Bài tập môn tiếng anh lớp 10 (53)

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. shine
b. final
c. purity
d. crier
2. a. envy
b. try
c. milky
d. happy
3. a. hour
b. pour
c. ourselves
d. our
4. a. carts
b. boys
c. wagons
d. steamers
5. a. cause
b. pause
c. gaudy
d. aunt
II. VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION : Choose the most suitable
word or phrase.
1. A boat propelled by a steam engine is called a ___________.
a. boat steam
b. boat steamer
c. steamboat
d. steamer boat
2. A cheap, gaudy steamboat arrived from St. Louis.

a. cordial
b. richly decorated c. coming
d. quiet
3. ________ up or you’ll be late for school.
a. Hurry
b. Look
c. Stir
d. Arrive
4. She was furious at his bad work.
a. very angry
b. very happy
c. very unlucky d.
very
powerful
5. Smoke is _________ from the chimneys.
a. issuing
b. going
c. coming
d.
all
are
correct
6. A breeze is stirring the leaves.
a. causing to dry b. causing to movec. picking
d. falling
7. They fastened their eyes on the coming boat.
a. glanced at
b. gathered
c. directed their looks d. kept in
touch

8. It was a ________ achievement.
a. worthy praise b. worthier praise c. praising worthy d. praiseworthy
9. I always feel _________ when I am away from home.
a. homesick
b. gaudy
c. worthy
d. furious
10. Food poisoning can cause _________.
a. die
b. dead
c. death
d. deathless


11. There is no __________ so you can not use the computer.
a. power
b. powerful
c. powerless
d. powerlessly
12. I arrived ________ London _________ 10 o’clock last night.
a. at / on
b. in / at
c. on / of
d. for / on
13. I’m sorry, I opened your letter instead ________ mine.
a. up
b. in
c. on
d. of
14. When Peter spent his holidays on a farm, he used to go fishing early in

_______ morning.
a. a
b. an
c. the
d. no article
15. If I had known how to play ________ piano, I would have joined with
you.
a. a
b. an
c. the
d. no article
III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE : Choose the best word, phrase or
sentence.
1. It was an _______ football match.
a. excite
b. to excite
c. excited
d. exciting
2. Peter met some ______ people when he was on the way to New York.
a. interest
b. to interest
c. interested
d. interesting
3. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, _______ in
1865, was Mark Twain’s first literary success.
a. publish
b. to publish
c. publishing
d. published
4. Mr. Thomas does not allow _________ in his office.

a. smoke
b. to smoke
c. smoking
d. smoked
5. I would be nice to go to school without __________ any examinations.
a. take
b. to take
c. taking
d. took
6. Mr. Thomas does not let anyone _______ in his office.
a. smoke
b. to smoke
c. smoking
d. smoked
7. My teacher does not allow us ________ while he is explaining the
lesson.
a. talk
b. to talk
c. talking
d. talked
8. Gravity, ________ by Issac Newton, is being widely applied in
physics.
a. discover
b. to discover
c. discovering
d. discovered
9. My mother told me to take a raincoat with me ________ it rains.
a. because of
b. in spite of
c. in case

d. despite
10. The doctor says _________.


a. that the patient should give us smoking. b. the patient to give up
smoking.
c. giving up smoking
d. the patient give up smoke.
11. The house, _________, attracted everybody.
a. which was decorated beautifully b. decorated beautifully
c. decorating beautifully
d. a and b
12. I do not have enough money ________ this book.
a. buy
b. to buy
c. buying
d. bought
13. Mary never lets me _______ her books.
a. borrow
b. to borrow
c. borrowing
d. borrowed
14. We have plenty of time. We needn’t _______.
a. hurry
b. to hurry
c. hurrying
d. hurried
15. I promised ________ on time. I mustn’t ________ late.
a. be / be
b. to be / to be

c. to be / be
d. be / to be
IV. READING COMPREHENSION :
A. Read the text carefully and then choose the correct answers.
Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers of his age. He
was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in the family of a doctor. In his schooldays,
Ernest became an excellent sportsman. He played football, swam, and boxed.
At school he was a successful pupil. He wrote poems for the school library
magazine and edited the school newspaper. In 1918, he joined the army and
was given a job of driving American Red Cross ambulances on the Italian
front. Two months later, he was badly wounded in the leg. He was taken to a
hospital in Milan where he had twelve operations. In 1923, his first work,
“Three stories and Ten Poems” was written. Hemingway’s last novel, “The
Old Man and the Sea” (1952), is about the courage of an old fisherman, who
was fighting with a big fish and the sea for many hours and won the victory
over them. In 1954 the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and
“The Old Man and the Sea” was mentioned as one of his best works. Ernest
Hemingway died in 1961 when he was 62 years old.
1. When was Hemingway born ?
a. 1899
b. 1900
c. 1901
d. 1982
2. He was a _______ pupil at school.
a. bad
b. slow
c. naughty
d. good
3. What did he do when he joined the army in the World War I ?
a. a taxi driver

b. an ambulance driver
c. a bus driver
d. a lorry driver


4. What was Hemingway’s last work ?
a. For Whom The Bell Tolls
b. A Farewell to Arms
c. Three stories and Ten poems
d. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for _________.
a. medicine
b. physics
c. literature
d. chemistry
B. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
... Smith did not explain the large (1) ________ he had shown in Magnan
but sat thinking (2) _________ some minutes and then began to talk (3)
_______ something else.
About ten that evening I met Smith and he asked me up to his room (4)
________. The room looked nice with comfortable chairs and a friendly fire.
We talked a little and then he told me his story. “A long time (5) ________
I was a young artist and came to France (6) ________ I was traveling from
place to place making sketches. One day, I met two French artists (7)
________ were also moving from place to place making sketches and I
joined them. We were as happy (8) ________ we were poor or as poor as we
were happy, as you like it.
“Claude and Carl - these are the names of those boys - were always in good
spirits and laughed at poverty. We were very poor. We lived (9) ________
the money (10) _______ we got from time to time for our sketches…”

1. a. interest
b. to interest
c. interested
d. interesting
2. a. at
b. of
c. for
d. up
3. a. in
b. about
c. for
d. as
4. a. smoke
b. to smoke
c. smoking
d. smoked
5. a. next
b. up
c. before
d. ago
6. a. why
b. when
c. where
d. whose
7. a. who
b. whom
c. whose
d. why
8. a. as
b. more

c. than
d. less
9. a. about
b. in
c. against
d. on
10. a. who
b. whom
c. which
d. when