SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN LỚP 10

THÀNH PHỐ ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM HỌC 2019-2020

TRƯỜNG TRUNG HỌC PHỔ
THÔNG Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
HOÀNG HOA THÁM Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
(Đề thi gồm 07 trang)
Mã phách : ……………..…………..….. Điểm: ……………..………………………………
Chữ ký và họ tên giám khảo:……………………………………………………………….
(Học sinh làm bài trên đề thi)

SECTION A: LISTENING
I. Listen to the part of the passage. Choose the best answer for each question below.
Write your answer (A,B,C or D) in the box provided.
1. How many percents do graduate schools in the United States increase in applications
from international students this year?
A. seven percents B. eight percents C. nine percents D. ten percents
2. When is the increase the same as?
A. two years ago B. three years ago C. four years ago D. five years ago
3. Which countries showed the biggest increases in applications to enter master’s and
doctoral programs this fall?
A. China B. China, Mexico C. Mexico and Brazil D. China, Mexico and Brazil
4. Which is the top area of study for international students?
A. Engineering B. Business C. Physical D. Earth sciences
5. Who made the survey?
A. South Korea B. The Council of Graduate Schools
C. India D. Brazil
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

II. You'll hear a conversation between two people. Listen and fill in the blanks. Write
your answers in the box provided.
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Some people in the Netherlands are spending three hundred thirty thousand dollars on a
hamburger. The people are scientists at the University of Maastricht. They want to
(1) ______ that they can make a hamburger that tastes good and does not require an animal
to be (2) _______.
Researcher Mark Post and his team have been growing muscle-tissue cells in a laboratory
with muscle taken from a cow
MARK POST: “We have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of these small
tissues and then assemble them into a hamburger.” Several teams around the world are
trying to (3) _______ meat without killing animals. So far the Dutch team appears to have
(4) _______ the most progress.
Mr. Post says he wants to show that the world’s growing demand for meat could be (5)
_______ more efficiently and with less harm to the environment.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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SECTION B: USE OF ENGLISH
I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentence or do the task as directed. Write
your answer (A,B,C or D) in the box provided.
1. Choose the word with has a different stress pattern.
A. appliance B. activity C. adventure D. average
2. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
A. natural B. nature C. native D. nation
3. Choose the incorrect part indicated by A,B, C or D in the following sentence.
The (A)oceans contain many (B)forms of life that (C)has not (D)yet been discovered.
4. He was turned down for the job because he is _.
A. qualified B. qualifying C. unqualified D. qualification
5. Everyone hopes to pass the next final exam, ?
A. doesn’t he B. hasn’t he C. haven’t they D. don’t they
6. Mrs Nga forgot to __________ the faucet when she left for work.
A. turn off B. turn on C. turn up D. turn down
7. This book is different _________ the one I had.
A. with B. to C. from D. at
8. What will happen if the pollution ____________ on.
A. puts B. goes C. keeps D. takes
9. The crowd at a football match are often____________.
A. excite B. excited C. exciting D. excitement
10. My mother is very ___________at cooking.
A. well B. good C. popular D. famous
11.- Daisy: “What a lovely house you have!” - Mary: “ .”
A. Lovely, I think so B. Thank you. Hope you will drop in
C. Of course not, it’s not costly D. No problem
12. Analysts suggested the country __________ its infrastructure to get foreign investment.
A. improve B. to improve C. improves D. improving
13. ___ my friends were unsuccessful at the job interviews.
A. Most B. The most of C. Most of D. Most out of
14. I’m afraid this article is ____________ date.
A. over B. pass C. behind D. out of
15. I don't usually like staying at hotels but last summer we spent a few days at ______very
nice hotel by _____ sea.
A. a / - B. a / the C. the / a D. - / the
16. Take your coat with you .________ it gets cold later.
A. if B. as long as C. when D. in case
17. I __________ your name. Could you tell me again?
A. am forgetting B. ’ve been forgetting C. ’ve forgotten D. was forgetting
18. This job ______ working very long hours.
A. involves B. consists C. includes D. contains
19. “Have they arrested the thieves yet?” “It’s only a _____________ of time.”
A. period B. matter C. length D. waste
20. Ann: “Does Jack know about your project?” - Sue: “ Yes. I told him _________to do”.
A. what was I planning B. what I have planned C. what did I plan D. what I was planning
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

