Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi huyện năm học 2009 – 2010 môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 9

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M«n thi: TiÕng Anh 	-	Lớp 9.
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Section A : Pronunciation
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. leaf	B. meat	C. seat	D. sweat
2. A. theatre	B. therefore	C. throughout	D. thunder
3. A. switch	B. stomach	C. match	D. catch
4. A. study	B. ready	C. puppy	D. occupy
5. A. win	B. wind	C. wrong	D. wet
6. A. can	B. cell	C. call	D. cold
7. A. needed B. worked C. stopped D. booked
8. A. game B. guest C. guess D. gesture
Your answers:
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Section B: Vocabuary and Grammar
I. Choose the best answers from A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps.
1. He seldom goes to the market,...............?
A. doesn't he	B. does he	C. is he	D. isn't he
2.  you do better work than this you won’t pass the exam.
 A. Although B. If C. Unless D. When
3. The man seemed.................about something.
A. nervous and anxious	B. nervous and anxiously	
C. being nervous and anxious	D. nervous and being anxious
4. Please don't frighten her. She is afraid...............cockroaches.
 A. of	B. by	 C. with	 D. at
5. Hardly..........believes that.
 A. somebody	B. all	 C. everybody	D. anybody
6. She got so.........while watching the game that she began shouting.
 A. exciting	B. excited	 C. excitingly	 D. excitedly
7. " I wish she..............". " It's unbelievable she didn't".
 A. will succeed	B. would succeed	 C. had succeeded	D. has succeeded
8. We arrived...........late that there were no seats left.
 A. so	B. much	C. very	D. too
9. He has very little spare time.
 A. busy	B. free	C. good	D. hard
10. The fewer bags you take,  trouble you will have en route.
 A. the fewer B. the little C. the less D. the least
Your answers:
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II. Of the four underlined words/ phrases in each following sentence, there is one that is not correct. Find and correct it. 
1. Despite the advice his grandfather gave his, he continued to go out in the evening.
 A B C D
2. When I was six years old, my family moves to a new house to a village in Song Be.
 A B C D
3. The people who they cheated on the examination had to leave the room.
 A B C D
4. If she would eat fewer sweets, she would lose weight.
 A B C D
5. I don't know how many students are there in my school.
 A B C D
6. Tonny finished the test more fastly than all of us.
 A B C D
7. Please give me a few coffee and some biscuits if you have any left.
A B C D
8. The student punishing by the teacher yesterday is very lazy.
 A B C D
Your answers:
Sentence
Mistake
Correction
Sentence
Mistake
Correction
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2
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4
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III. Fill in each gap with the correct form of the given word.
1. Her uncle is a..........................on that ship. ( SAIL) 
2. It's a lovely old house, I agree, but can we afford to........it? ( MODERN)
3. It is hard work to.............a large family. ( FOOD)
4. You can find the most....................shop in Bond Street. ( FASHION)
5. The Thames flows...............through green meadows. ( GENTLE) 
6. I'll remember that journey. It was an....................experience. ( FORGET) 
7. It was rather............of him to cry when he did badly in the test. ( CHILD) 
8. It was extremely..of you to leave the library book on the bus. ( CARE).
Your answers:
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Section C: Reading comprehension
I. Read the following passage and choose the best answers.
 Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might be a dark place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.
 Thomas A. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old. Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mechanical things at home.
 When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare time. Unfortunately, his first work experience did not end well. Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the baggage car.
 Thomas then worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time on the job conducting experiments. He got his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity. However, the vote recorder was not a success. In 1870, he sold another invention, a stock-ticker, for $40,000. A stock-ticker is a machine that automatically prints stock prices on a tape. He was then able to build his first shop in Newark, New Jersey.
 Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He called himself a " two-shift man" because he worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes he worked so intensely that his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.
 Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18, 1931, at his estate in West Orange, New Jersy. He left numerous inventions that improved the quality of life all over the world.
