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SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi gồm 4 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề PART I. LISTENING You are going to listen to a talk about telephone services. Listen carefully and fill the missing words in the blanks. You should write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each blank. You will hear the talk TWICE. Alarm calls, to (1)________ you up in the morning, should be booked before 10:30 pm the (2)________ evening. Transferred charged calls are (3)________ where the people you want to speak to (4)________ to pay for your call to them. Transferred charge calls can also be (5)________ to many countries (6)________. Personal calls are those where you tell the operator (7)________ of the person you wish to (8)________. You are not connected if that person cannot be (9)________, though a message can be (10)______ for him or her to ring the operator later. This service is normally (11)____ for international calls as well. For emergency calls, if you want the police, fire or (12)_______ services in an emergency, dial 999. Tell the operator the (13)________ you want. Give your exchange and number of all figure number as appropriate. Wait until the emergency (14)________ answers. Then give them the full address where help is needed and other necessary information. 999 calls are (15)________. PART II. PRONUNCIATION Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words in each group. 1. A. advice B. practice C. journal D. carry 2. A. beautiful B. company C. collection D. comfortable 3. A. participate B. environment C. activation D. intelligent 4. A. excellent B. relation C. addition D. formation 5. A. surprise B. pleasant C. allow D. discuss PART III. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY I. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer among four options (A, B, C or D). 1. I ate so many cakes that in the end I had to __________my belt. A. widen B. heighten C. shorten D. loosen 2. At the moment she’s considering __________a car. A. buying B. to buy C. to buying D. buy 3. It is possible __________may assist some trees in saving water in the winter. A. to loose leaves B. that the loss of leaves C. when leaves have lost D. the leaves are lost 4. I hate it __________there is no one in the office. A. which B. when C. that D. where 5. __________the salary meets my expectations, I will accept the job offer. A. Even if B. Due to C. Unless D. Provided that 6. __________excellent art museums, Moscow has a world-famous ballet company. A. In addition to B. Because of C. In case of D. In spite of 7. “Thanks for your help.” ~ “__________want more information, call again tomorrow. A. Were you B. Should you C. Might you D. Had you to 8. Mrs. Dawson was given the award in __________of her services to the hospital. A. spite B. recognition C. charge D. sight of 1 9. Police believe there is a __________between the two crimes. A. joint B. chain C. link D. connector 10. The chairman’s announcement was allow by a __________debate. A. warm B. heated C. hot D. boiling II. Choose the best word or phrase from the four options marked A, B, C or D to explain the underlined part in each sentence below. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. 1. His teaching has a profound effect on me. A. depth B. affection C. affliction D. influence 2. Scott seized the opportunity to present the proposal to the director. A. realized B. grasped C. rendered D. delivered 3. Of course, I liked my drum very much. A. Actually B. Naturally C. Luckily D. Generally 4. To lead a healthy life, you should have a good diet with essential vitamins. A. important B. unusual C. extra D. common 5. My uncle plays the guitar very well. He is an accomplished guitarist. A. well-educated B. well-equipped C. well-trained D. well-done III. Each of the following sentences has one mistake. Find the mistake and correct it. 1. Some of the will probably want to dance during they are listening to the records 2. San Peter, that you recommended, did an excellent job. 3. We had a long discuss about the problem but we couldn’t solve it. 4. Your local tourist office produced an especial book for visitors to your area. 5. If you enjoy cycling for pleasant, doing it in London can be a shock. IV. Use the word given in capital to form a word that fits in the gap in the sentences. 1. The high mountain climate is cold and ___________. HOSPITABILITY 2. Every human __________ has twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in most cells. TYPICAL 3. The bones of mammals, not like those of other vertebrates show a high degree of __________. DIFFER 4. The idea that the sun ‘raises’ is a popular __________. UNDERSTAND 5. Mozart wrote his first symphony by his eighth birthday and was high as a professional ________ at 13. MUSIC V. Fill in each blank with one suitable preposition. Write the answers on your answer sheet. 1. His wife can never talk easily to him. They seem to have nothing _________ common. 2. Don’t judge a man __________ his clothes. 3. I don’t know him for sure, but his face seems familiar _________ me. 4. See what the sign read “Entrance __________ request.” 