Đề kiểm tra học sinh giỏi cấp huyện Tiếng anh lớp 9 - Năm học 2016-2017 - Phòng GD & ĐT Hạ Hòa

PHÒNG GD&ĐT HẠ HÒA
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2016 – 2017
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
Đề thi có 06 trang
SECTION ONE. LISTENING (2.0points)
I. Listen to the tape and do the task as guided:
* Part 1: (1.0 point) 
You will hear a radio interview with a man who works on an international camp. For each question, put a tick in the correct box.
1.If you want to apply for the Camp you must..
A. be a student.	B. be at least twenty-four years old.	C.speak more than one language.
2.In a Camp tent you can expect to..
A.mix with other nationalities.	B. share with five other people	C. know the other people.
3.The Camp want the people who are
A.good at cooking	B. good organizers	C.able to mix well
4.What do you have to take to the Camp?
A. a tent	B. a map	C. pictures
5.As a Camp member you should.
A. be a good singer	B. join in performances	C. be good at acting
* Part 2: (1.0 point)
*You will hear a young woman who has applied for an office job talking about her jobs abroad.
*For each question,fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
whole family
six months
a barber’s
4.00 a.m
a receptionist
seven months
a telephonist
a family
a baker’s
4.00 p.m
INTERVIEW FORM
Name: Vicky Brownlow
Age: 22years
Position applied for: Office Manager
Two years' experience abroad
First job 	- worked for (1)...
	- length of time stayed (2)...
Second job 	- worked as (3)..in a hotel
Third job 	- worked for (4).....
	- got up at (5)
SECTION TWO. PHONETICS (1.0 point)
II. Pronunciation: (0.6 point)
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the rest by circling the letter (A, B, C, or D). 
1.A. precious	B. preparation	C. prepare	D. repetition
2. A. dumb	B. rob	C. best	D. both
3.A. hour	B. sour	C. pour	D. our
III. Stress: (0.4 point)	 
Choose the letter (A, B, C or D) next to the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others. 
4. A. remote	B.purpose	C. control	D. respond
5. A. interactive	B. experience	C. commercial	D.linguistics
SECTION THREE. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (8.0 points)
IV. Multiple choice: (7.0 points)
Choose the letter (A, B, C, or D) as the best answer to complete the following sentences.
 There can be some more than one correct answer to some questions. 
1. ______his advice I would never have got the job.
A. Except	B. Apart from	 	C. But for	D. As for
2. He ________ being given a receipt for the bill he had paid.
A. insisted on	 	B. demanded	C. asked for	D. required
3. He strongly denied __________ the new Australian car.
A. that he is stealing 	B. having stolen 	C. stealing	D. to steal
4. By the time you receive this letter, I __________ for Japan.
A. will have left	 	B. have left	C. would have left	D. will leave
5. Because the lift was _________, we had to use stairs to reach the fifth floor. 
A. out of order 	B. in order 	C. operated 	D. run out of
6. I wish my mother ___________ me to go out tonight.
A. will allow 	B. allows 	C. would allow D. has allowed
7. Mr. Ba will have his house ____________ yellow next Sunday. 
A. to repaint 	B. repaint 	C. repainted 	D. repainting
8. __________, they always felt happy.
