Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Trường THCS Vạn Thọ (Có đáp án)

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1. UBND HUYỆN ĐẠI TỪ KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NĂM HỌC 201 - 201 TRƯỜNG THCS VẠN THỌ Môn thi: Tiếng Anh Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào tờ đề. Điểm của toàn bài thi Họ tên, chữ ký Số phách Bằng số Bằng chữ (Do chủ tịch Hội đồng chấm thi Giám khảo số 1: ghi) Giám khảo số 2: Bài thi này gồm có 06 trang được đánh số từ 1 - 6 SECTION A. LISTENING I. Listen to the eight o’clock news. Then write True (T) or False (F) for each sentence. You are going to listen twice. (5 pts) Statements True False 1 A new hospital was opened today by the King. 2 She met all the doctors and nurses. 3. She spoke to the first doctors. 4 She put on a yellow dress and a green hat. 5 A new hospital was opened in London. SECTION B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY II. Listen and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word. (10 pts) Two cars were going (6) ___ Cambridge Street. An English man was (7) ___, a Rolls- Roys, and a (8) ___ student was driving a V.W. The English man was driving (9) ___ and (10) ___. The student wasn’t driving carefully He was looking (11) ___ a girl. She was walking along the street. She was (12) ___ a short skirt, and she was carrying a handbag. The traffic-lights (13) ___ green. A dog was sitting (14) ___ the traffic-lights. A cat was sitting in the (15) ___ corner. Your answers: 6. . 7. 8. . 9. . 10. 11. 12. . 13. 14. 15. I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (15 pts) 16. To put off means ___ . A. destroy B. postpone C. cancel D. wait
2. 17. The Browns had to use all their ___ to buy their new house. A. expenses B. savings C. reserves D. remains 18. If you take a train or a bus, you must pay a ___. A. tip B. fee C. fare D. commission 19. Your brother is very tall. What is his exact ___ ? A. size B. length C. measure D. height 20. Another word for fortune is ___. A. rich B. lucky C. foreign D. good 21. If Lan comes to England, it will be a good ___ for her to improve her English. A. opportunity B. possibility C. advantage D. experience 22. He is a person ___ friends trust him. A. whom B. his C. whose D . who’s 23. I’ve always enjoyed traveling. My brother; ___, prefers to stay at home. A. but B. although C. however D. moreover 24. I’ll give you a lift to the station if ___ in a hurry. A. you’re B. you were C. you’ll be D. you’d be 25. I wish you ___ leave now. Can’t you stay a bit longer? A. don’t have to B. didn’t have to C. won’t have to D. hadn’t to 26. ___ to have lunch at 12 o’clock every day? A. Did she used B. Did she use C. Is she used D. Was she used 27. If she worked more slowly, he ___ so many mistakes. A. wouldn’t make B. won’t make C. didn’t make D. doesn’t make 28. She never let you cook the meals, ___ ? A. didn’t she B. doesn’t she C. did she D. was she 29. Stop now; you’ve done ___ work for one day. A. too many B. plenty C. quite more D. quite enough 30. Whenever we meet, we stop ___ . A. talk B. to talk C. talking D. talked 16 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. . II. Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete each sentence. (10 pts) 31. You should write a letter of ___ to that institute. (INQUIRE) 32. Don’t eat those vegetables. They’re ___ . (POISON) 33. In the future, many buildings will be ___ by solar energy. (HOT) 34. The price of ___ has gone up. (ELECTRIC) 35. Sometimes I have some___ which can’t be explained. (FEEL) 36. I’m afraid of the picture which shows a violent ___ . (ERUPT) 37. Their ___ has lasted a lifetime. (FRIEND) 38. He draws cartoons for a ___ magazine. (HUMOR) 39. We should use paper as ___ as we can. (ECONOMY) 40. Is Buddhism the country’s ___ religion of Thailand? (OFFICE) 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
3. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. III. Find ONE mistake in each sentence. Then correct it. (10 pts) 41. He hasn’t seen his father since two years. 42. We used to be having lunch at 11 o’clock. 43. I wish I can go with you to the countryside next weekend. 44. I’d like to go out for dinner, but I don’t feel like to eat out tonight. 45. Nam asked Mai what can he do to help her. 46. Your friends went to your native village last weekend, weren’t they? 47. We suggest to plant more trees along the streets to have more shades and fresh air. 48. Mai didn’t go to the zoo with her friends last Sunday because her sickness. 49. The water and land around the chemical factory are serious polluted. 50. Our neighbor will look for the garden when we go on holiday. 41 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. SECTION C. READING I. Read the following passage. Then choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each blank. (10 pts) The Rockies Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the North-West, but lie only a (51) ___ hundred miles from the centre in more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (52) ___ the Alps, they are no less wonderful. There are many roads across the Rockies, (53) ___ the best way to see them is to (54) ___ by train. You start from Vancouver, (55) ___ most attractive of Canada’s big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its head in the mountains, this city (56) ___ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city (57) ___. Thirty passenger trains a day used to (58) ___ off from Vancouver on the cross-continent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure. You sleep on board, (59) ___ is fun, but travel through some of the best (60) ___ at night. 51. A. many B. lot C. few D. couple 52. A. from B. to C. as D. than 53. A. but B. because C. unless D. since 54. A. drive B. travel C. ride D. pass 55. A. a B. one C. the D. its 56. A. lets B. allows C. offers D. gives 57. A. centre B. circle C. middle D. heart 58. A. leave B. get C. take D. set 59. A. when B. which C. who D. where 60. A. scenery B. view C. site D. beauty Answer: 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
