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PART II : READING COMPREHENSION : 6.0 pts Question 3 : Read the passage below then state whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE : It is important to have healthy teeth..

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KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYÊN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 DỰ THI CẤP TỈNH

Khóa ngày 10 tháng 02 năm 2009

Đề chính thức Môn TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề )

( Đề gồm 4 trang

) -PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION : ( 2.0 pts )

Question 1 : Listen to the passage then state whether the following sentences are TRUE or

FALSE The passage will be read twice :

1 Computer won’t be able to touch the lives of people who live in distant villages

2 From your own room, you can search the news you want from all over the world on the Internet

3 Computers are not very useful in some areas such as business

4 Computers can work during the night while we are sleeping and give us a report we want the next morning

Question 2 : Listen to the passage then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) to

complete each sentence The passage will be read twice :

1 Environmental pollution is the result of …………

A natural disasters

B industrialization

C careless use of natural resources

D both B and C

2 Avoiding environmental pollution is………

A uneasy B possible

C very easy D serious

3 By wearing a mask when getting out of houses, people want………

A to protect their faces’ skin from the sunlight

B to avoid cold or hot atmosphere

C not to inhale traffic fumes and chemical wastes

D not to inhale all kinds of pure air

4 Nowadays, if living indoor we……

A can protect ourselves from pollution

B cannot avoid toxic indoor pollution

C can inhale quite pure and safe air

D can protect ourselves when doing housework

PART II : READING COMPREHENSION : ( 6.0 pts )

Question 3 : Read the passage below then state whether the following sentences are TRUE

or FALSE :

It is important to have healthy teeth Good teeth help us to chew our food They also help us

to look nice How does a tooth go bad? The decay begins in a little crack in the enamel covering of the tooth This happens after germs and bits of food have collected there Then the

decay slowly spreads inside the tooth Eventually, poison goes into the blood, and we may feel quite ill

How can we keep our teeth healthy? Firstly, we ought to visit our dentist twice a year He can fill the small holes in our teeth before they destroy the teeth He can examine our teeth to check that they are growing in the right way Unfortunately, many people wait until they have toothache before they see a dentist Secondly, we should brush our teeth with a toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste at least twice a day- once after breakfast and once before we go to bed We can also use wooden toothpicks to clean between our teeth after a meal Thirdly, we should eat food that is good for our teeth and our body: milk, cheese, fish, brown bread, potatoes, red rice, raw vegetables and fresh fruit Chocolates, sweets, biscuits and cakes are bad, especially when

we eat them between meals They are harmful because they stick to our teeth and cause decay

1 Good teeth help us to chew our food and to look nice

2 The decay usually begins firstly inside the tooth or from the blood

3 The decay spreads inside the tooth after it begins in a little crack in the enamel covering

of the tooth

4 Dentists can help us keep our teeth healthy

5 Dentists can help us brush our teeth twice a year

6 Most people go to see a dentist before they have toothache

7 We should brush our teeth at least twice a day with fluoride toothpaste

8 Some kinds of food are good for our teeth while some others are harmful

Question 4 : These announcements appear at some places only Match each announcement

( 1 – 8 ) with a proper place ( A – J ) where it usually appears :

1 Shake well before using

2 Staff only !

3 Don’t feed the animals

4 Use no hooks !

5 Ladies / Gentlemen

6 Push in

7 Keep gate closed !

8 Speed limit – 80 mph

B On the front doors of a building

C On boxes or bottles of medicine

D On the doors of toilets

E On motorways

F On bags of sugar or flour

G In front of a cinema or theatre

H Railway station

I On the way or on the doors to some rooms or offices

J Inside the gates of kindergartens

Question 5 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE word chosen from the list below to

complete the meaning of the passage :

outside, through, but, travel, churches, experiments, ago, remember, taught, who

As you turn on the radio for your favourite programme, do you ever wonder how you can

hear those sounds? How do they…( 1 )…through the air and reach your radio exactly as they

are sent out?

It all began nearly a hundred years…( 2 )…when a young Italian called Guglielmo Marconi discovered how to send sounds…( 3 )…the air Marconi was born in Boloyma in northern Italy

in 1874 His father was a rich Italian businessman, and his mother was a Scot…( 4 )…had

lived in Ireland and had gone to Italy to study music The family lived in a countryhouse just

…( 5 )…Boloyma.

When he was a boy, people did not think that Marconi was clever He was a quiet boy who

spoke little…( 6 )…thought a lot He liked to sit and read science books in his father’s big library He also liked to do…( 7 )…with electricity For most of his early life, he was…( 8 )…

at home He did not go to school

PART III : GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY : ( 8.0 pts )

Question 6 :

1 Pick out ONE word that has the underlined syllable pronounced differently from the

others in each case :

a) ch air , church , chemist , change , choice

b) great , neat , heat , seat , meat

c) simplify , apply , reply , supply , primary

d) g arment , generation , gold , gasoline , golf

2 Pick out ONE word that is of different kind or part of speech from the others in each

case:

a) sunset , sun-glasses , sunflower , sunlight , sunburnt

b) junkyard , benefit , sewage , trash , garbage

c) amusing , rollicking , joyful , terrible , pleasant

d) enlarge , widen , golden , enrich , deepen

Question 7 : Write the verbs in the numbered brackets into its correct tense and form :

Last Tet my classmates and I ( 1 visit ) Rach Mieu Bridge The bridge ( 2 open ) on January 19, 2008 Since then, there ( 3 be ) hundred thousands of visitors coming to see the bridge This suspension bridge ( 4 connect ) Ben Tre to Tien Giang They ( 5 start ) the construction in 2002, and thousands of workers ( 6 work ) hard for 6 years to offer a huge gift

to the local people on the occasion of Tet Before the bridge was put in use, people ( 7 travel ) across the large river by ferry-boat or wooden boat It ( 8 take ) the passengers a lot of time to

travel across Rach Mieu ferry-boats during the Lunar Tet for many years

Question 8 : Fill in each blank in these sentences with the suitable form of the words in

brackets :

1 Vietnamese people are very……….( friendliness)

2 Over a million…… ( publish) of this work have been sold since 2000

3 The…… ( communicate ) throughout the world has been easier thanks to the Internet

4 The speed of cars and motorcycles is……….( limitation ) inside the city

5 The reason for his absense is very clear It is…… ( deny )

6 Do you know the ………( widely ) of this lake?

7 Ho Chi Minh City is…… ( locate) on the bank of Sai Gon River

8 Helen was introduced to many other stamp…….( collection ) at the meeting

Question 9 : Rewrite these sentences, beginning with the words given in such a way that they

remain the same meaning as the old ones :

1 He won a prize at the competition because he spoke English fluently.

Because of……

2 Mr Le said to his daughter, “ Do as many exercises in English as you can.”

Mr Le advised……

3 I think no other flowers are as beautiful as rose

I think rose……

4 They will open the flower garden to the public for ten days

The flower garden……

5 The pagoda is very small A lot of visitors cannot stay inside at the same time

The pagoda is not………

6 My father hasn’t driven any car for 10 years

The last time……

7 The weather is not good They cannot climb up to the top of the mountain

If……

8 When he was young, he went swimming every morning He doesn’t do it anymore

He used………

PART IV :WRITING ( 4.0 pts )

Question 10 : Write a letter to your friend to tell him/ her how your family prepared to

celebrate last Lunar Tet ( in about 120 to 150 words – You mustn’t use your real name and address )

Question 11 : Your friends and you were chosen into the team of good students to sit for the

examination of gifted students in English You are discussing on a plan to study and practise for the exam.Rewrite the conversation in about 15 to 20 conversational exchanges

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