Đề thi chọn HSG cấp Thị xã môn Tiếng Anh 9 - Phòng GD&ĐT Thị xã Sa Pa - Năm học 2019-2020 (Đề chính thức - Kèm hướng dẫn chấm)

 PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP THỊ XÃ
 THỊ XÃ SA PA LỚP 9, NĂM HỌC 2019 - 2020
 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
 (Đề thi gồm có 08 trang không tính trang phách, 16 câu)
 Ngày thi: 04/01/2020
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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP THỊ XÃ
 THỊ XÃ SA PA LỚP 9, NĂM HỌC 2019 - 2020
 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
 (Đề thi gồm có 07 trang, 16 câu)
 A. LISTENING (3,0pts)
 Question 1. Listen and complete the statements (1,0pt):
 Australia is the largest (1) . and the (2) . continent on
 the earth. It’s also the (3) ..country. The Great Barrier Reef is the longest 
 Coral (4) .in the world. Uluru, or Ayer’s (5) , is the world’s largest 
 monolith.
 * Your anwsers:
 1 
 2 ..
 3 ..
 4 .
 5 .
 Question 2. Read the statements(1-5). Listen to the conversation and circle True or False 
 (1,0pt).
 1. The front door needs to be repaired. True False
 2. The apartment has a good view of the ocean. True False
 3. There’s a gym in the apartment building. True False
 4. There’s a shopping center near by. True False
 5. The second bedroom is spacious. True False
 Question 3. Listen and answer each question below in a few words (1,0pt)
 1. What was Linda doing just before she arrived?
 .
 2. Was there a guy selling stuff on Bonham Road?
 ..
 3. What did Linda buy from him?
 .
 4. What does the other person think of what Lisa bought?
 .
 5. What might Lisa have to do with the watch that she bought?
 .
 B. LANGUAGE FOCUS (5,0 pts)
 * Phonetics: (1,0pt)
 2 Question 1: Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently 
from the rest by circling A, B, C or D (0,5 pt)
1. A. mule B. mug C. mud D. multiply
2. A. taught B. laughter C. naughty D. slaughter
3. A. thigh B. breath C. myth D. breathe
 4. A. promise B. devise C. surprise D. realise
5. A. ragged B. blessed C. wrapped D. drafted
Question 2:Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern ( 0,5pt)
1. A. committee B.unique C. acquaintance D. furniture
2. A. cosmetics B. economics C. photography D. experence
3. A. captain B. agriculture C. coffee D. mature
4. A. cathedral B. satellite C. gallery D. different
5. A. cement B. environment C. intimacy D.tremendous 
* Lexical- Grammar (4,0)
Question 1: Choose the best answer (2,0pt)
1. If only he told us the truth in the first place, things wouldn’t have gone so wrong.
A. had B. has C. would have D. should have
2. I know him by .but I have no idea what his name is.
A. sight B. myself C. heart D. chance
3. When she looked at in her purse she found she 
A. was stolen B. has been stolen C. has stolen D. had been stolen
4. Mrs Sue is a woman whom I met yesterday.
A. pretty tall thin young black-haired English
B. pretty thin tall young English black-haired
C. English tall thin black-haired young pretty
D. tall pretty thin young English black-haired 
5. We looked everywhere but the intruder was nowhere ..
A. to see B. seen C. to be seen D. having seen
6. She has changed so much that anyone recognised her.
A. almost B. hardly C. not D. nearly
7. If he had told me the reason yesterday, I sad now.
A. won’t be B. wouldn’t be C. wasn’t D. wouldn’t have been
8. Should he hard, he .the exam.
A. studies/ will pass B. study/ would pass
C. study/will pass D. to sudy/ would pass
9. I wish to study English, ..?
 3 A. aren’t I B. do I C. may I D. am I
10. She is talking about the people and places ..she has visited.
A. which B. that C. where D. whom
Question 2: Supply the correct form of the word provided to the right of each blank
 (1,0 pt)
1. Could you the picture over the sofa? STRAIGHT
2. It’s hard to buy meat on the island but fish is PLENTY
3. My car is much too ..to take on a long journey. RELY
4. In .., I’d like to thank many people who have helped CONCLUDE
me while I have been working here.
