GRADE 10 ADMISSION - SAMPLE TESTS – 2025 FORMAT (HO CHI MINH CITY)-09

I. Choose the word, phrase, or sentence that best fits the space in each sentence or best answers the question. (3.5 pts).

II. Look at the sign or the notice. Choose the best answer for questions 15 and 16. (0.5 pt)

Question 15. What does the sign mean?

People can park here while they are at work

You can park here at the weekends.

This car park is for employees only.

Users must lock the car park after leaving

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Question 16. What does the sign say?

You can’t get fuel here.

You can buy food here.

You can get gasoline here

You can get some water here.

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III. Choose the word that best fits the blank space in the following passage. (1.5 pts)

Satellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch
A satellite is about to demonstrate a new way of (17) ______ space junk with magnets for the first time. With the frequency of space launches dramatically increasing in recent years, the potential for a disastrous collision above Earth is continually growing. Now, Japanese orbital clean-up company Astroscale is testing a potential solution.
The firm's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration mission is scheduled to lift off on 20 March aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. It consists of two spacecraft: a small "client" satellite and a larger "servicer" satellite, or "chaser". The smaller satellite is (18) ______ with a magnetic plate which allows the chaser to dock with it.
The two stacked spacecraft will perform three tests once (19) ______ orbit, each of which will involve the servicer satellite releasing and then recapturing the client satellite. The first test will be the (20) ____, with the client satellite drifting a short distance away and then being recaptured. In the second test, the servicer satellite will set the client satellite tumbling before catching up with it and matching its motion to grab it.
Finally, if those two tests go well, the chaser will live up to its name by letting the client satellite (21) ______ a few hundred meters away before finding it and attaching to it. All of these tests will be performed autonomously, with (22) ______ to no human input once they are set in motion.
Satellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch - New Scientist

IV. Read the following passage. Decide if the statements from 23 to 26 are True or False. Choose the correct answer for questions 27 and 28. (1.5 pts)

For a long time scientists have been trying to find out if dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded. For some time they thought that dinosaurs, which became extinct 65 million years ago, were reptiles and therefore cold-blooded like their successors.
In today's world, creatures are either warm-blooded, with a constant body temperature or cold-blooded, with a body temperature that changes in the world around them.
New facts suggest that they might have been neither, and both at the same time. Today, tuna fish, white sharks and leatherback turtles are animals that fall into this category.
In recent research, scientists have started comparing dinosaur bones to those of modern mammals. Similar to the rings of a tree, examining bones can show you how fast an animal grows or gains weight. According to the results, they had growth rates and metabolic rates that are somewhere in-between warm and cold-blooded animals. Information shows that dinosaurs had a high metabolic rate, letting them to grow faster. This allowed dinosaurs to get bigger than they would normally have become. Warm-blooded animals, mammals and birds, usually eat a lot to "keep up" their body temperature.
Cold-blooded animals need less food and are rather slow in their movements. While this is the case with most dinosaurs, there were also some, like the Tyrannosaurus rex, that were rather fast.

Question 23.

Dinosaurs are thought to be cold-blooded like reptiles.

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Question 24.

Scientists have compared bones of different kinds of dinosaurs in some recent research.

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Question 25.

Dinosaurs were giant because they had a high metabolic rate.

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Question 26.

Most dinosaurs were fast and needed less food like Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Question 27. What is the passage mainly about?

Dinosaurs' growth rates

Dinosaurs' body temperature

Dinosaurs' extinction

Dinosaurs' blood types

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Question 28. The phrase "keep up" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to

prevent

change

continue

maintain

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V. Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence. (1.5 pts)

Question 29.

There was a great in the living standards of my hometown. (improve)

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Question 30.

Most students are very busy studying. They have a amount of leisure time. (limit)

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Question 31.

I bought this computer on John's . (recommend)

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Question 32.

Don't be worried! Various germs, such as fungi and bacteria, live on the skin and inside our bodies. (harm)

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Question 33.

I haven't heard any evidence one way or the other on this question yet. (persuade)

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Question 34.

34 They spent a fortune on for their new product launch. (advertise)

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VI. Look at the entry of the word “expression” in a dictionary. Use what you can get from the entry to complete the sentences with two or three words. (0.5 pt)

Question 35.

is a fundamental human right, allowing individuals to share their thoughts and opinions without fear of censorship.

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Question 36.

Through art, music, and writing, people can their emotions and experiences.

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VII. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it. (1.0 pt)

Question 37.

"Don't forget to send your parents my regards," she said to me. 👉 She reminded .

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Question 38.

I forgot to do the exercises, that's why the teacher punished me. 👉 I was .

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Question 39.

Stephanie will carry on piling on the pounds if she doesn't do something about her weight. 👉 Unless .

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Question 40.

The boy is my cousin. You have made fun of him. 👉 The boy .

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