HANOI-AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH FIRST TERM TEST (2015-2016) – FOR 10A1 & 10A2

Name:……………………………….. Time allowed: 60 minutes

Class:……………

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest (0.5 pt.)
1. A. gigantic B. gingerly C. germicide D. geyser 1. _______
2. A. double B. courageous C. cousin D. country 2. _______
3. A. breathing B. bathroom C. method D. width 3. _______
4. A. sacrificed B. increased C. released D. supposed 4. _______
5. A. repeats B. coughs C. amuses D. attacks 5. _______
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from that of the rest (0.5 pt.)
1. A. medicinal B. inventory C. infamous D. atmosphere 1. _______
2. A. prosperous B. vigorous C. tremendous D. envious 2. _______
3. A. competence B. comfortable C. compliment D. companion 3. _______
4. A. therapeutic B. conscientious C. fanaticism D. orthographic 4. _______
5. A. suspicious B. loyalty C. dinosaur D. sabotage 5. _______
III. Choose the option which best completes each sentence (2pts.)
1. Van Gogh suffered from depression ________ by overwork and ill-health.
A. taken up B. coming about C. brought on D. put through
2. He gave me a doubtful smile, ________that he didn’t believe me.
A. implicating B. suggesting C. implementing D. attributing
3. Please accept our _________ congratulations.
A. finest B. deepest C. dearest D. warmest
4. Sally would prefer to pursue her studies ________ to look for a job.
A. rather than starting B. to starting C. rather than start D. than to start
5. When he sings, he has the _________ ability to make even bad songs sound good.
A. sparse B. rare C. infrequent D. scarce
6. I know this is a big disappointment but don’t take it to _________.
A. soul B. mind C. spirit D. heart
7. Simon ________in me on the understanding that I wouldn’t tell anyone else.
A. confided B. intimated C. confessed D. disclosed
8. I am ___________ my classmates are.
A. nowhere like competitive as C. nothing near as competitive as
B. nothing as competitive like D. nowhere near as competitive as
9. Most teenagers go through a rebellious ________for a few years but they soon grow out of it.
A. stint B. span C. duration D. phase
10. Sleeping, resting and ________are the best ways to care for a cold.
A. to drink fluids B. drank fluids C. one drink fluids D. drinking fluids
11. Not only the child but also the grandparents ________the party.
A. is joining B. joins C. were joining D. has joined
12. He’s a nice guy, always already to do somebody a good _________.
A. turn B. play C. present D. pleasure
13. The _________ of the family following the divorce was a great shock to the children.
A. break-down B. break-in C. break-up D. break-out
14. I know you have been working very hard today. Let’s _________ and go home.
A. pull my leg B. call it a day C. put your back up D. pros and cons
15. Family relationships later ________ a much greater significance on his life.
A. took on B. kept up C. built up D. took up
16. The report makes the recommendation that no more prisons _______.
A. must be built B. be built C. had to be built D. should be building
17. __________her job, her sons and the housework, she doesn’t have a minute for herself.
A. What with B. If it weren’t for C. Barring D. Given
18. We may find we come _________ quite a lot of opposition from local people.
A. up against B. up with C. in for D. down with
19. Whenever the kids asked him about his girlfriend, he’d go as red as a _________.
A. tomato B. beetroot C. strawberry D. chili

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 20. Such a noisy environment was not conducive ________ a good night’s sleep.
A. for B. of C. to D. with

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

1. substantial 2. underestimated 3.enabled 4.emphaticity 5.adherences

6.anatomous 7.suspection 8. 9.seductive 10.significance
IV. Give the correct form of the words in brackets (1 pt.)
There is little to disagree about in the notion that a good voice, whether in opera or rock music, is one which moves its
audience and brings a sense of release and fulfillment to the singer. But contemporary pop and rock music have come about
due to (1. SUBSTANCE)___ advances in technology. Here, the impact of the microphone should not be (2. ESTIMATE)___,
as it has (3. ABLE)____ the magnification of quiet, intimate sounds. This, in turn, allows the singer to experiment with the (4.
EMPHATIC)______ on mood rather than on strict (5. ADHERE)_____ to proper breathing and voice control.
Donna Soto-Morettin, a rock and jazz vocal trainer, feels that (6. ANATOMY)______reasons may account for the
raspy sound produced by certain rock singers. Her (7. SUSPECT)_____ is that swollen vocal chords, which do not close
properly, may allow singers to produce deeper notes. She does not, however, regard this as detracting (8. NOTICE)______
from the value of the sound produced. Singing, she maintains, has an almost (9. SEDUCE)______ quality and so our response
to it has more (10. SIGNIFY)_____ than its technical qualities.
V. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to fill in the blanks (1 pt.)
Growing older is a natural process that we cannot avoid. However, some people manage to keep their looks for longer
than others, and live to a (1)_____old age. So, what exactly is their secret? Age is (2)_____ by many to be a mental attitude.
As our minds and bodies are not (3)______ from each other, if you feel content, you are more likely to be healthy and
therefore to live a long life. Others stress the (4)_____ of having an interesting occupation. Having a deep interest in whatever
you do (5)_____ to a more fulfilled and active life. Many also recommend yoga or other types of physical exercise.
Everybody, young or old, can (6)_____ from regular exercise and spending time with others. Some, on the other hand,
(7)_____ old age without taking special care of their health. But research has shown that people who (8)_____ to a low-calorie
diet have a greater chance of living longer. Of course, having access to good medical care (9)_____ a difference, too. Recent
studies suggest that people with more high-powered jobs are healthier, as are people who have (10)_____a good education.
But scientific opinion keeps changing. Maybe longevity just depends on genes or perhaps it’s down simply to luck.
1. A. ripe B. ready C. plump D. prime
2. A. valued B. considered C. suggested D. mentioned
3. A. different B. individual C. separate D. divided
4. A. greatness B. strength C. importance D. power

