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1. SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2017-2018 MƠN: TIẾNG ANH ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (khơng kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề thi cĩ 06 trang) PART A. LISTENING Section 1: You will hear a man telephoning a library to find out about joining. Listen and complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS/ OR A NUMBER for each answer. You will hear the recording TWICE. LIBRARY INFORMATION For registration, must take - two (1) ___ and - two forms of I.D. e.g. driving licence, (2) ___ Cost to join per year (without current student card): (3) £___ Number of items allowed: (members of public) (4) ___ Loan times: four weeks Fines start at (5) £___ Computers can be booked up to (6) ___ hours in advance Library holds most national papers, all (7) ___, and magazines Need (8) ___ to use photocopier Answer Creative Writing class tutor is John (9) ___ held on (10) ___ evenings Section 2: You will hear a teacher talking to a group of students. Listen and choose the best answer A, B, or C. You will hear the recording TWICE. 1. Why is tonight’s disco special? A. It’s the last week of the course. B. It starts earlier than usual. C. It’s Sam birthday. 2. Where will the football match take place? A. at Henry’s College B. at the sports centre C. in a park 3. After the football match, the students will ___. A. go to a pizza restaurant B. have a party at the college C. celebrate on the beach 4. The train to Thornton leaves at ___. A. 12.15 B. 12.45 C. 1.20 5. What should the students bring to the picnic? A. drinks B. bread rolls C. glasses Section 3: You will hear a student called Shona giving a presentation on her research report. Listen and choose the best answer A, B, or C. You will hear the recording TWICE. 1. In order to set up her research programme, Shona got ___. A. advice from personal friends in other countries B. help from students in other countries C. information from her tutor’s contacts in other countries 2. What types of people were included in the research? A. young people in their first job B. men who were working C. women who were unemployed 1
2. 3. Shona says that in her questionnaire her aim was ___. A. to get a wide range of data B. to limit people's responses C. to guide people through interviews 4. What do Shona’s initial results show about medical services in Britain? A. Current concerns are misrepresented by the press. B. Financial issues are critical to the government. C. Reforms within hospitals have been unsuccessful. 5. Shona needs to do further research in order to ___. A. present the government with her findings B. decide the level of extra funding needed C. identify the preferences of the public PART B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR Section 1: Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. 1. ___ weak was a well-known fact. A. That their team was B. That their team being C. Their team was D. If their team was 2. Richard, my neighbour, ___ in World War II. A. says to fight B. says to have fought C. is said to fight D. is said to have fought 3. ___ the phone rang later that night did Tom remember the appointment. A. No sooner B. Only C. Not until D. Just before 4. My sister has just ___ sixteen. A. completed B. turned C. become D. had 5. Jane really loves the ___ jewelry box that her parents gave her as a birthday present. A. wooden brown nice B. nice wooden brown C. brown wooden nice D. nice brown wooden 6. I’ve got so much spare time. Now I’m thinking of taking ___ a new hobby like stamp collecting. A. in B. off C. up D. over 7. I have always ___ my older brother for his courage and honesty. A. taken up B. taken after C. looked up to D. looked after 8. The sight of so many sweets made the children’s mouths___. A. drip B. moisten C. water D. wet 9. It was such a shock to receive a letter like that ___. A. in the red B. out of the blue C. in the pink D. over the moon 10. - Jane: “Would you mind if I use your computer for an hour?” - Tony: “___.” A. Not at all. I’ve finished my job B. Yes, you can use it C. Of course not. I still need it now D. Yes, it’s all right 11. Don’t be ___ in by his charm – he’s ruthless. A. let B. put C. taken D. dropped 12. If Jim ___ the plane, he ___ here by now. A. hadn’t missed/ would have been B. didn’t miss/ would have been C. hadn’t missed/ had been D. hadn’t missed/ would be 13. He insisted that his method ___ correct. A. be B. were C. was D. is 14. ___ in several early civilizations, a cubit was based on the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow. A. It used as a measurement B. A measurement was used C. The use of a measurement D. Used as a measurement 15. You just never lift a ___ to help me – I have to do everything myself! A. shoulder B. hand C. finger D. wrist 16. At the end of the match the players were ___ exhausted. A. solely B. utterly C. actually D. merely 2
3. 17. ___ of all of us who are here tonight, I would like to thank Mr. Jones for his talk. A. On behalf B. On account C. In person D. Instead 18. He agreed to give me his car for the weekend on ___ that I helped him write his essay. A. condition B. term C. rule D. decree 19. George was ___ from school for bad behavior. A. exiled B. dismissed C. expelled D. discharged 20. The pictures are similar, but there are ___ differences between them. A. subtle B. few C. remarkable D. clear Section 2: Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the mistake and correct it as the example below. Line 0: because → because of People have always valued elephants because their size and strength. 