THÀNH CÔNG CỦA TRÒ LÀ THƯỚC ĐO NĂNG LỰC CỦA THẦY! – A GUIDE FOR SUCCESS!
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KÌ THI KSCL KHỐI THCS Năm học 2021-2022
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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ SỐ M03
(Thời gian 60 phút)
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 01. There is a _______ between the North and the South.
A. different
B. differ
C. differently
D. difference
Câu 02. It is time we _______ a decision what to do next.
A. gave
B. had
C. made
D. find
Câu 03. Paul asked me where _______ for a picnic the next weekend.
A. I would go
B. did I go
C. I would went
D. will I go
Câu 04. Your father doesn't work in that bank, _______?
A. is he
B. isn't he
C. does he
D. doesn't he
Câu 05. My sister is very _______ of spiders.
A. terror
B. terrify
C. terrified
D. terrifying
Câu 06. The teacher told his students _______ laughing.
A. stop
B. stopping
C. to stop
D. stopped
Câu 07. He _______ to Ha Noi ten days ago.
A. has gone
B. went
C. was going
D. goes
Câu 08. What would you do if you _______ me?
A. are
B. have been
C. were
D. will be
Câu 09. The football match was postponed _______ the bad weather.
A. despite
B. in spite
C. because
D. because of
Câu 10. They are not _______ to take part in this program of the World Health Organization.
A. so old
B. old enough
C. enough old
D. as old
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in the
questions.
Câu 11. When she came to my house I lied in bed listening to music.
A. When
B. lied in
C. listening
D. came to
Câu 12. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves are present in humans, and each pair have two roots.
A. present
B. pairs
C. have
D. are
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the given
ones.
Câu 13. The last time he was here was in 2019.
A. It is in 2019 he was last here.
B. He didn't be here in 2019.
C. He hasn't been here in 2019.
D. He hasn't been here since 2019.
Câu 14. “Turn the lights on, Kate.”, said Mike.
A. Mike said Kate to turn the lights on.
B. Mike told Kate to turn the lights on.
C. Mike told Kate turning the lights on.
D. Mike said Kate turning the lights on.
Câu 15. The paper must be collected by Ann.
A. Ann must collected the paper.
B. It's Ann must collect the paper.
C. Ann must collect the paper.
D. Ann must have collected the paper.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
The traffic light signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed
outside (16) _______ House of Parliament in 1868. It looked like any railway signal of the time, and
was operated by gas. (17) _______, it exploded and killed a policeman, and the accident discouraged
further development until cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green (18) _______ were installed in
Cleveland in 1914. Three-color signals, operated by hand from a tower in the (19) _______ of the
street, were installed in New York in 1918. The first lights of this type (20) _______ appeared in
Britain were in London, on the junction between St James's street and Piccadilly in 1925.
Câu 16. A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 0 (no aricle)
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Câu 17. A. However
B. Therefore
C. Although
D. Despite
Câu 18. A. methods
B. systems
C. means
D. ways
Câu 19. A. heart
B. focus
C. halfway
D. middle
Câu 20. A. who
B. whom
C. which
D. when
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions.
It is five o'clock in the evening when Rene Wagner come home from work. She walks into
the living room and looks at her three children. They are 14, 13 and 9 years old. They are
watching TV. The living room is a mess. There are dirty socks on the floor and cookies on the sofa.
Games and toys are everywhere. Rene is angry, “This place is a mess” she tells her children, “I
can't work all day and then do housework all evening. I'm not going to do housework!” Rene
doesn't do housework. She doesn't clean or wash dishes. She doesn't wash clothes, either. Every
evening she sits on the sofa and watches TV. After two weeks, every plate, fork and glass in the
house is dirty. All the children's clothes are dirty. Every garbage basket is full. The house is a mess.
Then, one day Rene comes home from work and gets a big surprise. The kitchen is clean. The
children clean the kitchen! The next day, the living room is clean, and the children are washing
their clothes. Rene tells the children “OK, I'll do the housework again. But you have to help me.”
Now Rene and her three children do the housework together. Then they all sit on the sofa and
watch TV!
Câu 21. When Rene came home from work, she found the house _______.
A. clean and dirty
B. dirty and tidy
C. dirty and untidy D. clean but untidy
Câu 22. The word “mess” in the third line refers to _______.
A. a tidy home
B. an untidy child
C. untidy children D. an untidy home
Câu 23. Two weeks later, the house was _______.
A. very clean
B. a mess
C. tidy
D. rather dirty
Câu 24. Some days later, the house was clean again because _______.
A. she couldn't let it that way
B. her children did housework.
C. her children didn't do housework.
D. she did housework again.
Câu 25. Now Rene does housework again because _______.
A. her children help her
B. they can watch TV together
C. her children wash their clothes
D. her children don't do it
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions.
Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twentyfour time zones, one hour apart. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours,
and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different time zone
every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back;
traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific Ocean, you cross the international-date-line. By
agreement, this is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change your
calendar one full day, backward or forward. Traveling west, today becomes yesterday; traveling
east, it is tomorrow.
Câu 26. How many time-zones is the Earth divided into?
A. seven
B. twenty-four
C. one hour
D. twenty
Câu 27. According to the passage, what do we do when we travel west?
A. We set our clock back.
B. We set our clock ahead.
C. We set our clock forward.
D. We pass each day.
Câu 28. The word “across” in the second paragraph means _______.
A. passing
B. going
C. forwarding
D. backwarding
Câu 29. The international-date-line is the name for _______.
A. the beginning of any new time zone
B. any time zone in the Pacific Ocean.
C. the point where a new day begins
D. any point where time changes by one hour
Câu 30. The best title for this selection is _______.
A. How Time Zones Were Set Up
B. Crossing the International Date Line
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C. How Time Changes Around the World D. A trip Across the Atlantic
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