Đề ôn luyện môn Anh Chung vào 10 trường THPT Chuyên Sư Phạm - số 1

1/5/2024 6:15:00 AM

Đề thi được biên soạn theo cấu trúc đề minh họa môn Anh Chung kỳ thi tuyển sinh trường THPT Chuyên Sư Phạm năm 2025.

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
  • open
  • solar

  • homeless

  • polluted

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

  • wonder 

  • sword

  • power

  • answer

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.

  • distribute
  • monitor
  • automate
  • influence

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.

  • urban
  • unique
  • casual
  • formal

If you participate in our trip, you can experience _____ of surfing!

  • the best of both worlds
  • the thrills and spills
  • the whole nine yards
  • the elephant in the room

I regret telling you about my plan to enter that singing competition! If only I _____ you.

  • told
  • had told
  • hadn't told
  • didn't tell

He didn't speak a word of French when he first moved to France, so he had to _____ the language.

  • hold up
  • pick up
  • try on
  • hang on

Ann couldn't cut the grass because the lawnmower _____ a few days previously.

  • breaks down
  • has been broken
  • had broken down
  • broke down

He is _____ he has bought a lot of houses in this area.

  • so rich a man that
  • so a rich man that
  • as rich a man that
  • such rich a man that

When you're ready to _____ to your former friend, a simple apology might be the best place to start.

  • hold out an olive branch
  • hit the ground running
  • drop a clanger
  • get bent out of shape

Jenny had a bad experience shopping at that store; _____, she decided never to shop there again.

  • consequently
  • otherwise
  • on the other hand
  • furthermore

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The company will carry out a detailed analysis of the market trends.

  • cancel
  • continue
  • suggest
  • seek

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).

She was terrified of heights, so climbing the tall tower was a challenge for her.

  • worried
  • uncomfortable
  • suitable
  • calm

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Social media has evolved from simply a means of communication between friends to a powerful marketing tool for businesses.

  • mode
  • gap
  • sign
  • lack

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The restaurant's outdoor seating area faces the harbor where boats come and go throughout the day.

  • covers
  • overlooks
  • highlights
  • streams

What does the sign say?

  • Customers must pay if their shopping takes more than two hours.
  • Customers can park free only if they spend 30€ in the supermarket.
  • Customers must remove their vehicles within two hours of parking.
  • Customers will be fined €30 for parking next to the supermarket.

What does the sign say?

  • Add lemon to the drink before you store it in the fridge.
  • The drink should be served at room temperature.
  • Once opened, the drink should be used within 30 minutes.
  • Chill the drink in the fridge before you use it.

What does the sign say?

  • We give lost property away if it is not collected after two weeks.
  • We will look after your property for two weeks if you pay a fee.
  • We hold onto lost belongings for a maximum of two weeks.
  • We will return lost items to the owners after two weeks of processing.

Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.

What do you know about sign language? 

Around 5% of people in the world can't hear or can't hear very well so how do they to each other? They use their hands, face, and body to have a conversation. Do you also know that  are many different kinds of sign languages? English is spoken in Britain, the USA, and Australia  British, American, and Australian sign languages are not the same.

It is quite easy to teach yourself sign language. Look online and you'll find hundreds of video lessons. You also download an app on your phone.

It isn't clear when people first started using sign language. However,  people agree that the first sign language dictionary was written in 1620.

You are going to read a magazine article about people who make short films. Choose the section that contains the information in each question. The sections may be chosen more than once.

A short cut to Hollywood

We meet the most successful young makers of short films in Britain. These short films usually last no more than ten minutes and are often shown before the main films in cinemas.

A. Kevin Teller and Justin O'Brien (Jumping Gerald)

Anyone who saw Together, the surprise arthouse hit, will have been as charmed by Jumping Gerald, the short film which ran before it, as they were by the main feature film itself. Yet Gerald's creators faced financial difficulties from the start, and the final version wasn't even finished until the eve of its first screening. As they sat in the cinema watching it for the first time, it dawned on Teller and O'Brien just what they had achieved. 'The way people were laughing,' Teller remembers, 'we knew we were on to a good thing.' Jumping Gerald was nominated for Best Short Film at the British Film Festival; although it missed out on the award, it was thought by many to have deserved it. The two men are presently involved in their second production. 'We make a good team,' Teller says, 'and we'll continue to work as one. Unless, of course, one of us gets an offer he can't refuse.'