0 . Asian elephants has been captured and trained to work for human being 1 . for two thousand years. We have been used in battles from the 3rd century 2 . up when World War II. Because they are easily trained, they have been 3 . used to transport goods and carry huge logs from forests which was once 4 . their homes. Approximately twenty-five percents of the world’s 5 . population of Asian elephants have been caught and trained to do variety 6 . jobs, including carrying passengers and help to capture more wild 7 . elephants. Elephants are considered to be more intelligent then most 8 . animals, including domestic dogs and cats. This shows by the way they 9 . can easily learn to do tricks and perform tasks, as soon as by the playful 10 behavior of young elephants, who energetically play games of hide and seek, tug of war and tag. Section 3: Supply the correct form of the word provided to the right of each blank. When computers appeared in the 1950s, many people thought that it would not be long before these (1) ___ machines started talking, thinking 1. IMPRESS for themselves and taking over the world. People predicted all kinds of things, from robot (2) ___ to computerized houses. None of it happened. Despite 2. SERVE the billions of dollars and years of research given to developing artificial intelligence, computers are still unable to hold a normal (3) ___ with a 3. CONVERSE human being. In fact, although computers today can process information thousands of times faster than they could fifty years ago, they are only two or three times better at using human language than they were back then. In (4)___, the huge increase in computer use has proved that today’s 4. ADD computers, with their windows, mice, icons and commands, do not operate in the same way as the human brain. If this were not true, there would be no need for the thousands of tech support staff (5) ___ by all centres. 5. EMPLOY The trouble is that, even though computers can turn (6) ___ into 6. SPEAK text, recognise objects by using cameras, search through (7) ___ amounts 7. END of data and even use robot (8) ___ to move like human beings, they are 8. MECHANIC unable to put all these (9) ___ together and actually think and function like 9. ABLE human beings. One of the reasons for this is that scientists still do not know much about how the human brain works, so it is (10) ___ to program 10. POSSIBLE computers to copy the brain’s processes. PART 3. READING Section 1: Read the following passage and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word for each space. Getting from place to place has been a challenge for humans (1) ___ the beginning of man’s existence. Not only (2) ___ people struggle with the actually physical problems of travel, but they also need to know the right direction to go. In one’s own little part of the world, this may have been relatively easy, but, as humans expanded further and further, it became necessary to determine how to get from one 3
4. place to (3) ___ and back again. Paths, roads, and trails made journeys easier, and the creation of maps transmitted this knowledge to others. (4) ___, once humans pushed onto the vast oceans, there were (5)___ roads or accurate maps. The compass, showing the magnetic north, was a great, yet imperfect, aid. Latitude could be measured by sun angles, but (6) ___ the perfection of timepieces in the 19th century, it was almost impossible to measure longitude. Fortunately, today there is a device which allows people easily to find their position no matter (7) ___ they are: the Global Positioning System (GPS). The Global Positioning System (8) ___ of a series of twenty-four satellites in geosynchronous orbit around Earth at an altitude of 12,500 miles. These satellites are in fixed positions, so, by reading the (9) ___ from three of them, a person holding a GPS receiver can know exactly where he is. The GPS receiver synchronizes its clock with (10) ___ of the satellites’ atomic clocks. Section 2: Read the following passage and choose the best option marked A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. What is ‘extreme’ weather? Why are people talking about it these days? ‘Extreme’ weather is an unusual weather event such as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave in the wrong place or at the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our TV screens are constantly showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimetres of rain fell on Riode Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimetres of rain in two days and there was record rainfall in Pakistan. The effects of this kind of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, landslides followed, burying hundreds of people. In Pakistan, the floods affected 20 million people. Meanwhile, other parts of the world suffer devastating droughts. Australia, Russia and East Africa have been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as in 2003 in Europe. That summer, 35.000 deaths were said to be heat-related. So, what is happening to our weather? Are these extreme events part of a natural cycle? Or are they caused by human activity and its effects on the Earth’s climate? Peter Miller says it’s probably a mixture of both of these things. On the one hand, the most important influences on weather events are natural cycles in the climate. Two of the most famous weather cycles, El Niđo and La Niđa, originate in the Pacific Ocean. The heat from the warm ocean rises high into the atmosphere and affects weather all around the world. On the other hand, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans is slowly but steadily going up. And this is a result of human activity. We are producing greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. This heat warms up the atmosphere, land and oceans. Warmer oceans produce more water vapor - think of heating a pan of water in your kitchen. Turn up the heat, it produces steam more quickly. Satellite data tells US that the water vapor in the atmosphere has gone up by four percent