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Môn: Tiếng Anh 9

1 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

SECTION A: LISTENING (20 points)

Part 1: Listen to the recording and write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS or a NUMBER for each answer. (10 points)
A BALANCED DIET
A balanced diet will give you enough vitamins for normal daily living. Vitamins
in food can be lost through (1) …………………..
What are vitamins?
The dictionary tells us they are “ food factors (2) …………………..in small
quantities to maintain life” 
Types of vitamins
(a) Fat soluble vitamins are stored by the body
(b) Water soluble vitamins – not stored, so you need a (3) …………………..
Getting enough vitamins
Eat  (4) …………………..of foods .You need to ensure that you eat at least
(5) ..…… servings of fruit and vegetables daily
Buy plenty of vegetables, make sure that they are fresh and store them in (6)
…..………
Healthy Diet Pyramid
At the top of in the smallest area are the things which we should really be trying
(7) … as much as possible. Things like sugar, salt, butter…
On the middle of the pyramid, we find the things that we can  eat in (8) …..,
such as milk, lean meat, fish, nuts, eggs…
(9) ………………are the things that you can eat lots of, (10) …………..they
are really good for you. 
Part 2: Choose the best answer to the question. (10 points) 
1. When did Amy have lessons with a piano teacher?
A. At the age of four
B. When she started secondary school
C. After getting advice from her school music teacher
2. How did Amy feel at her first big public event?
A. Excited because she was wearing a wonderful costume
B. Nervous because it was her first time on stage
C. Surprised because the audience was very big
3. What does Amy say about playing jazz with the school band?
A. She was better at it than the rest of the players
B. She puts a lot of efforts into learning about it
C. She enjoyed it as soon as she started
4. Amy gives piano lessons so that she can..
A. Help people who couldn’t normally afford them
 B. Encourage lots of young people to play the piano
C. Improve her own playing technique
5. Why does Amy love music so much?
A. It communicates to everyone whether they speak English or not
B. She meets people she likes through playing it
C. It brings together people of different ages
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
SECTION B: PHONETICS (10 points)
Part 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently
from that of the rest. (5 points)
1. A. too   B. food         C. soon         D. blood
2. A. acupuncture             B. future cher C. mature choor D.
figure
3. A. cursed id     B. started id C. learned id D. returned
4. A. power   B. sweep C. cowboy D. mow
5. A. advise   B. promise C. release D. tense
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
Part 2: Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others
in the group. (5 points)
1. A. muscle B. travel C. special D. disease
2. A. invent   B. produce C. visit        D.
machine
3.A. computer B. important C. benefit D.
alternative
4. A. memory B. digestive C. musician D. emotion
5. A. disadvantaged B. traditional C. priority D. immediate
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 

SECTION C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (80 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer which best completes each sentence. (15
points)
1. He spent the entire night thinking and in the end _________ a brilliant idea.
A. came up to B. put up with C. came up with D. put through to
2. He recommended that I _________there early
      A. be   B. was     C. were   D. would be
3. She is __________ her brother.
A. twice as old as       B. twice older than
 C. as old as twice D. more twice older than
4. Your son hardly cleans the bathroom, ______?
A. doesn’t he B. isn’t he     C. does he D. is he 
5. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I __________ last
week.
A. should     B. should have C. must have D.might have
do done      done    done
6. Listen carefully. I'm going to give you __________ advice.
A. some B. a C. few D. little
few
7. __________ the time you get to the theatre, the play will have finished. 
A. B. In C. D. By
Until On
8. The US president Barack Obama ______ an official visit to Vietnam in May
2016, which is of  great significance to the comprehensive bilateral partnership. 
delivered  B. paid  C. offered D. gave
9. John has finally found a new job after being ______ for three months. 
A.out of work  B. out of mind  C. out of order  D. out of reach
10.Students can gain _______ benefits form learning to work together.
A. considerate B. considering C. consideration D. considerable
11. ______ , we would be rich by now. 
      A. If we invest in the telecommunications industry 
      B. Unless we had investment in the telecommunications industry 
      C. Did we invest in the telecommunications industry 
      D. Had we invested in the telecommunications industry 
12. We must push the piano to the corner of the hall to ______ our party
tonight. 
A. make place for  B. take up room to    C. give place to  D. make room
for
13. ___________at his lessons, he couldn’t catch up with his classmates
A. Hardly as he worked B. Hard as he worked
C. Hard as he does D. Hard as he was 
14 - Lan: "Would you mind if I closed the door? It’s too cold outside"  
     - Hoa: "______." 
  A. No, I don’t like       B. No, never mind    
  C. I’d rather you didn’t. It’s stuffy     D. Why not do it?
15. Lan :  “I think it’s a good idea to have three or four generations living under
one roof. They can help one another.”       
    - Nam: “_______. Many old-aged parents like to lead independent life in a
nursing home”
     A. I can’t agree with you more                 B. It’s nice to hear that
     C. I don’t think so D. There is no doubt about it
Your answers: 
1.  6.  11. 
2.  7.  12. 
3.  8.  13. 
 4.  9.  14. 
5.  10.  15. 