B. The Collin brothers (Oh Josephine!)

Tim and Mark Collins first fell in love with the art of film-making when they were young boys. Their father was often abroad on business, and his two sons would send him video diaries to inform him of the goings-on at home. Several years later, their first short film was lucky ever to get made. At the time, Tim was writing a novel between takes, and Mark was preparing to get married. Oh Josephine! was made with a cast of hundreds for just S500, but it went on to win several video awards nevertheless. The film really began to get the brothers noticed, and several others followed, all exceptionally well-received. The brothers now feel ready to move into full-length feature films, and are busy writing a screenplay. The only disadvantage of having had such a perfect start to their careers is the weight of expectations: they have to keep coming up with the goods.

C. Brian Radley and Nicky Tomlinson (More Cake Please)

Radley and Tomlinson's very first short film, More Cake Please, was nominated for a prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival. Tomlinson says, 'We couldn't believe it when we found ourselves on a red carpet at Cannes. No one knew who on earth we were, but that couldn't have mattered less.' Although More Cake Please didn't win, Radley and Tomlinson were sufficiently encouraged by the nominations to enter the film into Channel Four's short film competition at the British Film Festival. To their surprise it won, and their film-making career began to look even better with Channel Four's promise to fund their next project. The duo had chosen university courses—in media and drama—with a film-making future in mind but, disenchanted with the theoretical rather than practical experience of the industry that was provided, both men left university before completing their courses and went to work for production companies in London. They place enormous value on the hands-on experience that their work on film sets provided them with. 'We've seen so many directors get it wrong, that we kind of know how to get it right,' says Radley.

D. Hiroko Katsue and Mica Stevlovsky (The Big One)

Katsue and Stevlovsky speak fondly of the days when every feature film at the cinema was preceded by a short film. Katsue and Stevlovsky's short-film-making debut, The Big One, was rather unusual, as it became the cinema advertisement for Big Issue magazine. It won award after award. 'Winning a festival is great in that it raises your profile, but it doesn't mean you can rest on your laurels,' says Stevlovsky. 'Right, you can't just expect things to happen for you,' echoes Katsue. 'You could spend years going around festivals with the same old film, but we're not into that. We're always looking for different sorts of projects, never standing still. Even when we're lying on a beach on holiday, we both have ideas churning around in our heads.'

Which film-makers produced a short film at a very busy time in their lives?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers are realistic about their future together?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers mention the need to keep on working hard at producing short films?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers gained financial assistance after impressing an organization in the film world?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers suddenly realized the great potential of their film?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers felt their studies were not providing them with what they wanted?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Which film-makers now have a reputation for excellence which can put pressure on them?

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Read the article about the Winter Olympics and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Winter Olympics

In 1924 both the summer and the first winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix. The new winter games were very small compared to the winter Olympics we know today. There were only six competitions, including skiing races, ice skating and ice hockey.

At Chamonix there were 300 athletes, but only thirteen of these were women. At the first games of the 21st century in Salt Lake City in 2002 there were over two thousand sportsmen and women in seventy-eight competitions but still only around a quarter of these were women. The number of countries taking part has not grown very much because there are not as many countries that have the right weather to do winter sports.

Norway won the most gold medals at Chamonix but their most famous sports star didn’t win anything. In fact she came last! However, this was because Sonja Henie was only 11 years old at the time. She went on to win three gold medals for skating in the next three Winter Olympic games.

Both the winter and summer games were in France in 1924 but that soon changed. Since 1928 the summer and winter games have always been in different countries and since 1994 they have not even been in the same year.

There were fewer competitions at the first Winter Olympic games than there are today.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

At Salt Lake City there were many more countries that sent teams to the winter Olympics than at Chamonix.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

In the 21st century, there are the same number of men and women in the winter Olympics.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

Norway has won more competitions than any other country in the history of the winter Olympics.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

Sonja Henie didn’t do well at Chamonix because she was too young.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

Sonja Henie was the youngest person to win a gold medal for skating.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

The winter and summer games were in the same year until 1986.

  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Doesn't say

Read the text and questions below. For each question, choose the correct answer.

Imagine if everyone in your street suddenly came out into the road one day and started singing together. Singing teacher Ruth Black believes it would make everyone so friendly that they would never walk past each other again without saying hello.

