Đề thi thử vào 10 theo mẫu chuẩn SGD TP.HCM số 22

Mr. Richard, _____ help I passed my final examinations, is one of the best teachers.

How about _____ by bike instead of motorbike?

Computers offer a much greater degree of _____ in the way work can be organized.

A well-_____ child often behaves quite differently from one who did not get good schooling.

I don't think he will ever get _____ the shock of his father's death.

I'm sorry I can't hear what you _____ because everybody _____ so loudly.

At first, she was trained to be ____ script writer, but later she worked as _____ secretary.

Only if you do what you tell others ______ as they are told.

Peter: "Do you mind my taking this seat?"

Jean: "______"

Peter: "What a great haircut, Lucy!"

Lucy: "_______"

Read the passage and choose the correct answers.

On the fourth Thursday in November, in houses around the United States, families get together for a feast or a large meal. Almost all families eat turkey and cranberry sauce for this meal and have pumpkin pie for dessert. This feast is part of a very special day, the holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1620 the Pilgrims made a difficult trip across the ocean from England. They landed in what is now Massachusetts. In England, the Pilgrims had not been allowed to freely practice their religion. So they went to the New World in search of religious freedom. The Pilgrims' first winter was very hard. Almost half the group died of cold, hunger, and disease. But the Indians of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to hunt and to fish. When the next fall came, the Pilgrims had plenty of food. They were thankful to God and the Indians and had a feast to give thanks. They invited the Indians to join them. This was the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving became a national holiday many years later because of the effort of a woman named Sarah Hale. For forty years Sarah Hale wrote to each president and asked for a holiday of Thanksgiving. At last, she was successful. In 1863, President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday. How much is Thanksgiving today like the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving? In many ways they are different. For example, historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. The idea of Thanksgiving, though, is very much the same: Thanksgiving is a day on which we celebrate and give thanks.

(Adapted from www.Americanheritage.co.uk)

Who helped the Pilgrims overcome the shortage of food?

The Pilgrims make a difficult trip across the ocean from England in 1620.

According to the passage, Thanksgiving today is similar to the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims immigrated to the New World because they wanted to search for religious freedom.

Thanksgiving became a national holiday thanks to President Lincoln's 40-year efforts.

What is the main idea of the passage?

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

        Villagers in Mexico, for example, refused to leave their homes even when the scientists told them (1)_____ volcano above their village would erupt.  It was because, as they explained, while it was not 100% percent sure that the volcano would (2)_____, it was certain that if they left their homes, thieves would take away everything.

       Now volcano (3)_____ are taking a different way to save lives, by changing the direction of the lava flow with three methods: setting explosives, building walls, and cooling the lava with water.

      The most common one is setting explosives. (4)_____ bombs have not worked, explosives on the ground were used (5)_____ in Italy in 1996. Experts were actually able to block a flow of lava that was (6)_____ directly from Mount Etna to villages below.