Phòng Giáo Dục Kỳ Thi Học Sinh Giỏi Cấp Thành Phố (2007-2008) TP Buôn Ma Thuột Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 9. Thời gian: 150’ A. PRONUNCIATION: I. Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part: 01. A. convenient B. together C. today D. modern 02. A. tool B. moon C. soon D. cook 03. A. chemistry B. champ C. church D. champion 04. A. cough B. though C. rough D. tough 05. A. hour B. honour C. host D. honest 06. A. though B. thought C. within D. than 07. A. fear B. tear C. bear D. hear 08. A. food B. good C. soon D. too 09. A. cure B. tutor C. sure D. pure 10. A. invention B. question C. information D. protection II. Choose a word that has different stress pattern: 01. A. person B. enough C. picture D. people 02. A. rainfall B. children C. religion D. different 03. A. extreme B. generous C. lonely D. clothing 04. A. friendly B. extra C. along D. orphanage 05. A. method B. quiet C. major D. electric 06. A. produce B. towel C. advent D. flower 07. A. interactive B. experience C. commercial D. linguistics 08. A. temperature B. acquaintance C. distinguish D. describe 09. A. generous B. humorous C. precious D. mysterious 10. A. reputation B. description C. suggestion D. pollution B. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES: Choose the right word or phrase in the brackets and fill in the blank to complete the sentences. 01. My village is about 120 kilometers ____ (in / at / to / for) the west of HCMC. 02. I would rather she ______ (did / do / will do / to do) the work again. 03. We ______ (came / arrived / went / reached) the nearest village before sunset. 04. If only I _____ (were / am / can be / would be) in the countryside right now. 05. He can’t earn money _______ (unless / until / if / without) he has no job. 06. Do you ____ (want / object / mind / disapprove) my turning the television on now? 07. Nobody phoned while I was out, __ (didn’t we? / did we? / did they? / didn’t they?) 08. A _____ (sailor / pen pal / writer / designer) is a person whose job is to decide how to make things or decide their shape or appearance. 09. It’s very crowded here. I wish __________________. (there were a few people / there weren’t so many people / there is no one / there was somebody here) 10. Quiet, please. The headmaster would like to ________ (talk / say / tell / mention) a few words. 11. Maria’s English is excellent. She speaks English ___________. (very perfect / perfective / perfectively / perfectly) 12. ______________ (Campus / Hall / Institute / Dormitory) is a large building in a college or university where students live. 13. Can you tell me how many chapters this book _____________ (consists of ? / consists ? / comprises of ? / includes ?) 14. _________________ (All of films / All of the films / Of all films / Of all the films) you have watched , which film impresses you most? 15. The mother divided the cake into four equal pieces. The children were __________ (pleased with / pleased about / happy at / happy on) the equal division. 16. We think that with our solidarity we can ___________ (overcome / pass / get by / do) this difficulty. 17. What aspect of learning English ______________________ (you find to be difficult? / do you find to be difficult? / you find difficult? / do you find difficult?) 18. She thinks chatting on the internet is _________________. (time-consumed / times-consumed / time-consuming / times-consuming) 19. The woman seldom writes poems or stories, ______________. (does she? / doesn’t she? / does he? / doesn’t he?) 20. I’ll go on holiday _____________ (as soon as / how / until / as) I can. C. READING: I. Put the sentences in logical order to build a dialogue: A. Oh, I see. And I have a question for you. Do you know when the color television was invented? B. It was invented by Peter Carl Goldmark. C. He was American. D. Your color television looks very nice. Is it new? E. What’s his nationality? F. I know this question. In 1950, wasn’t it? G. Yes. My father has just bought it. H. I’m sorry. I don’t know. I. You’re right. And who invented it? II. Complete the passage below by filling in each blank with the correct form of the word in the brackets: The families in our streets are slowly being driven mad by the (1)(refuse) ______ of the inhabitants of No. 13 to have any form of communication with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise (2)(pollute) ______. Every evening, the (3)(think) ______ neighbors used to turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (4)(neighbor) ______ was able to hear anything else. Not knowing what (5)(act) ______ to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (6)(suggest) ______ as to how to deal with the problem. A decision was (7)(make) ______ to send a number of people to talk to the family in No. 13 and ask them (8)(polite) ______ to turn their music down after six in the evening. Unfortunately, the visit did not turn out to be (9)(success) ______, as the inhabitants of No. 13 refused to talk to them. So on the (10)(advise) ______ of local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court. III. Read the passage and answer with true ( T ) / false ( F ) / not given ( N ): There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important ones. Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks those languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the language with more speakers than English, but it is only the language for more than one billion Chinese people. English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area in the world. It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa and India it is one of the official languages. In many countries, the textbooks in universities are written in English. More than three-fourths of the world’s mail is composed in English. More than three-fifths of the radio stations broadcast programs in English. More than half of the scientific and research journals are in English. English is the language of international communication. 01. Chinese is the most important language. 02. About 66.6 per cent of the world’s population speak six major languages 03. Vietnamese speak English as their first language. 04. 75 percent of the world’s mail is in English. 05. 40 percent of the world’s radio stations use English. 06. English has more speakers than Chinese. 07. People in India speak English as their second language. 08. People in New Dehli cannot speak English. 09. People in France speak English as their foreign language. 10. People in Australia also speak English. D. WRITING: I. Cloze test: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. Water is our life source . It makes up 70 percent (1) ________our bodies, and the average person actually spends 18 months of his life in the bath (2) _______shower. But we are only now learning (3) _______to look after water. Acid rain has polluted as many as 18,000 lakes and our seas and our rivers are (4) _______with waste products. It is now very expensive to try to repair the damage (5) _______ has been done .We have some hope for the future, though, because new (6) _______of water have been discovered. People living the Sahara Desert have (7) _______ fish swimming in deep undergrowth steams. Scientists also believe (8) _______is a huge lake beneath London. If we have learnt anything from our mistakes, we will try to keep these new areas of water clean. II. Building sentences: Use the following sets of words and phrases to write complete sentences. 01. Learning / foreign language / necessary / us / get / job. » 02. I / spoke / the man / wife / injured / accident. » 03. family / I / spend / two months / plan / summer / holiday. » 04. driver / stop / car / time / save / child. » 05. Boxing / too / dangerous / her / play, / it? » 06. If I / younger / learn / drive / car. » 07. Of all / hotels in town / the Royal Hotel / comfortable. » 08. He / try / stop / smoking / many times / but / he / never / succeed. » 09. I / hope / my English / considerably / improve / the end / course. » 10. It / difficult / prevent / people / park here. » III. Sentence transformation: Rewrite each of the sentences in a such a way that has the same meaning as the sentences above it. 01. Six years ago we started writing to each other. » We have 02. Please do not smoke in this area of the restaurant. » Customers are requested 03. Can you look after my cat while I’m on holiday ? » Can you 04. He wanted to relax, so he took up Yoga. » He took up Yoga in 05. 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