De thi HSG Tieng Anh 9 cap Thanh phoHa Noi 32012

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HÀ NỘI

<b>KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ - LỚP 9</b>
<b>Năm học: 2011-2012</b>

Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Ngày thi: 04-4-2012

Thời gian làm bài: 150phút

<i>(Đề thi gồm 06 trang. Thí sinh làm bài vào tờ giấy này và không được sử dụng bất kỳ loại tài liệu nào </i>
<i>kể cả từ điển. Giám thị khơng giải thích gì thêm )</i>

<b>I. Phonetics (1,2 pts)</b>

<b>a. Cirele the best option A, B, C or D that has the underlined part pronounced</b>
<b>differently from the others. </b>

1. A. south B. southern C. scout D. drought

2. A. allow B. follow C. hollow D. fellow

3. A. cable B. station C. transfer D. relate

<b>b. Circle the best option A, B, C, or D whose stress pattern is different from the others.</b>
4. A. champagne B. institute C. purpose D. viable

5. A. effciency B. govemment C. opinion D. conclusive
6. A. spacecraft B. gemstone C. highlands D. well-qualified
<b>II. Vocabulary and Grammar (7,6 pts)</b>

<b>a. Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete tbe sentenccs.</b>
7. Next we’ll have the___________news.

A. latest B. newest C. later D. newer

8. This programme will be read by the very pretty_________ Penlly Lane.
A. newsdealer B. newscaster C. news bringer D. newspaper
9. In Britain the_____________ are all painted red.

A. letter boxes B. letters’ boxes C. letters boxes D. letter’s boxes
10. Mike: ‘I’m taking my driving test tomorrow.’ - Jane: ‘__________’
A. Good fortune B. Good luck C. Good outcome D. Good success
11. Jimmy: ‘I could give you a lift to the station.’ - Mary:’__________’
A. There’s no requirement B. There’s no practicality

C. There’s no aim D. There’s no need

12. Jill: ‘I’ve waited 3 hours for a bus now.’ - Frank: ‘____________’
A. What a bore! B. What a boring! C. What bores! D. What boring!
13. I looked for George and Mike but l saw<i>___________ </i>of them.

A. all B. none C. neither D. both

14<i>. </i>I________ what you are saying but that still doesn’t make me want to change my
mind one little bit.

A. listen B. hear C. am listening D. heard

15<i>. </i>The car to __________you are referring happens to be mine!

A. that B. whom C. which D. who

l6. Students in the United States often support themselves by babysitting, working in
restaurants, or___________taxicabs.

A. they drive B. to drive C. driving D. drive

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A. prospect B. prospects C. prospector D. prospective
18. Farmers 1ook forward to <i>__</i>_________ the county fairs every summer.

A. participating in B. participate in

C. be participating to D. have participated to

19. Most comets have two kinds of tails, 0ne made up of dust, <i>_________</i>made up of
electrically charged particles called plasma.

A. one another B. the ọther C. other ones D. the others

20. By 1820, there were over sixty steamboats on the Mississippi river,_________ were
quite luxurious.

A. many ofthem B. which many C. many of which D. many that

<b>b. Complete the passage using the correct verbs. The first letter ofeach verb is provided</b>
Richard was very pessimistic about my plans to ride my bike from the very north of
France to the south. He was (21) c_________ the project was doomed to failure despite
all my attempts to persuade him that I would be able to (22) c___________ it off. He
said I would never be able to (23) p__________ in so many miles in the short period of
time I had at my disposal. I knew I’d be unlikely to (24) s__________ through the trip

without any problems but I made a great effort to (25) r_________ above all his
negative comments. I am so glad I did? It wasn’t an easy ride, and my French isn’t great,
but I managed to (26)g__________by using gestures and a phrasebook. My
determination (27) p___________ me through and in the end I (28)s__________in
reaching my destination just one day later than planned. I’m glad to say Richard was
there to congratulate me.

<b>c. Choose the verbs in column A with prepositions in column B to make phrasal</b>
<b>verbs to </b>complete the passage in the correct forms. Some prepositions can be used more
than once.

<b>A</b> <b>B</b>

burst listen do trail
Shut grate go die

for down on
out off up

<i>Hi Pat,</i>

Interesting to hear about your new flat. I’m sony to know that the noise (29)__________
you so much. I’m attaching an ad for some ear-plugs which claim to help you (30)_____
anything___________!

