Đề ôn thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Khối 9 - Đề 5

	ĐỀ ÔN HSG KHỐI 9
SECTION A: LISTENING
Question 1: Listen to the conversation and tick (v) the correct answers: (8m)
1. Where was the festival?
Reading
Bristol
York
2. Where was Karen's favourite band from?
Uganda
Colombia
Korea
3. Which kind of food doesn't she mention?
North African
Mexican
Turkish
Japanese
Indian
4. How many people were there?
hundreds
thousands
a million
5. What was the weather like at the festival on Saturday morning?
dry and sunny
cold and wet
cloudy but warm
6. What was the weather like on Sunday?
dry and sunny
cold and wet
cloudy but warm
7. Where was Karen?
in a tent
in a hotel
in a caravan
8. How long was Karen there?
Friday to Sunday
only on Saturday
Saturday and Sunday
Question 2: Aki is on a homestay in America, and the mother of the family is explaining about the house and family. Fill in the details as you listen to the tape: (7m)
1. Where to put clothing: .........................................
2. What to be careful of when taking a bath: .......................................
3. Where to leave shoes: ...................................................
4. Breakfast time: .....................
5. Where to catch the bus for school: ....................................
6. Dinner time: .............................
7. After dinner activities: ...............................................................
SECTION B: PHONETICS, VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
Question 1: Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest: (5m)
1. a/ says              b/ plays                 c/ days                     d/ raise
2. a/ clown            b/ south                 c/ southern               d/ plough
3. a/ hour               b/ honour               c/ honest                  d/ honey
4. a/ though           b/ enough               c/ cough                  d/ rough
5. a/ sun                b/ sure                    c/ success                d/ sort
Question 2: There are 5 words with silent sounds. Find out and write them down: (5m)
notice      rhinoceros      island      chemistry      Wednesday
weather     wrong       geography       bamboo      exhibition        exhibition
* Your answers:
1. ............... 2. ................. 3.................. 4................... 5...................
Question 3: Choose the best option to fill in the blank: (15m)
1. She often wishes that she...........................a bicycle.
a. can rode               b. can ride             c. could rode              d. could ride
2. All the rooms in this small hotel are ................................and that would make it too expensive to stay in.
a. air-condition          b. air-conditioners   c. air-conditioning       d. air-conditioned
3. I look forward...............................from you soon.
a. to hearing             b. for hearing          c. to hear                   d. with hearing
4. They have no warm..........................to wear.
a. cloth                    b. cloths                c. clothes                   d. clothe
5. ...................our teacher's help, we've made much progress in our studies.
a. Thanked to           b. Thanks to          c. Thanks for              d. Thanking to
6. This food tastes ......................... . I like it very much.
a. good                    b. deliciously         c. well                        d. very well
7. The examiner asked me how.........................English in the future.
a. I will use               b. will I use           c. I would use             d. would I use
8. I speak.........................English but I want to learn to read and write it.
a. a little                   b. a few                c. many                     d. much
9. Many foreigners..........................to the hot weather in Vietnam.
a. use to                   b. used                c. used to                  d. are used
10. You're not the only one who didn't hear the news. I didn't........................ .
a. neither                  b. too                   c. either                     d. so
11. Please don't enter without............................
a. knock                   b. knocking           c. to knock                d. knocked
12. I had to wear...............uniform when I worked in the hotel.
a. some                    b. a                       c. any                      d. an
13. She .......................a letter when the telephone rang.
a. writes                    b. wrote                c. has written             d. was writing
14. When I was younger, I ......................to smoke or drink.
a. wasn't used            b. didn't used        c. never used             d. not used
15. The boy decided to go out.....................it was raining very heavily outside.
a. because                 b. despite             c. even if                   d. although
Question 4: Fill in each blank with a suitable noun. One example (0) has been done for you: (5m)
0. Some learners write each word and its use on a piece of paper.
1. I asked him for a ........................of advice.
2. They gave her a big.....................of flowers for her birthday.
3. My mother went to the market and bought a ......................of cooking-oil.
4. There are many...................of sugar on the shelves.
5. My father often has a....................of beer for dinner.
6. There was a...................of journalists in front of the stadium.
7. My breakfast consisted of two.....................of bread.
8. Give me a .................of lemonade, please!
9. There is a ...................of toothpaste on the table.
10. Mr. John smokes a .....................of cigarettes a day.
Question 5: Write the plural form of the following nouns: (5m)
1. child => .........................            6. tomato => ..........................
2. goose => .........................          7. foot => ..........................
3. leaf => ..........................             8. parenthesis => ..........................
4. sheep =>  ..........................         9. industry =>  ..........................
5. mouse => ..........................        10. monkey => ..........................