Thai Nguyen Department of Education and Training THE FIRST TERM TEST
Bac Son Upper Secondary School English 10
Time allowance: 45 minutes

Code 001

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions.
Last summer John went on holiday for two weeks to the island of Sardinia. He stayed in a hotel which
had a wonderful swimming pool and beautiful views of the sea. It was a village where the local people went
fishing in the winter, and foreign visitors came in the summer.
John spent his first day on the beach, but on the second day he felt very ill. First he was very hot, then he
was too cold. He couldn’t understand why he felt like that. So he went to see the local doctor, who was a very
nice man, and whose English was excellent.
Câu 1: Where did John go to for a holiday last summer?
A. the mountain B. the sea C. the desert D. the city
Câu 2: He stayed in a ___ hotel.
A. nice B. bad C. old D. cheap
Câu 3: The village is for ___.
A. visitors only B. local people only
C. both A and B D. foreigners only
Câu 4: What did local people do there?
A. visited B. spent their holidays
C. went fishing D. made friends
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Câu 5: Lan usually go fishing with some friends in her free time.
A B C D
Câu 6: My family used to having dinner at 7 o’clock in the evening.
A B C D
Câu 7: He enjoys to talk with his classmates about their future plans.
A B C D

A. football ground B. bridge
C. school D. medical centre
Câu 22: After he had finished his homework, he ___ games.
A. to play B.played C.had played D.play
Câu 23: Before he ___ home, he had gone to the store.
A. go B. goes C. went D.had gone
Câu 24: I ___ coffee for breakfast every day.
A. have B. had C. had had D. have had
Câu 25: I ___ him since 2002.
A. didn’t meet B. hadn’t met
C.haven’t met D.haven’t meet
Câu 26: ___ do you go to school ?- Twice a week.
A. How B. What time C. How often D. How much
Câu 27: I usually avoid ___ to parties because I have trouble remembering people’s names.
A. go B. went C. to go D. going
Câu 28: I’m not in a hurry. I don’t mind ___.
A. to wait B. waited C. wait D. waiting
Câu 29: I have been expecting ___ from you.
A. hear B. to hear C. hearing D. heard
Câu 30: The man ___ you visited last month is a famous scientist.
A. who B. which C. whose D.what
Câu 31: Julia has been a nurse all her life. She has spent her life caring for ___.
A. the poor B. the rich C. the unemployed D. the sick
Câu 32: Many years ago, my village was very poor. The villagers had to work hard in the fields all day and
could ___ make ends meet.
A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. easy
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word(s) for each of the blanks.
Reece is a very busy young man these days! It all (33)___ in February, when he went skiing in the Italian
Alps. Next he (34)___ a week of winter sunshine in the Canary Islands, with some friends. He (35)___ at home