Tài liệu Ôn thi vào 10 (Bài 1)






I. Circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others in each line.
1. A. mention
B. option
C. federation
D. question

2. A. ghost
B. office
C. long
D. modern

3. A. bear
B. beard
C. pear
D. tear

4. A. took
B. book
C. shoe
D. would

5. A. caused
B. increased
C. practised
D. promised

II. Circle the best answer.
1. It’s very nice ___ you to give me this present! (of / in / by / on)
2. He is the most ___ activist in the town. (effective / effection / effect / effectively)
3. He is the man ___ helped me yesterday. (which / who / whom / whose)
4. The car ___ she has just bought is very modern. (which / who / whom / whose)
5. We are saving money ___ we want to buy a new house. (so / because / but / and)
6. My father has to go to work ___ it is raining hard. (although / but / because / and)
7. We ___ the nearest village before sunset. (came / arrived / went / reached)
8. I wish I ___ in the countryside right now. (were / am / can be / would be)
9. He can’t earn money ___ he has no money. (unless / until / if / without)
10. She used to ___ her living by working as a typist. (win / earn / raise / support)
11. They have never ___ any experience of living in the country. (had / wished / done / made)
12. Wait ___ you get home before you unpack your parcel. (to / until / when / after)
13. They have to take that French course, ___ they? (haven’t / mustn’t / needn’t / don’t)
14. It is true ___ the law says there is no smoking in restaurants in this city? (that what / what / if / that)
15. Bill Gate, ___ is the president of Microsoft Company, is a billionaire. (who / whom / that / whose)
16. He sat down at ___ piano and played ___ piece he had play in ___ morning. (the – the – the / a – the – the / a – a – the / X – the – X)
17. Don’t hurry! There’s no need ___. (running / run / to run / you run)
18. Although they are poor, they have ___ five children well. (grown up / taken up / brought up / pulled up)
19. Jan didn’t check she had enough petrol before she left, ___ was careless of her. (what / that / who / which)
20. It is not true. He’s ___ a lot of nonsense. (speaking / saying / telling / talking)
III. Circle the most suitable word among A/B/C or D to fill each numbered space in the following passage.
There is now increasing concern about the world’s energy resources, particularly about those involving fossil (1)___. In less than a hundred years we shall probably (2)___ all the present (3)___ of oil and gas. The world’s coal (4)___ should last longer but, once used, these cannot be (5)___.
It is important, therefore, that we should develop such (6)___ sources of energy as solar energy and nuclear energy as well as water and wind (7)___ (classed as (8)___ energy). Until these energy (9)___ are widely used, it is important for the developed countries to reduce energy (10)___ as much as possible.
1. A. fuels
B. powers
C. forms
D. energies

2. A. end
B. complete
C. total
D. exhaust

3. A. findings
B. productions
C. amounts
D. sources

4. A. reserves
B. stores
C. mines
D. contents

5. A. updated
B. repeated
C. renewed
D. produced

6. A. traditional
B. alternative
C. surprising
D. revolutionary

7. A. force
B. strength
C. power
D. motion

8. A. repeatable
B. continual
C. renewable
D. continuous

9. A. goods
B. supplies
C. provisions
D. materials

10. A. exhaustion
B. destruction
C. waste
D. consumption

IV. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the