Đề thi học sinh giỏi tiếng Anh lớp 9 số 1

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
BẮC GIANG
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI VĂN HÓA CẤP TỈNH
NĂM HỌC 2012 - 2013
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh; Lớp: 9 Phổ thông
Ngày thi: 30 tháng 3 năm 2013
Thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
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BÀI THI
Bằng số:
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- Đề thi gồm 05 trang, thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển.
I.  Listening
Part 1. You will hear a conversation twice.
For questions 1-5, put a tick next to the right answer. (5 pts)
1. In addition to paper books, what did the little girl make with paper at school?
A. an animal B. a person C. a building
2. What thing did she NOT talk about when making the object in Question 1?
A. paper B. glue C. scissors
3. What did the girl do after school?
A. She rode her bicycle. B. She watched television. C. She went to the store.
4. Who did she meet and play with at the junior high school?
A. her teacher B. her cousins C. her father
5. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A. at a house B. at school C. at a park
Part 2. You will hear a tour guide talking about a day trip.

Listen and complete questions 6 -10. You will hear the information twice. (5 pts)
TRIP TO CHESTER
Coach leaves:
9.15 a.m
Arrives Chester:
(1)
Morning visit:
(2)
Price of family ticket:
(3) £
Lunch in:
(4)
Afternoon visit:
(5)
Part 3. Listen to Patrick talking to his mother about a photo of his old school friends. What is each
person wearing? For questions 11-15, write a letter A-H next to each person. You will hear
the conversation twice. (5 pts)
Example: 0 Peter ___D___
People Their clothes
1. Martin ______ A. coat
2. Joanna ______ B. dress
3. Amy ______ C. hat
4. James ______ D. jacket
5. Robert ______ E. jeans
F. shirt
G. sweater
H. trousers
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II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others by circling A, B, C or D. (5 pts)
1. A. perform B. campus C. mountain D. equal
2. A. distinguish B. appliance C. opinion D. politics
3. A. cover B. although C. freedom D. ancient
4. A. experience B. encourage C. mystery D. convenient
5. A. efficiency B. communicate C. territory D. environment
III. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences by circling A, B, C or D. (10 pts)
1. - “Would you like to have noodles, spaghetti or something different?” - “______.”
A. Anything will do B. Yes, please
C. Never mind D. I don’t mind
2. If I ______ be somebody else, I ______ to be a film star.
A. could / would B.can / would like C. could / would like D. can / like
3. Opposite our house there is a large park, ______ there are beautiful trees and flowers.
A. where B. in that C. which D. that
4. We have done a lot of work on tenses lately and we now ______ most of the rules.
A. were understanding B. are understanding
C. understand D. will understand
5. – “Your hairstyle looks terrific, John!” - “ ______.”
A. I’m glad you like it B. I don’t know
C. No, you are wrong D. Excuse me
6. We delayed our departure ______ the weather condition.
A. in spite of B. on account of C. instead of D. on behalf of
7. During the rush hour the traffic ______ in the city centre is terrible.
A. condensation B.accumulation C. concentration D. congestion
8. If a bomb goes off, it ______.
A. fails B.explodes C. strikes D. misses its objects
9. Mike is not feeling well so we gave him ______ to do than you.
A. fewer B. little work C. less work D. least works
10. Our friends won a big prize when he took part in the ______ on TV last week.

A. game show B. news C. music program D. weather forecast
IV. Rearrange these following sentences to make a complete conversation. (5 pts)
A. And we shouldn’t cut many trees or burn too much coal or gas. We should recycle things, save
power and water.
B. Yes, you’re right.
C. I see. So now we keep the paper in our bag.
D. Look! There’s a lot of waste paper on the floor.
E. What should we do to prevent pollution now?
F. That’s good. Do you know anything about pollution?
G. Yes, I do. Pollution is very harmful to our Earth.
H. Let’s pick up and put it into the trash can.
I. That’s a good idea.
J. Why don’t we recycle it? We can save a lot of it and we don’t pollute the environment.
Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________
6. _______ 7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______ 10. _______
V. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. (5 pts)
1. I asked him to put ________ the lights if he was the last to leave the room.
2. The village has changed a lot thanks ________ the knowledge the children brought home.
3. The boys got ________ the garden by climbing ________ the fence.
4. I turned ________ the job because it was badly paid.
5. My grandparents live ________ 34 Hai Ba Trung Road, in a flat ________ the top floor.
6. What do you buy these eggs ________?
7. Look after the baby while I am ________.
8. She wanted to know what aspect ________ learning English I found most difficult.
VI. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in capital letters. (5 pts)
1. Earth Hour is a __________________ event organized to raise people’s awareness about the need
to take action on climate change. (WORLD)
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2. Solar energy, wind power and water power are __________________ sources of energy.
(ALTERNATE)

