Trắc nghiệm tiếng anh 10 Unit 3: People background (P1)

Choose the word whose bolded part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

Question 1:

• a. found
• b. shout

• c. bought

• d. mouse

Question 2:

• a. known

• b. king
• c. make
• d. dark

Question 3: 

• a. question

• b. education
• c. situation
• d. collection

Question 4: 

• a. find

• b. gift

• c. private
• d. night

Question 5: 

• a. mature

• b. back
• c. dad
• d. matter

Choose the best answer a, b, c or d for each sentence.

Question 6: By the end of last summer, the farmers _____all the crop..

• a. harvested

• b. had harvested 

• c. harvest
• d. are harvested 

Question 7: When we went back to the bookstore, the bookseller ____ the book we wanted.

• a. sold

• b. had sold

• c. sells
• d. has sold

Question 8: The director already ____ for the meeting by the time | got to his office

• a. left

• b. had left

• c. leaves
• d. will leave

Question 9: My mother told me she ___ very tired since she came back from a visit to our grandparents.

• a. was

• b. had been

• c. is
• d. has been

Question 10: Susan ____ her family after she had taken the university entrance examination.

• a. phoned

• b. had phoned
• c. phones
• d. is phoning

Question 11: How many cities you and your uncle ____ by July last summer? 

• a. visited
• b. had visited
• c. did you visit

• d. had you visited

Question 12: Miss Jane ___  typing the report when her boss came in.

• a. didn't finish

• b. hadn't finished

• c. doesn’t finish
• d. can’t finish 

Question 13: Peter was in New York last week; he ____ in Washington D.C. three days earlier.

• a. was

• b. had been

• c. is
• d. was being

Question 14: Three women, none of whom we ____ before, ____ out of the hall.

• a. saw-had come

• b. had seen-came

• c. saw-came
• d. had seen-had come

Question 15: They ____ through horrible times during the war years.

• a. lived

• b. had lived
• c. live
• d. are living

Question 16: In our modern time, human life has become better and better. The ___ are high.

• a. beautiful standards
• b. ethical standards

• c. living conditions

• d. working securities

Question 17: I cannot make up my mind yet. What would you do if you were in my ___?

• a. position

• b. armchair
• c. stand
• d. condition

Question 18: _____, Peter managed to arrive at the departure spot on time to join the trip with his friends.

• a. Although of some troubles on the way
• b. Because of some troubles on the way
• c. Had some troubles on the way

• d. Though he got some troubles on the way

Question 19: As soon as we ____ at the airport to say good bye to Tom, his plane _____.

• a. will arrive / will take off
• b. have arrived / is going to take off

• c. arrived / had taken off

• d. is arriving / took off

Question 20: I wish I ____ in London last year.

• a. was
• b. were
• c. would be

• d. had been

Question 21: If he ____ a message, we _____ it two days ago.

• a. sent / would receive

• b. had sent / would have received

• c. has sent / would have been
• d. sent / would have received

Question 22: While they ____ up the west coast, they ran out of food. 

• a. is sailing
• b. have been sailing

• c. were sailing

• d. will be sailing

Question 23: _____ her intermediate course she began an advanced one. 

• a. No sooner had she finished

• b. No sooner she had finished
• c. No sooner did she finish
• d. No sooner she finished

Question 24: If he ____ here now, we would ask his opinion.

• a. is

• b. were

• c. has been
• d. had been

Question 25: It was heavy traffic that ____ at the office on time.

• a. prevented us to arrive

• b. prevented us from arriving

• c. we prevented to arrive
• d. we were prevent to arrive

Question 26: Among my students Peter was the first who got the scholarship to study aboard.

• a. to get the scholarship

• b. to getting the scholarship
• c. that got the scholarship
• d. whom to get the scholarship

Question 27: _____, you have to assume responsibility for human health and life.

• a. As a doctor

• b. Who is a doctor
• c. As a doctor working
• d. That you are a doctor

Question 28: The crowd was ____ large ____ enthusiastic.

• a. either / nor
• b. neither / or

• c. not only / but also 

• d. both / or

Question 29: The volunteers, _____ enthusiasm was obvious, finished the work quickly.

• a. who
• b. whom

• c. whose

• d. that

Question 30: I have not yet received the letter _____.

• a. which you referred

• b. to which you referred

• c. to that you referred
• d. you referred

Error identification.

Question 31: With knowledge gaining from years of working as a telegraph operator, he learned the basics of electricity.

