SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 CẤP TỈNH

THANH HÓA MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian : 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

PART A: LISTENING (15 pts)

Question I. Listen to the passage. Choose the best answer for each question below.
1. How many percents do graduate schools in the United States increase in applications
from international students this year?
A. nineteen percents B. ninety percents
C. nine percents D. one ninth percents
2. When are the increases the same as?
A. two years ago B. seven years ago
C. eleven years ago D. twenty-two years ago
3. Which countries showed the biggest increases in applications to enter master’s and
doctoral programs this fall?
A. China B. China, Mexico
C. Mexico and Brazil D. China, Mexico and Brazil
4. Which is the top area of study for international students?
A. Engine B. Business C. Engineering D. Engineer
5. Who made the survey?
A. South Korea B. The Council of Graduate Schools
C. India D. Brazil
Question II. Listen to the passage about jeans and tick TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
T F
1. The word jeans comes from a kind of material that was made in Asia.
2. The 1960s’ fashions were embroidered jeans, painted jeans, and so on.
3. More and more people started wearing jeans because they became cheaper
1970s.
4. Jeans, at last, became low fashion clothing in the 1980s.
5. The sale of jeans stopped growing because the worldwide economic
situation got worse in the 1990s.
Question III. Listen and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

Good morning. I hope you all had a good sleep. We are now (1)……..……..………
for Wanaka. We arrive at the first destination, Puzzling World at 9.30. The first
puzzling (2)………….……….…… which welcomes you is the Leaning Tower. When
you get inside the spacious café, you will find yourself among various wooden puzzles
and games. The Illusion Room is a must-see as there’s nothing else like it in the world.
Puzzling World is possibly the most photographed attraction in New Zealand.
At 12.30, we (3)…………………..……… for Lake Wanaka, New Zealand’s
(4)………………….……. largest lake. This “natural paradise” has something for
everyone. Adventure lovers may follow the biking and walk (5)………..……………….
through the park.

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PART B: PHONETICS (5 pts)
Question I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from
the rest in the same line. (3 pts)

1.A.sensitive B. benefit C. pretty D. remedy

2.A exhibition B. exhaust C. exhibit D. exist
3. A. food B. school C. tool D. good

Question II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other
three words in each question. (2 pts)

1. A. intermediate B. documentary C. psychedelic D. communicate

2. A. exhibition B. precaution C. position D. selection

PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
1. 1. Let’s go somewhere for a drink, ______?
A. shall we B. won’t we C. will we D. shan’t we
2. When we get to the park, there will be several places ______ we can have lunch.
A. when B. what C. where D. which
3. In spite ______, he did not get the highest grade in the final exam.
A. of his intelligence C. he was intelligent
B. his intelligence D. of he was intelligent
4. The water supply of Hanoi was ______ off because the main underground pipeline
supplying water from Da River in Hoa Binh to Hanoi burst.
A. held B. paid C. handed D. cut
5. He took a lot of interest ______ our work and he promised to help us ______ any
troubles.
A. for/from B. about / at C. in/with D. for/on
6. The greatest ______ between fresh water and seawater lies in its concentration of
salt.
A. difference is B. difference C. is a difference D. difference that
7. It is ______ that about 700 deer have been killed in the last few years due to their
horns.
A. estimated B. grown C. declined D. damaged
8. How are you ______ on with your work? - It is OK.
A. calling B. looking C. laying D. getting
9. During the interview, you should speak ______.
A. slowly and clearly B. slow and C. slowly and clear D. slow and clear
clearly
10. Not until darkness fell ______ he hadn’t done half of his work.
A. that he realized B. did he realize C. didn’t he realize D. that he didn’t
realize

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Question II: Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentence.