5. All the newspapers praised the ..of the firemen. BRAVE
Your answers:
 1 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 5 
Question 3: Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the 
mistake and correct it as the example below (0,5pt)
People have always valued the elephants because their size and strength. 0. because-> because of
Asian elephants has been captured and trained to work for human being 1 
 for two thousand years. We have been used in battles from the 3rd century 2 
up when World War II. Because they are easily trained, they have been 3 .
used to transport goods and carry the huge logs from forests which was once 4 .
their homes. Approximately twenty-five percents of the world’s 5 
population of Asian elephants have been caught and trained to do variety 
jobs, including carrying passagers and help to capture more wild 
elephants. 
Question 4: Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition (0,5pt)
1. He is crazy(1) .opera and he listens to it all the time.
2. I listen to what my parents tell me because I have a great deal of respect (2) .them.
3. Six people applied (3) the job, but five of them were turned (4) .
4. His hospitality has made deep impression (5) ..me.
C. READING (5,0pts)
Question 1: Read the following passages and choose the best answers to each questions 
(1,0pt)
 Food and ideas about cooking it have been passing from one part of the world to 
another ever since the stone age revolution began in the Middle East. They were part of the 
spread of civilisation, though since people change their tastes in painting and architecture 
much faster than their tastes in food, knowledge of what was eaten is far less than knowledge 
of the houses that were lived in or the clothes that were worn. Cookery books were few before 
the 17th century- and how close are the general eating habits at any period to the cookery book 
published.
 4 Change owned more to the movement of people, of armies, of merchants, of wealthy 
landowners, than to books. Before canals, the railways, good roads, most people ate what 
could be produced within a thirty- mile area. Ports did better, of course, if they were on a big 
trade route. For most people food was basically regional food and there was not always 
enough of it either. Even in good areas, poor country people had little to eat since most of 
what they produced went for sale at local markets. Only wealthy men could buy expensive 
seeds to grow unusual vegatables, or employ gardeners who understood how to grow fine 
fruit, unfamiliar to the place they lived in, or afford cooks trained elsewhere to provide variety 
at mealtimes. 
 The undoubted advantages of present- day large-scale manufacture and organisation-
outstanding cleanliness, quick distribution, prices that allow far more people than ever in the 
past to satisfy their hunger- have not so far come to us together with an excellent quality of 
flavour. Moreover, in a world where possibilities are endless, business seems to try to limit 
choice beyond a certain level. Of the 300 varieties of pear that are listed by one French 17th 
century gardener- even though he had to admit that only 30 of them were really worth eating- 
only about half a dozen are now produced in Europe.
1.Why do we know so little about the food people ate in the past?
 A. Eating habits used to change very quickly
 B. There were no cookery books before the 17th century
 C. Cookery books probably don’t reflect contemporary eating habits
 D. There are very few paintings of food.
2.Changes in eating habits were due to 
 A. shortages of basic foods
 B. the influence of travellers
 C. developments in agriculture
 D. the recipes of foreign cooks
3.What is the problem with our food today?
 A. It’s too expensive for many people
 B. It’s manufactured too quickly
 C. It doesn’t taste as it used to 
 D. It’s exported in very large quantities.
4. What point is the author making in the example about the pear in the last paragraph?
 A. There is not as much variety now as before
 B. There were more variety in the past but quality was not as high
 C. Most pears which were produced were inedible
 D. There is more variety outside Europe than in Europe.
Question 2: Read the passage below and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) for each 
space. Circle your option (1,0pt)
 What is money? The pound, the dollar or the franc are actually just like a gram or 
a kilometer. The difference is that you can exchange money for something (1) 
........................ . A five pound note may buy a book, a huge bag of sweets, or a (2) 
........................ of cinema tickets. But the note itself is only a printed (3) ........................ of 
paper which costs almost nothing to make.
 Thousands of years (4) ............... people didn't have money as we know (5) 
................... . There were no banks (6) ........................ even shops. In those days, Mr. 
