Đề thi ALL 2022 – Khối lớp 7-8-9
Đề thi National Language Arts League năm 2022 — 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.
Đồng hồ bắt đầu chạy khi bạn chọn đáp án đầu tiên — hãy làm trọn 35 phút như thi thật, không tra từ điển, rồi mới nộp bài để xem điểm và đáp án từng câu.
Bảng câu hỏi
PART I Từ vựng Vocabulary
Câu 1–12Từ 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 that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Write the letter of the word that you choose in the space on the answer sheet. You will not use all the words in the box.
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1. The actors continued to argue over the interpretation.
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2. She wished to fill her child with a sense of loyalty.
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3. The detective had to confine the evidence in a vault.
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4. The loot was found in a chest buried in the backyard.
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5. He took the hammer off the top shelf.
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6. The sphere seemed almost moonlike in appearance.
Chọn từ có nghĩa giống hoặc gần giống nhất với từ được gạch chân trong câu.
Directions: Read each sentence. One word means the same or nearly the same as the word that is underlined in the sentence. Write the letter of that word on your answer sheet.
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7. His prime motivation was honesty.
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8. There was certainly no spite in sending the letter.
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9. The glass humpty-dumpty broke into fragments.
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10. The player wanted to amass as many marbles as possible.
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11. The terrible situation seemed to go on forever.
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12. There was a certain repugnance in having to go through so many tests.
PART II Dấu câu, viết hoa và ngữ pháp Punctuation, Capitalization & Grammar
Câu 13–22Đọc 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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13. “Sandy will you please call Doctor Carson for me,” Tom said.
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14. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the evidence.
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15. Ernest Hemingway, an american author, began his first job as a newspaper reporter at the age of eighteen.
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16. Please give me your English assignment: I was absent from class yesterday.
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17. It has not rained much this winter; therefore, we may have a shortage of water.
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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18. (a) Will the person / (b) who parked in the loading zone / (c) move their car.
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19. (a) The tour bus carry / (b) the passengers, their guide, / (c) and their luggage.
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20. (a) You and me always argue / (b) about who should / (c) answer the door.
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21. (a) Most students can pass / (b) the tests my history teacher / (c) gives if you try.
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22. (a) It’s too late / (b) to register for the driving exam / (c) that is being given next week.
PART III Đọc hiểu Reading Comprehension
Câu 23–38Đọc kỹ bài đọc rồi chọn đáp án đúng cho mỗi câu hỏi bên dưới.
Directions: Read each paragraph. Answer each question by writing the letter of the correct answer in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Paragraph A
Quiet…
The sound of silence
causes pressure that
is painful…
Quiet…
I’m afraid of what I
will hear in the silence…
Quiet…
It puts an obligation on
my thinking…I should be
thinking important things…
I should be…
Quiet…
Wait a minute! In this
silence I am using
my mind…I am thinking…
I’m going inside my
inner world…
Quiet…
It isn’t frightening…
In the silence of the moment
I’m learning about something
Important…
Me…
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23. At the beginning of the selection pain is being caused by .
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24. The persona (speaker in the poem) in stanza two feels .
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25. The persona begins to realize that being in the quiet may force him/her to .
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26. The persona realizes that the quiet has brought about .
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27. The persona comes to the realization that quiet is not .
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28. The best title for this selection is .
Paragraph B
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) joined the Royal Navy at the age of twelve and came into prominence from the beginning of the wars against France (1793–1815). He distinguished himself at the siege of Calvi in Corsica. At the Battle of St. Vincent (Feb. 14, 1797) his initiative in turning his forces to prevent two parts of the enemy force from joining contributed greatly to his success and reputation. He lost his right arm in 1798 in an attack on Tenerife. By now a Rear Admiral he was sent in pursuit of the French expedition to Egypt and caught up with the enemy fleet and destroyed it in a daring night attack (Battle of the Nile, Aug. 1, 1798). His renown grew, and this was the first great victory of the European coalition against Napoleon. It was, however, in the campaign of 1805 that he demonstrated his prowess to the full. He first pursued the French fleet from Toulon to the West Indies and back before blockading it at Cadiz and destroying it at Trafalgar (Oct. 21, 1805). Here is where he met his death.