Part 2:  Complete sentences using the correct form of the words. (20 points)
1. The ____ need assistance from the whole society. (POVERTY)
2. Such a kind man would never _intend to___ hurt his friend’s feelings.
(INTEND)
3. Because of a car _breaking_____, she didn’t get to the airport in time for her
flights. (BREAK)
4.The recent hurricane caused (WIDE) ___widely_______ damage.
5.Don’t tell anyone else what I’ve just told you. Remember, it’s ________.
(CONFIDE)
6. Until now, the high cost of schooling has _encouranged_________ or
prevented poor parents from having their children, especially girls,educated
(COURAGE)
7. He was very sad because he was told that his best friend got a(n)
incural___disease.(CURE)
8. We stood and watched the dancers’ grateful movements___(MOVE)
9. She was _____extremely____ knowledgeable about the history of China.
(EXTREME)
10. Many people were buried ___lively_______ after the earthquake. (LIVE)
Your answers: 
1.  6. 
2.  7. 
3.  8. 
4.  9. 
5.  10. 

Part 3: Answer questions from 1 to 15 (15 points)

Question 1-10: Insert a suitable word in each blank (the first letter is given
to guide you)
1. Although the weather is not so good, the match will go a______.
2. Even if you are rich, you should save some  money for a recent______ day.
3. We're in good time; there's no need__________ to hurry
4. True gender e____________can be achieved when both men and women
reach a balance between work and family
5. If they are not careful with their accounts, their business will go by_______.
6.It is true___believed that you are healthy when there is a balance between yin
and yang
7. The first episode of the film is going to be a___ next Sunday
8. There are important things to do to develop a country. Most people agree that
the first p___________is revolutionizing education
9. After taking part in public activities in their community, they realized that
they had been ignorant or n____________before
10. This kind of car is very e_______, so we do not have to spend too much
money on buying petrol or diesel
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 

Question 11- 15: Write one word which can be used in both two sentences.
11.You must be joking saying you believe Elizabeth. She was lying to us
through her _____
    Decay has set in because she hasn’t taken enough care of her _____over the
years
12. A big hospital is going to be _______ in this village
      Mary ______it hard to drive on the right a few months ago,but now she is
used to it
13. The villagers were advised to keep a close _____on the water level in the
river during the rainy season.
   If you don’t want to gain additional weight, it’s good to _____what you eat.
14. I don’t think this hat will _____well with your outfit. It’s a bit too
extravagant
      Let’s take a short break. I can’t ___on working any more
15. Going on a vacation and forgetting about work for some time will do you
_____
    It’s no ____ talking to Jerry. He always dismisses our opinions and makes
fun of our ideas
Your answers:
11.  12.  13.  14.  15. 

