Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi tỉnh lớp 9 THCS môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2010-2011 - Sở GD&ĐT Hải Dương

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K× thi chän häc sinh giái tØnh Líp 9 THCS n¨m häc 2010 – 2011
M«n thi : TiÕng Anh
Thêi gian lµm bµi: 150 phót
Ngµy thi: 27/3/2011
(§Ò thi gåm 04 trang) 
Häc sinh lµm bµi vµo tê giÊy thi, kh«ng lµm bµi vµo ®Ò.
PhÇn tr¾c nghiÖm: ChØ cÇn viÕt ph­¬ng ¸n chän A hoÆc B, C, D...
PhÇn tù luËn : ViÕt ®Çy ®ñ theo yªu cÇu cña bµi.
(ThÝ sinh kh«ng ®­îc sö dông bÊt cø tµi liÖu g×)
LISTENING 
H­íng dÉn phÇn thi Nghe hiÓu:
- ThÝ sinh ®­îc nghe 2 lÇn. Më ®Çu vµ kÕt thóc phÇn nghe cã tÝn hiÖu.
- Mäi h­íng dÉn cho thÝ sinh (b»ng tiÕng Anh) cã trong bµi nghe. 
Listen to Ryan talking about his life and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points)
1. He has lived in a foreign country.	
2. He has worked for a big company.	
3. He has stayed in an expensive hotel.	
4. He has flown in a jumbo jet.
5. He has cooked a meal for a lot of people.
6. He has met a famous person.
7. He has seen a play by Shakespeare.
8. He has ridden a motorbike.
9. He has been to hospital.
10. He has won a competition.
phonetics 
Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group. (5 points)
11. A. programme	B. earthquake	C. evidence	D. examine
12. A. available	B. conclusion	C. century	D. ambition
13. A. occasion	B. opinion	C. official	D. optional
14. A. unfriendly	B. lazily	C. gallery	 	D. quality
15. A. contain	B. achieve	C. improve 	D. visit
grammar – vocabulary – language functions
I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. (10 points)
16. Due to the bad weather, the picnic has been put ________ until next Wednesday.
A. ahead	B. forward 	C. out 	D. off
17. I want some coffee but there was ________ in the pot.
A. any 	B. no 	C. none	 	D. nothing 
18. Your brother is very tall. What is his exact ________ ?
A. size 	B. height	C. measure	D. length
19. If Minh comes to England, it will be a good ________ for him to improve his English.
A. opportunity 	B. possibility	C. advantage	D. experience
20. ________ much television is not good for a growing child.
A. Watching 	B. Watch 	C. To be watched 	D. Being watched
21. ________ she’s nearly ninety years old, my grandmother still drives to the shops everyday.
A. Even though	B. Furthermore	C. However	D. Nevertheless
22. There's somebody walking behind us. I think ________ .
A. we are following	B. we are being following	
C. we are being followed	D. we are followed
23. James suggested ________ the roof of the house.
A. that I should repair	B. me to repair 	C. to me to repair	D. that I was repairing
24. There was an accident as I was going home last night. Two people were taken to ________ hospital. I think ________ accidents are caused by people driving too fast.
A. a _____ the most	B. the _____ most	C. Φ_____ the most	D. Φ_____ most
25. It’s no use ________ her. You’ll have to wait till she stops talking. 
A. try to interrupt 	B. to try to interrupt	C. trying to interrupt 	D. to try interrupting
II. Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the sentences. (10 points)
26. We believe him because we know he is (TRUTH).
27. Fashion (DESIGN) have done a lot to modernize the traditional ao dai. 
28. The roof of his cottage needs (STRONG).
29. He is one of the most famous (ENVIRONMENT) in the world. 
30. He always wears a (STRIPE) shirt. 	 
31. You’d better drive. I’m too (EXPERIENCE) for such traffic. 	 
32. If we don’t (ECONOMY) on electricity, there will be power cut. 
33. Lack of sleep can have a (NOTICE) effect on your performance at work. 
34. Most people think of computers as very modern products of our new (TECHNOLOGY) age.
35. (FORTUNE), many houses have to be pulled down to make way for the roads. 
III. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correction. (5 points)
36. Stop making so much noise or the neighbours are going to get angrily.
 A	 B	 C	 D
37. It is usually much difficult to learn a subject by listening to the lectures than by reading books.
 A B C D
38. She said her mother that she was still very poor and couldn’t afford to buy the car she really wanted.
 A B C D 
39. He paid me $5 for cleaning twenty windows, most of them hadn’t been cleaned for at least a year.
 A B C D
40. In case it will rain hard this afternoon, you should take the raincoat with you. 
	 A	 B	 C	 D	
IV. Match each sentence in column A with its suitable response in column B. Use each response once only. (5 points)
A
B
41. May I use your phone to ring for a taxi?
42. Hi, Alice. What are you going to do this evening?
43. Would you mind lending me your dictionary for a while?
44. Could you post this letter for me on the way to school?
45. I need a favor.
A. I’d prefer you didn’t. 
B. No, of course not.
C. Sure, I will.
D. Nothing special. 
E. What’s wrong?
F. How can I help?
G. No, thank you.
H. Yes, I could.
I. Oh, there’s no need for that. My son will drive you home.
READING
I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C, D best fits each space. (10 points)
 Science has told us so (46) _______ about the moon that it is fairly easy to imagine what it would be like to go there. It is certainly not (47) _______ friendly place. As there is no air or water, there can be no (48) _______ of any kind. There is no variety of scenery (49) _______ . For mile after mile there are only flat plains of dust with mountains around them. Above, the sun and stars shine (50) _______ a black sky. If you step out of the mountain shadows, it will (51) _______ moving from severe cold into great heat. These extreme (52) _______ continually break rocks away from the surface of the mountains. The moon is also a very silent world, (53) _______ sound waves can only travel through air. But beyond the broken horizon, you see a friendly sight, our earth is shining more (54) _______ than the stars. From this distance, it looks (55) _______ an immense ball, colored blue and green and brown.