5. The factory smoke looked white __________ the grey winter sky. PART IV. READING I. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct option marked A, B, C or D to answer the questions. Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend talking about food ? “ Have you ever eaten…?”“ What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly. 2 In most parts of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times a day. Australians drink large amount of beer and the French drink wine every day. The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horsemeat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep meat, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish. So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is very little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been eating, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits. 1. The writer thinks that ___________. A. people eat only what is normal to everybody B. people often change their feelings about food C. people have different opinions about food D. people like eating different foods as they travel from one country to another 2. In many Asian countries ___________. A. people almost always have rice in their meals B. rice is a perfect food C. rice is included in every menu D. rice is completely eaten 3. The text is mainly about ___________. A. people’s attitude to food B. the importance of meat C. strange dishes in the world D. food and life 4. The Japanese enjoy eating raw fish because ___________. A. it doesn’t smell A. it is special to them C. it is well boiled D. it is not good to have fish cooked 5. People everywhere think that ___________. A. we can spend few hours talking about food B. there is very little common sense in talking about food C. there is very little common sense in what we say about eating habits D. we should do much to change our eating habits II. Read the passage and fill in each blank with one suitable word. The United States has a new national park. It is Great Basin. It is the first national park in Nevada. The new park is (1)________ the eastern part of Nevada, near the border with Utah. It is far from any city. An American explorer John Charles Fremont traveled through the area in the early 1800’s. He found the land shaped (2)________ a bowl. So he named it the Great Basin. It is a land of unusual beauty and sharp differences. For example, you can climb a mountain (3)________ with green forest, and then cook yourself in a field of snow as you arrive at the (4)_________. Here and there, sharp rocks push you out through the snow. Among the rocks you might see homes of the golden hawk, a bird that was once in (5)_______ of dying out. You can camp in a campground on the edge of Lehman Caves. (6)________ caves are a group of large underground rooms (7)________ of limestone. You can walk through them for about a kilometer. Before the park opened, the caves ware the center of interest for anyone traveling (8)________ this area. The State of Nevada has wanted a national park more than sixty years. (9)_________ have always been the opposite ideas from people who believed that a park would harm mining and agricultural interests. The bill that set up the park, however, promises that mines will remain open, and that sheep and cows will continue to feed (10)________ the mountain sides. 3 III. Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank. I am very sorry that I was unable to (1)_________your birthday party last Saturday afternoon. I had been looking forward to your party for weeks and I would (2)_________have gone to it if I had not (3)_________a terrible cold on the evening before the party. When I woke late Saturday morning, I felt weak all over. I didn’t have enough (4)_________to get out of my bed by myself. Around 11 am my mother came to my room to see why I hadn’t come (5)_________for breakfast yet. When she saw how pale my face looked, she was very worried. She immediately went to the bathroom, got a thermometer from the medicine-chest and came back and (6)_________my temperature. When she found that I was (7)_________a temperature of 40 0 C, she immediately sent for the family doctor. After the doctor had (8)_________me and given me an injection and some medicine, he advised me to stay in bed for the next few days. (9)_________I very much wanted to attend your birthday with you, I could not. I hope that you and your guests (10)_________yourself at the party. I will visit you as soon as I’m up and about again. Yours sincerely. 1. A. attend B. participate C. take part D. celebrate 2. A. like B. definitely C. also D. at one 3. A. received B. come across C. met D. caught 4. A. spirit B. strength C. power D. ability 5. A. for B. in C. up D. out 6. A. asked B. tested C. measured D. took 7. A. running B. enjoying C. suffering D. heating 8. A. found B. seen C. talked D. greeted 9. A. In spite of B. Even if C. Although D. Since 10. A. interested B. played C. liked D. enjoyed PART V. WRITING I. Write the sentence beginning with the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the original one. 1. My suit needs to be cleaned before the interview.  