Đề thi vào lớp 10 (8)

ĐỀ THI VÀO LỚP 10 (8)
TRUONG VAN ANH
SAIGON UNIVERSITY
I. Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:
1. A. Exhibition B. Neighborhood
C. Hot D. Humid
2. A. Grocery B. Month
C. Comfort D. money









II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others. Write A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
3. A. Travel B. Exchange
C. Collect D. Enjoy
4. A. Captain B. Fasten
C. Pilot D. Device









III. Choose the word/ phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the space in each sentence.
5. The policeman warned us ..................... there.
A. to not go B. not to go C. not go D. not go to
6. She is very good ................. tennis. She never loses when playing with her friends.
A. at B. for C. in D. on
7. If we ................ The water, we will have no fresh water to use.
A. polluting B. pollution C. pollute D. polluted





8. ‘Why are you driving so fast?’ “I’m _______”.
A. being hurry B. in a hurry
C. in hurry D. hurry
9. Do you know ......................?
A. how old is the earth B. how old was the earth
C. how old the earth is D. how old the earth was
10. The harder you try, ……………...
A. the most success you achieve
B. you achieve the more success
C. the more success you achieve
D. the better you achieve success





11. My house _________in 1986.
A. is built B. was building
C. was built D. has been built
12. The doctor _________me not to stay up too late at night.
A. advised B. suggested C. insisted D. make
13. Tomorrow we`ll go to Noi Bai Airport to meet Maryam, _________comes from Malaysia.
A. who B. whom
C. whose D. that







14. His house looks very large and beautiful. It is _________house.
A. a seven-room B. a seven-rooms C. seven room D. seven rooms
IV. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting.
15. Can (A) you tell me (B) what you have done (C) at 8 o’clock (D) last night?
16. Hamlet was (A) wrote (B) by (C) William Shakespeare (D).







V. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Singapore is an island city of about three million people. It’s a beautiful city with lots of parks and open spaces. It’s also a very (17)______ city.
Most of the people (18)______ in high-rise flats in different parts of the island. The business district is very modern with (19)______ of high new office buildings. Singapore also has some nice older sections. In Chinatown, there (20)______ rows of old shop houses. The government buildings in Singapore are very beautiful and date from the colonial days.









Singapore is famous (21)______ its shops and restaurants. There are many good shopping centers. Most of the goods are duty free. Singapore’s restaurants sell Chinese, Indian, Malay and European food, and the (22) _______ are quite reasonable.
17. A. large B. dirty C. small D. clean
18. A. live B. lives C. are living D. lived
19. A. lot B. lots C. many D. much
20. A. is B. will be C. were D. are
21. A. in B. on C. at D. for
22. A. prices B. value C. money D. prizes






VI. Read the passage, then decide if the statements that follow it are True or False.
Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsa, Poland, on 7th November 1867. Her childhood was not happy. Her older sister died when she was nine and her mother died when she was eleven. For years after the death of her mother, she left school. That was a difficult time, too. She couldn`t go to university because universities in Poland were not open to women, so she taught herself.
In 1891 Maria went to Paris to study physics. She did very well and got her degree in 1893. A year after she got her physics degree she got a math degree, too. This was only a few weeks before she met a clever young man called Pierre Curie. They got married in 1895 and Maria became Marie Curie. The Curies had two daughters:










Irene, born in 1897, and Eve, born in 1904. Before the bith of Irene, Marie started working with Pierre. Together they discovered radium in 1898.
In 1903 Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics and they became very famous. Then, there years later, Pierre died and Marie`s world changed forever.
23. Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsa, America.
24. She got there degrees: physics, math and chemical.
25. Marie and Pierre discovered radium in 1898.
26. They had two daughter: Irene and Eve.









VII. Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence .
27. The factories have had the environment _______. [pollute]
28. The TV became ______ after a long time. [use]
29. The audience was ______ that the players played badly. [disappoint]
30. The ______ has tested the vaccine for three times. [science]
31. Ho Chi Minh City survived the pandemic ______. [success]






32. The vaccine has been _____ to every province and city in the country. [distribute]
VIII. Use the correct tense or form of the verb given in each sentences.
33. If it _____ heavily, the street would be flooded. [rain]
34. We wish that Coved 19 ____ over soon. [be]
35. He _____ for the company for five years. [work]
36. The teacher had the exercises ____ at home. [do]






IX. Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it.
37. It is hard to learn Russian.
 To learn
38. Henry spent three hours mending the fence.
 It took
39. Her house has ten rooms.
 It is
40. She got some one to send the letter.
 She









Good luck!