DEMO TEST

GRADE 10
 CONTENT
01 VOCABULARY 04 READING

02 GRAMMAR 05 SPEAKING

03 LISTENING
Task 1. Circle the correct answer. (2 points)
1. We chat about our work.
a. talk in a friendly way b. learn c. discuss d. worry
2. We study past and present events in Vietnam and around the world in ………….
a. Geography b. History c. English d. Maths
3. She received a general ……….. in local school.
a. educate b. education c. educational d. educated
4. Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint are ……………..
a. software b. hardware c. floppy disks d. keyboards
5. Marie Curie is a brilliant and mature student.
a. young b. very good
c. having a fully developed mind d. difficult
Task 2. Read and choose. (2 points)
3. A nurse is a person ……. looks after patients.
A. which
B. who
1. There were a lot of accidents ………. the icy
C. whose
roads.
D. where
A. because of
B. because
4. Liz used to …….. a motorbike.
C. in spite of
A. rides
D. although
B. rode
C. riding
2. Jane had gone to the supermarket ….. she got
D. ride
home.
A. as soon as
5. Are you looking forward to …… on your
B. before
vacation.
C. after
A. go
D. when
B. going
C. to go
D. went
Task 3. Listen to five speakers talking about their families. Match the speakers (1–5)
with the statements (A–F). There is one extra statement. (2 points)

A. Speaker ___
5 used to be unhappy with his / her new life, but feels differently now.

B. Speaker ___
2 talks about a famous person and the problems he / she had.

C. Speaker ___
4 is in a studio, but talks to a presenter in the street.

D. Speaker ___
1 is showing a group of visitors around part of a city.

- interviews a famous person.

F. Speaker ___
3 talks about two people he / she knows well.
 TRANSCRIPT
1. Now, before we go into the museum, I’m going to 4. How well do you get on with your parents? Do they
tell criticise you all the time? Parents can be really
you a little about the history of our city. This used to be irritating sometimes, can’t they? This week on
a very small town fifty years ago. Then people began Channel Nine, we present ‘How to live with your
to emigrate here from other countries. This area of the parents’. Now, earlier today, our presenter Jayne
city used to be a village. Then they destroyed the old Hadfield was talking to young people on the streets
houses and built this museum. I know what it used to of Coventry, so let’s go over to her now. Hello
be like because I lived in the village when I was Jayne ... we can see you on the screen. Can you
growing up. Now, if you want to take some photos ... hear us?
2. Arthur Wendlebury lived to be one hundred and was 5. I wasn’t born here in Britain. I grew up in Colombo,
a Sri
famous writer. But he didn’t have an easy life. He was Lanka. I used to love it there. The weather was warm
born into a very poor family in Cornwall. He went into and sunny and we used to play cricket every day
the army after he had left school because his parents after school. But after I’d left primary school, my dad
didn’t have enough money to send him to university. got a job in Liverpool, so we had to emigrate to
After the war had finished, he came home to Cornwall. Britain. I used to hate it here because I missed my
And while he was living in a cold little house on the friends and family. But I slowly got used to Liverpool,
Cornish coast, he began to write his first book. and I really like it here now. I don’t want to move
3. My Aunt Tessa got married last weekend. The back to Sri Lanka because I’m engaged to a man
wedding was here in London. My aunt’s new husband from Liverpool!
Carl is from the United States, but he’s been in Britain
for years. He got a job here after he had finished
university. Tessa and Carl got engaged two years ago,
but they didn’t get married
A summer away from home Rebecca Jones went to Arles, France
Many companies organise summer programmes abroad for young people aged fifteen to Last year, I spent two weeks at a summer art school for young people in Arles. Arles is a
twenty. From working with children in Africa to protecting an ancient Inca road in Peru, beautiful little town in Provence, in the south of France. We were staying in a campsite and
there are lots of different trips to choose from. Travelling without your parents is a great sharing tents, and most of the other students were French. I was nervous at first about
way to become more independent, make new friends, and see a different country. 1_____ G speaking French to them. But everyone was very nice to me, and they didn’t criticise my
We spoke to three young travellers about their experiences. mistakes. I really gained a lot of confidence after I’d been there for a week. The course was
Josh Tanner went to Lagos, Nigeria good too. We had drawing and painting lessons every morning. 3_____ E The famous painter
I’m really good at football, so when I heard about a football volunteer programme in Africa, Vincent Van Gogh used to live in Arles. Many other artists used to visit the area too, and I
I was really excited. My parents weren’t so enthusiastic at first. 2_____ I was Cfeeling tired can see why. It’s a really beautiful place. I think I painted some good pictures while I was
when I arrived in Lagos, and I couldn’t believe how hot it was. But it only took me a few staying there. When Van Gogh was painting in Arles, people didn’t used to like his work.
days to get used to the weather. I stayed with the Ngembo family in an apartment in the 4_____ WhoB knows? Maybe the same thing will happen to my pictures one day.
centre of Lagos. It was very small, and I had to share a room with three boys. But everyone Matt Hazelwood went to Bryce Canyon, USA
was really nice to me, so I soon got used to having no privacy. I worked really hard, but I Last summer, I got a job at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, USA. It’s a beautiful place,
enjoyed my job, too. For most of the time, I was helping a Nigerian sports coach to teach but it was very difficult to get there! After I’d flown ten hours from London to Las Vegas, I
football to ten-year-old boys and girls. I had a great time there, and I really got used to had to get a bus to Cedar Springs, Utah. And after someone had met us there, it was
living in a big, noisy African city. By the time I left, I had really started to fit in! another three-hour drive to the park. When I’d finally arrived, I went to bed and slept for
twelve hours! Lots of young people like me were working in the park last summer. We were
helping people from the US National Park Service to repair and build things – like picnic
F important because a lot of middle-aged and
tables and information signs. 5_____ That’s
Task 4. Read the text and complete gaps 1–5 elderly people visit the US national parks. I had to work really hard all summer, and get up
very early in the morning. But I soon got used to that, and it was great to work outside in
with missing sentences A–G. There are two such a beautiful place. Bryce Canyon is famous for its red rocks and cliffs − and when the
extra sentences. (2 points) sun comes up in the early morning, they look amazing!

A. I missed my family, of course, but I made a lot of new friends. D. It was great to be outside all day, and the weather was really nice.
B. Now his paintings sell for millions of pounds. E. Then every afternoon, the teachers took us out into the
C. But after I had showed them some information on the internet, countryside to practise our skills.
they decided that it was safe for me to go. F. We also helped to repair the walking paths and make them safe.
G. But what is it really like to go on one of these trips?
Task 5. SPEAKING.
Answer the question. (2 points)

What do you think about the opinion of