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UBND HUYỆN YÊN LẠC
PHÒNG GD-ĐT YÊN LẠC
ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP HUYỆN NĂM HỌC 2018-2019
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 9
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 06 trang)
PART A LISTENING
I Listen to Lucy talking about her vacation For questions 1 to 5, choose A, B or C You will hear the conversation twice
Example:
0 Lucy missed the train because she’d _
A forgotten B overslept C lost her key
1 By the time she arrived at the airport, the plane _
2 She booked another flight and arrived _
A 1 hour later B 2 hours later C 3 hours later
3 When she arrived at the hotel, she realized she’d _
A lost her bag B lost her watch C lost her phone
4 Lucy realized that she’d left her bag _
A in the taxi B on the bus C on the plane
5 She couldn’t sleep because she’d _
A drunk too much coffee B watched a scary movie C eaten too much food
II Complete the form below Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer
III You will hear five different people talking about holidays Choose from the list (A-F) the reason each speaker gives to explain why they remember one particular holiday Use the letters only once There is one extra letter which you do not need to use
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
Costwise Car Hire Example Answer
Number of offices in Sydney 3 .
Booking reference number: (1)
Office just by (2) terminal
Opening hours: (3) to
After-hours charge: (4) $
Cheapest model of car available: (5)
Information needed when booking: (6) number
Length of hire period: (7)
Reduce cost by driving under (8) km per week
Insurance does not cover: (9)
After hours put keys in box near the office on the (10)
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1 Speaker 1 A I felt I had learnt something
2 Speaker 2 B I was relieved to be back home
3 Speaker 3 C It gave me a sense of my origins
4 Speaker 4 D It provided an escape
5 Speaker 5 E I felt closer to my family
F It made our friendship stronger
PART B PHONETICS, LEXICAL AND GRAMMAR
I Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others
II Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others
III Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences
6 She wants to go shopping, but she has hardly _ money
7 Can you keep calm for a moment? You _ noise in class!
A are always made B always make C have always made D are always making
8 “The inflation rate in Greece is five times _ my country,” he said
A as much as B more than C as many as that in D as high as that in
9 _, the results couldn't be better
A No matter what he tried hard B No matter how hard he tried
C Although very hard he tried D Despite how hard he tried
10 They are good friends They _ each other for a long time
11 I object _ to the sea in this cold weather
12 I find the time of English meals very strange I am not used _ dinner at 5 p.m
13 My parents got up very early this morning _ pack the car for our journey
14 The purpose of the examination was to _ the students’ knowledge of the subject
15 Hardly _ the captain of the team when he had to face the problems
A had he been appointed B did he appoint
C was he being appointed D was he appointing
16 It is six years _ we moved to Chicago
17 _ our children may be, we cannot go picnicking in this weather
A Though excited B Excited as C Because of excitement D Exciting
18 - “I’m taking my first exam next week” - “ ”
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19 It’s necessary that every student of our class _ hard
20 Ba and his family had _ to their home village
A a two-days trip B a two-day trips C a two-day trip D two-day trips
IV Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting
1 She was waiting nervous in the waiting room for the interview
A B C D
2 They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell them
A B C D
3 We needed thousands of pencils for the convention, so we bought the less expensive ones we could find
A B C D
4 The book writing by Jack London is very popular in the world
5 Have the students be told about the changes of their timetable yet?
A B C D
V Supply the correct form of the word in capital letter given at the end of each sentence below
1 For most people, a good _ helps them get a better job EDUCATE
2 Mrs Jones walked around the room while the students worked _ SILENT
6 The dentist said that it wouldn’t hurt, and she was right – it was completely _! PAIN
8 She is so busy with _ activities that she has no time for entertainment SOCIETY
9 There are lots of _ encyclopedias on the Internet MEDICINE
PART C READING
I Fill in the gap in the following passage with one correct word
Nowadays a (1) _ of important inventions are carried (2) by scientists working for large industrial firms However, there are still opportunities for other people to invent various things (3)
_ Britain there is a weekly TV program which attempts to show all the various devices which
people have recently (4) _ The people organizing the program receive information about 700 inventions per year New idea can (5) developed by private inventors
II Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 10
English has been (1) a world language for more than a century and a half The number of people who speak it as their mother (2) has been estimated at (3) three hundred million and four hundred million It is recognized (4) an official language in many countries (5) about
1,5 billion people live In China, the importance attached to learning English is such that a televised
teaching course drew audiences of up to one hundred million But this spread of English (6) the world is relatively recent In the late sixteen century English was (7) by just under five million
people The arrival of English in North America was the key step in its world-wide expansion The United
States is a huge commercial market and this tended to promote the English language in many other (8) About eighty percent of the data (9) on the world's computer is believed to be (10)
English and nowadays insufficient knowledge of English can be a problem in business
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III You are going to read a newspaper article about a man who works in the kitchens of a fast food restaurant Seven sentences have been removed from the article Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-7)
FAST WORK FOR FAST FOOD
