It can be said without exaggeration that four of five lichens bear his name.. He was the first to realize the importance of using chemical reagents in the taxomony of lichens.. Neverthel
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ĐỒNG THÁP
Đề chính thức_
KỲ THI TUYỂN CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS CẤP TỈNH NĂM 2009
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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Ngày thi: 15/02/2009 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề)
(Đề thi gồm có: 05 trang)
A LISTENING (2 MARKS)
Listen to the CD player three times Then complete the table There are 2 thirty-second pauses after each time you listen
Left Viet Nam (1) (2)Africa,England and Worked in hotel 1900s (3)
Went to another country (4) (5)
Founded Vietnamese Communist Party (6) Guangzhou
Formed Viet Minh Front (7) Viet Nam
Became President (8) (9)
B.GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY (8 MARKS)
I Choose the best answer to complete the sentences (2 marks)
1 I ………… a letter to my friends
A posted B isussed C collected D.published
2 We can’t go camping today The weather is …………
A fine B warm C snowy D sunny
3 The prupose of the examination was to ………… the students’ knowledge of the subject
A try B inspect C prove D test
4 She asked me ………….I like tiked eating chocolates
A if B and C that D but
5 He used to walk a long way to work Now he ………… to work
A still walks B no longer walks C walks D did not walk
6 This is the place where the car turned …………
A on B off C up D over
7 Tom’s ………….finished his homework
A just B frequently C often D usually
8 The children ………… to the zoo
A were enjoyed to take B enjoyed being taken
C were enjoyed talking D enjoy taking
9 Let’s go, ………….we?
A don’t B shall C will D do
10 The synonym of the verb “deny” is …………
A permit B refuse C allow D admit
Trang 2II There are 5 mistakes in the passage below Write out the mstakes and correct them (1 mark)
In 1783, two French brothers built the first balloon to take people into the air One hundred and twenty years lately, in 1903, the Wright brothers built the first plane with an engine and flew in it This was in the United States Then, in 1918, the US Post Office begun the first airmail service Aeroplanes changed a much in the next thirty years Then, in 1950s, aeroplanes became much faster because they had jet engines In 1976, Concorde was build in the UK and France It is the fastest passenger plane in the world and it can fly at
2500 kilometers an hour, so the journey in London to New York is only four hours Today millions of people travel on aeroplane, and it is difficult to think of a world without them
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III Supply correct form of the verbs in brackets (2 marks)
I had two accidents last month First, my friend and I were riding on our bicycles and it (1) ……… (rain).We (2) ……….(ride) fast because we (3)
……… (want) to get home I (4) ……….(turn) the corner when suddenly, a cat (5) ……….(run) in front of my bike I tried (6)
……….(stop), but I fell and (7) ……… (break) my arm Then a few days after that, I (8) ……….(walk) up the stairs in my apartment when I (9) ……… (hurt) my ankle Fortunately, I (10) ……….(not break)
it, but it wasn’t a good month
IV Fill in the blanks with correct form of the words given in brackets (2 marks)
The families in our street are slowly being driven mad by the (1)
……….(refuse) of the inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of (2)
……… (communicate) with them The trouble started over what is known as noise (3) ……… (pollute) Every evening the (4) ……… (think) neighbors used to turned up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (5)
……… (neighbor) was able to hear anything else Not knowing what (6)
……… (act) to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (7)
……… (suggest) as to how to deal with the problem A (8)
……… (decide) was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in
No 13 and ask them (9) ……… (polite) to turn their music down after six in the evening (10) ……… (Fortunately), the visit did not turn out to be
successful,as the habitants of No 13 refused to talk to them, so on the advice of local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court
V Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition (1 mark)
