Of the two broad categories of newspaper, the popular and the quality, the former have a readership of millions while the latter, only hundreds of thousands.. The quality newspaper put a
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ENGLISH FINAL TERM TEST FOR 10TH FORM
(10 Toán, Lí, Hóa, Văn, Tin) Time allowed: 45 minutes
PART I: PHONOLOGY (4 points)
I Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
II Identify the word whose stress pattern is placed differently from the others.
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (6 points)
I Choose the most suitable option (A, B, C or D) to complete the following sentences.
1 Mary was late yesterday, _ was unusual for her
2 His mother _ she would back in an hour
3 The teacher doesn’t allow _ dictionaries in the final exam
4 Radios, providing information aurally, are useless to _ person
5 Internet is a very fast _ convenient way for us to get information
6 Television _ only for the last forty or fifty years
A must be existed B has been existed C has existed D was existed
7 Thousands of animals are said _ in the forest fire recently
A were killed B to have been killed C are killed D to be killed
8 It is so sad that some secondary students are still _ to read and write
II Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense – forms.
1 When we felt thirsty, we stopped (drink) .
2 The girl (sit) next to me is very clever.
3 That accident (happen) a year ago
4 I am afraid that all the documents (destroy) in a fire yesterday.
5 Although living abroad for 2 years, I still can’t get accustomed to (be) alone.
6 Do you think the teaching work in the special class (be) time-consuming.
7 In 1894 Marie (meet) _ Pierre Curie in the School of Physics and they (marry) _ a year later III Give the correct form of the words given.
1 Every (employ) in this company has received a pay rise
2 I really like my friend Lien She’s always so kind and (cheer)
3 We have already visited a (picture) fishing village near Ha Long Bay
4 You should always listen (attention) to your teacher in class
IV Find out the mistakes in the following sentences and then correct them.
1 Cleopatra was the rule of Egypt many hundred years ago _
2 There are many black cloud in the sky It is going to rain _
3 Marie Curies, who I admire her a lot, was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize _
4 Despite extreme poor living conditions, Peter still became a famous athlete _
PART III: READING
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Of the two broad categories of newspaper, the popular and the quality, the former have a readership of millions while the latter, only hundreds of thousands Yet the popular newspapers seem largely designed for entertainment, with quizzes,
competitions, cartoons and light-hearted stories The quality newspaper put a much higher value on information and a much lower one on entertainment
It is not only in content that the two types of newspaper differ Also, there us a difference in the style in which the articles
are written The popular newspapers generally use more dramatic language with a lot of word-play Their journalists tend to use shorter sentences and to avoid fewer well-known vocabulary This means that popular newspaper are easier for native
speaker to understand though they are probably not for non-native speaker
In order to decide whether a newspaper is a quality or a popular one, it is not even necessary to read it, since you can simply tell by the way it looks Popular newspaper are generally smaller with shorter articles and fewer columns per page They have bigger headlines and more photographs However, quality newspaper have greater number of articles per page than popular newspapers
I Find the underlined words or phrases in the text that
means: (1 point)
1 groups of thing with particular
features in common
2 the second of two things mentioned
3 exciting or impressive
4 be likely to use
II Mark the statements True (T) or False (F (1 points)
1 The text implies that most newspaper readers read newspapers mainly for information
2 _ Popular newspapers put great emphasis on entertainment
3 Quality newspapers have longer articles and more columns per page
4 Popular newspapers are easy for foreigners to read
III Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word which appears in the above passage (1 points)
The biggest difference between the popular and the quality newspapers is the information (1) The (2) newspaper often put a higher value on entertainment and lower one on information Besides, these two categories of newspaper have different writing (3) They also differ in the length and (4) of the articles per page
PART V: WRITING
Use the cues given to write meaningful sentences (4 points)
Dear Carol,
1 Thank you very much / invitation / spend three weeks / August / you / your family / Scotland//
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2 I / love / come / unfortunately / I / be / unable / accept //
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3 My cousins, / who live / Canada, / stay / us / August 3rd / August 18th //
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4 As it be / first / visit / this country, I plan / show them round //
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5 It / be / possible / visit you / September instead //?
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6 I certainly need / rest after / cousins go back / Canada //
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7 Please tell me / if / September / be / convenient //
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8 I / look forward / see / you all again
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Love,
Jane
Rewrite these following sentences, keep the same meaning (2 points)
1 The trip was so interesting that we couldn’t forget it It is
2 We haven’t been to London since 1998 The last
3 Because of the heavy rain, they couldn’t go for a picnic Because _
4 I have never seen such a bad film as that one That’s _
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