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II. Use the right form of the words given to complete the spaces in the following sentences. Write your
answers in the box provided.
1. The teacher’s criticism has ___________ Tom’s interest in learning. (DIE)
2. Pablo Picasso was a very___________ artist. (CREATE)
3. It’s ___________of motorists to drink and drive. (RESPONSIBILITY)
4. These films are not good for children. There are lots of_______.( violent )
5. Since ___________has been so poor, the class is being closed. (ATTEND)
6. Her boring essay is the ___________ one that I have ever read. (LENGTH)
7. These works have been________ for many centuries.( COLLECTION)
8. The boy was very______. He saved four of his friends from the strong flood.
( ENCOURAGE)
9. Presents were divided _______to all children. One bag of toys to every child. ( EQUAL )
10. It is very hard for us to understand his explanation. It is________( LOGICAL)
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Use the verbs in brackets in the correct tense or form. Write your answers in the
box provided.
1. The house was very quiet when I got home. Everybody_ (go) to bed.
2. The police officer stopped us and asked us where we ____________ (go)
3. Are you having your house ____________ at the moment ? (paint)
4. " Ann is in hospital. " " Yes, I know. I ____________ her tomorrow. " (visit)
5. You always (complain)___________ about my cooking.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

IV. Complete each sentence with a suitable word, beginning with the letter given.
Write your answers in the box provided.
1. I'll come o________ to pick her up at 8 o'clock
2. If you want to get in shape, why don’t you t_________ up tennis?
3. The meal was terrible. We should c__________ to the manager.
4. Students are sent to the principal if they don’t b__________ well in class.
5. Who is in c__________ of this department?
Your answers:
1 2 3 4 5

V. Find out the mistakes. Write the mistakes and correct them. (Each sentence has
only one mistake.) . Write your answers in the box provided.
1. After living in London for two months, my brother got used to drive on the left.
2. Kangaroos, that can be seen everywhere in Australia, have long tails.
3. A few tiles on Skylab were the only equipments that failed to perform well in outer space.
4. The next important question we have to decide is when we have to submit the proposal.
5. When you are on orbit, you will be able to get out of your seat.
6. One person out of seven in the world can speak English so fluently as the native
speakers can.
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7. He started working as an editor 10 years ago but now he knows as a famous MC.
8. Through the war the soldiers had tried several times to capture the enemy leader but had
never managed to do so.
9. I just don't understand it and wondering why she did it.
10. Travelling by air is preferable than travelling by train.
Your answers:
1. → 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION

I. Fill in the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your
answers in the box provided.
Watching Television and going for a walk are the most popular leisure (1)________ in
Britain. But although longer holidays and shorter working hours have given people more
free (2) ________, women generally have less free time (3) ________ men, because they
spend time (4) ________ domestic work, shopping and childcare. ..
Surveys showed that more men (5) ________ newspapers than women, and (6).
________ slightly higher proportion of adults read Sunday newspapers than read
(7). ________. morning national newspapers.
More people are taking holidays abroad (8) ________ 1971 only 36 percent of
(9) ________ in Britain had been abroad on holiday; but by 1983 this proportion had (10).
________ to 62 percent, nearly fifteen million people.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Read the following passages and choose the best answer to the questions. Write
your answer (A,B,C or D) in the box provided.
HUNGRY POP STARS
Valerie Jones runs a company called Peanuts whose job is to look after pop stars and pop
groups when they go on tour. She is the person who feeds the stars and she’s been doing it
for the past ten years.
When the stars are playing at a festival, Valerie may have to cook for up to a thousand
people which includes all the crew and the people who work backstage. She erects a
marquee-a huge tent-and the food is served buffet style from a central serving area. She has
to cater for different tastes, so there are normally four or more choices of menu. She also
has to look after people who may be on special diet or some singers don’t eat dairy food
before a concert.
She drives an enormous truck full of kitchen equipment and hires at least three walk-in
refrigerators, a dishwashing unit and portable cabins which act as storerooms and office.
All the bands have to queue up to be served and everyone has to have a meal ticket. The
stars are usually more relaxed when they are eating as no one is bothering them for
autographs, although Valerie says that sometimes the security men and the stars’ managers
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 There are certain things which she always has to keep in stock like herbal teas and her
own particular mixture of honey, lemon and ginger which singers like to keep in flasks on
stage with them when they are singing. Years ago bands used to drink quite a lot of alcohol,
but these days they’re much healthier. Most bands drink fresh fruit juice and prefer to eat
salads.
A lot of people in the bands are quite young and they’re not used to very expensive
food, so Valerie prepares plain food unless a band sends her a “rider”. This is a list of
special requirements. When people are tired, unwell or homesick they like to have familiar”
comfort” food so she keeps a stock of people’s requirements just in case. As a result of all
this Valerie says she has become an expert shopper and in less than an hour in a
supermarket she can spend £1000.
A lot of bands won’t eat before a concert because they’re too nervous, so Valerie and
her staff can end up working very long hours as they have to be around to provide what
people want at two or three in the morning. One thing Valerie has noticed is that the more
mad a band is on stage, the more normal they are when they are off it. She says she is
amazed at the change in behaviour. A really wild singer can turn out to be really quiet and
polite off stage.
1. Peanuts is the name of
A. a pop band B. a pop star C. a pop concert D. a company
2. Valerie has to provided a range of food because
A. people are very fussy about what they eat
B. people are used to eating in restaurants
C. there is such a wide variety of preferences
D. there is such a demand for special menus
3. The singers are less nervous when they are eating because
A. their security men are with them B. there are no fans hanging around
C. their managers fuss over them D. the bands enjoy eating together.
4. Why does Valerie have to keep a supply of certain drinks?
A. the bands really rely on a special recipe B. the bands like to drink alcohol
C. the bands prefer herbal tea to coffee D. the bands take fruit juice on stage
5. What do most bands like best to eat?
A. rich food B. cheap food C. junk food D. simple food
6. What does “just in case” in paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Valerie’s supply of more expensive food.
B. Valerie’s list of “riders” from the different bands.
C. Valerie’s supply of special food for various people.
D. Valerie’s understanding of people feeling sick.
7. Why do you think Valerie has become an “expert shopper”?
A. She has a lot of money to spend each week.
B. She has learnt to find what individuals want.
C. she has to buy as much as possible for £ 1000.
D. She has to shop very quickly in a supermarket
8. Why is a band likely to be hungry after playing?
A. They feel more relaxed after the concert.
B. They work long hours with little food.
C. They only have a snack before a concert.
D. They like to wait until they eat together.
9. What does Valerie think about the singers?

