Bài tập môn tiếng anh lớp 10 (52)

BÀI TẬP TRẮC NGHIỆM TIẾNG ANH LỚP 10
I. PRONUNCIATION : Pick out the word which has the underlined part
pronounced differently from the rest.
1. a. stir
b. tired
c. sign
d. strike
2. a. technician
b. chimney
c. churn
d. discharge
3. a. device
b. certain
c. deck
d. cell
4. a. cough
b. laugh
c. enough
d. freight
5. a. sit
b. alive
c. river
d. live
II. VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION : Choose the most suitable word or phrase.
1. The King was walking ______ through the palace.
a. majestically
b. deliciously
c. attractively
d. usually
2. The motor boat was turning back and ______ the water to foam.
a. gathering

b. coming
c. churning
d. removing
3. Modern inventions have ______ housework.
a. made
b. facilitated
c. discharged
d. assembled
4. It is a magnificent palace that I have ever seen.
a. ugly
b. extremely beautiful
c. small d. powerful
5. My watch is ______. It does not let water through.
a. water-supply
b. waterway
c. water-wheel
d. waterproof
6. He failed to conceal his ______ at my success.
a. envy
b. cargo
c. contribution
d. captain
7. I need a pencil _______.
a. sharp
b. sharply
c. sharpen
d. sharpener
8. He spent the summer ______ his farm.
a. on
b. of

c. at
d. about
9. The paddle-boxes are gorgeous ______ a picture ______ the boat’s name.
a. of / on
b. with / at
c. with / above
d. on / on
10. ______ last time it rained here was 8 months ago.
a. a
b. an
c. the
d. no article
III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE : Identify the one underlined word or
phrase that must be changed in order to make the sentence correct.
1. I am only interesting in what he did.
a
b
c
d
2. He can not make everybody understood him whenever he speaks French.
a
b
c
d


3. The pupil punishing by the teacher yesterday is very lazy.
a
b
c

d
4. Peter advised me reading some more books.
a
b
c
d
5. If you don’t allow me entering. I’ll break down the door.
a
b
c
d
6. Knew that he was poor, I offered to pay his fare.
a
b
c
d
7. He had a telephone installing in his car.
a b
c
d
8. The boat, tie to a port, was being tossed up and down by the sea.
a
b
c
d
9. The boy, climbed up the tree to get birds’ eggs, had a bad fall.
a
b
c
d

10. Leaves kept to fall and I felt tired of keeping the yard clean.
a
b
c
d
IV. READING COMPREHENSION :
A. Read the text carefully and then choose the correct answers.
When Mark Twain was eleven years old, his father died leaving nothing to his wife and
four children. Mark Twain had to leave school and look for a work. His elder brother was
working as a printer and he helped the boy to learn printing. For some years, he worked
as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his brother, who at that time had started
a small newspaper. The two young men published it themselves. Mark Twain wrote short
humorous stories and printed them for their newspaper. In 1853, Mark Twain decided to
leave home. He went to New York, and then to Philadelphia, where he worked as a
printer. When he was a boy, he dreamed of becoming a sailor. At 20, he found a job on a
boat traveling up and down the Mississippi, but he had to pay 100 dollars to get the job.
On that boat he learned the work of a sailor.
1. How old was Mark Twain when his father died ?
a. 11
b. 12
c. 20
d. 21
2. Why did he have to leave school ?
a. Because his father died and left nothing to the family.
b. Because he disliked school.
c. Because he enjoyed adventures.
d. Because he wanted to work as a sailor.
3. What did his brother teach him ?
a. literature
b. printing

c. history
d. writing


4. What did he do in Philadelphia ?
a. teacher
b. writer
c. printer
d. worker
5. Mark Twain used to dream of becoming a ______.
a. teacher
b. writer
c. printer
d. sailor
B. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
... I was spending the month of March, 1882 in Europe at Mentone. It was a quiet and
(1) ______ place with sunshine and bright blue sea. Usually rich people do not come
there. Now (2) ______ then, a rich man comes and I happened to (3) ______ friends with
him, an Englishman. I shall call him Smith. One day in the hotel at the second breakfast
he suddenly said :
“Look at the man (4) ______ out at the door.”
“Why ?”
“Do you know who he is ?”
“Yes. He spent several days here before you came. He is an old, retired, and very rich
businessman from Lyons, they say, and I think he is alone in the world for he always
looks (5) ______ and dreamy, and doesn’t talk with anybody. His name is Theophile
Magnan”.
(by Mark Twain)
1. a. rest
b. restful

c. restfully
d. restfulness
2. a. with
b. and
c. or
d. nor
3. a. make
b. do
c. take
d. get
4. a. go
b. to go
c. going
d. went
5. a. sad
b. sadly
c. sadden
d. saddenned