in 25 years. This warm, wet air turns into the rain, storms, hurricanes and typhoons that we are increasingly experiencing. Climate scientist, Michael Oppenheimer, says that we need to face the reality of climate change. And we also need to act now to save lives and money in the future. (Source: © 2015 National Geographic Learning, www.ngllife.com/wild-weather) 1. It is stated in the passage that extreme weather is ___. A. becoming more common B. not a natural occurrence C. difficult for scientists to understand D. killing more people than ever before 2. Which of these things is the basis of normal weather patterns? A. greenhouse gases B. human activity C. El Niđo and La Niđa D. water vapour 3. What caused thousands of deaths in 2003? A. a period of hot weather B. floods after a bad summer C. a long spell of heavy rain D. large-scale landslides 4. According to the passage, extreme weather is a problem because ___. A. we can never predict it B. it only affects crowded places C. it’s often very destructive D. its causes are completely unknown 5. Which statement is NOT supported by the information in the passage? A. Extreme weather is substantially influenced by human activity. B. Unusual weather events are part of natural cycles. C. We can limit the bad effects of extreme weather. D. Such extreme weather is hardly the consequence of human activity. 4
5. Section 3: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks. FENG SHUI – POSITIVE FEELINGS CHINESE STYLE Recently, the Feng Shui business has been booming as more and more people (1) ___ an interest in Asian culture and lifestyles. Whether people are (2) ___ Feng Shui experts or simply buying books and trying it out for themselves, there is no doubt that, in the West, in the last few years the idea of Feng Shui has really (3) ___ off. So what exactly is Feng Shui? Well, it is a Chinese art form that is concerned (4) ___ the way you arrange the rooms and the furniture in your house. It is believed that organising these things correctly will (5) ___ you happiness and good luck. In the UK there are currently about 300 Feng Shui consultants. They will come to your house or office and give you advice (6) ___ on your lifestyle and date of birth. According to one such expert, I (7) ___ install an aquarium with six black and one red goldfish in my living room in order to absorb bad vibes. He also told me to (8) ___ attention to one of my windows. He advised me to put plants on the window sill to prevent the loss of positive energy. The real ‘weak spot’ in my house, however, was the cooker. He reassured me that hanging some dried vegetables above it would solve the (9) ___.Whether you believe in the power of Feng Shui or not, it is certainly having a major (10) ___ on the way thousands of people organize their homes. 1. A. take B. do C. make D. give 2. A. requesting B. asking C. consulting D. advising 3. A. made B. driven C. taken D. started 4. A. with B. of C. in D. through 5. A. carry B. give C. make D. bring 6. A. based B. put C. held D. carried 7. A. ought B. need C. have D. must 8. A. give B. pay C. have D. put 9. A. fault B. error C. mistake D. problem 10. A. affect B. impact C. consequence D. power Section 4: You are going to read an article about treasure in the mud. Five sentences have been removed from the article. Choose the sentences from A-F the one which best fits gaps 1-5. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. TREASURE IN THE MUD Ian Smith likes to spend his free time looking for ancient objects Mudlark was the nineteenth-century name for someone who searched in river mud at low tide, on the lookout for objects that other people had lost or thrown into the water. For the original mudlarks it was a way of making a living. But for Ian Smith it’s a hobby, because he’s looking for objects of historical interest. Ian heads down to the River Thames at low tide with his electronic metal-detector and a spade. Working around fast and sometimes dangerous tides, he hunts for ancient everyday objects from cups and coins to buttons and badges. Anyone can have a go, as long as they have permission. There are currently about 300 licensed mudlarks in Britain. But Ian, who is an antique dealer by profession, is not an ordinary one. After thirty years, there’s barely a patch of wet mud on any tidal river in the UK that he doesn’t know. 1. ___ ‘You’re not likely to find a chest of gold on a foreshore and the spectacular stuff in museums is there because it is extremely rare,’ Ian tells me when I meet him under London’s Tower Bridge shortly after breakfast. Here it’s more likely to be the everyday possessions of ordinary families. In other words, they are objects that tell us how such people used to live centuries ago. It’s mostly rubbish – literally, from a time when unwanted things were simply thrown into the river. Mudlarking involves working with a metal detector, but also using your eyes – studying the surface, picking it over and knowing what you’re looking at when you see it. Mudlarking, says Ian, is an activity that tends to attract solitary characters. 2. ___ 5
