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KI THI KSCL CAC ĐÔI TUYÊN HSG KHÔI 9 Năm hoc 2017-2018
ĐÊ THI MÔN. TIÊNG ANH
ĐÊ SÔ
(Thơi gian 150 phut)
A. PHONETICS
I. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose bold and underlined
part is pronounced differently from the rest in the following questions of 1 to10 ( 2points).
1. A. good
B. mood
C. noon
D. pool
2. A. music
B. student
C. use
D. study
3. A. thank
B. month
C. within
D. eighth
4. A. whisper
B. whistle
C. who
D. why
5. A. chapter
B. chemist
C. cheese
D. rich
6. A. feather

B. heat
C. meat
D. seat
7. A. missed
B. worked
C. hated
D. watched
8. A. cow
B. brown
C. how
D. grow
9. A. third
B. fire
C. first
D. sir
10. A. relaxes
B. watches
C. misses
D. lives
II. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose stress pattern is different from the rest
in the following questions of 11 to 15( 1point).
11. A. morning
B. college
C. arrive
D. famous
12. A. writer
B. teacher
C. builder
D. career
13. A. attend

B. option
C. percent
D. become
14. A. cartoon
B. western
C. teacher
D. theatre
15. A. eleven
B. yesterday
C. attitude
D. evening
B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR I. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following
questions of 16 to 25 ( 2points).
16. You have plenty of time to finish your breakfast. There _________ any school today.
A. doesn’t be
B. aren’t
C. not being
D. isn’t
17. They tell me he is _________ a lot of money in his new job.
A. having
B. earning
C. gaining
D. profiting
18. It is no good _______ him to see you off.
A. to expect
B. expecting
C. of expecting
D. for him to expect
19. Go on to the _______ exercise when you have finished this one.
A. all

B. other
C. either
D. every
20. Now, the weather is cold on our vacation. I wish it _________ warmer.
A. was
B. were
C. would be
D. had been
21. The shop are always ____________ of people at Christmas time.
A. full
B. stuffed
C. busy
D. crowded
22. How many photographs _________ of the Sydney Opera house every year?
A. are taken
B. took
C. were taken
D. are taking
23. Miss Anna __________working in this school ten years ago.
A. starts
B. started
C. has started
D. have started
24. Jennifer lives in a small apartment _________ the ground floor.
A. under
B. by
C. in
D. on
25. That is the ________ interesting film I’ve ever seen.
A. more

B. even
C. most
D. very
II. Complete the following sentences from 26 to 35 with the correct preposition( 2points).
26. The problem is becoming serious. We have to do something about it.
27. I prefer this chair to the other one. It’s more comfortable.


28. The river divides the city into two parts.
29, 30. “Have you ever been to Borle?” “No, I’ve never heard of/ about it?”
31. What have you done with the money you had? What did you spend it on?
32. Don’t ask me to decide. I’m not very good at making decisions.
33. What do you think the best solution to the problem.
34. There has been a big increase in the price of land recently.
35. He doesn’t have much contact with other people.
III. Fill the blanks from 36 to 45 with the right form of the CAPITAL words provided
( 2points).
36. You must be careful when you open that door.
CARE
37. environmentalists claim that the virus among seals was caused by pollution.
ENVIRONMENT
38. James received a lot of encouragements from her teachers and friends.
COURAGE
39. Using electricity is an uneconomic way of cooking. Gas is much cheaper.
ECONOMY
40. Thousands of people were made homeless by the earthquake in Japan.
HOME
41. The love for books is helpful in developing the pupils’ knowledge.
DEVELOP
42. Since its invention, television has attracted millions of viewers.

INVENT
43. My favorite form of entertainment is playing the guitar.
ENTERTAIN
44. I really don’t think he has the ability to do this job.
ABLE
45. This professor explained his ideas with great clearness.
CLEAR
IV. Complete the sentences from 46 to 55 with the right from of the verb given in brackets
( 2points).
46. Listen! I think someone (knock) _ is knocking _ at the door.
47. Her youngest brother (get) ___ got __ a new job a year ago.
48. By the time you receive this letter, I (leave) _ will have left __ for Japan.
49. You won’t know what to do unless you (listen)__ listen __ carefully.
50. While we (fish) __ were fishing __, someone came to the house and left this note.
51. The window-cleaner (come) __ will come __ at eight tomorrow.
52. I have reminded you once; I (not do) _ won’t do __ it again.
53. If you (not change) __ don’t change ___ your wet clothes, you may catch a cold.
54. You shouldn’t get John (type) __ to type __ this report, he’s a careless man.
55. London (have) ___ has had __ an underground train system since the nineteenth century.
C. READING COMPREHENSION
I. Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D for questions from 56 to 65
( 2points).
Clothes can tell a lot about a person. Some people like colorful (56) _____ because they want
everyone to (57) ____ at them and they want to be the centre of attention. (58) ____ people like to
wear nice clothes, but their clothes are colorful or fancy. They do not want people to look at them.
Clothes today are very different (59) ____ the clothes of the 19 th century. One difference is the way
they look. For example, in the 19th century, all women (60)_____ blouses with long skirts. But today,
(61) ____ do not always wear blouses with long skirts. Sometimes they wore short skirts.
Sometimes they wear pants. Another difference between the 19 th century (62) _____ today is cloth.
In the 19th century, clothes (63) _____ made only from natural kinds of cloth. They were made from