3. The Internet is used for many purposes: education, communication, entertainment and
____________________. (COMMERCIAL)
4. In Western countries, electricity, gas, and water are not luxuries but __________________.
(NECESSARY)
5. Some designers have modernized the Ao dai, the traditional dress of Vietnamese women, by
printing lines of _________________ on them. (POETIC)
VII. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (5 pts)
1. Don’t be surprised when you see how thin Matin is. He (be) extremely ill. 1. _______________
2. The ideas (present) in this book are not really interesting. 2. _______________
3. Scarcely she (leave) the office when they arrived. 3. _______________
4. Should you agree to help us with the housework, we (finish) everything on
Saturday.
4. _______________
5. - “I left a cookie on the table but now it’s gone. What happened to it?”
- “I don’t know. One of the children (eat) it.”
5. _______________
VIII. Each of the following sentences contains ONE error. Underline and correct it. (5 pts)
1. It has been suggested that he saves money for his study tour abroad.  _____________________
2. The next important question we have to decide is when do we have
to submit the proposal.
 _____________________
3. Although she smoked, drank and never took exercise, but she lived
to be 100.
 _____________________
4. The receptionist said me that the hotel had been fully booked.  _____________________
5. A lunch of soup and sandwiches do not make me interested.  _____________________
IX. Fill in each numbered space with ONE appropriate word. (10 pts)
Another strong earthquake shook Bac Tra My District in Quang Nam Province at 1.34 p.m on
Thursday, September 27
th

, 2012. Over 200 houses faced cracks (1) ______ the quake. Financial aid (2)
______ provided to families whose houses faced cracks. (3) ______ the earthquake was strong, it was
still milder than the 4.1 magnitude quake on September 23
rd
.
On Thursday, a delegation from the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and
Control was sent (4) ______ survey the earthquake belt in Bac Tra My District. The delegation (5)
______ houses and schools in the area affected by the quakes, inspected the Song Tranh 2 Hydropower
Plant and met with authorities in Bac Tra My District.
Frequently recurring earthquakes spread panic among people in Bac Tra My District, many of
(6) ______ are from ethnic minority groups living in resettlement areas around Song Tranh 2
Hydropower Plant. Several households abandoned (7) ______ homes and set up temporary camps
elsewhere in fear.
A press conference was (8) ______ on September 28
th
at the People’s Committee office in
Quang Nam Province to reassure the (9) ______ on the safety of the Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant.
The district authorities have now organized three courses to raise awareness and knowledge of
(10) ______ best to cope with earthquakes.
Your answers: 1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. _________
6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________ 9. ________ 10. ________
X. Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (10 pts)
SPRING FESTIVAL
From (1) ______ times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring
brings. One of the most important Christian festivals is Easter, (2) ______ Christians remember the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter, however, is not the (3) ______ spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of
the winter by making (4) ______ bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of
Holi. In some villages children are (5) ______ round bonfires by their mothers to protect them (6)
______ danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand soak (7) ______ in water when celebrating

their New Year, which (8) ______ in the middle of April. In Antigua in Guatemala they carpet the
streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (9) ______ colourful, but (10) ______ flowers they
have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets.
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1. A. earliest B. latest C. previous D. old
2. A. which B. when C. because D. by then
3. A. single B. one C. only D. lonely
4. A. giant B. tremendous C. extreme D. huge
5. A. gone B. carried C. brought D. run
6. A. in B. out of C. against D. from
7. A. through B. one other C. each other D. mutually
8. A. falls B. appears C. happens D. occurs
9. A. the same B. as C. not less D. equally
10. A. instead of B. on behalf of C. in spite of D. place of
Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________
6. _______ 7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______ 10. _______
XI. You are going to read an article about a sailing race. Choose the most suitable heading from
the list A - H for each paragraph from 1 – 5 of the article. There are two extra
headings
which you do not need to use. There has been an example for you. (5 pts)
EX: Paragraph 0: D
A. The consequences of poor
performance
E. Benefiting from the power of
nature
B. An unexpectedly demanding way of
life
F. Cooperating to overcome the power of
nature
C. A solution that seems to

