Đề thi tuyển chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Khối 9

Nội dung text: Đề thi tuyển chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Khối 9

1. Part d: reading comprehension: I. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word: Breakfast is one of those meals that varies from person to person, and country (1) . country. For some people it means a slice of toast and some coffee. In various places I’ve also been (2) . cheese and fruit. Bussinessmen executive might eat breakfast at the office, while for many schoolchildren, (3) . is a glass of milk at home, and then a long wait until the first break of the morning, when they eat sandwiches or a chocolate bar. Some families sit down and eat together in the morning, and listen to (4) . news on the radio or watch early morning television. For other people, the early morning is a rush (5) . work or school, and there just simply isn’t time. II. Choose the word or phrase which best fits each gap of the passage: Today, in China, (1) . large scale destruction of forests has occurred, the government has required that every citizen (2) . the age of 11 and 60 plant three to five trees (3) . year or do the equivalent amount of work in other forest (4) . The government claims that at (5) . 1000 million trees have been planted in China every year (6) . 1982. In western countries, increasing consumer demand for wood products that have been produced cause forest landowners and forest industries to become (7) . accoutable for their forest management and timber harvesting practices. The Arbor Day Foundation’s Rain Forest Rescue program is a charity that helps to (8) . deforestation. The charity uses money to buy up (9) . preserve rainforest land before the lumber companies can buy it. The Arbor Day Foundation then (10) . the land from deferestation. 1. A. whom B. which C. that D. where 2. A. on B. between C. of D. in 3. A. the B. for C. per D. many 4. A. services B. destructions C. extinction D. damage 5. A. least B. the least C. last D. the last 6. A. in B. since C. for D. ago 7. A. increase B. increasing C. increasingly D. increased 8. A. pollute B. motivate C. encourage D. prevent 9. A. and B. nor C. or D. but 10. A. protects B. supplies C. provides D. destroy III. Read the text. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00): (15 0,2 = 3,0 pts) I did not really enjoy to playing sports much when 0. to I was at the school. I suppose this was because we did 00. √ not really have very good physical education teachers. 1.
2. They were always shouting at us and telling to us to try 2. harder. If you asked them what did you had to do to improve 3. they could never give you a good advice. When I left school 4. I started playing at tennis with some friends. To my great 5. surprise, I loved to it. I became a complete tennis addict, 6. sometimes playing as many as five times a week. I played so 7. much that I eventually became quite a good player. The only 8. problem was that I wasn’t very a fit and consequently I started 9. to getting all sorts of injuries. First it was my elbow and then 10. my shoulder. Once I managed to get over of those two 11. problems my knees started to give me the trouble. My only 12. consolation is that even the top players suffer from these 13. injuries too. Of course I can’t compare myself to someone like 14. as Martina, but I enjoy the game and have some of the same problems. 15.