I must 2. James spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.  James didn’t 3. I haven’t been to Bristol for three years.  The last time 4. “Why don’t you put your luggage under the seat, Anna?” he asked.  He suggested 5. The child will die if nobody sends for a doctor.  Unless II. Write a passage (150-200 words) on the following topic: ‘Most teachers think that homework is necessary’. How far do you agree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience. THE END SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề 4 (Đề thi gồm 4 trang) PART I. LISTENING You are going to listen to a talk about telephone services. Listen carefully and fill the missing words in the blanks. You should write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each blank. You will hear the talk TWICE. Alarm calls, to (1)___wake_____ you up in the morning, should be booked before 10:30 pm the (2)___previous_____ evening. Transferred charged calls are (3)___those_____ where the people you want to speak to (4)___agree_____ to pay for your call to them. Transferred charge calls can also be (5)____made____ to many countries (6)__abroad______. Personal calls are those where you tell the operator (7)___the name_____ of the person you wish to (8)____speak to____. You are not connected if that person cannot be (9)____found____, though a message can be (10)___left___ for him or her to ring the operator later. This service is normally (11)__available__ for international calls as well. For emergency calls, if you want the police, fire or (12)___ambulance____ services in an emergency, dial 999. Tell the operator the (13)____service____ you want. Give your exchange and number of all figure number as appropriate. Wait until the emergency (14)____authority____ answers. Then give them the full address where help is needed and other necessary information. 999 calls are (15)___free_____. PART II. PRONUNCIATION Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words in each group. 1. A. advice B. practice C. journal D. carry 2. A. beautiful B. company C. collection D. comfortable 3. A. participate B. environment C. activation D. intelligent 4. A. excellent B. relation C. addition D. formation 5. A. surprise B. pleasant C. allow D. discuss PART III. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY I. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer among four options (A, B, C or D). 1. I ate so many cakes that in the end I had to __________my belt. A. widen B. heighten C. shorten D. loosen 2. At the moment she’s considering __________a car. A. buying B. to buy C. to buying D. buy 3. It is possible __________may assist some trees in saving water in the winter. A. to loose leaves B. that the loss of leaves C. when leaves have lost D. the leaves are lost 4. I hate it __________there is no one in the office. A. which B. when C. that D. where 5. __________the salary meets my expectations, I will accept the job offer. A. Even if B. Due to C. Unless D. Provided that 6. __________excellent art museums, Moscow has a world-famous ballet company. A. In addition to B. Because of C. In case of D. In spite of 7. “Thanks for your help.” ~ “__________want more information, call again tomorrow. A. Were you B. Should you C. Might you D. Had you to 8. Mrs. Dawson was given the award in __________of her services to the hospital. A. spite B. recognition C. charge D. sight of 9. Police believe there is a __________between the two crimes. 5 A. joint B. chain C. link D. connector 10. The chairman’s announcement was allow by a __________debate. A. warm B. heated C. hot D. boiling II. Choose the best word or phrase from the four options marked A, B, C or D to explain the underlined part in each sentence below. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. 1. His teaching has a profound effect on me. A. depth B. affection C. affliction D. influence 2. Scott seized the opportunity to present the proposal to the director. A. realized B. grasped C. rendered D. delivered 3. Of course, I liked my drum very much. A. Actually B. Naturally C. Luckily D. Generally 4. To lead a healthy life, you should have a good diet with essential vitamins. A. important B. unusual C. extra D. common 5. My uncle plays the guitar very well. He is an accomplished guitarist. A. well-educated B. well-equipped C. well-trained D. well-done III. Each of the following sentences has one mistake. Find the mistake and correct it. 1. Some of the will probably want to dance during they are listening to the records.(while) 2. San Peter, that you recommended, did an excellent job. (who) 3. We had a long discuss about the problem but we couldn’t solve it. (discussion) 4. Your local tourist office produced an especial book for visitors to your area. (tourism) 5. If you enjoy cycling for pleasant, doing it in London can be a shock. (pleasure) IV. Use the word given in capital to form a word that fits in the gap in the sentences. 