Đề thi ALL 2019 – Khối lớp 10-11-12
Đề thi National Language Arts League năm 2019 — Grade 10, 11 & 12 Contest. Làm bài có giờ, chấm điểm ngay và xem lại từng câu sai.
Đề thi thật của kỳ thi ALL. American Language League (trước năm 2024 mang tên National Language Arts League – NLAL) là kỳ thi tiếng Anh thường niên dành cho học sinh Mỹ từ lớp 1 đến lớp 12, kiểm tra từ vựng, ngữ pháp, chính tả và đọc hiểu. Đề này nguyên bản dành cho Grade 10-12; đề bài giữ nguyên tiếng Anh, phần hướng dẫn có thêm lời dịch tiếng Việt, đáp án theo bảng đáp án chính thức của ban tổ chức.
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Bảng câu hỏi
PART I Từ vựng Vocabulary
Câu 1–20Chọn từ phù hợp nhất để điền vào chỗ trống sao cho câu có nghĩa trọn vẹn.
Directions: In each of the sentences below there is a blank space indicating that a word has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are four choices. From these four words you are to choose the one word that when inserted in the blank space best fits in with the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
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1. The prosecution’s evidence of the accused person’s involvement led to a unanimous decision of guilty.
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2. Although she was upset at first, the girl was later by her brother’s apology.
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3. After the introduction of wireless technology, the use of cell phones has at a remarkable rate.
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4. He took only a/an look at the used car; unfortunately, after he bought it, he realized it had major problems.
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5. The intense hurricane caused destruction in the low-lying parts of the county.
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6. His interest in chess was squelched after he entered the competitive local tournament.
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7. The of information on the obscure tribe inspired a noted anthropologist to study the group closely.
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8. The girl exhibited her remarkable when she pursued and landed the job that so many had wanted.
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9. The student did not receive much credit for his and incoherent answers to the history questions.
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10. The hockey player was removed from the game, because of his disregard for the safety of his opponents.
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11. Even though she was very late for the appointment, her reasons for her delay seemed very .
Chọn từ có nghĩa trái ngược nhất với từ được gạch chân (hoặc từ được đánh số).
Directions: Each numbered word is followed by four words lettered A to D. Choose the lettered word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the numbered word.
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12. cryptic
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13. arrogant
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14. prodigious
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15. trepidation
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16. meticulous
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17. adulation
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18. proficient
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19. truncated
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20. eclectic
PART II Dấu câu, viết hoa và ngữ pháp Punctuation, Capitalization & Grammar
Câu 21–28Đọc câu và quyết định câu cần sửa gì về dấu câu, viết hoa hoặc ngữ pháp (nếu có), rồi chọn đáp án tương ứng.
Directions: Read each sentence. Decide what if any correction in punctuation, capitalization, or grammar the sentence needs. Write the correct letter on the answer sheet.
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21. After much of downtown Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by fire, urban planners experimented with new building plans.
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22. The sign at the pool read, “Caution, Floors slippery when wet.”
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23. Genesis the story of the creation, is one of the most famous parts of the Bible.
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24. The hapless student had not spent much time reviewing, consequently, he did not pass the test.
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25. The girl thought that if she was a boy it would be easier for her to join the football team.
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26. Whose going to pick up all the garbage left on the lawn after the birthday party?
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27. The children’s room at the library was flooded after the huge rainstorm.
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28. The members of the nominating committee has not decided when to announce the slate of candidates for office.
PART III Đọc hiểu Reading Comprehension
Câu 29–43Đọc kỹ bài đọc rồi chọn đáp án đúng cho mỗi câu hỏi bên dưới.
Directions: Read each section. Answer each question by writing the letter of the correct answer in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Section A
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) is often seen as the most widely known and acclaimed American writer of the twentieth century. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. It is at times hard to separate Ernest Hemingway the man from Ernest Hemingway the writer. Hemingway was an adventurer; he pursued exotic sports, enjoying bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, and big-game hunting. As a young man he was a newspaper reporter and later a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy in World War I. After suffering a severe knee injury there, he spent the better part of the 1920’s and 1930’s in Paris, then the literary capital of the world.
During these years he honed his craft as a writer. He used his own experiences to develop his writing: his Paris years provided background for his 1926 The Sun Also Rises, and his experiences in Italy offered material for his 1929 A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway was influenced by other expatriate literary figures in Paris; he was often even referred to as a spokesperson for the Lost Generation disillusioned with war and its aftermath. Later Hemingway became a war correspondent during World War II. For a time he did not produce much in the way of literature, but that was emphatically changed by the worldwide success he found on publishing his 1952 The Old Man and the Sea.
