De thi chon HSG cap thanh pho 9 2019 Phuc Yen De de xuat 1

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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HSG 9 CẤP THÀNH PHỐ
THCS HAI BÀ TRƯNG 2019
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 9
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ 1
Ngày thi: …./…../2019
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 9 trang)
PART A. LISTENING (40 POINTS): You will listen TWICE
Section 1: Complete the notes below: Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Question 1 - 6
SELF-DRIVE TOURS IN THE USA
Example:
Name: Andrea __Brown____
Address: 24 (1) ________________ Road
Postcode: BH5 2OP
Phone: (mobile) 077 8664 3091
Heard about company from: (2) ___________________
Possible self-drive tours:
Trip 1:
 Los Angeles customer wants to visit: (3) ______________ parks with her children.
 Yosemite Park customer wants to stay in a lodge, not a (4) ____________.
Trip 2:
 Customer wants to see the (5) _____________ on the way to Cambria.
 At Santa Minoca: not interested in shopping.
 At San Diego, wants to spend time on the (6) _______________.
Question 7-10. Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Trip 1

Number of days Total distance Price (per person)
12 days
(7)
£525
_________

Includes
 accommodation
 car
 one (8) ________

Trip 2

9 days

 accommodation
 car
 (10) _________

980 km

(9) £_________

SECTION 2: QUESTION 11-20
Question 11-15: Choose the best correct letter A, B, or C.
MANHAM PORT
11. Why did a port originally develop at Manham?
A. It was safe from enemy attack.
B. It was convenient for river transport.

C. It had a good position on the sea coast.
12. What caused Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?
A. the improvement in mining technologies.
B. the increase in demand for metals.
C. the discovery of tin in the sea.
13. Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?
A. shortage of fuel
B. poor transport system
C. lack of skills among local people
14. What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?
A. The workers went away.
B. Traditional skills were lost.
C. Buildings were used for new purposes.
15. What did the Manham Trust hope to do?
A. discover the location of the original port
B. provide jobs for the unemployed
C. rebuild the port complex
Question 16-20: Answer the following questions WITH NO MORE THAN THREE WORD OR
A NUMBER.
16. Where should visitors start their visit?
17. Who shouldn’t be taken into the mine?
18. Where should visitors visit next?
19. What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school?
20. By whom was the ship’s wheel dredged out of the silt?
PART B: LEXICO AND GRAMMAR.
I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentence.
1. Money was short and people survived by _______and saving.
A. scrimping
B. scavenging

C. scouring
D. scrounging
2. Drug-taking is a crime which society simply cannot _________.
A. approve
B. acknowledge
C. consent
D. condone
3. Mr. Henson’s bitter comments on the management’s mistakes gave _______ to the conflict which
has already lasted for four months.
A. cause
B. ground
C. goal
D. rise
4. There will of necessity be a ______ to the amount of money put at the new manager’s disposal.
A. ceiling
B. roof
C. hard
D. solid
5. Though he faced many difficulties, he could not be _______ from his goal.
A. hindered
B. obstructed
C. prevented
D. deflected
6. The ______ are against her winning a fourth consecutive gold medal.
A. chances
B. bets
C. prospects
D. odds
7. References can have a considerable ______ on employment prospects.
A. cause

B. decision
C. weight
D. bearing
8. The prospects of picking up any survivors are now ______.
A. thin
B. narrow
C. slim
D. restricted
9. From time to time he ______ himself to a weekend in a five-star hotel.
A. craves
B. indulges
C. treats
D. benefits
10. Men still expect their jobs to take ______.
A. superiority
B. imposition
C. priority
D. seniority


11. I offer you my most ______ apologies for offending you as I did.
A. repentant
B. servile
C. candid
D. abject
12. Having decided to rent a flat, we ______ contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city.
A. set to
B. set off
C. set out
D. set about

13. When facing problems, it is important to keep a sense of ______.
A. proportion
B. introspection
C. relativity
D. comparison
14. We’re depending on you to come up with some ______ ideas. We need inspiration.
A. bright`
B. proficient
C. talented
D. gifted
15. This quiet village is ______ of the one I grew up in.
A. remnant
B. similar
C. reminiscent
D. identical
16. Patrick is too ______ a gambler to resist placing a bet on the final game.
A. instant
B. spontaneous
C. compulsive
D. continuous
17. Although Zachary is much too inexperienced for the managerial position, he is a willful young
man and obdurately refuses to withdraw his application.
A. foolishly
B. reluctantly
C. constantly
D. stubbornly
18. The editor of the newspaper needed to be sure the article presented the right information, so his
review was meticulous.
A. delicate
B. painstaking