1. Going to university has made her more ____________ (confide)

2. Teachers must keep a record of students'____________ (attend)
3. They are thinking of the ____________ of travelling abroad this (attract)
summer.
4. Daisy has fulfilled all the____________ for graduation. (require)
5. An____________ is a student in a college or university who has (graduate)
not received a degree yet.
6. You should make____________ for the wishes of others. (allow)
7. He was paid for the_____________ he worked. (time)
8. Red Cross chapters provide______________ services to help (human)
people within communities lead safer, healthier, more self-reliant
lives.
9. The practice of____________ helps maintain an adequate supply (forest)
of timber for the manufacture of paper and other wood products
10. ____________ banks traditionally served businesses, but they (commerce)
now meet the financial needs of individuals as well.

Question III: Use the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets to complete the
sentences.

1. What do you think the children (do) ......................when we get home?

2. I was terribly disappointed (discover) ......................that he (lie) ......................to me.
3. Nothing (give) ......................to you if you (not study) ......................hard.
4. We (tell) ......................not to go out at night recently.
5. “I left a cake on the desk but now it’s gone. What happened to it?” – “I don’t know.
One of the children (eat) ......................it”.
6. The ideas (present) ......................in this book are not really interesting.
7. Scarcely she (leave) ......................... the office when they arrived.
8. Should you agree to help us with the housework, we (finish) ......................everything
on.

PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

Question I: Read the following passage and fill in each numbered gap with ONE
suitable word to complete it (10pts)
Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Do you know that nature recycles, too?
One of the nature (1) _______ is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into
the air. Water falls from the air as (2) _______ or snow. Rain and snow eventually find
their way back to the oceans. Nature’s recycling program for water is (3) _______ the
water cycle.

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 The water cycle has four stages: storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff.
Water on Earth gets stored in oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water
goes from storage into the atmosphere by a process called (4)______ . When water
evaporates, it changes from a liquid (5) _______ a gas, called water vapor. Water vapor
goes up into (6) _______ atmosphere. Water returns to the Earth as precipitation in rain
or snow by changing into drops of water when the air (7) _______ cold enough. Clouds
are collections of water droplets. Most precipitation falls into the oceans and goes right
back into storage.
Water that falls (8)_______ land always flows from (9) _______ places to lower
ones. This flow is called runoff. Water from the land flows into streams. Streams join
(10) _______ to make rivers and eventually the water flows into storage in the oceans.
Then the water cycle starts all over again.

Question II: Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or
phrase for each space. (10 pts)
It is easy these days for a boy or a girl to have a book to enjoy. Today books are
light and (1) _______________. Try to imagine a time when there were no books.
There was (2) _______________ a time.
When man first began to draw, he used the walls of his caves; later he made marks
on (3) _______________ other objects such as large pieces of stone and bricks of clay.
(4) _______________ time, the man thought of using the smooth sides of animal hides to
write on. You see, the paper did not yet exist. Without paper, books (5)
_______________we know them could not be made.
Paper was first produced by the Egyptian many hundreds of years ago. At that
time there grew in the valley of the Nile River in Egypt a reedy plant (6)
_______________ the papyrus. In endeavoring to find material suitable (7)
_______________ writing, the Egyptian found a (8) _______________ to use this
plant. The stem of the plant, especially its center or pith, was cut up and laid out in
layers which were processed by soaking, pounding, and drying into thin, flexible,
writing (9) _______________. A wonderful development of great importance to
mankind had been (10) _______________.
1. A. portable B. transferable C. moveable D. transportable
2. A. in fact B. really C. such D. indeed
3. A. endless B. variety C. numerate D. numerous
4. A. Without B. With C. In D. On
5. A. as B. like C. which D. that

