Đề thi Olympic cấp THCS - 2009-2010

Exercise 2: Listen to the passage three times and fill in the blanks with a suitable word 5 points.. Exercise 2: Look through the following word list carefully and do as requested 5 poi

2-………

………

Ngày sinh: ……….………

Nơi sinh: ……….………

Trường THCS: … ………

Điểm bài thi: Bằng số: ……… (Bằng chữ: ……….)

Chữ ký của 2 người chấm: 1-……… 2-………

Ghi chú: Thí sinh trả lời ngay vào đề thi Part 1: Listening (10 points) Exercise 1: Listen to the conversation three times and answer the questions (5 points) 1-Is Hoa happy? =>………

2-Where does Nien live? =>………

3-Does Lan know Nien? =>………

4-Which sentence tells you that Hoa is older than Nien? =>………

5-When is Nien going to visit Hoa? =>………

Exercise 2: Listen to the passage three times and fill in the blanks with a suitable word ( 5 points)

Mark's Big Game Mark's (1) _ sport is hockey He is 15 years old Mark practises three times a week Practices are (2) _ hours long Mark plays one game a week Mark is a (3) hockey player He plays on

Friday nights Friday night hockey games are (4) Mark's family watches him play Mark's (5) _ watch him play too There are always many (6) _ Tonight is the big game Coaches are coming to watch Mark play Mark (7) _ to play in the National Hockey League Mark wants to make a lot of (8) _ It is very hard

to play in the NHL Mark's parents want him to go to (9) _ They want him to have an education They want Mark to be (10) _ They want Mark to be happy

Part 2: Grammar and vocabulary (15 points)

Exercise 1: In the following passage, there are 10 wrong words (mistakes) Find out and correct them (5 points).

My family have four people, my parents, my sister and me We have live in

this area since five years The school is near to my house, therefore, my sister and I

go to school on foot My father taught in a high school nearby since we move here

My parents have promising to buy us a new bicycle at the beginning of the next school year

I love area because it is beauty, It is not like crowded as my previous neighborhood People here are as friendly as those in my previous place but I like

be here because there are many children at the as age as me

Exercise 2: Look through the following word list carefully and do as requested (5 points)

clean environment to care for one another

cultural house to move house

to settle

a)Find 03 words or phrases relating to the building structure in a neighborhood

=>……… b)Find 04 words or phrases relating to the people in a neighborhood

=>……… c)Find 03 words or phrases relating to the environment in the neighborhood

=>……… d)Find 05 words or phrases relating to the activities in the neighborhood

=>………

=>………

Exercise 3: Fill in the blank with the right forms of the word - 5 points

1-There wasn’t any ……… (electric) in our village two years ago 2-Her father soon died of a ……… (break) heart

3-She gave me a ……… (demonstrate) of a new house

4-The child should be punished because of his bad ……… (behave) 5-Every week, there are two ……… (fly) from Ha Noi to Nha Trang 6-My aunt lives in a ……… (mountain) area of the country

7-Mr Thanh is having ……… (treat) for his bad back

8-This knife is ……… (use) – it can’t cut anything

9-Trung and his brother like ……… (act) movies very much

10-Our life is much better with the help of modern ……… (equip)

Part 3: Reading (10 points).

Exercise 1: Put the sentences in the correct chronological order to complete the story (5 points)

a-Unfortunately, I didn’t catch any fish, and I got bored

b-On the last day of my vacation, I went fishing on a beautiful lake

c-It had all my money, my passport, my place tickets – everything

d-When I stood up, my wallet fell out of my pocket and into the water

e-I had no money to pay the bill and no plane ticket or passport to go home f-I jumped into the lake to look for it, but I didn’t find anything

g-So what did I do?

h-The next morning I wasn’t able to leave the hotel

i-I have never had such a terrible experience

j-I called my boss and asked for some money

k-I have always wanted to go fishing Last summer, I went on a trip to Taiwan

Write the answers here:

Exercise 2: Read the passage and answer the questions below (5 points):

Cellular Radio Telephones, or cellular telephones or cell phones, provide voice telephone and other services to mobile users It is completely portable and does not need to access the wire – based network like conventional telephone Cellular phones become popular with professionals and consumers as a way to communicate while they are far away from the wire – based phone – for example, while traveling or when in remote area Due to the convenience of cellular phones, users have to pay a higher fee than they do for normal telephone

There were 120 million users of cell phones in 2001 and the number is increasing each year As a result, prices for cell phones and their services are dropping

Nowadays, drivers, technicians, lawyers and other professionals are the users

of mobile telephone service More and more people are buying cell phones for their personal security, and general conveniences

Questions:

1-What are the other names of cellular phones?

