Đề thi khảo sát học sinh giỏi năm học: 2009 - 2010 môn: tiếng anh 9 thời gian: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

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n¨m häc: 2009 - 2010
M«n: TiÕng anh 9
 Thêi gian: 120 phót (kh«ng kÓ thêi gian giao ®Ò)
I. PRONUNCIATION : (2pts)
 Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others:
 1.	A. exchange	B. bank	C. hamburger	D. bamboo
2.	A. sound	B. southern	C. drought	D. mountain 
3.	A. dormitory	B. edition	C. examine	D. terrible
4.	A. exercise	B. persuade	C. detail	D. intermediate
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE : (10pts)
 Choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the blank spaces: 
 1. There are some difficult questions. I can’t answer
 A. who B. which C. that D. when
2.	 raining hard, we continue working
A. though	B. but	 C. in spite of	D. so
3.	I asked her she came to Hoi An. 
A. weather	B. and	C. if	D. but
4.	You look than last year.
A. much tall	B. more tall	C. much taller	D. more taller 
5 Don’t forget. home as soon as you arrive at your destination
A. phone	B. phoning	C. to phone	D. phoned
6.	Her uncle suggested that she . a job in a bank
A. got	B. to get	C. getting	D. get
7.	Her husband looks the children while she’s at work
A. at 	 B. for	 C. after	 D. in
8.	Do it right now,?
A. do you	B. aren’t you	 	C. will you	 	D. don’t you
9.	We .. for her for ten minutes.
A. wait	B. waited	C. are waiting	D. have waited
 10.	His father is not interested in tennis and.. .
A. he doesn’t, either 	B. so doesn’t he
C. neither does he	D. neither is he 
 11.	The little girl wasted half an hour . for her picture book.
A. look	B. looking	C. to look	D. looked
 12. No one denied the benefit of the Internet,.?
 A. didn’t he B. did they C. didn’t they D. do they
 13.	Yoko told me about the students .have taken the entrance exam three times.
A. what 	B. whom	C. which	 D. who
 14.	Would you like tea or coffee? – I ..drink tea than coffee.
A. would like	B. would prefer	C. would rather	D. would wish
 15.	It is high time you .. more attentive in class.
A. are	B. were	C. must be	D. have been
 16. Buon Ma Thuot City is famous .. coffee.
A. at 	B. from	 C. for	 D. on
 17.	I wish you . that! It’s really an annoying habit.
A. won’t do	B. couldn’t do	C. wouldn’t do	D. don’t do
 18.	. Saturday night I went to bed at ten o’clock
A. In 	B. at	 C. on 	 D. for
 19. The telephone and the doorbell rang .. the same time.
 A. on B. at C. in D. for
 20. I wish we .everything we wanted all the time.
 A. can buy B. could buy C. will buy D. were buying
III. PREPOSITION: (1,5pts)
 Fill in each blank with an appropriate preposition: 
My mother is always busy  housework
I’m interested  listening to music in my free time.
My home is far .. my school.
Dirty air is very harmful our health.
She will be here Christmas day.
He was successful his job
IV. WORD FORM: (1,5pts)
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word in parentheses: 
Children need to have a good.( educate)
She can’t go to school because of her ( sick)
Books help people to get more( know)
4.	This exercise seems ( difficulty)
 5. The cartoon last night was very ..( interest)
 Sports are very good for our . ( healthy)
V. ERROR IDENTIFICATION: (2,5pts)
 Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting: 