Part 4: There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and
correct it. (10 points) 
1. Because the torrential rains that had devastated the area, the governor sent the
National Guard to assist in the clean-up operation.
2. One of the most important things in life is a good health.
3. The city has spent a big amount of money on crime prevention.
4. Comparing with other countries, Libya spends a high percentage of income
on education.
5. People are now enjoying a higher level of living.
6. In the United Kingdom women see their doctor on the average five times a
year.
7. Although Mark has been cooking for many years, he still doesn’t know to
prepare French foods in the traditional manner.
8. When we arrived at the store to purchase the dishwasher advertise in the
newspaper, we learned that all the dishwashers had been sold.
9. After rising the flag to commemorate the holiday, the mayor gave a long
speech.
10. This time tomorrow I will lie on the beach, enjoying the sunshine.

MISTAKE CORRECTION MISTAKE CORRECTION

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

Part 5: Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. (20 points)
1.Her father pays her fees, otherwise she (1) ……… (be) here.
2. He (2)………………………….(work)  all day yesterday.
3.Oh, you must (3) …………… (drop) it on the way to come here.
4. We’ve got everything. Nothing seems (4)………………………… (forget) 
5. Mary was sitting on the ground. She was out of breath. She (5) ……… (run)
all the way here for half an hour.
6. The first man (6)………………..( sit) on the park bench looked at the (7)
……….(jog) woman.
7.The car broke down. But for that we (8) ………………… (be) in time.
8. For more than two hundred years, human (9)............................(gradually
change) the atmosphere, mainly as a result of industrial pollution.
9. Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim (10)........................( see) monsters in
the sea.
Your answers: 
1.  6. 
2.  7. 
3.  8. 
4.  9. 
5.  10. 

SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (40 POINTS)