=> ……… 2-What do cell phones provide?

=> ……… 3-Why do users of cell phones have to pay higher fee?

=> ……… 4-What is the difference between conventional phones and cell phones?

=> ……… 5-Who usually use cell phones nowadays?

=> ………

Part 4: Writing (10 points)

Exercise 1: Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning – 5 points

1-“Don’t waste so much time watching TV”, the teacher told his students

=>The teacher advised ……… ……… 2-I’m very delighted that I was offered a job in that company

=>I’m very delighted ……… 3-The test is easy The students can do it

=>The test ……… 4-She is very interested in playing badminton

=>She is ………

5-I swam in the sea this morning

=>I had ………

Exercise 2: Complete the letter from the key words (5 points) Dear ………,

Thank / you / much / present / sent / me It / be / nice I / like / much I / wore / it / my birthday I / be / sorry / you / not / my birthday party / then You / be / next Sunday? You / go / the concert / me? I / have / two tickets We / meet / each other / 6 p.m OK? I / hope / you / come I / love / see / you Yours, Hoa ………

………

………

………

………

………

………

Part 5: Complete the following chart with the words related to housework (5 points)

housework cooking

The end

-1-Yes, she is 1 đ

4-She wasn’t old enough to be in my class 1 đ 5-She is going to visit Hoa at Christmas 1 đ

Transcripts:

Hoa: Hello, Lan

Lan: Hi, Hoa You seem happy

Hoa: I am I received a letter from my friend Nien today

Lan: Do I know her?

Hoa: I don’t think so She was my next-door neighbor in

Hue

Lan: What does she look like?

Hoa: Oh She ‘s beautiful Here is her photograph

Lan: What a lovely smile! Was she your classmate?

Hoa: Oh, no She wasn’t old enough to be in my class

Lan: How old is she?

Hoa: Twelve She is going to visit me She’ll be here at

Christmas Would you like to meet her?

Lan: I’d love to

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Transcripts:

Mark's Big Game Mark's favourite sport is hockey He is 15 years old Mark

successful They want Mark to be happy.

Part 2: Grammar and vocabulary (15 points)

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a-blocks of flats, common place, cultural house 1 đ b-local people, new setters, guards, volunteers 1 đ c-noisy, clean environment, polluted 1 đ d-to move house, to help the poor and the elderly, to hold

monthly meetings, to care for one another

2 đ

Part 3: Reading (10 points).

1-They are cellular radio telephones, cell phones 1 đ 2-They can provide voice telephone and other services to

mobile users

1 đ

3-Due to the convenience of cellular phone, users have to pay

a higher fee than they do for normal telephone

1 đ

4-The difference is that cell phones do not need to access the

wire – based network as conventional telephones do

1 đ

5-They are drivers, techinicians, lawyers and other

professionals

1 đ

Part 4: Writing (10 points)

1

1-The teacher advised his students not to waste so much time

watching TV

1 đ

2-I’m very delighted to be offered a job in that company 1 đ 3-The test is easy enough for the students to do 1 đ 4-She is fond of / keen on playing badminton 1 đ 5-I had a swim in the sea this morning 1 đ 2

Dear ………… ,

Thank you very much for the present you sent me

1 đ

It is very nice I like it very much I wore it on my birthday 1 đ

I was sorry you couldn’t come to my birthday party then 1 đ Will you be free next Sunday? Would you go to the concert

with me?

1 đ

I have two tickets We’ll meet each other at 6 p.m Is it OK? I

hope you’ll come

I’d love to see you

Yours

Hoa

1 đ

Part 5: English puzzle (5 points)