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TRƯỜNG THPT THẠCH THÀNH I
ĐỀ THI CHỌN GVG CẤP TRƯỜNG
NĂM HỌC 2010 – 2011
Môn: Tiếng Anh
( Thời gian 180 phút không kể thời gian giao đề)
Question 1 ( 5 points): Pick out the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
1. A. calculator B. language C. comprehend D. institute
2. A. challenge B. counter C. guardian D. explain
3. A. astonished B. obstacle C. disposal D. apparent
4. A. advertiser B. history C. difficulty D. activity
5. A. alternative B. impetus C. ancestry D. divident
Question 2 ( 5 points):Choose the underlined word that has different pronunciation from
others.
1. A. sound B. touch C. down D. accound
2. A. design B. preserve C. basic D. physical
3. A. occupation B. occasion C. shake D. miraculous
4. A. concerned B. received C. attached D. concealed
5. A. winding B. windy C. finish D. spin
Question 3 ( 10 points): Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form
1. Not (to know)………… the language and ( to have)………….no friends in the country, he
found it impossible to get a job.
2. He found a tree ( to lie)……………… across the road.
3. I am used to (to stand)…………………… in queues.
4. I felt the house ( to shake)…………………………
5. I (never see)…………….a film that interested me so much as the one I saw last week.
6. There (be)…………… great changes in our village in the past few years.
7. Right now Alex is in the hospital. He (treat)………….for a bad burn on his hand and arm.
8. I am not used to (get)……………up early. I’d rather (stay)……… in bed a bit longer.
9. The statue (break)……………… white it (move)………to another room in the museum.
10. I am going to Hyde Park to hear people making speeches
~ You’ll be too late. By the time you get there, they (finish) …………….their speeches.

11. He said he (be)……….sorry as he (give)……………me so much trouble.
12. They (warn)………… not to make so much noise and (disturb)……….others in the room, but
they still did.
13 . Come in, I am sorry (keep)……………….you (wait)……………
14. I think they should let him (go)…………………….
Question4 ( 10 points): Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.
1.The film……………several scences that might upset young children.
A. admits B. involves C. contains D. displays
2. They talked for three days before finally…………… to a decision.
A. reaching B. coming C. bringing D. arriving
3. I am not in the least……………….about his opinion.
A.aware B. concerned C. interested D. regarded
4. Their aim is to……………up a new political party.
A. strike B. stand C. set D. show
5. I phoned the bank to…………………how much money there was in my account.
A. control B. inspect C. test D. check
6. …………he had no money for a bus, he had to walk all the way home.
A. For B. Thus C. So D. As
7. I looked everywhere but I could not find……………… at all.
A. anyone B. no one C. some one D. somebody
8. It was………… and we had to wallk quickly to keep warm.
A. cold B. fresh C. frozen D. mild
9. I do my best to practise the piano every day………….it is difficult sometimes.
A. even B. when C. also D. although
10. He has been waiting for this letter for days, and at…………… it has come.
A. last B. the end C. present D. finish
11. You asked me to…………………….you to post that letter.
A. remember B. remark C. remind D. recall
12. He was busy when I phoned but I hung…………….until he was free
A. back B. off C. to D. on

13. It is hot in the day-time but the temperature………………… sharply at night.
A. slips B. drops C. descends D. reduce
14. The children threw snowballs at……………… on their way to school.
A. themselves B. another C. each other D. their own
15. It happened…………………….we were asleep last Friday night.
A. during B. for C. while D. since
16. The plate was right on the………………… of the table and could have been knocked off at
any moment.
A. border B. tip C. margin D. Edge
17. I am not sure how old he is but he must be………………for 70.
A. going by B. getting up C. getting on D. getting off
18. My watch had stopped so I had no way of knowing the right……………………
A. hour B. moment C. time D. o’clock
19. I absolutely…………………with everything that has been said.
A. agree B. accept C. admit D. approve
20. We’re in good time; there’s …………………to hurry.
A. unnecessary B. no purpose C. no need D. impossible
Question 5(10 points): Fill in the gap with one suitable preposition.
1. She tried to set…………………a few minutes each day for her exercises.
2. Such relaxed days were few and far………………….in her hectic life.
3. How exactly did you set……………….training the horses to work so well together.
4. The man who lives opposite us sometimes comes……………………….for a cup of coffee.
5. We had agreed……………….the need for firm action.
6. The other day I came……… a really beautiful old house in the back street of Birmingham.
7. I could tell her was pleased…………………… the expression on his face.
8. He took the trouble to write……………… the complete list for us.
9. The man was very concious…………………his bald head.
10.John stared the boy…………………the face.
Question 6(20 points): Fill in each gap with one suitable word to complete the paragraph.
The job sounded interesting; with a fashion house (1)…………… the city center.