4. II. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space. (10 pts) In Britian there is a holiday now which people call Mother’s Day. In the old days many girls from working-class (61) ___ in towns and cities and from farmers’ families in the country (62) ___ in rich houses. They had to do all the (63) ___ and their working day was usually very long, they often worked on Sundays, too. Once a year, it was usually (64) ___ Sunday in March, they could visit their mothets. They went home on that day and (65) ___ presents for their mothers and for (66) ___ members of their families. They could stay at home only one day, and then they went (67) ___ to their work. People call that day Mothering Day (68) ___ Mothering Sunday. Later workers at the factories and girls (69) ___worked in the house of (70) ___ families received one free day a week, and Mothering Day became Mother’s Day. It is the last Sunday in March. Answer: 61 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. III. Read the passage and choose the best answer. (5 pts) Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball of cheese ! Then telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20, 1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Nail Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to the earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft. Next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that waited for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to earth. Behind them they left the plains and high mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up. And they left footprints that may last forever. 71. This story tells ___. A. about the first men to walk on the moon. B. how men found footprints on the C. what the men brought back from their moon trip to the moon. D. who had left footprints on the moon before the two men landed there 72. A telescopes ___. A. makes balls of light seem brighter. B. turns the moon into another world. C. makes many of men’s dream come true. D. makes faraway things seem closer. 73. The men brought rocks and dirt from the moon because ___. A. they wanted something to show they B. people wanted to use them to learn were there about the moon. C. they wanted to keep them as souvenir. D. they might sell them to scientists. 74. The American machines will most likely stay on the moon until ___. A. someone take them away. B. a storm covers them with dust. C. rain and wind destroy them. D. they become rusty and break to pieces. 75. The next people who go to the moon most likely could___.
5. A. find that the machines have disappeared. B. leave the first set of footprints on C. find the places where Armstrong and the moon. Aldrin walked D. find that dust has wiped off the two men’s footprints. SECTION D. WRITING I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it has the same meaning as the one printed before it. (10 pts) 76. They have just sold that old house.  That old house 77. Charles lives quite near his aunt’s house.  Charles doesn’t 78. It was such a hard cake that I couldn’t eat it.  I would rather 79. Linh is a better cook than Hoa.  Hoa can’t 80. I last heard this song ten years ago.  It is 81. ”You’d better not lend that man any more money, Mary” said John.  John advised 82.It was a two-hour flight from Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh City.  It took 83. When he is asked about his past, he hates it.  He hates 84. We don’t have enough money, so we can’t buy that house.  If we 85. Although he took a taxi, Bill still arrived late for the concert.  Despite II. Write the sentences using the cues given. (5 pts) 86. Next Sunday / we /go / Hai Phong / which / big city / northeast / Viet Nam.  87. brother / wish / that / can speak / English / fluent / as / native speaker.  88. I / ask / whether / he / study / university / America / then.  89. If / it / not rain / tomorrow / I / go camping / friends.  90. Phong / be / absent / school / since / he / break / leg.  III. It is said that: "There will be more people in the world." Do you think so? Write a passage to show your idea. (Write about 100 – 150 words.) (10 pts)
6. ANSWER KEYS SECTION A. LISTENING I. Listen to the eight o’clock news. Then write True (T) or False (F) for each sentence. You are going to listen twice. (5 pts) Statements True False 1 A new hospital was opened today by the King. x 2 She met all the doctors and nurses. x 3. She spoke to the first doctors. x 4 She put on a yellow dress and a green hat. x 5 A new hospital was opened in London. x Tapescript: The Queen opened a new hospital in London today. She met all the doctors and nurses, and spoke to the first patients. The Queen wore a yellow dress, and a green hat. SECTION B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY II. Listen and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word. (10 pts) Two cars were going (6) along Cambridge Street. An English man was (7) driving a Rolls- Roys, and a (8) foreign student was driving a V.W. The English man was driving (9)slowly and (10)carefully. The student wasn’t driving carefully He was looking (11) at a girl. She was walking along the street. She was (12)wearing a short skirt, and she was carrying a handbag. The traffic-lights (13)were green. A dog was sitting (14)beside the traffic-lights. A cat was sitting in the (15) opposite corner. Your answers: 6. . 7. 8. . 9. . 10. 11. 12. . 13. 14. 15. SECTION B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (15 pts) 16. To put off means ___ . A. destroy B. postpone C. cancel D. wait 17. The Browns had to use all their ___ to buy their new house. A. expenses B. savings C. reserves D. remains 18. If you take a train or a bus, you must pay a ___. A. tip B. fee C. fare D. commission 19. Your brother is very tall. What is his exact ___ ? A. size B. length C. measure D. height 20. Another word for fortune is ___.
