Tran Quy Cap Senior High School TEST ON ENGLISH
Class: 10/...... Time: 45 minutes 122
Full name :........................................
I. Listening comprehension: (10 minutes)
Listen to the recorded passage about snakes, and fill in each blank with a suitable word that you hear
SNAKES
Snakes have long, thin ( 1) ....................... covered with smooth scales. They ( 2 ) .................... no arms or
legs. Most snakes live on the ground or in ( 3 ) .................... Some live in the water. Snakes have forked
tongues that they use for smelling. They flick their tongues in and ( 4 ) ....................of their mouths to collect
smells in the air. The ( 5) ......................help them know ( 6 ) ............................other animals are near. ( 7 )
........................ snakes eat small ( 8 ) ................... like frogs, mice and birds. Snakes can’t chew, so they
stretch their jaws wide and swallow their ( 9 ) ...................... whole. Really big snakes can
( 10 ) ...................... swallow small pigs and goats.
II. Language focus
11. If we had gone by bike, we............................................ carsick.
A. wouldn’t get B. wouldn’t have getC. wouldn’t have gotD. will not get
12. Rainforests ................ about 7 per cent of the earth’s area.
A. cover B. have C. covered D. covering
13. Thanks to modern technology, scientists have been able to ...................... the life of plants and
animals that live under sea.
A. invest B. investigated C. investigate D. invested
14. Which word below is related to the definition ‘remove or get rid of completely’?
A. run off B. delete C. cancel D. eliminate
Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest.
15. A. cooked B. looked C. moved D. hoped
16. A. calls B. hires C. borrows D. stops
17. A. bone B. gone C. stone D. phone
Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from that of the rest.
18. A. hospital B. tournament C. calculate D. agreement
19. A. retirement B. champion C. dangerous D. animal
20. A. We cannot live..................... water.

32. I wish I had enough money..................... a new bicycle.
A. to buy B. buying C. buy D. to buying
33. If he had studied hard, he..................... his exams.
A. will pass B. would pass C. would passD. would have passed
III. Reading comprehension
Choose suitable words to fill in the gap(s) by choosing A, B, C or D.
Music can be happy, ( 34 )............., romantic, sleepy, spine-tingling, healing—all kinds of things. But what is
it? Some ( 35 )................ define it as an artful arrangement of sounds across time. Our ears interpret these
sounds as loud or soft, high or low, rapid and short, or slow and smooth. The sounds need to continue for a
time in some sort of pattern to become music.
Music, like language, is a uniquely human form of ( 36 ).......................... As with language, there are many
different kinds. In North America, people listen to jazz, rock, classical, folk, country, and many other kinds of
music. Each kind of music has its own rules and “speaks” to us in its own way.
34. A. sad B. sadness C. sadly D. to be sad
35. A. students B. people C. players D. teachers
36. A. communication B. communicator C. communicate D. communicating
IV. Correcting the mistakes
37. We go to the bookshop to buying some English books.
A B C D
38. If I had met him, I would have gave him my telephone number.
A B C D
39. What does she practised singing all day for?
A B C D
40. Meat and other kinds of fruit have been sell in this shop.
A B C D
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