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MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10

(Đề thi gồm 19 trang) (Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút)

I. LISTENING
SECTION 1: Questions 1 – 7
Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR
A NUMBER for each answer.
Laptop for Sale
Condition Almost new
Weight 3.5kg
Make Allegro
Memory (1)______________
Screen (2)______________
Touch pad but with cordless mouse
Number of ports Two
Battery lasts 2.5 hours
Latest programmes Not (3)______________
Extras
Webcam
Printer with (4)______________
Smart case
Price £300
Contact details
Name David (5)______________
Email address: DIB_7791@hotmail.com
Mobile number (6)______________
Advert placed (7)______________
SECTION 2: Questions 8 – 15
You will hear a lecture being given to a group of parents about keeping children
safe in water. For questions 8 – 15, complete the lecture notes.
KIDS AND WATER SAFETY
Lecturer: Deborah Green from the (8)______________
Babies can be taken to pools as young as (9)______________
Pools are supervised by trained (10)______________
There should be one supervising adult to every (11)______________
Make sure swimming aids conform to (12)______________
At the beach, make sure the child is (13)______________
You should not swim when there is (14)______________
Safety is just a matter of (15)______________

SECTION 3: Questions 16 – 20
You will hear a man talking to a vet about his dog. For questions 16 – 20, decide
whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
16. The dog might have to be kept in the house.
17. The dog’s mother is a mixture of collie and setter.
18. The vet seems to think that dogs are very brave.
19. Mr Robinson feeds his dog canned dog food and dog biscuits.
20. Mr Robinson should buy a special flea spray from the vet.

