De thi HS G Anh 9

Uỷ ban nhân dân tp hảI phòng Kì THI CHọN HọC SINH Giỏi thành phố
Sở GiáO DụC và đàO TạO NăM HọC 2008-2009
MôN THI: TiếnG ANH LớP 9
bảng a Thời gian: 150 phút
Bài thi gồm 5 trang. Tổng điểm: 100
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Part one: phonology
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others in each group.
Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the space provided on the right. (5 pts)
1. A. ashamed B. accuse C. addition D. advert ________________
2. A. brother B. bath C. mathematics D. breath ________________
3. A. measure B. decision C. pleasant D. pleasure ________________
4. A. wood B. food C. good D. stood ________________
5. A. climbing B. describe C. suburb D. club ________________
II. Choose the word with different stress pattern.
Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the space provided on the right. (5 pts)
1. A. engineer B. responsibility C. documentary D. mathematics ________________
2. A. achieve B. computer C. equality D. exercise ________________
3. A. effective B. moment C. province D. popular ________________
4. A. offer B. improve C. behave D. believe ________________
5. A. interesting B. preference C. exceptional D. industry ________________
Part two: VOCABULARy AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank in the following sentences.

Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the space given on the right. (10 pts)
1. The twins look so _____ their father.
A. likely B. likeness C. alike D. like ________________
2. David always _____ over to my house for tea at weekend.
A. came B. went C. gone D. passed ________________
3. Jane is _____ of using a computer.
A. possible B. capable C. able D. probable ________________
4. _____ each school year all the children were given copies of the school rules.
A. At first B. To start with C. At the beginning of D. In the beginning of ________________
5. Could you please _____ exactly what you saw when you got into the room?
A. inform B. point C. advise D. describe ________________
6. The _____ air in the morning is good for your health.
A. sure B. pure C. cure D. clear ________________
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7. If you are not Japanese, so what _______ are you?
A. country B. nation C. nationality D. national ________________
8. He is always coming late, ______ annoys everyone.
A. it B. that C. what D. which ________________
9. _____ young, chimpanzees are easily trained.
A. When are B. When C. They are D. When they ________________
10. It’s a good idea to see your doctor regularly for a medical _____.
A. revision B. control C. check-up D. investigation ________________
11. You can use my bicycle _____ you bring it back tomorrow.
A. although B. as long as C. nevertheless D. in spite of ________________
12. Two _____ were fired, because they were always turning up late for work.
A. applicants B. employees C. staffs D. employers ________________
13. After a meal in a restaurant, you should ask the waiter for the _____.
A. bill B. prescription C. receipt D. recipe ________________
14. In many ways this place _____ me of my home village.
A. remembers B. reminds C. recalls D. resembles ________________

15. The old house at the end of the street has recently been _____.
A. pulled out B. pulled up C. pulled through D. pulled down ________________
16. They walked for three hours before finally _____ their destination.
A. reaching B. coming C. getting D. arriving ________________
17. Our flight from Amsterdam to London was delayed _____ the heavy fog.
A. because B. due from C. on account of D. as a result from ________________
18. A new study group has been _____ by the United Nations.
A. put up B. made up C. drawn up D. set up ________________
19. How many people do you think this hall would _____?
A. hold B. occupy C. fit D. load ________________
20. I know him by _____ but I can’t remember what his name is.
A. sight B. myself C. heart D. chance ________________
II. Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a suitable preposition. (10 pts)
1. The students were angry _______________ being treated _______________ children.
2. We can only guess _______________ her reason _______________ leaving her job.
3. He said he broke the vase _______________ accident but I know he did it _______________ purpose.
4. The police succeeded _______________ bringing the strike _______________ control.
5. The temperature here rarely falls _______________ zero _______________ winter.
6. Jane is very good _______________ Maths but she’s ignorant _______________ history.
7. _______________ first we didn’t like him, but now all of us regard him _______________ our best friend.
8. Tom and Bill have nothing _______________ common. In fact, there’s no comparison _______________ them.
9. Some animals look for food _______________ night, and sleep _______________ the day.
10. We can’t do anything ______________ the situation now. It’s _______________ our control.
III. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. Write your answers in the spaces given. (10 pts)
1. At this time tomorrow, I (be) in HCM city (have) a good time.
2. He is angry as I (not do) all the work he (assign) last week.
3. What a pity. By the time I (recover) from my illness, the course (end).
4. Would you be so kind as (answer) the phone when it (ring)?
5. I clearly remember (pay) him last week. I (give) him 20 dollars.
6. When my mother (retire) next month, she (work) as a teacher for exactly 25 years.

