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LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM HỌC 2018 – 2019

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 10

(Đề thi gồm 12 trang) Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)

I. Choose the word that best completes each sentence. Write your answer (A, B, C,
or D) in the box provided. (20 pts)
1. None of his relatives really understood the full of his difficulty or his
desperation.
A. degree B. dimension C. extent D. width
2. It’s quite unreasonable to ask me to organize the conference at such short .
A. warning B. notice C. time D. advance
3. I slept badly last night and am feeling particularly this morning.
A. slow-witted B. far-reaching C. off-hand D. top-heavy
4. Serena is still ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.
A. delightedly B. blissfully C. jubilantly D. ecstatically
5. Revenge at last! I always said I would my own back on Steve, and now I
have.
A. turn B. get C. do D. make
6. I think everyone should be with the way office machinery works.
A. conversant B. mindful C. answerable D. attuned
7. He crept in his parents should wake up.
A. unless B. lest C. otherwise D. whereby
8. They threatened to cancel the whole project .
A. thick and fast B. at a stroke C. on the whole D. of set purpose
9. “Thank you very much. I haven’t been to party for ages,” said the
woman.
A. so enjoyable a B. the so enjoyable C. a so enjoyable D. so enjoyable
10. The whole holiday turned out to be an disaster.
A. unmatched B. unmitigated C. undiluted D. umindful
11. I’m determined to finish building the house by the end of the month, come rain or
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A. shine B. sun C. sunny D. dry
12. Andrea has a rug on the floor in her bedroom.
A. sheepskin long lovely white B. lovely long sheepskin white
C. lovely long white sheepskin D. sheepskin long white lovely
13. State enterprises face fierce competition from the private .
A. province B. department C. sector D. zone
14. She had a(n) interest in holding a separate bank account.
A. implied B. shadowed C. invested D. vested
15. There were one or two voices, although the majority were in favor of
the proposal.
A. acclaiming B. clamouring C. refuting D. dissenting
16. I wish you would stop sitting on the and decide whose side you’re on.
A. fence B. crossroads C. wall D. middle
17. the difficulties they had getting it produced, the play is a huge success.
A. On account of B. Concerning C. As far as D. For all
18. Anna’s friend knew the casting director, so she pulled a few to arrange
an audition.
A. ropes B. wires C. strings D. threads
19. Apparently her father is a(n) in one of the major banks.
A. bread B. cheese C. apple D. meat
20. The mayor expressed strong about the necessity for the new ring road.
A. scruples B. reservations C. questions D. wonders
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

II. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. Write
your answers in the space provided below. (10 pts)
Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that migrating birds fly ……………………………………
in a V formation, but scientists are long debated why. A new study of ……………………………………
ibises finds that these big-winged birds careful position their wingtips ……………………………………
and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird’s updraft ……………………………………
- and save energy while flight. ……………………………………
There are two reasons birds might fly in a V formation: It may do ……………………………………
flight easier, or they’re simply following the leader. Squadrons of planes ……………………………………
can save fuel by flying in a V formation, and many scientists suspect that ……………………………………
migrating birds do the similar. Models that treated flapping birds like ……………………………………
……………………………………
fixed-wing airplanes estimate that they save energy by drafting off each
……………………………………
other, but currents created by airplanes are far much stable than the

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 oscillating eddies coming off of a bird. “Air gets pretty unpredictably ……………………………………
behind a flapping wing,” says James Usherwood, a locomotor ……………………………………
biomechanist at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of ……………………………………
London in Hatfield, where the research took place. ……………………………………
The study, published in Nature, took advantage of an existing ……………………………………
project to reintroduce dangerous northern bald ibises to Europe. ……………………………………
Scientists used a microlight plane to show hand-raised birds their ……………………………………
ancestral migration route from Austria to Italy. A flock of 14 juveniles ……………………………………
carried data loggers specially build by Usherwood and his lab. The ……………………………………
……………………………………
device’s GPS determined each bird’s flight position to within 30 cm, and
……………………………………
an accelerometer shown the timing of the wing flaps.
……………………………………

III. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your
answer in the box provided. (10 pts)
1. One good way to drum support is to get people in the high street to sign
a petition.
2. I’ve got two weeks’ holiday left but I think I’ll carry it till next year and
take it in January.
3. Only radical action will bring the changes that we so desperately need.
4. What annoys me is that the men got with just 100 hours’ community
service.
5. The authorities shouldn’t give to this kind of blackmail from the workers.
6. News gets very fast in this town.
7. We struck a friendship the very first time we met.
8. I hate buying furniture from that place because you have to put it yourself.
9. I have taken a lot of extra hours this week. I need the money.
10. I’ve been trying to explain the situation to Ben for weeks, but I don’t seem to be able
to get to him.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answer in
the box provided. (20 pts)
1. The unresponsive audience made the lecturer somewhat (HEART). What
a shame!
2. I have been told that she was quite a(n) (EYE) in her youth.
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3. It appears that what I said was untrue, but I did not (KNOW) lie to you.
4. The candidate made a(an) (FLAME) speech that incensed all those who
heard it.
5. It’s common (COURTEOUS) to give up your seat for elderly people.
6. Some analysts worry that violence on TV might (SENSE) children to
violence in real life.
7. The headmistress commended her on her (EXAMPLE) behaviour.
8. The newspaper report before the trial may have had a (PREJUDICE)
effect on the verdict.
9. They were attacked without any (PROVOKE) at all.
10. Don’t (LITTLE) her piano-playing just because you are jealous.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART III: READING (42 points)

I.Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each
space. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (10 pts)
Sleeping disorders like insomnia can prove to be a worrying question for many of
us. Almost anyone can easily conjure (1) at least one sleepless night of (2)
and turning in bed awaiting the bliss of a deep dream. Most probably, a third of us undergo
the distressing experience at least once a week.
Even though it is possible for people to function without any sleep at all for a
certain period of time, such occurrences are rather few and far between and there is no
evidence to
(3) this assumption. What is sure, however, is the fact that we do need some
sleep to regenerate our strength and to (4) the brain to its proper activity. No wonder,
then, that the tiredness and fatigue that appear after a sleepless night compel many of us to
go for chemical support in the form of sleep (5) tablets or powders.
However long the problem of sleeplessness has afflicted many individuals, very
little has been (6) in the question of its original causes. We are conscious that it
usually
(7) those who are exposed to a great deal of stress, anxiety or depression. It may
also be (8) by overworking or unfavorable surroundings with scarcity of fresh air.
Sleeping pills may provide some relief and can act as an alternative in this desperate
situation. Yet, they do little to combat the ailment in full. Consequently, our hopes should
be (9) on the medical authorities to (10) the root cause of insomnia
before
we take to being nocturnals leading our noisy lives in the dead of night.
1. A. up B. about C. off D. out
2. A. rolling B. wriggling C. tossing D. spinning
3. A. proclaim B. endure C. invalidate D. substantiate
4. A. recuperate B. restore C. revive D. resume
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 5. A. inducing B. attaining C. exacting D. contributing
6. A. disparaged B. retrieved C. detected D. originated
7. A. betrays B. besets C. bemoans D. bestows
8. A. engendered B. applied C. instigated D. evolved
9. A. placed B. ascribed C. focused D. attached
10. A. emerge B. release C. determine D. confess
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Fill in each gap with one suitable word. Write your answer in the box
provided. (10 pts)
THE SURVIVAL OF THE POLAR BEAR
The polar bear is (1) ………………. threat because its hunting season at the North Pole is
being shortened by thinning Arctic ice. Data gathered by US Navy submarines using sonar
technology shows the (2)...........................of Arctic sea ice is now an average of 1.3 metres
less than it was in the 1970s, (3).........................it to break up earlier in the year. According
to the Canadian Wildlife Service, the sea ice season in western Hudson Bay has been
reduced by three weeks over the last 20 years. (4)...........................has serious implications
for wildlife in the region, since Arctic mammals use the sea ice as an extension of the land.
Polar bears, for example, roam the frozen water (5) ………………. a constant search for
seals, their main (6) ………………. of food. But (7) ………………. sea ice breaking up
earlier, the seals are becoming harder to find. As (8) ………………., the polar bear
population has not declined significantly, but female bears are already giving birth to (9)
………………. cubs. The most likely cause of the thinning Arctic is man- induced global
warming, (10) ………………. the climactic phenomenon known as Arctic oscillation-
strange wind patterns lasting several years – could be another contributing factor.

Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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PART IV: WRITING (45 points)
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence before it. (20 points)
1. The excuse for the declaration of the war is the defence of their territorial rights.
PRETEXT
They declared war their territorial rights.
2. I presume you are coming to the party, Mariam.
READ
Can I you are coming to the party, Mariam?
3. He always makes everything look so difficult.
WEATHER
He always everything.
4. Susan said she had no idea what she was doing for the first few weeks of her new job.
DEPTH
Susan said she new job.
5. What he told me made me very curious to hear the rest of the story.
APPETITE
What he told me the rest of the story.
6. I can’t remember having met him before.
I have .
7. She didn’t cry when the story ended in tragedy.
Not a .
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9. Initially, everybody believed his story but now they think he was lying.
He is now the story.
10. If the weather is fine, we may go camping at the weekend
Weather .