Đề thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Năm học 2012-2013 - Trường THCS Yết Kiêu (Có đáp án)

ackpack	c. written	d. category
3.	a. contact	b. restaurant	c. company	d. attention
4.	a. notice	b. regular	c. potato	d. celebrate
5. a. collect	 b. summer	 c. shortage	 d. motorcycle
C. GRAMMAR - VOCABULARY
I - Choose the best option a, b, c or d. (10 points)
	1.	He is a highly intelligent boy,.he is very lazy.
	a. but	b. and	c. or	d. so
	2.	Somehave modernized the long dress by printing lines of poetry.
	a. poets	b. tailors	c. writers	d. designers
	3.	My Parker pen,.I bought yesterday, has just broken.
	a. whose	b. which	c. that	d. b and c
	4.	If you.your homework, I won't let you watch TV.
	a. do	b. have done	c. don't do	d. didn't do
	5.	I enjoyplaces I've never been to before.
	a. to visit	b. visiting	c. visit	d. with visiting
	6.	Children can't get to sleep on Christmas Eve. They're too..
	a. excited	b. bored	c. interested	d. worried
	7.	Mickey Mouse cartoonsinto sixty languages.
	a. have translated	b. translated
	c. have been translated	d. were being translated
	8.	She..on talking although I wasn't listening.
	a. got	b. looked	c. put	d. went
	9.	..to church on Sundays when you were younger?
	a. Did you used to go	b. Are you used to going
	c. Did you use to go	d. Do you get used to going
	10.	If Jennymore friendly, she would have more friends.
	a. was	b. had been	c. is	d. had
II - Each of the following sentences has an error marked A, B, C or D. Identify the errors. (10 points)
1. I'm not taking my umbrella because it is raining.
 A B C D	
2. I broke my leg when I felt down in the street.
 A B C D
3. The students seemed very nervously before the final exam.
 A B C D
4. My best friend's coming to Paris to visit me in 19 July.
 A B C D
5. We will get lost if we take a map.
 A B C D
6. His family was very poor, because he had to work for a factory.
 A B C D
7. You know where Karen is, do you?
 A B C D
8. She's a very interesting person. I always enjoy to talk to her.
 A B C D
9. When you want to go fishing this morning, I'll go with you.
 A B C D
10. How long have you been interested on the environment?
 A B C D
III - Provide the correct form of the word in brackets. (10 points)
1.	Mr. Thanh is having	for his bad back.	(treat)
2.	Years later, she passed me in the street without even the
	smallest sign of	.	(recognize)
3.	Two	from the group "Friends of the Earth”
	are taking to the students. 	(represent)
4.	There are more and more people concerning about
	..pollution. 	(environment)
5.	This knife is	 - it can't cut anything.	(use)
6.	It is a contest in which	have to read two	(participate)
	poems in English.
7.	Santa Claus is based on the	of Saint Nicholas	(describe)
	in a poem.
8.	Unfortunately, the leaders of the Church said the songs were	(suit)
	..
9.	Phuong Linh arranged flowers the most	(attract)
	in the contest.
10.	How do people organize these	?	(act)
D. READING
I - Choose the word or phrase which best completes each blank in the following passage. (15 points)
BIRTH OF THE COMPUTER
	Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological_________(0). But actually the idea for a computer______(1) worked out over two centuries ago by a man________(2) Charles Babbage.
	Babbage was born______(3) 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines_____(4) he called "engines". But despite the fact that he____(5) building some of these he never finished any of them. Over the years people have argued______(6) his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building______(7) engine based on one of Babbage's designs.______(8) has taken six years to complete and more_____(9) four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum______(10) remind people of Babbage's work.
0.	a. age	b. year	c. time	d. days
1.	a. has	b. was	c. had	d. is
2.	a. known	b. recognized	c. written	d. called
3.	a. on	b. in	c. by	d. for
4.	a. whose	b. who	c. these	d. which
5.	a. wanted	b. made	c. started	d. missed
6.	a. until	b. whether	c. while	d. though
7.	a. some	b. the	c. an	d. that
8.	a. one	b. he	c. they	d. it
9.	a. than	b. therefore	c. when	d. then
10.	a. to	b. as	c. for	d. so
II - Read the following passage and choose the correct answer. (15 points)
More than two hundred years ago, the term environmental pollution was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank pure water, and breathed fresh air. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. People all over the world are worried about things that are happening to the environment. Actually it is man that is destroying the surroundings with many kinds of wastes. Everybody knows that motorbikes and cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufactures know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on treating the wastes safely. Scattering rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?