1 I get tired ……… doing the same thing everyday
2 Many Vietnamese women like wearing morden clothing ……… work
3 When the Jones arrived ……… London It was very cold
4 Are you busy ……… your homework?
5 I couldn’t meet Mrs Chi because she’s ………
Trang 3C READING COMPREHENSION (4 MARKS)
Passage 1
Finish-born botanist William Nylander taught at the university of Hesinki for a number of years and later moved to Paris, where he lived until his death at the end of the nineteenth century During the second half of the last century, he became a prominent figure
in the field of lichenology
Botanists from all over the world sent samples to his laboratory to be analyzed and classified It can be said without exaggeration that four of five lichens bear his name
He was the first to realize the importance of using chemical reagents in the
taxomony of lichens He selected the most common reagents used by the chemists of his time Lichenologists all over the world still use these reagents, including tincture of odine and hypochorite in their laboratories During the first half of the nienteenth century, a
Japanese named Abahima added only one chemical product- Phenol diamines
Nylander was also responsible for discovering that atmosphere of big cities
hindered the lichens’s development and cause them to disappear Now they are used to detect atmospheric pollution
Nevertheless, he considered lichens to be simple plants and vehemently opposed the widely accepted modern theories that lichens are compound species formed by two
discordant elements: algae and fungi
I Write T (true) or F (false) (1 mark)
……… 1 Nylander was born in Paris
……… 2 He used to work at a university
……… 3 He died in late 1990s
……… 4 He was a doctor
……… 5 He was a vey well-known man
II Choose the bestanswer (1 mark)
1 Internationally renowed scientists sent lichens samples to Nylander because………
A he considered them to be simple plants
B he used reagents to deternine their use
C he analyzed and classified them
D he collected and preserved them
2 Which of the following is not true?
A Nylander accepted his coleagues’ theories on the composition of lichens
B Eighty percent of lichens bear his name
C Today lichens are used to detect atmospheric pollution
D Most of botanists consider lichens to be a compound specie
3 All of the following are true except:
A he was the first to use chemical reagents in taxonomy of lichens
B he believed that lichens were simple plants
C he was an esteemed lichenologist
D he taught botany at a university in Paris
4 According to the nineteenth -century theories, which elements form the composition of lichens?
A odine and chemical reagents
B algae and fungi
C hypochlorite and odine
D chemical reagents and atmospheric chemicals
5 How could william Nylander best described?
A degenerate B dormineering
C ingenious D anxous
Trang 4Passage 2.
A WELSH FESTIVAL Wales has a population of about three million English is the main language and only twenty per cent speak both Welsh and English Every year, (1) ………… August there
is a Welsh-speaking festival It (2) ………… place in a different town each year so
everyone has a chance for it to be near them Local people (3) _ years making plans for when the festival will be in (4) _ town Each festival is (5) _ by about 160.000 people They travel not only from nearby towns and villages (6) _ also from the rest of the British Isles and (7) _ from abroad There are concerts, plays and (8) _ to find the best singers, poets, writers and so on Shops sell Welsh music, books, pictures and clothes as (9) _ as food and drink The festival provides a chance for Welsh-speaking people to be together for a whole week, with (10) _ Welsh language all around them
8 a tests b examinations c competitions d races
D WRITING (6 MARKS)
I Rewrite the following sentences without changing meanings of the ones given (3 marks)
1 Nam is bigger than Ba
Ba
2 Let’s go abroad for our holiday this year
Why
3 No one in the group is younger than Lan
Lan
4 “How much do you think it will cost?” he asked
He wanted to know
5 It isn’t necessary to book tickets for the show in advance
You need
6 Did they return those books to the library?
Were
7 The story of their sufferings was painful to listen to
It was
8 The flight to Ho Chi Minh City lasted one hour and a half
It took
9 Because the boy behaves well,every body loves him
Because of
10 Miss Lan began her job as a television presenter 5 years ago
Miss Lan
Trang 5II Make all changes and additions necessary to produce a complete letter from the words and phrases given (3 marks)
1.I/ be/ glad/ receive/ letter
2 I/ just/ wonderful/ news
3 I / pass/ final/ examination/ university
4 My father/ be/ please/ he/ hear this
5 He/ already/ promise/ pay/ holiday abroad/ I / pass
6 So/ I / come/ England
7 I / like/ study English/ school/ near/ home
8 I/ look for/ advanced course/ perhaps/ three/ four hours/ day
9 You/ help/ find/ one?
10.I/ look forward/ see/ soon
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