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Môn: Tiếng Anh 9
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

SECTION I: LISTENING (3.0 points) (You will hear twice for each part)
Part 1. You will hear a radio interview with a ballet dancer called Elena Karpov,
who is talking about her life and career. For each question, put a tick in the
correct box.
1. Elena decided to become a dancer when she was ________.
A. seven
B. nine
C. eleven
2. At ballet school in New York, Elena ________.
A. was the only student from Bulgaria.
B. found learning the language hard.
C. learned to be independent.
3. What does Elena say about the ballet called Cinderella?
A. Children will enjoy it.
B. The music was unfamiliar to her.
C. She saw it when she was a child.
4. In her free time, Elena likes to ________.
A. go sightseeing
B. go to clubs
C. go shopping
5. What does Elena often do for her fans?
A. She gives them a flower.
B. She signs one of her photographs.
C. She sends them a free ticket.

6. What does Elena like best about her job?
A. appearing on television
B. doing something she loves
C. travelling to different countries
Part 2. You will hear a group leader talking to some students who are going to
visit an important athletics event in Birmingham. For each question, fill in the
missing information in the numbered space.
Athletics Championships
* Date of college trip: (7) 15th of March
* It’s the largest single sports competition in (8) Britain
* The number of national teams take part in is: (9)140
* Number of sports people who will compete: (10) 520

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* How the group will travel to Birmingham: by (11) train
* They don’t hire coach because of the (12) traffic jams.
* What group members must take on that day: (13) identity cards
* Name of the website page: (14) B-l-R-l-N-F-O
* The day that other details will be available to students is on: (15) Friday
SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (7.0 points)
Part 1: Questions from 16 to 36. (3.0 points - 0.15/ each)
Choose the best answer to each question.
16. The family could not ______ because they had forgotten their passports.
A. check up
B. check out
C. check through
D. check in

17. You’d better drive. I’m too ______ for such traffic.
A. experienced
B. experiencing
C. inexperienced
D.
inexperiencing
18. ______ during the storm.
A. They were collapsed the fence
B. the fence was collapsed
C. They collapsed the fence
D. The fence collapsed
19. The reviewer ______ Mathew's new novel as a new style of modern science
fiction.
A. chewed
B. digested
C. described
D. drew
20. She is wearing a/an ______ ring.
A. expensive nice gold
B. nice gold expensive
C. gold nice expensive
D. nice expensive gold
21. Mary has trouble ______ her homework.
A. to remember
B. to remembering C. remember
D.
remembering
22. She ________ her neighbor’s children for the broken window.
A. accused
B. blamed

C. denied
D.
complained
23. Children should be taught that they have to________ everything after they use it.
A. put away
B. pick off
C. collect up
D. catch on
24. Whenever problems________ we discuss frankly and find solutions quickly.
A. make up
B. come up
C. put up
D. turn up
25. Many young people nowadays are prepared to________ getting married to pursue
their professional careers.
A. satisfy
B. sacrifice
C. prefer
D. confide
26. ________, we tried our best to complete it.

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A. Thanks to the difficult homework
B. Despite the homework was
difficult
C. Difficult as the homework was
D. As though the homework was

difficult
Chủ điểm ngữ pháp: cấu trúc câu nhấn mạnh với tính từ
However adj/adv + S + V, S + V
= Adj as S + V, S + V: mặc dù.... đến thế nào nhưng...
Mặc dù bài tập về nhà rất khó, chúng tơi đã cố gắng hết sức để hồn thành nó.
27. A learner driver must be ________ by a qualified driver.
A. connected
B. accompanied
C. involved
D. associated
28. A wedding is a good opportunity for ________ off new clothes.
A. wearing
B. carrying
C. showing
D. putting
29. He retired early ________ ill-health.
A. on account of
B. ahead of
C. on behalf of
D. in front of
30. I have had some summer jobs but I have never been________employed.
A. ever
B. occasionally
C. rarely
D.
permanently
31. Mary attempted to ________herself with her new boss by volunteering to take on
extra work.
A. gratify
B. please