A. Very poor they are 	B. they are very poor C. Poor they are D. Poor as they are
9. Minh's classmates __________ a picnic in the mountain in the past three days.
A. has 	B. have had C. have D. has had
10. All of us were__________ her success
A. surprise B. surprised at C. taking aback	 D. taken aback
11. I like to listen to sweet __________ in my free time.
A. guitar	B. ballads	C. pops	D. jazz
12. These pills will __________ your pain.
A. prevent	B. ease	C. simplify	D. avoid
13. He was a(n) __________ man who was determined to be rich by any means.
A. ambitious	B. mature	C. brilliant	D. romantic
14. She study hard and got a degree with __________ colors.
A. scarlet	B. red	C. soaring 	D. flying
15. The old manager has just retired, so Jack takes __________ his position.
A. on	B. out	C. in	D. up
16. It is __________ for you to stay in New York with just a few dollars in your pocket.
A. incapable	B. unable	C. impossible	D. irresponsible
17. The chameleon is a very strange ________________.
A. creature	B. creator	C. creation	D. creative
18. Mrs. Edwards______________ History for 35 years, and is retiring soon.
A. teaches	B. is teaching	C. taught	 D. has been teaching
19. There have been protests from animal right groups about ____________ on animals.
A. experience	B. experiments	C. expiration	D. trials
20. Faraday’s accomplishments seem more wonderful when we realize that he had very___________ education.
A. a few	B. few	C. a little	D. little
21. A: “What are the office hours where you work?” B: “_______., everyone comes in at eight and leaves at five.”
A. General	B. In generally	C. In the general	D. In general
22. Lots of people________________ Yoga to relax.
A. practice	B. take up	C. give up	D. take in
23. It isn’t quite________ that he will turn up at the meeting.
A. certain	B. exact	C. right	D. sure
24. After waiting for an hour he realized that the bus was__________________ to come.
A. improbable	B. impossible	C. uncertain	D. unlikely
25. _______________ I was tired, I didn’t go for a picnic with my family.
A. That	B. But	C. However	D. Since
26. You_________________ have told that joke. Everybody has heard it too often.
A. can’t	B. mustn’t	C. shouldn’t	D. needn’t
27. At around two years of age, many children regularly produce sentences_____ three or four words.
A . are containing	B. containing	C. contain	D. contains
28. The first plant-like organisms probably ___________ in the sea, perhaps three billion years ago.
A . life	B. living	C. lived	D. it was living
29. These tennis courts don't ____________ very often. Not many people want to play.
A . got used	B. used	C. get used	D. get use
30. We must learn about how to keep the environment __________________
A . unpollute	B. unpolluted	C. unpollution	D. polluted
31. Do you want _______ with you or do you want to go alone?
A . me coming	 B. me to come	 C. that I come	 D. that I will come
32. I don’t know why exactly but I suspect him of being __________
A. honesty 	B. dishonesty 	C. dishonest 	D. dishonestly
33. He was so badly injured that they had to bring on a ____________ and carry him off the 
 football pitch.
A. hammock 	B. bed 	C. stretcher 	D. bunk
34. Last year, Kevin earned_______________his brother, who has a better position.
A. twice as much as B. twice more than C. twice as many as D. twice as more as
35. We have bought extra food _______ our friends stay to have dinner.
 A. in case 	B. if 	C. provided 	D. as long as
V. Identify the error in the following sentences by circling A, B, C or D. (1 point)
1. Draft horses are the tallest, most powerful and heavy group of horses.
 A 	 B	 C D
2. That Marta's been chosen as the most outstanding student on her campus make her parents 
 A B C very happy 
 D
3. Before diamonds can be used as jewels, they must be cut and polish.
 A	 B	 C	 D
4. Harmony, melody and rhythm are important elements in mostly forms of music.
 A B C D
5. Medical students must learn both the theory and the practice of medicines.
 A	 B	 C	D
SECTION 4: READING (5 points)
VI. Read the passage and choose A, B, C, or D to fill in the blank. (2 points)
WITHOUT TV
 The most radical thing we have ever done is not have a TV in our house. Since 99.1 percent of American (1)..can not make this claim, it may be of some interest to know why. Certainly, our (2)..of a TV has created (3)..curiosity, puzzlement, and anger among the people we know, and I suspect even more of these emotions behind our backs. “If the Wetherells get (4)without a TV, why can’t we?
We did have a television during the first days of our marriage. I remember the dizzy way the (5)..flickered across the screen. A few days later, after I recovered my senses, we took the set to our local dump, (6)..hands in satisfaction and have been without one ever (7)..
 Now that my TV watching days are (8)..me, I can afford to be nostalgic towards it all. I remember those nights when the whole family used to sit in the living room watching Ed Sullivan, one (9).. light left on in the corner, laughing at the comedians before the (10)..came on. Nevertheless, even warmer and more precious in memory will be these quiet, peaceful years with no TV at all.