SECTION 4: Questions 21 – 25
Listen to the tape and choose the best answer.
21. In previous lecture, Dr North talked about
A. the Marine Habitat Research Unit.
B. humankind’s relationship with sailing.
C. humankind’s relationship with the sea.
D. the cost of fishing
22. The focus of today’s talk will be on
A. problems the fishing industry faces worldwide.
B. marine fish recipes.
C. rare fish
D. European fishing problems.
23. A book list and relevant articles can be
A. found only in the lecture room.
B. found on the Marine Habitat Research Unit websites.
C. found in the lecture room and on the department website.
D. taken by students for a small fee.
24. During the last century
A. stocks of rare species have fallen dramatically.
B. the world population has grown very fast.
C. fishing has become less efficient but heavier.
D. more people have decided to eat fish.
25. As well as over-fishing, which of the following is a reason for fishing stocks
being on the point of collapse in the Pacific?
A. Ocean ecology has changed.
B. Fishing has spread to international waters.
C. Fish has become cheaper.
D. Oceans are more polluted.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Exercise 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following
sentences.
1. The accident __________the train’s departure by a few hours.
A retained B sent back C delayed D called off
2. The sound of a tap __________stopped him going to sleep
A. squirting B. dripping C. splashing D. slopping
3. Before the firm closed down, it made 500 workers___________
A. obsolete B. unemployed C. redundant D. extra
4. The manager asked his secretary to take____________of the meeting as it
progressed.
A. records B. note C. reports D. minutes
5. Hardly a single old building _______standing after the council remodelled the
town.
A. remained B. stayed C. kept D. continued
6. The precious crystal vase __________into a thousand pieces when it hit the
floor.
A. crumpled B. dashed C. splintered D. crushed
7. They couldn’t decide what to do so they __________a coin
A. flung B. threw C. spun D.tossed
8. After much fruitless discussion the meeting was __________to the following
day.
A. adjourned B.deferred C. held up D. withheld
9. The old man sat in a corner quietly _______a song to himself as he waited.
A. cooing B. gurgling C.croaking D. humming
10. The food being cooked in the kitchen was giving ____________a wonderful
smell.
A. up B. off C. round D. over
11. Why do you always ask me a favour when I have got my ________full?
A. palms B. brains C. hands D. arms
12. I wouldn’t go so far as to __________my professional career on the unsafe
enterprise.
A. venture B. stake C. dare D. expose
13. They said I’d be on__________for the first two or three weeks as they want to
find out about my skills.
A. testing B. examination C. inspection D. probation
14. We thank the host for their generous________and got under way.
A. hostility B. honesty C. hospitality D. hostage
15. It was …………to Mark that he had better withdraw from the game in case his
knee injury got worse
A. argumented B. recommended C. insisted D. appealed
16. Thousands of newcomers imagine this place to be their El Dorado where they
can easily make a ___________start in life.
A. plain B. fresh C. clean D. first
17. The silly gossip____________to a panic among the private entrepreneurs who
began closing their accounts in the National Bank.
A. led B. prompted C. resulted D. aroused
18. The authorities probably want to be tough and won’t __________to the
hijackers’ absurd demands.
A. abandon B. resign C. yield D. collapse
19. The Stetsons’ son must be ___________his family a lot of trouble and worry
with his wild ideas.
A. making B. developing C. providing D. giving
20. Pasta in its various forms is the_____________diet in Italy.
A. common B. staple C. usual D. obvious
Exercise 2: Write the correct form of each bracketed word.
1. You could hardly say he was lazy; he has been __________employed ever since
he left school. (GAIN)
2. His nasty comments were completely uncalled for and left an ________taste in
my mouth. (SAVOUR)
3. After leaving his job in law ___________, Joan retrained and become a
surveyor. (ENFORCE)
4. Taking advantage of someone’s trust or innocence is completely ___________.
(DESPISE)
5. When she found out that she had missed out on a place by two marks, she felt
completely _____________. (SPIRIT)
6. Today, a term in prison doesn’t seem to act as a much of a __________to
potential criminals. (DETER)
7. ‘Where’s Peter?’ ‘I suppose he is outside in the _________ together with the
other children.’ (BACK)
8. The chemical substance _________on contact with water. (SOLID)
9. There was a _____________smell coming from inside the old disused well.
(REPEL)
10. The student was given _______ for consistently forgetting to do her
homework. (DETAIN)
Exericise 3: The passage below contains TEN mistakes in spelling, grammar, or
word form. Underline the mistakes and provide the corrections in the spaces
below.
He gets most everything wrong. But last weekend Donald Trump got Line 1
something right. By the horror of the other leaders of the rich world, he Line 2
defended democracy against its detractors. Perhaps predictably, he has Line 3
been universal condemned for it. Line 4
His crime was to insist that the North American Free Trade Agreement Line 5
(Nafta) should have a sunset clause. In other words, it should not remain Line 6
valuable indefinitely, but expire after five years, allowing its members Line 7
neither to renegotiate it or to walk away. To howls of execration from the Line 8
world’s media, his insist has torpedoed efforts to update the treaty. Line 9
In Rights of Man, publishing in 1791, Thomas Paine argued that: “Every Line 10
age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages Line 11
and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of Line 12
governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all Line 13
tyrannies.” This is widely accepted – in theory if not on practice – as a Line 14
basic democratic principle. Line 15
Even if the people of the US, Canada and Mexico had explicitly consented Line 16
to Nafta in 1994, the idea that a decision made then should bind everyone Line 17
in North America for all time is repulsive. So the notion is, championed by Line 18
the Canadian and Mexican government, that some slightly modified Line 19
version of the deal agreed now should bind all future governments. Line 20

Example:
0. Line 1: most => almost
1. ______________________
2. ______________________
3. ______________________
4. ______________________
5. ______________________
6. ______________________
7. ______________________
8. ______________________
9. ______________________
10. ______________________
Exercise 4: Fill in the gap with a suitable preposition or particle.
1. Personally, I would put no faith _____ him- he is the most unreliable person I
know.
2. They ran ________economic problems about halfway through the season.
3. The board of directors have tried to put the case _________his removal from the
team.
4. The management have put their declining popularity _________ to poor results.
5. Norwich were 3-1 down with only 2 minutes to go, and there was little they
could do to come _________.
6. The entire team have put __________a good performance.
7. She worked as a nurse ________ one time, but she’s been a physio for 20 years
now.
8. Most athletes are ________ the peak of their abilities between the ages of 24 and
28
9. They had a four-day holiday, then began work ________earnest.
10. I’m busy! I can’t do anything you want _________ the drop of a hat.

