Đề luyện thi HSG Anh 9 cấp Tỉnh

Đề số 14
Kỳ thi : Chọn học sinh giỏi cấp tỉnh
Môn thi : Tiếng Anh 9 - Thời gian làm bài:150 phút
SECTION A: LISTENING (2.0 points)
Part I: You will hear someone talking to a group of students about a visit to an arts
centre. Listen and tick A, B or C for each question (1.0 points)
1. There are still tickets for
A. The piano concert
B. Twelfth night
C. Spider and Rose
2. The coach will leave at 3.30 because
A. they don’t want to miss the show
B. They want free time at the Arts centre
C. It’s a long journey to the Arts centre
3. You have to pay to see
A. the Russian ballet exhibition
B. the Scottish jewellery
C. the South American photographs
4. You can buy clothes
A. on the first floor
B. in the souvenir shop
C. close to the Arts centre
5. Everyone should get back on the coach at
A. 10.10
B. 10.15
C. 10.20
Part II: You will hear some information about an air museum.
Listen and complete questions(1.0 points)
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Air Museum

Museum has : 140 planes
Museum is near village of
(1)………………..
From village, get bus number: (2)………………...
Summer opening time:10 a.m to (3)…………….pm
Price of family ticket: £
(4)………………...
Day for plane trips:
(5)…………………

SECTION B. PHONETICS (2.0 points)
Part I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest.
(1.0 points)
1.
A. village
B. passage
C. teenage
D. message
2.
A. mutual
B. nation
C. capture
D. nature
3.
A. chapter
B. chemist
C. christmas
D. character

4.
A. wandered
5.
A. new
Your answers:

B. embroidered
B. blew

C. ordered
C. flew

D. laughed
D. threw

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Part II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.
(1.0 points)
6. A. authenticity
B. cooperative
C. metropolitan
D. multicultural
7. A. fabulous
B. skyscraper
C. lacquerware
D. determine

8. A. dogsled
B. downtown
C. igloo
D. fatal
9. A. gather
B. listen
C. publish
D. supply
10. A. engineer
B. distinguish
C. opinion
D. preserve
Your answers:
6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

SECTION C. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (7.0 points)
Part I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence. (2.0
points)
1. Cyclists must ………for pedestrians when they are cycling along the country lane.
A. see off
B. look out
C. avoid

D. observe
2. ………tell me the way to the Museum of Fine Arts?.
A. Excuse me, can you
B. Sorry, but could you
C. Excuse me, should you
D. Hey, do you think you can
3. That was a ............ ceremony..
A. prepared-well B. prepare-well C. well-prepared D. well-prepare
4. The more important an exam is, …………..
A. the more you’ll get nervous
B. the more nervous will you get
C. the most nervous you’ll be
D. the more nervous you’ll get
5. Is this the address to ........ you want the package sent ?
A. where
B. which
C. that
D. whom
6. She remembered …………the gas before going out.
A. turn on
B. turning on
C. turn off
D. turning off
7. Julia: “Peter failed in the final examination last term.” - Linda: “…………….”
A. Sorry to hear that. B. Really? C. What’s wrong? D. I can’t believe it.
8. It is high time you …………….hard for the exam.
A. to study
B. study
C. studied
D. studying

9. Are you used …………to the left in England, Nam?
A. to drive
B. to driving
C. to be driven
D. to drove
10. I am afraid that these regulations have to be ………… with.
A. complied
B. provided
C. faced
D. met
11. When Bill saw my new car, he was ………… with envy.
A. blue
B. green
C. yellow
D. white
12 When I came in, the lesson ..................
A. was teaching B. was taught
C. was being taught D. taught
13. He climbed up the tree ………… to pick the apples before the wind blew them off.
A. in order
B. sothat
C. so
D. for


