Đề luyện thi vào Lớp 10 chuyên Tiếng Anh Global Success - Đề 23 (Có đáp án)

 16. The truant was ............. from school for unbecoming behavior.
A. dispelled B. repelled C. compelled D. expelled
17. The light from the car .............. as it receded into the distance.
A. seeped out B. faded away C. shone out D. rolled away
18. Nobody would call me an alcoholic, but I like to have a drink of beer ............. and then.
A. now B. when C. often D. there
19. I really don’t like the shoes, and ............. they aren’t my size, so I don’t want to buy them.
A. further B. however C. anyway D. even if
20. The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it 
encouraged others to attempt .............. .
A. original themes B. to original themes
C. that were original themes D. how original themes
Your answers
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Question 2. Mistake correction 
 There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Find them and correct them
 Many different kinds of insurance are available to deaf people today but weren’t in past. It was 
the year 1898 that an insurance company for deaf people was born. A small group of young deaf man 
had a meeting in this year. They were all worried. At that time, only deaf people were not allowed to 
buy insurance. The group worked hard during the three years making research. They were ready for 
action at the second meeting. That meeting was historic because the men found the Fraternal Society 
of the Deaf. The first few years on the Fraternal Society of the Deaf were difficult. There was no money 
for an office, so they worked in their home. Since the company was very young, there was no money 
to pay for deadly benefits. If a member passed away, each of the other members gave one dollar to 
help pay for burial costs. As time passed by, the company grew. As it grew, the benefits improved. 
Health insurance has added. In 1905, the first office opened in Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, the name of 
the company changed. The new name, still is used today, was the National Fraternal Society of the 
Deaf, NFSD.
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Question 3. Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition
1. He got ............... his examination fairly well although his health had broken down a few days before 
it started 
2. I couldn’t understand a thing they were talking about. I was ............... sea. 
3. I hate people who give ............... the end of film that you haven’t seen . 
4. When you look .............. the matter in the library, did you find any question? 
5. Someone who robs an old lady of all her savings is ............. contempt and deserves to be punished.
6. He was poor, but he rent a mansion and set himself .............. as a millionaire. 
7. I must find the time and energy to get ............. to doing that job. 
8. The dog ran away from me and disappeared ............. the hill . 
9.As nobody seems to know what to do next, may I put .............. a proposal? 
10. ............ all likelihood, we will never know the real reason.
Your answers
1 ........ 2 .......... 3.......... 4 .......... 5........... 6 ......... 7 8 9 10 7. When did Motorola introduce the first cell-phones for commercial use?
A. in the same year when AT&T constructed a cell phone system
B. in 1983
C. in the same year when he first made a cell-phone call
D. in 1981
8. When did AT&T widely start their cellular phone system?
A. 37 years after their first design B. in 1981
C. in 2001 D. in 1977
9. What does the word “gazed” in line 21mean?
A. angrily looked B. glanced
C. started conversation D. looked with admiration
10. The phrase tried it out in the last paragraph refers to?
A. tested the cell-phone system B. reported on AT&T
C. introduced the cell phone system D. made effort to sell the cell-phones
Your answers
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Question 2. You are going to read a newspaper article about sleep. Five paragraphs have been removed 
from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A – F the one which fits each gap (1 – 5). There is one 
extra paragraph which you do not need to use. 
 Enough Sleep?
 Tiredness, it is often claimed, has become the modern conditions. As the richer, busier countries 
have grown, so sleeplessness and anxiety have also grown in the popular psyche. Research in the USA 
has found 40 million Americans to be chronically affected, and some recent best-selling novels in 
Britain have featured insomniacs as protagonists, or sleep-research laboratories as their settings. 
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 Recently, a sleep researcher fried an experiment. He offered his subjects the opposite of the 
modern routine. “I allowed them to sleep for up to 14 hours a night for a month. It took them three 
weeks to reach an equilibrium of eight-and-a-quarter hours. That indicates a great rebound of sleep – 
sleep that they hadn’t been getting.
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 For guinea pigs, they advertise in the student newspapers. Subjects are picked up by taxi, paid $ 5 
an hour, and asked to adjust their sleeping patterns according to instructions. Dr. Louise Reyner 
provides reassurance: “Some people are quite worried, because you’re putting electrodes on their 
heads, and they think you can see what they’re dreaming or thinking.”
 3
 The young men all deny they are going to fall asleep. Dr. Reyner has a video recording of one trying 
not to. At first the person at the wheel is very upright, wet and bleary eyes determinedly fixed on the 
windscreen. Then he begins to blink briefly, every now and again; then for longer, and more often, 
with a slight drop of the head. Each nod grows heavier than the last. The blinks become a 10-second 
blackout. Every time, he jerks awake as if nothing has happened. But the car, by the second or third 
occasion, has shot off the carriageway.
 4 ......... why people read - and often don't read -technical information, they have to examine so much 
the writing as the reader. 
 Even the most technically confident people often (4) ......... instructions for the video on home 
computer in favour of hands-on experience. And people frequently (5) ......... little consumer 
information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts a Psychologists researching 
reading (6) ......... to assume that both beginners and competent readers read everything put in 
front of them from start to finish. There are arguments among them about the (7) .........of eyes, 
memory and brain during the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (8) ......... every letter or 
word they see: others (9) ......... that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase 
to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, 
comprehension (10) ......... then reading stops.
1.A. suggests B. transmits C. advises D. informs
2.A. content B. topic C. subject D. text
3.A. ensure B. determine C. value D. rate
4.A. miss B. omit C. pass D. ignore
5.A. get B. pay C. take D. make
6.A. tend B. undertake C. lead D. consent
7.A. concern B. role C. share D. relation
8.A. up B. over C. out D. in
9.A. insist B. direct C. urge D. press
10.A. sets B. occurs C. issues D. establishes
Your answers
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Question 2. Read the passage and fill each gap with ONE suitable word
 It is not surprising that actors want to be pop stars and vice versa. (1) ..................... that is deep in a 
part of our brain that most of us manage to keep under control, we all want to be pop stars and actors. 
Sadly, there’s nothing about the (2) ..................... profession that automatically qualifies you for the 
other, except, of course, for the fact that famous actors and singers are already surrounded by people 
who never say no to them. (3) ..................... the whole, pop stars tend to fare better on screen than 
their (4) ..................... numbers do on CD. Let’s (5) ..................... it: not being able to act is no big 
drawback in Hollywood, whereas not being able to play or sing still tends to count (6) ..................... you 
in the recording studio. 
Some stars do display a genuine proficiency in both disciplines, and a few even maintain successful 
careers in both fields, but this just (7) ..................... a bad example for all the others. For every success, 
there are two dozen failures. And most of them have no idea how terrible they are. (8) ..................... 
as power tends to corrupt, so celebrity tends to destroy the ability to gauge whether or not you’re 
making a fool of (9) ..................... .
 But perhaps we shouldn’t criticize celebrities for trying to expand their horizons in this way. (10) 
..................... there is one good thing about actors trying to sing and singers trying to act, it is that it 
keeps them all too busy to write books. 
Your answers
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Question 3. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. N0(0) has been done
 People of the Forest B. Essay writing
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? High schools should allow students to study the 
courses that students want to study. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 
Write at least 250 words
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 ............................... THe end ............................. B. Essay writing (20 marks)
The impression mark is based on the following scheme: 
1. Content: 10 points: a provision of all main ideas and details as appropriate
2. Language: 5 points: a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English 
 language gifted upper-secondary school students
3. Presentation: 5 points: coherence, cohesion, and style appropriate to the level of English language 
 gifted upper-secondary school students. 
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