de thi chon hoc sinh gioi mon tieng anh lop 9 tp ho chi minh nam hoc 2012 2013

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SỞ GD&ĐT TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH

KỲ THI HSG CẤP THÀNH PHỐ LỚP 9 THCS

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NĂM HỌC: 2012-2013
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 9

PART TWO: USE OF ENGLISH (40pts)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the sentence. (20pts)
1. The more important an exam is, ________________________.
A. the more you’ll get nervous

B. the more nervous will you get

C. the most nervous you’ll be

D. the more nervous you’ll get

2. I wish they ___________________less noise; I’m trying to concentrate.
A. are making

B. could make

C. would be making

D. had made

3. There’s no point ___________________him for money; he won’t lend you any.
A. asking

B. to ask

C. for asking

D. in having asked

4. I’m sorry I __________________your name again.
A. forget

B. have forgot

C. forgot

D. am forgetting

5. There ____________________________.
A. came our new teacher

B. is our new teacher coming

C. is coming our new teacher

D. our new teacher comes

6. I don’t want to be hard on you, but you _________________me before using my laptop.
A. must have asked

B. might have asked

C. needn’t have asked

D. may as well ask

7. Hardly ____________________time to go to the cinema these days.
A. should I find

B. that I can find

C. when I can find

D. can I find

8. I met ___________________man in the conference.
A. a tall American interesting

B. an interesting tall American

C. so tall an American interesting

D. an American tall interesting

9. The whole place has been __________________in such a way to provide the disabled with easy
access to all the facilities.
A. laid out

B. put up

C. set about

D. arranged for

10. The doctor has been ___________________to deal with an emergency.
A. cut out

B. sent with

C. called away

D. told off


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11. She watched _________________fascination when he was sketching.
A. in

B. from

C. with

D. on

12. What is your response ____________________this forum?
A. of
13.

B. with

B. civics
B. overcome

D. exceed

B. incentive

C. inspiration

D. vitality

B. scorching

C. frozen

D. ice

I did some ___________________around the house before I turned on the TV.

A. pins and needles
18.

C. extend

It is ____________________cold outside. Do not go out, please.

A. bitterly
17.

D. identification

The threat of failing an exam provides the ___________________to work harder.

A. go-ahead
16.

C. ethics

It’s possible to get a speeding ticket if you _________________the speed limit.

A. pass
15.

D. about

A person’s ____________________with determine what they believe is right or wrong.

A. psychology
14.

C. to

B. ups and downs

C. ins and outs

D. odds and ends

It takes me a long time to save enough money for a nice vacation, so such trips are
__________________for me.

A. few and far between
19.

B. up and about

C. big shots

D. hot air

Yu Na: “I’ll take part in the beauty contest.” Father: “______________________”

A. It is really kid’s stuff!

B. I’m sorry about that contestant.

C. You’ll do nothing of the kind.

D. I can’t say it worries me!

20.

Sarah: “Isn’t my pigeon.”

Lucas: “_______________________”

A. That’s a nice dove.

B. Mike is in deep trouble.

C. What’s the matter with you?

D. What’s the symbol of peace?

WORD FORMS
Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank. (20pts)
1. He’s a university student majoring in climatology. (climate)
2. The teacher gave us a(n) introductory lesson on conservation. (introduce)
3. To be completely fair, we need a(n) disinterested person. (interest)
4. The inauguration ceremony was given worldwide coverage. (world)
5. After working really hard for the examination, he deserved a(n) well-earned holiday. (earn)
6. Such important work needs exactitude/exactness. (exact)


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7. The article I read the other day was quite informative. That’s why I keep it for later reference.
(inform)
8. Amazingly enough, no-one else has applied for the job. (Amaze)
9. Please check the availability of the language lab on that day. (avail)
10. The tendency now is to personalize our cell phone ring tones. (person)
PART THREE: CLOZE TESTS (75pts)
Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C, or D) for each blank space.
PASSAGE A (15pts)
Every year about seventeen million animals are used in laboratory (1)___________________. But in
many countries today, a difficult question is being asked: Do we have the (2)__________________to
use animals this way?
The case for using animals in research
The use of animals in medical research has many practical (3)___________________. Animal research
has enabled researchers to develop (4)___________________for many diseases, such as heart disease

