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Sở GD&ĐT Quảng Ninh kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi CP tỉnh
lớp 9 năm học 2010 - 2011
Đề thi CHNH THC
( thi ny cú 7 trang)
Chữ ký của giám thị
Môn: Tiếng Anh (bảng A) Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
SBD:
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Ngày thi: 24/3/2011 Họ, tên thí sinh:
Số phách

Ngày sinh:
chm ln 1:
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Nơi sinh: Học sinh trng:


Bng ch:

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H tờn, ch ký ca hai ngi
chm phỳc kho:

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Ghi chỳ: Thớ sinh tr li ngay vo bi thi ny. Nu vit sai phi gch b ri vit li.

PART I. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (7.0 pts)
I. Circle the word which has the underlined part is pronounced differently from the
others.
1. A. comb
B. home
C. stone
D. gone
2. A. houses
B. horses
C. promises
D. practises
3. A. practised
B. used
C. passed
D. stopped
4. A. study
B. pub
C. put

D. so
5. She was _____ that she couldn’t speak any words.
A. very angry
B. too angry
C. so angry
D. such angry
6. The teacher asked me a lot of questions, _____ I couldn’t answer.
A. all of whom
B. that all
C. all of which
D. who all
7. ______the tiger, the lion is a member of the cat family.
A. Like
B. Alike
C. Liking
D. It is like
8. The package containing books and records which _____ delivered last week.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
9. I wonder who was going to pay for the _____ window.
A. broken
B. break
C. breaking
D. broke
10. You will become ill _____ you stop working so hard.
A. when
B. if
C. since

C. while
D. so
17. One problem for any teachers is that each student has his/her own______needs.
A. separate
B. divided
C. individual
D. distinctive
18. A good friend will always _____ you no matter what you do.
A. take over
B. stand by
C. run after
D. turn down
19. Claude didn’t _______in Canada.
A. lived
B. use to live
C. used to live
D. used to living
20. We’ve been living in Montreal since we ______ .
A. have graduated
B. have been graduating
C. graduated
D. graduate

III. Use the correct form of the words on the right to complete each of the
numbered spaces on the left. (0) is an example.
Cameron Park
At first light, there is nothing (0) unusual about the town
0. usual 10. free

IV. Fill in the blanks with a, an, the or o (no article) to complete the text below.
Yesterday (1) ______ light aircraft crashed into (2) ______ lonely hillside on (3)
_______ border between Italy and Yugoslavia. (4) ______ pilot and two passengers were
killed when the plane came down in (5) ______ thick fog. So far, (6) _______
passengers have not been identified. (7) ______ pilot, Sir Antonio Ferrara was (8)
_______ prominent Milan industrialist. (9) _______ countryside around (10) ______
crash site is hilly and (11) _______ rescue team from Venice had difficulty in locating
(12) _______ aircraft. The plane was found by ( 13) ________ local hunters and their
dogs. Several bags containing millions of dollars in used banknotes were found beside
(14) _______ plane. (15) _______ police are investigating.

V. In each of the following sentences, four words or phrases have been underlined.
Circle the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that would not be correct.

1. I regret not have tried harder to help my classmates.
A B C D
2. Pollution is something has brought lots of problems.
A B C D
3. After have been in college for two years, Susan decided not to get married.
A B C D
4. Medicine is a field that is quite attractively to my brother.
A B C D
5. We are made doing all the cleaning in the house.
A B C D
6. A fax is a machine by which written messages can send over the telephone line.
A B C D

_______________________________________________________________________
3. Where’s Sarah from?
_______________________________________________________________________
4. What colour is her hair?
_______________________________________________________________________
5. What’s her favourite food?
_______________________________________________________________________
6. What’s her favourite colour?
_______________________________________________________________________
7. Where is her home now?
_______________________________________________________________________
8. What’s her dog’s name?
_______________________________________________________________________

II. Read the passage below and circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the best answer.

The Father of Modern Medicine

Hippocrates, a physician in Greece around 430 B.C, was the father of modern
medicine. There were physicians before Hippocrates, but his ideas about medicine and
the body were very different from the other doctors of his time. At the time, it was
believed that diseases were caused by angry gods or spirits. Hippocrates, however,
believed that there were natural causes for every disease. He was also the first doctor to
study the human body in detail. From his studies, he identified many diseases, and he was
the first doctor to claim that our thoughts come from our brains. Before that, people
believed that our thoughts and feelings came from our hearts.
Hippocrates’s greatest accomplishment was the Hippocratic Oath. Hippocrates
understood that doctors held great power over their patients. He worried that some
doctors would not use this power properly. So, he developed a promise. It said that



THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

Loch is the Scottish word (1) a lake. Loch Ness is a very long,
narrow lake (2) the Highlands in the north of Scotland. It is very deep, (3)
300 metres in some places. When the mist is (4) over
the lake in the evening, you can see the creature swimming (5) the
surface of the water, a series of great humps raised in the air, (6) a huge
snake. (7) you want to see the monster, it (8) if you
have a few drops of whisky first, just to (9) warm. It quickly gets cold
beside the Loch, even (10) a warm summer's day.
(11) very early times, people have talked (12)
monsters in Scotland. Nessie was seen first in 565AD when she attacked some travellers
(13) were crossing the lake (14) a small boat. The first
time she was seen recently was in 1933. The people who saw her (15) Mr
and Mrs John Mackay. The Mackays were local people who just (16) to
be the owners of the only hotel beside the lake. The story they (17) was
printed in the local newspaper, and from (18) it found its way (19)
the London national dailies. Hundreds of reporters invaded
Drumnadrochit. The Mackays' hotel (20) wonderful business.
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IV. Circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the right word(s) to complete the passage
below.

WINE AT AUCTION

During the winter, most London auctioneers have wine auctions. Some are of

C. long
D. way
4. A. enormous
B. so
C. too
D. very
5. A. charged
B. costed
C. billed
D. budgeted
6. A. valued
B. priced
C. worth
D. estimated
7. A. lifting
B. rising
C. peaking
D. raising
8. A. case
B. box
C. load
D. carton
9. A. equal
B. similar
C. same
D. level
10. A. way
B. hope
C. consideration
D. possible

I'm looking

II. Using the words given below to write the complete sentences.

1. Stephany Hardy/ bear/ 1950/ Lincolshire, England 2. when/ she/ six/ she/ write/ short stories/ animals 3. 1965/ she/ write/ first novel / but it/ not / publish 4. she/ meet/ husband/ 1969/ get/ married/1970 5. she/ graduate/ June 20, 1971/ have / daughter/ June 14, 1972
III. You are Nam, a member of Quang Trung English Speaking Club. Tomorrow,
you are going to make a speech at your Club. Write a speech about the benefits of
learning English well (about 150 words).

Ghi chú: Thí sinh viết bài số III, phần III vào sau trang số 7.

___________hÕt___________

17. C
18. B
19. B
20. C

III. 1,5 điểm. Mỗi câu đúng 0,15 điểm.
1. life
2. noticing
3. originally
4. convenience
5. sale
6. attraction
7. widened
8. shorter
9. underground
10. freedom

IV. 1,5 điểm. Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm.
1. a
2. a
3. the
4. The
5. 0
6. the
7. A
8. a
9. The
10. the
11. the
12. the

3. B
4. D
5. B
6. C

III. 2,0 điểm. Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm.
1. for
2. in
3. over/ about
4. rising
5. across/on
6. like
7. If/When
8. helps
9. keep
10. after/on
11. From/Since
12. of/about
13. who
14. in
15. were
16. happened
17. told
18. there
19. into
20. did 9
IV. 2,2 im. Mi cõu ỳng 0,2 im.

1. Stephany Hardy was born in 1950 in Lincolshire, England.
2. When she was six ( years old ), she wrote short stories about animals.
3. In 1965, she wrote her/ the first novel but it was not published.
4. She met her husband in 1969 and (they) got married in 1970.
5. She graduated on June 20, 1971 and had her/ a daughter on June 14, 1972.

III. 3,0 điểm (M bi: 0,5 im; thõn bi: 2,0 im; kt lun: 0,5 im).
Yêu cầu thí sinh viết ỳng th thc ca mt bi din vn (có mở bài, thân bài
và kết luận), nờu mt s li ớch ca vic hc gii ting Anh nh: Hc gii ting
Anh s cú c hi giao tip vi ngi nc ngoi bng ting Anh, bit thờm nn
vn húa, phong tc tp quỏn ca ngi nc ngoi; cú c hi hc tip lờn i hc
v c hi tỡm c vic lm phự hp vi bn thõn. Hc gii ting Anh cú th c
c sỏch ting Anh tip thu nn vn minh v khoa hc k thut tiờn tin trờn
th gii. c bit trong thi k hi nhp th gii thỡ vic hc gii ting Anh cng
cú tm quan trng trong vic giao lu vi cỏc nc v mi lnh vc nh vn húa,
vn ngh, th thao, giỏo dc, khoa hc, k thut, cụng ngh thụng tin, thng
mi Nếu thí sinh viết đúng chủ đ, đúng ngữ pháp, dùng từ chuẩn xác, đoạn văn
không quá ngắn (khoảng 150 từ) mới cho điểm tối đa.

Tng s: 20 im
Ghi chỳ: im ton bi im l, khụng lm trũn s.