III. READING
Exercise 1: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
In the early days of the cinema, before sound was introduced, silent films
were (1) _________ by a pianist, or even a small orchestra playing in the cinema
itself. One reason for this was to (2) _________ up the noise of the projector.
However, a more important role was to provide support for what was going on the
film, and guide the audience through the story. Different kinds of music were
(3)_________ with different situations, such as fights, chases, romantic scenes and
so on. Music was also used to identify the geographical location or historical
setting of the story. In (4) _________, individual characters often had their own
tune, which could also (5) _________ what sort of person they were.
Music added something extra to what was happening on the flat screen. It
could create atmosphere and (6) _________ the involvement of the audience, one
moment encouraging them to relax, the next developing a (7) _________ of
tension. And all this was done without any words being spoken.
Audiences at that time would have been (8) _________ with the musical
language connected with the traditions of popular theatre, and many of these were
(9) _________ to the new medium of the cinema. Today, (10) _________ the films
produced may be technically very different from before, much of the musical
history still remains.
1. A. chased B. pursued C. taken D. accompanied
2. A. tie B. put C. cover D. make
3. A. associated B. united C. joined D. collected
4. A. measure B. addition C. plus D. total
5. A. point B. indicate C. paint D. draw
6. A. increase B. rise C. grow D. lift
7. A. look B. meaning C. sight D. sense
8. A. popular B. educated C. familiar D. experienced
9. A. transferred B. moved C. transported D. carried
10. A. instead B. however C. despite D. although
Exercise 2: Read the text below about remarriage and fill in the spaces, writing
one word only. An example is given.
 The second-time saga
It was so simple (0) the first time round, my main anxieties being what dress to
wear to the wedding and (1) _________ to invite. Twenty years ago, it never
(2)_________ to me to worry about money or to comtemplate what would happen
if it all fell apart.
However, this time, all (3) _________ aware of the failure rate or second
marriages, and with children from our previous relationships to think about, we’ve
prepared for the worst, spending the last month absorbed in the (4) _________ than
romantic details of wills and life assurance. I have to say (5) _________ hasn’t
been much fun. We’ve asked all sorts of morbid questions, such as What if one of
us falls under a bus? What if (6) _________ of us do? Our main priority has been
to produce wills dealing with (7) _________ possible eventuality, though this
hasn’t been easy.
The other nightmare scenario was spliting up. What if we decided we couldn’t
stand each other within the first couple of years? The administrative answer to this
was fairly simple, involving us (8) _________ signing a pre-nuptial contract,
stating our intention to walk away with (9) _________ resources we had brought
into the marriage. Pre-nuptial contracts have (10) _________ actual force at all in
English law, but we certainly felt better after we had signed. We were at long last
ready to enjoy our wedding!

Exercise 3: 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.
Being aware of one’s own emotions – recognizing and acknowledging
feelings as they happen – is at the very heart of Emotional Intelligence. And this
awareness encompasses not only moods but also thoughts about those moods.
People who are able to monitor their feelings as they arise are less likely to be
ruled by them and are thus better able to manage their emotions.
Managing emotions does not mean suppressing them; nor does it mean
giving free rein to every feeling. Psychologist Daniel Goleman, one of several
authors who have popularized the notion of Emotional Intelligence, insisted that
the goal is balance and that every feeling has value and significance. As Goleman
said, “A life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and
isolated from the richness of life itself.” Thus, we manage our emotions by
expressing them in an appropriate manner. Emotions can also be managed by
engaging in activities that cheer us up, soothe our hurts, or reassure us when we
feel anxious.
Clearly, awareness and management of emotions are not independent. For
instance, you might think that individuals who seem to experience their feelings
more intensely than others would be less able to manage them. However, a critical
component of awareness of emotions is the ability to assign meaning to them – to
know why we are experiencing a particular feeling or mood. Psychologists have
found that, among individuals who experience intense emotions, individual
differences in the ability to assign meaning to those feelings predict differences in
the ability to manage them. In other words, if two individuals are intensely angry,
the one who is better able to understand why he or she is angry will also be better
able to manage the anger.
Self-motivation refers to strong emotional self-control, which enables a
person to get moving and pursue worthy goals, persist at tasks even when
frustrated, and resist the temptation to act on impulse. Resisting impulsive behavior
is, according to Goleman, “the root of all emotional self-control.”
Of all the attributes of Emotional Intelligence, the ability to postpone
immediate gratification and to persist in working toward some greater future gain
is most closely related to success – whether one is trying to build a business, get a
college degree, or even stay on a diet. One researcher examined whether this trait
can predict a child’s success in school. The study showed that 4-year-old children
who can delay instant gratification in order to advance toward some future goal
will be “far superior as students” when they graduate from high school than will 4-
year-olds who are not able to resist the impulse to satisfy their immediate wishes.
1. Which of the following can we infer from paragraph 1?
A. If people pay attention to their feelings, they will not be able to manage them.
B. If people pay attention to their feelings, they can control their emotions
better.
C. People who can manage their emotions will be controlled by them.
D. Some people can understand their feelings better than others.
2. The word “soothe” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by ______.
A. worsen B. reduce C. weaken D. relieve
3. According to paragraphs 1 to 3, people should be aware of their emotions so
that they can ______.
A. stop feeling angry B. manage their emotions
appropriately
C. experience feelings more intensively D. explain their emotions to others
4. From paragraph 2, we can see that Daniel Goleman ______.
A. wrote about Emotional Intelligence
B. studied how people manage their emotions
C. trained people to increase their Emotional Intelligence
D. treated patients who had emotional problems
5. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 2 about our emotions EXCEPT
______.
A. we can manage our emotions B. we should ignore some feelings
 C. every feeling is important D. emotions are part of a satisfying
life
6. The word “critical” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. indecisive B. inessential C. dynamic D. important
7. The word “them” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. intense emotions B. psychologists C. individuals D. individual
differences
8. In paragraph 3, the author explains the concept of awareness and management
of emotions by ______.
A. giving an example of why people get angry
B. describing how people learn to control their emotions
C. comparing how two people might respond to an intense emotion
D. explaining why some people are not aware of their emotions
9. The word “pursue” in paragraph 4 mostly means ______.
A. be involved in something B. improve or develop something
C. try to achieve something D. find out about something
10. According to paragraph 5, children might be more successful in school if they
can resist impulses because they can ______.
A. have more friends at school B. easily understand new information
C. focus on their work and not get distracted D. be more
popular with their teachers