7. He (always talk) as though he (be) my boss.
8. At the moment I (read) a novel (write) by Hughes.
9. I can’t help (complain) about the lecture I (attend) yesterday.
10. We (have) dinner when the power (fail).
1. _____________________ _____________________ 6. _____________________ _____________________
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2. _____________________ _____________________ 7. _____________________ _____________________
3. _____________________ _____________________ 8. _____________________ _____________________
4. _____________________ _____________________ 9. _____________________ _____________________
5. _____________________ _____________________ 10. _____________________ _____________________
IV. Give the correct form of the words in brackets.
Write your answers in the spaces given on the right. (10 pts)
1. I can't follow you. What you are saying is totally (logical). _________________________
2. Artists are generally considered to be (imagine) but moody people. _________________________
3. The (thief) of the diamonds is being investigated by the police. _________________________
4. Most people have no real (believe) in ghosts. _________________________
5. Linda had no (suspect) that anything was wrong. _________________________
6. The firemen were (courage) enough to get into the burning house. _________________________
7. Please put the (freeze) food in the freezer. _________________________
8. George won a big prize for his (brave). _________________________
9. The country is very (mountain) so travelling by road is difficult. _________________________
10. The rule is not (apply) in this case. _________________________
Part three: reading
I. Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank.
Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the space given on the right. (5 pts)
Around the age of sixteen, you must make one of the biggest decisions of your life. “Do I stay on at school and hopefully go on
to university --(1)--? Do I leave and start work or begin a training --(2)--?” The decision is yours, but it may be --(3)--
remembering two things: there is more unemployment --(4)-- those who haven’t been to university, and people who have the
right --(5)-- will have a big advantage in the competition for jobs. If you decide to go --(6)-- into a job, there are many
opportunities for training. Getting qualifications will --(7)-- you to get on more quickly in many careers, and evening classes

allow you to learn --(8)-- you earn. Starting work and taking a break to study when you are older is --(9)-- possibility. In this
way, you can save up money for your student days, as well as --(10)-- practical work experience.
1. A. former B. past C. later D. after ________________
2. A. term B. class C. school D. course ________________
3. A. necessary B. important C. worth D. useful ________________
4. A. of B. through C. among D. between ________________
5. A. skills B. interests C. habits D. arts ________________
6. A. instant B. just C. straight D. direct ________________
7. A. help B. make C. give D. let ________________
8. A. while B. what C. where D. which ________________
9. A. another B. always C. also D. again ________________
10. A. doing B. getting C. making D. taking ________________
II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions.
Write your answers in the numbered spaces that follow. (5 pts)
There was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk's House. The floors in the house were
very thin. The bathroom was directly above the kitchen, and when Mrs Woolf was having her bath before breakfast, I could
hear her talking to herself. On and on she went, talk talk talk, asking questions and giving herself the answers. I thought there
must be two or three people up there with her. When Mr Woolf saw that I looked surprised he told me that Mrs Woolf always
said the sentences out loud that she had written during the night. She needed to know if they sounded right and the bath was a
good place for trying them out.
I was not allowed to make coffee at Monk's House. Mr and Mrs Woolf were very particular about coffee and always made it
themselves, so Mr Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o'clock every morning to make it. When we carried the breakfast tray to
Mrs Woolf’s room I noticed that she had always been working during the night. There were pencils and paper beside her bed
so that when she woke up she could work, and sometimes it seems as though she had had very little sleep.
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Mrs Woolf's bedroom was outside the house in the garden. I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the
rain to go to bed. Her bedroom had been added on to the back of the house; the door faced the garden and a window at the
side opened out on to a field. Because the writing room was small, he had had a large one built for her at the end of the garden
against the church wall.
I can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing room, when I rang the bell for lunch at one o'clock

