Đề thi học sinh giỏi môn tiếng anh 9 tỉnh vĩnh phúc năm học 2015 2016(có đáp án)

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ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2015 – 2016
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
(Đề thi gồm: 06 trang)

PART 1: LISTENING

Section 1: You will listen to a telephone conversation between a man named Carl and his friend Bella.
Listen and choose the correct option to complete the statements from 1 to 5. You will hear the recording
TWICE
1. When she first moved to Canada, Bella had_________.
A. a great time
B. an OK time
C. a hard time
2. At first, Bella found it difficult to understand Canadians because_________.
A. they use some different words
B. they pronounce words differently
C. they pronounce words differently and use different words
3. Bella thinks she is_________.
A. shy
B. confident
C. clever
4. Bella joined a mountaineering group because_________.
A. she loves climbing
B. she wanted to make friends
C. she wanted to see Canada
5. Bella went climbing in the Rocky Mountains_________.
A. last week

B. last month
C. last year

Section 2: You will hear five people talking about friendship. For questions from 1-5, choose from the
list (A-H) what each speaker says is the most important to them in a friendship. Use each letter only
once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use. You will hear the recording TWICE
A. frequent contact
B. mutual trust
C. shared interest
D. good manners
E. emotional support
F. similar personalities
G. a sense of humor
H. some experience of school

1. Speaker 1: ________
2. Speaker 2:_________
3. Speaker 3:_________
4. Speaker 4:_________
5. Speaker 5:_________

Section 3: Listen to a talk about citizen journalism. Complete the notes below with one word in each
gap. You will hear the recording TWICE
Citizen journalism = ordinary people involved in collecting, (1.) ________, reporting and
disseminating news and (2.) ________.
(3.) _______ people are using modern technology to create media. For instance, taking a photo and
putting it (4.) _________ in seconds.
(5.) _______ journalism is not being pushed aside. People still want news from (6.) _________ sources.
Professional news (7.) ________ collect public (8.) _________ which are often a valuable and
insightful (9.) _________ to standard news coverage.

Most examples of citizen journalism are read on a professional news website, already
(10.) _________, proofread and checked by professional journalists.
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KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2015-2016
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

(Hướng dẫn chấm có 02 trang)

PART 1. LISTENING (2 POINTS)

Section 1: You will listen to a telephone conversation between Carl and Bella. Listen and choose the
correct option to complete the statements from 1 to 5. You will hear the recording TWICE (0.5 pt;
0.1pt/item)
1. C

2. C

3. A

4. B

5. A

Section 2: You will hear five people talking about friendship. For questions from 1-5, choose from the list (A-H)
what each speaker says is the most important to them in a friendship. Use each letter only once. There are three

extra letters which you do not need to use. You will hear the recording TWICE. (0.5 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. C

2. G

3. E

4. A

5. F

Section 3: Listen to a talk about citizen journalism. Complete the notes below with one word in each
gap. You will hear the recording TWICE (1 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1.
3.
5.
7.
9.

analyzing/ analysing
Ordinary
Serious
providers
complement

2. information
4. online
6. trusted
8. contributions
10. edited

PART 2. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (2.5 POINTS)

Section 1: Choose the correct option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences (1 pt;
0.05 pt/item)
1. B

2. A

3. B

4. A

5. C

6. B

7. C

8. A

9. B

10. C

11. D

12. D

13. C

14. B

15. D

16. B

17. A

18. A

19. D

20. C

Section 2: Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space at the
same line. (1 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. STARRING
6. LEADERS

2. POPULATION
7. FORMALLY

3. ECONOMIC
8. INDEPENDENCE

4. STRATEGIC
9. EVIDENT

5. SITUATED

10. TOURIST

Section 3: The passage below contains five mistakes in five different lines. Identify and correct them
(0.5 pt; 0.1/ item identified AND corrected)
Lines
1
2
3
4
5

Mistakes
philosophy
evidences
have
what
others

Corrections
philosophical
evidence
has
that
other

PART 3: READING (3 POINTS)
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Section 1: You are going to read a magazine article from which five sentences have been removed.

Choose the most suitable sentences from the list A-G for each part (1-5) of the article. There are two
extra sentences which you do not need to use. (0.5 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. C

2. F

3. G

4. A

5. D

Section 2: Read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or D) best fits each space (1 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. A. mood
6. A. while

2. B. putting
7. C. doing

3. B. looking for
8. A. came

4. D. composing
9. A. tap

5. C. common
10. B. possibilities

Section 3: Read the following extract and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which best
answers/completes the questions (1 pt; 0.1 pt/item)

1. D
6. A

2. D
7. B

3. B
8. D

4. B
9. C

5. C
10. A

Section 4: Read the following extract and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
word for each space (0.5 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. with

2. despite

3. mine

4. out

5. that/this

PART 4: WRITING (2.5 POINTS)

Section 1: Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it has a similar meaning to the original one.