Green, the farmer exchanged the corn he (7) ........................ grown for Mr. Hive's honey. 
This was an exchange arranged between the two (8) ........................, each of whom had 
something that the other wanted. But in time, most societies invented their own 
"currencies" (9) ........................ that people could exchange more. The different 
 5 currencies began to join together, which is why (10) ........................ everyone uses a 
national currency.
1. A. other B. else C. another D. apart
2. A. couple B. double C. few D. several
3. A. slice B. part C. side D. piece
4. A. since B. past C. before D. ago
5. A. them B. it C. some D. that
6. A. or B. neither C. and D. but
7. A. did B. was C. had D. has
8. A. jobs B. people C. things D. goods
9. A. for B. by C. before D. so
10. A. tomorrow B. today C. recently D. soon
Question 3: Read the passage below then answer these questions (1,0pt)
 The world's oceans are so vast that they can cope with the present levels of pollution. 
However, little is known about the long-term effects of such slow poisoning. The most serious 
problem of modern time is that man is destroying the earth's natural resources and 
transforming huge areas into waste land. As a result, it is becoming extremely difficult to 
grow enough to feed the world's rapidly increasing population. A way of protecting all wild 
life on the earth must also be found as many species are in danger of disappearing completely 
from the face of the earth. The smoke in the atmosphere, for example, is increasing so much 
that the amount of sunlight has been reduced in many cities. Man's whole environment is 
being changed in a serious way.
1. What is the process of making something dirty ?
.......................................................................................................................................................
2. Find a word or phrase from the passage with the same meaning as the air, water and land in 
which we live?
.......................................................................................................................................................
3. What is the air surrounding the earth called?
.......................................................................................................................................................
4. What could be best replaced wealth, goods or products people can use ?
.......................................................................................................................................................
5. What is the result of increasing smoke in the atmosphere?
.......................................................................................................................................................
Question 4: Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete this passage (2,0pt)
 At sixteen Henry Vincent was separated from his family as a result of the war. He 
wandered aimlessly from (1) ..country to another (2) finally setting 
down in Australia, (3) ..he trained (4) an electronics engineer. He 
established (5) ..own bussiness but it called for so much work that marriage was 
out of the question. 
 He retirement suddenly (6) ..him realise how lonely he was and he decided to 
(7) ..up a hobby. With his interest in electronics, amateur radio seemed a natural choice. 
He installed his own equipment and obtained a licence and his call sign, which is the set of 
letters and numbers used to (8) .oneself when making radio contact with other radio 
amateurs all over the world.
 Soon Henry had (9) great many contacts in far- off palces. One in 
particular was a man in California with (10) .he had much in common. 
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
 6 D. WRITING (5,0pts)
Question 1: Rewrite these sentences as the meaning stay the same (1,0pt)
1. People think that the owner of that house is abroad. 
-> The owner . 
2. She entered a university as soon as she graduated from high school. 
->No sooner . 
3. The baby cries because the lion looks fierce. 
-> The baby cries because of 
4. Mary wishes she had spoken her mind at the meeting. 
->Mary regretted .. 
5. Despite his intelligence, he doesn’t study well at school 
->Even 
Question 2: Complete the second sentence, using the word given in bold. Do not change 
the word given. There is an example at the beginning (1,0pt)
 Ex: 0. I last saw him at my 21st birthday party. since 
 -> I haven’t seen him since my 21st birthday party
1. Don’t blame me if the tin-opener’s broken fault 
-> It’s is broken.
2. Most medical students study for their degrees until they are 25. graduate
-> Most medical students .of 25. 
3. It’s no use arguing: I’ve made up my mind. point
-> There’s . ..my mind.
4. I don’t really like this kind of music. keen
-> I of music.
5. He’s thinking with pleasure about the weekend! forward
-> He’s .
Question 3: There are a lot of young people, even the adults, play video games nowadays. 
Do you think people should or shouldn’t play these video games? Write a paragraph 
about 160->180 words to give the reasons for your answer and include relevant examples 
from your knowlegde and your experiences.(3,0pts)
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