7. A. rich B. lucky C. foreign D. good 21. If Lan comes to England, it will be a good ___ for her to improve her English. A. opportunity B. possibility C. advantage D. experience 22. He is a person ___ friends trust him. A. whom B. his C. whose D . who’s 23. I’ve always enjoyed traveling. My brother; ___, prefers to stay at home. A. but B. although C. however D. moreover 24. I’ll give you a lift to the station if ___ in a hurry. A. you’re B. you were C. you’ll be D. you’d be 25. I wish you ___ leave now. Can’t you stay a bit longer? A. don’t have to B. didn’t have to C. won’t have to D. hadn’t to 26. ___ to have lunch at 12 o’clock every day? A. Did she used B. Did she use C. Is she used D. Was she used 27. If she worked more slowly, he ___ so many mistakes. A. wouldn’t make B. won’t make C. didn’t make D. doesn’t make 28. She never let you cook the meals, ___ ? A. didn’t she B. doesn’t she C. did she D. was she 29. Stop now; you’ve done ___ work for one day. A. too many B. plenty C. quite more D. quite enough 30. Whenever we meet, we stop ___ . A. talk B. to talk C. talking D. talked 16 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. . II. Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete each sentence. (10 pts) 31. You should write a letter of __inquiry___ to that institute. (INQUIRE) 32. Don’t eat those vegetables. They’re __poisonous__ . (POISON) 33. In the future, many buildings will be __heated__ by solar energy. (HOT) 34. The price of __electricity__ has gone up. (ELECTRIC) 35. Sometimes I have some__feelings__ which can’t be explained. (FEEL) 36. I’m afraid of the picture which shows a violent __eruption__ . (ERUPT) 37. Their __friendship__ has lasted a lifetime. (FRIEND) 38. He draws cartoons for a __humorous___ magazine. (HUMOR) 39. We should use paper as __economically___ as we can. (ECONOMY) 40. Is Buddhism the country’s __official___ religion of Thailand? (OFFICE) 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. III. Find ONE mistake in each sentence. Then correct it. (10 pts) 41. He hasn’t seen his father since two years. 42. We used to be having lunch at 11 o’clock. 43. I wish I can go with you to the countryside next weekend.
