ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 – THCS
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 150 phút ( Không kể thời gian giao đề )
§Ò Sè 9

A. PRONUNCIATION:
I. Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part:
1. convenient
together
today
modern
2. tool
moon
soon
cook
3. chemistry
champ
church
champion
4. cough
though
rough
tough
.
5. hour
honour
host
honest
6. though
thought
within

lonely
clothing
4. friendly
extra
along
orphanage
5. method
quiet
major
electric
6. produce
towel
advent
flower
.
7. interactive
experience
commercial
linguistics
8. temperature
acquaintance
distinguish
describe
9. generous
humorous
precious
mysterious
10.reputation
description
suggestion

a college or university where students live.
13.Can you tell me how many chapters this book ....................... ( consists of ? /
consists ? / comprises of ? / includes ? )
14................................................ ( All of films / All of the films / Of all films /
Of all the films ) you have watched , which film impresses you most ?
15.The mother divided the cake into four equal pieces. The children
were ............................................... (pleased with / pleased about / happy at /
happy on ) the equal division.
16.We think that with our solidarity we can ...............................................
( overcome / pass / get by / do ) this difficulty.
17.What aspect of learning English ............................................... ( you find to
be difficult? / do you find to be difficult? / you find difficult? / do you find
difficult? )
18.She thinks chatting on the internet is ............................................... ( timeconsumed / times-consumed / time-consuming / times-consuming ).
19.The woman seldom writes poems or stories, ...............................................
( does she? / doesn’t she? / does he? / doesn’t he?
20.I’ll go on holiday ............................................... ( as soon as / how / until /
as ) I can.
C. READING:
I. Put the sentences in logical order to build a dialogue:
A. Oh, I see. And I have a question for you. Do you know when the color
television was invented?
B. It was invented by Peter Carl Goldmark.
C. He was American.
D. Your color television looks very nice. Is it new?


E. What’s his nationality?
F. I know this question. In 1950, wasn’t it?
G. Yes. My father has just bought it.

(success) ............................................., as the inhabitants of No. 13 refused to talk
to them. So on the (10)(advise) ....................................... of local police, the matter
is now in the hands of the court
III. Read the passage and answer with true ( T ) / false ( F ) / not given
( N ):
There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are
the most important ones. Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks those
languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue.
Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows how many
people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the language with more speakers
than English, but it is only the language for more than one billion Chinese people.
English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area in the world. It is
spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South
Africa and India it is one of the official languages. In many countries, the
textbooks in universities are written in English. More than three-fourths of the
world’s mail is composed in English. More than three-fifths of the radio stations
broadcast programs in English. More than half of the scientific and research
journals are in English. English is the language of international communication.


1. Chinese

is

the

most

important


6. English
has
more
speakers
than
Chinese.
..........
..........
7. People in India speak English as their second language.
..........
..........
8. People
in
New
Dehli
cannot
speak
English.
..........
..........
9. People in France speak English as their foreign language.
..........
..........
10.People
in
Australia
also
speak
English.
..........

………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………
5) Boxing / too / dangerous / her / play, / it ? //
………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………
6) If I / younger / learn / drive / car. //
………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………
7) Of all / hotels in town / the Royal Hotel / comfortable. //
………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………
8) He / try / stop / smoking / many times / but / he / never / succeed. //
………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………
9) I / hope / my English / considerably / improve / the end / course. //
………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………...
10) It / difficult / prevent / people / park here. //
.....................................................................................................................................
..........................................
III. Sentence transformation: Rewrite each of the sentences in a such a
way that has the same meaning as the sentences above it.
1) Six years ago we started writing to each other.


We have
………………………………………………………………………………….........
.............………………
2) Please do not smoke in this area of the restaurant.
Customers are requested

10)” How can I use this machine ? “ asked the man
The man wanted to know
……………………………………………………………………………….............
.......


E. LISTENING : Listen to the conservation carefully and answer the
questions below.
I. Circle the correct answers a, b or c:
1) What is the name of her house ?
a. Orchard Cottage
b. Riverside Cottage
c. Bramble
Cottage
2) What is Sainsbury’s ?
a. a supermarket
b. a hotel
c. a bank
3) What did they want to do ?
a. to sell her cottage b. to move her cottage c. to knock down her
cottage
4) When did it happen ?
a. last year
b. two months ago
c. two years ago
5) How old is the woman ?
a. 69
b. 75
c. 79
II. Answer the questions :

10.


1. enough
electric
6. produce
reputation

2. religion

3. extreme

4. along

5.

7. interactive

8. temperature

9. mysterious

10.

B. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES:
30 điểm: 1,5 điểm cho một chỗ đúng
1. to
2. did
3. reached
4. were

6. suggestions 7. made
8. politely
advice
III. 20 điểm: 2 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng
1. F
2. T
3. F
6. F
7. T
8. F
T
D. WRITING:
I. Cloze test:
20 điểm : 2,5 điểm cho một câu đúng

4. neighborhood

5.

9. successful

10.

4. T
9. N

5. F
10.



6/ Life in rural areas is healthier than life in urban areas .
7/ It was too late to do anything. / It was too late for anything to be done.
8/ He felt better because of her presence .
9/ He used to play football in the school team when he was a school boy.
10) The man wanted to know how he could use that machine.
E. LISTENING :
I. 10 điểm: 2 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng
1. b
2.a
3.c
4.c

5.c

II. 10 điểm: 2,5 điểm cho một câu trả lời đúng
1/ They wanted to build a car park ( for their new supermarket )
2/ They offered her Ê125,000 at first.


3/ She is too old and she hasn’t got any children.
4/ Yes, she was.