The telephone conservations I (2)……………….had with them were relaxed and friendly,
and the letter from the boss had also been a friendly (3)………………. . He had invited me to
visit the office and join some of them for lunch. The appointment was (4)…………twelve o’clock
I naturally thought long and hard about (5)……………… to wear. In the fashion business,
of course, you was expected to be smart. The question was (6)…………… to be businesslike, or
fashionable. There was something (7)………… to think about, too. I had to get there (8)………
train and bus. The journey was over two hours, and that effects the clothes you choose.
In the end, I decided (9)…………….wear my most expensive colthes. There were a pair of
boots, a pair of fashion jeans which had cost me a week’s salary, a hand-made sweater and a cost.
I was not (10)……… satisfied with my appearance, but at (11)…………… every thing was new
and expensive.
In fact, I realised (12)…………… my arrival that I had chosen exactly the wrong clothes.
The men in the office (13)………….wearing dark suits and ties. The women in business suits.
The boss was just (14)……………friendly as his letter had been. We looked (15)…………
the office, chatted about the business, and finally went out for lunch. They had chosen a smart
restaurant nearby, where the boss was (16)………………well known. The restaurant manager
greeted him (17)…………….name. then he caught sight of me. He shook his head apologetically,
and smiled. Sorry, he said, the house rules were quite (18)………………. No one in jeans would
be admitted.
I (19)……….the way out, and we started looking for somewhere (20)………… to eat.
Question 7(15 points): Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to fill in each blank.
If you can roll the ball, you can play bowls. Every one can play: young and old, men and
women, the fit and the not fit. It is the one out door game that (1)……………… is a sport for all.
What other sport can grandparents play on (2)……………….terms with their grandchildren?
What other game is so simple that you could take it u today and be (3)…………………in the
national championships tomorrow?
Simple? Perhaps that’s not the (4)…………………word. There are bowls players in their
thousands who will tell you that, although bowls is a game that anyone can (5)……………in five
minutes, it takes a lifetime to (6)………………… it. they are the people who have (7)…………a
passionate interest in the game (8)………… for outsiders, bowls is another world, and a strange

and puzzling one. They see a bowls game in (9)……………….and wonder what is going on.
What the players are trying to do is easy to explain. Their (10)…………….is to roll their bowls,
called woods, as near as possible to the little white ball, called the jack. If one of your bowl
finishes nearer to the jack than your (11)………………., you score one point and he or she scores
nothing. If you have the two nearest, you score two, and (12)………… . The skill (13)…………in
rolling a bowl that weighs around 2 kilos across about 40 metres so that it stops only a very short
(14)………… from the target is that as (15)…………… as the skills required in other sports.
1. A. exactly B. really C. precisely D. accurately
2. A. alike B. equal C. parallel D. matching
3. A. competing B. entering C. getting D. going
4. A. right B. suitable C. genuine D. just
5. A. Catch on B. see through C. find out D. pick up
6. A. manage B. tame C. Master D. Control
7. A. assembled B. produced C. developed D. grown
8. A. Besides B. Unlike C. However D. Although
9. A. performance B. movement C. practice D. action
10. A. point B. attempt C. scheme D. aim
11. A. competitor’s B.opponent’s C. contestant’s D. opposer’s
12. A. further B. so on C. moreover D. as follows
13 A. involved B. connected C. relating D. belonging
14. A. distance B. extent C. range D. length
15. A. respectable B. impressive C. appreciative D. favourable
Question 8 (10 points): Give the correct form of the word in the bracket
JOB INTERVIEWS
Interviews are an imperfect method of choosing the best people for job, yet human (1.be)
……like to examine each other in this way. One of the many problems of (2. select)…….as it
commonly practised is that the forms filled in by (3. apply)……… often fail to show people as
they really are. This means that you can follow all the best (4. advise)……………….when
completing your form and still find that you are (5. success)………… at the next stage- the
interview. Success (6. similar)………………in the race cass where interviews are automatic, a

candidate with an (7. adequate)……………form may do surprisingly well.
Of course your form needs to show that you have (8. confident)……………………in your
(9. able)……………… to do the job, but do not try to turn yourself into someone else – a person
you have to pretend to be at the interview. Realism and (10. honest)…………………are definitely
the best approach.
Question 9 (10 points): Rewrite each sentence, starting as shown, so that the meaning stays
the same.
1.She urged her husband to write the letter.
She urged that………………………………………………………………
2. If I had known she was sick, I would have visited her.
Had…………………………………………………………………………………
3. Provided you keep my car carefully, you can use it
So long as…………………………………………………………………………….
4. You really should be able to dress yourself by now.
It’s high time you ………………………………………………………………………
5. I wish I hadn’t told him what we were planing to do that evening.
I regret………………………………………………………………………………
6. I have never eaten with knives and forks before.
It’s the…………………………………………………………………………………….
7. I have a six o’clock deadline for this work.
This work…………………………………………………………………………………
8. Chrismas won’t be the same if we don’t have any snow.
I’ll be………………………………………………………………………………….
9. “I think the whole idea’s ridiculous”, he said
He dismissed……………………………………………………………………………….
10. He regretted ot inviting her to his birthday party.
He wished…………………………………………………………………………………
Question 10 (5 points): Use the suggestions to complete each of the following sentences
1. They/ waiting for/ important visitor
2. She/ going/ open/ new secondary school.

3. We/ wait until/ see/ train
4. When/ train stops/ band/start playing.
5. As soon as she arrive/ at/ school/ children will begin cheering.
THE END.