(64) ______, wool silk or line. But today, there are many kinds of man-made cloth. A lot of clothes
are now made (65) ______ nylon, rayon, or polyester.
56. A. clothes
B. suits
C. shirts
D. trousers


57. A. see
B. watch
C. look
D. laugh
58. A. Some
B. Few
C. The
D. Other
59. A. of
B. from
C. with
D. on
60. A. wear
B. worn
C. wearing
D. wore
61. A. children
B. women
C. men
D. students
62. A. and
B. but

C. from
D. with
63. A. are
B. were
C. will be
D. have been
64. A. plastic
B. metal
C. cotton
D. wood
65. A. by
B. with
C. in
D. from
II. Read the following passage and answer the questions from 66 to 70 by choosing A, B, C or
D
The country is more beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think
so, and go to the country for the summer holidays though they cannot live there all the year round.
Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find the time.
English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from one
another. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen from
many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard, where people are buried.
The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are built round it.
Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have water brought pipes into each
house. Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to buy what they
can’t find in the village shops.
66. When do city people often go the country?
A. At the weekends B. All the year round
C. At Christmas D. The summer holidays
67. What is the advantage of city people when they have a cottage built in the village?

A. They can have their houses rented
B. They can go to the country at weekends
C. They can go to the country wherever they can find the time. D. All are correct
68. What is the common feature of English villages?
A. They have church
B. They have a village green
C. They have a church with a tall tower, and a village green. D. They have running
water.
69. What is NOT mentioned in the life of English villages?
A. The village green B. The church
C. Running water
D. The Internet
70. What can villagers do when their villages are close to small towns?
A. They can go there to buy whatever they want.
B. They can go there to buy cheaper
things.
C. They can go there to buy what is not found in the village shops
D. They can go there to buy luxury goods.
D. WRITING
I. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting from 71 to 80
( 2points).
71. The exercises were such difficult that we couldn’t do them.
A
B
C
D
72. I wish you can help me with that difficult problem.
A
B C
D

73. She was so lazy that she punished by her teacher.
A
B
C
D
74. In the afternoon we went to boat in the river.


A
B
C
D
75. I got up late this morning, that I didn’t have time for breakfast.
A
B
C
D
76. Uncle John said that he would go to Nha Trang tomorrow.
A
B
C
D
77. A stranger asked me how far was it from my house to the school.
A
B
C
D
78. The mother asked her son what did he want for his birthday.
A
B

C
D
79. Barbara never listens to music on the radio, doesn’t she?
A
B
C
D
80. Would you like reading the story about the invention of the telephone?
A
B
C
D
II. Rewrite the sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first given ( 2points).
81. “You’d better not lend them any more money, Tom,” said John
-> John advised Tom not to lend them any more money
82. You will catch a cold if you don’t keep your feet dry.
-> Unless you keep your feet dry, yoy will catch/ get a cold
83. Mai is too young to see the horror film.
-> Mai is not old enough to see the herror film
84. That factory is producing more and more pollution.
-> More and more pollution is being produced by that factory
85. Nam is sorry now that he didn’t accept the job.
->Nam now wishes that he had accepted the job.
86. He gets up early in the morning and he’s used to it. -> He’s used to getting up early in the
morning.
87. You can’t see the house from the street.
-> The house can’t be seen from the
street
88. I can’t cook as well as my mother does.
-> My mother cooks better than me

89. He failed to win the race.
-> He didn’t win/ manage to win/ succeed in winning
the race
90. “They won’t correct your papers before Friday,” he said.
-> He said they wouldn't correct your papers before Friday
III. Make meaningful sentences from the sets of words and phrases provided ( 2points).
91. It/ a nice morning/ May. It was a nice morning in May.
92. My friends/ I / take / a boat trip / the Mekong Delta.
My friends and I took a boat trip in the Mekong Delta.
93. We / see / a lot of women/ plant/ rice / rice fields. We saw a lot of women planting rice in
the fields.
94. After an hour/ we / stop by/ island/ and / visit/ snake farm/ see the snakes.
After an hour, we stopped by an island and visited a snake farm to see the snakes.
95. At noon/ we listen/ traditional music/ play / local people.
At noon, we listened to the traditional music played by the local people.
96. Then we / have lunch / rice and fresh food / fruit garden
Then we had luch with rice and fresh food in a fruit garden.
97. After the meal/ we continue / trip/ floating market.
After the meal, we continued our trip to a floating market.
98. There we / enjoy / buy / fruit and many local specialties.
There we enjoyed buying fruit and many local specialties.
99. At 4 pm/ we visit/ famous pagoda/ before/ coming / home/ coach.


At 4 pm, we visited a famous pagoda before coming back home by coach.
100. The trip/ very interesting/ we/ enjoy/ very much.
The trip was very interesting and we enjoyed it very much.
_________ The end _________