14. I ………… very well with my father now, we never have any arguments.
A. go on
B. carry on
C. get on
D. put on

15. It is no use ………… what has been done.
A. to regret
B. regretting
C. regretted
D. regret
16. ………..stay the night if it’s too difficult to get home.
A. At all costs
B. By all means C. In all
D. On the world
17. I don’t suppose you have change for 2 pounds, ………?
A. do you
B. don’t you
C. do I
D. did I
18. The boss said that he would fly to Ho Chi Minh City …………. day.
A. next
B. the previous
C. the following D. the before
19. Not until 2008 ………….across the river.
A. the first bridge was built
B. the first building of a bridge was
C. built the first bridge
D. was the first bridge built
20. . It is raining dogs and cats outside. Don’t go out..
A. hardly
B. slightly
C. heavily
D. slowly
Your answers:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Part II. Give the correct form of the words to complete each sentence. (2.0 points)
Let me make a suggestion to help you deal with difficult situations.
If,
for example, you are taking part in a sports (0) ...competition.....,
COMPET
meeting
E
someone important, or giving a ...(1) ..................... in front of a large PERFOR
M
audience, you will probably be quiet, ..(2) ..................., and worry NERVE
that

You will not be as ..(3) ............................. as you would like to be.
SUCCEED
What you need to do is to prepare yourself thoroughly by running
through
the whole ..(4) ......................................... over and over again in your
ACT
mind , ..(5) ....................................... going through every detail.
CARE
For example, a famous pianist, ..(6) ........................... for seven years
PRISON
for ..(7) ......................... reasons, could still play magnificently on his POLITICS
Release. When he was asked how he managed to play so well, his … EXPLAIN
(8) .................. was that he had practised every day in his mind.

Your answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.
6.
7.
8.


Part III. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correction
(1.0 points).
1. You'll have to work hard to catch up for the rest of the class as they started
A

B
C
D
studying before you.
2. In some countries children are put under great pressure by their parents getting
A
B
C
D
good exam results.
3. The study of these animals are truly fascinating, and many books have been
A
B
C
written about them.
D
4. She was waiting nervous in the waiting room for the interview.
A
B
C
D
5. Ha Long Bay, where we visited some days ago, is one of the most famous places
A
B
C
D
in our country.
Part IV. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. (2.0 points)
1. The man at the corner table (1. glance) ……… my way to see if I (2. listen) ……...
2. When I (3. look) ……….. at my suitcase, I could see that somebody (4. try) ……….. to

open it.
3. I don’t know what’s the matter with him. He (5. act) ……….. funny since you (6. be) ……..
away.
4. Scarcely they (7. move) ………. into the new house when their friends (8. come)
…………. in.
5. Just as I (9. wonder)……….. what to do next, the phone (10. ring) ……….
Your answers:
1.
6.
2.
7.
3.
8.
4.
9.
5.
10.

SECTION D. READING COMPREHENSION (5.0 points)
Part I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following paragraph
(2.0pt)
ADVICE TO YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT TO START WORK
In these days of high unemployment, it is often difficult (1) …….. young people to find a job.
If they are lucky (2) ………. to be asked to go for an interview, they may find (3) ….. .…there
are at least 20 other applicants for the (4) ………. If a company is thinking of offering (5)
…….. a job, they will ask you for at least one reference from either your previous employer (6)


……… someone who knows you well. (7) …….. taking up your job, you may have to sign a
contract. You will probably have to do some training, (8) ……….. help you to do the job more

successfully. Once you have decided that this is your chosen career, you will then have to work
(9) ………… to try and get promotion, which usually brings more responsibility and more
money! If you are unlucky, you may be made redundant, and not be able to find (10) …………
job. It is also a good idea to pay some money into a pension scheme, which will help you to
look after yourself and your family when you are retired. Finally, good luck!
Your answers:
1.
6.
2.
7.
3.
8.
4.
9.
5.
10.
Part II. Choose the best word A, B, C or D to fill in spaces in the following passage.
(2.0pts)
Man has always depended on plants (1) ……..food and many other useful products. For this
reason, farming is one of the world's most important industries. At first, (2) ……… man did not
know how to plant seeds and raise crops. He (3)………..wild fruits and vegetables where he
found them. Then man discovered how to grow his own food. He (4) ……….seeds and waited
for the crop to grow. For the first time, he could be reasonably sure of his food supply. He
could settle down and set up shelters in the places (5) ………. he grew food.
As populations began to increase, the (6) …………for food became greater. Old-fashioned
tools and farming methods were insufficient in (7) ………..the demand, so man cultivated more
and more land and invented complicated machines to make his work easier. Tractors replaced
horses and other farm animals. Scientists studied and (8) ………… with plants. They told
farmers how to control plant diseases, and how to grow bigger and better crops. Now one man,
(9) …………a wide knowledge of plants and the help of machines, can cultivate hundreds of

acres. He can raise plants which did not originally grow in the soil or (10)………..of his
community.
1. A. about
B. with
C. for
D. to
2. A. early
B. initial
C. primary
D. original
3. A. collected
B. gathered
C. assembled
D. amassed
4. A. brought up B. raised
C. grew
D. planted
5. A. which
B. where
C. that
D. when
6. A. demand
B. request
C. requirement
D. necessity
7. A. taking
B. getting
C. meeting
D. achieving
8. A. practiced