1. Thomas Edison did things in this order:
A. he became a telegraph operator, a newsboy, and then got his first patent.
B. he became a newsboy, got his first patent, and then became a telegraph operator.
C. he got a patent, became a telegraph operator, and the became a newsboy.
D. he became a newsboy, a telegraph operator, and then got a patent.
2. Edison considered his deafness:
A. a disadvantage	 	 B. a blessing	
C. something from a priest D. a neccesity
3. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but he was mostly self-educated.
A. taught himself	B. born a genius	C. loved school	D.thought of himself.
4. Of all the inventions,.................., was probably the most important for civilization.
A. the vote recorder	B. the stock ticker	 C. the light bulb D.the motion picture camera
5. The main idea of this passage is:
A. Thomas Edison was always interested in science and inventions, and he invented many important things.
B. Thomas Edison could not keep a job.
C. Thomas Edison worked day and night on his experiments.
D. Deaf people make good inventors because they can focus without the distraction of spoken 
Your answers:
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II. Fill in each blank in the following passage with one suitable word.
 The Smith family lived (1) _______door to me. They were interesting and intelligent people, but they were always getting into some sorts of trouble. It was usually either illness (2) ______ accident, but there were other things too. Their house caught fire twice, and (3)______ whole family had to stay (4) ________me while repairs were made. The Smiths were always losing things, important things (5) _______ money or keys. Pictures often fell off the wall in their house; the children often fell out of their beds (6) ______ night. I used to wake (7) ______in the mornings and think: “What strange thing will happen (8) _______that family today?”
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Section D: Writing
I. Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meanings.
1. You ought to go to see the doctor now.
It's time............................................................................
2. It is necessary to learn to speak English.
Learning ..........................................................................
3. Spending a week in Da Lat is going to be great.
I'm looking ..............................................................................
4. I didn't arrive in time to see her.
I wasn't early...................................................................
5. John's parents are making him study hard.
He.....................................
6. They should book early if they want tickets for the concert.
They'd better....................................................................................
7. They didn’t find the trip interesting although the weather was fine.
In spite ..
8. The news was so good that she smiled happily.
It was 
9. She knows a lot more about it than I do.
I don’t know ..
10. “Why don’t you put a better lock on the door, Barry?” said John.
John suggested ..
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§¸p ¸n VIP Test
Section A: Pronunciation
I. Choose the word......( 8 x 0,25 = 2 pts)
1.D
2.B
3.B
4.D
5.C
6.B
7.A
8.D
Section B: Vocabuary and Grammar
I. Choose the best answers.( 10 x 0,3 = 3,0 pts)
1.B
2.C
3.A
4.A
5.D
6.B
7.C
8.A
9.B
10.C
II. Of the four underlined words/ phrases in each sentence, there is one that is not correct. Find and correct it. ( 8 x 0,25 = 2 pts) 
Sentence
Mistake
Correction
Sentence
Mistake
Correction
1
C
him
5
D
there are
2
B
moved
6
C
faster
3
B
who
7
B
a little
4
B
ate
8
A
punished
III. Word forms. ( 8 x 0,25 = 2pts)
1.sailor
2.modernize
3.feed
4.fashionable
5.gently
6.unforgettable
7.childish
8. careless
 Section C: Reading comprehension
I. Read the following passage and choose the best answers.( 5x 0,5 = 2,5 pts) 
1. D
2.B
3.A
4.C
5.A
II. Fill in each space of the following passage one suitable word. ( 8 x0,25 = 2 pts)
1. next
2.or
3.the
4.with
5. like
6. at
7. up
8. to
Section D: Writing
I. Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meanings.( 10 x 0,35 =3,5 pts)
1. It's time you went to see the doctor./ Its' time for you to go to see the doctor.
2. Learning to speak English is necessary.
3. I'm looking forward to spending a week in Da Lat.
4. I wasn't early enough to see her.
5. He is being made to study hard by his parents.
6. They'd better book early if they want tickets for the concert.
7. In spite of the fine weather, they didn’t find the trip interesting.
8. It was such good news that she smiled happily.
9. I don’t know as/ so much about it as she does.
10. John suggested Barry (should) put a better lock on the door.
II. People do many different things to stay healthy. What do you do to have good health? Use reasons and examples to write a composition (about 250 words) for your answer ( 3,0 points)
Total: 20 pts