and depression. It wouldn’t have been possible, years ago, to develop vaccines for diseases like
smallpox and polio (5)__________________animal research. Every drug anyone takes today was
(6)__________________first on animals. Future medical research is (7)________________ on the use
of animals. Which is more important: the life of a rat or (8)____________________of a three-year-old
child?
Medical research is also a(n) (9)____________________way of using unwanted animals. Last year,
over twelve million animals had to be killed in animal (10)_________________because nobody
wanted them as pets.
The case against using animals in research
The fact that humans benefit cannot be used to (11)___________________using animals in research
any more than experimenting on other humans. Animals (12)____________________a lot during these
experiments. They are forced to live in small cages, and they may be unable to move. Much of the
research that is (13)____________________out is unnecessary anyway.
Animals have the same rights as humans do to be able to move freely and not to have pain or fear
forced on them. Researchers must find other ways of doing their research, using cell
(14)____________________and computer modeling. There should be no animals in research
laboratories (15)__________________.


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1.

A. assignments B. trials

C. experiments

D. inspections

2.

A. law

B. way

C. equality

D. right

3.

A. revenues

B. benefices

C. benefits

D. advances

4.

A. treatments

B. solutions

C. treats

D. symptoms

5.

A. because of

B. let alone

C. thanks to

D. without

6.

A. tested

B. assigned

C. conducted

D. imposed

7.

A. rested

B. originated

C. relevant

D. dependent

8.

A. this

B. which

C. that

D. one

9.

A. embarrassing B. sickening

C. expedient

D. satisfactory

10.

A. cages

B. shelters

C. gatherings

D. houses

11.

A. justify

B. satisfy

C. popularize

D. reason

12.

A. suffer

B. tolerate

C. bear

D. torture

13.

A. done

B. undertaken

C. carried

D. passed

14.

A. transform

B. format

C. pattern

D. culture

15.

A. at least

B. in the least

C. all the same

D. in all

Fill in each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
PASSAGE B (30pts)
As technology develops, robots are programmed to do more amazing things. Here are some of the most
important (1) ways in which they help humans.
Robots are being installed in many hospitals around the world. They have already been used for a
variety of operations (2) including heart surgery. (3) According to surgeons, the work robots can do is
more accurate than the work humans can do. Robots can also help people with (4) disabilities. For
example, robotic arms have been used by people with missing limbs for many years. Now a new
robotic arm has been (5) developed which is controlled by thought. For the first time (6) ever,
somebody with a false robotic arm just needs to think about a movement like (7) picking up a book,
and the Neuro-Controlled Bionic Arm will do it. The arm has already been successful, but doctors are
(8) still developing it. They predict that (9) much/far/way faster and stronger version will be (10)
made in a few years’ time.

In South Korea, the robot Olympics takes place every year. It (11) brings together groups around the
world who are (12) fascinated with robots. At the event, children as young as six build and program
robotic creations that can do all kinds of things such as run or kick a football. Robot Wars is (13)


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another form of entertainment for robot lovers. It’s as TV show that (14) involves remote-controlled
robot vehicles taking part in games. The most popular game is when teams of people cause the vehicles
to fight each other (15) until only one robot survives. Other games include robot races and robot
football.
PASSAGE C (30pts)
The potential of computers for increasing the control of organizations or society (16) over their
members and for invading the privacy of those members has (17) caused considerable concern.
The privacy issue has been (18) raised most insistently with (19) respect to the creation and
maintenance of data files that assemble (20) information about persons from a multitude of sources.
Files of this kind would be highly valuable for many kinds of economic and social research, but they
are bought at too high a (21) price if they endanger human freedom or seriously enhance the
opportunities of blackmailers. (22) While/Whereas such dangers should not be ignored, it should be
noted that the lack of comprehensive data files has never (23) before been the limiting barrier to the
suppression of human freedom.
Making the computer the villain in the (24) invasion of privacy or encroachment on civil liberties
simply diverts attention from the real dangers. Computer data banks can and must be given the highest
(25) degree of protection from abuse. But we must be careful, also, that we do not employ crude
methods of protection as to deprive our society (26) of important data it needs to understand its own
social process and to analyze its problems.
Perhaps the most important questions of all about the computer is (27) what it has done and will do to
man’s view of himself and his place in the universe. The (28) most heated attacks on the computer are
not focused on its possible economic effects, its presumed destruction of job (29) satisfaction, or its
threat to privacy and liberty, but upon the claim that it causes people to be viewed, and to view (30)

themselves as machines.
PART FOUR: Reading Comprehension (40pts)
Choose the item (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the unfinished statement about the passage.
PASSAGE A (20pts)
Because the low latitudes of the Earth, the areas near the equator, receive more heat than the latitude
near the poles, and because the nature of heart is to expand and move, Heat is transported from the
tropics to the middle and high latitudes. Some of this heat is moved by winds and some by ocean
currents, and some gets stored in the atmosphere in the form of latent heat. The term “latent hear”


