scintillated D. enthralled
7. Being able to afford this luxury car will ______ getting a better- paying job.
A. maximize B. recombinant C. reiterate D. necessitate
8. Levina unknowingly ______ the thief by holding open the elevator doors and
ensuring his escape.
A. coerced B. proclaimed C. abetted D. sanctioned
9. Shakespeare, a(n) ______writer, entertained audiences by writing many tragic
and comic plays.
A. numeric B. obstinate C. generic D. prolific
10. I had the ________ experience of sitting next to an over-talkative passenger on
my flight home from Brussels.
A. satisfactory B. commendable C. galling D. acceptable
11. Prince Phillip had to choose: marry the woman he loved and ______ his right
to the throne, or marry Lady Fiona and inherit the crown.
A. abdicate B. upbraid C. reprimand D. winnow
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12. If you will not do your work of your own ______ I have no choice but to
penalize you if it is not done on time.
A. predilection B. infusion C. excursion D. volition
13. After sitting in the sink for several days, the dirty food-encrusted dishes
became _____ .
A. malodorous B. prevalent C. imposing D. perforated
14. Giulia soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room: a week-old
tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in the closet.
A. quaint B. fastidious C. clandestine D. fetid
15. After making ______remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to
return to the White House pressroom.
A. hospitable B. irreverent C. enterprising D. chivalrous
16. When Tim was eating a cherry, he accidentally swallowed the _____.
A. nut B. stone C. seed D. core
17. A military junta has taken over power in the country after the democratic
administration _____ .
A. collapsed B. stumbled C. vanished D. abandoned
18. She was kept awake for most of the night by the _____ of a mosquito in her
car.
A. whine B. moan C. groan D. screech
19. He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather
_____.
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive D. disconcerting
20. - A: Another cup of coffee? - B: No, but thanks _______
A. not at all B. for all C. all the same D. you for all
Your answers:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
II. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
Number 0 has been done as an example. (10 p)
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1 In the last twenty year, the country has done great technological
2 progress, culminating in our entering the space age earlier this year with the
3 launch of our first telecommunication satellite. From a health perspective,
4 there has been a major modern programme in public hospitals. This has
5 involved the purchase of the latest scanning and diagnosis equipment, as
6 well as the refurbishment of major operating theatres with state-of-the-art
7 surgical equipment. As far as the superstructure of the country is concerned,
8 several major projects are on progress, included the construction of three
9 major motorways, a hydroelectric power station and a new international
10 airport. All of these public works are being carried out using the latest
11 technology. With the increased use of computer technology, the future of
12 our country looks very bright indeed. It anticipates that, in the very near
13 future, all government offices will be computered and networked to central
14 mainframe computers in the capital.
Your answers:
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10
IV. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided. There is an example at the beginning (0). (20 p)
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The (4. CENTRE) .......................... argument against Heyerdahl’s theory
was lack of evidence that, at that time, boats existed with the (5.
CAPABLE) .............................. to cross such an (6. EXPAND) …………..... of
ocean. So a determined Heyerdahl built a primitive raft of balsa wood, named it
Kon-Tiki, and on April 28th, 1947, left Peru with a crew at five. Moved along by
the ocean currents, the fragile raft Kon-Tiki sailed a steady 70 kilometers a day.
Despite heavy storms, failure never crossed the crew’s minds. After 97 days,
they caught (7. SEE) …………….... of tone of the islands. However, due to
unusually high winds they could not land and, realising that a reef presented an (8.
AVOID) …………..... obstacle, they prepared for the inevitable (9.
COLLIDE) ..................... . Amazingly, they all survived the crash, and Heyerdahl
had his (10. PROVE) …………......
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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certain behavioural systems making an individual more prone to _____ (12) to the
patterns that _____ (13) a prize.
Undoubtedly, human personality _____ (14) the most profound and
irreverible formation during the first period of its development, yet, certain
characteristics may still be _____ (15) to considerable changes conditioned by
different circumstances and situations.
1. A. distinguish B. converge C. vary D. differentiate
2. A. denote B. resolve C. inflict D. determine
3. A. account B. means C. token D. event
4. A. mould B. design C. conceive D. fabricate
5. A. states B. instants C. stages D. terms
6. A. factors B. traits C. items D. breeds
7. A. scope B. area C. extent D. length
8. A. pertain B. recognize C. associate D. identify
9. A. stem B. relate C. rise D. formulate
10. A. breeding B. rearing C. growing D. yielding
11. A. makes B. does C. finds D. plays
12. A. comfort B. pledge C. aquiesce D. obey
13. A. yearn B. deserve C. wish D. necessitate
14. A. underacts B. undertakes C. undergoes D. underlies
15. A. practicable B. feasible C. subject D. potential
II. Fill each gap in the passage below with ONE appropriate word. (15 pts)
People around the world dance for different reasons and in different ways.
Some dances can express (1. _________) like sadness, anger, or joy. Other dances
can tell a story.
In some cultures a shaman, or healer, might dance to (2. _________) an
illness. Some societies use dance to reach a state of trance so the (3. _________)
can perform acts of strength or courage, such as dancing on hot coals.
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Dance probably has been (4. _________) about as long as people have. Cave
paintings thousands of years old show what look (5. _________) dancing figures.
Dancers appear in the art of (6. _________) Egypt and Greece. Through dance,
societies (7. _________) their gods for good crops or bravery in battle.
Hundreds of years ago the Christian church frowned on dancing. But
farmers and villagers still danced for fun. Many of these dances developed into
folk dances. Ballet grew out of dances at the (8. _________) courts of France and
Italy in the 1500s and 1600s.
