Đề thi đễ xuất hsg tỉnh môn tiếng anh- năm học 2008- 2009
Sở GD&ĐT Nghệ An đề thi đề xuấthọc sinh giỏi tỉnh
Năm học 2008-2009
Môn thi: Tiếng anh 9
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
( Ngi ra đề xuất: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Thu- Trờng THCS Đặng Thai Mai- Vinh)
SECTION A: PHONETICS
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. Write your
answers (A or B, C, D) in the numbered spaces.
1. A. century B. crystal C. Christmas D. comment
2. A. children B. charity C. charm D. champagne
3. A. danger B. angry C. language D. passage
4. A. socket B. notice C. enroll D. mobile.
5. A. engineer B. excited C. experiment D. exhibition.
6. A. comment B. equipment C. improvement D. development
7. A. ancient B. century C. center D. rice
8. A. sensitive B. benefit C. pretty D. remedy
9. A. guessed B. moved C. used D. raised
10. A. means B. meant C. bean D. clean
Your answers:
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
SECTION B: LEXICOGRAMMAR
Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Write your answers (A or B, C, D) in the
numbered spaces.
11. As he approached the end of the race he found it hard to . his speed.
A. carry on B. keep on C. maintain D. preserve
12. She . wanted a house overlooking the sea.
A. particularly B. strongly C. essentially D. extremely
13. " Most people . the government's economic policy as a success", claimed the spokesman.
A. measure B. consider C. look on D. believe
14. For my birthday, I was given a writing set . two pens, envelopes and notepaper.

The passage below contains 10 mistakes. IDENTIFY and CORRECT them. Write your answers in the
numbered spaces.
When I was injured my back I had to take a break from my running career. I decided to introduce
more women to the sport to show them how much funny it can be and to give them confidence to get out and
run.
I decided starting a running club for women in my area because I was annoyed by the attitude of
many organizers. They complain about the lack of women in the sport but also use this as an excuse
for not providing separate changing facilities.
I put up posters and 40 women, young and old fit or imfit joined. All of these were attracted by the ideas of
losing weigh but I don't think they had really thought about running before. When or if they did, they have a
picture on painful training. They didn't think of chatting and smiling while running in beautiful places, like by
a tree.
At first they ran for only a minute now they can run thirty minutes. They've also learned from other
runners about diet and keeping fit in generally.
I wanted to do something for woman's running and I've had so much pleasure watching their progress-
almost as much as they've had theirselves.
Your answers:
Mistakes Corrections Mistakes Corrections
26. 26. 31. 31.
27. 27. 32. 32.
28. 28. 33. 33.
29. 29. 34. 34.
30. 30. 35. 35.
Fill in each gap in each sentence with the correct form of the word in capital letters. Write your
answers in the numbered spaces.
36. Unusual beliefs
Despite the fact that this is now the 21st century an
(36) .............................. number of English people appear INCREASE
to (37) .............................. in the paranormal. What is BELIEF
the (38) .............................. for this? EXPLAIN

nursery education and is followed by secondary education. In North America this stage of education is
usually (57)_______ as elementary education.
In most countries, it is (58)_______ for children to receive primary education, though in many jurisdictions it
is permissible for parents to provide it. The transition to secondary school or (60)_______ school is
somewhat arbitrary, but it (59)_______ occurs at about eleven or twelve years of (61)_______. Some
educational systems have separate middle schools with the transition to the final stage of education taking
(62)_______ at around the age of fourteen.
The major goals of primary education are achieving basic literacy and numeracy amongst all pupils, as well
as (63)_______ foundations in science, geography, history and (64)_______ social sciences The relative
priority of various areas, and the methods used to (65)_______ them are an area of considerable political
debate.

Your answers:
56. 58. 60. 62. 64.
57. 59. 61. 63. 65.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer from the given ones:
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Drunken driving- sometimes called America's socially accepted form of murder- has become a
national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers,
adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers,
glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of
American macho image and judges wee lenient in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused
so many well- publicised tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer to
tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in 1960s to reduce it to 18.
After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18- 20 year old drivers more than doubled,

C. Prevented bars from serving drunken customers.
D.
Specified the amount drivers can drink.
70. Why is the problem of drinking and driving difficult to solve?
A. Alcohol is easily to obtained
B. Drinking is linked to organised crime.
C. Legal prohibition has already failed.
D. Legislation alone is not sufficient
Your answers:
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
SECTION IV: WRITING
Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.(Using
the word in BOLD)
71. I have no attention of giving you any money.
 I'm certainy ………………………………….....................……… (not)
72. The weather forecast predicts a drop in temperature tomorrow. (will)
 They say tomorrow………………………………………………………….
73.The time of departure for your flight to Rio is six o’clock. (takes)
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Đề thi đễ xuất hsg tỉnh môn tiếng anh- năm học 2008- 2009
The plane to Rio ..
74.It looks like that old bridge is ready to fall down. (is)
It looks like that old bridge .
75.I suppose you are very tired after your long walk. (must)
You ...
76.I wont come home late from late the party. she said. (promised)
She
77. The door was so heavy that the child couldnt push it open.
The door was ( enough)
78.We were allowed to stay up late if there was a good film on television. (let)

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