Đề thi ALL 2019 – Khối lớp 3-4
Đề thi National Language Arts League năm 2019 — Grade 3 & 4 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 3-4; 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 1–8Chọn từ có nghĩa giống hoặc gần giống nhất với từ được gạch chân trong câu.
Directions: Read each sentence. Decide which word means the same or nearly the same as the word that is underlined in the sentence. Write the letter of the correct answer.
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1. She was not certain how long it would take to walk to the store.
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2. John tried to persuade Sam to go on the camping trip, but he would not go.
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3. Because she was afraid of heights, Carol was very cautious when hiking.
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4. Our initial idea had been to play ball for two hours, but it started to rain.
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5. His basketball team was eliminated during the second round of the games.
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6. The previous owner of the lemonade stand had painted a large yellow sign.
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7. The time is approximately noon, so we have to go eat.
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8. The ordinary time for our school day to begin is at 8:15.
PART II Ngữ pháp Grammar
Câu 9–12Xác định từ loại (danh từ, động từ, tính từ, trạng từ…) của từ được gạch chân trong câu.
Directions: Decide what part of speech the underlined word in each sentence is and write the letter of the correct answer.
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9. On her way to lunch, the girl stopped to tie her shoe.
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10. She was hoping that the cafeteria would be serving hamburgers.
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11. The menu said hamburgers and apples would be served.
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12. She was so happy, because she could have her two favorite foods.
PART III Dấu câu và viết hoa Capitalization and Punctuation
Câu 13–16Trong mỗi nhóm câu chỉ có một câu đúng về viết hoa, dấu câu (và ngữ pháp). Chọn câu đó.
Directions: Read each set of sentences. Only one sentence in each set has the correct capitalization and punctuation. Write the letter of that sentence.
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13. Which sentence has correct punctuation and capitalization?
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14. Which sentence has correct punctuation and capitalization?
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15. Which sentence has correct punctuation and capitalization?
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16. Which sentence has correct punctuation and capitalization?
PART IV Đọc hiểu Reading Comprehension
Câu 17–27Đọc kỹ bài đọc rồi chọn đáp án đúng cho mỗi câu hỏi bên dưới.
Directions: Read each section. Answer each question, writing the letter of the correct answer in the space next to the number on your answer sheet.
Section A
Although many of us call a star-shaped sea creature a starfish, it is really not a fish at all. In fact, its real name is a sea star. It has no head, but it does have a flat body with a center that is called a disk. On its underside in the middle it has a mouth. Its body is based on a five-point star shape. Many sea stars do have five arms, but some of them have as many as forty arms. Underneath its skin it does have a skeleton that is made up of smaller plates that join together. These allow the sea star to bend and move.
A very special feature of the sea star is its tube feet. These run in rows along the bottom of the arms. They are small tubes that fill with water to help in motion and gathering food. They are filled with water and go out through holes in the skeleton. When filled with more water, they can stretch quite far. They become shorter when water is released. Some sea stars that live on hard surfaces have suckers on their tube feet to help to grip. Others that live on soft ground have pointed tips at the ends to find buried food.
Sea stars have two different ways of producing new sea stars. In one way a young sea star begins life as a larva that does not look like its parents. Then, after a few months it slowly begins to change. Much like a tadpole that becomes a frog, the larva becomes a sea star. In a more unusual way, a single adult sea star can break into two parts to form two sea stars. Each part has to have a piece of the center or disk, but it does not have to be the same size. Over time the two parts will develop the pieces of their bodies that they are missing. As they grow, sometimes they will be identical to the original sea star, and sometimes they will develop more arms than their parent.
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17. According to this description the sea star has .
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18. The tube feet help the sea star to .
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19. A larva looks like its parents .
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20. When a sea star breaks its body in two, .
Section B
The swimming pool glistens.
But is the water cold?
Why am I a chicken?
Why can't I be bold?
I'll go down the first step.
I'm up to my knees.
It doesn't seem so bad,
I guess I won't freeze.
One more step down.
I'll do the next fast.
Not so bad yet.
The bottom is last.
Up to my waist!
The water feels okay.
Should I go to my shoulders?
Or jump in all the way?
I hold my breath tightly
And plunge into the pool.
It feels just great!
Why've I been such a fool?
Wow! This is wonderful!
Next time I'll just dive.
The sparkling water
Makes me feel so alive!
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21. The rhyming scheme in this poem is .
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22. The person in the poem .
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23. At the end of the poem, the person thinks that the water .
Section C
Long ago a Hebrew leader named Moses led his people to freedom. In the United States there was someone people called the Black Moses. Her name was Harriet Tubman, and she was born when black people were often slaves. Even though she was very small, her owner sent her to work for a neighbor when she was only six or seven. She had a very hard life and was often beaten. As she got older, she heard of slaves who escaped to freedom in the North, where there was no slavery. Harriet dreamed that she could be free.
Later Harriet heard of something called the Underground Railroad. This was not a real railroad. It was a system of places called stations, where blacks could be safe on their way to the North. There were also conductors who knew the way to travel. They led passengers, or groups of slaves, toward the North. Harriet began to think of escaping. Her father had taught her how to survive in the woods and how to tell direction. She knew to follow the North Star in the sky to go north. If there were no stars, she knew that moss grew on the north side of a tree. She knew too that dogs could not follow her scent if she went in a river.
One day Harriet left her home and escaped alone. She was able to find a station on the Underground Railroad. Then she found the next and the next until she got to the North and was free. Harriet was happy being free, but she wanted to help others to be free, too.
Soon she was going back into slave country to help others escape. She used all that she knew to help them using the Underground Railroad. She rescued most of her family, including her parents. It is said that she made nineteen trips and brought about three hundred blacks to freedom. Do you know why people might call her the Black Moses?
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24. Harriet Tubman heard that slaves .
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25. The Underground Railroad had places for blacks to stay and be safe called .
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26. Harriet knew which way to travel because .
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27. Harriet Tubman is probably called the Black Moses because .
PART V Chính tả Spelling
Câu 28–31Chọn cách viết đúng chính tả của từ còn thiếu trong câu.
Directions: Read each sentence. On your answer sheet write the letter that gives the correct spelling of the omitted word.
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28. It was difficult to his voice, because he was mumbling.
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29. She could not identify who was really talking on the phone.
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30. She had a hard time that it was her friend's brother.
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31. He was even her next-door .
PART VI Quan hệ giữa các từ Word Relationships
Câu 32–35Hai từ đầu câu có một mối quan hệ nhất định. Trong các cặp từ bên dưới, chọn cặp có quan hệ giống như vậy. Ví dụ: Fat is to skinny as — A. tall is to short (đáp án đúng là A).
Directions: In each of the incomplete statements below, two words are related to each other. Following these words are four pairs of related words. Select the pair of words that are related to each other in the same way. Put the correct letter on your answer sheet.
EXAMPLE: Fat is to skinny as —
A. tall is to short B. little is to small C. short is to big D. little is to big
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS A.
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32. Breakfast is to morning as .
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33. Puppy is to dog as .
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34. Drop is to rain as .
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35. Write is to paper as .