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
5. A. runs B. results C. directs D. leads
6. A. take B. advance C. win D. benefit
7. A. get B. reach C. touch D. grab
8. A. stick B. stay C. hold D. remain
9. A. shows B. has C. makes D. is
10. A. received B. made C. taken D. owned
VI. Fill in the blank a suitable word to complete the passage (1 pt.)
What is the moral difference between the following scenarios? In the first, a man walks into a record shop with the
(1)___intention___of stealing. He conceals a CD (2)_____ his clothing and walks out. In the second, a man logs on to a
website domiciled in a different country. That website (3)________ him to download the same CD in thousands of digital
fragments, each rendered freely by individuals scattered across the globe.
This is the question that Stephen Witt’s entertaining history of the MP3 refuses to address. The passive title, How
Music Got Free, is well chosen, (4)______, while the story centres (5)_____three individuals, the unintended consequences
that flow from human attempts to shape technological change are one of its chief interests. Although Witt leaves politics
(6)_____, his biography of the MP3’s short life so far neatly frames the relationship between choice, innovation and
capitalism.
Witt describes the sprint by which the MP3 came to overtake the CD through the stories of three very different men.
Karlheinz Brandenburg, an austere German scientist, invented the format that gave (7)______ to digital piracy but refused any
responsibility for it. Doug Morris – one of the last great music moguls – initially failed to spot the tidal (8)_______, then, in
his mid seventies, surfed it by discovering a new digital business model. Dell Glover, a blue-collar factory worker at Universal
Music’s biggest processing plant, was probably the “world’s leading leaker of pre-release music” in the first decade of this

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 century, but not in a high-tech (9)______. He played his role in bringing a mighty industry to (10)____ knees by smuggling
out thousands of CDs behind his oversized belt buckle.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
VII. There are TEN mistakes in this passage. Write them down and give the correction. Write your answers in the space
provided. (1 pt.)
The 1960’s witnessed two profoundly social movements: the civil rights movement and the movement protesting the
war in Vietnam. Although they overlapped with (in) time, they were largely distinct. For a brief moment in 1967,
furthermore (however), it appeared that the two movements might unite under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King’s role in the antiwar movement appears to require a (bor) little explanation, since he was the foremost advocate
of non-violence of his time. But King’s stance on the Vietnam War cannot be explained in means (terms) of pacifism alone.
After all, he was anything (something) of a latecomer to the antiwar movement, even though by 1965 he was convinced that
the role of the United Sates in the war was indefensible. Why then the two years that lapsed before he translated his private
misgivings into public dissent? Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American foreign policy by (without)
endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the federal government.

1.profound 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

VIII. Read the following passage and answer the questions (1 pt.)
Questions 1-7. The Reading Passage below has seven paragraphs A-G.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

List of Headings
i The advantage of an intuitive approach to personality assessment
ii Overall theories of personality assessment rather than valuable guidance
iii The consequences of poor personality assessment
iv Differing views on the importance of personality assessment
v Success and failure in establishing an approach to personality assessment
vi Everyone makes personality assessments
vii Acknowledgement of the need for improvement in personality assessment 
viii Little progress towards a widely applicable approach to personality assessment 
ix The need for personality assessments to be well-judged
x The need for a different kind of research into personality assessment

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Paragraph A ___________
2 Paragraph B  ___________
3 Paragraph C ___________
4 Paragraph D  ___________
5 Paragraph E ___________
6 Paragraph F ___________
7 Paragraph G ___________

PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

A. Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their
personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on
the street, an employer giving instructions to an employee, a mother telling her children how to behave, a journey in a train where
strangers eye one another without exchanging a word - all these involve mutual interpretations of personal qualities.
B. Success in many vocations largely depends on skill in sizing up people. It is important not only to such professionals as the
clinical psychologist, the psychiatrist or the social worker, but also to the doctor or lawyer in dealing with their clients, the
businessman trying to outwit his rivals, the salesman with potential customers, the teacher with his pupils, not to speak of the
pupils judging their teacher. Social life, indeed, would be impossible if we did not, to some extent, understand, and react to the
motives and qualities of those we meet; and clearly we are sufficiently accurate for most practical purposes, although we also
recognize that misinterpretations easily arise ¬ particularly on the part of others who judge us!
C. Errors can often be corrected as we go along. But whenever we are pinned down to a definite decision about a person, which
cannot easily be revised through his 'feed-back', the inadequacies of our judgments become apparent. The hostess who wrongly
thinks that the Smiths and the Joneses will get on well together can do little to retrieve the success of her party. A school or a
business may be saddled for years with an undesirable member of staff, because the selection committee which interviewed him
for a quarter of an hour misjudged his personality.
D. Just because the process is so familiar and taken for granted, it has aroused little scientific curiosity until recently. Dramatists,
writers and artists throughout the centuries have excelled in the portrayal of character, but have seldom stopped to ask how they, or
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we, get to know people, or how accurate is our knowledge. However, the popularity of such unscientific systems as Lavater's
physiognomy in the eighteenth century, Gall's phrenology in the nineteenth, and of handwriting interpretations by graphologists, or
palm-readings by gipsies, show that people are aware of weaknesses in their judgments and desirous of better methods of
diagnosis. It is natural that they should turn to psychology for help, in the belief that psychologists are specialists in 'human nature'.
E. This belief is hardly justified: for the primary aim of psychology had been to establish the general laws and principles
underlying behaviour and thinking, rather than to apply these to concrete problems of the individual person. A great many
professional psychologists still regard it as their main function to study the nature of learning, perception and motivation in the
abstracted or average human being, or in lower organisms, and consider it premature to put so young a science to practical uses.
They would disclaim the possession of any superior skill in judging their fellow-men. Indeed, being more aware of the difficulties
than is the non-psychologist, they may be more reluctant to commit themselves to definite predictions or decisions about other
people. Nevertheless, to an increasing extent psychologists are moving into educational, occupational, clinical and other applied
fields, where they are called upon to use their expertise for such purposes as fitting the education or job to the child or adult, and
the person to the job. Thus a considerable proportion of their activities consists of personality assessment.
F. The success of psychologists in personality assessment has been limited, in comparison with what they have achieved in the
fields of abilities and training, with the result that most people continue to rely on unscientific methods of assessment. In recent
times there has been a tremendous amount of work on personality tests, and on carefully controlled experimental studies of
personality. Investigations of personality by Freudian and other 'depth' psychologists have an even longer history. And yet
psychology seems to be no nearer to providing society with practicable techniques which are sufficiently reliable and accurate to
win general acceptance. The soundness of the methods of psychologists in the field of personality assessment and the value of their
work are under constant fire from other psychologists, and it is far from easy to prove their worth.
G. The growth of psychology has probably helped responsible members of society to become more aware of the difficulties of
assessment. But it is not much use telling employers, educationists and judges how inaccurately they diagnose the personalities
with which they have to deal unless psychologists are sure that they can provide something better. Even when university
psychologists themselves appoint a new member of staff, they almost always resort to the traditional techniques of assessing the
candidates through interviews, past records, and testimonials, and probably make at least as many bad appointments as other
employers do. However, a large amount of experimental development of better methods has been carried out since 1940 by groups
of psychologists in the Armed Services and in the Civil Service, and by such organizations as the (British) National Institute of
Industrial Psychology and the American Institute of Research.

Question 8
Choose THREE letters A-F.
Which THREE of the following are stated about psychologists involved in personality assessment?
A 'Depth' psychologists are better at it than some other kinds of psychologist.
B Many of them accept that their conclusions are unreliable.
C They receive criticism from psychologists not involved in the field.
D They have made people realize how hard the subject is.
E They have told people what not to do, rather than what they should do. 
F They keep changing their minds about what the best approaches are.
Questions 9-10
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the Reading Passage?
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
9 People often feel that they have been wrongly assessed.
10 Unscientific systems of personality assessment have been of some use.

IX. Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first one using the suggestions (2 pts.)
1. Mary persuaded the others to agree with her point of view.
Mary brought…the others round to her point of view…
2. None of the passengers was injured because of the driver’s quick reaction.
But for…the driver’s quick reaction, the passengers would have been injured………………...
3. Winning that prize has made him very conceited. (head)
………………………gone to his head…………………………………………………………………………...
4. It was difficult to understand her colleagues’ open hostility towards her proposal.
That her colleagues……should be openly hostile towards her proposal was difficult to understand…
5. It is too complex to understand why you quit your job when you haven’t got another one. (beyond)
…beyond my comprehension to …………………………..
6. Suzanne is far superior to me in terms of technical knowledge. (match)
When it comes…to technical knowledge, I’m no match for suzanne…………………………...
7. Andy wasn’t at all discouraged by this bad experience. (put)
This bad experience…didn’t put Andy off in the………least.

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8. You are forbidden from leaving the house at night.
Your……leaving the house at night is out of the………question.
9. The house was dirty because no one bothered to keep it clean. (trouble)
The house……………was dirty because no one went to the trouble to keep it clean…………………………………...
10. It was not until five years had elapsed that the whole truth about the murder came out.
Not for another……………………………………………………………..………………………………………………….
THE END.