Part 1: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following
paragraph. (20 points)
THE FLYING WING: AEROPLANE OF THE FUTURE
What will the areoplane of the future look like? An increasing number of
journey are beeing made (1)_______air, and the airlines are therefore
demanding a new kind of plane to help them cope with increasing passenger
(2)____. (3)____of the revolutionary new designs being developed is a “flying
wing”, (4)___ is short but very wide, in contrast to most planes, which are long
and narrow. It will be capable of carrying 600- 800 passengers. It will be built
of an extremely light   (5)___, and together with the unusual design, this will
improve performance. The new aeroplane will be quieter and more comfortable
(6)_____the existing planes. It will also (7)___ less to operate, and will (8)___
help to keep fares at affordable levels
Computers will play (9)_____important role in this plane. They would be
used during the flight as (10) ____as on ground: ground crews will simply plug
their laptop computers into the flight computers to check all functions
Your answers: 
1.  6. 
2.  7. 
3.  8. 
4.  9. 
5.  10. 
Part 2:  Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to fill in spaces in the
following passage. (10 points)   
       Although women now (1)____almost half of all workers in the US, nearly
80 percent of them are employed in low-paying clerical, sales, service, or
factory jobs. Approximately a third of all women workers have clerical jobs,
which pay(2)____average $12,000 or less. Partly as a result, women make only
seventy-five cents for every dollar (3)___by men. (4)_____, men routinely
make more money even    when education, experience, and responsibilties are
(5)___
      The gap in male-female earning had great significance because more than
16 percent of US households are (6)____by women. Low-paying jobs keep
many of these households in poverty. Women’s groups such as National
Organization for Women have demanded that equal opportunities and equal pay
(7)____to women. According to women’s (8)___Maggie McAnany, “It is
imperative that the government help to change the situation (of employment for
women). We cannot wait for the companies to (9)__ themselves. Change must
come (10)______the law.”
1. A. made of B. make up C. take up D. take in
2. A. on B. at C. in D. for
3.A. earns B. earning  C. to earn D. earned
4. A. Although B. Whatever C. MoreoverD. Contrary
5. A. equally B. equality C. equal D. equalizing
6. A. headed B. hosted C. carried D. licensed
7. A. are giving B. are given C. is giving D. be given
8. A. action B. activity C. activist D. active
9. A. restore B. regain C. regard D. reform
10. A. for B. through C. at D. along
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 
Part 3:  Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C
or D. (10 points)
        It is very difficult to succeed in the music business; nine out of ten bands
that release a first record fail to produce a second. Surviving in the music
industry requires luck and patience, but most of all it requires an intricate
knowledge of how a record company functions. The process begins when a
representative of a company’s Artist and Repertoire (A &R) department visits
bars and night clubs, scouting for young, talented bands. After the
representative identifies a promising band, he or she will work to negotiate a
contract with that band. The signing of this recording contract is a slow process.
A company will spend a long time investigating the band itself as well as
current trends in popular music. During this period, it is important that a band
reciprocate with an investigation of its own, learning as much as possible about
the record company and making personal connections within the different
departments that will handle their recordings. Once a band has signed the
contract and, has finished recording an album, the Publicity and Promotions
department takes over. This department decides whether or not to mass produce
and market the band’s album. Most bands fail to make personal contacts in this
second department, thus losing their voice in the important final process of
producing and marketing their album. This loss of nice often contributes to the
band’s failure as a recording group.
1. Which word can be best replaced for ‘release’?   
            A. distribute       B. pay for         C. overturn          D.
itemize
2.  Which word can be best replaced for ‘takes over’? 
            A. takes charge        B. take pleasure C. take advice  D. takes blame
3.  What will a recording company investigate once they have identified a band
at a bar or a night club?
           A. the Publicity Promotions          
 B. the band itself and current trends in popular music
           C. the singers’ personal relationship     
 D. the signing of this recording contract
4. According to the passage, the initial contact between a band and a recording
company is made by____
           A. the band’s manager.                       B. a band member.
           C. an A&R representative.             D. the Publicity Promotions
department.
5. The author mentions that a band’s success is dependent on all of the
following factors EXCEPT
          A. having patience.                                          
B. making personal contacts with people in the company.
           C. understanding how a record company functions .
D. playing music that sounds like music of famous bands.
6.  According to the passage, the Publicity and Promotions department _______
          A. has the final decision in producing an album.              
B. handles the recording arrangements for the band.
          C. sends representatives to look for new talented bands.     
D. visits bars and night clubs.
7.   It can be inferred from the passage that_______
          A. the music industry is full of opportunities for young band. 
          B. the A& R department has a large staff.
          C. most bands do not fully understand how record companies operate.  
          D. the cost of recording an album is very expensive.
8.  The phrase ‘this period’ refers to……..
          A. waiting for the signing of a recording contract           
B. scouting for young, talented bands
          C. waiting to represent the A & R department           
D. preparing to have the second album
9.  Which of the following words is most similar in meaning to ‘handle’? 
          A. touch B. control                   C. manipulate D.
protect
10.  Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the
passage?
          A. Nine out of ten bands fail to produce a second record.
          B. It is important for a band to have an intricate knowledge of how a
recording company functions. 
          C. Making personal connections will help the band in the final decisions
about the promotion of their album.
          D. The main factors in a band’s success are luck and patience.
Your answers: 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 

SECTION E: WRITING (50 points)

Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means
exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (10 points)
1. The engineer wrote the letter as soon as he returned from his work.
🡪  Hardly had the engineer returned from his work when he wrote
2. The traffic was bad, but Peter arrived on time.
🡪 However…bad as the traffic was, Peter
3. It is said that they built the Great Pyramid of Giza over a 20-year period
🡪The Great Pyramid of Giza ………………………………………………………
4. This Computer is so old that it’s not worth keeping.
🡪 This is such an old computer that
5.The motorcyclist rounded the corner at a quite unbelievable speed 
 🡪 The speed is unbelievable for the …..to round the corner

Part 2: Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means exactly the
same as the given one. Using the given word in brackets. Do not change the
word. (10 points)
1. He referred to his notes before answering the questions  ( LOOK)
🡪…he looked up his notes
2. I am fed up with his behaviour ( ENOUGH)
🡪…I am
3. Everyone was surprised to see George leave the party early ( SURPRISE)
🡪…To the everyone surprise, G leave the party early
4. There is no point in asking George to help. ( GOOD)
🡪…it’s no good to askkk………..
5.It’s unusual for Carol to get angry with her staff ( HARDLY)
🡪Carol is hardly get angry with her staff
Part 3: (30 points) 
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Technology
has made the world a better place to live.  In about 180- 200 words, write a
paragraph to express your point of view.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………
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