1.	The policeman told her not to driving her car so fast again	 	
 A	 B C	 D 
2. If you finish your work early, you could come for a drink with us 
 A B	 C D
3. My father has smoke for a long time but now he has given up
 A B C	 D 
4.	Tom is always forget his keys and that really annoys me. 
 A B	 C	 D
5.	She spends her free time to visit galleries and museums. 
 A 	 B	 C	 D
6.	She left here without saying anything, didn’t she?
A B 	 C D
7.	She had the gardener to plant some trees. 
 A B 	 C	 D
8.	Marry asked me if I was going to visit my aunt the day before
 A B	 C D
9.	We went to fishing yesterday
 A B C	 D
10.	Mike and Harriet are visiting a woman which they met on holiday.
 A 	 B C 	 D
VI. Choose the best option to fill in each of the blanks to make a meaningful passage: (2,5pts)
Computers (1).. an important part in our life nowadays. It’s (2). to carry on our work without computers. For example, (3) are necessary in a university library. All the (4)..normally found in a library is now (5). in computers. This is very (6) for students because they can (7). messages and receive information (8). having to leave their computers. Access (9) a computer has now (10) students’ need.
1.	 A. do	B. make	C. have	D. play
2.	A. easy	B. difficult	C. exciting	D. important
3.	A. books	B. things	C. computers	D. messages 
4.	A. information	B. work	C. life	D. event
5.	A. kept	B. stored	C. put	D. made
6.	A. difficult	B. comfortable	C. suitable	D. convenient
7.	A. receive	B. send	C. give	D. write
8.	A. and	B. but	C. without	D. not
9.	A. to	B. in	C. of	D. with
10.	A. became	B. becomes	C. becoming	D. become
VIII. Rewrite the sentences so that they mean almost the same as those printed before them: (5pts) 
 1. The child will die if nobody sends him for a doctor.
 Unless.
2.	Mrs. Taylor does not like living in such a small house.
Mrs. Taylor wishes
3.	No one in this class is more intelligent than he is.
He is..
4.	The postman was bitten by my dog
My dog..
5.	The flight to Moscow lasted three and a half hours
 It took..
 6. “John, please don’t tell anyone my new address” said Mary.
 Mary told..
7.	Tom is not old enough to drive a car.
Tom is too 
8.	I last saw him when I was a student.
I haven’t
9.	People say football is the best game to play. 
Football 
 10. She asked John why he liked learning English.
 “Why
THE END OF THE TEST
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N¨m häc : 2009-2010
M«n: TiÕng anh 9
I. PRONUNCIATION : (2pts)
 Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others:
 1.	A. exchange	B. bank	C. hamburger	D. bamboo
2.	A. sound	B. southern	C. drought	D. mountain 
3.	A. dormitory	B. edition	C. examine	D. terrible
4.	A. exercise	B. persuade	C. detail	D. intermediate
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE : (10pts)
 Choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the blank spaces: 
