Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft because they want to sell their program for personal computers.. Paul Allen left Microsoft because he wanted to start his own company.[r]
Trang 1Full name: _ THE FIRST-SEMESTER EXAMINATION Class: 10 2012-2013 - Time: 45'
I Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest (1 point)
4 A mechanic B achievement C chemistry D school
II Choose the best answer (2,5 points)
1 John is always late for class, annoys the teacher
2 Thuy’s class is different other classes because the children are disabled
3 Would you mind me a hand with these bags?
4 The meeting had been cancelled the chairman's absence
5 A personal communicator helps you to
with other computers and with people around the world
A demonstrate B transmit C content D interact
6 If I John tonight, I him my plans
A saw/ told B will see/ will tell C see/ will tell D will see/ tell
7 My grandmother drink a glass of water right after getting up in the
morning
A was used to B uses to C used to D is used to
8 I was enjoying my book, but I stopped my homework
Trang 2A reading to do B to read to do C to read for doing D reading for do
9 Poverty prevents many children having proper schooling
10 The girl is standing next to your mother is the daughter of the director
of this company
III Read the following passage carefully, and then choose the best answer (2 points)
Personal computers, or PCs, are an important part of our everyday lives Many people cannot imagine life without them One of the most important people in making these machines work is Bill Gates
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State He grew up in a rich family His parents sent him to a private school There he met his business partner, Paul Allen When they were in eighth grade, they were writing programs for business computers and making more
In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University His parents were happy They thought he would get over his obsession with computers and become a lawyer like his father Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend Allen They worked eighteen hours a day in a dormitory room at Harvard They were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers In 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product
Allen became ill with cancer and left Microsoft in 1983 He recovered a few years later and started his own company Meanwhile, Microsoft became a giant company
By 1990, at the age of thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the United States He was the "King of Software" He achieved his success with a lot
of hard work For more than ten years, he worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week He had a dream and the will to succeed By 1997, he was the richest man in the United States
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A people cannot live without personal computers
B computers play an important part of our lives
C Bill Gates invented personal computers
D Bill Gates is the most important people in computer science
2 The words "dropped out of" in line 6 mean
A graduated from
B got over
C took part in
D stopped taking class at
3 According to the passage, _
A Bill Gate's parents wanted him to become a computer programmer
B Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft because they want to sell their program for personal computers.
C Paul Allen left Microsoft because he wanted to start his own company
D Bill Gates met his business partner at Harvard
4 How old was Bill Gates when he became the richest man in the United States?
5 Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
A In a few years, Microsoft became a very large company
B Bill Gates and Paul Allen first wrote programs for business computers when they were about fifteen
C Bill Gates earned his success by working very hard
D Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States.
IV Choose one option that best fits each of the numbered blank (3 points)
I (1) _ my teaching career nearly ten years ago I spent six years (2) _ in a remote village where the villagers (3) very poor and the living standard was low (4) _ I was very disappointed (5) _ bad living condition and low pay I
Trang 4was really homesick However, at that time with my youth enthusiasm I tried my best (6) _ myself to the noblest career, that was 'teaching' I loved my poor little students They were living in poverty but they could not suffer (7) _ empty mind
I am proud of myself to be a (8) , a hard working 'boatman' taking my student to the 'destination' of knowledge
teaching
6 A devote B devoting C to devote D devoted
V Choose the best answer (1,5 points)
1 By / time / we/ arrive / the party / already begin
A By the time we had arrived, the party had already begun
B By the time we arrived, the party already begun
C By the time we arrived, the party had already begun.
D By the time we had arrived, the party already begun
2 My mother never allows me to go out alone at night
A I was not allowed to go out with my mother at night
B My mother never lets me go out alone at night.
C My mother never goes out alone at night
D I usually go out with my mother at night
3 Although they were very poor, the children seemed happy
A The children seemed unhappy because they were very poor
B The children were very poor, so they seemed happy
C Despite their poverty, the children seemed happy.
D The children seemed happy whether they were poor or rich
4 “I’m taking my English test tomorrow." Tom said
=> Tom said
Trang 5A I was taking his English test tomorrow
B he is taking his English test the next day
C he was taking his English test the next day
D he was taking the English test tomorrow
5 We haven't been to the concert for two years
A The last time we went to the concert was two years ago
B It's two years since we last went to the concert
C We didn't go to the concert two years ago
D Both A and B are correct.