Đề thi ALL 2024 – Khối lớp 3-4
Đề thi American Language League năm 2024 — 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 1–8Từ 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 sentence choose the word or words closest to the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence.
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1. The children felt much better when the lifeguard began to approach them.
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2. We were very confident that our team would win the championship game.
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3. We had to prepare many things before the new baby could come home.
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4. Veronica admired how hard her friend had worked to become such a good athlete.
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. Choose the letter of the correct word.
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5. The older children were trying to deceive the first graders when they told them that they couldn't go on the playground.
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6. My brother always tries to accuse me when things go wrong, even though it's not my fault.
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7. Our coach said we should not be discouraged when we lose a game, as long as we try our best.
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8. It wasn't very sensible to stay up so late on a school night.
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 choose the letter of the correct answer.
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9. When Mom and Dad told me we were going to Disney World for our vacation, I could not believe them.
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10. Our uniforms were so dirty we thought we would never be able to get them clean.
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11. During the fire drill, everyone had to walk outside quickly and quietly.
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12. I want to buy a new bicycle, but I don't think I have enough money saved up yet.
PART III Dấu câu và viết hoa Punctuation and Capitalization
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. Choose 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 paragraph. Answer each question, choosing the letter of the correct answer.
Paragraph A
The spotted leopard, the snowshoe hare, the chameleon, and the coral snake all have something in common. They use camouflage to hide themselves. But what is camouflage, and how do animals use it? Camouflage is the act of changing your appearance. Animals use camouflage for many reasons. They use color, pattern, or shape to hide from people and from other animals. Camouflage helps them to feel safe in their environment. Camouflage can help animals to search for food without being noticed, and it can be used to hide animals from their enemies.
Many animals use different kinds of camouflage. Color is one way animals use camouflage. They conceal themselves by changing the color of their bodies. When they change color they blend in with their surroundings and can't be seen easily. A chameleon can change its skin color from green to dark brown to orange. The snowshoe hare has white fur in the winter that conceals it in the snow.
Disguise is another type of camouflage. Some animals can disguise their appearance to look like an object, such as a stone, or twig, or leaf. This makes it difficult for their enemies to find them. The spotted leopard uses disguise by changing the spots on its skin. After its black spots break up their shape, they blend together into one color. This makes it difficult for other animals to find the leopard.
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17. Camouflage is something animals use to .
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18. The snowshoe hare uses camouflage by .
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19. Animals sometimes use color to .
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20. The best title for this story is .
Paragraph B
Thunder roared through the night
like a lion in a jungle,
Breaking the silence of my sleep.
Dark clouds in the night sky
began to reshape themselves and
Hover over the mountains deep.
Wind began to whistle softly
through the trees along the hills,
With a steady, humming sound.
Slowly, the clouds began to release
small puffs of white flakes like
Freshly popped corn falling to the ground.
Then in no particular pattern,
the flakes lazily made their way
To the trees and grass below.
What started as a quiet fear
turned to excitement as I
Witnessed this newly fallen snow.
Soon the wind grew stronger
and trees began to sway;
Branches began to bend with the weight.
A huge, white blanket covered
as far as the eye could see,
As daybreak came and the night grew late.
The soft, white ground swelled
with huge drifts that created
A new landscape of this first snowfall.
The world outside my window
suddenly became just like
A beautiful picture on the wall.
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21. At the beginning of the poem, the person is probably .
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22. At the end of the poem, the person is probably describing .
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23. The best title for this poem from the ones below is .
Paragraph C
Seven out of every 100 people in the United States are deaf or hearing impaired. When you are deaf in a hearing world you must hear with your eyes and speak without words. Many deaf people communicate with sign language. Sign language is made up of hand shapes and movements. It is the expressive language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people. Sign language is easy to learn, and it can help people who can hear communicate with those who cannot. With it, you can "talk" with your hands and "hear" with your eyes. Most people learn sign language because they are deaf, and others learn because they know someone who is deaf.
The person who made this possible was a man named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Born on December 10, 1787, he grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. As a youngster, Gallaudet was a good student. He was a very determined child who knew that he would someday do something important. Even though he was sickly and couldn't keep up with the other children, he never gave up. He had a brilliant mind and wanted to make the world better. In 1802, Thomas Gallaudet left his home to attend Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After college he met a deaf child named Alice Cogswell who could not hear or speak. He worked with her to teach her how to communicate. Soon after that, he went to Europe where he studied deaf education and learned the miracle of communicating with signs.
Thomas Gallaudet was the first American who understood how the deaf could be taught. In 1816, he brought this knowledge back to America. The signs he learned in Europe were developed into the new language called American Sign Language. Gallaudet helped to found the first free public school for the deaf in the United States. Through education, he helped his students to leave their world of isolation behind them and enter a world of knowing. Just as he knew he would, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet had truly made a difference. Until the end of his life, he continued to work for the cause of the deaf and to defend the rights of other disadvantaged groups.
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24. Which of these statements about sign language is true?
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25. Gallaudet is best known for showing Americans that .
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26. When he was a child, Gallaudet was .
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27. A good title for this story from the ones below would be .
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 choose the letter that gives the correct spelling of the word.
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28. After we moved to Paterson, we really missed our friends from the old in Newark.
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29. The winds were so strong that the old barn during the hurricane.
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30. The between the school and Corey's house is exactly one mile.
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31. My family is going to visit all of our for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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 three pairs of related words. Select the pair of words which are related to each other in the same way. Choose 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 tiny
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS A.
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32. Moon is to sun as .
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33. Glove is to hand as .
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34. Rise is to fall as .
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35. Fish is to swim as .