Reading comprehension: 3ms @ Do as directed: 1,5ms ■True OR False: Learning a foreign language is, in some ways, like learning how to fly.. It is this: learning how to do these things n
Trang 1Kien Thiet School
English 9
The First Semester (2017-2018)
I Choose the best answers: (2,5ms)
1 I wish I earned more money, but in fact I
2 Miss White is a nurse She working at night
3 Wearing uniform encourages students to be proud their school
4 We our form teacher since last Monday
5 Van is now living with the Brown family on a outside Columbus, Ohio
6 We hired a small canoe and went in the river
7 The first courses were offered 3rd, January 2007
8 You should learn by all the new words of the lesson
9 Do you find the Internet _?
10 “Let’s go out for dinner?” – “ _”
II Word forms: (1,5ms)
1 Watching TV has become one of the most popular forms of (entertain)
2 Cigarette has been banned (advertise)
3 The journey was _ spent, so I took a taxi back home (enjoy)
4 We went beside the river last Sunday (picnic)
5 In _, you are wrong (conclude)
6 Mr Long has an _ collection of stamps (impress)
III Mistakes: (0,5m)
1 You look worried What were you thinking about?
2 Lots of books are written by English every year
A B C D
IV Arrange the words to make complete sentences: (0,5m)
1 to get / how long / I / took / there / wanted / it / to know / her / /
2 and / ao dai / by / was worn / tradition, / men / By / women / both / /
V Reading comprehension: (3ms)
@ Do as directed: (1,5ms)
■True OR False:
Learning a foreign language is, in some ways, like learning how to fly There are some differences, but there is a very important similarity It is this: learning how to do these things needs a lot of practise It is never enough to read a book on how to fly a plane A book can give you a lot of information about how to fly a plane A book can
Trang 2give you a lot of information about how to fly, but if you only read that book, then try to fly without any practise, you will kill yourself The same is true of learning a foreign language For example, can you speak English well without having lots of practise? “Practice makes perfect” is what every learner of a foreign language should know
1 Learning a foreign language and learning to fly are the same in an important way
2 Information about flying from books is enough for someone to fly a plane
3 Practising a foreign language regularly makes you very good at it
■ Choose the best answers:
5 The passage is about how to learn something _
6 “Practice makes perfect” means
A So far so good B Habit cures habit C Haste makes waste D Diligence is the mother success
@@ Complete the passage: (1,5ms)
All early television was broadcast in black and white Color television was possible but it was too (1) _ and
of very poor quality (2) _ the middle of the 1950s Color television broadcasts began in the United States in
1954, in Japan in 1960, and in (3) _ in 1967
The first landing on the moon was broadcast (4) _ on television I 1969, and now television programs are (5) _ all over the world immediately through the (6) _ of satellites that transmit the signals from the earth, through space and back to the earth
VI Rewrite the sentences without changing the meaning: (2ms)
1 “Where does your father work?” said the teacher
The teacher
2 I am interested in playing soccer
I find it
3 We saw her son in the park 20 minutes ago
Her son
4 They haven’t seen her for five years
The last time
THE END OF THE TEST
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II
1 entertainment 2 Advertising 3 Unenjoyably
III
1 C 2 C
IV
1 I wanted to know how long it took her to get there
2 By tradition, ao dai was worn by both men and women
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VI
1 The teacher asked me where my father worked
2 I find it interesting to play soccer
3 her son was seen in the park 20 minutes ago
4 The last time they saw her was 5 years ago
THE END