De vao LS04-05

Sở Giáo dục & Đào tạo kỳ thi tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 – THPT chuyên lam sơn
Thanh hoá Năm học 2004-2005
Đề chính thức Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 150 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề.)

Question 1: Supply the correct form of the verb in brackets.
1. It was ten o’clock and I still……. (not finish) my homework.
2. It …… (be) my birthday tomorrow.
3. I …… (not play) football since I …… (break) my leg.
4. I …… (telephone) Bill as soon as I …… (get) home this evening.
5. It was eleven o’clock and we…..(just go) to bed when the telephone ..…(ring).
6. I….(think) your father’s health…..(improve) so much since I….(see) him last.
7. This tooth……(kill) me lately! So I ……… (make) an appiontment with the
dentist for Tuesday.
8. It says in the paper that they …… (discover) oil in Wales. They ….. (look for)
it for ages.
Question 2: Fill each blank with the correct form of the word given in capital letters
1. ACT
a. We must take …………. before things get worse.
b. Don’t worry about the volcano. It’s been ………… for years.
c. She said she wanted to be a television ………………. .
2. BASE
a. My grandfather only had a very …………….. education.
b. The organisation is run on a voluntary ………………..
3. CONTINUE
a. His latest book is a ………….. of his previous one.
b. The train service was …………. because it wasn’t used by many people.
c. Peter couldn’t get much work done as he was ………… being interrupted by people telephoning me.
4. Compare
I’m just a beginner in …….. with her.
b. What happened two years ago is not really ……. in the situation now.
Question 3: Fill each of the numbered blank spaces with the most suitable preposition.
1. There has been a university in Oxford ..…… more than eight hundred years.
2. They have been married ………2001.
3. …… 1992 …… last year we had a flat in the centre of town.
4. Can you wait for a few minutes ….….. I’m ready.
5. I haven’t spoken to Bill ….….. we were at school.
6. It has been raining ……… early this morning.
7. It’s nearly five years ….…. Jenny left school.
8. She was at college …..…. two years and she’s been working here …..…. almost three years.
Question 4: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space.
A good memory is a gread ……1…… in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by …….2……. what he hears when he is a small child, and some children like boys and girls who live ……3…… with their ……4……. seem to learn …….5……. languages almost as easily as ……..6…… . In school, it’s not so …….7…… to learn a second language because the pupils have so little ……8…… for it, and they are busy ……9….. other ……10…… as well.
The best ……11…… for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind with something ……12…… we know already, or which we easily remember because we have a picture of it in our ……13…… . That is why it is ……14…….. to learn words in sentences, not by ……15…… , or to see, or to do, or to feel what a word means when we first use it…
Question 5: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

Question 6: Use these words and phrases to make complete sentences. These sentences are all part of a letter. Make changes and add any necessary words.

Question 7: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
1. Nobody has heard of John since he went to live in America.
John ………………………………………………………..
2. It was dark when we arrived because the journey took a very long time.
……… so ……… that ………..
3. “You’ve passed your driving test, Ron! Well done !” said Carol.
Carol congratulated ……………………………………………….
4. He felt ill to get up.
He did not …………………………………..
5. I was sitting next to a boy in the exam. He told me the answers.
The boy I ……………………………………………………….
6. The days get colder and colder.