Sở giáo dục và đào tạo
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Kì thi chọn học sinh giỏi tỉnh Lớp 9 THCS
năm học 2009 2010
Môn thi : Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
Ngày thi: 28/3/2010
(Đề thi gồm 04 trang)
Học sinh làm bài vào tờ giấy thi, không làm bài vào đề
Phần trắc nghiệm: Chỉ cần viết phơng án chọn A hoặc B, C, D
Phần tự luận : Viết đầy đủ theo yêu cầu của bài.
(Thí sinh không đợc sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu gì)
A. LISTENING (10 points)
Hớng dẫn phần thi Nghe hiểu:
- Thí sinh đợc nghe 2 lần. Mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
- Mọi hớng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) có trong bài nghe.
Listen to three important inventions and fill each blank with a number or a word.
1. Two Americans made the first jeans in________
2. Women saw the picture of jeans in a ________
3. The first television picture transmitted on 25 October, 1925 was a ________
4. Felix Hofman invented the drug Aspirin at the age of ________
5. In 1969 Aspirin was taken to the ________ by the Apollo astronauts.
B. phonetics (5 points)
Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.
6. A. powder B. beauty C. harvest D. immediately
7. A. signature B. excellent C. semester D. necessary
8. A. reasonable B. enjoyable C. avoidable D. traditional
9. A. consist B. design C. fashion D. collect
10. A. manufacture B. tomorrow C. development D. employment
C. grammar vocabulary
I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence (10 points).

28. My father gave up smoking because he knows it is very (HARM) ________ .
29. The tour guide always tries to make his guests feel (COMFORT) ________
30. Exercising daily will help you to work (EFFECT) ________.
III. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correction (5 points).
31. You'll have to work hard to catch up for the rest of the class as they started studying before you.
A B C D
32. In some countries children are put under great pressure by their parents getting good exam results.
A B C D
33. The study of these animals are truly fascinating, and many books have been written about them.
A B C D
34. She was waiting nervous in the waiting room for the interview.
A B C D
35. Ha Long Bay, where we visited some days ago, is one of the most famous places in our country.
A B C D
IV. Match each sentence in column A with its suitable response in column B. Use each response
once only (5 points).
D. READING
I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C, D best fits each space (10 points).
Man has always depended on plants (41) ________ food and many other useful products. For this
reason, farming is one of the world's most important industries. At first, (42) ________ man did not know
how to plant seeds and raise crops. He (43) ________wild fruits and vegetables where he found them.
Then man discovered how to grow his own food. He (44) ________seeds and waited for the crop to grow.
For the first time, he could be reasonably sure of his food supply. He could settle down and set up shelters
in the places (45) ________ he grew food.
As populations began to increase, the (46) ________for food became greater. Old-fashioned tools and
farming methods were insufficient in (47) ________ the demand, so man cultivated more and more land
and invented complicated machines to make his work easier. Tractors replaced horses and other farm
animals. Scientists studied and (48) ________ with plants. They told farmers how to control plant
diseases, and how to grow bigger and better crops. Now one man, (49) ________ a wide knowledge of
1. Would you recommend a place for

may go home (52) ________ lunch, and have a cooked meal of meat or fish and vegetables. Or perhaps
you take some food with you to school, and eat it in the lunch (53) ________. A chicken and lettuce
sandwich, with some fresh fruit would be a light (54) ________ healthy lunch. Many people around the
world eat plain, boiled rice two or three (55) ________ a day.
Students do not often eat well when they are revising for an (56) ________, they eat chocolate and
drink (57) ________of black coffee. And by the (58) ________, doctors say everybody should start the day
(59) ________a healthy breakfast. It is (60) ________good for you to drink a lot of water right through the
day.
III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D (10 points)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) research, the emission from car exhausts
causes more deaths than road accidents. The research found that one third of all harmful air pollution was
caused by road transport, and that long term exposure to pollution caused estimated 21,000 premature
deaths a year across the three countries, France, Austria and Switzerland. This is much higher than the
9,947 who died that year as a result of road accidents.
In addition, the researchers calculated that the car fumes caused 300,000 extra cases of bronchitis
in children, and 15,000 extra hospital admissions for heart disease made worse by the pollution. They
calculated that the cost of dealing with all this was 27 billion Euros per year. A lot of money goes into
making cars safer, but not as much is spent solving air pollution.
61. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Pollution and road accidents B. Bad effects of car exhausts
C. the necessity of making cars safer D. The toll of road accidents
62. According to the passage,
A. air pollution causes more deaths than road accidents.
B. road accidents cause more deaths than car fumes.
C. long term exposure to pollution is harmless.
D. car fumes cause one third of premature deaths.
63. Which of the following is not true?
A. Car exhausts cause bronchitis and heart disease.
B. Car fumes cause one third of all harmful air pollution.
C. Each year road accidents cause 9,947 deaths.

75. Later/ he/ return/ school/ he/ not/ stay/ long//
76. 1897/he/ go/ Alaska/ find/ gold/
77. There/ he/ find/ ideas/ books / stories//
78. He/ come/ home/ start/ write//
79. writings/ successful/ he/ become/ rich/ famous/ twenties//
80. poor health/ he/ die/1916/ age/ 40//
III. Tet is the most important holiday in our country. Write a letter to your pen pal to tell him/ her
about it. You should use the following information in your letter (10 points).
- Time of the holiday
- Activities people do before Tet
- Activities people do during Tet
- The things you enjoy most about the holiday
- …
Begin and end your letter as follows:
Dear Lan,

Love,
Thanh
========== The end ==========
Hä vµ tªn thÝ sinh: Sè b¸o danh
Hä tªn, ch÷ ký gi¸m thÞ 1:
Hä tªn, ch÷ ký gi¸m thÞ 2:
.
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Sở giáo dục và đào tạo
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Kì thi chọn học sinh giỏi tỉnh Lớp 9 THCS

Tng 5 im, mi cõu ỳng cho 1 im
36 37 38 39 40
F A E B C
I. READING
I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C, D best fits each space (10 points).
Tng 10 im, mi cõu ỳng cho 1 im
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
C A B D B A C D D C
II. Read the following passage and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word (10 points)
Tng 10 im, mi cõu ỳng cho 1 im
51 when 56 examination/ exam
52 for 57 lots
53 time 58 way
54 but 59 with
55 times 60 also
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III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D (10 points)
Tng 5 im, mi cõu ỳng cho 1 im
61 62 63 64 65
B A B D C
J.WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it (5 points).
Tng 5 im, mi cõu ỳng cho 1 im
Possible answer:
81. Jacks mother reminded him to do his assignment.
82. If I were you I would take part in the competition.
83. It was too late for them to do anything about this.
84. In spite of not being able to speak Chinese, I decide to settle in Shanghai.
85. I find it difficult to understand his dialect.

Chú ý: Tổng số điểm là 100, sau đó qui về thang điểm 10, và làm tròn đến số
thập phân thứ nhất.
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