6. A. called B. calling C. known D. addressed

7. A. with B. for C. of D. in
8. A. method B. way C. technique D. manner

9. A. plates B. sheets C. blocks D. patches

10. A. made B. reached C. done D. realized

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Question III: Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions below.
The growth of cities, the construction of hundreds of new factories, and the spread
of railroads in the United States before 1850 had increased the need for better
illumination. But the lighting in American homes had improved very little over that of
ancient times. Through the colonial period, homes were lit with tallow candles or with a
lamp of the kind used in ancient Rome-a dish of fish oil or other animal or vegetable oil
in which a twisted rag served as a wick. Some people used lard, but they had to heat
charcoal underneath to keep it soft and burnable. The sperm whale provided superior
burning oil, but this was expensive. In 1830 a new substance called "camphene" was
patented, and it proved to be a remained expensive, had an unpleasant odor, and also
was dangerously explosive.
Between 1830 and 1850 it seemed that the only hope for cheaper illumination in
the United States was the wider use of gas. In the 1840s American gas manufacturers
adopted improved British techniques for producing illuminating gas from coal. But the
expense of piping gas to the consumer remained so high that until mid- century gas
lighting was feasible only in urban areas, and only for public buildings for the wealthy.
In 1854 a Canadian doctor, Abraham Gesner, patented a process for distilling a pitch
like mineral found in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that produced illuminating gas
and oil that he called "kerosene" (from "keros", the Greek word for wax, and "ene"
because it resembled camphene). Kerosene, though cheaper than camphene, had an
unpleasant odor, and Gesner never made his fortune from it. But Gesner had aroused a
new hope for making illuminating oil from a product coming out of North American
mines.

1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason why better lighting had
become necessary by the mid-nineteenth century?
A. development of railroads
B. demand for better medical facilities
C. increases in the number of new factories
D. growth of cities
2. The phrase "served as" inline 5 is closest meaning to ___________.
A. differed from B. functioned as C. rested upon D. reacted to
3. The word "this" in line 7 refers to ___________.
A. lard B. charcoal C. wick D. oil
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a disadvantage of camphene?
A. high-cost B. bad smell C. potential to explode D. greasy texture
5. What can be inferred about the illuminating gas described in the paragraph?
A. It was first developed in the United States.
B. It was not allowed to be used in public buildings,
C. It was not widely available until mid-century.
D. It had an unpleasant smell.
6. The word "resembled" in line 17 is closest in meaning to____.
A. was similar to B. cost the same as C. was made from D. sounded like
7. According to the passage, what advantage did the kerosene patented by Gesner have
over camphene?

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A. Kerosene had a more pleasant smell. B. Kerosene was less expensive.
C. Kerosene burned more brightly. D. Kerosene was safer to use.
8. The word "it" in line 18 refers to_____.
A. fortune B. odor C. camphene D. kerosene
9. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
A. A description of events in chronological order
B. A comparison of two events
C. An analysis of scientific findings
D. The statement of a theory and possible explanations
10. Where in the passage does the author mention the origin of a word?
A. Lines 4-6 B. Lines 7-8 C. Lines 12-13 D. Lines 14-17

PART E: WRITING (20 pts)

Question I: Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the
same as the sentence printed above it.

1. It’s not a good idea to travel during the rush hour.

It’s better to avoid ___________________________________________________
2. People think that the owner of that house is abroad
The owner _________________________________________________________
3. She didn’t know the way, so she asked a policeman.
Not _______________________________________________________________
4. The baby cries because the lion looks fierce.
The baby cries because of ______________________________________________
5. I tried as hard as I could, but I just couldn’t get the money.
No matter ___________________________________________________________

Question II: Use the word given to complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first sentence. Do not change the word given.

1. It took two hours to fly from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city. (FLIGHT)
→ It _______________________________________________________________
2. I haven’t decided whether to move or not yet. (MADE)
→ I haven’t _________________________________________________________
3. At the moment I can’t afford to buy a new car. (QUESTION)
 At the moment _____________________________________________________
4. You must do exactly what the teacher tells you.( CARRY)
→ You must ___________________________________________________________
5. When they broke the news, she stayed perfectly calm and controlled. (NOT…HAIR)
→ When they broke the news, ______________________________________________

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Question III. Write a paragraph of about 120 words to give your opinion on the
following topic (10 points).
“Secondary school students shouldn’t use mobile phones”