1. The high mountain climate is cold and ___inhospitable________. HOSPITABILITY 2. Every human ___typically____ has twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in most cells. TYPICAL 3. The bones of mammals, not like those of other vertebrates show a high degree of _differentiation_. DIFFER 4. The idea that the sun ‘raises’ is a popular _misunderstanding___. UNDERSTAND 5. Mozart wrote his first symphony by his eighth birthday and was high as a professional ___musician_____ at 13. MUSIC V. Fill in each blank with one suitable preposition. Write the answers on your answer sheet. 1. His wife can never talk easily to him. They seem to have nothing ____in_____ common. 2. Don’t judge a man _____by/ from/ on_____ his clothes. 3. I don’t know him for sure, but his face seems familiar ____to_____ me. 4. See what the sign read “Entrance _____on_____ request.” 5. The factory smoke looked white _____against_____ the grey winter sky. PART IV. READING I. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct option marked A, B, C or D to answer the questions. Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend talking about food ? “ Have you ever eaten…?”“ What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly. In most parts of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many 6 things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times a day. Australians drink large amount of beer and the French drink wine every day. The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horsemeat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep meat, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish. So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is very little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been eating, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits. 1. The writer thinks that ___________. A. people eat only what is normal to everybody B. people often change their feelings about food C. people have different opinions about food D. people like eating different foods as they travel from one country to another 2. In many Asian countries ___________. A. people almost always have rice in their meals B. rice is a perfect food C. rice is included in every menu D. rice is completely eaten 3. The text is mainly about ___________. A. people’s attitude to food B. the importance of meat C. strange dishes in the world D. food and life 4. The Japanese enjoy eating raw fish because ___________. A. it doesn’t smell A. it is special to them C. it is well boiled D. it is not good to have fish cooked 5. People everywhere think that ___________. A. we can spend few hours talking about food B. there is very little common sense in talking about food C. there is very little common sense in what we say about eating habits D. we should do much to change our eating habits II. Read the passage and fill in each blank with one suitable word. The United States has a new national park. It is Great Basin. It is the first national park in Nevada. The new park is (1)____in____ the eastern part of Nevada, near the border with Utah. It is far from any city. An American explorer John Charles Fremont traveled through the area in the early 1800’s. He found the land shaped (2)____like____ a bowl. So he named it the Great Basin. It is a land of unusual beauty and sharp differences. For example, you can climb a mountain (3)___covered_____ with green forest, and then cook yourself in a field of snow as you arrive at the (4)____top_____. Here and there, sharp rocks push you out through the snow. Among the rocks you might see homes of the golden hawk, a bird that was once in (5)___danger____ of dying out. You can camp in a campground on the edge of Lehman Caves. (6)____These/ The____ caves are a group of large underground rooms (7)_____made___ of limestone. You can walk through them for about a kilometer. Before the park opened, the caves ware the center of interest for anyone traveling (8)___through_____ this area. The State of Nevada has wanted a national park more than sixty years. (9)____There_____ have always been the opposite ideas from people who believed that a park would harm mining and agricultural interests. The bill that set up the park, however, promises that mines will remain open, and that sheep and cows will continue to feed (10)___on_____ the mountain sides. III. Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank. 7 I am very sorry that I was unable to (1)_________your birthday party last Saturday afternoon. I had been looking forward to your party for weeks and I would (2)_________have gone to it if I had not (3)_________a terrible cold on the evening before the party. When I woke late Saturday morning, I felt weak all over. I didn’t have enough (4)_________to get out of my bed by myself. Around 11 am my mother came to my room to see why I hadn’t come (5)_________for breakfast yet. When she saw how pale my face looked, she was very worried. She immediately went to the bathroom, got a thermometer from the medicine-chest and came back and (6)_________my temperature. When she found that I was (7)_________a temperature of 40 0 C, she immediately sent for the family doctor. After the doctor had (8)_________me and given me an injection and some medicine, he advised me to stay in bed for the next few days. (9)_________I very much wanted to attend your birthday with you, I could not. I hope that you and your guests (10)_________yourself at the party. I will visit you as soon as I’m up and about again. Yours sincerely. 