Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9 THCS môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2011-2012 - Sở GD&ĐT Ninh Bình (Có đáp án)

VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
NINH BÌNH
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS
NĂM HỌC 2011 - 2012
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
 Đề thi gồm 4 phần được in trong 06 trang 
ĐIỂM BÀI THI
HỌ, TÊN VÀ CHỮ KÍ CỦA 
GIÁM KHẢO
SỐ PHÁCH
(Do Chủ tịch hội đồng chấm ghi)
Bằng số:..........................
Bằng chữ:.......................
Giám khảo 1:...................................................
Giám khảo 2:...................................................
(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi này).
PART A: LISTENING 
I. Listen to a record passage and fill in each blank with ONE word.
Attention, please. Here is a special announcement. A little girl is reported missing. She was last seen (1).............. minutes ago near the main entrance to the Car Fair. Her name is Mary and she is 3 years old. She has short (2)..............hair. She is wearing shorts-blue shorts and a long-sleeved (3)............ she is wearing a pair of shoes - (4)........... shoes. She may be carrying a large doll. 
If you see Mary, please bring her to the Information (5).................. Her father is waiting for her there. Thank you. 
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II. Listen to a dialogue between Gianni and his friends. Decide if each given statement about Gianni is true or false. Write TRUE/ FALSE in the column on the right.
Your answers
1. Gianni is from Brazil.
2. English is necessary for Gianni’s job.
3. Gianni works in an international bank.
4. Gianni only learnt English at school.
5. Gianni’s biggest problem when studying English is speaking.
PART B: PHONETICS 
I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group. 
1. A. measles
B. oneself
C. satisfy
D. skim
2. A. student
B. stupid
C. study
D. studio
3. A. walked
B. roofed
C. laughed
D. climbed
4. A. nowhere 
B. overnight 
C. problem 
D. vote
5. A. lake
B. plan 
C. plane
D. state
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II. Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group. 	
1: A. culminate
B. operate
C. terminate
D. machine
2. A. summary
B. intensify
C. instruction
D. affectionate
3. A. agency
B. memory
C. encounter
D. influence
4. A. electrician
B. comfortable
C. manufacture
D. accidental
5. A. substantial
B. dominate
C. agriculture
D. national
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PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR.
I. Choose the words or phrases that best complete the following sentences. 
1. The trip was short. ...................... ; we enjoyed it very much.
A. Although	B. Beside	C. However	D. Whatever
2. He has three cars,. ...................... are worth more than a million dollars.
A. that	B. one of which	C. two of them	D. two of which
3. I. ...................... very well with my father now, we never have any arguments.
A. get on	B. carry on	C. go on	D. put on
4. No sooner. ...................... recovered from flu than he had a stomachache.
A. had he	B. he	C. he was	D. was he
5. “I’m taking my first exam next week”. – “. ...................... ”.
	A. Cheers	 B. Good luck	C. Well done	D. Congratulations
6. Nobody is ready to go, . ...................... ?
	A. isn’t he	B. is he	C. are they	D. aren’t they	
7. He’ll pass his driving test. ...................... he takes some lessons.
A. unless	B. if only	C. so long as	D. so
8. Nam said he was from Hai Phong, but he was from Hanoi. He was a great. ...................... 
A. liar	B. lier	C. lie	D. lying
9. Never put. ...................... till tomorrow what you can do today.
 A. over	B. off	C. back	D. away
10. Today the laser has thousands of uses, but when it. ...................... it was a difficult tool to use.
 A. was first invented 	B. first invented 	C. had first invented D. was invented first
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II. Supply the appropriate forms of the words in the brackets. 
1. I wish that I (know). ...................... how to mend this shirt.
2. Who (carry) .............................our bags when we climb the mountains? 
3. They showed the visitors a village (cover). ...................... with snow in the valley.
4. The new students hope (include). ...................... in many of the school’s social activities.
5. If John and I (have).. ...................... enough money, we would buy a house.
6. She told us that she couldn't meet us as she (work). ...................... then.
7. Hearing the boy shouting for help, the man jumped in (save). ...................... him.
8. Thank you for your help. I never (finish). ...................... my work without it.
9. Though smoking (consider). ...................... harmful to people health, the number of its products (increase) (10). ...................... 
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III. Supply the appropriate forms of the words in the brackets. 
1. The..........................area of the city is not very attractive. 	(industry)
2. We all know that there is no easy........................... to this problem but we 
 must try our best. 	(solve)
3. We celebrate our ............................Day on September 2nd.	(depend) 
4. She got very angry but later she apologized for her............................. .	(patient)
5. You must write your ............................. form clearly. (apply)
6. I apologize for the mistake made by my office. There appears to have been 
 a slight.........................	(understand)
7.The accident happens because of driving .......................... . 	(care)
8. The old fishing village is very............................. .	(picture)
9. He is very anxious about the............................of his passport.	(lose)
10.The athletes take part in the Olympic Games in the true spirit of ..................... .	(sport)
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IV. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. 
1. He doesn’t depend............................ his parents.
2. This guidebook is full............................useful information.
3. He will go to China ............................the end of this weekend.
4. She went out............................saying a word.
5. I know her ............................ sight, but I’ve never talked to her.
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PART D : READING
I. Read the following passage and decide which answer ( A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answer in the numbered box. 