C. ingratiate
D. commend
32. The injured man was taken to hospital and ________for internal injuries.
A. cured
B. healed
C. operated
D. treated
33. The soldier was punished for ________to obey his commanding officer’s orders.
A. refusing
B. regretting
C. objecting
D. resisting
34. I love this painting of an old man. He has such a ________ smile.
A. childhood
B. childish
C. childless
D. childlike
35. Nowadays children would prefer history _________ in more practical ways.
A. to be taught
B. teach
C. be taught
D. to be
teaching
Part 2: Questions from 36 to 45. (2 points - 0.2/ each)
Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the following sentences.
36. Reduction in government spending will necessitate further cuts in public
services.
37. Good hygiene helps to minimize the risk of infection.
38. She at first wanted to be a lawyer but now she works as a doctor.
39. In many countries it is illegal to smoke cigarettes under the age of sixteen.

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40. An investigation has been under way for several days into the disappearance of
a thirteen-year-old boy.
41. Nicholas frankly admitted that the report was a pack of lies.
42. There's a high probability that the children will follow a different career.
43. The northern part of our country was slow to industrialize.
44. She has always been outspoken on our educational issues recently.
45. The infrequency of the trains and the buses causes frustration and annoyance.
Part 3: Questions from 46 to 50.(1 point - 0.2/ each)
Each of the following sentences has an error. Find the errors and correct them.
46. The equipment in the office was badly in need of to be repaired. being
47. The governor has not decided how to deal with the new problems already. yet
48. Insulin, using treat diabetes and is secured chiefly from the pancreas of cattle and
hogs. used
49. The people tried of defend their village, but they were finally forced to retreat. to
50. The president refuses to accept either of the four new proposals made by the
contractors. none
Part 4: Questions from 51 to 55.(1 point - 0.2/ each)
Fill in each of the sentences with correct prepositions.
51. They enjoyed a popularity scarcely commensurate with their actual merits.

52. You are under no obligation to buy the product. Take it home and try it out for a
week.
53. she was very sad because her father passed away last week.
54. But I am surprised by / at how much money they want to pay him!
55. I'm afraid; we have run out of apple juice. Will an orange juice do?
SECTION III: READING (6.0 points)
Part 1. Questions 56 – 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each)
Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
CAREERS
Work should be a meaningful and (56) __________ part of one’s life. The (57)
_______ of a career is, therefore, one of the most serious decision anyone can (58)
__________. It is important to take in consideration your (59) _______ and
personal preferences. For instance, adventurous people who enjoy an outdoor life
shouldn’t choose a (60) _______ in an office. If you like to work alone, you shouldn’t
look for employment which requires working with the public. If you enjoy working
with people, you may like a career in a (61) __________ such as human resources.
You should (62) __________ about finding out as much as possible about
intended career before you finish your education. It may take time to (63)

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__________ for the career you want. Don’t accept a job if you haven’t got a clue
what your working conditions will be or how much you can expect to ( 64)
__________. Future disappointment can be avoided by talking to professionals with
(65) __________ in the career you are interested in as well as visiting different
companies and institutions.
56. A. comfortable
B. productive
C. exported
D. efficient
57. A. thought
B. advice
C. choice
D. interest
58. A. do
B. set
C. have
D. make
59. A. facilities
B. skills
C. references
D. contracts
60. A. work
B. job
C. pension
D. business
61. A. branch
B. department
C. workplace
D. firm

62. A. set
B. work
C. look
D. find
63. A. run for
B. practise
C. train
D. learn
64. A. bring
B. earn
C. obtain
D. win
65. A. reputation
B. employment
C. experience
D.
experiment
set about = begin, start
We set about preparing the office for the move to a bigger building.

Part 2. Questions 66 – 75 (2.0 points - 0.2/ each)
Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress
is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an over abundance of news. If
you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us
seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place
to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing
press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in
transportation and telecommunication.