1. A. attend B. participate C. take part D. celebrate 2. A. like B. definitely C. also D. at one 3. A. received B. come across C. met D. caught 4. A. spirit B. strength C. power D. ability 5. A. for B. in C. up D. out 6. A. asked B. tested C. measured D. took 7. A. running B. enjoying C. suffering D. heating 8. A. found B. seen C. talked D. greeted 9. A. In spite of B. Even if C. Although D. Since 10. A. interested B. played C. liked D. enjoyed PART V. WRITING I. Write the sentence beginning with the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the original one. 1. My suit needs to be cleaned before the interview.  I must have my suit cleaned/ have someone clean my suit before the interview. 2. James spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.  James didn’t sign the contract without speaking/ until he spoke to his lawyer. 3. I haven’t been to Bristol for three years.  The last time I was in Bristol was three years ago. 4. “Why don’t you put your luggage under the seat, Anna?” he asked.  He suggested that Anne should put her luggage under the seat. 5. The child will die if nobody sends for a doctor.  Unless somebody sends for a doctor, the child will die. II. Write a passage (150-200 words) on the following topic: ‘Most teachers think that homework is necessary’. How far do you agree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience. Marking scheme The impression mark is based on the following scheme: 1. Content (10 points): a provision of all main ideas and details as appropriate. 2. Language (5 points): a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English language gifted upper-secondary school students. 3. Presentation (5 points): coherence, cohesion, and style appropriate to the level of English language gifted upper-secondary school students. 8 Suggested passage 1 There's much controversy about the necessity of daily homework for students. Some say homework is necessary since only practice makes perfect, while others disagree because they believe a student should have the freedom to study whatever in whatever forms just as he/she likes to. In my opinion, daily homework is necessary for students. Firstly, a teacher could assign homework as a guide for the students to study. To learn something, a student needs help of a teacher because he/she does not have an overall understanding of the knowledge he is going to study as the teacher. This means, at the beginning, a student could not well plan his/her study, just as a kid who is for the first time in a swimming pool could do nothing but play with water. In addition, a teacher could make a good study plan for him/her, so that he/she could learn efficiently. Secondly, sometimes, even when a student, especially a young one, has already understand what he/she should do in order to master some skill or knowledge, he/she is still unwilling to do this for the lack of motivation. Hey, don't tell me that you have never been lazy at all when you were young. Some homework could function as a task for the student to perform which is helpful to motivate him/her. Thirdly, homework is an important form of feedback for a teacher to understand the affectivity of his/her work. As I have mentioned before, a teacher makes a study plan for the students; but does it really work? Or does it work for all the students? It is not difficult to know this only if the teacher pays some attention to the homework of the students. Then he/she may be able to find if there's some problems in his/her teaching, and make corresponding adjustment of his/her teaching, either for all the students or for a single one. Without some feedback, it is impossible for the teacher to do this. A test is also a good form of feedback, but obviously one or two tests are not enough, and sometimes this kind of feedback just comes too late. However, this conclusion might be misleading that one may believe all forms of homework are necessary. Actually, only proper amount of homework in proper forms is acceptable; some homework may not only fail to help the students, but on contrary bore them, so much so that they may lose their innate interest to study. "Proper" homework, in my opinion, should vary in its forms; it might be some extensive reading, a paper, or even just a game, as well as other ordinary exercises. Moreover, it should leave enough freedom to the students so that they could do things they really like to do with self-motivation, rather than unwillingness. We should always remember that homework is something for us to guide the students, rather than drive them. Only if a teacher keep this in his/her mind, the homework could be of most help to the students. Suggested passage 2 "You must finish your assignment when coming back from school,” my mother always told me when I was a child. Therefore, I am used to doing my homework as my first thing at home. According to my habits and fondness I am unanimous with this statement that teacher assign homework everyday. Maybe others hate doing homework every day because they take it as a burden which will reduce their time for playing games. Here! Let me tell you why I advocate it. The main reason is