People all (1)..the world know William Shakespeare as one of the (2)..poets and dramatists. He was born in the small English town of Stratford-upon –Avon and (3)..in a large family of eight brothers ad four sisters, (4)..many of them died very young. His father, John Skakespeare, (5)..and sold gloves. William learned at a school in Stratford. He married very young when he was (6)..nineteen, and soon went to London (7)..he worked at a theatre. There he began to write plays for the theatre. His plays were good ( 8)..people like them. Now Shakespeare could help his family of Stratford. He wrote thirty-seven plays and some books of (9)..At the (10)..of his life he came back to Stratford and died there.
1. A. in	B. over	C. about	D. of	
2. A. largest	B. giantest	C. biggest	D. greatest
3. A. raised up	B. rose up	C. grew up	D. bred up
4. A. but	B. so	C. however	D. therefore
5. A. created	B. manufactured	C. produced	D. made
6. A. approximately	B. at	C. about	D. around
7. A. which	B. where	C. that	D. so that
8. A. and	B. so that	C. then	D. thus
9. A. poet	B. poets	C. poems	D. poetic
10.A. stop	B. fall	C. terminal	D. end
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II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to complete the sentences. 
	Which is the world’s highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent? Which is the only place on earth not yet ruined, still untouched by the destructive hand of man? Australasia? Or “the ice”, as Antarctica is referred to by its old friends? Of course, the former still has large areas as yet untouched, but nothing like the huge virgin expanses of “the ice”.
	Now, the virgin continent has become the source of yet another conflict between scientists and environmentalists. The latter believe that Antarctica must be maintained as such and that scientists should be careful not to leave behind anything that might damage the environment. Scientists say that limited local environmental impact has to be expected and accepted, because the continent is an important natural laboratory for estimating the effects humans have on the globe, even functioning as a kind of early-warning system for the whole planet.
	There is a treaty designed to protect this continent which has only 8,000 inhabitants and most of them not permanent, but contains 70% of the world’s fresh water. Oil and minerals cannot be exploited, but what controls are there on the growing number of scientists, explorers and even tourists?
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Australasia	B. Iceland	C. The Ice Continents 	D. Antarctica	
2. According to the passage, what is the main reason for the conflict between the scientists and the environmentalists?
A. The possible environmental damage.	 
B. The use of Antarctica as a laboratory.
 C. Antarctica is becoming a tourist spot.	 
 D. Antarctica is being used as an early-warning system.
3. What cannot be said about Antarctica?
A. It’s the only place on earth still not ruined.	B. It’s the coldest continent.
C. It is still untouched.	D. It is the continent with the least fresh water.
4. Which of the following can people still do in Antarctica?
A. Search for oil. 	B. Come as tourists.
C. Dig for prescious stones.	D. Mine for tin.
5. What can be inferred from the passage?
 A. Antarctica cannot be saved.	 
 B. Antarctica has too few inhabitants to worry about.
 C. Antarctica is worth saving. 
 D. There is a treaty about Antarctica, so there is nothing to worry about.
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III. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word to complete this passage. 	
Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Do you know that nature recycles, too ? One of the things nature (1) ..is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls from the air as (2) ..or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the oceans. Nature’s recycling program for water is (3) ..the water cycle.
The water cycle has four stages: storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff. Water on Earth gets stored (4) ..oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage into the atmosphere by a process called evaporation. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid (5) .. a gas, called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (6) ..atmosphere. Water returns to the Earth as precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water (7) .. the air gets cold enough. Clouds are collections (8)..water droplets. Most precipitation falls into the oceans and goes right back into storage.
Water that falls on land always flows from (9) ..places to lower ones. This flow is called runoff. Water from land flows into streams. Streams join together to make (10) ..and eventually the water flows into storage in the oceans. Then the water cycle starts all over again.
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PART E : WRITING 
I. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. Use the words given and do not change their form. 
1. Go out more or you will fall ill. ( IF ) 
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2. We won’t get to the airport in less than 20 minutes. 	(TAKE)
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3. Carol finds it very easy to make friends. 	(DIFFICULTY)
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4. It was snowing so they cancelled the football match. 	(OWING)
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5. Nobody expected her to lose, but she did. 	(AGAINST)
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II-Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that means exactly the same as the sentences printed before it. 
1. It was such a hard cake that I couldn’t eat it.
 The cake.........................................................................................................................................
2. “You’d better not lend that man any more money, Mary” said John.
 John advised ................................................................................................................................
3. When he is asked about his past, he hates it.
 He hates .......................................................................................................................................
4. We don’t have enough money, so we can’t buy that house.
 If ..................................................................................................................................................
5. Although he took a taxi, he still arrived late for the contest.
 Despite .........................................................................................................................................
6. If you hadn't helped me, I shouldn't have been able to find my way.
 But for ..........................................................................................................................................
7. I haven't been to the cinema for three months.
 The last time .................................................................................................................................
8. Martin may not be very well but he still manages to enjoy life.
Martin's poor ................................................................................................................................
9. The Pacific Ocean is on average deeper than the Atlantic Ocean.
The average .................................................................................................................................
10. The police didn’t at all suspect that the judge was the murder.
Little ............................................................................................................................................
III. Imagine you are visiting Ha Noi , the capital of Viet Nam. In about 120 -150 words, write a letter to your family. Follow the outline. 
 Outline:
	- when you arrived , where you stayed.
	- what you've done, places you visited, 
- food you have tried, things you've bought.
	- how you feel , when you return home.
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