Bài tập Unit 9 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Phần đọc

1. Read the paragraph and choose the most suitable answer A, B, C, or D for each of the gaps.
I started (1) ______ English when I was 14 years old after five years of studying Russian. In the (2) ______ I encountered some difficulties learning the language, but I tried my (3) ______ to overcome them. Firstly, my English pronunciation was (4) ______ by the way I spoke Russian. To solve this problem, I practised by listening to tapes in English every day. I played the tape, stopped after each sentence, and (5) ______ the sentence several times. At school, I joined an English speaking club (6) ______ was organised by a teacher from Britain. She understood my difficulty and helped me very much in improving my pronunciation. Secondly, I found it really hard to learn English vocabulary. In Russian, the way you write the word is the way you pronounce it. However, English spelling is often (7) ______ from its pronunciation. To get over this difficulty I started using the dictionary. Whenever I learnt a new word, I looked it (8)______ carefully in the dictionary. Then I tried to remember the way to read and write the word. After that, I wrote the word down several (9) ______ in a notebook. Gradually, I got (10) ______ to the spelling system of the language. Now I'm confident that my English has become much better.
1. A. getting
B. learning 
C. writing
D. reading
2. A. start
B. beginning
C. end
D. begin
3. A. most
B. self
C. best 
D. hard
4. A. effected
B. given
C. affected 
D. reflected
5. A. said
B. told
C. spoke
D. repeated
6. A. which 
B. it
C. and
D. but
7. A. different 
B. the same
C. far
D. differ
8. A. down
B. on
C. out
D. up 
9. A. ways
B. times 
C. minutes
D. lines
10.A. used
B. remembered
C. well
D. attracted
2. Fill each of the blanks with an appropriate word to complete the passage.
It is not easy for adult students of English to improve their pronunciation. Unlike children, adults often find it hard to (1)__________ the way they speak. This is why adult students have more difficulties in developing speaking (2) __________ than children. First of all, don't worry about not (3) __________ a native-English accent. It's more important to be able to speak (4) __________ , so that people can understand you. Then there are several things that international students of English can do to improve (5) __________ pronunciation and to learn English well. An English (6) __________ helps you a lot in that it shows you the phonetic pronunciation of every word, which part of the word is stressed. You (7) __________ also join an English pronunciation class, or practise speaking and (8) __________ to native-English speakers as much as possible. Watching TV programmes in English is another (9) __________ way of improving your pronunciation. Above all, the best way to improve your pronunciation is to learn English in an English-speaking country where you can learn the (10) __________ as well as its culture.
3 Read and complete the following passage with the most suitable word.
Today English is considered a global language or lingua franca. It is said that __________ you do not know English and cannot use it well, you may meet __________ of difficulties in the modern world. More and more people are learning English for several reasons.
Firstly, they want to improve their knowledge. It is obvious that most of the important sources of information __________ now in English. We can easily find websites, journals, newspapers, and encyclopedias in English everywhere. If we know English well, we can __________ quite a lot of online courses or go abroad to study. Many universities in different countries __________ courses in English even though it is not their native language.
Secondly, it is easier to get a well-paid __________ if you can use English. Most multinational companies require a certain degree of English proficiency from potential employees. __________, in order to get a position with a top company, more and more people are learning English. Even local companies now require their staff to know English. The reason __________ that is they may have business relationships with companies in other countries which use English __________ their working language.
These two reasons are the __________ common ones explaining why people like to, and need to, study English.