Đề thi học sinh giỏi môn tiếng anh lớp 9, Phòng GD&ĐT huyện Yên Lạc, Vĩnh Phúc 2018-2019 - Học Toàn Tập

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UBND HUYỆN YÊN LẠC

PHÒNG GD-ĐT YÊN LẠC

ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP HUYỆN NĂM HỌC 2018-2019 
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 9

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 06 trang)

PART A. LISTENING

I. Listen to Lucy talking about her vacation. For questions 1 to 5, choose A, B or C. You will hear the 
conversation twice.

Example:

0. Lucy missed the train because she’d _______

A. forgotten. B. overslept. C. lost her key. 
1. By the time she arrived at the airport, the plane _______

A. had left. B. had arrived. C. had broken. 
2. She booked another flight and arrived _______

A. 1 hour later. B. 2 hours later. C. 3 hours later. 
3. When she arrived at the hotel, she realized she’d _______

A. lost her bag. B. lost her watch. C. lost her phone. 
4. Lucy realized that she’d left her bag _______

A. in the taxi. B. on the bus. C. on the plane. 
5. She couldn’t sleep because she’d _______

A. drunk too much coffee. B. watched a scary movie. C. eaten too much food.

II. Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORD AND/OR A NUMBER 
for each answer.

III. You will hear five different people talking about holidays. Choose from the list (A-F) the reason 
each speaker gives to explain why they remember one particular holiday. Use the letters only once. 
There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

Costwise Car Hire
 Example Answer 
Number of offices in Sydney 3 .
Booking reference number: (1) ________________
Office just by (2) ________________ terminal

Opening hours: (3) ________________ to ________________
After-hours charge: (4) $ ________________

Cheapest model of car available: (5) ________________

Information needed when booking: (6) ________________ number
Length of hire period: (7) ________________

Reduce cost by driving under (8) ________________ km per week.

Insurance does not cover: (9) ________________

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1. Speaker 1 A I felt I had learnt something. 
2. Speaker 2 B I was relieved to be back home. 
3. Speaker 3 C It gave me a sense of my origins. 
4. Speaker 4 D It provided an escape.

5. Speaker 5 E I felt closer to my family

F It made our friendship stronger. 
PART B. PHONETICS, LEXICAL AND GRAMMAR

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. 
1. A. computer B. situation C. telephone D. teacher

2. A. cough B. enough C. weigh D. laugh

3. A. astonished B. toured C. rubbed D. erased

II. Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others.

4. A. discussion B. assistant C. character D. expensive

5. A. customer B. difficult C. required D. musical

III. Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. 
6. She wants to go shopping, but she has hardly _______ money

A. any B. some C. no D. little

7. Can you keep calm for a moment? You _______ noise in class!

A. are always made B. always make C. have always made D. are always making 
8. “The inflation rate in Greece is five times _______ my country,” he said.

A. as much as B. more than C. as many as that in D. as high as that in 
9. _______, the results couldn't be better.

A. No matter what he tried hard B. No matter how hard he tried 
C. Although very hard he tried D. Despite how hard he tried 
10. They are good friends. They _______ each other for a long time.

A. know B. have known C. knew D. were knowing

11. I object _______ to the sea in this cold weather.

A. to going B. going C. about going D. of going

12. I find the time of English meals very strange. I am not used _______ dinner at 5 p.m.

A. to have B. to having C. having D. have

13. My parents got up very early this morning _______ pack the car for our journey.

A. so that B. in order to C. because D. in case

14. The purpose of the examination was to _______ the students’ knowledge of the subject.

A. try B. inspect C. prove D. test

15. Hardly _______ the captain of the team when he had to face the problems. 
A. had he been appointed B. did he appoint

C. was he being appointed D. was he appointing 
16. It is six years _______ we moved to Chicago.

A. when B. that C. since D. after

17. _______ our children may be, we cannot go picnicking in this weather.

A. Though excited B. Excited as C. Because of excitement D. Exciting 
18. - “I’m taking my first exam next week”. - “______”.

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19. It’s necessary that every student of our class _______ hard.

A. study B. studying C. to study D. studies

20. Ba and his family had _______ to their home village.

A. a two-days trip B. a two-day trips C. a two-day trip D. two-day trips

IV. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting. 
1. She was waiting nervous in the waiting room for the interview.

A B C D

2. They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell them. 
 A B C D

3. We needed thousands of pencils for the convention, so we bought the less expensive ones we could find 
A B C D

4. The book writing by Jack London is very popular in the world

A B C D

5. Have the students be told about the changes of their timetable yet?

A B C D

V. Supply the correct form of the word in capital letter given at the end of each sentence below. 
1. For most people, a good _______ helps them get a better job. EDUCATE
2. Mrs. Jones walked around the room while the students worked _______. SILENT

3. I have a very good _______ with both my parents. RELATION

4. My best friends has got a great _______. PERSONAL

5. We offer free _______ on all purchases over €100. DELIVER
6. The dentist said that it wouldn’t hurt, and she was right – it was completely _______! PAIN 
7. In India there are a lot of _______ in the streets. BEG
8. She is so busy with _______ activities that she has no time for entertainment. SOCIETY
9. There are lots of _______ encyclopedias on the Internet. MEDICINE

10. What’s the best way to lose _______? WEIGH

PART C. READING

I. Fill in the gap in the following passage with one correct word.

Nowadays a (1) _______ of important inventions are carried (2) ______ by scientists working for 
large industrial firms. However, there are still opportunities for other people to invent various things. (3) 
_______ Britain there is a weekly TV program which attempts to show all the various devices which
people have recently (4) _______. The people organizing the program receive information about 700 
inventions per year. New idea can (5) ______ developed by private inventors .

II. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the 
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 10.

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1. A. known B. said C. told D. called

2. A. land B. earth C. tongue D. nature

3. A. between B. about C. over D. from

4. A. like B. such C. as D. for

5. A. which B. whose C. what D. where

6. A. throughout B. over C. through D. out

7. A. said B. spoken C. made D. developed

8. A. nations B. languages C. states D. continents

9. A. contained B. set C. entered D. stored

10. A. on B. by C. in D. for

III. You are going to read a newspaper article about a man who works in the kitchens of a fast food 
restaurant. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the 
one which fits each gap (1-7).

FAST WORK FOR FAST FOOD

When I graduated from cookery school, I could have applied for jobs in ski chalets or on board
ships sailing around the Caribbean. Instead, I applied to work in a fashionable fast food restaurant and
suddenly found myself working very long hours in hot, sweaty kitchens full of completely crazy
characters. I thought that starting at the bottom of the food chain, as opposed to the high life of skiing and
sailing, would be good training. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

At 7.45 each morning I stagger into the kitchen with all the other cooks, exhausted from working a
10-hour shift the night before. (1) _______. Nothing is where it should be. Vegetables have been left on 
the floor and raw fish has been left uncovered in the fridge. A couple of dustbins have not been emptied
and everything has to be cleaned before we can begin the day’s work.

(2) _______. I fill a sink with water, throw in several box loads of the stuff and wash each leaf 
separately. My hands are so cold I can hardly feel them. Between 9 and 10, the line chefs start arriving. (3)
_______. They swan around the kitchens shouting orders at the poor cooks like me whose job it is to
prepare all the ingredients.

But if anything goes wrong once the customers’ orders start coming in, you can guess who gets the
blame. If they run out of sauce, then it’s the cook’s fault for not preparing enough in the first place. (4) 
_______. The chefs are only under pressure at particular point in the day. The cooks are under pressure all

the time.

(5) _______. This is when the waiters get told what the day’s special menus are. Then, no sooner 
are we back in the kitchen to start the lunch service than three deliveries of food and drink arrive all at the
same time. (6) _______. I am faced with carrying boxes of frozen chips or bottles of fruit juice from the 
lorries down two flights of stairs to the store rooms. By mid-afternoon, the lunchtime rush is dying down.
(7) _______. Then I am allowed to have my free staff “lunch”, by which time I’m too tired to eat.

A. This means I get sent to sort them out 
B. These are the people who get all the glory

C. Before we open at midday, all the staff meet in the restaurant.

D. My first job of the day is shopping, and shredding leaves and lettuces for salads

E. However, I don’t get anything to eat until the end of my working day, at 6 that evening

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IV. Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for each question.

If we took a look at how people in Europe communicated just one hundred years ago, we would
be very surprised to find out that English was hardly used outside the United Kingdom. The language
most commonly used between people of different nationalities, and particularly the aristocracy, was
French. In fact, French was the language of diplomacy, culture and education. However, that is not the
case nowadays. English has replaced French as the international language of communication. Today there
are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak it as a first language.

There are many reasons why English has become the language of international communication.
Britain's colonization of many parts of the world had something to do with it, but it is mainly due to

America's rise to the position of major world power. This helped spread popular American culture
throughout the world bringing the language with it.

But is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? Language specialists
seem to be divided over this issue. There are those who claim that it is important to have a language that
the people in our increasingly globalized world have in common. According to others, English is
associated with a particular culture and therefore promotes that culture at the expense of others. Linguists
have suggested "Esperanto", an artificially put-together language, as a solution to international
communication problems but without success. So, English will continue being the world language until
some other language, maybe Chinese, which is the most widely-spoken native language in the world,
takes over as the world's international language instead of English.

1. According to the passage, a century ago _______ 
A. educated people throughout Europe spoke English. 
B. foreign travelers to England spoke only French. 
C. French was much more popular than English. 
D. only the French aristocracy could speak English.

2. What is chiefly responsible for the growth in popularity of English?

A. Britain's becoming an international power. B. The French losing many colonies. 
C. America's becoming powerful. D. The development of American culture. 
3. What is meant by "the language of diplomacy” (lines 4)?

A. The language used by ordinary people. B. The language used by the English and the French. 
C. The language used by the aristocracy. D. The language used by governments.

4. What is true according to the passage?

A. The experts don't like Esperanto. B. Esperanto is difficult to learn.

C. Esperanto is not a natural language D. Esperanto is becoming more and more popular. 
5. The experts' opinion on the spread of English is

A. split B. positive C. negative D. undecided 
6. The author believes that

A. English is easier to learn than Chinese.

B. English will probably be replaced as an international language.

C. Chinese is going to be the next language of international communication. 
D. Chinese is growing in popularity among non-native speakers.

7. These days _______

A. French is the language of diplomacy. B. more non-natives speak English than natives. 
C. more people speak French than English. D. French is a dying language.

8. What would be a good title for this passage?

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PART D. WRITING

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentences 
printed before it.

1. Although he is old, he goes jogging every morning.

Despite ______________________________________________________.

2. Nowadays people would rather watch TV than go to the cinema.

 Nowadays people prefer _________________________________________.

3. The program was so interesting that none of us wanted to turn the TV off.

 It was ________________________________________________________.

4. They will not announce the results formally.

 No formal _____________________________________________________.

5. Mai hasn’t seen her parents since she left for the USA.

 Mai last ______________________________________________________.

II. Do you agree with the idea that school students should be allowed to use cellphones at school? Write 
a paragraph of about 150 words to clarify your viewpoint.

THE END

Giám thị coi thi khơng giải thích gì thêm.

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