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 SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐÁP ÁN VÀ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM
THANH HÓA ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 CẤP TỈNH
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

I. ĐÁP ÁN
PART A: LISTENING (15 pts)
Question I. Listen to the passage. Choose the best answer for each question below.
(5 pts)
1. C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B
Question II. Listen to the passage about jeans. Decide whether the following statements
are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). You will listen twice. (5 pts)
1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T

Question III. Listen and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. You will listen twice.
(10pts)
1. heading 2. thing 3. leave 4. fourth 5. tracks

PART B: PHONETICS (5 pts)

Question I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from
the rest in the same line. (2 pts)
1. C 2. A 3. D
Question II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other
three words in each question. (3 pts)
1. D 2.A

PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10
pts)
1A 2C 3A 4D 5C 6B 7A 8D 9A 10B
Question II: Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentence.
(10 pts)
1. confident
2. attendances
3. attractiveness
4. requirements
5. undergraduate
6. allowance
7. overtime
8. humanitarian
9. forestry
10. Commercial
Question III: Use the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets to complete the
sentences.(10 pts)
1. will be doing/ are doing

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2. to discover ............ had lied
3. will be given ..........don’t study
4. have been told
5. may/might have eaten
6. presented
7. had she left
8. will finish

PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

Question I: Read the following passage and fill in each numbered gap with ONE
suitable word to complete it (10pts)

1. recycles 2. rain 3. called 4. evaporation 5. into

6. the 7. gets / is 8. on 9. high 10. together

Question II: Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or
phrase for each space. (10 pts)
1. A 2. C 3. D 4.C 5. A
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. B 10. A
Question III: Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below. (10
pts)
1. B 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. C
6. B 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. D

PART E: WRITING (20 pts)

Question I: Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the
same as the sentence printed above it. (5 pts)
1. It’s better to avoid traveling during the rush hour.
2. The owner of that house is thought to be abroad.
3. Not knowing the way, she asked a policeman
4. The baby cries because of the fierceness of the lion. /because of the fact that….
5. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get the money.
Question II: Use the word given to complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first sentence Do not change the word given. (5 pts)
1. It was a two- hour flight from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city.
2. I haven’t made up my mind whether to move or not yet.
3. At the moment my buying a new car is out of the question.
4 . You must carry out the teacher’s instructions exactly.
5. When they broke the news, she did not turn a hair.
Question III. Write a paragraph about 120 words to give your opinion on the
following topic (10 points).
“Secondary school students shouldn’t use mobile phones”

1.Format: (3 points)

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The paragraph should have 3 parts:
a. Introduction: a topic sentence in which students should express their opinion whether
they agree or not with the given topic.
b. Body: Students should give advantages of mobile phones to secondary school
students if they don’t agree with the topic or disadvantages of mobile phones to
secondary school students if they agree with the topic.
c. Conclusion (summary of the main advantages or disadvantages of mobile phones to
secondary school students, students’ opinion on the topic)
2. Content (4 points)
SS should give specific advantages or disadvantages of mobile phones to secondary
school students:
* Some suggested advantages:
- Mobile phones can help secondary school students keep in touch with family and
friends in a quick and convenient way.
- Mobile phones can help secondary school students to relax after hard-studying hours
by listening to music, playing games…..
- Mobile phones connected to the Internet can help secondary school students find
useful information quickly and easily and save information for a long time.
- Mobile phones can help secondary school students have more friends.
* Some suggested disadvantages:
- secondary school students can spend too much time or money on mobile phones and
ignore their study.
- Mobile phones connected to the Internet can provide secondary school students with
bad information.
- Some games on mobile phones can be addictive.
3. Language (3 points)
(Grammatical accuracy, wide range of vocabularies and structures)

II. HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM

Bài thi chấm theo thang điểm: 20 (Điểm bài thi làm tròn đến 0,2)

Tổng số điểm thí sinh làm đúng

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___THE END___

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