work
G. It’s not what people
think
D. The terrible consequences of making a
mistake
H. No way out if you don’t like
it
Paragraph 0:
Imagine for a moment, spending the night on board of a large yacht, being
roughly
woken in
the pitch dark and ordered on deck. Every so often you will be totally drenched, very suddenly, in salt
water. You will be sharing the same cramped space with 14 other people for a
whole
year. Your
stomach, when not affected by seasickness, will be hit by the competitive tension
and
nervousness
that afflicts all sportspeople. You will be obliged to concentrate without cease.
The
slightest loss of
focus could cost someone their
life.
Paragraph 1:
For the eight crews taking part in the Round-the-world yachting race, this has
been
daily life
since they left Britain eleven months ago. Now, after racing 50,000 across kilometers
of
ocean, they

are soon due home. While most of us have worked, slept, taken a holiday, these
crews

have
sailed
and sailed, day after day, night after night, in weather conditions that would test
any
human. This is
the reality of ocean yacht racing, which
bears
little resemblance to the popular image of sailing - the
quick sprint around a lake
before
returning ashore for a meal and a warm
bath.
Paragraph 2:
Racing 20-metre yachts around the world is a story of unrelenting hard work,
pushing
yourself
to the limits of endurance. But it is also a story of the vastness and beauty of the sea, of
seeing
the sun
rise and set on hundreds of desolate horizons, and of the supreme satisfaction of
arriving
somewhere
knowing that wind alone has taken you
there.
Paragraph 3:
Unlike the captains, who are professional sailors, the crews all consist of
amateur

volunteers
who have actually paid for the privilege of taking a year off from their work and enduring these
difficult conditions. On board London Light the ages range from 21 to 65. For the
youngest
member,
Susan Porter, the trip is about the excitement of both the racing and the elements “Being able
to
pitch
yourselves as a team against a storm gives you a huge sense of achievement”, she
says
Paragraph 4:
Jerry Wallace, a marketing director, found sailing a refreshing change from the
selfish
individualism of business. Although he was prepared for the discomfort, the mental stress of long
distance racing was not what he has anticipated, “A grand Prix driver has a few hours of focus,
a
footballer 90 minutes, but we have been racing for 11 months. This is something I didn’t
really
appreciate before I
start.”
Paragraph 5:
Inevitably, there are tensions. The kind of people who choose to take part in
races
like this
tend to motivated and strong-willed. On a trivial level, there are the usual arguments about
things
like
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cleaning, tidying, personal hygiene, even the way people snore. Row on a boat must
be

addressed
immediately. Left to develop, they get much worse. On London Light they have done this
by
having a
meeting where problems can be discussed and resolved by majority vote. Cooperation is
the
key, and
everyone can have their say. The London is one of the few boats that has never lost any
crew
early
because of a personality
clash.
Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________
XII. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning
with the given words. (10 pts)
1. Children learn a lot about how to behave in a situation like this.
 Only __________________________________________________________________________.
2. You can use it as long as you like, and it will not wear out.
 No matter _____________________________________________________________________.
3. You needn’t make an appointment to see the personnel manager.
 There’s _______________________________________________________________________.
4. The train journey from London to Bristol takes two hours.
 It is a _________________________________________________________________________.
5. If you don’t believe in it, you will never be able to do it.
 Believe _______________________________________________________________________.
6. The patient recovered more rapidly than expected.
 The patient made _______________________________________________________________.
7. You practice a lot, and you will play well.
 The more______________________________________________________________________.
8. The Prime Minister resigned because of his sudden illness.

The Prime Minister’s _____________________________________________________________.
9. Be sure to say goodbye to your grandmother before you leave.
 Be sure not ____________________________________________________________________.
10. Your car might break down on the rough mountain road, so take plenty of spare parts.
 In case ________________________________________________________________________.
XIII. Use the given word to write the second sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible
in meaning to the original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word. (5 pts)
1. I’d love to be really intelligent! (wish)
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
2. The police have found the stolen money in the park. (by)
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
3. Sudden fires often cause serious damage. (that)
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
4. There’s hardly anything he doesn’t know about whales. (knows)
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
5. He enjoys walking in the rain. (pleasure)
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
XIV. Use the given suggestions to complete sentences. (5 pts)
1. Many / visitors / country/ impress / beauty / Hanoi.
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
2. Wear / uniforms / encourage / students / be / proud / be / students / their school.
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
3. Learners / learn / how / spell / pronounce / words / use / them / writing / speaking.
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
4. Malaysian / unit / currency / ringgit / consist / 100 sen.
 ______________________________________________________________________________.
5. Tom / hear / pen pal / since / move / another / city?
 ______________________________________________________________________________?
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