Đề luyện thi HSG Anh 9 cấp Tỉnh

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9
NĂM HỌC 2015 – 2016

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

Mơn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
( Đề thi gồm có 8 trang - Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi này)

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SECTION A: LISTENING (30 points)
Part I. Listen and complete the note. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each
answer. (10 points)
First type of accommodation: (1)___________________________________
Problem with the first accommodation: (2) ___________________________
Second type of accommodation: (3) ________________________________
Name of the course: (4) __________________________________________
Comment about the course: Computer room busy
Suggestion for improving the course: (5) _____________________________
Part II. You will hear a man called Paul Hart talking about his trip to Africa with a team
of scientists. For each question, choose the best option A, B or C. (10 points)
1. Why did Paul choose the part of Africa he visited?
A. It is good for walking.
B. It will soon change.
C. He had been there before.
2. What made the team’s journey slow?
A. clearing paths through the forest

B. finding somewhere safe to camp
C. carrying heavy equipment
3. What did Paul worry about during the trip?
A. the number of dangerous animals
B. getting information he needed
C. being responsible for a team of people
4. Paul says that the team didn’t have enough food because
A. some people ate more than they should.
B. the walk took longer than expected.
C. some of the food went bad too quickly.
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5. Why were the team grateful to a fisherman they
met? A. He let everyone rest on his boat.
C. He helped one of them who was ill.
C. He told them which direction to take.
Your answer:
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Part III. Look at the sentences for this part. You will hear a conversation between a boy,
Simon, and a girl, Tina, about some problems Tina is having at school. Decide if each

sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, put a tick (√) in the box under A for
YES. If it is correct, put a tick (√) in the box under B for NO.(10 points)
A
YES
√

0. Simon thinks Tina should talk about her problem.
1. Simon agrees that the teachers are unfair.
2. Tina doesn’t concentrate in class.
3. Tina is ill.

B
NO

4. Simon feels sorry for Tina.
5. Tina realizes her mistakes.

SECTION B. PHONETICS (10 points)
Part I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of
the rest. (5 points)
A. chaos
A. offered
A. addition
A. beard
A. eruption
Your answer:
1.

B. toothache
B. owned

B. advertise
B search
B. tradition
2.

C. watch
C. ruled
C. advantage
C. pearl
C. suggestion
3.

4.

D. archeology
D. washed
D. adventure
D. heard
D. celebration
5.

Part II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group. (5 points)

1. A. federation
2. A. comic
3. A. achievement
4. A. biology
5. A. understand
Your answer:
1.

2.

B. mausoleum
B. destroy
B. experiment
B. comfortable
B. engineer

C. correspond
C. paper
C. explanation
C. chemistry
C. Vietnamese

3.

4.

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D. optional
D. common
D. discovery
D. company
D. festival
5.


SECTION C. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (75 points)
Part I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence. (15 points)

1. Nobody is ready, ______ ?
A. is he
B. isn’t he
C. are they
D. aren’t they
2. The ______built to the factory provided valuable extra space.
A. extension
B. enlargement
C. expansion
D. development
3. You need to ______a lot of effort to become a good English learner.
A. use
B. take
C. do
D. make
4. Film studios would not make violent movies if people ______to watch them.
A. do not want
B. didn’t want
C. couldn’t want
D. not wanting
5. People came from ______to take part in the demonstration Washington.
A. round and round
B. out and about
C. there and back
D. far and wide
6. The men and animals ______were coming through the street made a big cloud of dust.
A. who
B. which
C. that

D. whom
7. - Peter: "Thanks for your help, John." - John: "____________ ."
A. With all my heart
B. Never remind me C. It's my pleasure
D. As you wish
8. The new experimental system didn’t ______expectations.
A. catch up with
B. come up to
C. bring about
D. come across
9. The MP3 is ______ . It can be carried around easily.
A. controllable
B. usable
C. portable
D. unbreakable
10. I’m ______the habit of getting up early.
A. on
B. at
C. for
D. in
11. Jane likes watching films, but she is not ______ keen on any kind.
A. specially
B. certainly
C. largely
D. particularly
12. ______school leavers go to Vocational Schools than before.
A. Less
B. Far more
C. Many
D. Lots more

13. - A: Have you written to John yet?
- B: No, I didn’t know his address; ______, I would have written to him.
A. because
B. otherwise
C. consequently
D. therefore
14. Recently engineering development has made ______to recycle plastic soda bottles
into polyester fabric.
A. possible, and
B. it is possible
C. the possible
D. it possible
15. In order to buy his house, he had to obtain a large______ from his bank.
A. loan
B. finance
C. capital
D. debt
Your answer:
1.
6.
11.