Exercise 4: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity
forcenturies, but we may now stand poised on the brink of the answer to that
question, as we search for radio signals from other intelligent civilizations. This
search often known by the acronym SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence],
is a difficult one. Although groups around the world have been searching
intermittently for three decades, it is only now that we have reached the level of
technology where we can make a determined attempt to search all nearby stars for
any sign of life.
A
The primary reason for the search is basic curiosity - the same curiosity about the
natural world that drives all pure science. We want to know whether we are alone
in the Universe. We want to know whether life evolves naturally if given the right
conditions, or whether there is something very special about the Earth to have
fostered the variety of life forms that we see around us on the planet. The simple
detection of a radio signal will be sufficient to answer this most basic of all
questions. In this sense, SETI is another cog in the machinery of pure science
which is continually pushing out the horizon of our knowledge. However, there are
other reasons for being interested in whether life exists elsewhere. For example, we
have had civilization on Earth for perhaps only a few thousand years, and the
threats of nuclear war and pollution over the last few decades have told us that our
survival may be tenuous. Will we last another two thousand years or will we wipe
ourselves out? Since the lifetime of a planet like ours is several billion years, we
can expect that if other civilizations do survive in our galaxy, their ages will range
from zero to several billion years. Thus any other civilization that we hear from is
likely to be far older on average than ourselves. The mere existence of such a
civilization will tell of that long term survival is possible, and gives us some cause
for optimism. It is even possible that the older civilization may pass on the benefits
of their experience in dealing with threats to survival such as nuclear war and
global pollution, and other threats that we haven't yet discovered.
B
In discussing whether we are alone, most SETI scientists adopt two ground rules.
First. UFOs [Unidentified Flying objects] are generally ignored since most
scientists don`t consider the evidence for them to be strong enough to bear serious
consideration (although it is also important to keep an open mind in casa any really
convincing evidence emerges in the future). Second, we make a very conservative
assumption that we are looking for a life form that is pretty well like us, since if it
differs radically from us we may well not recognize it as e life form, quite apart
from whatever  we are able to communicate with it. In other words, the life form
we are looking for may well have two green heads and seven fingers, but it will
nevertheless resemble us in that it should communicate with its fellows. Be
interested in the Universe, Live on a planet orbiting a star like our Sun, and
perhaps most restrictively have chemistry, like us, based on carbon and water.
C
Even when we make these assumptions. our understanding of other life forms is
still severely limited. We do not even know. for example, how many stars have
planets, and we certainly do not know how likely it is that life will arise naturally,
given the right conditions. However, when we look at the 100 billion stars in our
galaxy [the Milky Way], and 100 billion galaxies. In the observable Universe, It
seems inconceivable that at least one of these planets does not have a life form on
it; in fact, the best educated guess we can make using the little that we do know
about the conditions for carbon-based life, leads us to estimate that perhaps one in
100,000 stars might have a life-bearing planet orbiting it. That means that our
nearest neighbors are perhaps 1000 light years away. which is almost next door in
astronomical terms.
D
An alien civilization could choose many different ways of sending information
across the galaxy, but many of these either require too much energy. or else are
severely attenuated while traversing the vast distances across the galaxy. lt bums
out that. for a given amount of transmitted power: radio waves in the frequency
range 1000 to 3000 MHz travel the greatest distance. and so all searches to date
have concentrated on looking for radio waves in this frequency range. So far there
have been a number of searches by various groups around the world,  including