6. ‘But,’ he adds, ‘it’s also very tranquil. You may be in the middle of the city but the lapping of the water takes you away from the hustle.’ We quickly make our first find, the sole from a sixteenth-century shoe. Then, much to my dismay, Ian casually tosses aside our find: ‘You get to see a lot of those over the years,’ he says. 3. ___ That piece of shoe leather, for example, is a give-away that the patch of mud around it is likely to have been eroded by the tides to the sixteenth-century layer. Several oyster shells – an expensive shellfish now, but common workman’s food then – support the theory. Conscious that the tide is against us, we dig a little deeper. An item is often better preserved in the mud that it would be if exposed to the air. 4. ___ ‘While mudlarking is ultimately about the love of history, it is also a race to capture and record what we can before it’s gone,’ says Ian. ‘The water erodes layers, and property developments push further and further out into the river.’ Sifting the mud in his surgeon’s gloves, Ian picks up what the untrained eye would see as a lump of stone. 5. ___ Next, what looks to be a bit of grit reveals itself to be a tiny silver penny bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth I. ‘People ask fishermen what they get out of staring out over a river for hours on end and, unless you’re a fisherman, it’s hard to explain,’ says Ian. ‘It’s the same with mudlarking. Like fishing, it’s very easy to become obsessive about it. But unlike fishing, you also have the pure excitement of seeing something that’s been buried for centuries. It’s still amazing to me that this stuff is there.’ SENTENCES A. Long, disused sets of steps that descend into the mud are another such clue. B. But finding such objects can point towards more interesting things nearby. C. It turns out to be part of a sword. D. Because of this wide experience, he has special permission to dig deep in search of antiquities. E. This scientific fact means the muddy shoreline is a sort of time capsule. F. You have to be that sort of person to want to poke about in the mud for thirty years. PART 4. WRITING Section 1: Write the sentence beginning with the word(s) given so that it has the closest meaning to the original one. Write the answers on your answer sheet. 1. While I strongly disapprove of your behavior, I will help you this time. → Despite my ___. 2. I only realised that I had forgotten to close the door when she told me. → Only when ___. 3. Despite Jack’s strange clothes, everybody ignored him. → Nobody took ___. 4. We will not delay our voyage whether there is a rain or not. → Regardless ___. 5. To pass the time, I looked through some magazines. → I whiled ___. Section 2: Write an essay within 250 words on the following topic: Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. - Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? - Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge and experiences. ___THE END___ 6
7. SỞ SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2017-20182- HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MƠN: TIẾNG ANH (Gồm 02 trang) PART A. LISTENING (4 points) Section 1: You will hear a man telephoning a library to find out about joining. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. You will hear the recording TWICE. 2 points (0.2pt/item) 1. (passport) photos/ 2. (a) bank statement 3. 125 (per year) 4. 8 5. 1.50 (passport) photographs 6. 48 7. local papers/ local 8. (a) card/ cards 9. Grantingham 10. Friday newspapers Section 2: You will hear a teacher talking to a group of students. 1 point (0.2pt/item) 1. C 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. A Section 3: You will hear a student called Shona giving a presentation on her research report. Listen and choose the best answer A, B, or C. 1 point (0.2pt/item) 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C PART B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (5 points) Section 1: Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. 2 points (0.1pt/ item) 1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. D 13. A 14. D 15. C 16. B 17. A 18. A 19. C 20. A Section 2: Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the mistake and correct it as the example below. 1 point (0.1pt/ item) - Tìm đúng nhưng khơng sửa được cho 0,05 điểm Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction 1 has have 6 variety various/a variety of 2 We They 7 help helping 3 when until/to 8 then than 4 was were 9 shows is shown 5 percents percent 10 soon well Section 3: Supply the correct form of the word provided to the right of each blank. 2 points (0.2pt/ item) 1. impressive 2. servants 3. conversation 4. addition 5. employed 6. speech 7. endless 8. mechanisms 9. abilities 10. impossible PART C. READING (6 points) 7
8. Section 1: Read the following passage and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word for each space. 2 points (0.2pt/ item) 4. However/Nevertheless 5. no 1. since 2. do 3. another Nonetheless 6. until/till/til 7. where 8. consists 9. signal 10. that Section 2: Read the following passage and choose the best option marked A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer of each of the questions. 1 point (0.2pt/item) 1. A 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D Section 3: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. 2 points (0.2pt/item) 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. B Section 4: Choose the sentences from A-F the one which best fits gaps 1-5. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. 1 point (0.2pt/ item) 1. D 2. F 3. B 4. E 5. C PART D. WRITING (5 points) Section 1: Write the sentence beginning with the word given so that it has the closest meaning to the original one. Write the answers on your answer sheet. 1 point (0.2 pt/ sentence) 1. Despite my strong disapproval of your behavior, I will help you this time. 2. Only when she told me did I realise that I had forgotten to close the door. 3. Nobody took notice of Jack despite his strange clothes. 4. Regardless of the rain, we will not delay our voyage. 5. I whiled away the time looking through some magazines. Section 2: Essay writing. 4 points Candidates’ essays are evaluated based on the following criteria: Content: 40% (1.6 pts): Arguments are adequately supported (with main ideas, supporting ideas and relevant examples etc.). Language: 30% (1.2 pts): Demonstrate a diverse range of lexical items and grammatical structures. Presentation: 30% (1.2 pts): Write with suitable style, cohesion, coherence. Appropriate word count. 8