Đề thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Năm học 2011-2012 - Sở GD & ĐT Nam Định (Có đáp án)

SỞ GIÁO DỤC- ĐÀO TẠO NAM ĐỊNH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS
NĂM HỌC 2011-2012
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 
(Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)
 Đề thi gồm 09 trang
Điểm bài thi
Bằng số: ..........................
Bằng chữ: .......................
Họ, tên và chữ ký 2 giám khảo
Giám khảo 1: .........................................
Giám khảo 2: .........................................
SỐ PHÁCH
Lưu ý: Thí sinh làm bài vào đề thi này.
A. LISTENING (3.0 points)
Hướng dẫn phần thi nghe hiểu:
Nội dung nghe gồm 3 bài, mỗi bài thí sinh được nghe 2 lần, đĩa CD tự chạy 2 lần;
Mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu nhạc;
Hướng dẫn làm bài chi tiết cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe. 
PART 1. Questions 1-10 (1.0 point).
Questions 1-5. 
You will hear 5 short conversations twice. There is one question for each conversation. For questions 1-5 put a tick (√) next to the right answer. There’s an example at the beginning (0).
0. How many people were at the meeting? 
A. 3 	B. 13 	 √ C. 30
How will Jill go to the football match? 
A. on foot 	B. by bus 	C. by car
Who’s going to visit the woman? 
A. her baby 	B. her sister’s son 	C. her father
What will Ruby do tonight? 
A. clean her shoes	B. do her school work 	C. go to the cinema 
How much did the woman’s desk cost? 
A. £66.50 	B. £60.50 	 	C. £55.00
Where’s the man’s watch?
A. He’s wearing it 	B. on the bath 	C. in the kitchen
Questions 6-10.
Listen to Amy telling her father about her shopping trip. What did she and her friends buy? For questions 6-10, write a letter A-H next to each person. There are two extra things which you will not need. You will hear the conversation twice.
People
Things they bought
Amy H (Example)
Alison 
Helen 
Lucy 
Kerry 
Jo 
CD
Magazine
Mobile phone
Picture
Shoes
Suitcase
Sweater
Video
PART 2. Questions 11-15 (1.0 point).
Listen to Helen talking to her friend, Sam, about being in a rock band. For questions 11-15, tick (√) A, B or C. You will hear the conversation twice. There’s an example at the beginning (0).
In Nick’s band, Helen ______ 
A. plays the guitar 	 √ B. sings 	C. plays the drums
Sam agrees to play the guitar on ______ 
A. Wednesday 	B. Thursday 	C. Friday
Where does Nick’s band practice?
A. in a garage 	B. at Helen’s flat 	C. in Nick’s bedroom
Sam should bring ______ 
A. sandwiches 	B. CDs 	C. a sweater
The band will next play at ______
A. a party 	B. a club 	C. a college
How much does Helen earn, per night, in the band?
A. £10 	B. £25 	C. £110
PART 3. Questions 16-20 (1.0 point).
You will hear a woman asking about tickets for the theatre. Listen and complete questions 16-20. You will hear the conversation twice. There’s an example at the beginning (0).
THEATRE TICKETS
Name of theatre: 	 	(0) Queen’s
There are tickets for show on: 	(16) ...evening.
Price for one ticket: 	 	(17) £.
Get tickets from ticket office in: 	(18) ....Road
Show starts at: 	 	(19) ....p.m.
Bus number: 	(20) ....
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (7.0 points)
I. Fill in each blank with an article (a, an or the) where necessary. Write your answers in the numbered spaces provided. Put a cross (X) where no article is needed. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1.0 point)
In (0) _____the______ days before (1) ___________ invention of radio and television, (2) ___________ majority of people made their own entertainment at home. Many (3) ___________ evenings were spent reading (4) ___________ novel, playing the piano or painting (5) ___________ picture. In many ways, people were almost forced to find (6) ___________ creative outlet in one form or another. Things have changed a lot since then, however. Now, a typical evening’s entertainment would be to spend (7) ___________ few hours in front of (8) ___________ television. This is not really a very productive use of one’s time or energy and has maybe contributed to (9) ___________ breakdown of communication within (10) ___________ family.
II. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Write your answers in the numbered spaces provided. There is an example at the beginning (0). (2.0 points) 
In 1894 a steamship (0.SAIL) ___was sailing___ across the Atlantic Ocean from England to America. The sun (1.SHINE) ___________________ and a gentle breeze (2.BLOW) ___________________. The ship (3.SAIL) ___________________ for three weeks and was half way to its destination – New York. The passengers (4.RELAX) ___________________ on deck when suddenly they heard a loud bang. They all (5.JUMP) ___________________ up, (6.RUN) ___________________ to the edge of the boat and (7.LOOK) ___________________ over the side. To their horror they saw that they (8.HIT) ___________________ some hard object which (9.TEAR) ___________________ a hole in the side of the ship. Water (10.POUR) ___________________ into the steamship at an alarming speed. Fortunately another ship arrived half an hour later, just in time to save everyone on board.
III. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the numbered spaces provided. There is an example at the beginning (0). (2.0 points)
E-MAIL
There can’t be many people who are (0. AWARE) ___unaware___ of e-mail, even if they have never actually sent one. Although there are some (1.SIMILAR) ________________ between e-mail and letters, there are also many differences. The first is that e-mail is delivered (2.INSTANT) ________________, so it can be a very (3.EFFECT) ________________ means of communication when speed is important. This speed means that e-mail is more (4.PRACTICE) ________________ for communicating over large distances. Another difference is that e-mail tends to be (5.RELATIVE) ________________ informal. People are much more likely to use language which they would consider (6.SUIT) ________________ for a formal letter. Words spelled (7.CORRECT) ________________ in an e-mail are less likely to be checked than in a letter. One (8.EXPLAIN) ________________ for this is that an e-mail seems to be less permanent than something written on paper. We can be sure that the future (9.DEVELOP) ________________ of e-mail will have all kinds of (10.EXPECT) ________________ effects on the way we communicate.
IV. Write the verbs from the box in the gaps to complete these sentences. You will use some of the verbs more than once. (2.0 points)
took	cut	put	turned	looked	pulled	 ran
The journalists _________________ up with the managing editor’s reorganization of the department for a long time before they started complaining.
The paper _________________ down on the number of reporters stationed in foreign countries in an attempt to save money.
Someone in the street _________________ me for that TV presenter Angela Dimble and asked for my autograph. I guess we do look similar.
When they offered me The Breakfast Show, I initially _________________ it down. I didn’t fancy getting up so early every morning.
The receptionist _________________ me through to the wrong department by mistake, so I had to call back.
The MTV Music Awards _________________ place in Los Angeles this year.
We always _________________ up to Peter – he was one of the best war correspondents in the history of television.
They _________________ down that old TV studio last week. Apparently, they are going to build a supermarket in its place.
Some friends kindly _________________ me up for a few days while I was there. It was much nicer than staying in a hotel.
The newsagent _________________ out of copies of TeenPop on the first day of its publication, so he had to order more.
C. READING (5.0 points)
I. The reading passage ‘Public Libraries’ has 7 sections I-VII. Choose the most suitable heading for each section from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate letters (A-I) in the space provided next to each section. There are two extra headings which you will not need. Section I has been done as an example. (1.2 points)
A. Financial support
B. Local decisions
C. Influence of people’s interests
D. Materials about Morgan horses
E. History of public libraries
F. Certain books stay in the library
G. Free services for everyone
H. A wide variety
I. Similar ways to arrange books
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Section I. G
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services. The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed, or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its materials.
Section II. 
Public libraries are usually tax-supported. There are a few that are instead supported from money that has been donated. And there are some that receive part of their money from taxes and part from gifts.
Section III. 
Few public libraries are exactly alike. Not only are the shapes and sizes of the building different, but so are the number of books and other materials in each. Your nearest library may be like the Los Angeles Public Library, which has over 4,538,458 books and bound periodicals (magazines and journals) in its collection. Or it may be like the Cherokee County Public Library, which has only about 3,800 books in its collection.
Section IV. 
Libraries vary in other ways, too, for instance, in the number of hours (or days) they are open or in the number of people who work there. Most public libraries, however, arrange their books and other materials in similar ways. They divide their collections into two basic age groups, children and adult. Adult books are in one place; children’s books are in another. Then the books are further separated by the kind of book. Storybooks – works of fiction – are separated from information, or fact books - nonfiction.