2.
7.
12.

3.
8.
13.

4.
9.
14.

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5.
10.
15.


Part II. Give the correct form of the words to complete the following sentences. (20 points)
When a celebrity, a politician or other person in the media spotlight loses their temper in
public, they run the risk of hitting the headline in a most (1. EMBARRASS) ______way. For
such uncontrolled outbursts of (2. ANGRY) ______are often triggered by what seem to be
trivial matters and, if they are caught on camera, can make the person appear slightly ridiculous.
But it’s not only the rich and famous who are prone to fits of rage. According to recent surveys,
ordinary people are (3.INCREASE) ______tending to lose their cool in public.
Yet anger is a potentially (4. DESTROY) ______emotion that uses a lot of energy and
create a high level of emotional and physical stress-and it stops us thinking rationally. (5.
CONSEQUENT) ______, angry people often end up saying, and doing things they later have
cause to regret.
So, how can anger be avoided? Firstly, diet and lifestyle may be to blame.
(6.TOLERATE) ______and irritability certainly come to the surface when someone hasn’t slept
properly or has skipped a meal, and any intake of caffeine can make things (7. BAD) ______.
Taking regular exercise can help to ease and diffuse (8. FEEL) ______ of aggression, however,
reducing the chances of an angry (9. RESPOND) ______. But if something or someone does
make you angry, it is (10. ADVISE) ______not to act immediately. Once you’ve calmed down,
things will look half as bad as you first thought.
Your answer:

1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part III. There is one mistake in each line of the following passage. Find, underline and
correct them. (20 points)
The world is getting warmest and the oceans are rising. Why is this
0. warmer
happening? One answer is that it could simple be part of a natural
process. After all, there has been ice ages and long periods of warmth,
so we could just be experiencing other warming trend. This kind of
answer had less supporters a few years ago. What scientists now
believe is that human activity is the cause. For more than two hundreds
years, human had been gradually changed the atmosphere, mainly as a
result of industrial pollution. We have created a atmosphere around the
earth that, like a giant glass container, lets hot from the sun through and
then holds them in. Will the temperatures and sea levels keep rising?
The general answer is fortunately yes.

1. ………………
2. ………………
3. ………………
4. ………………
5. ………………
6. ………………
7. ………….…..
8. ………….…..
9. ………….…..
10. ………….…..

Part IV. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. (20 points)
a. No decision (1. make) about any future appointment until all suitable candidates ( 2.
interview).
b. Not until I lived with him I (3. realize) that he (4. cheat) me and it was my terrible
mistake to marry him.
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c.
d.
e.
f.

(5.Write) the letter, she put it in an envelope.
He wore the false beard (6. avoid) (7.recognize).
She describes the accident as if she (8.witness) it yesterday.
When the liner (9. hit) the iceberg yesterday, most of the passengers (10. have) dinner.

Your answer:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
SECTION D. READING COMPREHENSION (40 points)

Part I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following paragraph. (20 points)

On April Fools' Day, people in many countries play tricks on each (1) ______. Usually,
the tricks involve making friends believe something ridiculous. On this day you could, for
example, tell a friend there is a huge spider on their shoulder. If they believe you, you have
succeeded (2) ______fooling them, and even if you only trick them for a second, you have
(3) ______right to shout "April Fool!"
st

This day, 1 April, is also known as All Fools’ Day. In some countries, such as Ireland
or Cyprus, you can only try to fool someone before twelve noon. (4) ______ you do play tricks
after midday, you will become the fool instead. So it is advisable for you to do that in the
morning. (5) ______you do for, all you want is fun rather than do harm to others. And if you
don’t want to be foolish, be sensitive!
But how did this (6) ______ begin? Some say April Fools’ Day originated in France
when that country adopted the new Gregorian calendar. In the previous calendar, New Year was
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celebrated (7) ______25 March until 1 April, not on 1 January, as in the Gregorian calendar.
Some people refused to (8) ______the new calendar, and continued to celebrate the New Year
in spring. Other people made fun of them and laughed at them (9) ______ they were oldfashioned and didn't want to change. Now April Fools' Day has become a global tradition, and
no one is safe! People play tricks on anyone, not just on (10) ______ who don't want to change

with the times.
Your answer:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part II. Circle the correct answer A, B, C or D that best fits each of the blank spaces. (10 points)

In practically any country in the world, you are (1) ______ to find a market somewhere.