that teachers assigning homework everyday really helps me go over my lessons I have had on class. Through my homework I can understand the knowledge by myself and get what the teacher said the most important things in order in my brain. I really liked playing and postponed homework to the next day. Woo! That realize an old saying "Bite more than you can chew”. Another reason is that completing homework everyday will help to raise habit that everyone need think in his/her own way independently. What teacher teaches us is just their understanding track 9 and what we gain on class is just others' experience. What I discussed above is just two points of many persuasive ones. To some extent, we may obey the rule "Always work and study makes Jack a dull boy". But if all these factors are contemplated the advantage of assigning homework everyday carry more weight than those of the opposite one. What I agree with is just personal idea. Maybe you can remember this word. “Going over what you've learned will give you more new knowledge." Suggested passage 3 Many teachers assign homework to students everyday, and they seldom doubt it. However, as far as I am concerned, it is not necessary. To begin with, not every teacher has classes everyday. For instance, a chemistry teacher may have no class on Monday. It makes students learn nothing new about chemistry that day. As a result, it becomes unnecessary for the chemistry teacher to assign homework. Because if the teacher still assigns homework, perhaps the students will not have enough time to review what they have learned that day, such as physics and biology. In addition, everyone must have his or her own leisure time. Students are not machines. They cannot work without any rest. Even if a machine works everyday, its efficiency will become lower and lower and refuse to work finally. So the teachers must let students have some spare time, when they can play games, have a picnic and do other things they like. It is good to children’s health. Last but not least, assigning homework everyday is not a scientific way of studying. Suppose you must do physics homework everyday. After several weeks, you will probably think physics is so boring that it no longer interests you. How could one learn physics well under such circumstance? I think the only way to solve this problem is not to assign physics homework everyday. So from what has been discussed, one can reach only this conclusion that daily homework is not necessary at all. Suggested passage 4 Most students in this world struggle daily with their homework. Many teachers believe that daily homework is the key to education and school success. I agree with this opinion. Here are my reasons. First, daily homework can reinforce the knowledge students learned at school. A student cannot concentrate every minute, and remember everything that a teacher taught in class. Daily homework is the best way for students to review what he learned during the day, and study on the problems that he do not understand, and prepare for the next day’s work. Second, daily homework is the bases of succeed in exams. This is especially true for those students who are not so bright, and the only way to succeed in school is doing homework each day. Whenever the homework flags the class behavior dips, the social behavior is muddled, and the grades take a nosedive. No matter what the ability of a student, daily homework is the key to students’ school success. Third, daily homework can help students develop good learning habits. Learning is not always an enjoyable experience and students always need to spend hard time on it. Daily homework can form a kind of habit of learning for students. Once a habit is formed, learning is not such a painful thing and a student can find it more and more interesting. Obviously this will greatly benefit to a student. In conclusion, daily homework is crucial to students’ success. Life requires us to keep learning in order to catch on with this fast pacing society. A good learning habit and method that we 10 [...]... people who contradict homework because they think that assigning homework everyday will enhance the students' load But I feel that study is the most important task of a student After going home, they should spend some time reviewing their knowledge Only like this, they can acquire progress After understanding the reasoning above, I think that nobody would doubt this idea that teachers should assign homework...developed when we are students can benefit us for the rest of our life Suggested passage 5 I do strongly this idea that teachers should assign homework to students every day There are numerous reasons why I advocate the attitude of assigning homework everyday, and I would explain a few of the most important . GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi gồm 4 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề PART I. LISTENING You. SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề 4 (Đề thi gồm 4 trang) PART. answers. Then give them the full address where help is needed and other necessary information. 99 9 calls are (15)________. PART II. PRONUNCIATION Choose the word whose stress pattern is different