I moved into a new flat a month or so ago, too. It’s next to the football stadium. I can’t
see the matches but I can follow what’s (31)_____________ from the sounds I hear. A
cheer goes up whenever the home team shoots. But the sound quickly (32)__________if
the ball doesn’t go in. Every time there’s a match, I find myself (33)________________
the cheers. When I told my girlfriend that I wanted to stay at home to listen to the

sounds of a football match she (34)________________ laughing, thinking I was ioking,
and started talking about how we could (35)________ the flat________ When another
cheer went up from the stađium, though, her voice (36)___________________ and she
rushed to the window in excitement. Then she stayed in the flat with me and spent all
aftemoon at the window watching spectators going in and out of the stadium.

<i>Love, John</i>

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For some inexplicable reason, university students have always had an image of being
(37-utter)____________ irresponsible young people who play their music at
(38-deaf)______________ volumes at all times of the day and night, hardly ever do any real
work and spend every night attending (39-drunk)____________ parties until the small
hours of the morning. Personally, I think this portrayal of students as such totally
(40-grossness)______________parasites is repulsive unfair, not least because living such an
excessive lifestyle continually would be (41-practise)____________ impossible when
combined with the absolutely (42-mass)__________workloads of modem degree
courses. It simply isn’t possible on a modern degree course in the UK to get up some
time at around lunchtime. Students that I know seem to have lectures almost every day
and spend the rest of their time working (43-awe)____________hard indeed. They may
let off some steam once every month or so and it is probably these
(44-relate)___________rare occasions that have given undergraduates their fearsome
reputation.

<b>III. Reading (6,2 pts) </b>

<b>a. Fill in the gap one suitable preposition to complete the conversation.</b>
<b>Clothes</b>

A: Mum, can I go to the wedding dressed like this?

B: No! You’ve wom those jeans (45)________ There’s a hole in the knee. Why don’t
you put (46)__________ those nice trousers Ibought you 1ast year?

A: They’re too small. I can’t do them (47)________

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50. A. paced B. made C. ambled D. set
51<i>. </i>A. group B. participants C. crowd D. field
52. A. served B. serviced C. accompanied D. allied
53. A. sent B. fetched C. brought D. requested
54. A. view B. scan C. 1ook D. see
55. A. up B. round C. by D. to
56. A. path B. road C. way D. distance
57. A. heaviiy B. seriously C. strongly D. greatly

58. A. ways B. cuts C. routes D. sets
59. A. time B. occasion C. event D. meeting
60. A. lift B. help C. ride D. push

61. A. threatened B. attacked C. discouraged D.
1oomed over

62. A. grossness B. enormity C. obesitv D. 1argesse
63. A. happenings B. events C. circumstances D. fields
64. A. weakness B. shadowC. image D. effigy

<b>c. Read the passage and do the following tasks.</b>

<b>The History of Early Cinema</b>

Although French, German, American and British pioneers have all been credited with

the invention of cinema, the British and the German played a relatively small role in its
worldwide exploitation. It was above all the French, followed closely by the American,
who were the most passionate exporters of the new invention, helping to start cinema in
China, Japan, Latin America and Russia. In terms of artistic development it was again
the French and the American who took the lead, though in the years before the First
World War, Italy, Denmark and Russia also played a part. In the end, it was the United
States that was to become, and remain, the largest single market for films. By protecting
their own market and pursuing a vigorous export policy, the American achieved a
dominant position on the world market by the start of the First World War. The centre of
film-making had moved westwards, to Hollywood, and it was films from these new
Hollywood studios that flooded onto the world’s film markets in the years after the First
World War, and have done so ever since. Faced with total Hollywood domination, few
film industries proved competitive. The Italian industry, which had pioneered the feature
film with spectacular films like <i>Quo vadis? </i>(1913) and <i>Cabiria </i>(1914), almost
collapsed. In Scandinavia, the Swedish cinema had a brief period of glory, notably with
powerful epic films and comedies. Even the French cinema found itself in a difficult
position. In Europe, only Germany proved industrially capable, while in the new Soviet
Union and in Japan the development of the cinema took place in conditions of
commercial isolation. Hollywood took the lead artistically as well as industrially.
Hollywood films appealed because they had better-constructed narratives, their special
effects were more impressive, and the star system added a new dimension to screen
acting. If Hollywood did not have enough of its own resources, it had a great deal of
money to buy up artists and technical innovations from Europe to ensure its continued
dominance over present or future competition.

