PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG DỰ THI CẤP

HUYỆN CẨM THỦY TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2018-2019 (LẦN 1)

Môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 9
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC Ngày thi: 22 tháng 11 năm 2018
Thời gian : 150 phút(không kể thời gian giao đề)
Số báo danh Đề thi gồm: 06 trang
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PART A: LISTENING (15 pts)

Question I. Listen and choose the correct picture.

Question II. Listen to the passage. Choose the best answer for each question below. You will listen twice.
6. How many percents do graduate schools in the United States increase in applications from international
students this year?

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 A. nineteen percents B. ninety percents
C. nine percents D. one ninth percents
7. When are the increases the same as?
A. two years ago B. seven years ago
C. eleven years ago D. twenty- two years ago
8. 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
9. Which is the top area of study for international students?
A. Engine B. Business C. Engineering D. Engineer
10. Who made the survey?
A. South Korea B. The Council of Graduate Schools
C. India D. Brazil
Question III. You hear a man talking about Tanya Perry’s life, and fill in the missing information.

TANYA PERRY

Born in London in 1948.

In 1952 family moved to (11) _________________________________________________ .
At school with Jack Peters, the famous (12) _____________________________________.
Wrote some (13) ____________________________________________ while still at school.
During the early 1970s worked as a (14) _________________________________________.
The film called City Life won prize at a French Film Festival.
Now has (15) ____________________________________________________ plays in print.

PART B: PHONETICS (4 pts)

Question I:Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same
line. (3 pts)
1.A. fluoride B. lid C. arid D. hidden
2.A. beloved B. naked C. learned D. worked
Question II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each
question. (2 pts)
1. A. confident B. important C. together D. exciting
2. A. possible B. University C. secondary D. suitable
PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (40 pts)
Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
1. “Another cup of coffee?” – “No, but thanks. ………………… .”
A. not at all B. you for you C. but for D. all the same
2. ………………. as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
A. That we prefer to B. What we prefer to
C. To which we prefer to D. What we prefer to
3. The police have warned tourists to look …………….. for pickpockets in the town centre.
A. up B. down C. forward D. out
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4. ……………… playing professional basket, she also enjoys tennis.
A. Besides B. Moreover C. Apart D. Together
5. I am infavor of his proposal that a special committee …………….. to examine the problem.
A. sets up B. will be set up C. be set up D. to be set up
6. ……………. I ask Martha for a date and she laughs at me?
A. What should B. What if C. What would D. As if
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7. It is not until December 25 …………. the exam result will be announced.
A. which B. what C. that D. when
8. The Continental United States is ………….. that there are four time zones.
A. so a big area B. very big C. much big D. so big an area
9. …………. her fiction describes women in unhappy marriages.
A. Many of B. Large number of C. Much of D. A great variety of
10. ……………… workers were sent to the area immediately but no villager was survived when the
landslide happened.
A. Rescue B. Help C. Assistance D. Volunteer
Question II: Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form.
1. Linda has lost her passport again. It's the second time this (happen)...................... .
2. Nga sometimes has to go to school very early (do)………….… her class duties.
3. There (be) ……….. any complaints, please phone us at this number.
4. I always prefer driving to (drive)………….. .
5. Scientists (discover) ………that, all over the world, millions of frogs and toads are dying.
6. The rerults were completely wrong. As a scientist, she (plan)………… the experiment more carefully.
7. You may feel frightened when you are in a forest (surround)…………………. .
8. We wish our parents (stay)…………. with us at the moment.
9. He was the only student (award)………….. the special prize in reciting poetry competition.
10. Tom will come home as soon as he (finish) …………… his test.
Question III: Read the text bellow. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word
that fits in the space in the same line.
1. I’m surprised at what you’ve done. I hope my confidence in you has not been ……… .
(PLACE)
2. ……………marriage has been made illegal by most modern societies. (AGE)
3. Using music, codes or signs to communicate is called ……..communication. (VERB)
4. You can taste some ………of the local people sold right there at the open-air market.
(SPECIAL)
5. Many people in this area have cholera because they drink ………… water. (TREAT)
6. Recycling of waste is one of the …………….. solutions for pollution. (PRACTICE)
7. ………………plays an important part in determining a person’s character.(BRING)
8. I admire her …………….. beauty. She’s old but she’s still beautiful. (TIME)
9. Theo and his twin brother are always together. They are …………… . (SEPARATE)
10. There is …………… a great demand for organic vegetables. (DENY)
Question IV. Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the mistake and correct it
as the example below.
Line 0: because → because of
People have always valued elephants because their size and strength. Asian 0……………….
elephants has been captured and trained to work for human being for two thousand 1……………….
years. We have been used in battles from the 3 rd century up when World War II. 2……………….
Because they are easily trained, they have been used to transport goods and carry 3……………….
huge logs from forests which was once their homes. Approximately twenty-five 4……………….
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 percents of the world’s population of Asian elephants have been caught and trained 5……………….
to do variety jobs, including carrying passengers and help to capture more wild 6……………….
elephants. Elephants are considered to be more intelligent then most animals, 7……………….
including domestic dogs and cats. This shows by the way they can easily learn to do 8……………….
tricks and perform tasks, as soon as by the playful behavior of young elephants, 9……………….
who energetically play games of hide and seek, tug of war and tag. 10……………..

PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (26 pts)

Question I: Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word.
Mr. Brown lived his entire life in a small town in the North of England. He never left the house (1)
…………… he had been born, never marriage, never went on holiday and had no friends. He worked in a
local factory for more than forty years but (2) ……………the people who had worked with him for years (3)
…………… very little about him. He wore the same clothes year in year out and (4) …………… he
shopped regularly at the local store he bought only the most basic foodstuffs, never changing his purchases
from one week to the next. So when he died last month, neighbors and local people were (5) …………… to
learn that Mr. Brown was not just a rich man, he was in fact (6) …………… millionaire.
He had no bank, no account, no money invested anywhere but in the various drawers, cupboards and
boxes in the house there were hundreds and thousands of bank (7) …………… and coins.
It took police over two weeks to clear the house and the bank clerks took just as long to (8)
…………… all the money. “We had absolutely no ideas that he had been hiding his money over the years”,
one of his neighbors said “In fact we used to feel (9) …………… for him. We thought he was a poor old
man unable to afford anything better for (10) …………… .
Question II: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps in the following passage.(10 pts)
If you (1) ……………. to be walking in your local park tomorrow and you find an abandoned book
with a label inside (2) ……………. “Read and Release me”, don’t just treat it as a joke. You’ve probably
come (3) ……………. an example of “book-crossing”, a book-sharing movement started in 2001 by
American software developer Ron Hornbaker, whose stated aim is to “make the (4) ……………. world a
library”.
Bookcrossers “release” books (5) ……………. by passing them on to friends, or else by leaving
them in public places for others to pick up or “catch”, and then read, before they (6) ……………. turn
release them back “into the wild”. (7) ……………. a book has been “caught”, the person finding it is
encouraged to record the event by logging on to the book-crossing website and entering the book’s ID
number written on the label. That (8) ……………., both the original owner and subsequent readers of the
book can keep track of its progress.
Over half a million people worldwide participate in book-crossing, “releasing” books in a (9)
…………. range of locations including cafés, airports, bus stations, telephone boxes and even underwater in
public fountains. Often a book is left in a place (10) …………….. is relevant to its title or content: Agatha
Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express on a train, for example, or an archeology book in a museum.
1. A. occur B. happen C. pass D. arise
2. A. telling B. saying C. talking D. answering
3. A. away B. along C. across D. aside
4. A. full B. absolute C. quite D. whole
5. A. either B. but C. or D. neither
6. A. at B. to C. in D. for
7. A. Soon B. Since C. Once D. While
8. A. way B. time C. place D. manner
9. A. deep B. long C. high D. wide
10. A. what B. which C. who D. where.
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Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below.
When buying a house, you must be sure to have it checked for termites. A termite is nuch like an
ant in its communal habits, although physically the two insects are distinct.
Like those of ants, termite colonies consist of different classes, each with its own particular job. The
most perfectly formed termites, both male and female, make up the reproductive class. They have
(5) eyes, hard body walls, and fully developed wings. A pair of reproductive termites founds the colony.
When new reproductive termites develop, they leave to form another colony. They use their wings
only this one time and then break them off.
The worker termites are small, blind, and wingless, with foft bodies. They make up the majority of
the colony and do all the work. Soldiers are eyeless and wingless but are larger than the workers and
(10 have hard heads and strong jaws and legs. They defend the colony and are cared for by the workers.
)
The male and female of the reproductive class remain inside a closed-in cell where the female lays
thousands of eggs. The workers place the eggs in cells and care for them. Even if one colony is treated
with poison, if a male and female of the reproductive class ascape, they can form a new colony.
(15
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Pest control companies can inspect a house for infestation of termites. Often, a lay person cannot
spot the evidence, so it critical to have the opinion of a professional. Treatments vary defending upon
the type of termite.

1. How are termites like ants?

A. They live in communities, and each class has a specific duty.
B. Their bodies are the same shape.
C. The king and queen are imprisoned.
D. The females’s reproductive capacities are the same.
2. The word “communal” in line 2 is closest in meaning to
A. eating B. reproducing C. organizational D. social
3. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. All termites have eyes. B. Some termites cannot fly.
C. Workers are smaller than sodiers. D. Termites do not fly often.
4. In line 3, “classes” is closest in meaning to
A. sexes B. colonies C. courses D. categories
5. Which of the following would be best title for this passage?
A. Termites Destroy Houses.
B. Termites Work Well Together.
C. The Habits and Physical Characteristics of Termites.
D. the Relationship of Sodiers and Worker Termites.
6. The word “cells” in line 13 is closest in meaning to
A. combs B. rows C. compartments D. placenta