 1. There are some difficult questions. I can’t answer
 A. who B. which C. that D. when
2.	 raining hard, we continue working
A. though	B. but	 C. in spite of	D. so
3.	I asked her she came to Hoi An. 
A. weather	B. and	C. if	D. but
4.	You look than last year.
A. much taller	B. more tall	C. much tall 	D. more taller 
5 Don’t forget. home as soon as you arrive at your destination
A. phone	B. phoning	C. to phone	D. phoned
6.	Her uncle suggested that she . a job in a bank
A. got	B. to get	C. getting	D. get
7.	Her husband looks the children while she’s at work
A. at 	 B. for	 C. after	 D. in
8.	Do it right now,?
A. do you	B. will you	 	C. did you	 	D. don’t you
9.	We .. for her for ten minutes.
A. wait	B. waited	C. are waiting	D. have waited
 10.	His father is not interested in tennis and.. .
A. he doesn’t, either 	B. so doesn’t he
C. neither does he	 D. neither is he 
 11.	The little girl wasted half an hour . for her picture book.
A. look	B. looking	C. to look	D. looked
 12. No one denied the benefit of the Internet,.?
 A. didn’t he B. did they C. didn’t they D. do they
 13.	Yoko told me about the students .have taken the entrance exam three times.
A. what 	B. whom	C. which	 D. who
 14.	Would you like tea or coffee? – I ..drink tea than coffee.
A. would like	B. would prefer	C. would rather	D. would wish
 15.	It is high time you .. more attentive in class.
A. are	B. were	C. must be	D. have been
 16. Buon Ma Thuot City is famous .. coffee
A. at 	B. from	 C. for	 D. on
 17.	I wish you . that! It’s really annoying habit.
A. won’t do	B. couldn’t do	C. wouldn’t do	D. don’t do
 18.	. Saturday night I went to bed at ten o’clock
A. In 	B. at	 C. on 	 D. for
 19. The telephone and the doorbell rang .. the same time.
 A. on B. at C. in D. for
 20. I wish we .everything we wanted all the time.
 A. can buy B. could buy C. will buy D. were buying
III. PREPOSITION: (1,5pts)
 Fill in each blank with an appropriate preposition: 
My mother is always busy with housework
I’m interested in listening to music in my free time.
My home is far from my school.
Dirty air is very harmful for our health.
She will be here on Christmas day.
He was successful in his job
IV. WORD FORM: (1,5pts)
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word in parentheses: 
Children need to have a good education
She can’t go to school because of her sickness
Books help people to get more knowledge
4.	This exercise seems difficult
 5. The cartoon last night was very interesting
 Sports are very good for our health
V. ERROR IDENTIFICATION: (2,5pts)
 Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting: 
1.	The policeman told her not to driving her car so fast again	 	
 A	 B C	 D 
2. If you finish your work early, you could come of a drink with us 
 A B	 C D
3. My father has smoke for a long time but now he has given up
 A B C	 D 
4.	Tom is always forget his keys and that really annoys me. 
 A B	 C	 D
5.	She spends her free time to visit galleries and museums. 
 A 	 B	 C	 D
6.	She left here without saying anything, didn’t she?
A B 	 C D
7.	She had the gardener to plant some trees. 
 A B 	 C	 D
8.	Marry asked me if I was going to visit my aunt the day before
 A B	 C D
9.	We went to fishing yesterday
 A B C	 D
10.	Mike and Harriet are visiting a woman which they met on holiday.
 A 	 B C 	 D
VI. Choose the best option to fill in each of the blanks to make a meaningful passage: (2,5pts)
Computers (1).. an important part in our life nowadays. It’s (2). to carry on our work without computers. For example, (3) are necessary in a university library. All the (4)..normally found in a library is now (5). in computers. This is very (6) for students because they can (7). messages and receive information (8). having to leave their computers. Access (9) a computer has now (10) students’ need.
1.	 A. do	B. make	C. have	D. play
2.	A. easy	B. difficult	C. exciting	D. important
3.	A. books	B. things	C. computers	D. messages 
4.	A. information	B. work	C. life	D. event
5.	A. kept	B. stored	C. put	D. made
6.	A. difficult	B. comfortable	C. suitable	D. convenient
7.	A. receive	B. send	C. give	D. write
8.	A. and	B. but	C. without	D. not
9.	A. to	B. in	C. of	D. with
10.	A. became	B. becomes	C. becoming	D. become
VIII. Rewrite the sentences so that they mean almost the same as those printed before them: (5pts) 
 1. The child will die if nobody sends him for a doctor.
 Unless someone sends him for a doctor, the child will die
2.	Mrs. Taylor does not like living in such a small house.
Mrs. Taylor wishes she lived in a big house/ 
	Mrs. Taylor wishes she didn’t live in a small house
3.	No one in this class is more intelligent than he is.
He is the most intelligent student in this class
4.	The postman was bitten by my dog
My dog bit the postman
5.	The flight to Moscow lasted three and a half hours
 It took three and a half hours to fly to Moscow.
 6. “John, please don’t tell anyone my new address” said Mary.
 Mary told John not to tell anyone his new address
7.	Tom is not old enough to drive a car.
Tom is too young to drive a car
8.	I last saw him when I was a student.
I haven’t seen him since I was a student
9.	People say football is the best game to play. 
Football is said to be the best game to play
 10. She asked John why he liked learning English.
 “Why do you like learning English, John?” She said