Đề và đáp án thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp trường Tiếng anh lớp 9 - Năm học 2015-2016

KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG TRƯỜNG, NĂM HỌC: 2015-2016
Đề thi môn: Tiếng Anh 9
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
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I. From each number, pick out one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (1pts)
1. a. colour 	b. perform 	c. boring 	d. your
2. a. happen 	b. hour 	c. house 	d. horse.
3. a filled 	b. destroyed 	c. prepared 	d. wished
4. a. scout 	b. crowd 	c. cloud 	d. flow
II. Choose the best answer, circle the letter A, B, C or D. (4pts)
1. She ____________ a cake when the telephone rang.
A. makes	B. made	C. is making	D. was making
2. He asked me _____________ his computer.
A. don't touch 	B. never touch 	C. not to touch 	D. not touch
3. Let's go home, ____________ ?
A. shan't we 	B. shall we 	C. do we 	D. don't we
4.A lot of trees _____ in the garden at the moment.
A. is grown 	B. is being grown 	C. are grown 	D. are being grown
5. This church _____ in 15th century.
A. built 	B. has been built 	C. was being built D. was built
6. After I_____ lunch, I looked for my bag.
A. had 	B. had had 	C. have has 	D. have had
7.He is ______________ to do such work.
A. not enough strong 	B. strong not enough
C. not strong enough 	D. enough strong
8.Tom is not used to ___________ up early. He is late for school very often.
A. get 	B. got 	C. getting 	D. having got
9.How many lessons ______________ up to now?
A. are you studying 	B. did you study 
C. you have studied 	D. have you studied.
10.If I ________ you, I would forget to buy that car.
A. am 	 B. have been 	C. was 	D. were
11.We started ...........English 3 years ago.
A.to learn	B. learn	C. learning	D. learned
12.Nam can run the __________ in my class
A. fast	B. faster	C. most fast	D. fastest 
13.Please let Jack __________ with you.
A. go 	B. going	C. to go 	D. goes
14.I wish today _________ a holiday.
A. is 	B. am	C. are	 D. were
15.The doctor made mein bed for a week.
A. staying 	B. stay	C. stayed	 D. to stay
16.The _______ we start, the sooner we will be back.
A. early	 B. earliest	C. earlier 	D. more early
III- Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to fill in each blank (2,5pts)
Michael Faraday, the great English physicist was born (1)... 1791 in London. His family (2)... very poor and he didn’t learn(3)..... When he was 14, he worked in a bookshop (4)..... he had a good chance to read books. He (5)..... to some talks about science. One day Michael went to a (6)...... by Humphry Davy, England’s (7)..... scientist of the time. He liked his talks very much, and (8)..... months later he became Davy’s laboratory assistant. Like Davy, he became (9)....in electricity. He spent a lot of time (10)..... it and at last he saw that electricity could be made by a machine. He died in 1867. 
1. A. on 	B. at 	C. in 	D. since 
2. A. is 	B. was 	C. been 	D. be
3. A. much 	B. many 	C. more 	D. most
4. A. that 	B. where 	C. when 	D. and
5. A. go 	B. use to go 	C. used to go 	D. used to going 
6. A. speak 	B. tell 	C. talk 	D. discussion
7. A. great 	B. greater 	C. greatly 	D. greatest
8. A. few 	B. a few 	C. little 	D. a little
9. A. interest 	B. interested 	C. interesting 	D. interest 
10.A. to study 	B. studying 	C. study 	D. studied	 	
IV. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word (2.5 points)
John Lennon was born in Liverpool in 1940. He was always (1)............. on music and played in pop groups (2)............school and Art College. John got married (3).................... Cynthia in 1962 and they had a son, (4)...........name was Julian. At that (5)..........., John was member of a group (6) ..........."The Beatles". Many beautiful songs (7)........... written by John and wherever the group went, crowds of fans gathered to see them. They (8) ................ scream and faint when "The Beatles" played, and lot of people (9)...........their hair cut in a Beatles styles. Soon everyone had heard of "The Beatles" and John was (10) ...........richer than he had ever been.
