ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 ( HOT ~-~ HOT )

More than 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue.. Another 400 million speak it as a second language.. No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language.. Chin

KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP THÀNH PHỐ - NĂM HỌC 2007 - 2008

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH – LỚP 9 THỜI GIAN: 150 PHÚT (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

A PRONUNCIATION:

I Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part:

1 convenient together today modern

2 tool moon soon cook

3 ch emistry champ church champion

4 cough though rough tough

5 h our honour host honest

6 th ough thought within than

7 fear tear bear hear

8 food good soon too

9 cure tutor sure pure

10 invention question information protection

II Choose a word that has different stress pattern: 1 person enough picture people

2 rainfall children religion different

3 extreme generous lonely clothing

4 friendly extra along orphanage

5 method quiet major electric

6 produce towel advent flower

7 interactive experience commercial linguistics

8 temperature acquaintance distinguish describe

9 generous humorous precious mysterious

10 reputation description suggestion pollution

B VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES: Choose the right word or phrase in the brackets and fill in the blank to complete the sentences.

1 My village is about 120 kilometers ( in / at / to / for ) the west of HCMC

2 I would rather she ( did / do / will do / to do ) the work again

3 We ( came / arrived / went / reached ) the nearest village before sunset

4 If only I ( were / am / can be / would be ) in the countryside right now

5 He can’t earn money ( unless / until / if / without ) he has no job

6 Do you ( want / object / mind / disapprove ) my turning the television on now?

7 Nobody phoned while I was out, ( didn’t we? / did we? / did they? / didn’t they? )

8 A ( sailor / pen pal / writer / designer ) is a person whose job is to decide how to make things or decide their shape or appearance

9 It’s very crowded here I wish ( there were a few people / there weren’t so many people / there is no one / there was somebody here )

10 Quiet, please The headmaster would like to ( talk / say / tell / mention ) a few words

11 Maria’s English is excellent She speaks English ( very perfect / perfective / perfectively / perfectly )

12 ( Campus / Hall / Institute / Dormitory ) is a large building in a college or university where students live

13 Can you tell me how many chapters this book ( consists of ? / consists ? / comprises of ? / includes ? )

14 ( All of films / All of the films / Of all films / Of all the films ) you have watched , which film impresses you most ?

15 The mother divided the cake into four equal pieces The children were (pleased with / pleased about / happy at / happy on ) the equal division

16 We think that with our solidarity we can ( overcome / pass / get by / do ) this difficulty

17 What aspect of learning English ( you find to be difficult? / do you find to

be difficult? / you find difficult? / do you find difficult? )

18 She thinks chatting on the internet is ( time-consumed / times-consumed / time-consuming / times-consuming )

19 The woman seldom writes poems or stories, ( does she? / doesn’t she? / does he? / doesn’t he?

20 I’ll go on holiday ( as soon as / how / until / as ) I can

C READING:

I Put the sentences in logical order to build a dialogue:

A Oh, I see And I have a question for you Do you know when the color television was invented?

B It was invented by Peter Carl Goldmark

C He was American

D Your color television looks very nice Is it new?

E What’s his nationality?

F I know this question In 1950, wasn’t it?

G Yes My father has just bought it

H I’m sorry I don’t know

I You’re right And who invented it?

II Complete the passage below by filling in each blank with the correct form of the word in the

brackets:

The families in our streets are slowly being driven mad by the (1)(refuse) of the

inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of communication with them The trouble started over what is known as

noise (2)(pollute) Every evening, the (3)(think) neighbors used to turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (4) (neighbor) .was able to hear anything else Not knowing what (5) (act) to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (6) (suggest) as to how to deal with the problem A decision was (7) (make) to send a number of people to talk to the family in No 13 and ask them (8)(polite) to turn their music down after six in the evening Unfortunately, the visit did not turn out to be (9)(success) , as the inhabitants of No 13 refused

to talk to them So on the (10)(advise) of local police, the matter is now in

the hands of the court

III Read the passage and answer with true ( T ) / false ( F ) / not given ( N ):

There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important ones

Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks those languages More than 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue Another 400 million speak it as a second language No one knows how many people speak it as

a foreign language Chinese is the language with more speakers than English, but it is only the language for more than one billion Chinese people English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area in the world

It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand In South Africa and India it is one of the official languages In many countries, the textbooks in universities are written in English More than three-fourths of the world’s mail is composed in English More than three-fifths of the radio stations broadcast programs in English More than half of the scientific and research journals are in English English is the language of international communication

1 Chinese is the most important language

2 About 66.6 per cent of the world’s population speak six major languages

3 Vietnamese speak English as their first language

4 75 per cent of the world’s mail is in English

5 40 per cent of the world’s radio stations use English

6 English has more speakers than Chinese

7 People in India speak English as their second language

8 People in New Dehli cannot speak English

9 People in France speak English as their foreign language

10 People in Australia also speak English

D WRITING: I Cloze test: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word Water is our life source It makes up 70 percent (1) …… ………our bodies, and the average person actually spends 18 months of his life in the bath (2)……… ……….shower But we are only now learning (3) ………… ………to look after water Acid rain has polluted as many as 18,000 lakes and our seas and our rivers are (4) ……… … ……… with waste products It is now very expensive to try to repair the damage (5)……… ………….has been done We have some hope for the future, though, because new (6)……… ……… of water have been discovered People living the Sahara Desert have (7) ……… …………fish swimming in deep undergrowth steams Scientists also believe (8)……… … ………is a huge lake beneath London If we have learnt anything from our mistakes, we will try to keep these new areas of water clean II Building sentences: Use the following sets of words and phrases to write complete sentences 1) Learning / foreign language / necessary / us / get / job // ……… ………