46. A. many
B. much
C. any
D. some
47. A. a
B. the
C. an
D. too
48. A. living
B. existence
C. sign
D. life
49. A. neither
B. though 
C. either
D. too
50. A. in
B. on
C. up
D. over
51. A. like
B. appear
C. seem
D. mean
52. A. weather
B. temperatures
C. climates
D. levels
53. A. for
B. though
C. but
D. when
54. A. warmly
B. quickly
C. steadily
D. brightly
55. A. as if
B. like
C. as
D. up
II. Read the following passage and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word. (10 points)
Mozart, who was born on January, 27th, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was (56)_________ the first nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately prosperous family (57)_________ his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early. Mozart (58)____________ learning to play the harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed in 1761 when he was only five, the age (59)_________ which he also first appeared in public. From the age of six, when his father first took (60)_________ on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts (61)_________ musical concerts of Austria, Germany, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been calculated that Mozart spent almost a third of his short (62)_________ – he died at the age of 35 – travelling. As Mozart matured, he continued to tour and (63)_________ concerts. Mozart (64)_________ wrote a lot of operas. His first opera, Ri de Ponto, was first (65)_________ in Milan when he was 14, and it was the first of his many successes in the theater. 
III. Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D. (10 points)
Today our knowledge of food and what it does for our bodies is far more advanced than that of the ancient. Now we know about vitamins and how each kind of vitamin helps in the growth of a particular part of our bodies. There are on the market all kinds of vitamin pills which one can take to make up for one’s lack of certain important things which are needed for normal health. Of course, if we eat well and properly, the food that we eat will take care of our bodies without these pills and so there is no need to take any kinds of vitamin pills unless our doctor tells us that our bodies are short of something which can be supplied by them.
Generally speaking, everything we eat does some good to our bodies, but if we eat too much of one kind of food and pay no attention to others, we may have too much of one kind of chemical substance and not enough of others. Then, we may be in trouble.
We are often told that we must eat some meat at each meal in order to get the necessary protein. That is only partly true, for proteins are not found only in meat. We can also get them from some vegetables. 
The best advice about what to eat is that we should eat all kinds of food but never too much of any.
66. According to the passage, we now know ____________.
A. more and more about food and health B. food and health
 C. how to keep fit and stay healthy D. health is not important 
67. People take certain vitamin pills when they ____________.
 A. want to develop their muscle. B. find their bodies are short of something 
 C. want to prevent their diseases D. are strong enough to work everything
68. The writer thinks we should ____________.
 A. have balanced food B. be careful in choosing food
 C. eat simple food D. go on a diet
69. According to the passage, to get proteins we must eat ____________.
 A. food and vitamin pills B. only fruit
 C. meat and vegetables 	 D. more vegetables
70. The main topic of the passage is ____________.
 A. proteins and food B. vitamins and proteins
 C. food and health	 D. health and vitamin pills 
WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (5 points)
71. You’d better not buy this car. 
- If .. .
72. He was unable to paint the gate of his house because of the heavy rain.
- The heavy rain  .
73. He never has any successful results, even though he tries hard.
- However .. .
74. He was late because his car broke down.
- The reason . .
75. I’m sorry that I didn’t learn to drive a car when I was younger. 
- I regret  .
II. Use the words given to write the biography of Elizabeth Taylor. (10 points)
76. Elizabeth Taylor/ born/ England/ 1932.
77. She/ beautiful child/ black hair/ violet-blue eyes.
78. 1939/ she/ family/ move/ America.
79. Film makers/ there/ notice/ beauty/ when/ she/ only nine.
80. Soon/ she/ a child star. 
81. She/ one/ few child stars/ continue/ successful/ become/ adults.
82. She/ make/ many films.
83. However/ her private life/ not be/ successful/ as/ her career/ in films.
84. She/ get married/ several times.
85. Today/ she/ grandmother/ but/ still/ have/ film-star looks.
III. You have seen an advertisement for English courses at New Horizon Foreign Language Center. You now want to improve your English and you are interested in these courses. Write a letter of inquiry to the center requesting for more information about the courses and the fees. (10 points)
New Horizon Foreign Language Center
Do you want to improve your English? 
Come to us!
We have well-qualified teachers
Classes for all levels available 
in the morning, afternoon and evening
Courses begin second week of April
We are at 73, Tran Hung Dao Street
Your letter should include:
How you come to know about the center; your interest in the courses.
How good your English is.
What class you want to attend.
What kind of information you want.
Begin and end your letter as follows:
50 Pham Hong Thai St., 
Hai Duong City, Viet Nam
March 27th, 2011
Dear Sir,
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Yours faithfully,
Tuan Anh
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