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refers to the energy that has to be used to convert liquid water to water vapor. We know that if we
warm a pan of water on a stove, it will evaporate, or turn into vapor, faster than if it is allowed to sit at
room temperature. We also know that if we hang wet clothes outside in the summertime they will dry
faster than in winter, when temperatures are colder. The energy used in both cases to change liquid
water to water vapor is supplied by heat – supplied by the stove in the first case and by the Sun in the
latter case. This energy is not lost. It is stored in water vapor in the atmosphere as latent heat.
Eventually, the water stored as vapor in the atmosphere will condense to liquid again, and the energy
will be release to the atmosphere.
In the atmosphere, a large portion of the Sun’s incoming energy is used to evaporate water,
primarily in the tropical oceans. Scientists have tried to quantify this proportion of the Sun’s energy. By
analyzing temperature, water vapor, and wind data around the globe, they have estimated the quantity
to be about 90 watts per square meter, or nearly 30 percent of the Sun’s energy. Once this latent heat is
stored within the atmosphere, it can be transported, primarily to higher latitudes, by prevailing, largescale winds. Or it can be transported vertically to higher levels in the atmosphere, where it forms
clouds and subsequent storms, which then release the energy back to the atmosphere.
1. The passage mainly discussed how heat ________________________.
A. is transformed and transported in the Earth’s atmosphere
B. is transported by ocean currents
C. can be measured and analyzed by scientists

D. moves about the Earth’s equator
2. The passage mentions that the tropics differ from the Earth’s polar regions in which of the following
ways?
A. The height of cloud formation in the atmosphere
B. The amount of heat they receive from the Sun
C. The strength of their large scale winds
D. The strength of their oceanic currents
3. The word “convert” in line 5 is closest in meaning to ___________________.
A. mix

B. change

C. adapt

D. reduce

4. Why does the author mention “the stove” in line 9?
A. To describe the heat of the Sun

B. To illustrate how water vapor is stored

C. To show how energy is stored

D. To give an example of a heat source


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5. According to the passage, most ocean water evaporation occurs especially _______________.
A. around the higher latitudes

B. in the tropics

C. because of large-scale winds

D. because of strong ocean currents

6. According to the passage, 30 percent of the Sun’s incoming energy __________________.
A. is stored in clouds in the lower latitudes
B. is transported by ocean currents
C. never leaves the upper atmosphere
D. gets stored as latent heat
7. The word “it” in line 17 refers to ____________________.
A. square meter

B. the Sun’s energy

C. latent heat

D. the atmosphere

8. The word “primarily” in line 17 is closest in meaning to _____________________.
A. chiefly

B. originally

C. basically

D. clearly

9. The word “prevailing” in line 18 is closest in meaning to _____________________.
A. essential

B. dominant

C. circular

D. closest

10. All of the following words are defined in the passage EXCEPT ________________.
A. low latitudes (line 1)

B. latent heat (line 4)

C. evaporate (line 6)

D. atmosphere (line 13)

PASSAGE B (20pts)
Diffusion, the process of introducing cultural elements from one society into another, occurs in three
basic patterns: direct contact, intermediate contact, and stimulus diffusion.In direct contact, elements of
a society’s culture may be adopted first by neighboring societies and then gradually spread farther
afield. The spread of the manufacture of paper is an example of extensive diffusion by direct contact.
The invention of paper is attributed to the Chinese Ts’ai Lun in A.D. 105. Within fifty years, paper
was being made in many places in central China. By 264 it was found in Chinese Turkmenistan, and
from then on the successive places of manufacture were Samarkand (751), Baghdad (793), Egypt
(about 900), Morocco (about 1100), and France (1189). In general, the pattern of accepting the
borrowed invention was the same everywhere. Paper was first imported into each area as a luxury, then
in ever-expanding quantities as a staple product. Finally, usually within one to three centuries, local
manufacture started. Diffusion by intermediated contact occurs through the agency of third parties.

