ENGLISH 9 TEST
Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other
words. (5 points)
1. a. fashion b. patient c. make d. sale
2. a. confident b. improve c. bottle d. cotton
3. a. mountain b. amount c. your d. pound
4. a. arrived b. planned c. planted d. remembered
5. a. answers b. grows c. chickens d. drops
Question II. Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the other words. (5 points)
1. a. association b. correspond c. conversation d. disappointed
2. a. continue b. instruction c. compulsory d. primary
3. a. happiness b. traditional c. different d. frequent
4. a. convenience b. centuries c. occasions d. impression
5. a. member b. clothing c. modernize d. designer
Question III. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) which best completes each sentence. (10 points)
1. ________ is your brother?
a. How high b. How tall c. What’s height d. What tall
2. - Would you like to go to the movies with us this Saturday evening?
- ________.
a. Yes, I do b. No, I wouldn’t c. Yes, I’d love to. d. Sorry. I can’t go.
3. This is John. ________ I speak to Andy, please?
a. Can b. Should c. Do d. Shall
4. If you don’t have any plans on Sunday________ we visit Huong Pagoda together?
a. why not b. what about c. why don’t d. why don’t
5. I think you shouldn’t spend too much time ________ the Internet.
a. to use b. using c. use d. uses
6. Poverty in the United States is noticeably different from ________in other countries.
a. that b. those c. it d. this
7. They’ll be given a meal and then ________ to find out why they didn’t go to school yesterday.
a. questioned b. are questioned c. question d. will question
8. - You should go home now.

1. My friend had an accident on her way to school yesterday. (Luck), she wasn’t badly hurt.
2. I enjoyed the (peace) atmosphere while I was on my uncle’s farm last summer.
3. Foreign visitors are really impressed by the (friend) of Vietnamese people.
4. We all love his songs. He is a talented (music).
5. Hoi An is a famous town in Viet Nam. It is (frequent) visited by foreigners.
6. Poets often draw their (inspire) from the picturesque countryside.
7. Her mother is very (pride) of her academic results this term.
8. The two cities are (surprise) similar.
9. My new trousers need (short) because they are too long.
10. The doctor said that whatever I did, my cold would last for a few days and then (appear).
Question VI. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each blank in the following passage. (15
points)
The telephone was (1)_____ in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman who became a US citizen.
The word 'telephone' had been in existence since the 1830s and had been applied to a (2)_______ of
inventions designed to produce sound.
Bell had become (3)_____ in the possibility of long-distance speech through his work with (4)_____ deaf.
He was twenty-eight and his assistant, Thomas Watson, was just twenty-one when they achieved their great
success (5)_____ 10th March 1876. (6)_______ their long and close association, Bell's first communication by
telephone was not 'Tom, come here, I want you', but ' Mr Watson, come here, I want you'.
(7)______ with excitement, Bell and Watson demonstrated their invention to a US telegram company. The
company wrote to Bell, saying that his invention was interesting.(8)______, after giving it careful consideration,
they had come to the conclusion that it had 'no future'. Fortunately for Bell, others could see the possibilities.
Within four years of its invention, the US (9)_______ 60,000 telephones. In the next twenty year that figure
increased to over 6 million. Today, ninety-three per cent of US homes have a phone, a level of phone
ownership no other nation (10)______ near to equaling. Each US household makes or receives on average
3,516 calls per year, an astonishing statistic.
1. a. made b. invented c. discovered d. done
2. a. number b. figure c. amount d. great deal
3. a. interest b. interesting c. interests d. interested
4. a. a b. an c. the d. no article

3. What does the writer think of Japanese trains?
a. They are very nice and comfortable. b. There are not enough trains.
c. They often run behind time. d. They leave and arrive on time.
4. In Tokyo trains every Japanese in a seat
a. reads a newspaper b. looks like being asleep c. talks with others d. looks out of the window
5. From the passage, we can see that fires break out in Tokyo.
a. quite often b. very rarely c. occasionally d. only several times a day
Question VIII. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as
the sentence printed before it. (15 points)
1. They are going to build a big hotel in our town next year.
- A big hotel ……………………………….………..
2. Taking the train doesn't cost as much as flying.
- Taking the train is …………………………………….
3. It was at Christmas when I last talked to my parents.
- I haven’t ………………………………………………….
4 I haven't forgotten any of the details of what happened that day.
- I still …………………………………………………………
5. Be careful or you’ll hurt yourself.
- If ……………………………………………..………………
6. The train was so crowded that I couldn't get a seat.
- There were so ………………………………………………..
7. "Don't come home late, Jenny!" her father said.
- Her father ……………………………………………………………..
8. We decided to go home when we found that no one was there.
- Finding ……………………………………………………………
9. Nobody has watered the flowers in the garden for many weeks.
- The flowers ………………………………………………………....
10. He couldn’t go to the class yesterday. He wasn’t well enough.
- He wasn’t ……………………………………………………………..
Question IX. (15 points) You’ve just visited your uncle in Ha Noi. Write a letter to your friend about your visit.