De thi HSG tinh Bac Giang 2011

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO BẮC GIANG ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2010 - 2011 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh (Lớp 9) Ngày thi: 02 tháng 4 năm 2011 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ĐIỂM BÀI THI Bằng số: Bằng chữ: Chữ ký giám khảo 1: Chữ ký giám khảo 2: LƯU Ý : - Đề thi gồm 04 trang, thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi. - Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển. I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (5 pts) 1. A. food B. school C. tool D. book 2. A. compose B. emotion C. symphony D. concern 3. A. erased B. preserved C. attacked D. arrived 4. A. species B. pollute C. accept D. receipt 5. A. loves B. laughs C. crops D. earthquakes Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______ II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others. (5 pts) 1. A. tomorrow B. important C. mystery D. however 2. A. celebrate B. historical C. retirement D. communicate 3. A. frequently B. gymnastic C. adjective D. difference 4. A. understand B. engineer C. Vietnamese D. adventure 5. A. laboratory B. electricity C. education D. mathematics. Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______ III. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. (10 pts) 1. - “Would you like some more tea?” - “_______.” A. No, I wouldn’t B. Yes, I would C. Yes, please D. No, let’s not. 2. Let’s wait for her here; I’m sure she will ________ soon. A. turn off B. turn up C. turn down D. turn over 3. Thousands of people ________ near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been ordered to evacuate. A. living B. are living C. who living D. A and C are correct 4. Their office is ________ 168 Trang Tien Street. A. at B. on C. in D. from 5. - “Thanks for your help, John.” - “________.” A. There’s nothing B. Nothing C. It sounds good D. It’s my pleasure 6. I wish I ________ at the festival yesterday! A. was B. were C. had been D. would have been 7. This school needs ________. It looks so old. A. to repaint B. repainting C. repainted D. to be repainting 8. The captain as well as the passengers ________ frightened. A. be B. was C. to be D. were 9. I had nothing to ________, so I decided to keep silent. A. say B. tell C. talk D. speak 10. We found that ________ students in this class are from the same city. A. most of B. most all C. almost the D. most of the Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________ 6. _______ 7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______ 10. _______ IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in capital letters. (10 pts) 1. She is very happy because her application for a ___________________ has been accepted. (SCHOLAR) 2. Our visit to Cuc Phuong National Park last week was an _____________________ experience. (FORGET) 3. ________________ are doing their best to make people aware of the danger of air pollution. (ENVIRONMENT) Trang 1/4 Số phách 4. The differences between British English and American English are ________________ small. (COMPARE) 5. These students voluntarily spent their summer vacations helping the _________________. (ADVANTAGE) 6. They work as __________________ in a big hotel. (RECEIVE) 7. The children listened _________________ to the rules of the game explained by the teacher. (ATTENTION) 8. Don’t worry, that’s _________________. (IMPORTANCE) 9. The tsunami in Japan on March 11 th caused terrible _________________. (DESTROY) 10. Linh _________________ me to her birthday party last Sunday. (INVITATION) V. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (10 pts) 1. - Can you tell me when the train for Ho Chi Minh City (leave)? - At 8 every morning. 2-3. This is the first time I (read) a novel (write) by an English novelist. 4-5. I (sit) down for a rest while the shoes (repair). 6-7. At that time I (not know) what (do) since I was too shocked. 8. During the trip, try to avoid (bite) by mosquitoes. 9. They said that they (work) there for twenty-nine years and they would stop working the following year. 10. Have you seen my keys? I remember (put) them on the table this morning but I can’t find it now. Your answers: 1. 6. 2. 7. 3. 8. 4. 9. 5. 10. VI. Each of the following sentences contains one error. Underline and correct it. (10 pts) 1. I do not know where could he go so early in the morning. → 2. The food in my country is different than that in the United States. → 3. Some of the students seemed very nervously before the final exam. → 4. The teacher told the students to sit down and not opening the booklets until he told them to do so. → 5. In order to being a good salesgirl, you mustn’t be rude to the customers. → 6. The office was broken into but nothing were missing. → 7. The effectiveness of learning with computers depend on some factors. → 8. He usually spends half an hour walking with his son everyday. → 9. She wondered how her friend looked like now, after so many years away. → 10. Da Lat, where is located on High Land, is famous for its mild climate. → VII. Fill in each numbered space with ONE appropriate word. (10 pts) Illiteracy is the condition of being unable to read and (1) ______. Illiteracy is also (2) ______ to describe the condition of being ignorant or unknowledgeable in a particular subject or field. Computer illiteracy (3) ______ the inability to use a computer programming language. Most of us who use computers (4) ______ how to send emails, or how to create a new folder. But we know (5) ______ about programming languages, the artificial languages used to write instructions that can be executed by a computer. Even in developed countries, a very small percentage of computer users are able to read or write this kind of computer language. Should we (6) ______ the effort to learn a computer language, especially when these are so complicated? The answer is “Yes”. Because (7) ______ computer illiteracy, users depend on software manufacturers. Our society becomes more dependent on information technology, and in a few years’ time, reading and writing a computer language will be as essential as using a (8) ______ language. Computer users will not be able to survive (9) ______ they know the code - the set of detailed instructions that tell a computer what to do. In the future, survival and professional success will presuppose knowing everything about the machines we (10) ______ with. Your answers: 1. _____________ 2. _____________ 3. _____________ 4. _____________ 5. _____________ 6. _____________ 7. _____________ 8. _____________ 9. _____________ 10. ____________ VIII. Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (10 pts) If you are going (1) ______ a school camping trip, you will need a strong, well-made tent, and a warm sleeping bag. For cooking you will need a stove, and some simple cooking utensils such (2) ______ a kettle, a frying-pan and a saucepan, as well as a tin-opener. You will need paraffin for your stove, a bucket for (3) ______ Trang 2/4 water and a wash bowl. You should also be (4) ______ to take a safety lamp, some matches and a length of rope for securing things. For yourself you should have (5) ______ warm sweater, jeans and really comfortable shoes or boots, (6) ______ a complete change of all clothing in case you (7) ______ soaked. Besides toilet things, towel and swim suit, you should as (8) ______ take eating utensils, a small first-aid kit, a knife, some scissors and a needle and some thread, also a good torch (9) ______ night time. Food stores should include instant coffee, teabags, sugar, salt, ketchup, dried milk, soup, tinned meat, vegetables, biscuits and baked beans. Perishables can be bought (10) ______ . 1. A. on B. in C. over D. about 2. A. just B. only C. as D. like 3. A. putting B. carrying C. pouring D. having 4. A. special B. possible C. confident D. sure 5. A. a B. any C. the D. some 6. A. so B. too C. also D. such 7. A. take B. get C. have D. make 8. A. also B. so C. either D. well 9. A. for B. at C. with D. against 10. A. local B. locality C. localities D. locally Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________ 6. _______ 7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______ 10. _______ IX. Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (5 pts) One of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century was a method of using natural gas for cooking and heating. Large amounts of natural gas are found in the United States, usually several thousand feet below the surface of the earth. Natural gas is most often found in places where petroleum, the oil from which gasoline is made, is found. Often the natural gas must be removed before the oil itself can be reached. For many years after natural gas was first discovered, it was thought to have no value. Finally, however, people began to understand its use and to find ways of storing it and moving it from place to place. Today natural gas is stored in large tanks and used for lighting, cooking and heating. It has also been used for electric generators and hybrid cars recently. In many ways natural gas is one of our finest fuels. It can be used for cooking without making the room hot. It is cheap and can be moved easily from one place to another through long pipelines, some of which are hundreds of miles in length. 1. It can be inferred from the passage that _______. A. natural gas is useless B. people once wasted natural gas C. natural gas is moved in trucks D. natural gas is found where there’s no petroleum 2. This passage as a whole is about _______. A. discovering natural gas B. finding petroleum. C. using natural gas and petroleum D. natural gas and its use 3. Which of the following is NOT true about natural gas? A. It is not used for heating. B. It is cheap. C. It moves through pipes. D. It can be stored. 4. According to the passage, the easiest way to move natural gas from one place to another is _______. A. to liquidize it and move it through pipelines. B. to liquidize it and move it by trucks. C. through pipelines. D. to store it in large tanks to move. 5. How many uses of natural gas are mentioned? A. two B. three C. four D. five Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________ X. Read the passage and write your answers to the questions given. (5 pts) Uri Geller was born in 1946. When he was only three, he was aware that he had an amazing ability. In 1969, he gave his first performance in a school. He gently rubbed a spoon with his fingers, and it began to bend. Three years later, he drove a car blindfolded through the crowded streets of Munich. Later Uri Geller appeared on television in Britain in front of a small studio audience of scientists. He bent spoons and broke metal objects simply by touching them gently with his fingers. He also drew pictures of hidden objects. After the programme, however, there were hundreds of telephone calls. People reported that spoons in their homes bent during the programme. Metal objects broke, and watches which had stopped many years before suddenly started to go again. Trang 3/4 1. In what year did Uri Geller find himself with an amazing ability? → 2. Where did his first performance take place? → 3. What could he do with his amazing ability when he appeared on television in Britain? → 4. What happened after he appeared on television in Britain? → 5. What did people want to tell him? → XI. Rewrite the sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words. (10 pts) 1. No one in this club plays tennis as well as Jane. → Jane plays 2. She started working as a secretary five years ago. → She has 3. Please don’t make me annoyed by such silly questions. → I’d rather 4. In spite of her poor memory, the old woman told interesting stories to the children. → Even though 5. They left quietly so that they wouldn’t disturb the meeting. → So as 6. “If I were you, I would never smoke in the office, David.” → I advised 7. I am thankful for the gift you presented yesterday. → Thank 8. This is the first time I've made such a stupid mistake. → I have 9. The Picasso painting was so expensive that nobody could buy it. → So 10. People think that the prisoner was recaptured while drinking in the pub. → The prisoner XII. Use the given word to write the second sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word. (5 pts) 1. What’s on your mind at the moment? (THINKING) → 2. “Would you like me to help you, Daisy?” Peter said. (OFFERED) → 3. You can avoid tooth decay by brushing your teeth every day. (IF) → 4. I do not intend to tell them what we are going to do. (INTENTION) → 5. “Well done. You won the first prize. Congratulations!” said Susan’s father. (CONGRATULATED) → XIII. Use the given suggestions to complete sentences. (5 pts) 1. The watch / which / mother / give / me / last week / be / valuable / present. → 2. Since / beginning / course / she / never / late / school. → 3. My friend David / cannot / get / used / have meals / with chopsticks. → 4. Passover / celebrate / every / country / world? → 5. We / be / close friend / because / have / many things / common. → - THE END - Trang 4/4 . ĐÀO TẠO BẮC GIANG ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2010 - 2011 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh (Lớp 9) Ngày thi: 02 tháng 4 năm 2011 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ĐIỂM BÀI THI Bằng số: Bằng. be B. was C. to be D. were 9. I had nothing to ________, so I decided to keep silent. A. say B. tell C. talk D. speak 10. We found that ________ students in this class are from the same city. A “________.” A. There’s nothing B. Nothing C. It sounds good D. It’s my pleasure 6. I wish I ________ at the festival yesterday! A. was B. were C. had been D. would have been 7. This school needs ________.