SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VỊNG TỈNH LỚP 9 THCS
CÀ MAU NĂM HỌC 2008-2009
Mơn thi: Tiếng Anh
Ngày thi: 01 – 03 – 2009
(Đề thi gồm có 7 trang) Thời gian: 150 phút (Khơng kể thời gian giao đề)
Học sinh làm bài vào đề thi này
ĐIỂM
TOÀN BÀI THI
Giám khảo 1
(Họ, tên và chữ ký)
Giám khảo 2
(Họ, tên và chữ ký)
SỐ PHÁCH
(Do Chủ tòch HĐ ghi)
Bằng chữ Bằng số
SECTION I: VOCABULARY,GRAMMAR & READING (13.0 pts)
PART I: (2.5 pts) Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) which best
completes each sentence. Circle the letter you choose.
1. My house is quite close …………… the church. It’s ………. the beach.
A. to/to B. with/near C. to/by D. with/by
2. If only I……………. a new watch. Mine is too old
A. have B. had C. would have D. could have
3. Our former teacher _________ Nam on his contribution to the program.
A. addressed B. awarded C. complimented D. congratulated
4. As it was Christmas, the _________ at the church was much larger than usual.
A. audience B. convention C. congregation D. grouping
5. I spoke to two counter assistants, ……….was extremely rude.
A. one of them B. one of who C. one of whom D. both of them
6. She asked me ………………………
A. where did I come from? C. where did I come from
B. where I came from? D. where I came from

8. Most children learn their first language ________ and sometimes other
languages as well. (EASE)
Your answers:
1 _______________________ 5 _______________________
2 _______________________ 6 _______________________
3 _______________________ 7 _______________________
4 _______________________ 8 _______________________
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PART IV : (2.0 pts): Identify the words or phrases ( A, B, C, or D) that must
be changed for the sentence to be correct. Circle the letter you choose.
1. Stay in bed all day is not good for our health, isn’t it?
A B C D
2. You know , the room is so dirty that it needs clean without delay.
A B C
D
3. Drinking alcohol is prohibited at school. There is a prohibit against selling
A B C
alcohol for people under the age of 18.
D
4. It is obvious that parents always protective their children from dangers.
A B C D
5. When our parents are sick, we took turn to look after them carefully.
A B C D
6. He used to working full time, but now he is a part-time worker.
A B C D
7. I will come and stay with you and your family on March.
A B C D
8. I would like to inform you that the representatives have been arrived this
A B C
morning and they are all very happy.

C. given their software to the police
D. asked police to help them
5. According to the passage, __________ software can damage computers.
A. all B. no
C. illegal D. hard driver
PART VI: (1.5 pts) Fill each gap in the passage with a suitable word from the
box. There are more words than needed. Write your answers in the space provided
under this passage.
Environmental pollution is a term that (1)………………… to all the way by which
man pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air with gases and smoke, (2)
……………………… the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil
with (3)…………………………….many fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his
surroundings (4)……………………… various other ways. (5)…………………… , people ruin
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natural beauty by scattering litter on the land and in the water. They operate
machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with disturbing (6)………………
Your answers:
1 _______________________ 4 _______________________
2 _______________________ 5 _______________________
3 _______________________ 6 _______________________
PART VII: (2.0 pts) Read the following passage carefully and choose the best
word, A, B, C, or D to fill in each gap.
The Millennium Dome in Greenwich (1) to celebrate the end of the
second Millennium. It (2) in 1999. It is a huge construction, large enough
to fit Wembley Stadium inside-twice! 100,000 m
2
of fabric (3) across 43
miles of cable inside its 1 km circumference. At its centre the Millennium Dome
(4) a height of 50m.
Fifteen different exhibitions (5) within the Dome. These

→ There is no __________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
4. No sooner had he arrived than things went wrong.
→ Immediately after his _________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
5. People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to.
→ Smoking cigarettes is__________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
6. Although the weather was too bad, the school children managed to come to
class on time.
→ In spite of____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
7. John only understood very little of what the teacher said.
→ John could hardly_____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
8. ‘You’d better not lend any more money, Elizabeth,’ said Paul.
→ Paul advised _________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
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9. The film was so boring that we left before the end .
→ It was _______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
10. Maria got a bad cough because she began smoking cigarettes.
→ If Maria _____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
PART II: (4.5 pts)
“In about 150-180 words, write a composition about the benefits of the
Internet.”
THE END
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