Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Trường THCS Hợp Đức

.
A. work 
B. alarm 
C. duty 
D. service
2/ .......... playing professional basketball, she also enjoys tennis.
A. Besides 
B. Moreover 
C. Apart
D. Together
3/ The visit of the president will increase the .......... between the two countries.
A. peace
B. quiet
C. understanding
D. knowledge
4. The .......... of the poetry competition will be known today.
A. decision
B. result
C. effect
D. choose
5/ The newspaper report contained .......... important information.
A. many
B. an
C. a lot of
D. another
6/ The window was so high up that .......... you could see was the sky.
A. everything
B. all
C. only
D. just
7/ The soldier .......... in the fight was taken to hospital.
A. injures
B. was injured
C. injured
D. injuring
8/ The .......... cars haven't been found yet.
A. steal
B. to steal
C. stealing
D. stolen
9/ Who was the person .......... outside?
A. wait
B. waiting
C. to wait
D. waited
10/ We got .......... the plane at 10.30 and the plane took .......... on time.
A. on- off
B. on- up
C. in- out
D. in- off
11. The staff  working at weekend so as not to delay the project any further.
A. are
B. was
C. is 
D. have
12. It’s difficult to pay one’s bill when prices keep .
A. growing
B. gaining
C. raising
D. rising
13. Mr Nam has to finish his work today, ?
A. doesn’t he
B. hasn’t he
C. has he
D. does he
 14. The beautiful village is shelter.the weather by the mountain.
A. by
B. from
C. in
D. under
15. This one is prettier, but it costs as the other one.
A. as much as
B. as many
C. twice as many
D. twice as much
II/ In each of the following sentences, there are 4 underlined parts. Find out the part that needs correcting: 5 points
1. Many bridges in England were covered with wooden roofs to protect it from snow.	1. ......
 	A	 B	 C	 D
2. When his lifetime his work was never published. 	2. ......
 A	 B	 C	 D
3. The whale died because the rescuers didn’t have proper equipment to support its weigh. 	3. ......
 A	 B	C	 D 
4. Salt was once too scarce and precious that it was used as money	4. ......
 	 A	 B	 C	D
5. Dreams are commonly made up of either visual and verbal image. 	5. ......
 	 A	 B	 C	 D
III. Fill in each blank with the correct form of the word given in capital letters:10 points
1. My new car is more . . . . . . . . . . than the one I had before. 	(economy)
2. Are there any .............................rivers left on earth ? 	 	(pollute) 
3. There was a ...............................of water here last year. 	 	(short)
4. The ..... of his wife was a great blow to him. 	(lose)	 
5. Ba’s father’s sense of humor him from the others. 	(distinct)
6. She is looking ...thinner.	 	(appreciate) 
7. I’m not saying he is but he’s not very good with money.	 	(honest)
8. Japan is an country. 	 	(industry)
9. After several .attempts, we have finally done it. 	(success)
10. I think these thin clothes are.. .for cold weather. 	(suit) 
D. READING
I/ Read the passage and choose the best answer : 10 points
	For many young people sport is a popular part of school life and.(1) in one of the school teams and playing in matches is very important. .(2) someone is in a team it means a lot of extra practice and often spending a Saturday or Sunday away.(3) home, as many matches are played then. It .(4) also involve traveling to other towns to play against other school teams and then .(5) on after the match for a meal or a drink. Some parents, friends other students will travel with the team to support .(6) own side. When a school team win a match, the whole feel proud, .(7) only the players. It can also mean a school .(8) well-known for being good at certain sports and pupils from that school may end up playing.(9) national and international teams so that the school has some really .(10) names associated with it.
