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Class: 10…………
ENGLISH TEST 1
Time: 45 minutes Sample 2
Period:16 - Date: September ………, 2009
Question 1: Listen to the talk and fill in the blank with the words you hear: (2,5ps)
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7
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, 1867. She received general education
in (1)___________schools and some scientific training from her father. As a brilliant and
mature student, Marie haboured the (2) _________ of a scientific career, which was impossible
for a woman at that time. In 1891, Mary, with very little money to live on, went to Paris to (3)
________ her dream at the Sorbonne. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked
extremely hard. She earned a degree in (4) ________ with flying colours and went to take (5)
________ degree in Mathematics.
1. a. locals b. local c. total d. totally
2. a. dreamt b. dreaming c. dream d. dreams
3. a. realize b. realizes c. release d. releases
4. a. physics b. physic c. physicist d. physical
5. a. other b. others c. the other d. another
Question 2: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow: (2,5ps)
Alexandre Yersin
Alexandre Yersin was born in 1863 in Switzerland. In 1882, he received a baccalaureate
(1) _______in literature, and in 1888, after having graduated from a medical school in Paris he
formally changed his (2) ________to French. He joined Dr. Louis Pasteur’s team at about the
same time. Thereafter, he became famous through many of the pioneering work done by
Pasteur’s team. His (3) ______brought him to Vietnam. In July 1891, his expedition to the
highlands of Viet Nam brought to the discovery of Da Lat, and later many water sources in this
region. Although Yersin loved Da Lat, his home was located in Nha Trang, where he built the
Pasteur (4) _________.
A. Fill in each blank with one word from the box: (2ps)

Institute wanderlust addressed citizenship degree awarded
B. Answer the questions: (0,5 p)
1. Where did Alexandre Yersin live?
a. Switzerland b. France c. Da Lat d. Nha Trang
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Question 3: Grammar: (2,5 ps)
A. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence: (1p)
1. Shakespeare is a________________.
a. famous-world playwright b. world-famous playwright
c. playwright world-famous d. playwright famous-world
2. ______________ did she buy at the store yesterday? – Some food.
a. Who b. When c. Why d. What
B. Put the verbs into the correct form: (0,5 p)
1. My mother …… some food in the kitchen at present. She always …….. in the mornings.
a. cooks; cooks b. cooks; is cooking c. is cooking; cooks d. is cooking; is cooking
2. Did Carol agree ..............camping with you?
a. go b. to go c. going d. goes
C. Make questions from the underlined words: (1p)
1. I want to see that film because people say it is very good.
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2. It lasted forty-five minutes.  ……………………………………………………………………………
Question 4: Writing: (2,5ps) Write a summary of the following passage ( at most 5 sentences)
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. When he was four,
his family moved to Hannibal, a port town on the Mississippi River, which later served as the
inspiration for the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn. In 1847, when Twain was eleven, his father fell ill with pneumonia and died
that March. As a teenager Twain worked as an apprentice printer; when he was sixteen, he
began writing humorous articles and newspaper sketches. When he was eighteen, he left
Hannibal, working as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. At the age

of 22, Twain returned to Missouri and worked as a riverboat pilot and earned $250 which was a
“pricely amount” back then, until trade was interrupted by the American Civil War in 1861.
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