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She received general education in 1___________schools and some scientific training from her father.. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.. Question 2:

Full name: ………

Class: 10…………

ENGLISH TEST 1 Time: 45 minutes Sample 2

Period:16 - Date: September ………, 2009

Question 1: Listen to the talk and fill in the blank with the words you hear: (2,5ps)

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7th, 1867 She received general education

in (1) _schools and some scientific training from her father As a brilliant and mature student, Marie haboured the (2) _ of a scientific career, which was impossible for a woman at that time In 1891, Mary, with very little money to live on, went to Paris to (3) her dream at the Sorbonne In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard She earned a degree in (4) with flying colours and went to take (5) degree in Mathematics

Question 2: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow: (2,5ps)

Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin was born in 1863 in Switzerland In 1882, he received a baccalaureate (1) _in literature, and in 1888, after having graduated from a medical school in Paris he formally changed his (2) to French He joined Dr Louis Pasteur’s team at about the same time Thereafter, he became famous through many of the pioneering work done by Pasteur’s team His (3) brought him to Vietnam In July 1891, his expedition to the highlands of Viet Nam brought to the discovery of Da Lat, and later many water sources in this region Although Yersin loved Da Lat, his home was located in Nha Trang, where he built the Pasteur (4) _

A Fill in each blank with one word from the box: (2ps)

Institute wanderlust addressed citizenship degree awarded

B Answer the questions: (0,5 p)

1 Where did Alexandre Yersin live?

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Question 3: Grammar: (2,5 ps)

A Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence: (1p)

1 Shakespeare is a

a famous-world playwright b world-famous playwright

c playwright world-famous d playwright famous-world

2 did she buy at the store yesterday? – Some food

B Put the verbs into the correct form: (0,5 p)

1 My mother …… some food in the kitchen at present She always …… in the mornings

a cooks; cooks b cooks; is cooking c is cooking; cooks d is cooking; is cooking

2 Did Carol agree camping with you?

C Make questions from the underlined words: (1p)

1 I want to see that film because people say it is very good

 ………

2 It lasted forty-five minutes  ………

Question 4: Writing: (2,5ps) Write a summary of the following passage ( at most 5 sentences) Mark Twain Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835 When he was four, his family moved to Hannibal, a port town on the Mississippi River, which later served as the inspiration for the fictional town of St Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn In 1847, when Twain was eleven, his father fell ill with pneumonia and died that March As a teenager Twain worked as an apprentice printer; when he was sixteen, he began writing humorous articles and newspaper sketches When he was eighteen, he left Hannibal, working as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, and Cincinnati At the age of 22, Twain returned to Missouri and worked as a riverboat pilot and earned $250 which was a “pricely amount” back then, until trade was interrupted by the American Civil War in 1861 ………

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