Đề số 5 luyện thi vào 10 môn Anh trường THPT Nguyễn Tất Thành

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

apply
university
identity
early

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

plumber
doubt
debt
herbage

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

government
performance
revenue
character

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

wisdom
blossom
exhaust
flower

I had little difficulty _____ the others to come.

persuading
to be persuading
to persuade
persuade

He was very respectful at home and _____ to his parents.

responsible
caring
obedient
lovely

Thousands of _____ packed into the stadium to support their team in the final match.

viewers
witnesses
audiences
spectators

Daisy is addicted _____ social media. She spends lots of time on Facebook and Instagram.

of
to
with
on

The weather is going to change soon – I can feel it in my ______.

bones
legs
teeth
skins

_____ help me make this decision. I’m just so unsure of which direction to take for my future.

I’d sooner you will
I wish you will
If only you could
I’d rather you

Some snakes lay eggs, but _____ give birth to live offspring.

other
the other
others
another

"I can't do this maths problem. Can you please help?" - "_____."

I suppose so
Let me see
Certainly not
You are wrong

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

AUDIOBOOKS - BOOKS ON CASSETTE

In the modern world, there is a 13.1 of leisure activities to choose from. Entertainment industries compete for your leisure time. You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book. Sometimes it seems that reading is neglected because, 13.2 you're a fast reader, it can take a plentiful amount of time to finish a novel, for example. But in the modern world, time is something that can be in short supply.

Book publishers haven't been slow to realize this and are now selling a product which needn't 13.3 as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story. The new product is the audiobook - cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves. Audiobooks are 13.4 new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing all the time.

One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they're like listening to the radio. You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won't ever miss anything. Much of their appeal 13.5 in their flexibility. They allow you to do other things while you're listening, such as driving or doing the housework. For some people, audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of gaining knowledge than reading.

Read the following passage and choose the correct answer.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant considered New York's first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt's inviting facade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870's and early 1880's was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city's newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints.

It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York's first apartments were _____.

highly educated
unemployed
wealthy
young

The phrase "new housing form" discussed in the first passage refers to______

single-family homes
apartment buildings
row houses
hotels

It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870's and 1880's had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT _____.

Its room arrangement was not logical.
It was rectangular,
It was spacious inside.
It had limited light.

The word "commissioned" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

terminated contracts
placed individual orders
postponed construction
transferred ownership

What is the passage mainly about?

Single-family homes
Apartment buildings
Row houses
Hotels

Fill in each blank with ONE best word.

One of the worst journeys I have ever experienced occurred a few weeks ago. I had 19.1 a cheap flight to Rome, so the ticket could not be changed in any way. If I 19.2 the flight, I would not be entitled to use the ticket for any other journey.

When I reached the railway station, I was told that all the trains were running late; this meant I would miss the connecting train for the airport. A loudspeaker announcement helpfully informed us that an extra train would be provided, 19.3 we needn’t worry. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The extra train did not arrive. I inquired about buses, but the last one for the airport had left! There was only one solution: I decided to 19.4 a taxi. Dragging my suitcases behind me, I hurried outside and found a taxi. “It’s a long way. It’ll 19.5 you a lot,” the taxi driver warned me. I knew that, but the taxi fare would be cheaper than having to buy another plane ticket.