1.	More than two hundred years ago	.
	a. the environment was polluted as much as it is today
	b. people knew nothing about environmental pollution
	c. air was polluted badly
	d. people were faced with pollution
2.	In former days, people	
	a. led a healthy life
	b. lived in the polluted environment
	c. were worried about pollution
	d. drank contaminated water
3.	Nowadays, many people are concerned about	
	a. the destruction of the poisonous air
	b. the polluted water
	c. the wastes from the factories
	d. the pollution of the environment
4.	Everybody knows that cars emit dangerous gases	
	a. so they do not travel by car
	b. so they prefer traveling by bicycle
	c. but they still prefer traveling by car
	d. and thet enjoy traveling on foot
5.	Factory owners	
	a. know nothing about pollution
	b. have no awareness of pollution
	c. treat wastes from their factories safely
	d. do not want to spend money on treating the wastes safely.
E. WRITING
I - Finish each of the following sentences in such away that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (15 points)
	1.	"Please turn up the volume, Nga," said her grandmother.
	=> Nga's grandmother asked her	
	2.	Let's go camping tomorrow.
	=> Why don't	
	3.	I felt asleep because the film was so boring.
	=> The film was so	
	4.	"What are you doing?" She asked me.
	=> She asked me	
	5.	Cars cause pollution but people still want them.
	=> Although	
	6.	Please don't play your music so loudly.
	=> Would you mind	
	7.	I don't find it difficult to get up early in the morning.
	=> I am used	
	8. Jack doesn't buy a new car because he doesn't have enough money.
	=> If Jack	
	9.	Peter is the tallest boy in his class.
	=> No one	
	10.They have sold the old house at the end of the road.
	=> The old house	
	II - Write a paragraph of 100 -> 150 words. You support the argument that secondary school student should wear casual clothes. This outline may help you. (15 points)
	Wearing casual clothes:
	- Makes students feel comfortable.
	- Gives students freedom of choice (sizes, colors, and fashions, etc.)
	- Makes students feel self-confident when they are in their favorite clothes
	- Makes school more colorful and lively.
H­íng dÉn chÊm ®Ò thi chän häc sinh giái 9
N¨m häc: 2012-2013
M«n: tiÕng anh 9
A. listening
Each correct answer gets 0,5 ms 
 1.energy	2. many 3. reduce	 4. transport	5.natural
 6. solar 	7.effective 	8. moreover	 	9. money 10.environment
Tapescript
Saving (1) energy is very important today. We can save energy with (2) many ways: We can (3) reduce the amount of used gas by travelling by bicycle or public(4) transport. We can also save (5) natural resources by using (6) solar energy instead of coal, gas, and oil. The sun can be an (7) effective source of power.(8) moreover, saving energy means we can save(9) money and protect the (10) environment.
B. PHONETICS
I - Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words. (5 points)
 1 point for each correct answer
1- a 2- d 3- a 4- d 5- b
II - Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the other words. 
(5 points)
 1 point for each correct answer
1- c 2- d 3- d 4- c 5- a
C. GRAMMAR - VOCABULARY
I - Choose the best option a, b, c or d. (10 points)
1 point for each correct answer
1- a 2- d 3- b 4- c 5- b
 6- a 7- c 8- d 9- c 10- a
II - Each of the following sentences has an error marked A, B, C or D. Identify the errors. (10 points)
1 point for each correct answer
1- B 2- C 3- C 4- D 5- A
 6- B 7- D 8- C 9- A 10- C
III - Provide the correct form of the word in brackets. (10 points)
1 point for each correct answer
1- treatment 2- recognition 3- representatives 4- inviromental 5- useless
6- participants 7- description 8- unsuitable 9- attractively 10- activities
D. READING
I - Choose the word or phrase which best completes each blank in the following passage. (15 points)
1.5 points for each correct answer
1- b 2- d 3- b 4- d 5- c
 6- b 7- c 8- d 9- a 10- a
II - Read the following passage and choose the correct answer. (15 points)
2 points for each correct answer
1- b 2- a 3- d 4- c 5- d
E. WRITING
I - Finish each of the following sentences in such away that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (15 points)
1.5 points for each correct answer
1. 	to turn up the volume.	
	2. 	we go camping tomorrow?	
	3. 	boring that I fell asleep.
	4. 	what I was doing.
	5. 	cars cause pollution, people still want them.
	6. 	not playing your music so loudly?
	7. 	to getting up early in the morning.
	8. 	had enough money, he would buy a new car.
	9. 	is taller than Peter in his class.
	 10. 	at the end of the road has