(0.5 pt; 0.1 pt/item)
1. Ever since uncle Timber fell down the stairs a few years ago, he hasn’t felt right.
2. You can’t blame me for having broken the glass/ breaking the glass.
3. No sooner had he arrived than things went wrong.
4. The exam this year is said to be much easier than it was last year.
5. She’s always been on good terms with her neighbours.

Section 2: Essay writing (2 pts)
Candidates’ essays are evaluated based on the following criteria:

Content: 40 %: Arguments are adequately supported (with main ideas, supporting
ideas and relevant examples etc.).

Language: 30 %: Demonstrate a diverse range of lexical items and grammatical
structures.

Presentation: 30%: Write with suitable style, cohesion, coherence. Appropriate word
count.

* Note for Part 3, Section 4 and Part 4, Section 1: The marking scheme above serves as a set of guidelines for the examiners. Due to
the unpredictable nature of the candidates’ answers, there might exist other acceptable alternatives to those suggested in the
guidelines. During the marking of the candidates’ papers, should any potentially correct answers arise, examiners are advised to
discuss thoroughly and agree on the validity of those answers.
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PART 2: LEXICO-GRAMMAR

Section 1: Choose the correct option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences
1. She went in search of a new agent, without _______ help she would never have made it.

A. whom
B. whose
C. that
D. which
2. _______ returned home that I realised just how much I missed seeing my brother.
A. It wasn’t until I
B. It was only by
C. The reason why I
D. It’s only by
3. Tom: “Sorry, I forgot to phone you last night.”
Mary: “________”
A. Never say never!
B. Never mind!
C. Oops I did it!
D. You’re welcome!
4. All successful applicants are required _______ a week-long training programme before commencing
their new role.
A. to attend
B. attending
C. to be attending
D. attend
5. Come on! We must hurry. We have ________time!
A. a few
B. a little
C. little
D. few
6. We must carry _______ a thorough investigation into the causes of the riot.
A. on
B. out
C. off

D. up
7. Jane: “Do you still play golf every weekend?”
Jack: “No, I’m far too busy these days. I can only play _______.”
A. from time to when B. from when to time C. now and then
D. then and now
8. His name is Archibald, but everyone calls him Archie _______.
A. for short
B. in brief
C. for brief
D. in short
9. Either player could have won the match. It was _______.
A. stick or carrot
B. touch and go
C. odds and ends
D. here or there
10. Please _______ in mind that our price includes unlimited technical assistance and a three-year guarantee.
A. carry
B. have
C. bear
D. get
11. Nobody wants to be the first to make a sacrifice, _______?
A. does she or he
B. does anybody
C. do we
D. do they
12. I had once met Penelope Cruz. She had _______ hair.
A. long black beautiful
B. black long beautiful
C. beautiful black long
D. beautiful long black

13. Jack: “Do you think my English is improving?” Jill: “Yes, it’s getting _______.”
A. each time better
B. always better
C. better and better
D. all the time better
14. Yvonne has gone away. She’ll be back _______ a week.
A. inside of
B. in
C. by
D. until
15. I would like to _______ your attention to paragraph 3.2 of the chairman’s report.
A. attract
B. drag
C. pull
D. call
16. I took two big books with me on holiday, Moby Dick and War and Peace, but I didn’t read _______.
A. neither of them
B. either of them
C. either one or other
D. neither one or other
17. What’s that bird holding in its _______?
A. beak
B. paw
C. scales
D. fins
18. They often give out free _______, which you can try before you buy the item.
A. samples
B. bargains
C. brands
D. examples

