DE THI HSG TIENG ANH 9.

KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG HUYỆN BẬC THCS
Năm học: 2009 – 2010
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Họ và tên: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Trường: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I. From the following verbs, pick out those whose ending “ed” is pronounced /t/ (1m):
Expressed suggested talked called
Visited liked touched cared


II. Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets (2,5ms):
“As he . . . . . . . . . . . . (run) to jump over the ditch, he . . . . . . . . . . . . (fall)
and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (twist) his ankle. We . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(have) to carry him home. He
now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (lie) on the sofa, and he . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(read) a book until a few minutes
ago. The doctor just . . . . . . . . . . . . . (leave) and . . . . . . . . . . . . (say) as he . . . . . . . . . . .(go) out
that he must . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(rest) for a week.
III. Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition (2ms):
1. The house is . . . . . . . . . . . . fire. Call . . . . . . . . . . . . help ?
2. . . . . . . . . . . night, we can see millions . . . . . . . stars . . . . . . . . . our heads.
3. . . . . . . . . . . an average, women live longer than men.
4. We stand . . . . . . . . . peace and are . . . . . . . war.
IV. Fill in the blanks with “a”, “an”, “the” or “O” (no article) (2ms):
1. He got (1). . . . . . . . job in (2). . . . . . . . . south and spent (3). . . . . . . . . next two years
doing (4). . . . . . . work he really enjoyed.
2. It was (1) . . . . . . windy morning but they hired (2) . . . . . boat and went for
(3) . . . . . . . sail along (4) . . . . . . . coast.
V. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate form of the words in brackets (2ms):
1. Sleeping all day, eating too much and never going out is . . . . . . . . . . (health).
2. A doctor who treats only particular illnesses is a . . . . . . . . . . . . . (special).
3. We would have a lot of . . . . . . . . . (funny) if we went there.

4. The person who’s out of work is . . . . . . . . . . . . (employ).
VI. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning (4ms):
1. Theatre programmes usually have lots of information.
- There
2. He has been collecting stamps for five years.
- He started
3. He spends two hours a week sorting out stamps.
- Sorting out his stamps
4. The garage is servicing my car on Monday.
- I am
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VII. Do as directed in parentheses (2,5ms)
1. This large map belonged to my uncle. In the middle of it you can see part of the Arctic
Circle (Combine into one sentence using Relative pronoun)
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2. They can’t put you in prison if they haven’t tried you. (Change into passive voice)
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3. The dog was fed. It lay down by its owner’s chair. (Combine into one sentence using
present participle)
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4. He never does his homework. If he (do) his homework, he (not worry) about his
examination. (supply the correct verb form)
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5. she was very foolish and she believed everything I told her. (Rewrite the sentence using
“too” or “enough”)
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VII. Fill in the blanks with the words from the list (2ms):
Grown about farm want (like)

Some fruit country kinds
Many people (1) . . . . . . . . . . . to live in the big cities, but (2) . . . . . . . . . . prefer to live
in the (3) . . . . . . . . . . ., my aunt has a small (4) . . . . . . . . . . near my home city, she bought it (5)
. . . . . . . . . . . ten years ago. At the side of the farm house, there is a (6) . . . . . . . . . . . garden. In
it apple – trees are (7) . . . . . . . . . The vegetable garden is at the back of the house. My aunt
rows all (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . of vegetables but see it especially fond potatoes and tomatoes.
IX. Read the passage and circle the letter next to the word that best fits each gap (2ms):
An increasing number of people are now (1) . . . . . . . to Egypt. Last year, for example,
about one and a half million (2) . . . . . . . visited Egypt. The (3) . . . . . . of Egypt is about fifty
million and the (4) . . . . . . . is El Qahira (Cairo), a busy city of just under nine million people.
Although the (5) . . . . . . . . . is hot and dry and most of country is desert, the average
(6) . . . . . . . . from October to March ts not too high. The most (7) . . . . . . . . sight are the
pyramids at Giza. However it’s also pleasant to (8) . . . . . . . Alexandria. Port said and several
other places.
1./ a. holiday b. visit c. excursion d. trip
2./ a. explorers b. voyagers c. tourist d. passengers
3./ a. people b. citizenship c. nation d. population
4./ a. principal b. head c. state d. capital
5./ a. temperature b. climate c. condition d. position
6./ a. weather b. measurement c. climate d. temperature
7./ a. famous b. know c. visited d. requested
8./ a. search b. inspect c. examine d. visit
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________ THE END ________
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