Over time Hemingway’s writing has been dissected by a variety of differing literary critics. Many refer to his use of a protagonist who follows a code of conduct in which winning is less important than playing out circumstances with courage and honor while undergoing physical and psychological stresses; Hemingway himself referred to this as “grace under pressure.” Some critics argue that his heroes are clichés. However, most would agree that his unique writing technique was grounded in his early years as a reporter. The style sheet from his newspaper, The Kansas City Star, stressed short sentences, short first paragraphs, positive terminology, and vigorous language. In Hemingway’s writings he held true to much in those directives; his work is known for its spare qualities. His writing is not filled with description; his stories are carried by characters’ actions, thoughts, and dialogue. In his Nobel Prize citation he was lauded for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art of narration.”
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29. According to the selection, Ernest Hemingway was a fan of all the following sports EXCEPT
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30. Hemingway used his experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I for material in
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31. Hemingway was called the spokesperson for the Lost Generation, a group who
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32. Hemingway’s literary works were influenced by all of the following EXCEPT
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33. Hemingway’s writing is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
Section B
A strong summer breeze
Sunshine without clouds
Glints of silver and blue on turquoise water
Sails filled majestically with air
The hum of a motorboat
A wake of churning, white foam
Can these be stored?
Saved for a dreary moment?
Brought forth to soothe?
Moments of perfection….
A calm, gentle rain
No wind at all
A strengthening downpour
The steady sound of drops
A brightening of the sky
A rainbow stretching miles
Can these be stored?
Saved for a dreary moment?
Brought forth to soothe?
Moments of perfection….
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34. Which of the senses is not referred to in the poem?
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35. The author’s tone is
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36. The author seems to imply that the sensory perceptions in the poem
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37. Which poetic device does the author use in this poem?
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38. The author would most likely title this poem
Section C
In the time before white Europeans came to what is now the United States of America, Native Americans who lived here belonged to what are considered to be eight major cultural groups. These were considered as entities based on adaptations to environmental circumstances, and within these groups there were smaller distinct tribes or communities. From the earliest contacts between Native American and European cultures, there was a pattern of the incoming whites’ usurping the lands of the indigenous groups, generally with little thought to compensation for the territories. Over centuries Native American groups were pressured to cede lands to the newcomers and to move farther west across the continent; a combination of treaties and force pushed Indian groups from their homelands into areas less desirable to white settlers. Treaties or guarantees of land and property in exchange for Native American lands were often broken as the new lands became attractive to settlers pushing westward. By the end of the nineteenth century the variety of cultural groups had been assigned to relatively small portions of land, mostly in the western sections of the United States.
While the lands east of the Mississippi River had been home to many Indian nations (some of whom had attempted to adapt to white culture), by the 1840’s only small groups of Native Americans lived there. Even though the Cherokee nation had taken the State of Georgia to the Supreme Court in 1832 to prevent the State from taking tribal lands and even though the court under Chief Justice John Marshall had ruled that Georgia had no authority over Cherokee territory, the US Army forced the tribe to leave the State in 1838. The Federal Government backed this forced march, referred to as the Trail of Tears, of 15,000 Cherokees to unknown lands hundreds of miles away over a several-month period. With little in the way of food and shelter, thousands perished on the trip. In the later nineteenth century a series of treaties and wars resulted in further losses of Indian lives and lands. The discovery of gold in California and later Colorado and other mountain states, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the whites’ discovery of rich farmlands in the Great Plains, and the decline in the buffalo herds so important to some native groups—all contributed to an ever-shrinking pool of territories and reservations allotted to Indian groups.
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39. Native American cultural groups were determined to constitute an entity based on
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40. The word indigenous in paragraph one, line 6, most nearly means
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41. In the Trail of Tears the Federal Government
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42. The following all led to the shrinking of lands available to Native American groups in the nineteenth century EXCEPT
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43. The author of this selection most likely sees white settlers’ attitude toward Native American groups as characterized by
PART IV Chính tả Spelling
Câu 44–50Mỗi câu được chia thành ba phần (a), (b), (c). Nếu có từ viết sai chính tả, chọn phần chứa từ đó; nếu không có lỗi, chọn D.
Directions: Read each sentence. A word may be misspelled in one part of the sentence. If so, write the appropriate letter on the answer sheet. If no word is misspelled, write the letter D.
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44. (a) Although the competitive team / (b) practiced the drills in sequence, / (c) each member was cognizent of the need for precise timing.
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45. (a) Each athlete consientiously / (b) participated in the rigorous drills / (c) without any complaints about the regimen.
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46. (a) The great defense attorney / (b) demonstrated the fallasy / (c) inherent in the prosecution’s case.
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47. (a) Suffice it to say that / (b) no other sophmore student / (c) is quite so pompous as he is.
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48. (a) The unfortunate student / (b) was inadvertently exposed / (c) to a very verulent strain of the flu.
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49. (a) His immune system / (b) had been quite compromised by earlier diseases, / (c) so he was very susceptable to infection.
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50. (a) The impressionable students / (b) were galvanized / (c) by the inspirational speaker.