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 A. They are completely crazy on and off stage.
B. They behave differently on and off stage.
C. They are less rude when they are off stage.
D. They are normally more noisy on stage.
10. How does Valerie feel about the behaviour of the singers.
A. surprised B. angry C. uncomfortable D. pleased
Your answers:
1. .2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Read the passage and choose the best word to fill in each blank. Write your answer
(A,B,C or D) in the box provided.
English around the world
English is the first language of many people in countries outside the United Kingdom.
When you (1)______ speakers of English from around the world, you (2)______ notice that
they do not all speak in the same way. There are also some (3)______ in the words they use,
including the names of (4)______ objects that are part of everyone’s daily life. But although
pronunciation and (5)______ are not the same everywhere, it is interesting that English
speakers (6)______ opposite sides of the world can understand (7)______ other quite easily.
It does not seem to (8)______ where they learnt the language. And of course this is one
reason why speakers of other languages are keen (9)______ learning English too. If you
know English, you are more(10)______ to be able to study or work in all sorts of exciting
places, such as the United States or Australia.
1. A. recognise B. meet C. find D. attend
2. A. originally B. strangely C. curiously D. immediately
3. A. mistakes B. corrections C. changes D. differences
4. A. common B. popular C. favourite D. general
5. A. reading B. composition C. dictation D. vocabulary
6. A. of B. in C. from D. at
7. A. each B. one C. the D. some
8. A. mine B. care C. matter D. worry
9. A. by B. on C. to D. for
10. A. likely B. probably C. possibly D. luckily
Your answers:
1. .2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION D: WRITING
I. For each of the sentences, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to
the original sentence, using the word given. This word must not be altered in any way.
1. Tan looks nothing like his father. (take)
- Tan doesn’t ____________________________________________________________.
2. If I don’t leave now, I’ll miss the train. (unless)
- I’ll ___________________________________________________________________.
3. You know a lot of people. (seem)
- You _____________________________________________________________.
4. Peter finished his novel, then he went to bed. (until)
- Peter didn’t _____________________________________________________________
5. All the students passed the exam except Jenny. (only)
- Jenny was ______________________________________________________________

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II. For each of the sentences, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to
the original sentence.
1. The poor farmer was tired but he kept working.
- In spite _________________________________________________________________
2. He is too young to go to school alone .
- He is ___________________________________________________________________.
3. His parents made him study hard for his exam.
- He was _________________________________________________________________.
4. You shouldn’t touch that switch.
- If I ____________________________________________________________________
5. They’ll have to take the dog on holiday with them.
- They can’t leave __________________________________________________________

III. Write a paragraph about 100- 130 words (on the answer sheet) to answer the
following question.
Should smart phones be banned among students?
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