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true of serials. Together with newsreels, they tended to be shown as short items in a
programme which led to the feature. From early cinema, it was only American slapstick
comedy that successfully developed in both short and feature format. However, during
this ‘Silent Film’ era, animation, comedy, serials and dramatic features continued to
thrive, along with factual films or documentaries, which acquired an increasing

distinctiveness as the period proglessed. It was also at this time that the avant-garde film
first achieved commercial success, this time thanks almost exclusively to the French and
the occasional Gemlan film. Of the countries which developed and maintained
distinctive national cinemas in the silent period, the most important were France,
Gennany and the Soviet Union. Of these, the French displayed the most continuity, in
spite of the war and post-war economic uncertainties. The German cinema, relatively
insignificant in the pre-war years, exploded on to the world scene after 1919. Yet even
they were both overshadowed by the Soviets after the 1917 Revolution. They tumed
their back on the past, leaving the style of the pre-war Russian cinema to the emigrants
who fled westwards to escape the Revolution.

The other countries whose cinemas changed dramatically are: Britain, which had an
interesting but undistinguished history in the silent period; Italy, which had a brief
moment of intemational fame just before the war; the Scandinavian countries,
particularly Denmark, which played a role in the development of silent cinema quite out
of proportion to their small population; and Japan, where a cinema developed based
primarily on traditional theatrical and, to a lesser extent, other art forms and only
gradually adapted to westem influence.

65. Circle THREE possible reasons for American dominance of the film industry are
given in the text.

A. plenty of capital to purchase what it didn’t have B. making films dealing with serious issues
C. being first to produce a feature film D. well-written nanatives

E. the effect of the First World War F. excellent special effects

* Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the
passage for each answer.

66. Which TWO types of film were not generally made in major studios?...
67. Which type of film did America develop in both short and feature films?...
68. Which type of film started to become profitable in the ‘silent’ period?...

Look at the following statements and the list of countries below. Match each statement
with the correct country.

* Write the correct letter A-J next to the number. You may use any lener more than
once.

<b>List of Countries: A. France B. Germany C. USA D. Denmark E. Sweden</b>
F. Japan G. Soviet Union H. Italy I. Britain J. China
69.__________It helped other countries

develop their own film industry.

70.__________It was the biggest producer
of films.

71.__________It was first to develop the
‘feature’ film.

72.__________It was responsible for
creating stars.

73.___________It made the most money
from ‘avant-garde’ films.

74.___________It made movies based
more on its own culture than outside

influences.

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<b>IV. Writing (5,0pts)</b>

<b>a. There are 5 mistakes in the passage, underline and correct them.</b>
Have you ever tried a strawberry pizza? If you went to Oxnard, the
“Strawberry Capital of California,” in May, you could! Oxnard is in
Southern California and this part of the state takes its strawberries
very seriously. At the two-day Califomia Strawberry Festival you
can sample strawberries prepared of different ways. In addition to
traditional treats such as strawberry shortcake, strawbeny jam,
strawberry tarts and strawberries dipped in chocolate, there is
strawberry pizzar! This dessert pizza is topped by strawberries, sour
cream, cream cheese and whipped cream on a sweet bread baked
like a pizza. Strawberry kabobs dipped in powdered sugar are
another delicacy. And drinks alike a strawberry smoothie can wash it
all down.

Strawberries are big business in Oxnard. Twenty-four companies
harvest and cool nearly 16 million trays of berries, which are
shipped throughout North America as long as to Germany and
Japan. The festival, which attracts more than 85,000 visitors,
features three stages with musical entertainment, 335 arts and crafts
exhibits, strolled musicians, clown artists face-painting, contests,
and a “Strawbenyland” for children with puppets, magicians,
musicians, and a petting zoo.

76.___________

77____________

78____________

79____________
80____________

<b>b. Rewrite the sentence using the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the </b>
<b>first sentence. Do not change the word given in any way.</b>

81. “Why do you want to 1earn English?” Jack asked Helen. (wondered)

_______________________________________________________________________
82. They managed to finish the project in time for the presentation. (succeeded)

_______________________________________________________________________
83. One other thing before I forget – jack is coming to visit you next weekend. (By)
_______________________________________________________________________
84. Jack’s daughter continued to cry until he could not be seen any longe. (sight)

<b>_______________________________________________________________________</b>
85. All I know about the plan is that they are going to sing the song together. (As)

_______________________________________________________________________
<b>c. 86-100. Write bout 200 words inside this space to give opinions about the effects</b>
<b>of the movies and television on young people nowadays. (Don’t ask for any more</b>
paper)

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