Section V. 
People often want to refer to, that is, look something up in a certain basic information book. Thus reference books, which are rarely read cover to cover, are put in a special place in the library, a reference section or perhaps a reference room. Reference books are never to be taken out of the library building.
Section VI. 
Each library decides for itself how it should further arrange its books and other materials. In a large city library, certain nonfiction materials may be put into a special area or separate room. For instance, there may be a separate room just for all the materials a library has on music. In another large city, the music materials might not be kept so separate. It would depend on what the people in that city had indicated they found useful.
Section VII. 
A library’s holdings are everything the library has in its collection. These holdings almost always reflect the community’s special interests. Suppose, for example, there were a town where Morgan horses were widely raised and trained. That town’s library would most likely have a great deal of material about Morgan horses. Since the people who were interested in Morgan horses would probably less interested in other breeds of horses, the library might have only a small amount of material on Mustangs or Appaloosas.
II. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. Put a tick (√) next to the correct answer. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1.6 points)
TOURISM
Tourism is (0) ______ business. Millions of people around Europe (1) ______ their winters planning their destination for the following summer, and their summers (2) ______ to foreign countries for two weeks in the sun. They are the modern-day descendants of the aristocrats and the wealthy who would (3) ______ months to complete the ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe. But unlike their forefathers, tourists these days get a bad press. They’re not (4) ______ in the local culture, we’re told; they’re just after the chance to behave a bit more wildly than they do at home. What’s (5) ______, they damage the local environment and don’t respect the locals and their (6) ______ of life.
But are tourists really to (7) ______? Or is it the (8) ______ of the tourist industry, which has (9) ______ to provide reasonably-priced alternatives? And if the local resort only offers a succession of bars for the tourists to visit, can we really (10) ______ them for not doing more cultural activities?
One holiday company, Far and Away, (11) ______ that tourists are crying out for more cultural holidays and believes that it has (12) ______ to come up with a range of package holidays which are affordable, culturally interesting, and environmentally friendly. Their brochure, which is to be (13) ______ later this month, offers 200 holidays based on cultural themes, (14) ______ history and architecture, learning the language, meeting the locals and war and politics.
Will Far and Away (15) ______ where other companies have failed? Next summer’s tourists will be the ones who (16) ______. 
A. large	 √ B. big	 C. heavy 	D. bulky
A. take 	B. spend 	C. pass 	D. make
A. taking away 	B. moving away 	C. taking off 	D. jetting off
A. spend 	B. make 	C. take 	D. pass
A. devoted 	B. eager 	C. keen 	D. interested
A. more	B. most 	C. less 	D. this
A. way 	B. manner 	C. standard 	D. means
A. criticize 	B. fault 	C. blame 	D. accuse
A. criticism 	B. fault 	C. blame 	D. accusation
A. avoided 	B. lost 	C. missed 	D. failed
A. accuse 	B. charge 	C. criticize 	D. arrest
A. claims 	B. mentions 	C. informs 	D. persuades
A. succeeded 	B. managed 	C. achieved 	D. resulted
A. brought up 	B. brought out 	C. brought off 	D. brought round
A. comprising 	B. holding 	C. containing 	D. including
A. succeed 	B. manage 	C. win 	D. accomplish
A. make	B. take	C. decide	D. do
III. Read the passage and put a tick (√) next to the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each of the questions below. (2.2 points)
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(1)
In the early days of the United States, postal charges were paid by the recipient, and charges varied with the distance carried. In 1825, the United States Congress permitted local postmasters to give letters to mail carriers for home delivery, but these carriers received no government salary and their entire compensation depended on what they were paid by the recipients of individual letters.
(15)
(10)
In 1847 the United States Post Office Department adopted the idea of a postage stamp, which of course simplified the payment for postal service but caused complaining by those who did not like to prepay. Besides, the stamp covered only delivery to the post office and did not include carrying it to a private address. In Philadelphia, for example, with a population of 150,000, people still had to go to the post office to get their mail. The confusion and congestion of individual citizens looking for their letters was itself enough to discourage use of the mail. It is no wonder that, during the years of these cumbersome arrangements, private letter-carrying and express businesses developed. Although their activities were only semi-legal, they thrived, and actually advertised that between Boston and Philadelphia they were a half-day speedier than the government mail. The government postal service lost volume to private competition and was not able to handle efficiently even the business it had.