B. tried on
C. tested
D. experimented
9. A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
10. A. situation
B. condition
C. climate
D. weather

Your answers:
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Part III. Read the following text, then choose the best phrase from A-G to fill in each of
the gaps. There is one extra phrase you don’t need to use. Write your answers in the
numbered table. There is an example at the beginning. (1.0 point)
A. Choose your author
B. If necessary, be brutal


C. You don’t have to finish every book
D. You can read wherever you are
E. Change your free time
F. The importance of reading
0.
…F. The importance of reading………………………………………..
Nobody would argue that reading books is a bad thing. We may feel that Arnold Bennett was
going slightly over the top when he said that the man who does not read books is merely not
born. He can’t see, he can’t hear, he can’t feel, in any full sense. He can only eat his dinner but
more often than not, we would agree, reading a book is normally better than watching
television. So, most of us would really quite like to read.
1.
………………………………………………………………………….
.
A recent government survey of what we actually do revealed that the average woman
spends the equivalent of only five days a year reading ( the average man four days), compared
to 56 days watching television. Cutting down on time spent in front of the box should give you
some spare hours, and if you are male you’re even luckier. The same survey also discovered
that the average man spends 17 days a year ‘doing nothing at all’.
2.

………………………………………………………………………….
If you examine your day for reading opportunities, you will discover lots of free time.
Standing at the dentist’s waiting room, queuing up for things: the occasional 10-20 minutes
here and there quickly add up. But the time will fly if you always have your book with you.
3.
………………………………………………………………………….
Books are there to be read. You can generally buy classics for £1, so don’t be
overprotective with them. Read in the bath (in the shower may not be such a good idea). I once
found myself with 75 pages of a Dickens novel left to read, and a plane to catch. Rather than
spend a two-week holiday lumbered with a 900-page book I pulled the last 100 pages out and
took them with me.
4.
………………………………………………………………………….
There are 106,000 books published in Britain every year. The best of seven centuries
worth of literature is published in paperback. There has to be something you would like.
Identifying it may take time. Be guided by what you have enjoyed in the past and branch out
from there: Roald Dahl ? Then try R. L Stine. Stephen King ? Then try Clive Barker. Agatha
Christie? Then try Patricia Highsmith or Ruth Rendell.
5.
………………………………………………………………………….
If you are not particularly enjoying a book, you are guaranteed to find 143 other things to do
instead of reading. Consequently, it will take months to finish and put you off picking up
another. When you find this happening, stop reading this book and start another immediately.
Your answers:
1.

2.

3.
4.

5.
SECTION E. WRITING (4.0 points)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same
as the sentence printed before it. (1.0 point)
1. It is supposed that the thief stole everything in the house.
=> The thief ……………………………………………………………………………
2. While mending the road, they accidentally blocked our water pipes.
=> They accidentally cut ...............................................................................................


3. My advice for you is to get there on time.
=> I’d rather …………………………………………………………………………..
4. Neither Tim nor Mary can speak Portugese.
=> Both ………………………………………………………………………………
5. She hasn’t met Tim for 2 months.
=>The last time ………………………………………………………………………
Part II. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means exactly the same as the
given one. Using the given word in brackets. Do not change the word. (1.0 point)
1. Don’t run away with the idea that this work is easy. (conclusion)
………………………………………………………………………………………
2. I’m trying to concentrate, but all that noise you’re making is distracting me. (putting)
………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Nobody expected her to lose, but she did. (against)
………………………………………………………………………………………
4. He doesn’t want to become an artist though he’s interested in arts. ( spite)
………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. My colleague said that she was willing to work late.
( mind
………………………………………………………………………………………....
Part III. Writing a paragraph (2.0 points)

In 120-150 words, write a paragraph about the negative effects of tourism on your country.
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