DE THI HSG CAP TRUONG 112

People learn to control food sources before history was writtenA. People had to search for food before they could learn to write.[r]

PHÒNG GD- ĐT AN LÃO ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG LỚP 9 TRƯỜNG THCS AN HÒA Năm học: 2011-2012

Môn: Tiếng Anh Thời gian: 90 phút( không kể thời gian phát đề) A.LISTENING:(10MS)

I Listen the conversation carefully then decide the statements are True or False

1 This is the first time Hoa meet Tim’s family

2 There are five people in Tim’s family

3 They travel from the airport to HaNoi by plane

4 They are driving across the rice paddies

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II Choose the best answer for the following sentences

5.Hoa would like to sit with…………

6 Tim’s family got to Ha Noi by…………

7 How long does it take them to get to Ha Noi from the airport?

A four hours B fourteen minutes C forty minutes D forty kilometers

8 They see ……… on the way to Ha Noi

A mountains B a boy riding a buffalo C rivers D flower gardens

B VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES :

I Which underlined part is pronounced differently? (5m)_

1 A drop B joke C top D confidence

2 A ground B found C though D sound

3 A normal B order C oven D origin

4 A honesty B hair C honor D hour

5 A sugar B steam C press D waste

II Choose the best answer to complete the sentences(10ms)

1 Hurry up, there’s …… time left

2 It is no use to her about that mistake

3 The clerk said she was tired …… hearing complaints day after day

4 You and I are busy right now, ……?

A aren’t I B aren’t we C we aren’t D aren’t you

5 We arrived …… to have some coffee before class

A enough early B early enough C too early D early too

6 “What are you doing?” - “I …… the flowers They …… wonderful!”

A am smelling / smell B smell / smell

C am smelling / are smelling D smell / are smelling

7 We watch the cat the tree

8 He was _ he could not wake up

A very tired that B such tired that C too tired that D so tired that

9 I want to have my suit …… I’m going to a wedding on Saturday.

10 My father tells me to give …… smoking

III Give the correct form of the words in the brackets (10ms)

1.There are a lot of _ in our school ( compete ) 2.She received a lot of from her mother ( encourage ) 3.He was very of the work he had done ( pride ) 4.My new car is more _than the one I had before (economy) 5.He didn't feel happy because he worked _ (success) 6.We must make a _about where to go (decide)

7 The wood pulp is chemically _ (white)

8. _,the weather was so bad that we couldn’t go out (fortune) 9.I hope there won’t be too much _ in getting a work permit (difficult) 10.That has composed a lot of beautiful songs (music)

IV Supply the correct form of the verbs in the passage (10ms)

Dear Mom and Dad,

How are you? I (1.miss)……… you a lot I (2.be)……… away from home for a week

I (3.arrive)……… Heathrow Airport at 9 am this morning I (4.leave)……… Paris for London after a week visiting my friend and Auntie Lan I (5.stay)……… with Nathalie for two days I (6.visit)………… Eiffel Tower It (7.be) ………the most

beautiful tower I (8.ever/ see) ……….before It (9.take)……… us nearly two hours to get in and go up to the top of the tower From high above we (10.see)

……… a vast paranoma of Paris

V Rewrite the following sentences using the words given(20ms)

1 His parents made him study hard for his exam.(to)

I was made………….………

2 We spent two hours getting to London.(took)

It took………

3 It was unnecessary for them to leave home yesterday.(have)

They had………

4 He started playing the guitar five years ago

He has………

5 Don't play soccer in the yard

I’d rather………

6 I haven’t seen my sister since 2000.(last)

The last time ………

7 “You shouldn’t ride your bike too fast ,” I said to Nam

I advised ………

8 He is too young to go to school alone (not)

He is not………

9 Marry is the most intelligent of my friends

No one of my friends………

10 “ It was nice of you to help me Thank you very much ,” Tom

Tom thanked……….

VII Read the following passage and then choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best

completes each blank (10ms)

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland His father was an expert in phonetics (1) _ a boy , Alexander became interested in sounds and speech in 1870, The Bells decided to (2) _ to America They lived in Boston, (3) Alexander taught in a school for the deaf There he began experimenting with a machine (4) _ help the deaf hear While experimenting with this machine, Bell had an idea, “Why do not use electricity to (5) _ the human voice from one place to another ? ” He began to work on a new (6)

_ For years , Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson , worked day (7) _ night They rented rooms in a boarding house Bell was on one floor, and Watson was on (8) _ They tried to send (9) _ through a wire Finally, on March 19th, 1876, Watson heard these words very clearly : “ Mr Watson, come here I want you.” Watson rushed upstairs, ran (10) _ Bell’s room, and shouted , “ I heard you ! ”

6 A invention B inventor C inventive D invent

8 A others B the others C another D other

9 A speaking B letters C speech D telegram

VIII Read the passage and choose the correct answers Write A, B, C, or D in the spaces that follow (5 pts)

