KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG HUYỆN BẬC THCS
Năm học: 2009 – 2010
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Họ và tên: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Trường: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I. From the following verbs, pick out those whose ending “ed” is pronounced /t/ (1m):
Expressed suggested talked called
Visited liked touched caredII. Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets (2,5ms):
“As he . . . . . . . . . . . . (run) to jump over the ditch, he . . . . . . . . . . . . (fall)
and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (twist) his ankle. We . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(have) to carry him home. He
now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (lie) on the sofa, and he . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(read) a book until a few minutes
ago. The doctor just . . . . . . . . . . . . . (leave) and . . . . . . . . . . . . (say) as he . . . . . . . . . . .(go) out
that he must . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(rest) for a week.
III. Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition (2ms):
1. The house is . . . . . . . . . . . . fire. Call . . . . . . . . . . . . help ?
2. . . . . . . . . . . night, we can see millions . . . . . . . stars . . . . . . . . . our heads.
3. . . . . . . . . . . an average, women live longer than men.
4. We stand . . . . . . . . . peace and are . . . . . . . war.
IV. Fill in the blanks with “a”, “an”, “the” or “O” (no article) (2ms):
1. He got (1). . . . . . . . job in (2). . . . . . . . . south and spent (3). . . . . . . . . next two years
doing (4). . . . . . . work he really enjoyed.
2. It was (1) . . . . . . windy morning but they hired (2) . . . . . boat and went for
(3) . . . . . . . sail along (4) . . . . . . . coast.
V. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate form of the words in brackets (2ms):
1. Sleeping all day, eating too much and never going out is . . . . . . . . . . (health).
2. A doctor who treats only particular illnesses is a . . . . . . . . . . . . . (special).
3. We would have a lot of . . . . . . . . . (funny) if we went there.

Some fruit country kinds
Many people (1) . . . . . . . . . . . to live in the big cities, but (2) . . . . . . . . . . prefer to live
in the (3) . . . . . . . . . . ., my aunt has a small (4) . . . . . . . . . . near my home city, she bought it (5)
. . . . . . . . . . . ten years ago. At the side of the farm house, there is a (6) . . . . . . . . . . . garden. In
it apple – trees are (7) . . . . . . . . . The vegetable garden is at the back of the house. My aunt
rows all (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . of vegetables but see it especially fond potatoes and tomatoes.
IX. Read the passage and circle the letter next to the word that best fits each gap (2ms):
An increasing number of people are now (1) . . . . . . . to Egypt. Last year, for example,
about one and a half million (2) . . . . . . . visited Egypt. The (3) . . . . . . of Egypt is about fifty
million and the (4) . . . . . . . is El Qahira (Cairo), a busy city of just under nine million people.
Although the (5) . . . . . . . . . is hot and dry and most of country is desert, the average
(6) . . . . . . . . from October to March ts not too high. The most (7) . . . . . . . . sight are the
pyramids at Giza. However it’s also pleasant to (8) . . . . . . . Alexandria. Port said and several
other places.
1./ a. holiday b. visit c. excursion d. trip
2./ a. explorers b. voyagers c. tourist d. passengers
3./ a. people b. citizenship c. nation d. population
4./ a. principal b. head c. state d. capital
5./ a. temperature b. climate c. condition d. position
6./ a. weather b. measurement c. climate d. temperature
7./ a. famous b. know c. visited d. requested
8./ a. search b. inspect c. examine d. visit
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