19. I’m afraid the price is too _______ and no one will want to buy the product.
A. enormous
B. tall
C. big
D. high
20. The man _______ to talk to wasn’t there.
A. who wanted
B. that wanted
C. I wanted
D. which I wanted
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Section 2: Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space at
the same line
CASABLANCA
Casablanca is most known as the title of a classic film from 1942 (1.) ______________
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. But what about the city where this romance
was set?
Casablanca (Spanish for white house), or Casa as it is known by those who live
there, is the largest city in Morocco with a (2.) _______________ of approximately 5
million and is the country’s (3.) _______________ capital. Rabat is the political capital.
Casablanca is situated in the west of Morocco on the Atlantic coast and boasts one of
the world’s largest artificial ports, a port which was very (4.) _______________ during the
Second World War. At that time there was also a large American airbase (5.) ___________
in Casablanca and in 1943 it was in Casablanca that a significant conference took place
where world (6.) _______________ met to discuss the progress of the war.
Casablanca was (7.) _______________ under the control of the French from
1910 until 1956 when Morocco gained (8.) _______________. French influence on
the city is (9.) _______________ in the city layout and architecture. French is also the

second language after Arabic. The city now has a growing (10.) _______________ industry,
although it is not as popular as other Moroccan cities like Marrakesh and Fez.

1. STAR

2. POPULATE
3. ECONOMY
4. STRATEGY
5. SITUATE
6. LEAD
7. FORMAL
8. DEPEND
9. EVIDENCE
10. TOUR

Section 3: The passage below contains five mistakes in five different lines. Write down the mistakes
and the line numbers in which they appear and correct them
Many religious and philosophy traditions have spoken of the benefits of living in
the present moment but, until recently, there has not been much scientific evidences to
support this advice. Now, a study by psychologists in the USA have shown that if we learn
to live in the now we can be happier. Apparently, the problem is what we spend nearly
half of our time thinking about something others than what we are doing.

Lines
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

PART 3: READING

Section 1: You are going to read a magazine article from which five sentences have been removed.
Choose the most suitable sentences from the list A-G for each part (1-5) of the article. There are two
extra sentences which you do not need to use.
FIGHTING THE TREND
1. __________
Computer games range from the highly educational and creative, to games of skill, to ones with violentsounding titles such as World of Warcraft, artfully designed to lure teenagers and alarm parents. It always
amazes me to hear the parents of a nine or ten-year-old saying “He’s up playing computer games”. And
when you ask which games he likes, they do not know. Would these people, if asked who was babysitting,
say “Oh, some guy from the park”?
2. __________

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Walk past, discuss what the game is about while you get on with making dinner. Encourage sharing with
other children. Any game using two controllers is better than a lonely one.
Enforce screen breaks for the sake of the eyes and nerves. Give warning- let a level be finished-but enforce it.
3. __________
If you have a teenager who spends a lot of time online, you probably need software that records every site
visited, and time spent; you may want one of the filter programmes that cut out dodgy sites.
4.__________
This, during teenage years, can be a problem but it is always worth persevering. If a parent or relative is
around for long enough, slow to leap to judgement or hysteria, and willing to listen (leaning on the kitchen
worktop while one of you has a late-night-pizza, in the car, wherever) then important issues will
eventually come up.
5.__________
So is an alternative, sociable, physical pastime. We all know that a healthy, small child gets more fun out
of a sociable kitchen than out of a toy, and relishes a rough-and-tumble game with dad more than a

television programme. We need to extend that common sense into older ages, too.
SENTENCES

A. Probably the best guarantee against damage or confusion is the normal communication you have
with your child.
B. Enforce screen breaks for the sake of the eyes and nerves.
C. When children get to the age for games consoles, try to know what they are playing.
D. Indeed, personal happiness and reasonable self-esteem are the best weapons against any kind of
computer brain invasion.
E. As a parent, ensure that your children only use the computer for educational purposes.
F. As with television, keep the computer gaming area in one of the shared parts of the house.
G. It’s self-evident that parental responsibility has to be applied to the Internet, just as it must be for
every other kind of encounter.

Section 2: Read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or D) best fits each space
MUSIC ON YOUR MIND
You know the feeling-you’re listening to music and suddenly your whole (1.) __________ changes
from sad to happy. This mind-altering power of music is amazing, and Internet music sites are using
sophisticated ways of (2.)__________us in touch with new artists. They search our downloaded sites or
online listening habits (3.) __________patterns, and the results are often surprising-would you believe that
AC/DC fans may well enjoy Beethoven?
Musicians have been (4.) __________unforgettable music for centuries, using accepted ideas about
the emotional appeal of certain combinations of musical sounds. It’s (5.) __________knowledge that major
chords sound upbeat (6.) __________minor chords sound mournful-in tests, even children as young as three
connect music in major keys to happy faces. Scientists investigating the subject have been (7.)
__________various experiments such as scanning the brains of people while they listen to music. One thing
they (8.) __________across is that music triggers activity in the motor region of the brain, which could explain
why we often need to (9.)__________our feet to music. The (10.) __________for medicine and business are
exciting.
1. A. mood

