Đề thi giữa HK2 môn Tiếng Anh 10 năm 2021 - Trường THPT Hồng Bàng

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group

Choose the correct form of verbs to complete the sentences

Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it Music, artful arrangement of sounds (21) _______ time. This definition is obviously very broad, but a narrower one would exclude (22) _______ much. Music is part of virtually every culture on (23) _______, but it varies widely among cultures in style and structure. Definitions of music can (24) _______ dramatically over a short time, as they have across the world during the 20th (25) _________. Can music exist without (26) _______? Some philosophers argue that music should be defined as a kind of “mental (27) _______” and that the physical aspects of sound are simply by-products of this image. If you (28) _______ you can have a musical experience by imagining the sound of a piece of music, then you think (29) _______ can exist without sound. But most musical experiences involve producing or (30) _______ to physical characteristics of sound such as pitch and timbre (quality comparable to texture or color in sight). Is the tape-recorded sound of a large metal-stamping machine music? Are 4 minutes (31) _______ 33 seconds of silence music? Is the activity of reading a (32) _______ of hundreds of seemingly unrelated objects, activities, and states of mind music? Each of these “(33) _______”, as well as many other sounds (or nonsounds), has been copyrighted (34) _______ a musical composition, performed, and recorded in the 20th century. One of the legacies of 20th-century music is to have blurred the definition of music as (35) _______ before.

Find the one mistake (A, B, C or D) in these sentences and then correct them