C. superficial
D. objective
19. The scientist was both ______ and ______; she was always careful to test each hypothesis and
cautious not to jump to conclusions.
A. painstaking/ despondent
B. nostalgic/sentimental
C. meticulous/ prudent
D. recalcitrant/ presumptuous
20. Cell phones seem to be ______, so prevalent are they that they seem to be everywhere.
A. anomalies
B. anachronistic
C. ubiquitous
D. obsolete
21. She hadn’t eaten all day, and by the time she got home she was ______.
A. blighted
B. blissful
C. ravenous
D. ostentatious
22. The movie offended many of the parents of its younger viewers by including unnecessary ______
in the dialogue.
A. vulgarity
B. verbosity
C. vocalizations D. garishness
23. His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him to
backyard barbeques.
A. insensate
B. magisterial
C. modest
D. restorative
24. Steven is always ______ about showing up for work because he feels that tardiness is a sign of

irresponsibility.
A. legible
B. tolerable
C. punctual
D. belligerent
25. Candace would ______ her little sister into an argument by teasing her and calling her names.
A. provoke
B. perforate
C.advocate
D. expunge
26._____ by despair at her situation, she tried in vain to rob the local bank and ended up in prison for
five years.
A. Compelled
B. Forced
C. Desperate
D. Driven
27. After the storm caused raw sewage to seep into the ground water, the Water Department had to
take measures to decontaminate the city’s water supply.
A. refine
B. revive
C. freshen
D. purify


28. Paradoxically, this successful politician is sometimes very sociable and other times very ______.
A. aloof
B. genial
C. trite
D. pragmatic
29. General MacArthur’s bold disregard for popular conventions and time-honored military

strategies earned him a reputation for ______.
A. acquiescence B. prudence
C. ambivalence D. audacity
30. This beach is nowhere ______ as good as the one we went to yesterday.
A. close
B. much
C. half
D. near
II. Supply the word in bracket with the correct form.
1. Pentecostalism and jazz are undeniably siblings, with all the ____________ and (SANGUINE)
rivalry such a blood link always brings with it.
2. She said she had assisted in__________, accident and surgical cases.
(WIFE)
3. There is a _____________description of life in the war zone.
(WRENCH)
4. In the woman, however, adulthood is punctuated by the __________, which can (PAUSE)
have a deep psychological effect.
5. She just hoped she would be spared a pressing invitation to his ___________.
(OBSERVE)
6. From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one(URBAN)
story___________, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
7. Around 250,000 _______________ have not paid the tax.
(REFUSE)
8. The priest is a representative of his people, making ____________for their sin.
(TONE)
9. It will be ____________impossible to raise that amount of money.
(NEAR)
10. We had a double-page spread with a statue of one of the leaders across the
(FOLD)
__________, which is absolutely forbidden.

III. There are 10 mistakes in the passage. Find and correct them.
I cannot stress too much the importance on watching your opponent, of knowing exactly
where he is on the tennis court and what he is doing. It is usually possible to work on the pattern of
his game very early in a match. Test him at the front of the court. Try hitting one or two balls up high
to see how shots are like. The more quickly you discover his weakness, the easier the match should
become.
Again and again it may be a good idea to give your opponent an opportunity of making a
mistake. When, early in the match, it seems that he is a very inaccurate player, but not a forceful one,
then you should tempt him to play a winning shot. Give him the opening, for there are some players
who simply cannot hit winners. They will try to play an attacking game but they can quite finish it
off. The way to break down their steady game may be by putting them into the front of the court.
It is obviously wiser to try to decide at the beginning of the match whether your opponent is
weaker on his left-hand or on his right-hand-side, and then play a little more than fifty per cent of
your shots down that side. Play a normal attacking game, or the game you think you will win, but
concentrate the weaker side. A number of players experience more trouble than another in the back
corners of the court- always be ready to recognize this weakness. Perhaps an opponent has a favorite
backhand shot, but lacks certainty with his forehand shot. Tempt him to play the forehand shot.
PART C: READING
I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D that is the most suitable for each space.
NEREA DE CLIFFORD


Nerea De Clifford, who has died aged 82, was a doughty champion of British cats and a (0)
……..B……. of The Cat Protection League which she (1)………..shortly after its foundation in 1927
and served as president from the 1970s until the time of her death.
Among her many (2)………….to welfare of cats-and to our knowledge of their ways-were the
establishment of a sanctuary for them at New Malden, and the publication of such reports as What
British Cats Think About Television, in which she noted that ‘most cats (3)……….an interest of
some kind, though it is often of hostility; ‘a significant reaction is the display of excitement when
any picture, especially of birds, moves quickly across the (4)……….