Singing helps people live in peace together, she says. All over the world people have always sung together and in most places they still do, but in England, it is no longer traditional. Nowadays, says Ruth, people only sing together in churches and football grounds, although it could be done anywhere. Everyone is able to sing, she says, but most of us either think we can't or have forgotten what we learned as children.

However, as with everything musical, you need to practice and the same applies to your voice. Ruth believes that singing itself brings other benefits. It encourages good breathing, for example. Through singing, people often become more confident and also learn to control stress. But more than anything, it brings people together.

When Ruth first started singing, there was little opportunity to sing with others. Then, through a friend, she discovered an excellent singing class and became so keen that she started running her own classes. These are held twice a month for all singers, whatever their level, and are now enormously successful.

(Adapted from EXAM EXTRA PET)

What is the writer trying to do in this article?
  • To explain why singing has become less popular everywhere
  • To describe a teacher's ideas about the importance of singing
  • To advertise a teacher's singing classes
  • To encourage children to learn to sing
What can the reader find out from the article?
  • How singing is something anyone can do
  • Where the best places to learn to sing are
  • Why traditional singing has disappeared
  • How to improve your singing voice

Ruth believes the main benefit of singing with other people is that _____.

  • you learn to breathe more easily
  • you are able to improve your speaking
  • you can get to know other people
  • you become a confident musician
What made Ruth start her own class?
  • She couldn't find a suitable class.
  • She was asked to teach people she knew.
  • She wanted to improve her own teaching.
  • She enjoyed going to a singing class herself.
Which is the best advertisement for Ruth's singing classes?
  • CALLING ALL SINGERS! Want an opportunity to sing with others? We need professional singers to join our group. Come along.
  • THE SOUND OF MUSIC! Our class wants individual singers for a neighborhood street concert. Come and join us.
  • SING WITH US! Think you can't sing? See how you improve with practice! Our popular class is for singers, both with and without experience.
  • SONGS FOR ALL! Can you sing? Try our "Singing for Everyone" class every week and find out! Make new friends.

Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.

We / suggest / John / practice English / more frequently / have / better grades.

  • We suggested John practice English more frequently to have better grades.
  • We suggested John to practice English more frequently to have better grades.
  • We suggested John practicing English more frequently to have better grades.
  • We suggested John should practice English more frequently have better grades.

Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.

reading / help / widen my knowledge / on every aspect.

  • Reading that helps me widen my knowledge on every aspect.
  • It is reading that helps me widen my knowledge on every aspect.
  • Reading it is that helps me widen my knowledge on every aspect.
  • It is reading helps me widen my knowledge on every aspect.

Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.

Despite / his / grades, / Tom / admitted / the university.

  • Despite the fact that his bad grades, Tom was admitted to the university.
  • Despite his grades were bad, Tom was admitted to the university.
  • Despite his bad grades, Tom was admitted to the university.
  • Despite of his bad grades, Tom admitted to the university.

Choose the best sentence that can be made from the words given.

The / man / write / this / poem / my / uncle.

  • The man writing this poem is my uncle.

  • The man writing this poems are my uncle.

  • The man write this poem is my uncle.

  • The man is writing this poem is my uncle.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

You've only spent five minutes on that job, so it is impossible that you did the job properly.

  • Only after proper practice could you possibly complete this task in 5 minutes.
  • With just five minutes spent on that task, it’s out of the question that you handled it properly.
  • If you had only spent 5 minutes on that task, it is likely you would have completed it properly.
  • In no case has anyone successfully finished this complex task in just 5 minutes.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

I don’t think it was reasonable of him to complain so much about the service.

  • If I were you, I would never let him complain so much about the service.
  • His constant complaints about the service were not fair, despite its poor quality.
  • If you ask me, he was not justified in making such a fuss about the service.
  • Such an unreasonable service was it that he can’t stand complaining about it.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

She never lets her daughter participate in an activity unless it is under the supervision of an adult.

  • Activities watched by an adult are the only occasions when she permits her daughter's participation.
  • She always takes her daughter along to activities which are supervised by grown-ups.
  • Her daughter may join events providing that she herself is there to oversee the activity.
  • If an older person is in attendance, she usually agrees to her daughter's participation in activities.

Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

We'd better leave right away as the traffic will be heavy at this hour.

  • We mustn't leave it too late as the roads are likely to be busy for the next hour.
  • The roads are busy at this time of day, thus we ought to set off at once.
  • Let's wait an hour so as to avoid some of the heavy traffic.
  • If we set off now, we will avoid most of the heavy traffic.