1. A. having 
B. being 
C. taking 
D. putting
2. A. If 
B. As 
C. Then 
D. So
3. A. at 
B. on 
C. for 
D. from
4. A. ought 
B. is 
C. can 
D. has
5. A. being 
B. staying 
C. leaving 
D. spending
6. A. their 
B. its 
C. our 
D. his
7. A. but 
B. however 
C. and 
D. not
8. A. turns 
B. makes 
C. comes 
D. becomes
9. A. up 
B. to 
C. for 
D. besides
10. A. old 
B. new 
C. common 
D. famous
II/ Read the text and fill in each blank with one suitable word: 10 points
	 There are about 5,000 living languages in the world today, but only about six .(1) them are major languages of the world. Two- thirds of the world's population (2)  those languages. More (3).350 million people speak English as their first language. About the same number use (4).as a second language. Nobody (5).exactly how many people speak it (6)..a foreign language. Chinese is only language (7). more speakers than English. This is because (8)..the big population of China. It is true that English is the (9)...widespread language on earth. It is the (10)..of business, technology, sports and aviation.
III/ Read the passage carefully then choose the best answer: 5 points
Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty- four tine zones, one hour a part. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty- four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty five or twenty- three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you cross the international date line. By agreement, this is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change your calendar one full day, backward or forward. Traveling east, today becomes yesterday; traveling west, it is tomorrow.
1. Strange things happen to time when you travel because
A. no day really has twenty- four hours.
B. no one knows where time zones begin.
C. the earth is divided into time zones.
D. time zones are not all the same size.
2. The difference in time between zones is.
A. seven days
B. twenty four hours
C. more than seven days
D. one hour
3. From this selection it seems true that the Atlantic Ocean ..
A. is divided into twenty- four zones.
B. is divided into five time zones.
C. is in one time zone.
D. can not be crossed in five days.
4. If you cross the ocean going east, you set your clock.
A. ahead one hour in each new time zone.
B. ahead one hour for the whole trip.
C. back one full day for each time.
D. ahead by twenty- three hours.
5. The best title for this selection is..
A. How Time Zones Were Set Up.
B. Crossing the International Date Line.
C. A Trip across the Atlantic.
D. How Time Changes Around the World.
IV/ Read the passage carefully then choose the best answer to the questions below: 5 points
Let us begin by saying what does not cause our dreams. Our dreams do not come from another world. They are not messages from some outside source. They are not a look into the future, either.
All our dreams have something to do with our emotions, fears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. But something on the ‘outside’ may affect what we dream if a person is hungry, or tired, or cold, his dreams may include a feeling of this kind. If the covers on your body such as a quilt or a blanket, have slipped off your bed, you may dream that you are sleeping or resting on the ice and snow. The material for the dream you will have tonight is likely to come from the experiences you have today.
So the subject of your dream usually comes from something that has effect on you while you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.) and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and interests you have now. This is why very young children are likely to dream of fairies, older children of school examinations, hungry people of food, homesick soldiers of their families, and prisoners of freedom.
To show you how that is happening while you are asleep and how your wishes or needs can all be joined together in a dream, here is the story of an experiment. A man was asleep and the back of his hand was rubbed with a piece of absorbent cotton. He would dream that he was in a hospital and his charming girl friend was visiting him, sitting on the bed and feeling gently his hand!
There are some scientists who have made a special study of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams mean. Their explanation of dreams though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, but it offers an interesting approach to the problem. They believe that dreams are mostly expressions of wishes that did not come true. In other words a dream is a way of having your wishes carried out.
1. Our dreams.
A. are simply messages from another world	
B. are a curious look into the future
C. have a little connection with our emotions, wishes or needs
D. are to some degree caused by some of our feelings.
2 If the covers have slipped off your bed, you may dream that
A. something comfortable happens to you.	
B. you are staying in freezing surroundings
C. some people are making noise	
D. you have nothing on at all
3 When the back of a man’s hand was rubbed with a piece of absorbent cotton in the experiment, he would dream that .
A. his hand was being struck by someone	
B. his hand was gently touched by his sweetheart
C. his hand was badly hurt by something	
D. somebody was wiping sweat off his body
4 When a person feels hungry, he is likely to dream of .
A. wonderful fairies 	
B. lovely young girls
C. his family members	
D. fine food and drinks 
5 Some scientists' explanation of dreams .
A. offers a meaningful approach to the problem	
B. gives us an exact answer to the problem
C. does not give an outlet for our wishes
D. is widely accepted and thought highly of by the public
E. WRITING
I/ Complete the second sentence so that it has a si