Nerea Elizabeth de Clifford was born in West London in 1905, and as a young woman was a
distinguished (5)………of cats. During the Second World War she devoted herself to the rescue of
cats, trapped in the rubble of the blitz, and (6)………………..to vigorous campaigns for free feline
birth (7)…………
She (Cool…………an adoption scheme for which her “Homes Wanted” list contained some notably
frank character (9)………..- “a little fiend in feline form”; “willing to do light mouse-work and very
good at it, non-union”; “a rough old (10)………..”, and so on - and made a (11)…………..of feeding
London’s cats at Christmas, a favourite repast apparently being fish and chips. She also plumbed the
mysteries of why cats (12)…………- some because they have just murdered the Pekinese next door,
others “for no good (13)………..at all.”
De Clifford was also a much respected (14)…………at cat shoes around the country, and gave a
series of lecture tours at schools on the (15)……………and care of cats.
0.
A. post
B. pillar
C. staff
D. pole
1.
A. met
B. enrolled
C. joined
D. entered
2.
A. contributions
B. donations
C. gifts
D. dedications
3.
A. make
B. give

C. show
D. have
4.
A. screen
B. box
C. film
D. view
5.
A. farmer
B. grower
C. trainer
D. breeder
6.
A. therein
B. thereby
C. thereafter
D. therefore
7.
A. control
B. check
C. limitation
D. restriction
8.
A. made
B. ran
C. held
D. gave
9.
A. sketches
B. drawings

C. pictures
D. paintings
10. A. drifter
B. ranger
C. rover
D. stray
11. A. rule
B. point
C. round
D. custom
12. A. snore
B. hum
C. purr
D. rumble
13. A. purpose
B. use
C. reason
D. point
14. A. judge
B. referee
C. arbitrator
D. umpire
15. A. coaching
B. guidance
C. training
D. preparation
II. Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions
of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States.
Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an

important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century,
Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail
Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband,


John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these
contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female
authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur
historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and
use of sources.
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping
records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s
organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and
souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources from the core of the two greatest collections of
women’s history in the United States one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at
Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have
provided valuable materials for later Generations of historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century,
most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of History, just as much of
mainstream American history concentrated on “great men.” To demonstrate that women were
making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and
wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders
were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and
were not representative at all of the great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people
continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The role of literature in early American histories
(B) The place of American women in written histories
(C) The keen sense of history shown by American women

(D)The “great women” approach to history used by American historians
2. The word “contemporary” means that the history was _____.
(A) informative
(B) written at that time
(C) thoughtful
(D) faultfinding
3. In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that _____.
(A) a woman’s status was changed by marriage
(B) even the contributions of outstanding women were ignored
(C) only three women were able to get their writing published
(D) poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
4. The word “celebratory” means that the writings referred to were _____.
(A) related to parties
(B) religious
(C) serious
(D) full of praise
5. The word “they” refers to _____.
(A) efforts
(B) authors
(C) counterparts
(D) sources
6. In the second paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
(A) They put too much emphasis on daily activities
(B) They left out discussion of the influence of money on politics.
(C) The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
(D) They were printed on poor-quality paper.


7. On the basis of information in the third paragraph, which of the following would most likely have
been collected by nineteenth-century feminist organizations?

(A) Newspaper accounts of presidential election results
(B) Biographies of John Adams
(C) Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem
(D) Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college
8. What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger
Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
(A) They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia
(B) They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth century.
(C) They provided valuable information for twentieth—century historical researchers.
(D) They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States.
9. In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth
century “great women” EXCEPT ________.
(A) authors
(B) reformers
(C) activists for women’s rights
(D) politicians
10. The word “representative” is closest in meaning to _____.
(A) typical
(B) satisfied
(C) supportive
(D) distinctive
III. Insert ONE word that best fits in the numbered blank.
In (1) __________ of the efforts of the media in recent years to disillusion us, the general picture
which the ordinary public has of the ‘author’ is of somebody sitting hunched at a typewriter in
solitude in a garret or some other place away from (2) __________ eyes. And not just that, but
‘royalties’, that name given historically to the financial rewards of the writing profession, (3)
__________ seem to be more than just ‘wages’ or ‘a salary’. And (4) __________ that’s just (5)
__________ royalties are: they are certainly not the ‘bonus’ that my children always imagined them
to be when they arrived from a publisher. My fault for not educating them properly, I suppose, but
the receipt of a royal cheque would always bring with it appeals from the children (6) __________

extras, which they brought of as something akin (7) __________ Christmas or birthday presents: it
certainly wasn’t money that needed to be apportioned in the same way as others apportion their
wages or salary. Indeed, (8) __________ I not learned very early on in my writing career to see
royalties as my ‘salary’ and apportion (9) __________ carefully – much more carefully than any
other people, since they are an irregular form of income – I would long ago have been in (10)
__________ financial straits!
IV. Read the text and choose the correct heading for sections 1—7 from the list of headings below.
There are more extra headings which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes.
A. Common objections

