Pretest-G.10-June-15-2011

LE NGOC HAN . ENGLISH TEST. June-15-11
Lower Secondary School Time Allotted: 45 minutes
Friday, December 09, 2005. Grade 9

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Teacher’s Comment

QUESTION I. Pick out the word that has the stressed syllable different from the others:
A. discover
B. impossible
C. company
D. consider

2. A. meteor
B. examine
C. spacecraft
D. alien

QUESTION II. Pick out the word that has the underlined letter(s) pronounced differently from the others.
3. A. terrify
B. leaky
C. ability
D. slavery

4. A. allowed
B. supposed
C. refused
D. spoiled

QUESTION III. Pick out the word that does not belong to the same topic:
5. A. miner
B. burner
C. locker
D. cooker

6. A. pen pal
B. correspondent
C. partner
D. classmate

QUESTION IV. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) for the sentences:
We should put garbage bins around the school yard to ………lazy student……..throwing trash.
A
prevent/ to
B
stop/on
C
protect/from
D
prevent/from

The businessmen of ancient Egypt hired…………… to shout their goods.
A
consumers
B
singers
C
performers
D
criers

The lady…….……….you’ve just seen on HTV 7 is a famous MC
A
who
B
whose
C
whom
D
which

How about………….trees and flowers in our school yard?
A
planting
B
to plant
C
plant
D
planted

No one wants to go swimming there.......the area around the beach is full of trash.
A
however
B
so
C
therefore
D
since

The boy spent the whole evening.....................on-line without getting anything useful.
A
wandered
B
wanders
C
wandering
D
to wander

In the secondary school in the countryside, the internet isn’t………………………yet.
A
existing
B
on-line
C
present
D
available

This bike……………………a year ago.
A
was bought
B
were bought
C
was buying
D
bought

They visit the……………………of the Vietnamese hero on the mountain
A
mosque
B
grocery
C
mausoleum
D
shrine

A milkmaid wishes she……………………a Queen now
A
will be
B
were
C
is
D
would be

 11. You should look ………..the new words in your dictionary.
A
up
B
after
C
for
D
at

 12. Miss Lan works……………an international bank in HN.
A
on
B
for
C
from
D
at


QUESTION V. Read the passage below and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D):
In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English. My pronunciation of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I didn’t know how to improve them. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English dictionary to improve my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” said she. I didn’t know that only one year later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.
The writer had some………………………..in the 1st year in lower secondary school.
A
difficult
B
difficulty
C
different
D
 problems

………………of the writer wasn’t good.
A
vocabulary
B
speaking
C
listening English
D
English writing

The writer was bad at English because he didn’t know how…………………
A
to learn
B
to study
C
to revise
D
to improve

His English teacher told him how………………
A
to use dictionary
B
to borrow cassettes
C
to listen
D
to pronounce

The writer ………………after learning and improving English in one year
A
won the match
B
went upper class
C
got good marks
D
won the 1st prize

Where did his teacher take him?
A
to the bookstore
B
to the museum
C
to the public library
D
to the school library


QUESTION VI. Fill in each numbered blank in this passage with ONE suitable word: (