• a. With knowledge 

• b. gaining

• c. working as a telegraph operator
• d. basics of electricity

Question 32: Before he retired last month, Mr. Smith has been working as a secretary in the House of Parliament.

• a. Before

• b. has been working 

• c. as
• d. a secretary

Question 33: Chemistry is often called the central science because it connects other sciences together, so as physics, biology or geology.

• a. is often called
• b. because
• c. together

• d. so as

Question 34: Since there are no tickets left for the concert, they would rather go to the movies than going home. 

• a. Since
• b. there are no tickets
• c. would rather go

• d. going home

Question 35: Not only did John approve of my project but alee gave me some serious information.

• a. Not only did
• b. approve

• c. but also gave

• d. serious information

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers. He was born in Illinois in a family of a doctor. In his schooldays, Ernest became an excellent sportsman. He played football, was a member of the swimming team, and learned to box, as a result of which his nose was broken and an eye injured. At school he was a successful student. He wrote prose and poetry for the school library magazine, and edited the school newspaper.

In 1917, when World War I broke out, he wanted to join the army but was refused because of his eye. Then he left home and went to Kansas City, where he worked as a newspaper reporter. In 1918 he tried to join the army again and was given a job of driving American Red Cross ambulances on the Italian front. Two months later he was badly wounded. In 1920, he returned to the USA. He began to support himself by his pen. To get the material for his future stories and  novels, Hemingway traveled to many places all over the world. His first work, “Three Stories and Ten Poems”, was written in 1923. Then followed his masterpiece, the novel “A Farewell to Arms”, a protest against war, which was published in 1929 and made the author famous.

During World War II, Hemingway was a war-correspondent. Hemingway’s last work, “The Old Man and the Sea”, written in 1952, is about the courage of an old fisherman, who was fighting 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. Hemingway passed way in 1961 in the USA.

Question 36: Ernest Hemingway’s father was ____.

• a. a writer
• b. a sportsman 

• c. a doctor

• d. a reporter

Question 37: Ernest Hemingway used to be _____ in World War I.

• a. a driver

• b. a doctor
• c. an army officer
• d. a professional boxer

Question 38: Which sentence is not true?

• a. Hemingway was a good student when he was at school.

• b. Hemingway was a soldier during the World War I.

• c. Hemingway won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
• d. Hemingway traveled a lot.

Question 39: He began to support himself by his pen.

• a. He began to earn money by selling pens.
• b. He supported those who sold pens.
• c. He supported those who could write. 

• d. He began to earn money by writing stories and novels.

Question 40: Hemingway _____.

• a. had no works about wars 
• b. did not write poems
• c. was a driver during the World War II

• d. became famous after publishing “A Farewell to Arms” 

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

Sir Davy Humphry is considered to be (Question 41) _____ famous son of Penzance and one of the (Question 42) ______ scientists of the 19th century. Davy was born in Penzance in 1778, the son of a woodcarver. (Question 43) ___ the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a fecal doctor and became (Question 44) _____ in chemistry. In 1798 he left to work in a medical laboratory in Bristol. There he (Question 45) _____ the pain releaving effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) and suggested its anaesthetic use. When he was 24, Davy was a professor (Question 46) ____ chemistry at the Royal Institution. He founded the science of electro-chemistry and discovered 6 new elements (Question 47) ____ potassium and sodium. He became famous and was honoured throughout Europe. Davy is remembered now for his work on the miner’s safety lamp (Question 48) _____ bears his name, but perhaps his greatest contribution to science was the (Question 49) _____ he gave to the young Michael Faraday. Davy supported the Royal Geological Society in enzance and (Question 50) _____ money to his old school. He died in 1829.

Question 41:

• a. most

• b. the most

• c. more
• d. the more

Question 42:

• a. lead
• b. leader

• c. leading

• d. leadership

Question 43:

• a. In
• b. On

• c. At

• d. For

Question 44:

• a. interested

• b. excited
• c. delighted
• d. keen

Question 45:

• a. disappeared

• b. discovered

• c. disappointed
• d. dismissed

Question 46:

• a. for
• b. at
• c. on

• d. of

Question 47:

• a. including

• b. involving
• c. consisting
• d. submitting

Question 48:

• a. what
• b. whom

• c. which

• d. of which

Question 49:

• a. courage
• b. encourage
• c. encouraging

• d. encouragement

Question 50:

• a. missed

• b. left

• c. comitted
• d. threw