Australian searches using the radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales. Until
now there have not been any detections from the few hundred stars which have
been searched. The scale of the searches has been increased dramatically since
1992, when the US Congress voted NASA $10 million per year for ten years to
conduct a thorough search for extra-terrestrial life. Much of the money in this
project is being spent on developing the special hardware needed to search many
frequencies et once. The project has two parts. One part is a targeted search using
the world's largest radio telescopes. The American-operated telescope in Arecibo.
Puerto Rico and the French telescope in Nancy in France. This part of the project is
searching the nearest 1000 likely stars with high sensibility for signals in the
frequency range 1000 to 3000 MHz. The other part of the project is an undirected
search which is monitoring all of space with a lower   using the smaller antennas of
NASA`s Deep Space Network.
E
There is considerable debate over how we should react if we detect a signal from
an alien civilization. Everybody agrees that we should not reply immediately.
Quite apart from the impracticality of sending e reply over such large distances at
short notice, it raises a host of ethical questions that would have to be addressed by
the global community before any reply could be sent. Would the human race face
the culture shock if faced with a superior and much older civilization? Luckily,
there is no urgency about this. The stars being searched are hundreds of light years
away. so it takes hundreds of years for their signal to reach us, and a further few
hundred years for our reply to reach them. lt's not important, then, if there`s a delay
of a few years, or decades, while the human race debates the question of whether to
reply and perhaps carefully drafts a reply.
Questions 1- 5
Reading Passage has five paragraphs, A-E. Choose the correct heading for
paragraphs A-E from the headings below. Write the correct number: i-vii, in boxes
1 – 5 on your answer sheet.
List of Headings
i. Seeking the transmission of radio signals from planets
ii. Appropriate responses to signals from other civilizations
iii. Vast distances to Earth’s closest neighbors
iv. Assumptions underlying the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
v. Reasons for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
vi. Knowledge of extra-terrestrial life forms
vii. Likelihood of lite on other planets
1. Paragraph A                                                                      
2.  Paragraph B
3.  Paragraph C
4.  Paragraph D
5.  Paragraph E
Questions 6 – 10
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading
Passage? In boxes 6 – 10 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this more than once.
6.   Alien civilizations may be able to help the human race to overcome serious
problems
7.   The Americans and Australians have cc-operated on joint research projects.
8.   So far SETI scientists have picked up radio signals from several stars.
9.   The NASA project attracted criticism from some members of Congress.
10.   If a signal from outer space is received, it will be important to respond
promptly.

IV. WRITING
Exercise 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence.
1. The plane had hardly left the airport when the accident happened.
–> No sooner_________________________________________
2. I’m sure that someone forgot to lock the door.
–> Someone must_____________________________________
3. I can’t believe that he passed the exam.
-> I find ____________________________________________
4. You feel tired now because you didn’t sleep very well last night.
-> Had _____________________________________________
5. The best solution was thought of by Sally.
-> Sally came _______________________________________
Exercise 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
1. The rate of the inflation has fallen significantly during recent months.
DECLINE _________________________________________________
2. She herself admits to being rather selfish.
ADMISSION _________________________________________________
3. His colleagues were shocked to hear of Ahmed’s illness.
CAME _________________________________________________
4. When the assembly line was introduced, five hundred workers were dismissed.
ADVENT _________________________________________________
5. Teaching doesn’t really suit her.
CUT _________________________________________________
Exercise 3:
Write a paragraph on the topic: the effects on children of a broken marriage.