Học sinh giỏi Tiếng Anh 9 _ 2009 (Đồng Tháp)

HSG lớp 9 THCS cấp tỉnh 1/5 Môn: Tiếng Anh
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Đề chính thức_
KỲ THI TUYỂN CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI
LỚP 9 THCS CẤP TỈNH NĂM 2009

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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Ngày thi: 15/02/2009
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề)
(Đề thi gồm có: 05 trang)


A. LISTENING (2 MARKS)

Listen to the CD player three times. Then complete the table. There are 2 thirty-
second pauses after each time you listen .
Year Place
Date of birth 1890 Kim Lien
Left Viet Nam
(1)
. . . . . .
(2)
Africa,England and
. . . . . . . . . . .
Worked in hotel 1900s
(3)

. . . . . . . . . . . .
Went to another country
(4)
. . . . . . . .
(5).
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Moved again 1923 Moscow
Founded Vietnamese Communist Party

(6)
. . . . . . . Guangzhou
Formed Viet Minh Front
(7)
. . . . . . . Viet Nam
Became President
(8)
. . . . . . .
(9)
. . . . . . . . . . .
Died 1969
(10)
. . . . . . . . . . .

B.GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY. (8 MARKS)

I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences (2 marks).
1. I …………. a letter to my friends
A. posted B. isussed C. collected D.published
2. We can’t go camping today. The weather is ………….
A. fine B. warm C. snowy D. sunny.

3. The prupose of the examination was to …………. the students’ knowledge of the
subject.
A. try B. inspect C. prove D. test
4. She asked me ………….I like tiked eating chocolates.
A. if B. and C. that D. but
5. He used to walk a long way to work. Now he …………. to work.
A. still walks B. no longer walks C. walks D. did not walk
6. This is the place where the car turned ………….
A. on B. off C. up D. over.
7. Tom’s ………….finished his homework.
A. just B. frequently C. often D. usually
8. The children …………. to the zoo.
A. were enjoyed to take B. enjoyed being taken
C. were enjoyed talking D. enjoy taking.
9. Let’s go, ………….we?
A. don’t B. shall C. will D. do
10. The synonym of the verb “deny” is ………….
A. permit B. refuse C. allow D. admit


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II. There are 5 mistakes in the passage below. Write out the mstakes and correct them
(1 mark)

In 1783, two French brothers built the first balloon to take people into the air. One
hundred and twenty years lately, in 1903, the Wright brothers built the first plane with an
engine and flew in it. This was in the United States. Then, in 1918, the US Post Office
begun the first airmail service. Aeroplanes changed a much in the next thirty years. Then, in
1950s, aeroplanes became much faster because they had jet engines. In 1976, Concorde was
build in the UK and France. It is the fastest passenger plane in the world and it can fly at

2500 kilometers an hour, so the journey in London to New York is only four hours. Today
millions of people travel on aeroplane, and it is difficult to think of a world without them.

Mistakes Correct words
Ex: 0. lately later
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

III. Supply correct form of the verbs in brackets (2 marks).
I had two accidents last month. First, my friend and I were riding on our bicycles
and it (1) ……………………. (rain).We (2) …………………….(ride) fast because we (3)
……………………. (want) to get home. I (4) …………………….(turn) the corner when
suddenly, a cat (5) …………………….(run) in front of my bike. I tried (6)
…………………….(stop), but I fell and (7) ……………………. (break) my arm. Then a
few days after that, I (8) …………………….(walk) up the stairs in my apartment when I
(9) ……………………. (hurt) my ankle. Fortunately, I (10) …………………….(not break)
it, but it wasn’t a good month.

IV. Fill in the blanks with correct form of the words given in brackets. (2 marks).
The families in our street are slowly being driven mad by the (1)
…………………….(refuse) of the inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of (2)
……………………. (communicate) with them. The trouble started over what is known as
noise (3) ……………………. (pollute). Every evening the (4) ……………………. (think)
neighbors used to turned up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (5)
……………………. (neighbor) was able to hear anything else. Not knowing what (6)
……………………. (act) to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (7)
……………………. (suggest) as to how to deal with the problem. A (8)

……………………. (decide) was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in
No 13 and ask them (9) ……………………. (polite) to turn their music down after six in
the evening. (10) ……………………. (Fortunately), the visit did not turn out to be
successful,as the habitants of No 13 refused to talk to them, so on the advice of local police,
the matter is now in the hands of the court.

V. Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition. (1 mark).
1. I get tired ……………………. doing the same thing everyday.
2. Many Vietnamese women like wearing morden clothing ……………………. work.
3. When the Jones arrived ……………………. London. It was very cold.
4. Are you busy ……………………. your homework?
5. I couldn’t meet Mrs. Chi because she’s …………………….
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C. READING COMPREHENSION. (4 MARKS)

Passage 1.
Finish-born botanist William Nylander taught at the university of Hesinki for a
number of years and later moved to Paris, where he lived until his death at the end of the
nineteenth century. During the second half of the last century, he became a prominent figure
in the field of lichenology.
Botanists from all over the world sent samples to his laboratory to be analyzed and
classified. It can be said without exaggeration that four of five lichens bear his name.
He was the first to realize the importance of using chemical reagents in the
taxomony of lichens. He selected the most common reagents used by the chemists of his
time. Lichenologists all over the world still use these reagents, including tincture of odine
and hypochorite in their laboratories. During the first half of the nienteenth century, a
Japanese named Abahima added only one chemical product- Phenol diamines.
Nylander was also responsible for discovering that atmosphere of big cities
hindered the lichens’s development and cause them to disappear. Now they are used to
detect atmospheric pollution.

Nevertheless, he considered lichens to be simple plants and vehemently opposed the
widely accepted modern theories that lichens are compound species formed by two
discordant elements: algae and fungi.
I. Write T (true) or F (false) (1 mark).
……… 1. Nylander was born in Paris.
……… 2. He used to work at a university
……… 3. He died in late 1990s
……… 4. He was a doctor.
……… 5. He was a vey well-known man.
II. Choose the bestanswer (1 mark).
1. Internationally renowed scientists sent lichens samples to Nylander because……………
A. he considered them to be simple plants
B. he used reagents to deternine their use.
C. he analyzed and classified them.
D. he collected and preserved them.
2. Which of the following is not true?
A. Nylander accepted his coleagues’ theories on the composition of lichens.
B. Eighty percent of lichens bear his name.
C. Today lichens are used to detect atmospheric pollution.
D. Most of botanists consider lichens to be a compound specie.
3. All of the following are true except:
A. he was the first to use chemical reagents in taxonomy of lichens
B. he believed that lichens were simple plants.
C. he was an esteemed lichenologist.
D. he taught botany at a university in Paris.
4. According to the nineteenth -century theories, which elements form the composition of
lichens?
A. odine and chemical reagents
B. algae and fungi
C. hypochlorite and odine

D. chemical reagents and atmospheric chemicals.
5. How could william Nylander best described?
A. degenerate B. dormineering.
C. ingenious D. anxous.
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Passage 2.

A WELSH FESTIVAL
Wales has a population of about three million. English is the main language and
only twenty per cent speak both Welsh and English. Every year, (1) ………… August there
is a Welsh-speaking festival. It (2) ………… place in a different town each year so
everyone has a chance for it to be near them. Local people (3) _______ years making plans
for when the festival will be in (4) _______ town. Each festival is (5) _______ by about
160.000 people. They travel not only from nearby towns and villages (6) _______ also from
the rest of the British Isles and (7) _______ from abroad. There are concerts, plays and (8)
_______ to find the best singers, poets, writers and so on. Shops sell Welsh music, books,
pictures and clothes as (9) _______ as food and drink. The festival provides a chance for
Welsh-speaking people to be together for a whole week, with (10) _______ Welsh language
all around them.
1. a. on b. by c. in d. at
2. a. takes b. finds c. has d. makes
3. a. pass b. put c. spend d. do
4. a. our b. their c. his d. its
5. a. arrived b. attended c.visited d. come
6 a. but b. and c. since d. however
7. a. just b. hardly c. quite d. even
8. a. tests b. examinations c. competitions d. races
9. a. long b. far c. good d. well
10. a. one b. a c. the d. some

D. WRITING. (6 MARKS)
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I. Rewrite the following sentences without changing meanings of the ones given
(3
marks).

1. Nam is bigger than Ba
Ba
2. Let’s go abroad for our holiday this year.
Why
3. No one in the group is younger than Lan
Lan
4. “How much do you think it will cost?” he asked
He wanted to know
5. It isn’t necessary to book tickets for the show in advance.
You need
6. Did they return those books to the library?
Were
7. The story of their sufferings was painful to listen to.
It was
8. The flight to Ho Chi Minh City lasted one hour and a half.
It took
9. Because the boy behaves well,every body loves him.
Because of
10. Miss. Lan began her job as a television presenter 5 years ago.
Miss. Lan

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II. Make all changes and additions necessary to produce a complete letter from the

words and phrases given. (3 marks).
1.I/ be/ glad/ receive/ letter.
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2. I/ just/ wonderful/ news
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3. I / pass/ final/ examination/ university.
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4. My father/ be/ please/ he/ hear this.
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5. He/ already/ promise/ pay/ holiday abroad/ I / pass.
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6. So/ I / come/ England.
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7. I / like/ study English/ school/ near/ home.
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8. I/ look for/ advanced course/ perhaps/ three/ four hours/ day.
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9. You/ help/ find/ one?
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10.I/ look forward/ see/ soon.
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THE END.