D PART V: 2.0 pts Read the following passage and circle the answers A, B, C or D which is most accurate according to the information given in the passage.. This illegal copying of compu
Trang 1SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VỊNG TỈNH LỚP 9 THCS
Mơn thi: Tiếng Anh Ngày thi: 01 – 03 – 2009
(Đề thi gồm cĩ 7 trang) Thời gian: 150 phút (Khơng kể thời gian giao đề)
Học sinh làm bài vào đề thi này
ĐIỂM
TOÀN BÀI THI (Họ, tên và chữ ký) Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2
(Họ, tên và chữ ký)
SỐ PHÁCH
(Do Chủ tịch HĐ ghi)
Bằng chữ Bằng số
SECTION I: VOCABULARY,GRAMMAR & READING (13.0 pts)
PART I: (2.5 pts) Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) which best completes each sentence Circle the letter you choose.
1 My house is quite close ……… the church It’s ……… the beach
2 If only I……… a new watch Mine is too old
3 Our former teacher _ Nam on his contribution to the program
4 As it was Christmas, the _ at the church was much larger than usual
5 I spoke to two counter assistants, ……….was extremely rude
6 She asked me ………
7 He made his first trip to Dalat ……… October 2003
8 It is our policy to ……… forests and increase forestation
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10 I’ll fail the test ……… I learn these words
PART II: (1,0 pt) Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest Circle the letter you choose.
PART III: (2.0 pts) Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the spaces provided.
1 The Internet has _ developed and become part of our life
(INCREASE)
2 The AO DAI is the _ dress of Vietnamese women ( TRADITION)
3 She was really impressed by the beauty of the city and by the of
its people (FRIENDLY)
4 Many of my students enjoy the web in their free time ( SURF)
5 Look at the two and you will see they are the same in some ways
(DICTIONARY)
6 I usually spend hours on the river without anything ( CATCH)
7 He suggests posters on energy saving and hanging them around
their school ( MAKE)
8 Most children learn their first language and sometimes other
languages as well (EASE)
Your answers:
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be changed for the sentence to be correct Circle the letter you choose.
A B C D
D
3 Drinking alcohol is prohibited at school There is a prohibit against selling
A B C
alcohol for people under the age of 18
D
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
7 I will come and stay with you and your family on March
A B C D
8 I would like to inform you that the representatives have been arrived this
A B C
morning and they are all very happy
D
PART V: (2.0 pts) Read the following passage and circle the answers A, B,
C or D which is most accurate according to the information given in the passage.
Many people buy and use copied programs for their computer This illegal copying of computer software has become a huge industry because the software is much cheaper than the original programs
Illegal software can be found on sale in any part of the world, although it is more readily available in Asia than in Western countries Software manufacturers have been trying to get governments to stop this copying or “pirating” In an attempt to get rid of “software pirates”, police have seized software from stores
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and fined the owners This has been partially successful, but manufacturers are still losing a lot of money By using this kind of software, computer owners risk damaging their computer Illegally copied software can carry computer viruses which could wipe out information stored on the computer’s hard driver
1 Computer software is _
2 People buy pirated software because it is _
3 Pirated software is found _
4 In some countries, owners of illegal software have _
A asked their government to stop the pirating
B been forced to pay money
C given their software to the police
D asked police to help them
5 According to the passage, software can damage computers
PART VI: (1.5 pts) Fill each gap in the passage with a suitable word from the box There are more words than needed Write your answers in the space provided under this passage.
Environmental pollution is a term that (1)……… to all the way by which man pollutes his surroundings Man dirties the air with gases and smoke, (2)
……… the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with (3)……….many fertilizers and pesticides Man also pollutes his surroundings (4)……… various other ways (5)……… , people ruin
Trang 5natural beauty by scattering litter on the land and in the water They operate machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with disturbing (6)………
Your answers:
PART VII: (2.0 pts) Read the following passage carefully and choose the best word, A, B, C, or D to fill in each gap.
The Millennium Dome in Greenwich (1) to celebrate the end of the second Millennium It (2) in 1999 It is a huge construction, large enough
miles of cable inside its 1 km circumference At its centre the Millennium Dome
(4) a height of 50m
Fifteen different exhibitions (5) within the Dome These (6) to show the progress mankind (7) during the second Millennium In addition, up to six live show (8) in its central arena every
day by a cast of about 200 performers
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SECTION II: WRITING (7.0 pts)
PART I: (2.5 pts) Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
1 If anyone succeeds in solving the problem, it will probably be him
2 Laurence hasn’t seen his sister since she left for Japan
3 The president is the statesman I admire of all
4 No sooner had he arrived than things went wrong
5 People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to
6 Although the weather was too bad, the school children managed to come to class on time
7 John only understood very little of what the teacher said
8 ‘You’d better not lend any more money, Elizabeth,’ said Paul
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9 The film was so boring that we left before the end
10 Maria got a bad cough because she began smoking cigarettes
PART II: (4.5 pts)
“In about 150-180 words, write a composition about the benefits of the Internet.”
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