B. Who's planning what

D. The figures say it all

E. Early trials

G. How does it work?

H. Fighting fraud
J. Accepting the inevitable

C. This type sells best in the
shops
F. They can't get in without
these
I. Systems to avoid

Paragraph 0: ____F______
Students who want to enter the University of Montreal's Athletic Complex need more than just a

conventional ID card — their identities must be authenticated by an electronic hand scanner. In some
California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her
voiceprint must also be verified. And soon, customers at some Japanese banks will have to present
their faces for scanning before they can enter the building and withdraw their money.
Paragraph 1: __________
All of these are applications of biometrics, a little-known but fast-growing technology that involves
the use of physical or biological characteristics to identify individuals. In use for more than a decade
at some high-security government institutions in the United States and Canada, biometrics are now
rapidly popping up in the everyday world. Already, more than 10,000 facilities, from prisons to
daycare centres, monitor people's fingerprints or other physical parts to ensure that they are who they
claim to be. Some 60 biometric companies around the world pulled in at least $22 million last year
and that grand total is expected to mushroom to at least $50 million by 1999.
Paragraph 2: __________
Biometric security systems operate by storing a digitised record of some unique human feature.
When an authorised user wishes to enter or use the facility, the system scans the person's
corresponding characteristics and attempts to match them against those on record. Systems using
fingerprints, hands, voices, irises, retinas and faces are already on the market. Others using typing
patterns and even body odours are in various stages of development.
Paragraph 3: __________
Fingerprint scanners are currently the most widely deployed type of biometric application, thanks to
their growing use over the last 20 years by law-enforcement agencies. Sixteen American states now
use biometric fingerprint verification systems to check that people claiming welfare payments are
genuine. In June, politicians in Toronto voted to do the same, with a pilot project beginning next
year.
Paragraph 4: __________
To date, the most widely used commercial biometric system is the handkey, a type of hand scanner
which reads the unique shape, size and irregularities of people's hands. Originally developed for
nuclear power plants, the handkey received its big break when it was used to control access to the

Olympic Village in Atlanta by more than 65,000 athletes, trainers and support staff. Now there are
scores of other applications.
Paragraph 5: __________
Around the world, the market is growing rapidly. Malaysia, for example, is preparing to equip all of
its airports with biometric face scanners to match passengers with luggage. And Japan's largest
maker of cash dispensers is developing new machines that incorporate iris scanners. The first
commercial biometric, a hand reader used by an American firm to monitor employee attendance, was
introduced in 1974. But only in the past few years has the technology improved enough for the prices
to drop sufficiently to make them commercially viable. `When we started four years ago, I had to
explain to everyone what a biometric is,' says one marketing expert. 'Now, there's much more
awareness out there.'
Paragraph 6: __________
Not surprisingly, biometrics raise thorny questions about privacy and the potential for abuse. Some
worry that governments and industry will be tempted to use the technology to monitor individual
behaviour. `If someone used your fingerprints to match your health-insurance records with a


creditcard record showing you regularly bought lots of cigarettes and fatty foods,' says one policy
analyst, 'you would see your insurance payments go through the roof.' In Toronto, critics of the
welfare fingerprint plan complained that it would stigmatise recipients by forcing them to submit to a
procedure widely identified with criminals.
Paragraph 7: __________
Nonetheless, support for biometrics is growing in Toronto as it is in many other communities. In an
increasingly crowded and complicated world, biometrics may well be a technology whose time has
come.
PART 4: WRITING
I. Complete the sentences without changing the meaning of the given sentences.
1. The inhabitants were far worse-off twenty years ago than they are now.
 The inhabitants are nowhere near___________________________________
2. Nowadays I consider taking up a hobby to be far less important than I used to.

 Nowadays I don’t attach nearly _____________________________________
3. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the environmental problems.
Mass tourism is _________________________________________________
4. That makes me think of something that happened to me.
 That brings ____________________________________________________
5. The new deal has introduced many changes in the cooperation
Many a ________________________________________________________
Part 2. Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets so that the meaning stays the
same. Do not change the word in bracket in any way.
6. When they started their trek, they had no idea how bad the weather would become. (OUTSET)
 Nobody realized _________________________________________________
7. A great many people will congratulate her if she wins. (SHOWERED)
 She will ________________________________________________________
8. It's one thing to think there's a demand for your product and another to make a sale. (WORLD)
There is ________________________________________________
9. In this area, Thailand is much better than all other countries in football. (HEAD)
In this area, Thailand ___________________________________
10. The train should have left 30 minutes ago. (MEANT)
The train ___________________________________________________
III. “The number of overweight children in developed countries is increasing. Some people think
this is due to problems such as the growing number of fast food outlets. Others believe that
parents are to blame for not looking after their children's health.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with these views?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience. Write in an essay of at least 200 words.