2) I / spoke / the man / wife / injured / accident // ……… ………

3) family / I / spend / two months / plan / summer / holiday // ……… ………

4) driver / stop / car / time / save / child // ……… ………

5) Boxing / too / dangerous / her / play, / it ? // ……… ………

6) If I / younger / learn / drive / car // ……… ………

7) Of all / hotels in town / the Royal Hotel / comfortable // ……… ………

8) He / try / stop / smoking / many times / but / he / never / succeed //

9) I / hope / my English / considerably / improve / the end / course //

……… ………

10) It / difficult / prevent / people / park here //

III Sentence transformation: Rewrite each of the sentences in a such a way that has the same

meaning as the sentences above it.

1) Six years ago we started writing to each other

We have ……… ………

2) Please do not smoke in this area of the restaurant

Customers are requested ……… ………

3) Can you look after my cat while I’m on holiday ?

Can you ……… ………

4) He wanted to relax, so he took up Yoga

He took up Yoga in……… ………

5) It was my grandfather who bought the house many years ago

The house ……… ………

6) Life in urban areas is less healthy than life in rural areas

Life in rural areas is ……… ………

7) It was so late that nothing could be done

It was too ……… ………

8) Her presence made him feel better

He felt ……… ………

9) As a school boy, he often played football in the school team

He used ……… ………

10)” How can I use this machine ? “ asked the man

The man wanted to know ……… ………

E LISTENING : Listen to the conservation carefully and answer the questions below.

I Circle the correct answers a, b or c:

1) What is the name of her house ?

a Orchard Cottage b Riverside Cottage c Bramble Cottage

2) What is Sainsbury’s ?

3) What did they want to do ?

a to sell her cottage b to move her cottage c to knock down her cottage

4) When did it happen ?

a last year b two months ago c two years ago

5) How old is the woman ?

II Answer the questions :

1) What did they want to build ?

……… ………

2) How much money did they offer her at first ?

……… ………

3) Why doesn’t she need that money ?

……… ………

4) Was she their first customer ?

The end

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.o0o KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP THÀNH PHỐ NĂM HỌC 2007-2008

MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH – LỚP 9

ĐÁP ÁN VÀ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM

A PRONUNCIATION:

I 10 điểm: 1 điểm cho một từ đúng

II 10 điểm: 1 điểm cho một từ đúng

6 produce 7 interactive 8 temperature 9 mysterious 10 reputation

B VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES:

30 điểm: 1,5 điểm cho một chỗ đúng

6 mind 7 did they? 8 designer 9 there weren’t so many people 10 say

11 perfectly 12 Dormitory 13 consists of? 14 Of all the film 15 pleased with

16 overcome 17 do you find difficult? 18 time-consuming 19 does she? 20 as soon as

C READING:

I 20 điểm: D – G – A – F – I – H – B – E – C

* 2 câu đúng ( D G ): 3 điểm

3 câu đúng ( D G A ): 6 điểm

4 câu đúng ( D G A F ): 9 điểm

5 câu đúng ( D G A F I ): 12 điểm

6 câu đúng ( D G A F I H ): 14 điểm

7 câu đúng ( D G A F I H B): 16 điểm

8 câu đúng ( D G A F I H B E): 18 điểm

9 câu đúng ( D G A F I H B E C): 20 điểm

II 20 điểm: 2 điểm cho một từ đúng

1 refusal 2 pollution 3 thoughtless 4 neighborhood 5 action

III 20 điểm: 2 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng

D WRITING:

I Cloze test:

20 điểm : 2,5 điểm cho một câu đúng

2.or 6 sources

II Building sentences :

25 điểm: 2,5 điểm cho một câu đúng

1/ Learning a foreign language is necessary for us to get a good job

2/ I spoke to the man whose wife was injured in the accident

3/ My family and I spent two months planning our summer holiday

4/ The driver stopped his car in time to save the child

5/ Boxing is too dangerous for her to play , isn’t it ?

6/ If I were younger ,I would learn how to drive a car

7/ Of all the hotels in town, the Royal Hotel is the most comfortable

8/ He has tried to stop smoking many times but he has never succeeded

9/ I hope my English will considerably improve at the end of the ( this ) course 10/ It is difficult to prevent people from parking here

III Sentence transformation:

25 điểm: 2,5 điểm cho một câu đúng

1/ We have written to each other for six years

2/ Customers are requested not to smoke in this area of the restaurant

3/ Can you take care of my cat while I’m on holiday?

4/ He took up Yoga in order to relax

5/ The house was bought by my grandfather many years ago

6/ Life in rural areas is healthier than life in urban areas

7/ It was too late to do anything / It was too late for anything to be done

8/ He felt better because of her presence

9/ He used to play football in the school team when he was a school boy

10) The man wanted to know how he could use that machine

E LISTENING :

I 10 điểm: 2 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng

II 10 điểm: 2,5 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng

1/ They wanted to build a car park ( for their new supermarket )

2/ They offered her £125,000 at first

3/ She is too old and she hasn’t got any children

4/ Yes, she was