Đề thi ALL 2019 – Khối lớp 7-8-9
Đề thi National Language Arts League năm 2019 — Grade 7, 8 & 9 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 7-9; 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 1–14Từ khung từ ở phía trên, chọn từ gần nghĩa nhất với từ được gạch chân trong mỗi câu. Không phải từ nào trong khung cũng được dùng.
Directions: From the box above each group of sentences, choose the word closest to the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Write the letter of the word you choose. You will not use all the words in the box.
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1. Although she tried to cover up for her shabby clothing, most people recognized her poverty.
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2. The crowd was very enthusiastic when listening to the pleasant sounds coming from the orchestra.
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3. Most people were immediately drawn to the young man, because of his friendly nature.
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4. People tried to pull her out of her shell, but she remained isolated and lonely.
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5. Most of the Natural History Museum’s birds lived in a four-story cage.
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6. The family had planned every specific of their trip, and they had made a detailed schedule.
Chọn 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 that word on the answer sheet.
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7. When the girls’ team won the state championship, she was unbelievably joyful.
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8. His greatest desire was to become an environmental scientist.
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9. After the hurricane the people from the neighborhood dispersed throughout the state.
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10. Although he came from a very large family, he had very little in the way of offspring.
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11. When he told the story, he embellished the details to make it more interesting.
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12. Although the coach was not pleased with the starting time for the game, he was amenable to the date.
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13. After the election the representative will try to reactivate the rules for voting in primary elections.
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14. When trying to remember their early lives, many people like to recall the tranquil days of their childhoods.
PART II Dấu câu, viết hoa và ngữ pháp Punctuation, Capitalization & Grammar
Câu 15–24Đọc 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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15. The dog, running after the mailman, was caught and restrained by it’s owner.
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16. The entire team was exhausted from the long trip to the tournament, however, each player was excited to begin play.
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17. The professor asked, “Who’s going to take the makeup test tomorrow?”
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18. The music school was moved to 1440 Western Drive Omaha, Nebraska.
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19. Even though it’s late, neither Tom or Mary is here.
Mỗi câu có thể chứa một lỗi ngữ pháp hoặc không có lỗi nào. Chọn phần chứa lỗi, hoặc chọn D nếu câu không có lỗi.
Directions: Read the following sentences. There may be one grammatical error or none in each sentence. Write the correct letter on the answer sheet.
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20. (a) No one seems to know / (b) who’s bookbag is lying on top / (c) of the others.
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21. (a) Although he could of walked / (b) by himself down the pathway, / (c) he wanted company.
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22. (a) Of all the students, / (b) Jane usually gets the higher grade / (c) on annual tests.
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23. (a) At the piano recital in May / (b) everyone enjoyed them playing, / (c) even their teacher.
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24. (a) To whom should I / (b) be delivering this report / (c) on the growing problems in school?
PART III Đọc hiểu Reading Comprehension
Câu 25–40Đọc 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 provided on the answer sheet.
Passage A
Carpe diem…………Seize the day!
Grab it? Then what?
Take it—treasure it
Make of it all that it can be.
Jump into it
Don’t waste a minute…24 hours are precious
Make of them all that they can be.
Carpe diem…….
Cherish sights and smells and tastes
Hear laughter and singing and silence
Make of them all that they can be.
Treasure nature and beauty and loved ones
Hold tight to hopes and ambitions and dreams
Make of them all that they can be.
Don’t waste a minute………..Seize the day!
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25. The author of this selection feels that carpe diem .
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26. The author encourages readers to .
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27. Carpe diem is a Latin phrase that most closely means .
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28. The author might also say that the reader should .
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29. A good title for this selection might be .