V- Fill in each gap with the correct form of the word in capital letter to complete the sentence: (2pts)
1. Mr John caused an accident yesterday. He drove very  (CARE)
2. Ba is the . student in his class. (GOOD)
3. Lan Anh is  because she misses her parents very much. (HAPPY)
4. My .. television program is cartoon. (FAVOR)
5. Life is more  now. (COMFORT)
6. He speaks French very  (GOOD)
7. Life in the city is .. from life in the country. (DIFFERENCE)
8.We should not waste .. and water. (ELECTRIC)
VI- Circle the letter (A, B, C or D) with the underlined words/ phrases which was wrong and then correct them (3pts)
1.I haven’t smoked since a long time
 A B C D
2.It is difficult learning a language well. 
 A B C D
3. She feels more happier than ever before.
 A B C D
4.She had the gardener to plant some trees. 
A B 	 C	 D
5. If I had studied carefully, I woudn’t make so many mistakes.
 A B C D
6. Jane asked me how did I go to school everyday. 
	 A 	B 	 C D
VII- Rewrite each sentence beginning at shown, so that the meaning remains the same (3pts)
1. It was such an interesting novel that I read it again and again. 
à The novel _______________________________________________________
2. "Is Phong Nha cave in Quang Binh province?”, Jane said to her friend.
à Jane asked _______________________________________________________
3. He started working as an actor ten years ago.
à He has __________________________________________________________
4.It took me half an hour to get to work by underground every morning last month.
à I spent ____________________________________________________
5. He is said to be an excellent footballer.
à People say that _____________________________________________________
6. Barbara cooks better than Mike does.
à Mike doesn't _______________________________________________________
VIII. Write a paragraph of about 80-100 words with the following topic sentence. (2pts)
Vietnamese women should wear the ao dai at work
 Outline
Wearing the ao dai :
+ encourages Vietnamese women to be proud of the traditions and customs of the country 
+ makes Vietnamese women more beautiful and charming 
+ is practical . No need to think of what to wear at work everyday .
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG TRƯỜNG, NĂM HỌC: 2015-2016
Hướng dẫn chấm môn: Tiếng Anh 9
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
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I. Choose the word whose italicized part is pronounced differently from that of these others (1pts – mỗi câu 0,25điểm)
1
2
3
4
a
b
d
d
II. Choose the best answer, circle the letter A, B, C or D (4pts – mỗi câu 0,25điểm)
1
2
3
4
D
C
B
D
5
6
7
8
D
A
C
C
9
10
11
12
D
D
C
D
13
14
15
16
A
D
B
C
III- Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to fill in each blank (2pts – mỗi câu 0,2điểm)
1
2
3
4
5
C
B
A
B
C
6
7
8
9
10
C
D
B
B
B
IV- Put ONE suitable word in each space (2,5pts – mỗi câu 0,25điểm)
1
2
3
4
5
keen
at
to
whose
time
6
7
8
9
10
called
were
would
had/got
much/far/a lot
V- Fill in each gap with the correct form of the word in capital letter to complete the sentence: (2pts – mỗi câu 0,25điểm)
1
2
3
4
carelessly
best
unhappy
fovorite
5
6
7
8
comfortable
well
different
electricity
VI- Circle the letter (A, B, C or D) with the underlined words / phrases which was wrong and then correct them (3pts – mỗi câu 0,5điểm)
1. C à for	 	2. B à to learn 	3. B à happier 
4. Cà plant	5. C à wouldn’t have made 	6. B à I went	
VII- Rewrite each sentence beginning at shown, so that the meaning remains the same (3pts – mỗi câu 0.5điểm)
1. àThe novel was so interesting that I read it again and again.
2. à Jane asked her friends if Phong Nha cave was in Quang Binh province. 
3. à He has been working/has worked as as an actor for ten years.
4. à I spent half an hour getting to work by underground every morning last month.
5. à People say that he is an excellent footballer.
6. à Mike doesn't cook as well as Barbara does.
VIII- Writing: (2pts) Chấm theo tiêu chí: 
Cách trình bày: theo đúng an argument.
 The sample paragraph:
 Vietnamese women should wear the ao dai at work. Firstly, the ao dai encourages Vietnamese women to feel proud of their traditions and customs of the country. Secondly, wearing the ao dai makes them more beautiful and charming. We know that the beauty of Vietnamese women in the ao dai has been mentioned a lot in poems, stories and songs for centuries. Thirdly, wearing the ao dai is very practical. When they go to work, they don’t think of what to wear everyday. In conclusion, when going to work, Vietnamese women should wear the ao dai.