Đề thi HSG anh 9 tỉnh Đồng Tháp 08-09(st)

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI TUYỂN CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI
ĐỒNG THÁP LỚP 9 THCS CẤP TỈNH NĂM 2009
Đề thi môn: TIẾNG ANH
Mistakes
Ex: 00. lately
Correct words
Later
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
A. LISTENING. (2 MARKS)
B. GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY. (8 MARKS)
I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences (2 marks).
01. I _______ a letter to my friends
A. posted B. isussed C. collected D.published
02. We can’t go camping today. The weather is _______.
A. fine B. warm C. snowy D. sunny.
03. The prupose of the examination was to _______ the students’ knowledge
of the subject.
A. try B. inspect C. prove D. test
04. She asked me _______ I like tiked eating chocolates.
A. if B. and C. that D. but
05. 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
06. This is the place where the car turned _______.
A. on B. off C. up D. over.
07. Tom’s _______ finished his homework.
A. just B. frequently C. often D. usually
08. The children _______ to the zoo.
A. were enjoyed to take B. enjoyed being taken
C. were enjoyed talking D. enjoy taking.
09. 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
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.
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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 (01) ______________ (rain). We (02) ______________ (ride)
fast because we (03) ______________ (want) to get home. I (04)
______________ (turn) the corner when suddenly, a cat (05)
______________ (run) in front of my bike. I tried (06) ______________ (stop),
but I fell and (07) ______________ (break) my arm. Then a few days after
that, I (08) ______________ (walk) up the stairs in my apartment when I (09)
______________ (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 (01)
__________ (refuse) of the inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of (02)
__________ (communicate) with them. The trouble started over what is
known as noise (03) __________ (pollute). Every evening the (04)
__________ (think) neighbors used to turned up the volume on the TV so loud
that no one in the (05) __________ (neighbor) was able to hear anything else.
Not knowing what (06) __________ (act) to take, local residents held a
meeting to see if anyone had any (07) __________ (suggest) as to how to
deal with the problem. A (08) __________ (decide) was made to send a
number of people to talk to the family in No 13 and ask them (09) __________
(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).
01. I get tired _______ doing the same thing everyday.
02. Many Vietnamese women like wearing morden clothing _______ work.
03. When the Jones arrived _______ London. It was very cold.
04. Are you busy _______ your homework?
05. I couldn’t meet Mrs. Chi because she’s _______.
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,
C. he was an esteemed lichenologist.
D. he taught botany at a university in Paris.
04. According to the nineteenth -century theories, which elements form the

composition of lichens?
he became a prominent figure in the field of lichenology. A. odine and chemical reagents B. algae and fungi
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.
C. hypochlorite and odine
D. chemical reagents and atmospheric chemicals.
05. How could william Nylander best described?
He was the first to realize the importance of using chemical reagents in
A. degenerate B. dormineering. C. ingenious D. anxous.
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).
_____ 01. Nylander was born in Paris.
_____ 02. He used to work at a university
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.
_____ 03. He died in late 1990s
_____ 04. He was a doctor.
_____ 05. He was a vey well-known man.
II. Choose the bestanswer (1 mark).
01. Internationally renowed scientists sent lichens samples to Nylander
because ____________________
A. he considered them to be simple plants
01. a. on
02. a. takes
03. a. pass
04. a. our
05. a. arrived
06. a. but
07. a. just
b. by
b. finds
b. put
b. their
b. attended
b. and
b. hardly
c. in

c. has
c. spend
c. his
c.visited
c. since
c. quite
d. at
d. makes
d. do
d. its
d. come
d. however
d. even
B. he used reagents to deternine their use. 08. a. tests b. examinations c. competitions d. races
C. he analyzed and classified them.
D. he collected and preserved them.
09. a. long
10. a. one
b. far
b. a
c. good
c. the
d. well
d. some
02. 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.
03. 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.
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D. WRITING. (6 MARKS).
I. Rewrite the following sentences without changing meanings of the
ones given (3 marks).
01. Nam is bigger than Ba.
» Ba
02. Let’s go abroad for our holiday this year.
» Why
03. No one in the group is younger than Lan.
I.
III.
IV.
I.
II.
I.
II.
» Lan
04. “How much do you think it will cost?” he asked.
SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO
ĐỒNG THÁP
KỲ THI TUYỂN CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI
LỚP 9 THCS CẤP TỈNH NĂM 2009
» He wanted to know
05. It isn’t necessary to book tickets for the show in advance.
» You need
06. Did they return those books to the library?
Đáp án môn: TIẾNG ANH
B. GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY (8 ĐIỂM)

01. A 02. C 03. D 04. A 05. B 06. D 07. A 08. B 09. B 10. B
II. 01. begun » began 02. much » lot 03. build » built 04. in » from 05. on » by
» Were 01 was raining 02. were riding 03. wanted
07. The story of their sufferings was painful to listen to. 04. was turning 05. ran 06. to stop 07. broke
» It was 08. was walking 09. hurt 10. didn’t break
08. The flight to Ho Chi Minh City lasted one hour and a half. 01. refusal 02. communication 03. pollution
» It took 04. thoughtless 05. neighborhood 06. action
09. Because the boy behaves well,every body loves him. 07. suggestions 08. decision 09. politely 10. unfortunately
» Because of V. 01. of 02. at 03. in 04. with 05. out
10. Miss. Lan began her job as a television presenter 5 years ago.
» Miss. Lan
II. Make all changes and additions necessary to produce a complete letter
from the words and phrases given. (3 marks).
01. I / be / glad / receive / letter.
»
02. I / just / wonderful / news.
»
03. I / pass / final / examination / university.
»
04. My father / be / please / he/ hear this.
»
05. He / already / promise / pay / holiday abroad / I / pass.
»
06. So / I / come / England.
»
07. I / like / study English / school / near / home.
»
08. I / look for / advanced course / perhaps / three / four hours / day.
»
09. You / help / find / one?

»
10. I / look forward / see / soon.
»
C. READING COMPREHENSION (4 ĐIỂM)
Passage 1. (2 điểm)
01. F 02. T 03. F 04. F 05. T
01. C 02. A 03. D 04. B 05. C
Passage 2. (2 điểm)
01. C 02. A 03. C 04. B 05. B 06. A 07. D 08. C 09. D 10. C
D. WRITING (6 ĐIỂM)
01. Ba is smaller than Nam (Ba isn’t so/ as big as Nam).
02. Why don’t we go abroad for our holiday this year.
03. Lan is the youngest (person) in the group.
04. He wanted to know how much we thought it would cost.
05. You need not book tickets for the show in advance.
06. Were those books returned to the library.
07. It was painful to listen to the story of their sufferings.
08. It took one hour and a half to fly to Ho Chi Minh City.
09. Because of the boy’s good behaviour, every body loves him.
10. Miss. Lan has been a television presenter for five years.
01. I am glad to receive your letter.
02. I have just got some wonderful news.
03. I have passed the final examination at the university.
04. My father will be very pleased when he hears this.
05. He has already promised to pay for a holiday abroad if I pass.
06. So I will come to England.
07. I’d like to study English in a school near your home.
08. I will look for an advanced course which perhaps lasts for three or
four hours a day.
09. Can you help me to find one?

10. I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
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