8. 44. I’d like to go out for dinner, but I don’t feel like to eat out tonight. 45. Nam asked Mai what can he do to help her. 46. Your friends went to your native village last weekend, weren’t they? 47. We suggest to plant more trees along the streets to have more shades and fresh air. 48. Mai didn’t go to the zoo with her friends last Sunday because her sickness. 49. The water and land around the chemical factory are serious polluted. 50. Our neighbor will look for the garden when we go on holiday. 41 for 42. have 43. could 44. eating 45. he could 46. didn’t they 47. planting 48. because of 49. seriously 50. look after SECTION C. READING I. Read the following passage. Then choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each blank. (10 pts) The Rockies Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the North-West, but lie only a (51) ___ hundred miles from the centre in more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (52) ___ the Alps, they are no less wonderful. There are many roads across the Rockies, (53) ___ the best way to see them is to (54) ___ by train. You start from Vancouver, (55) ___ most attractive of Canada’s big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its head in the mountains, this city (56) ___ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city (57) ___. Thirty passenger trains a day used to (58) ___ off from Vancouver on the cross-continent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure. You sleep on board, (59) ___ is fun, but travel through some of the best (60) ___ at night. 51. A. many B. lot C. few D. couple 52. A. from B. to C. as D. than 53. A. but B. because C. unless D. since 54. A. drive B. travel C. ride D. pass 55. A. a B. one C. the D. its 56. A. lets B. allows C. offers D. gives 57. A. centre B. circle C. middle D. heart 58. A. leave B. get C. take D. set 59. A. when B. which C. who D. where 60. A. scenery B. view C. site D. beauty Answer: 51. C 52. D 53. A 54. B 55. C 56. B 57. A 58. D 59. B 60. A II. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space. (10 pts) In Britian there is a holiday now which people call Mother’s Day. In the old days many girls from working-class (61) ___ in towns and cities and from farmers’ families in the country (62) ___ in rich houses. They had to do all the (63) ___ and their working day was usually very long, they often worked on Sundays, too. Once a year, it was usually (64) ___ Sunday in
9. March, they could visit their mothets. They went home on that day and (65) ___ presents for their mothers and for (66) ___ members of their families. They could stay at home only one day, and then they went (67) ___ to their work. People call that day Mothering Day (68) ___ Mothering Sunday. Later workers at the factories and girls (69) ___worked in the house of (70) ___ families received one free day a week, and Mothering Day became Mother’s Day. It is the last Sunday in March. Answer: 61 families 62. 63. 64. 65. worked housework one brought 66. other 67. 68. or 69. 70. rich back who III. Read the passage and choose the best answer. (5 pts) Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball of cheese ! Then telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20, 1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Nail Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to the earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft. Next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that waited for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to earth. Behind them they left the plains and high mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up. And they left footprints that may last forever. 71. This story tells ___. A. about the first men to walk on the moon. B. how men found footprints on the C. what the men brought back from their moon trip to the moon. D. who had left footprints on the moon before the two men landed there 72. A telescopes ___. A. makes balls of light seem brighter. B. turns the moon into another world. C. makes many of men’s dream come true. D. makes faraway things seem closer. 73. The men brought rocks and dirt from the moon because ___. A. they wanted something to show they B. people wanted to use them to learn were there about the moon. C. they wanted to keep them as souvenir. D. they might sell them to scientists. 74. The American machines will most likely stay on the moon until ___. A. someone take them away. B. a storm covers them with dust. C. rain and wind destroy them. D. they become rusty and break to pieces. 75. The next people who go to the moon most likely could___. A. find that the machines have disappeared. B. leave the first set of footprints on C. find the places where Armstrong and the moon. Aldrin walked D. find that dust has wiped off the two men’s footprints. SECTION D. WRITING
10. I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it has the same meaning as the one printed before it. (10 pts) 76. They have just sold that old house.  That old house has just been sold 77. Charles lives quite near his aunt’s house.  Charles doesn’t live far (away) from his aunt’s house 78. It was such a hard cake that I couldn’t eat it.  The cake was so hard that I couldn’t eat it 79. Linh is a better cook than Hoa.  Hoa can’t cook as well as Linh 80. I last heard this song ten years ago.  It is ten years since I (last) heard this song 81. ”You’d better not lend that man any more money, Mary” said John.  John advised Mary not to lend that man any more money 82.It was a two-hour flight from Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh City.  It took (them/us/me ) two hours to fly from Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh City 83. When he is asked about his past, he hates it.  He hates being askes about his past 84. We don’t have enough money, so we can’t buy that house.  If we had enough money, we would / could buy that house 85. Although he took a taxi, Bill still arrived late for the concert.  Despite (his) taking / having taken a taxi, Bill still arrived late for the concert II. Write the sentences using the cues given. (5 pts) 86. Next Sunday / we /go / Hai Phong / which / big city / northeast / Viet Nam.  Next Sunday we are going to Hai Phong, which is a big city in the northeast of Viet Nam 87. brother / wish / that / can speak / English / fluent / as / native speaker.  My brother wishes that he could speak English as fluently as a native speaker 88. I / ask / whether / he / study / university / America / then.  I asked him whether he studies / was studying at a university in America then 89. If / it / not rain / tomorrow / I / go camping / friends.  If it doesn’t rain tomorrow, I will go camping with my friends I 90. Phong / be / absent / school / since / he / break / leg.  Phong has been absent from school since he broke his leg III. It is said that: "There will be more people in the world." Do you think so? Write a passage to show your idea. (Write about 100 – 150 words.) (10 pts)