When I graduated from cookery school, I could have applied for jobs in ski chalets or on board ships sailing around the Caribbean Instead, I applied to work in a fashionable fast food restaurant and suddenly found myself working very long hours in hot, sweaty kitchens full of completely crazy characters I thought that starting at the bottom of the food chain, as opposed to the high life of skiing and sailing, would be good training I couldn’t have been more wrong
At 7.45 each morning I stagger into the kitchen with all the other cooks, exhausted from working a
10-hour shift the night before (1) _ Nothing is where it should be Vegetables have been left on
the floor and raw fish has been left uncovered in the fridge A couple of dustbins have not been emptied and everything has to be cleaned before we can begin the day’s work
(2) _ I fill a sink with water, throw in several box loads of the stuff and wash each leaf separately My hands are so cold I can hardly feel them Between 9 and 10, the line chefs start arriving (3)
_ They swan around the kitchens shouting orders at the poor cooks like me whose job it is to prepare all the ingredients
But if anything goes wrong once the customers’ orders start coming in, you can guess who gets the
blame If they run out of sauce, then it’s the cook’s fault for not preparing enough in the first place (4)
_ The chefs are only under pressure at particular point in the day The cooks are under pressure all the time
(5) _ This is when the waiters get told what the day’s special menus are Then, no sooner
are we back in the kitchen to start the lunch service than three deliveries of food and drink arrive all at the
same time (6) _ I am faced with carrying boxes of frozen chips or bottles of fruit juice from the
lorries down two flights of stairs to the store rooms By mid-afternoon, the lunchtime rush is dying down
(7) _ Then I am allowed to have my free staff “lunch”, by which time I’m too tired to eat
A This means I get sent to sort them out
B These are the people who get all the glory
C Before we open at midday, all the staff meet in the restaurant
D My first job of the day is shopping, and shredding leaves and lettuces for salads
E However, I don’t get anything to eat until the end of my working day, at 6 that evening
F There’s been a break of just about four hours and the kitchen has not been tidied from last night
G If the chicken goes cold, then it’s the cook’s fault for not keeping it in the oven longer
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IV Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for each question
If we took a look at how people in Europe communicated just one hundred years ago, we would
be very surprised to find out that English was hardly used outside the United Kingdom The language most commonly used between people of different nationalities, and particularly the aristocracy, was French In fact, French was the language of diplomacy, culture and education However, that is not the case nowadays English has replaced French as the international language of communication Today there are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak it as a first language
There are many reasons why English has become the language of international communication Britain's colonization of many parts of the world had something to do with it, but it is mainly due to America's rise to the position of major world power This helped spread popular American culture throughout the world bringing the language with it
But is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? Language specialists seem to be divided over this issue There are those who claim that it is important to have a language that the people in our increasingly globalized world have in common According to others, English is associated with a particular culture and therefore promotes that culture at the expense of others Linguists have suggested "Esperanto", an artificially put-together language, as a solution to international communication problems but without success So, English will continue being the world language until some other language, maybe Chinese, which is the most widely-spoken native language in the world, takes over as the world's international language instead of English
1 According to the passage, a century ago _
A educated people throughout Europe spoke English
B foreign travelers to England spoke only French
C French was much more popular than English
D only the French aristocracy could speak English
2 What is chiefly responsible for the growth in popularity of English?
A Britain's becoming an international power B The French losing many colonies
C America's becoming powerful D The development of American culture
3 What is meant by "the language of diplomacy” (lines 4)?
A The language used by ordinary people B The language used by the English and the French
C The language used by the aristocracy D The language used by governments
4 What is true according to the passage?
A The experts don't like Esperanto B Esperanto is difficult to learn
C Esperanto is not a natural language D Esperanto is becoming more and more popular
5 The experts' opinion on the spread of English is
6 The author believes that
A English is easier to learn than Chinese
B English will probably be replaced as an international language
C Chinese is going to be the next language of international communication
D Chinese is growing in popularity among non-native speakers
7 These days _
A French is the language of diplomacy B more non-natives speak English than natives
C more people speak French than English D French is a dying language
8 What would be a good title for this passage?
A English; Past, Present and Future B English as an international Language
C English language means English culture D English: a difficult language to learn
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PART D WRITING
I Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentences printed before it
1 Although he is old, he goes jogging every morning
Despite
2 Nowadays people would rather watch TV than go to the cinema
Nowadays people prefer _
3 The program was so interesting that none of us wanted to turn the TV off
It was
4 They will not announce the results formally
No formal _
5 Mai hasn’t seen her parents since she left for the USA
Mai last
II Do you agree with the idea that school students should be allowed to use cellphones at school? Write
a paragraph of about 150 words to clarify your viewpoint
THE END
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