ĐỀ THI LỚP 10 CHUYÊN CỦA SƯ PHẠM HÀ NỘI I Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on the separ
Trang 1ĐỀ THI LỚP 10 CHUYÊN CỦA SƯ PHẠM HÀ NỘI
I Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences
11 What a nice day ! Let’s go for a picnic, _shall we ?
A will we B do you C shall we D don’t you
12 John gets good marks, _which _ pleases his parents
A that B which C they D it
13 The fewer bags you take, the less _ trouble you will have en route
A the fewer B the little C the less D the least
14 This house needs repainting
A to repaint B repainted C to be repainting D repainting
15 I have just bought a nice brown leather belt
A a brown nice leather belt B a nice leather brown belt C brown a leather nice belt D a nice brown leather belt
16 Either I or John has taken _ the keys to the car
A has taken B have taken C has been taken D have been taken
17 The doctor was attending _to the sick
A by B to C over D with
18 Never put _off till tomorrow what you can do today
A over B off C back D away
19 _Had we known your father was in hospital, we would have gone to see him
A Had we known B If we have known C If we knew D We had known
20 That leaves _ turn color and fall to the ground is a sign of winter
A That leaves B Leaves C When leaves D If leaves
21 _Hardly had we sat down at the table when the phone rang
Trang 2A Hardly we had sat down B Hardly had we sat down
C No sooner we had sat down D No sooner had we sat down
22 Your friendly attitude makes _it easier for you to socialize
A easier B easier it C it easier D more easily
23 We’d better not waste water or else _ we don’t have enough
to drink sooner or later
A only if B or else C as soon as D in case
24 Only a few movies shown on this channel are suitable for children
A show B showing C shown D are shown
25 She was as patient a teacher as anyone could have had
A as patient teacher B a patient a teacher C as patient as teacher D as patient a teacher
II Read the text below and look carefully at each line If a line is
correct, put a tick by the number on the separate answer sheet If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on the separate answer sheet There are two examples at the beginning (0) and (00) (1p)
LONDON
London is a big city, but many people who live there regard it as a
number of small towns put together Each one district has its own identity and atmosphere and some of parts are even described by their
inhabitants as ‘villages’ Much of the centre of the city consists of shops and businesses and the majority of people they live in the suburbs A great many of them travel to work in the city every day bya train, bus, tube or car; this is call commuting Commuters might spend as much as two hours every morning getting to work and too another two hours
Trang 3getting home again The cost of living in London is higher than soin most other parts of Britain, and many people are paid extra money on the top
of their salaries because of this Millions of visitors come to London every year from all over the world for to see the famous sights, such as Buckingham Palace, inwhere the Queen lives, and many other historic buildings London is also very famous for including its theatres, red buses, and black taxis Some people find it as a noisy, dirty place but it has many large, pleasant parts where everyone can enjoythemselves some peace and quiet London has many attractions there, both for people from overseas and for people from other parts of Britain
III Supply the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets (1p)
a I (41 try) _have been trying _ to learn by heart this text for
half an hour, but (42 not succeed) _have not succeeded yet
b He (43 fight) _fought in Flanders in the First World War
c Though smoking (44 consider) _is considered _ harmful to
people’s health, the number of its addicts (45 increase) _is
increasing _
d Yesterday I (46 catch) was/got caught _ in the rain
because I (47 not watch) had not watched _ the weather forecast
e Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (48 receive) has
received _ great excitement everywhere since it (49 first show) was first shown in 1937
f The plane (50 take) _will have taken off _ off by this time
tomorrow
IV Choose the word that best fits the blank space in the following
passage (0.6 p)
Trang 4Clothing habits are a matter of (1) _B _ preference in the United States Most people are free to wear (2) A they feel
comfortable Business people in large urban areas are (3) _B _ to wear suits or dresses, while clothing in rural area is less formal Most Americans tend to dress casually when not in formal or business
situations
When eating, most Americans (4) C a folk in the hand with which they write Americans eat away from home often, and usually they (5) _D _ their own meals when dining with friends
When Americans greet one another they often (6) B a firm handshake They may greet strangers on the street by saying “Hello” or
“Good morning” Friends often greet each other (7) with
“How are you?” and respond “Fine, thanks” Americans do not really (8) C any other answer to the question “How are you?”
because it is a way of saying hello Except in formal situations, people address each other by their given name once they are acquainted
Although Americans are generally informal people, it would be (9) B to schedule an appointment before going to visit someone, especially in business (10) _D _ an appointment has been made, it
is considered to be prompt
1 A person B personal C persons D personably
2 A whatever B wherever C whenever D whichever
3 A unlikely B likely C like D alike
4 A take B carry C hold D bring
5 A buy B get C order D pay
6 A transfer B exchange C replace D change
7 A with B of C by D about
Trang 58 A want B predict C expect D need
9 A the best B best C good D well
10 A while B during C when D once
V Complete the text with a word that best fits each space (1 p)
Cans made of steel are very easy to remove (0) from _ domestic rubbish because steel is the only common metal that is attracted to
magnets Many waste removal authorities have (1) _taken advantage of this fact and have installed large magnets, which (2)
to put it simply, put all steel containers out of the general
household rubbish The system is known (3) as _ ‘magnetic extraction’ and it has two great advantages
Firstly, unlike most recycling scheme, the recycling (4) _of _ steel cans through ‘magnetic extraction’ requires almost (5) every _ effort from the public As long as you throw our used steel can into the rubbish bin, it will be collected (6) and _ then the waste removal authority will (7) _do the rest Other packaging cannot be recycled (8) so _ the public collect the material and take (9) _it/them , usually by car, to a central collection point This often uses up more energy in petrol than (10) is _ eventually saved by recycling the material
Secondly, local authorities actually save public money (11) _by recovering used steel cans Magnetic extraction equipment is simple and cheap, and the steel that has (12) been _ saved is sold to
companies who re-use it (13) _for making new steel
products (14) Because _ the value of the metal is greater than the cost of magnetic extraction, the process has financial benefits
So, magnetic recycling of steel cans from waste saves you time, effort and money, as (15) well as saving energy for us all