PHÒNG GD- ĐT TRUC NINH ---------------------------- Trường THCS TRUC THAI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2010- 2011 MÔN THI TIẾNG ANH Thời gian thi: 120 phút - Không kể thời gian giao đề I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling the corresponding letter A or B, C, D. 1. A. comprise B. chinese C. primary D. addition 2. A. mausoleum B. history C. atmosphere D. know 3. A. beauty B. peace C. speak D. weak 4. A. school B. food C. tooth D. flood 5. A. vacation B. association C. language D. separate 6. A. paddy B. hat C. cat D. parents 7. A. decision B. measure C. unusual D. Thursday 8. A. line B. shine C. wine D. determine 9. A. boat B. foam C. complete D. float 10. A. mountain B. main C. plain D. again II. Choose the best answer from the four options (marked A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence below. Identify your answers by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet. 1. Lan wishes Maryam …………….leave. A. doesn’t have to B. didn’t have to C. won’t have to D. don’t have to 2. We would rather ………………….at home than go out on rainy days. A. stay B. stayed C. to stay D. staying 3. I’d rather we ………… more time together. A. had B. have C. will have D. are having 4. They ……………cycle to school when they were students. A. used to B. was use to C. did use to D. are used to 5. The ………….vase could be repaired. A. breaking B. break C. broken D. broke 6. Hoa was practising her English lessons ……….her fried called. A. while B. during C. when D. which 7. Most students make their friends at school ………… A. happy B. happily C. unhappy D. unhappily 8. My friend wishes he ……… rich and famous. A. is B. are C. was D. were 9. Studying late at night is one of those things that ………….me tired. A. make B. are making C. makes D. making 10. Our school ……………twenty classes, a staff room and a canteen. A. contains B. consists C. include D. comprises 11. I ……….with my uncle in Hanoi since I was in the 9 th form. A. have lived B. living C. lives D. lived 12. I …………… all the walls so far. A. painted B. was painting C. have painted D. paints 13. Lan’s Ao dai looks ……………… A. beautifully B. beautiful C. beauty D. beautify 14. She is proud of her Vietnamese ………………… A. tradition B. traditional C. traditionally D. traditioned 15. We stayed at home because Ann wasn’t very ……… on going out in the rain. A. interested B. keen C. happy D. fond 16. We have to help our children ………….food and clothes. A. to B. from C. with D. in 17. Jeans have never been ……………. ………… fashion. A. to/ in B. to / of C. out / in D. out / of 18. Vietnamese teachers usually wear the AO DAI …………….on Teacher’s day. A. special B. especial C. specially D. especially 19. He hates being …………………at A. look . looking C. to look D. looked 20. She describes herself ……………a fashion designer. A. by B. as C.in D. from III.ach of the following sentences has one mistake. Identify the mistake by choosing A,B, C or D 1. The police wants to interview Tom about the robbery. A B C D 2. The teacher has not decided how to deal with that problem already. A B C D 3. I wish I was a good singer. A B C D 4. Jane stayed at home because of it was raining. A B C D 5. It was in this school which I met her A B C D 6. She was so old who she could not run A B C D 7. She danced less beautiful than I expected A B C D 8. Do you know the reason for why they killed 007? A B C D 9. Susan has been absent for school very often lately. A B C D 10. My sister succeeded on the last examination. A B C D IV. Give the correct form of the given words to complete the following sentences. 1. Some of these traditional dresses have been………………… MODERN 2. Many Vietnamese women continue to wear the unique and …………. dresses. FASHION 3. …………………Jeans are the 1960s’ fashion. EMBROIDERY 4. Jeans made in China are sometimes ………… cheap. SURPRISE 5. Frebruary is ……………the shortest. FREQUENCY 6. We are really impressed by the ………… of these villagers. FRIEND 7. There used to be a big tree at the ………to this village. ENTER 8. Paul’s old coat was so………… out that he had to buy a new one. WEAR 9. People used to wear just a …………wrapped roud the body. CLOTHES 10. My grandmother didn’t work outside her home when she was young. She only did her ………task. TRADITION V. Read the text carefully and fill in the blank a suitable preposition: Nylon was invented (1)………… the early 1930s by an American chemist Julian Hill. Other scientists worked (2) ……… his invention and finally (3)………… 27 th October 1938, Nylon was introduced (4)……….the world. It was cheap and strong and immediately became successful, especially (5) ……… making of ladies stocking. (6)………….the second World War, the best present (7) …………many women was a pair of Nylon stockings, but more importantly, is was used to make parachutes and tyres. Today, Nylon is found in many things: carpets, ropes, seat belts, furniture, and even spare parts (8) ……….the human body. It has played an important part (9)………….our lives for over 50 years. Next year (10) ………….36 million tons of it will be manufactured VI. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 1. She (leave)……………school last year. Since then she (work) …………….as a waitress at a local pub. 2. I’m sorry. I (not finish)………….this work yet. 3. You (see)…………….any good films recently? 4. How many cups of coffee (drink)……… today? 5. Our team (be)……………rubbish. Thye (just lose) ……………eight games one after the other. 6. Poems as well as plays (write)…………… by William Shakespeare. 7. I’m not cooking today. I (cook) ………….all the meals yesterday. In fact, I (cook) ………most of the meals this week. VII. Read the text carefully, then choose the most suittable answers. CLOTHES Clothes can tell a lot (1) ……………… a person. Some people like very colorful clothes because they want everyone (2) ………… at them and they want to be the center of things. (3)……………….people like to wear nice clothes, but their clothes are not (4)………… or fancy. They do not like people (5) ………… Clothes of the 1800s. One difference is the way they look. For example, in the 1800s, all women (7)………… dress. The dresses had all had long skirts. But today, women do not always wear dresses with long skirts. Sometimes they wear short skirts. Sometimes they wear pants. Another difference between 1800 and today is the (8)…………………In the 1800, clothes (9)………………natural kinds of cloth. They were made from cotton, wool, silk or linen. But today, there are (10)……….kinds of man made cloth. A lot of clothes are now made from nylon, rayon or polyester. 