Name:. …................................................ THE MID-TERM TEST
Class : 10A ….. Number:……………… Grade 10NC (45’) - Date: March 16th, 2009


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I. Give the correct prepositions: (1m)
1. Many young people prefer rock _________________ classical music.
2. Where does rock come _______________?
3. I’m really looking forward ____________ going to university.
4. Music plays an important part _____________ our daily lives.
5. Music ______________ special occasions is essential.

II. Supply the correct word forms: (2m)
1. Can you play any _______________________ instruments? (music)
2. Yoko is learning English in order to __________________ with foreigners. (communication)
3. Who is your favorite ___________________? (compose)
4. How _______________ was Elvis Presley with rock ‘n’ roll? (succeed)
5. Auld Lang Syne is _____________ sung at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Britain. (tradition)

III. Give the correct verb form or tense: (2m)
1. How (you break) _____________________ your arm?
- I (slip) ________________ on the ice while I (cross) __________________ the street.
2. We couldn’t help (laugh) ___________________ when he (make) _______________ fun of himself.
3. After (leave) ________________school he studied French in Paris for two years and then (move) _________________ to America, where he now (live) ________________. He (visit) __________________ England once or twice and (know) ___________________ English well.

IV. Make questions from the underline words or phrases: (1m)
1. Blowin’ in the Wind was released in 1962.
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2. Trinh Cong Son is my favourite musician.
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3. Van Cao wrote as many as two or three hundred songs in his lifetime.
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4. I like pop music.
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5. She likes classical music because it’s relaxing.
-……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

V. Fill in the blanks with the words in the box: (2m)

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difficult composed sounds over famous

People all (1) __________ the world listen to classical music. Classical music is (2) _________ to describe. It (3) ___________different things to different people.
Some (4) ____________ classical composers were Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Mozart. In their music, they (5) ____________ not tell a story or show strong emotion. They wanted to make a beautiful, interesting design. They wanted to write lovely (6) ___________.
Then composers started to interpret ideas. They told stories (7) __________ wars, armies, and soldiers. They wrote about religion. Sometimes they (8) ____________ music for holidays. They told love stories (9) __________ showed strong emotion. Some of (10) ___________ composers were Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky.

VI. Rewrite the following sentences: (2m)
1. I am busy, so I won’t go to the meeting.
- If …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. He didn’t have enough time, so he didn’t do his homework.
- If ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. It took them three days to painting that house.
- They spent ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. Rock began to develop from rock ‘n’ roll in the 1960s.
- It was not until ………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. They didn’t pay the bill until the electricity was cut off.
- It was not until ……………………………………………………………………………………….….