De Thi hoc ky English 11

TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ 2 (2009 – 2010)
NGUYỄN THỊ MINH KHAI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 11 – CƠ BẢN
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A. READING COMPREHENSION

A.1. Read the text about Beckham, a famous English footballer and complete the table which follows.(1.0 point) Each correct answer: 0.2 point
David Robert Joseph Beckham was born in Leytonstone, London on May 2nd, 1975. Keen on football from very early age, David won the Bobby Chalton Soccer Skills Award when he was 11. Five years later, at the age of 16, he signed on as a trainee at Manchester United Football Club. The following year, he made his first appearance as a substitute but it was another three years before he started playing full time in the Premier League.
He established himself as a quality player in the 1995/1996 season and, in his midfield right position, the number 7 helped his team to win the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea.
In 1996 he started playing for the England senior team and the year ended with the fact that he was voted Young Player of the Year.

Years
Events


(1) 1975


Born in London


1986

(2) Won the Bobby Chalton Soccer Skills Award



(3) 1991


Signed on as a trainee at Manchester United Football Club


(4) 1992


Made his first appearance as a substitute


1996

(5) Started playing for the England senior team (or Voted Young Player of the Year)


A.2. Choose ONE suitable word from the box below to fill in each gap in the following passage. (1.0 point) Each correct answer: 0.2 point
cosmonaut – moon – space – spacecraft – crashed

 Colonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968) was a Soviet (1) cosmonaut and the first human in (2) space.
Gagarin piloted the Vostok 1 (Vostok means East in Russian) mission launched on April 12, 1961, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. His flight lasted 108 minutes and orbited the Earth one time. The flight was controlled from the ground. The (3) spacecraft was recovered later that day in the Saratov region of the Soviet Union.
Gagarin died at the age 34 when his MiG-15 plane (4) crashed in bad weather near Moscow. He had been training for a second space trip.
Gagarin Crater, a wide shallow, circular, and heavily eroded crater on the far side of the (5) moon, was named after him.

A.3. Read the following passage and choose the option that best complete each blank. Circle A, B, C or D. (1.0 point) Each correct answer: 0.2 point
In 1969, the first astronauts from Earth (1)............on the Moon. They had (2).............. for the trip for a long time and knew that their mission involved doing things that had never been done (3).............. . The astronauts wore special heavy boots to (4)............. them from floating off into space. On the Moon, they had time to (5)............ rocks and soil samples before returning to Earth. Those brave people, and others after them, are able for much of the knowledge we now have about how the Moon was formed.
1. A. landed B. flew C. went D. ran
2. A. managed B. planned C. prepared D. tried
3. A. after B. before C. later D. ago
4. A. avoid B. help C. prevent D. make
5. A. collecting B. collection C. collected D. collect

B. GRAMMAR – VOCABULARY
B.1. Choose the word or phrase that best complete each sentence. Circle A, B, C or D. (2.0 points)
Each correct answer: 0.2 point
1. This school is only for children ........... first language is not English.
A. who B. whose C. which D. that
2. Rain forests are places .............. people harvest wood and powerful medicine.
A. in which B. in that C. in where D. which
3. The boy ............. the piano in the garden is my son