she used to walk down through the garden smoking one of her favorite cigarettes in a long holder. She was tall and thin and
very graceful. She had large, deep-set eyes and a wide curving mouth. I think perhaps it was this that made her face seem
particularly beautiful. She wore long skirt - usually blue or brown - in the fashion of the day, and silk jacket of the same color.
Her cigarettes were made from a special tobacco called My Mixture. Mr Woolf bought it for her in London and, in the evenings,
they used to sit by the fire and make these cigarettes themselves.
Mrs Woolf wore clothes that suited her well. I pressed them for her and did any sewing that was necessary. She was not able
to sew, although sometimes she liked to try. There was one thing in the kitchen that Mrs Woolf was very good at doing; she
could make beautiful bread.
1. What was particularly unusual about Monk's House?
A. The bathroom was next door to the kitchen. B. Mrs Woolf’s bedroom door opened on to the garden.
C. The kitchen window looked out over fields. D. The breakfast room was upstairs.
2. What did the writer observe about Mrs Woolf's writing habits?
A. She did a great deal of writing at night. B. She worked in the garden whenever she could.
C. She preferred to write in the house. D. She sometimes wrote in the bath.
3. Mrs Woolf wore clothes which were _____
A. in matching colors. B. designed for her individually.
C. suitable for country life. D. rather dull and unattractive.
4. Mr Woolf's attitude toward his wife seemed to be that _____
A. He found her strange ways difficult to accept. B. He led a very separate life.
C. He did what he could for her. D. He watched over her all the time.
5. As far as the housework was concerned. Mrs Woolf _____
A. was too busy to do any. B. disliked doing any.
C. was very bad at it. D. liked one or two particular tasks.
1. ____________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________ 4. ____________ 5. ____________
III. Fill each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
Write your answers in the spaces that follow. (15 pts)
He was born in a very poor part of London. His father was a comedian and his mother worked (1) a dancer and singer.
However, (2) of them was very successful, so the family had very (3) money. At one time they were (4) poor that he and his
brother had to share one pair of shoes, and they had to take turns wearing them. The first time he himself earned money (5)
dancing and singing, he was only five years old. He did many kinds of jobs, but what he loved (6) was working in the theatre.

When he was about 15 he joined a travelling theatre company and went on trips to America. On (7) such tour he was offered a
part in a film, so he went to Hollywood, (8) he eventually became both an actor and a film director. He was known to be a
perfectionist, and sometimes (9) the other actors repeat a scene many times (10) he was finally satisfied with it.
Many people found him difficult and someone accused him of (11) mean, but it was really his early experiences of poverty (12)
made him careful with his money. He died in Switzerland in 1977, (13) the age of 88. (14) is now a statue of him in Leicester
Square, London, the city of his (15) and early upbringing. His name was Charlie Chaplin.
1. ________________ 6. ________________ 11. ________________
2. ________________ 7. ________________ 12. ________________
3. ________________ 8. ________________ 13. ________________
4. ________________ 9. ________________ 14. ________________
5. ________________ 10. ________________ 15. ________________
IV. Which of the four underlined parts in each sentence below is incorrect?
Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the space given on the right. (5 pts)
1. There have been little change in the city since I moved here ten years ago. ________________
A B C D
2. Two of the players from the Yankees has been chosen to participate in the All Star game. ________________
A B C D
3. The video disc has the capacity to store thousand of visual images. ________________
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A B C D
4. Alike bears, the giant panda of China has a clumsy manner of walking. ________________
A B C D
5. They are going to have to leave soon, and so do we. ________________
A B C D
6. Mary and her sister have just bought two new winters coats at the sale. ________________
A B C D
7. Mrs. Stevens, along with her cousins from New York, are planning to attend my wedding. ________________
A B C D
8. Stuart stopped to write his letter because he had to leave for the hospital. ________________
A B C D

9. This new model costs twice more than last year's model. ________________
A B C D
10. In order to achieve the best results in this exam, it is necessary that one works as fast as possible. ________________
A B C D
Part four: WRITING
I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same as the original one. (10 pts)
1. You had better get back to work now.
It’s________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. “I must see the manager!“ he cried.
He insisted_________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Please tell me your future plan.
I'd prefer___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What a pity you didn't watch the match last night!
I wish_____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. 'Why did you come back so late last night?" my father asked.
My father wanted ___________________________________________________________________________________
6. We couldn't drive very fast because of the thick fog.
The thick fog_____________________________________________________________________________
7. She wears dark glasses so that no one can recognise her.
She wears dark glasses to avoid________________________________________________________________________
8. He hasn't ridden a bicycle for three years.
He last ____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Please don't interrupt me when I 'm writing my report.
I'd rather___________________________________________________________________________________________
10. I had expected the weather to be worse
The weather was not _________________________________________________________________________________
II. Rewrite each of the sentences using the word given. Do not change this word in any way. (5 pts)
1. Harry came into a lot of money when his uncle died. LEFT
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Bill is too young to understand this problem. OLD

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Helen regrets going to bed so early last night. WISHES
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. He is very sorry he didn’t come to the meeting yesterday. APOLOGISES
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. I don’t know where he is. IDEA
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
III. Use the suggested words and phrases to make complete sentences. (5 pts)
1. I / not / feel like / have breakfast / this morning / because / headache.
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