1. A. households
B. housewives
C. holdalls
D. houseworks
2. A. shortage
B. lack
C. need
D. absence
3. A. large
B. big
C. high
D. great
4. A. over
B. on
C. by
D. away
5. A. images
B. drawings
C. icons
D. movies
6. A. waves
B. tightened
C. moved
D. shook
7. A. since
B. again
C. afterwards
D. before
8. A. past
B. behind
C. over
D. away
9. A. smooth
B. peaceful
C. tender
D. soft
10. A. announcements
B. publications
C. commercials
D. clips
VII. Read the passages below and choose the best answer from the four options marked A, B, C or D. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. (1 point)
Several hundred million years ago, plants similar to modern ferns covered vast stretches of the land. Some were as large as trees, with giant fronds bunched at the top of trunks as straight as pillars. Others were the size of bushes and formed thickets of undergrowth. Still others lived in the shade of giant club mosses and horsetails along the edges of swampy lagoons where giant amphibians swan.
A great number of these plants were true ferns, reproducing themselves without fruits or seeds. Others had only the appearance of ferns. Their leaves had organs of sexual reproduction and produced seeds. Although their “flowers” did not have corollas, these false ferns (today completely extinct) ushered in the era of flowering plants. Traces of these flora of the earliest times have been preserved in the form of fossils. Such traces are most commonly found in shale and sandstone rocks wedged between coal beds.
Today only tropical forests bear living proof of the ancient greatness of ferns. The species that grow there are no longer those of the Carboniferous period, but their variety and vast numbers, and the great size of some, remind us of the time when ferns ruled the plant kingdom.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Plant reproduction	B. How to locate fossils
C. An ancient form of plant life	D. Tropical plant life
2. The word “others” in bold refers to 
A. plants	B. pillars	C. trees	D. fronds
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a characteristic of the plants described in the passage?
A. They once spread over large areas of land.
B. They varied greatly in size.
C. They coexisted with amphibians, mosses, and horsetails.
D. They clung to tree trunks and bushes for support.
4. The author states that fossils of early plant life are usually found in rocks located between deposits of _________
A. coal	B. shale	C. sandstone	D. corollas
5. The word “bear” in bold could best be replaced by which of the following?
A. call for	B. provide	C. tolerate	D. suffer
VIII. Fill in each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word to complete the following passages. (2 points)
There is much more water than land (1)______ the surface of the earth. The sea and oceans (2)______ nearly four-fifths of the whole world, and only one-fifth of (3)______ land. If you traveled over the earth (4)______ different directions, you would have to spend much more of your time (5)______ on water than on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that (6)______ every mile of land there is four miles of water.
 There is much water on the surface of our earth that we (7)______ to use two words to describe. We use the word seas to (8)______ those parts of water surface which (9)______ only a few hundreds of miles wide, the word oceans to describe the huge areas of water which are thousands of miles wide (10)______ very deep.
SECTION 5: WRITING (4 points)
IX. Rewrite the following sentences, beginning as shown so that the meaning will stay the same. (2 points)
1.The final question in part 8 wasn’t answered correctly by anyone.
ðNobody__________________________________________________________________
2. I asked one of my friends to post our classmates' pictures.
ð I ______________________________________________________________________.
3. Parents usually make their children study hard for the exams.
ð The children _____________________________________________________________.
4. We found it difficult not to laugh whenever he appeared on the screen. 
ð We couldn’t ____________________________________________________________.
5.France hasn’t won a gold medal in this sport for ages.
ð It’s ____________________________________________________________________.
6. Michael didn’t return to his hometown until he was at the age of 70. 
ð Not until ________________________________________________________________.
7. This is the most delicious soup I have ever tasted.
ð I have __________________________________________________________________.
8. People say that the bus driver was listening to his walkman at the time of the crash.
ð The bus driver is said ______________________________________________________.
9. I would prefer you not to stay there all the morning like that.
ð I would rather ____________________________________________________________.
10. “You’d better take a holiday,” the doctor told me.
ð The doctor advised ________________________________________________________
X. How to protect your environment of your school? (2 points)
Write a paragraph (from 120 to 150 words) about this topic.
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