Đề thi đề nghị chọn học sinh giỏi cấp thành phố môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 năm 2019 - Trường THCS Hai Bà Trưng (Có đáp án)

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1. PHÒNG GD&ĐT PHÚC YÊN 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. Number of days Total distance Price (per person) Includes Trip 1 12 days (7) ___ £525 accommodation car one (8) ___ Trip 2 9 days 980 km (9) £___ accommodation car (10) ___ 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? Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 1
2. 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 ___. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 2
3. 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 Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 3
4. 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. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 4
5. 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 Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 5
6. 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. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 6
7. 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. C. This type sells best in the A. Common objections B. Who's planning what shops F. They can't get in without D. The figures say it all E. Early trials these G. How does it work? H. Fighting fraud I. Systems to avoid J. Accepting the inevitable Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 7
8. 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.' Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 8
9. 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. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. 9