Frequently, traders carry a cultural trait from the society that originated it to another group. As an
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been invented by another Semitic group, to Greece. At times, soldiers serve as intermediaries in
spreading a culture trait. During the Middle Ages, European soldiers acted as intermediaries in two
ways: they carried European culture to Arab societies of North Africa and brought Arab culture back to
Europe. In the nineteenth century Western missionaries brought Western-style clothing to such places
as Africa and the Pacific islands. In stimulus diffusion, knowledge of a trait belonging to another
culture stimulates the invention or development of a local equivalent. A classic example of stimulus
diffusion is the creation of the Cherokee syllabic writing system by a Native American named Sequoya.
Sequoya got the idea from his contact with the English; yet he did not adopt the writing system nor did
he even learn to write English. He utilized some English alphabetic symbols, altered others, and
invented new ones. All the symbols he used represented Cherokee syllables and had a distinctly
Cherokee form.
11. The passage mainly discusses how _______________________.
A. cultures retain their unique characteristics
B. cultural elements transfer from one culture to another
C. paper came into general use
D. economies grew through trade and manufacturing
12. The word “attributed” in line 5 is closest in meaning to ______________________.
A. credited

B. presented

C. promised

D. limited

13. The word “successive” in line 7 is closest in meaning to ____________________.
A. specialized B. principal

C. prosperous

D. subsequent

14. The word “it” in line 13 refers to ____________________.
A. diffusion

B. contact

C. trait

D. society

15. According to the passage, a change that occurred in Africa and the Pacific islands as a result of the
arrival of missionaries was ___________________.
A. an increase in the presence of soldiers
B. variation in local style of dressing
C. the manufacture of paper
D. the introduction of new alphabetical systems
16. In stating that the Cherokee writing system is a classic example, the author means that this example
is especially _____________________.
A. representative

B. understandable

C. difficult

D. old


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17. What did Sequoya do?
A. Adopt the English writing system for use in Cherokee
B. Study English intensively in order to learn to write it
C. Teach English to Cherokee Native Americans
D. Create a Cherokee writing system based on elements of the English alphabet
18. The origins of the Greek and Cherokee writing systems were discussed in the passage because both
systems _______________________.
A. underwent identical patterns of development in different parts of the world
B. influenced the development of alphabets of other languages
C. represented distinct ways in which elements could be introduced into a culture
D. were introduced by religious missionaries
19. Which of the following statements about direct contact, intermediate contact, and stimulus diffusion
is NOT true?
A. They all cause changes in culture.
B. They all occur in more than one culture.
C. They all involve the interaction of cultures.
D. They all require the trading of manufactured products.
20. The author organized the discussion in the passage by __________________.
A. establishing a historical chronology from the past through the present
B. illustrating specific categories with examples
C. identifying important geographic regions
D. ranking categories from most to least significant
PART FIVE: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20pts)
Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before it.

Use the word in brackets.
1. They say he is able to swim across this river. (swimming)
He is said to be capable of swimming across this river.
2. They may be there at the meeting, or they may not. (out)
It is uncertain that/whether they will turn out at the meeting.
3. “Don’t forget to hand in the paper by the deadline,” said the teacher. (reminder)
The teacher sent/gave us/sent out a reminder that we had to hand in the paper by the deadline.


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4. Learning English is becoming more and more popular in our city. (increasingly)
It has become increasingly popular to learn English in our city.
5. Right after disembarkation from the plane, he was taken into custody. (got)
As soon as he got off the plane, he was taken into custody.
6. The teacher and his students knew nothing about the crack on the wall. (idea)
Neither the teacher nor his students had any idea about the crack on the wall.
7. The boy’s effort really impressed the audience and judges. (left)
It was the boy’s effort that left a good impression on the audience and judges.
8. Instead, you must try to have a good relationship with the others. (get)
I wish you would try to get along well with the others.
9. I always go jogging in the morning to keep fit. (invariably)
In order to keep fit, I invariably go jogging in the morning.
10. Doubtlessly, Katie is the best violinist in the conservatory. (no-one)
It goes without saying that no-one else in the conservatory plays the violin as well as Katie does.
THE END OF THE TEST