1. A. about B. at C. with D. on 2. A. look B. to look C. looked D. looking 3. A. each other B. another C. others D. other 4. A. color B. colorfully C. colorful D. colored 5. A. to look at them B. to looking at them C. looking at them D. looked at them 6. A. at B. to C. from D. in 7. A. wear B. worn C. wore D. wearing 8. A. cloth B. clothing C. clothe D. clothes 9. A. were made only by B. were made only of C. were made only in D. were made only from 10. A. many B. much C. any D. a little VIII. 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 pepople 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 the international communication. 1. Chineese is the most important language. 2. About 66.6 per cent of the world’s population speak six major language. 3. Vietnamese speak English as their first language. 4. 75 per cent of the world’s mail is in English. 5. 40 per cent of the world’s radio staions use English. 6. English has more speakers than Chinese. 7. People in India speak English as their second language. 8. People in New Dehli cannot speak English. 9. People in France speak English as their foreign language. 10. People in Australia also speak English. IX:Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentences. 1. The last time I played tennis was in 1990. I haven’t ____________________________________________________ 2. It will be good to see them again. I’m looking forward ________________________________________ 3. Nobody saw me come in. I came in without ________________________________________ 4. It is important to protect wildlife now or there will be nothing left for future generations. If we _________________________________________________ 5. This city had old buildings, but none can be found nowadays. There used ______________________________________________ 6. “I am very busy. I’ll ring you tomorrow,” Susan said to me. Susan told _______________________________________________ 7. Mary had written two letters before she sent them to her lover. Two letters __________________________________________________ 8. He learned to speak English well in only one year. It took __________________________________________________ 9. It’s nearly twenty years since my father saw his brother. My father __________________________________________ 10. We haven’t been to a concert for over a year. The last time ___________________________________________________ X: Build complete sentences from these words and phrases. 1. Generally / Mark / prefer / stay / at home / to / go out. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Father / too poor / so / he / not go to school. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. I / go / garden / because / want / get / fresh air. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Brother / always / interested / watch / football / television. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. I / not see / brother / weeks. ==========THE END========== Thí sinh không được phép dùng bất cứ tài liệu nào, kể cả từ điển. Họ và tên thí sinh: Số báo danh: . Chữ ký giám thị số 1: . Chữ ký giám thị số 2: PHÒNG GD- ĐT TAM ĐẢO ---------------------------- ĐÁP ÁN VÀ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2010- 2011 MÔN THI TIẾNG ANH I.§¸p ¸n SECTION A: PHONETICS I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling the corresponding letter A or B, C, D. (10 marks) 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. D 9. C 10. A II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group.( 5marks) 1. D 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. D PART B – LEXICO AND GRAMMAR II. Choose the best answer from the four options (marked A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence below. Identify your answers by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet. (10 marks) 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. D 11. A 12. C 13. B 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. D 18. D 19. D 20. B II. Each of the following sentences has one mistake. Identify the mistake by choosing A,B, C or D(10 marks) 1. B 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. B 10. B III. Give the correct form of the given words to complete the following sentences.(10 marks) 1. modernized 2. fashionable 3. embroidered 4. surprisingly 5. frequently 6. friendliness 7. entrance 8. worn 9. cloth 10. traditional IV. Read the text carefully and fill in the blank a suitable preposition:(10 marks) 1. in 2. with 3. on 4. to 5. in 6. during 7. for 8. for 9. in 10. about V. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.(10 marks) 1. left – has worked 2. haven’t finished 3. Have you seen 4. have been drunk 5. is / was – have just lost 6. were written 7. cooked – have cooked Section C : reading I. Read the text carefully, then choose the most suittable answers.(10 marks) 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. D 9. D 10. A II. Read the passage and answer with true (T)/ false (F)/ not given (N)(10 marks) 1.F 2.T 3.N 4.T 5.F 6.F 7.T 8.N 9.N 10.T Section D: WRITING Part 1:Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentences. (10 marks) 1. I haven’t played tennis since 1990. 2. I am looking forward to seeing them again. 3. I came in without being seen / anybody seeing me. 4. If we don’t protect wildlife now, there will be nothing left for future generations. 5. There used to be old buildings in this city. 6. Susan told me she was very busy and she would ring me tomorrow / the following day. 7.Two letters had been written before they were sent to her lover by Mary. 8. It took him only one year to learn to speak English well. 9. My father hasn’t seen his brother for nearly twenty years. 10. The last time we went to a concert was over a year ago. Part 2: Build complete sentences from these words and phrases. (5 marks) 1. Generally, Mark prefers staying at home to going out. 2. His father was too poor, so he couldn’t go to school. 3. I went out into the garden because I wanted to get some fresh air. 4. My brother is always interested in watching football matches on television. 5. I haven’t seen your brother for some weeks. II. HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM: - Tổng điểm toàn bài: 100 points - Thang điểm 10 Tổng những phần làm đúng - Điểm bài thi = . ĐẢO ---------------------------- ĐÁP ÁN VÀ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2010- 2011 MÔN THI TIẾNG ANH I.§¸p ¸n SECTION A: PHONETICS I tên thí sinh: Số báo danh: . Chữ ký giám thị số 1: . Chữ ký giám thị