B. atmosphere
C. temper
D. idea
2. A. placing
B. putting
C. making
D. doing
3. A. looking out
B. looking for
C. looking up
D. looking after
4. A. constructing
B. forming
C. inventing
D. composing
5. A. great
B. usual
C. common
D. wide
6. A. while
B. during
C. since
D. so
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7. A. taking
8. A. came
9. A. tap
10. A. likelihood

B. making
B. went
B. bang
B. possibilities

C. doing
C. brought
C. hit
C. probabilities

D. having
D. took
D. strike
D. chance

Section 3: Read the following extract and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which best
answers/completes the questions
As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America
were building with adobe – sunbaked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like
modern apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps a thousand
people, along with storerooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up against
cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in
themselves, as later Spanish explorers must have realized since they called them “pueblos”, which is
Spanish for towns.
The people of the pueblos raised what are called “the three sisters”- corn, beans, and squash. They
made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The
Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from
streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a
major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.

The way of life of less–settled groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small
tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as rabbits and
snakes. In the Far North the ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted seals, walruses, and the great whales. They
lived right on the frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came,
they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou. The Cheyenne, Pawnee and Sioux tribes, known as
the Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They
hunted bison, commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was
used to make their clothing and the covering of their tents and tips.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The architecture of early America Indian buildings
B. The movement of American Indians across North America
C. Ceremonies and rituals of American Indians
D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America
2. According to the passage, the Hopi and Zuni typically built their homes _________.
A. in valleys
B. next to streams
C. on open plains
D. against cliffs
3. The word “They” refers to _________.
A. Goods
B. Buildings
C. Cliffs
D. Enemies
4. It can be inferred from the passage that the dwellings of the Hopi and Zuni were _________.
A. very small
B. highly advanced C. difficult to defend D. quickly constructed
5. The author uses the phrase “the three sisters” to refer to_________.
A. Hopi women
B. family members C. important crops D. rain ceremonies

6. Which of the following is true of the Shoshone and Ute?
A. They were not as settled as the Hopi and Zuni. B. They hunted caribou.
C. They built their homes with adobe.
D. They did not have many religious ceremonies.
7. According to the passage, which of the following tribes lived in the grasslands?
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A. The Shoshone and Ute
B. The Cheyenne
C. The Hopi and Zuni
D. The Pawnee and Inuit
8. Which of the following animals was the most important to the Plains Indians?
A. The salmon
B. The caribou
C. The seal
D. The buffalo
9. The author gives an explanation for all of the following words EXCEPT_________.
A. adobe
B. pueblos
C. caribou
D. bison
10. The author groups North American Indians according to their _________.
A. tribes and geographical regions
B. arts and crafts
C. rituals and ceremonies
D. date of appearance on the continent

Section 4: Read the following extract and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word
for each space

I fell into my first job by chance. I’d graduated (1.) _________ a reasonable degree, but I was at a loss
to know what to do next. I had no money, but (2.) _________ this, I had unrealistic dreams of being able to
travel the world. In the end what happened was a happy coincidence. An uncle of (3.) _________ had set up
a language school in the Caribbean, and needed someone to help him run the office. I jumped at the chance,
although at the time I had no idea that it would turn (4.) __________to be a real challenge. There were so
many problems to deal with that I couldn’t cope, and there were times when I felt overwhelmed. The
advantages included good money and fantastic weather, but finally the pressure became too great so I had to
quit. However, working in a school helped me to realize (5.) __________ was what I really wanted to do, and now
I am a teacher.

PART 4: WRITING

Section 1: Complete each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the one
printed before it
1. Uncle Timber fell down the stairs a few years ago and hasn’t felt right since.
Ever since___________________________________________________________.
2. It is not my fault that the glass broke.
You can’t blame me_________________________________________________.
3. Immediately after his arrival, things went wrong.
No sooner___________________________________________________________.
4. People say that the exam this year is much easier than it was last year.
The exam this year_________________________________________________.
5. She’s always had a good relationship with her neighbours.
She’s always been on_______________________________________________.

Section 2: Write an essay of around 250 words on the following topic
Fashion designers in Vietnam have recently made various attempts to modernize the
traditional ao dai. Its original shape has been constantly altered and new patterns such as suns, stars
and stripes have been added.
Some are positive about those changes, claiming that they have made the ao dai more

fashionable. Others, however, consider the alterations made to this unique dress a blatant disregard
of tradition.

What is your opinion?
Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples from your own knowledge and
experience.
END OF THE TEST
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