Markets have been with us since (2) ______ times, and arose wherever people needed to
exchange the goods they produced. For example, a farmer might have exchanged a cow for
tools. But just as times have (3) ______, so have markets practices. So, (4) ______ in early
times the main activity (5) ______ with markets would have been ‘bartering’- in (6) ______
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words exchanging goods – today most stall-holders wouldn’t be too (7) ______ on accepting
potatoes as payment, for instance, instead of cash.
In contrast, what might be a common (8) ______ in a modern market in some countries is
a certain amount of ‘haggling’, where customer and seller eventually (9) ______ on a price,
after what sometimes be quite a heated debate. However, behavior which is expected in a
market in one country may not be acceptable in another. Even within one country, there may be
some markets where you could haggle quite (10) ______ and others where it would be
advisable not to try.
1. A. inevitable
2. A. ancient
3. A. changed
4. A. however
5. A. associated
6. A. different
7. A. fond
8. A. look
9. A. confirm
10. A. simply
Your answer:
1.
2.
6.
7.

B. confident
B. antique
B. turned
B. despite
B. relating
B. other
B. keen
B. vision
B. consent
B. plainly

C. sure
C. old
C. developed
C. nevertheless
C. connecting
C. new
C. eager
C. sight
C. approve
C. easily

3.
8.

4.
9.

D. definite

D. past
D. differed
D. whereas
D. attached
D. alternative
D. pleased
D. view
D. agree
D. clearly
5.
10.

Part III. Read the passage below and choose the best answer for each question. (10 points)
If you were to stop people in the street and ask them to name a ship that had been sunk,
it is likely that nearly all of them would say the Titanic. For the sinking of the Titanic was, if
not the most tragic, certainly the most famous sea disaster in the history of ocean travel.
The Titanic was built as a luxury liner, intended to be the fastest in the world, and a great
deal of publicity had surrounded it. The last point probably explains why so many important
people from all walks of life were on the boat when it went down.
The Titanic was on its maiden voyage to America in 1912 when it struck an iceberg and
sank. Of its 2,300 passengers, more than two-thirds were drowned. Because the Titanic was
thought to be virtually unsinkable, no one was prepared for the tragedy. There was total panic as
very few of the passengers had bothered to learn the necessary drill in the event of trouble.
There was severe shortage of lifeboats and those that were launched were still half-empty. The
one point of calm was to be found in the ballroom where the band carried on playing right to the
very end.
What makes the sinking of the Titanic even more tragic is the fact that warnings of
icebergs had been sent, yet the liner was still continuing at full speed. In addition, one ship was
only ten miles away but did not receive the distress signal.
One good thing did, however, result from the disaster. The whole question of safety at

sea was looked into, resulting in much better safety measures, including stricter lifeboat
regulations and the establishment of an iceberg patrol.
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1. The sinking of the Titanic was______.
A. the most tragic sea disaster.
B. the most historic sea disaster.
C. the most famous sea disaster.
D. the first great sea disaster.
2. What can the word “maiden” be best replaced with?
A. first
B. historical
C. important
D. last
3. The life boats were______.
A. too short
B. launched too soon
C. half finished
D. poorly equipped
4. The word “ those” refers to______.
A. passengers
B. icebergs
C. people
D. lifeboats
5. The positive result of the disaster was that______.
A. a full inquiry was made.
B. sea travel was made safer.
C. lifeboats were made larger.
D. a program of iceberg destruction was started.

Your answer:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
SECTION E. WRITING (45 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. (10 points)
1. If I met the author one day, I'd ask him to sign my copy of this book.
→Were I ..............................................................................................................................
2. I haven’t seen her for 2 years.
→ It’s ................................................................................................................................
3. “Whatever you do, don’t walk on the grass.” the safeguard said to the tourists.
→The safeguard warned …………………………………………………….……………
4. They think that the flowers in this region are killed by frost.
→The flowers…………………………………………………………………………….
5. I don't really like her, even though I admire her achievements.
→Much..................................................................................................................................
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. (10 points)
1. She thought it was too difficult for her to finish her work by lunchtime.( FOUND)
→ ……………………………….…………..……… her work by lunchtime.
2. Although the dog appeared harmless, it was, in fact, quite dangerous. (CONTRARY)
→………………………………………..…………………, in fact, quite dangerous.
3. As far as I know he is still working in Bristol. (KNOWLEDGE).
→…………………………………………………………, he is still working in Bristol.
4. David impressed his new boss by settling down to work. (GOOD)
→David ……………………………………………..his new boss by settling down to work.
5. Be sure to say goodbye to your grandmother before you leave. (WITHOUT)

→Be sure………………………………………………… to your grandmother.
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Part III. Writing a passage. (25 points)
In 150 - 180 words write a passage about your hobby. Use specific reasons and details to
support your writing.
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