Britain then provided a magnificent funeral for the man already considered her greatest sailor. Nelson, who had a remarkable command of strategy, was also an astute tactician. He managed to free himself totally from the formalism of the eighteenth century’s limited warfare to fight battles of destruction. His innovation in naval warfare for attacking in two columns remained a model into the twentieth century. Nelson also showed a tremendous feeling for the importance of friendship and comradeship. He managed to create such remarkable harmony and loyalty among his captains that they came to be known as the “band of brothers.” Moreover, his great victory at Trafalgar was seen as a turning point in the wars against Napoleon.
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29. Nelson’s ability to prevent the enemy from joining two forces was evident in the Battle of .
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30. His renown grew because of a daring night attack in a battle near .
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31. His greatest victory and the occasion of his death took place at .
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32. His fame in strategy and tactics was based partly on a rejection of the warfare of the .
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33. Among the officers under his command the best way to express their relationship was .
Paragraph C
The first space flights began with a Russian vehicle in 1957. “Sputnik I” went into orbit in that year. It was the first man-made satellite to join the moon in its journey around earth. The Soviet Union had constructed it and had assembled the enormously powerful rocket which shot it into space beyond effective reach of the earth’s gravity. The Soviet Union also had given it that pleasant name meaning companion or fellowtraveller. Within a week it had become part of every language in the world. “Sputnik I” travelled around the earth many times before gravity claimed it, and it burst into flames re-entering the atmosphere. It had till then travelled an orbit just far enough out for the centrifugal force dragging it off into space to be balanced by the slight force of gravity at that distance.
Four years later, in 1961, Yury Gagarin was the first man sent into orbit—the first human being to achieve a visit to the outer regions beyond reach of gravity or human aid. The flight lasted an hour and forty-eight minutes. Ten months after Gagarin’s flight the American John Glenn on February 20, 1962, made three orbits around the earth. This must have seemed the easy part. In Glenn’s case the delay, the postponements of the flight, were enough to have shattered the confidence of a lesser man. Suborbital flights had already been made in May and July of 1961, and Glenn’s flight was scheduled for December of that year. It was then postponed no fewer than ten times as a result of weather conditions and technical hitches. On several occasions he lay strapped into his capsule on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral before learning that the launch had been cancelled. Eventually, three hours after he had been closed into his capsule for an eleventh time, he was blasted off.
John Glenn’s flight lasted four hours and fifty-six minutes. He had covered 81,000 miles at altitudes between ninety-nine and a hundred and sixty-two miles before “Friendship Seven” dropped into the sea off Puerto Rico and was picked up by a destroyer. The trip had been successful. Two things, however, went wrong and were rectified. The first was that the hydrogen peroxide jets for controlling the capsule’s balance behaved erratically. Glenn took over manual control to let “Friendship Seven” complete its third and final orbit. Secondly, a faulty mechanism signaled to earth that the heat shield, which was to prevent the capsule from overheating during its descent, had become detached. The information was wrong; the descent worked smoothly.
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34. Sputnik could most closely be interpreted as .
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35. Sputnik’s path was a balance of centrifugal force and .
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36. The first American in orbit circled the earth .
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37. The number of times John Glenn prepared for the flight before being launched into space was .
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38. One of the two corrected problems had to do with the capsule’s .
PART IV Chính tả Spelling
Câu 39–45Mỗi 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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39. (a) The taking of vitamins / (b) and minerals, especially / (c) calciam, is good for your health.
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40. (a) The requirement / (b) of the firm was that senioraty / (c) was essential to its morale.
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41. (a) The incessant rainfall / (b) had made the highway / (c) very slippery.
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42. (a) The urgincy in his voice / (b) demonstrated that the situation / (c) had turned serious.
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43. (a) The explosions of the volcano, / (b) which caused a great lava flow, / (c) became more recurent.
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44. (a) The committee decided / (b) to recruit more volunteers / (c) for the carnival.
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45. (a) The temperement of the actor / (b) made it necessary for him / (c) to appear in comedy roles.
PART V Quan hệ giữa các từ Word Relationships
Câu 46–50Hai 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 which are related to each other in the same way. Put the correct letter on your answer sheet.
Example: Canine is to dog as . — A. reptile is to crocodile B. cat is to lion C. bull is to cow D. frog is to tadpole — The correct answer is A.
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46. Gobble is to turkey as .
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47. Propeller is to airplane as .
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48. Part is to act as .
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49. Chalk is to writing as .
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50. Boy is to man as .