When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950,
there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were
more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more
television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the
subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts
were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that
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Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather
disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made),
upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when
actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very
existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a
potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that over
promises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much
overblown anticipation of potential trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is
programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone,
somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and
without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
66. According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense
nature of twenty-first-century stress?
A. An overabundance of special news
B. The degree to which stress affects
our life

C. Our inability to control ourselves
D. Our continual exposure to the
media
67. In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
A. means of communication and transprotation were not yet invented.
B. the printing press changed the situation to slowly
C. printing, transportation, and telecommunications were not developed
D. most people lived in distant towns and villages
68. The pronoun “them” in paragraph 3 refers to _________.
A. TV channels
B. television sets
C. TV news
D. cable access
69. The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. boring
B. fascinating
C. upsetting
D. exciting
70. According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts
_________.
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu.
B. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen
C. send out frightening stories about potential dangers
D. are forced to publicize an alarming increase in crime
71. As stated in the passage, a flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream tend to
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C. be scarce breaking news
D. be warmly welcomed by the public
72. Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. The news that is reported to us is not good news.
B. Many people are under stress caused by the media.
C. Many TV channels supply the public with breaking news.
D. The only source of stress in our modern life is the media.
73. The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. release
B. bring
C. fail
D. fall
74. According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective
is obviously ________.
A. the result of human brain’s switch to alarm mode.
B. a source of chronic stress.
C. the result of an overabundance of good news.
D. a source of defects in human brain.
75. What is probably the best title for this passage?
A. Effective Ways to Beat Stress
B. More Modern Life - More Stress
C. The Media - A Major Cause of Stress
D. Developments in
Telecommunications
Part 3: Questions 76 – 85 (2.0 points - 0.2/ each)
Read the text and fill in one word which best fits each gap.
The honey bee is a very unusual kind of insect. (76) Unlike other insects which
live alone, the honey bee lives as a member of a community. These bees live (77)

together in what is known as a bee colony. The head of the colony is called the (78)
queen bee. She is larger than the rest of the bees. Her main task in the colony is to
(79) lay eggs. Most of the other bees are the worker bees. These bees collect nectar
and pollen (80) from flowers. The nectar that is carried by the worker bees is
deposited on the hive and then converted into honey. The worker bees also help
look (81) after the young bees. as soon as the eggs are hatched, the worker bees feed
the young bees (82) with pollen and nectar. The third (83) type of bee found in the
colony is the drone or male bee. The main task of such a bee is to mate with a new
queen. The queen bee has a life span of about three years. During this period, she
would have laid more than (84) half a million eggs. When the queen bee is dying, a
new queen would be groomed. This new queen would eventually take (85) over the
'duties' of the old queen when the latter dies.
SECTION IV: WRITING (4.0 points)
Part 1: Questions from 86 to 90.(1 point- 0.2/ each)

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Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it.
86. He told me that it was wrong of me to leave early.
 He criticized me for leaving/having left early.
87. It is believed that his father died in a car accident.
 His father is believed to have died in a car accident.
88. When the Minister was asked about the strike, he declined to comment.
 On being asked about the strike, the Minister declined to comment.
89. As she grows older, she becomes increasingly cheerful.
 The older she grows, the more cheerful she becomes.
90. Although Jack took a taxi, He still arrived late for the conference.

 In spite of (Jack’s) taking a taxi, he arrived late for the conference.
 In spite of the fact that he took a taxi, Jack still arrived late for the conference.
Part 2: Questions from 91 to 92.(1 points - 0.2/ each)
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
91. In the end, I felt I had been right to leave the club. regrets
 In the end, I had no regrets about having left the club.
92. The company didn’t decide to replace this model. no
 The company had no intention of replacing this model.
93. Paula said I had caused the accident. for
 Paula blamed me for causing/having caused the accident.
94. She has always had a good relationships with her children. got
 She has always got on well with her children.
95. You can get Tim to lend you his car but you won't succeed. point
 There is no point in getting Tim to lend you his car.

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