Drama, acrobatics, and music are (9. _________) with dance in many
cultures. People added make-up, costumes, and masks to turn dance into theater.
These performances tell a story using (10. _________) rather than words.
III. Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 1 to 10. (15 p)
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If food is allowed to stand for some time, it putrefies. When the
putrefied material is examined microscopically, it is found to be teeming
with bacteria. Where do these bacteria come from, since they are not seen in
fresh food? Even until the mid-nineteenth century, many people believed
5 that such microorganisms originated by spontaneous generation, a
hypothetical process by which living organisms develop from nonliving
matter.
The most powerful opponent of the theory of spontaneous generation
was the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895).
10 Pasteur showed that structures present in air closely resemble the
microorganisms seen in putrefying materials. He did this by passing air
through guncotton filters, the fibers of which stop solid particles. After the
guncotton was dissolved in a mixture of alcohol and ether, the particles that
it had trapped fell to the bottom of the liquid and were examined on a
15 microscope slide. Pasteur found that in ordinary air these exists a variety of
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solid structures ranging in size from 0.01 mm to more than 1.0 mm. Many
of these bodies resembled the reproductive structures of common molds,
single-celled animals, and various other microbial cells.
As many as 20 to 30 of them were found in fifteen liters of ordinary air,
20 and they could not be distinguished from the organisms found in much
larger numbers in putrefying materials. Pasteur concluded that the organisms
found in putrefying materials originated from the organized bodies present
in the air. He postulated that these bodies are constantly being deposited on
all objects.
25 Pasteur showed that if a nutrient solution was sealed in a glass flask and
heated to boiling to destroy all the living organisms contaminating it, it
never putrefied. The proponents of spontaneous generation declared that
fresh air was necessary for spontaneous generation and that the air inside the
sealed flask was affected in some way by heating so that it would no longer
30 support spontaneous generation. Pasteur constructed a swan-necked flask in
which putrefying materials could he heated to boiling, but air could reenter.
The bends in the neck prevented microorganisms from getting in the flask.
Material sterilized in such a flask did not putrefy.
A. What is the origin of the living organisms are seen on some food?
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B. How many types of organisms can be found on food?
C. What is the most effective way to prepare living organisms for microscopic
examination?
7. The objects that Pasteur removed from the air in his experiment were
remarkable because they were
C. fairly rare
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A. A sealed container B. Fresh air
10. It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that Pasteur employed a swam-necked flask
to
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
IV. Read the passage and answer the questions below (15 p)
2 Why did ancient people put such effort into making them? Various theories
have been put forward, but the most compelling include the idea that the pictures
were records of heroic deeds or important events, that they were part of magical
ceremonies, or that they were a form of primitive calendar, recording the changes
in the seasons as to why man started to write.
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3 A related theory suggests that the need for writing arose thereafter from the
transactions and bartering that went on. In parts of what is now Iraq and Iran, small
pieces of fired earth-pottery- have been found which appear to have been used as
tokens to a casino, or money, today. Eventually, when the tokens themselves
became too numerous to handle easily, representations of the tokens were inscribed
on clay tablets.
4 An early form of writing is the use of pictograms, which are pictures used to
communicate.Pictograms have been found from almost every part of the world and
every era of development, and are still in use in primitive communities nowadays.
They represent objects, ideas or concepts more or less directly. They tend to be
simple in the sense that they are not a complex or full picture, although they are
impressively difficult to interpret to an outsider unfamiliar with their iconography,
which tends to be localised and to differ widely form society to society. They were
never intended to be a detailed testimony which could be interpreted by outsiders,
but to serve instead as aide- memoires to the author, rather as we might keep a
diary in a personal shorthand. However, some modern pictograms are more or less
universally recognised, such as the signs which indicate men’s and women’s
toilets, or road signs, which tend to be very similar throughout the world.
5 The first pictograms that we know of are Sumerian in origin, and date to about
8000 BC. They show how images used to represent concrete objects could be
expanded to include abstractions by adding symbols together, or using associated
symbols. One Sumerian pictogram, for example, indicates ‘death’ by combining
the symbols for ‘man’ and ‘winter’; another shows ‘power’ with the symbol for a
man with the hands enlarged.
6 By about 5,000 years ago, Sumerian pictograms had spread to other areas,
and the Sumerians had made a major advance towards modern writing with the
development of the rebus principle, which meant that symbols could be used to
indicate sounds. This was done by using a particular symbol not only for the thing
it originally represented, but also for any thing which was pronounced in a similar
way. So the pictogram for na (meaning ‘animal’) could also be used to mean ‘old’
(which was also pronounced na). The specific meaning of the pictogram (whether
na meant ‘old’ or ‘animal’) could only be decided through its context.
Question 1-6: This Reading Passage has seven paragraphs (1-6). Choose the
most suitable headings for paragraphs 1-6 from the list of headings below. Write
the appropriate letters A-G in the corresponding numbered boxes.
N.B. There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
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List of headings
Question 7-10: Complete the following notes using ONE or TWO WORDS
from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
7. 8. 9. 10.
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As I ___________________________________________________________
3. We have credited the money to your current account at this bank.
We have placed __________________________________________________
4. Your silly questions distracted me.
You drove ______________________________________________________
5. Edward eventually organised himself and started work.
Edward eventually got his __________________________________________
II. Use the word given in bold and make any necessary additions to write a
new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the
original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word. (7.5p)
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3. You can’t possibly expect me to have supper ready by eight o’clock. (QUESTION)
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5. Please excuse Jane’s poor typing: she’s only been learning for a month.
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