PART E: WRITING (15 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. While I strongly disapprove of your behavior, I will help you this time.
-> Despite my ………………………………………………………………………………..
2. I only realised that I had forgotten to close the door when she told me.
-> Only when ………………………………………………………………………………...
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3. Despite Jack’s strange clothes, everybody ignored him.
-> Nobody took ……………………………………………………………………………....
4. We will not delay our voyage whether there is a rain or not.
-> Regardless ………………………………………………………………………………...
5. To pass the time, I looked through some magazines.
-> I whiled …………………………………………………………………………………...
Question II: Do not change the given word, use it to rewrite each of the following sentences so that each
has as a similar meaning as the original one.
1. Linder cried her eyes out immediately she was told she’d failed her exam. (BROKE)
-> ……………………………………………………………………………………..
2. They decided to build a new school in this region. (SHOULD)
-> ……………………………………………………………………………………..
3. The result of the match was a deep disappointment to the fan. (DEEPLY)
-> ……………………………………………………………………………………..
4. The Embarrassy said it would not be necessary for me to get a visa. (NEED)
-> ……………………………………………………………………………………..
5. The two theories appear to be completely different. (COMMON)
-> ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Question III. In about 120 – 150 words, write a paragraph about the value of libraries. (5 pts)
………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

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 PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG DỰ THI CẤP
HUYỆN CẨM THỦY TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2018-2019 (LẦN 1)
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 9
HD CHẤM CHÍNH THỨC Ngày thi: 22 tháng 11 năm 2018
Thời gian : 150 phút(không kể thời gian giao đề)
HDC gồm: 02 trang

A. ĐÁP ÁN
PART A: LISTENING ( 10 điểm - mỗi câu đúng 1 điểm)
I. Listen and choose the correct picture.
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. A

II. Listen to the passage. Choose the best answer for each question below.
6. C 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. B
III. You hear a man talking about Tanya Perry’s life, and fill in the missing information.
11. (the) North-west 12. poet 13. (short) stories
14. waitress 15. 24 (twenty-four)

PART B: PHONETICS (4 điểm – Mỗi câu đúng 1 điểm)

I. 1. A. 2. D.
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II. 1. A 2. B
PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (40 điểm - mỗi câu đúng 1 điểm)
Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 pts)

1.D 2.B 3. D 4. A 5. C
6. B 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. D

Question II: Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form.(10 pts)
1.has happened 2. to do 3. Should … be
4. being driven 5. have discovered 6. should have planned 7. surrounded
8. were staying 9. to be awarded 10. has finished
Question III: Read the text bellow. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word
that fits in the space in the same line ( 10pts )
1. misplaced 2. underage 3. non-verbal 4. specialities 5. untreated
6. practical 7. upbringing 8. timeless 9. inseparable 10. undeniably
Question IV. Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the mistake and correct it
as the example below.
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
1 has have 6 variety various/a variety of
2 We They 7 help helping
3 when until/to 8 then than
4 was were 9 shows is shown
5 percents percent 10 soon well
PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (26 điểm - mỗi câu đúng 1điểm)
Question I: Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word. (10 pts)
1. where 2. even 3. knew 4. although 5. astonished
6. a 7. notes 8. count 9. sorry 10. himself
Question II. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.(10points)
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A
6. C 7. C 8. A 9. D 10. B
Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below.
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. C
PART E: WRITING (15 điểm - mỗi câu đúng 1điểm)
Question I:Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed above it. (10 pts)
1. Despite my strong disapproval of your behavior, I will help you this time.
2. Only when she told me did I realise that I had forgotten to close the door.
3. Nobody took notice of Jack despite his strange clothes.
4. Regardless of the rain, we will not delay our voyage.
5. I whiled away the time looking through some magazines.
Question II: Do not change the given word, use it to rewrite each of the following sentences so that each
has as a similar meaning as the original one (5 pts)
1. Linda broke down as soon as she was told/ heard she’d failed her exam.
2. They decided that a new school should be built in this region.
3. The fan was deeply disappointed by/ with the result of the match.
4. The Embarassy said (that) I didn’t need to get a visa./ The Embarassy said (that) there was no need for me to
get a visa.
5. The two theories appear to have (got) nothing in common.
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Question III. Paragraph writing: (5 pts)
Marking criteria:
+ Task completion (1,5điểm)
Tuỳ theo khả năng hoàn thành về bố cục và những yêu cầu nội dung cho mỗi phần ( câu chủđể, cácý triển
khai, câu kết) giám khảo có thể chấm từ 1-2,5điểm.
+ Grammatical accuracy and spelling (2 điểm): bài viết không có lỗi chính tả và từ 4 lỗi ngữ pháp trở
xuống được cho 1 điểm tối đa. (Trừ không quá 1 điểm).
+ Coherence and cohesion (tính mạch lạc và sự liên kết câu, đoạn) (1,5 điểm):
Tùy mức độ mạch lạc, liên kết câu, liên kết đoạn của bài viết, giám khảo có thể chấm 1,5 điểm.

B- HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM:

Tổng điểm toàn bài : 100 điểm
Bài thi chấm theo thang điểm: 20
Điểm bài thi làm tròn đến 0, 2

Tổng số điểm thí sinh làm đúng

Điểm bài thi = ---------------------------------------
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