Passage B
Although most Americans are probably familiar with the Gettysburg Address, many do not know the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg or the specifics of that battle. The battle had taken place during the first three days of July in 1863 in a Pennsylvania town of 2,400 people. Weeks later most of the buildings in the town had become makeshift hospitals, and there were still many unburied bodies. It is said that the North suffered 23,000 losses, or one quarter of its army; the South suffered about 28,000 casualties, or one third of its army. That November when Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery there, he offered in his speech that “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
In the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had taken his troops to surprise the North on its own territory. He did not have a specific plan to fight at Gettysburg, but a group of Confederate soldiers went into the town on June 30 to look for shoes. There they encountered some Union cavalry. It is then that the two groups prepared for battle. On July 1 the Confederates won and pushed the Union forces out of the town. Gettysburg was in a shallow valley surrounded by ridges, and the North set up camp that night in the hills above the town. The South set up camp about one mile away. On July 2 a Confederate attack failed, but there were heavy casualties on both sides. On the final day of the battle, Robert E. Lee had one of his officers, George E. Pickett, lead a charge of about 15,000 men against the Union. They advanced over three quarters of a mile and up Cemetery Hill. The men marched in a formation one-mile wide and a half-a-mile deep. However, because of the Union’s advantage on the hill, the Confederates could not break through. Lee was forced to retreat.
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30. The Gettysburg Address was given the Battle of Gettysburg.
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31. Gettysburg is a town in .
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32. At the Battle of Gettysburg it is said that the North lost .
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33. The Confederate who led a famous charge on the final day of battle was .
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34. The Confederates were not victorious because .
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35. When Lincoln said that the dead “shall not have died in vain,” he meant .
Passage C
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was one of the most honored writers of the twentieth century. He received a Pulitzer Prize for literary excellence in 1939 for his novel The Grapes of Wrath, and he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. Born in California, he spent much of his life in that state and set many of his stories there. Although he did not get a degree, he studied at Stanford University. His major course work was in science, especially marine biology. However, he also enjoyed writing, and he moved to New York and became a newspaper reporter. Steinbeck was always concerned for his fellow humans, and too often he allowed his opinions and ideas into the news stories he reported. Eventually he was fired for this tendency. When he returned to California, he held a variety of jobs, including fruit picker, chemist, and fisherman. Later Steinbeck would use the people he met in these jobs, as well as the jobs themselves, in his writings.
Steinbeck experimented with short stories, plays, novellas, novels, and nonfiction. He published his first novel in 1929; he continued writing, but his first three books were not very successful. In 1935, however, his novel Tortilla Flat brought him literary and financial success. Later The Grapes of Wrath became a true literary sensation. It captured the pulse of its time with the story of a family evicted from its Oklahoma farm during the Depression and Dust Bowl. The Joads traveled to California hoping to find a land of milk and honey. Steinbeck’s story of the family’s failure to find the American dream is often spoken of as exposing man’s inhumanity to man. Many of his other works had similar themes. While some criticize Steinbeck’s works as focusing on grim aspects of life and the outcasts of society, many others applaud his celebration of the simple joys in life, the wonders of nature, and man’s capacity for greatness even in humble surroundings.
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36. When John Steinbeck was in college, he studied .
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37. Steinbeck was fired from his job as a newspaper reporter for .
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38. Steinbeck’s writing included .
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39. John Steinbeck found success as a writer .
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40. While some criticize Steinbeck for focusing his work on grim topics, others .
PART IV Chính tả Spelling
Câu 41–50Mỗi 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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41. (a) The band carefully followed / (b) the rythmn created / (c) by the visiting conductor.
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42. (a) In the medeval history class / (b) the students studied castles / (c) and monasteries.
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43. (a) The advanced art students / (b) studied all the great masters, / (c) including contemperary artists.
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44. (a) He is exceedingly proud / (b) of his American heritage; / (c) he is a descendant of John Adams.
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45. (a) The science teacher was careful / (b) to separate combustable substances / (c) from less volatile materials.
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46. (a) The team celebrated one victory, / (b) but it subsequentely / (c) lost the tournament.
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47. (a) Although the telephone message / (b) was barely intelligible, / (c) the speaker did enunciate each word.
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48. (a) The detectives were able to find / (b) several accomplices to the crime, / (c) and they arrested all the perpetraters.
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49. (a) When the class voted on rules, / (b) the students were very concerned that / (c) they might not reach a concensus.
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50. (a) The harried students / (b) agonized for hours on end / (c) over the end-of-year comprahensive exams.