Đề thi giữa kì 1 Tiếng Anh 10 English Discovery - Đề số 3

I. PRONUNCIATION

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

1. A. follow B. social C. post D. online

2. A. media B. chemistry C. message D. networking

Choose the word that has a different stressed syllable from the rest.

3. A. geology B. biology C. archaeology D. psychology

4. A. linguist B. analyst C. psychologist D. activist

5. A. conservation B. linguistics C. astronomy D. biology

II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences.

6. The website that I often __________ the most is YouTube. I spend at least 2 hours watching videos

everyday.

A. get B. visit C. go D. post

7. Vinh used to __________ Chemistry, but now he hates it.

A. love B. loved C. loving D. loves

8. To listen to music without Internet connection, you need to __________ music to your smartphone in

advance.

A. download B. update C. watch D. follow

9. My dad __________ his social media profile when his laptop suddenly turned off.

A. updated B. updates C. is updating D. was updating

10. I cannot type on my laptop because the __________ is broken. I need to fix it as soon as possible.

A. laser printer B. mouse C. keyboard D. browser

11. What __________ at 8 a.m. yesterday? - I __________ Mathematics.

A. do you do - study B. did you do - studied

C. were you doing - was studying D. are you doing - am studying

12. I want to study __________ because I am interested in building software.

A. chemistry B. psychology C. linguistics D. computer science

13. People in the past __________ letters to communicate, but now they send text messages instead.

A. are writing B. write C. used to write D. were writing

14. __________ is a natural science that studies objects in space, such as the sun, the moon, planets, and

stars.

A. Astronomical B. Astronomy C. Astronaut D. Astronomic

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15. Google is the most popular __________ in the world. It was originally developed in 1997.

A. search engine B. smartphone C. desktop D. broadband

16. Hoa wants to become a __________ because she wants to help others overcome their mental illnesses.

A. psychology B. psychological C. psychologist D. psychologically

17. She could not log in to her Facebook account as she forgot her __________.

A. password B. text message C. profile D. site

18. I rarely __________ celebrities on social media because I do not care about their private lives.

A. watch B. look C. follow D. chase

19. Nguyen Ha Dong __________ Flappy Bird in 2013, one of the most downloaded free mobile games.

A. create B. was creating C. creates D. created

Write the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

20. When I was a teenager, I __________ (go) online almost every day.

21. My smartphone __________ (drop) when I was taking a picture.

22. My dad __________ (become) an archaeologist in 1984. He still loves studying about our ancestors.

23. I used to be a marine biologist, but now I __________ (be) a conservationist.

24. I __________ (study) Mathematics when I heard a loud noise.

25. Her parents used __________ (take) her to the park every weekend. Now, they are too busy to do that.

III. READING

Read the passage. Match the headings with the paragraph. There is one extra heading.

A modern genius

Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous scientists in the world. He was born in Oxford in 1942 and

lived there till the day he moved to Cambridge to complete his PhD. Before this, however, people already

knew that he was intelligent. When he was a kid, he enjoyed Maths and Science in school very much. He

found both subjects very easy, and it was while he was studying there that his friends began to call him

'Einstein', for fun.

Hawking's first university was actually Oxford, where he studied Physics and Chemistry. During his studies

there, at the age of 21, he became very sick and had problems speaking …