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KỲ THI HỌC KÌ I - NH 2008-2009
MÔN : TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 10CB&TN
A. PHONETIC
I. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.
1. A. six B. dinner C. kitchen D. climb
2. A. sad B. pan C. said D. sand
3. A. top B. call C. talk D. sport
4. A. food B. full C. school D. June
5. A. teacher B. other C. term D. today
II. Pick out the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the others.
6. A. receive B. complain
C. entertain D. communicate
7. A. district B. office C. purchase D. routine
8. A. brigade B. fasten C. tragic D. harrow
9. A. technology B. miraculous
C. calculation D. appropriate
10. A. villagee B. visitor
C. medical D. resurface
B. SPEAKING
Choose the sentences or phrases that best completes the dialogue.
A: What's on television tonight?
B: (11) ……………………………………
A: Do you like soap operas?
B: (12) ……………………………………
A: What's your favorite program?
B: (13) ……………………………………
A: Did you see the game live?
B: (14) ……………………………………
A: I'm sorry I missed it.

sent him to a private school. There he met his business partner, Paul Allen. When they were in
the eight grade, they were writing programs for business computers and making money.
In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They bought
he would get over his obsession with computer 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.

17. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?
A. Bill Gates and Paul Allen first wrote programs for business computers when they were
about fifteen.
B. Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States.
C. In the few years, Microsoft became a very large company.
D. Bill Gates earned his success by working very hard.
18. How old was Bill Gates when he became the richest man in the United States?
A. 51 B. 44 C. 42 D. 34
19. According to the writer, …………………………
A. people can't 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.
20. The words 'dropped out of' in the passage mean …………………………
A. stopped taking class at B. got over

26. If/ the/ see/ will/ be/ them/ to/ on/train/ time/ , / it/ arrives/ match/ possible/ for/ the.
A. If the train will be to arrives on time, it possible for them see the match.
B. If the train arrives for them on time, it will be possible to see the match.
C. If the train be to arrives on time, the match will possible for them see it.
D. If the train arrives on time, it will be possible for them to see the match.
E. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY
I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D.
27. When I was a child ………. the violin.
A. I played B. I was playing C. I had played D. I play
28. I'm sure you'll have no ………. the exam.
A. difficulty passing B. difficulties to pass
C. difficulties passing D. difficulty to pass
29. I'll ………. another time, Kevin.
A. be kept up with you B. keep you pace with
C. keep pace with you D. keep pace you with
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30. We ………. in New York for ten years and then we ………. here in 1987.
A. lived/ had moved B. have lived/ moved
C. had lived/ moved D. lived/ moved
31. Famous people get tired of ………. everywhere they go.
A. to recognize B. recognize
C. being recognized D. recognizing
32. Are you looking forward ………. on your vacation?
A. to going B. you go C. to go D. going
33. In spite of ………., we decided to go out.
A. feeling tired B. we felt very tired C. all of us felt tired D. tire
34. The sun ………. in the East and ………. in the West.
A. rises/ set B. rose/ had set
C. has risen/ has set D. rises/ sets
35. He did finally come with us, although it took a long time to ………. him.

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48. I decided changing jobs because my boss makes me work overtime.
A. decided B. makes C. changing D. work
49. San Francisco, that is a beautiful city, has a population of six million.
A. is B. San Francisco C. that D. has
50. I bought this new software for learning Chinese.
A. bought B. Chinese C. for learning D. this
………………..THE END………………..
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