Before history was written, people needed to search for food Perhaps it was then that family divided up the work The male, who could throw and run better than woman, became hunters The female stayed at home to take care of the children and to gather food from nature No one knows how, but slowly human beings became able to control their food sources

The first animals were tamed Perhaps human beings chose a friend like the dog first, or may be the dog chose human beings Or perhaps someone thought of domesticating a source

of food first An egg-producing bird like a chicken or duck might have been the first to be tamed On the other hand, someone might have thought of domesticating a producer of milk like goat

When was the first land cleared for agriculture? How did it happen? We can only guess Perhaps as women were gathering nuts or berries, they cleared away the thorny branches because it would be easy to collect the fruits They were really clearing a field There is another possible explanation of how farming started; it might have been an accident Perhaps a

container of grass seeds spilled in an open area The next season that open area flowered as a wheat field Some might have remembered the accident and repeated it on purpose

Someone else might have noticed another natural crop and copied it For example, wild rice grows along the edges of rivers It is easy to gather the crop Someone might have planned another crop so that it would be easy to harvest

We can never know how farming started In the day before history was written, there were unlimited ways to improve Human beings also had many reasons to look for better ways

of getting food There were many children to feed, and agriculture was an easier way to stay alive

1 Which is the main idea of paragraph one?

A Women do not run as well as men can

B Children had to gather food near their homes

C People learn to control food sources before history was written

D People had to search for food before they could learn to write

2 Which does paragraph 2 focus on?

A the dog as a useful animal B taming animals

C birds producing eggs D goat milk

3 The main idea of paragraph 3 is that agriculture probably started because _

A grass seeds grow into wheat B people thought carefully about the way to stop a problem

C someone made a good guess D clearing away branches made gathering easier

4 The main idea of paragraph 4 is that _

A wild rice is good model for agriculture B wild rice is easy to gather

C people like wild rice D crop like wild rice is natural

5 What is the main idea of paragraph 5?

A The number of children was increasing fast

B People needed to learn ways to get more food

C People really needed to learn how to write

D Agriculture was so bad that anything would improve it

IX Each line of the following passage contains one error Find and correct it (10ms)

1 Lan didn’t go to the cinema with her friends last Saturday evening because her sickness

A B C D

2 The water and land around the chemical factory are serious polluted

A B C D

3 My daughter likes watching cartoon films, and so do my son

A B C D

4 They were really impressive by the beauty of the city and the hospitality of its people

A B C D

5 Susan hardly never misses an opportunity to get good marks in our class

A B C D

Tet holiday is celebrating on the first day of the Lunar New Year

Some weeks after the New Year the Vietnamese clean their house

and paint their walls New clothes are buyed for the occasion One or

two days before the festival, people made Banh Chung, which is the

traditional cake, and others goodies On the New Year’s Ever, the

whole family gets together for a reunion dinner Every members of

the family should be present during the dinner in which much

different kinds of dishes is served On the New Year’s morning, the

young members of the family pay them respects to the elders In

return they receive lucky money wrapping in red tiny envelopes

Then people go to visit their neighborhoods friends and relatives

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IX Paragraph writing: Many people say that playing computer games too much is very harmful Do you agree or disagree with this saying? Write a paragraph of about 120 to 150 words to tell your idea State at least 3 reasons to support your opinion (10ms) ………

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I.(1 point.)

II (2 points)

III.(2 points)

1.COMPETETITIONS 2.ENCOURAGEMENT 3.PROUD

4.ECONOMICAL 5.UNSUCCESSFULLY

6.DECISION 7.WHITENED

8.UNFORTUNATELY.9.DIFFFICULTY.10.MUSICIAN

IV.(2 points)

miss have been arrived left stayed visited is have ever

seen

took saw

V (2 points)

1 He was made to study hard for his exam

2 It took us two hours to get to London

3 They didn't have/need to leave home yesterday

4.The man saving my mother in that surgeon is Mr Long

5 I would rather you didn't play soccer in the yard

6 I last saw my sister in 2000./ The last time I saw my sister was in 2000

7 I advised Nam not to ride his bike too fast

8 He is not old enough to go to school alone

9 We had no sooner/hardly entered the house than/when it started to rain

10 Tom thanked me for helping him

VI.(2 points)

1.when 2.as 3.Then 4.time 5.interested

6.didn’t 7.was 8.into 9.although 10.penname

VII (2 points)

VIII (2 points)

1 Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State He grew up in a rich family

2 His parents sent him to a private school There he met his business partner, Paul Allen

3 When they were in the eighth grade, they were writing/wrote programs for business

computers

4 In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University His parents were happy

5 Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend, Allen

6 In 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product

7 A few years latter Microsoft became a giant company

8 By 1990, Gates was the youngest billionaire of /in the United States at the age of 34

9 He achieved his success with a lot of hard work He was the “King of Software”

10 By 1997, he was the richest man in the United States

IX.(2 points)

1 after -> before 2 buyed -> bought 3 made -> make 4 others -> other 5

members -> member 6 much -> many 7 is -> are 8 them -> their 9 wrapping -> wrapped 10 neighborhoods -> neighbors

X.(3 points)