(25)
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Finally, in 1863, Congress provided that the mail carriers who delivered the mail from the post offices to private addresses should receive a government salary, and that there should be no extra charge for that delivery. But this delivery service was at first confined to cities, and free home delivery became a mark of urbanism. As late as 1887, a town had to have 10,000 people to be eligible for free home delivery. In 1890, of the 75 million people in the United States, fewer than 20 million had mail delivered free to their doors. The rest, nearly three-quarters of the population, still received no mail unless they went to their post office.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The increased use of private mail services
B. The development of a government postal system
C. A comparison of urban and rural postal services
D. The history of postage stamps
What happened in the early days of the US postal system?
A. No postal charges were applied for letters.
B. The recipients of letters had to pay the charges.
C. The senders of letters had to pay the charges.
D. The same charges were applied for all letters.
The word “varied” in line 2 could best be replaced by
A. increased	B. differed	C. returned	D. started
The word “covered” in line 8 could best be replaced by
A. hid 	B. protected 	C. included 	D. spread
Which of the following was seen as a disadvantage of the postage stamp?
A. It had to be purchased by the sender in advance.
B. It increased the cost of mail delivery.
C. It was difficult to affix to letters.
D. It was easy to imitate.
Why does the author mention the city of Philadelphia in line 9?
A. It was the site of the first post office in the United States.
B. Its postal service was inadequate for its population.
C. It was the largest city in the United States in 1847.
D. It was honored by the first United States postage stamp.
The word “cumbersome” in line 12 is closest in meaning to
A. troublesome	B. handsome	C. hateful	D. quarrelsome
The word “they” in line 14 refers to
A. Boston and Philadelphia	B. Businesses
C. arrangements	D. letters
The private postal services of the nineteenth century claimed that they could do which of the following better than the government?
A. Deliver a higher volume of mail.	B. Deliver mail more cheaply.
C. Deliver mail faster.	D. Deliver mail to rural areas.
In 1863 the United States government began providing which of the following to mail carriers?
A. A salary	B. housing	C. transportation	D. free postage stamps
The word “confined” in line 21 is closest in meaning to
A. granted	B. scheduled	C. limited	D. recommended
D. WRITING (5.0 points)
I. Use suggestions to make complete sentences. Make any changes necessary. You can add more words but cannot omit the given words. Write your answers in the space provided. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1.6 points)
He/ often/ go/ school/ foot. 
àHe often goes to school on foot.
Nick/ not get/ good marks/ unless/ he/ study/ harder.
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Last night/ after/ Tim/ have/ dinner/ he/ do/ homework/ bedroom.
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It/ such/ cold/ weather/ we/ just/ want/ stay/ indoors.
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Martin/ try/ take/ medicine/ his cold.
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Kate/ refuse/ lend/ man/ money/ because/ not/ meet/ him/ before.
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Fashion/ change/ every year/ and/ people/ nowadays/ love/ keep/ update trend.
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I/ glad/ you/ take part/ Summer camp/ International students/ my city/ next May.
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If/ it/ not/ be/ for/ his innocence/ he/ not/ got/ trouble.
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II. Finish each second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first sentence, using the clues at the beginning of each sentence. There’s an example at the beginning (0). (1.4 points)
Ryota started working here in 2011. 
à Ryota has been working here since 2011. 
Driving fast is dangerous, whether you are an experienced driver or not.
à However __________________________________________________________.
In spite of all our warnings, he walked into the woods alone.
à Although we _______________________________________________________.
It is said that his wife died in a foreign country. 
à His wife ___________________________________________________________.
The cook said that they had run out of cooking oil. 
à The cook said that there wasn’t _________________________________________.
On arriving at an airport, I usually go straight to the check-in desk. 
à I usually go straight to the check-in desk as _______________________________.
Such success has not been achieved by many players in the world of ice hockey. 
à Only a few ________________________________________________________