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Class: 10/........ Mã Số: Basic 004
THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION
ENGLISH 10 (BASIC)
Time allotted: 45 minutes
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I/ USE OF ENGLISH
1. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting :
(A) The girl (B) whom my cousin married (C) was used to be a (D) fashion designer .
2. The plane is due to leave at 10 o’clock, so we should hurry up or we will be late for it.
A. shouldn’t B. must C. needn’t D. had better
3. Choose the correct sentence which has the same meaning as the given one:
We were astonished that she didn’t pass her exam
A. She didn’t pass her exam, which astonished her.
B. That she failed in her exam astonished us.
C. We were astonished that her exam is not over.
D. We were astonished that she did pass her exam.
4. Please close the windows. The rain ...............
A. had come B. came C. is coming D. would come
5. We intend to have a ............... around Europe but our mother prefers visiting Vietnam
and China.
A. trip in fourteen days B. fourteen days trip
C. fourteen day trip D. fourteen-day trip
6. Another word for "gift " is ...............
A. talent B. presence C. disabled D. special
7. She was born in a picturesque fishing village in Ha Long Bay.
A. pictured B. pretty C. dangerous D. poor
8. She harbored the thought of being a member in the parliament to struggle for women's

C. Due to I have nothing important to do at the weekend, I will help you with everything
you want.
D. Just because I have nothing important to do at the weekend so I will help you with
everything you want.
16. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
A. answer B. bur n C. shir t D. wor king
17. The teacher encouraged the students to speak.
A. stimulated B. required C. forced D. persuaded
18. Choose the best sentence that can be made from the cues given: However / no one /
deny / advantages / TV / bring / our lives.
A. However, no one cannot deny the advantages that TV brings to our lives.
B. However, no one who can deny the advantages that TV brings to our lives.
C. However, there is no one can deny the advantages that TV brings to our lives.
D. However, no one can deny the advantages that TV brings to our lives.
19. ...........her absence from school yesterday, she couldn’t understand the lesson.
A. As B. Despite C. Because of D. Because
20. Tom is away on holiday now and he hasn’t returned home. He .............. to Spain.
A. has been B. is gone C. went D. has gone
21. "I've decided to try and learn a foreign language".- "Have you?"
“Which language..............?”
A. will you have learnt B. will you learn
C. are you going to learn D. are you learning
22. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others.
A. geography B. excursion C. wonderful D. occasion
23. She earned a Physics Degree with flying colors.
A. make money from B. make her living from
C. received D. lived on
24. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting.
It (A) took me three hours (B) to get here (C) because of the roads (D) are flooded
25. The children .............. to the Botanical Garden.

D. She couldn’t finish her study at the medical school.
30. How long was it from her graduation to the opening of her hospital?
A. 36 years B. 8 years C.10 years D.19 years
31. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?
A. Because it was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.
B. Because she could get admitted to medical school.
C. Because she seceded to continue her education in Paris.
D. Because a serious eye infection prevented her.
32. All of the following are “ firsts ” in the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, EXCEPT :
A. She established the first medical school for women.
B. She became the first female physician.
C. She was the first woman surgeon.
D. She and many other women founded the first hospital for women and children.
B. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank :
Why I Dislike Computers
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are changing our
lives for the better by (33)........... everything faster and more reliable, but I’m not so
sure that this is the case.
The other day, I was standing in a large department store (34).........to pay for a
couple of films for my camera when the assistant announced that the computer
(35).........the till had stopped working. I didn’t think this was a big problem and I set off
to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are part of the same (36)..........
So there we were: a shop (37)...........customers, money at the ready, waiting to make our
purchases, but it was quite clear that none of the assistants knew what to do. They
weren’t (38)...........our money and give customers a written receipt, because the sales
wouldn’t then have been recorded on the computer system. (39)........., like many other
people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out. Don’t you think that ‘s funny?
It would never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is the problem: we are
beginning to depend on these machines so completely that we simply can’t manage
(40)....... any more.

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