2 Đề thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Phòng GD & ĐT Núi Thành

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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS NÚI THÀNH NĂM HỌC 2014 – 2015

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi: 27/11/2014

Đề thi này gồm 06 trang (1 – 6). Thí sinh kiểm tra cẩn thận số trang trong đề trước khi làm bài. …………………………….. Thí sinh không làm bài vào đề thi này …………………………...................

SECTION ONE: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (35 points) Question1: Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D. Circle your choice. (10 points) 1. My neighbors made ...................... noise last night that I couldn’t get to sleep. A. so many B. so much C. such D. so 2. After he had broken his leg, Henry could only go up and down stairs............................... A. hardly B. in difficulties C. with difficulty D. hard 3. At four o’clock Mr. Hutchinson still had some ..................... to do in the garden. A. work B. job C. effort D. task 4. You can improve your English by practicing it............................ A. hardly B. ordinary C. badly D. regularly 5. Can you turn ............................... the lights? It’s too dark in here. A. down B. off C. on D. in 6. Mrs. Black: “Thank you for your help!” Andrew: “...........................”

A. You’re welcome. B. The same to you! C. Nice to meet you. D. So am I. 7. I asked Mark if he ............................... his homework yet. A. does B. did C. had done D. has done 8. If you want to join the History Society, you must first ............... this application. A. make B. write down C. fill in D. do up 9. Find the word which is pronounced differently in the part underlined. A. faded B. baggy C. pants D. added 10. Which of the following words is stressed on the first syllable? A. mention B. consist C. occasion D. design

Question 2: Complete the following passage with an appropriate form of the word in BLOCK CAPITAL. (10 points).

Village life In 1997, tired of the noise and (1) ........................ of the city, best-selling POLLUTE author Will Smith and his family moved out to Chersey, a picturesque village in the Suffolk countryside, with 53 (2) ....................... and one shop. Three years later they sold their INHABIT (3) ........................ 16th century cottage and moved back to London, BEAUTY where they now live in a smart new (4) ....................... on the outskirts NEIGHBOUR of the city. So what happened? “Chersey seemed an idyllic place to live,” explains Will, “a quiet, (5) ...................... old village in extremely PEACE (6) .................... surroundings. However, we soon became aware of PLEASE

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the (7) ........................ of village life. With so little to do in Chersey, and ADVANTAGE because the buses were so (8) ......................, our teenage children FREQUENT became (9) .......................... on us to take them everywhere in the car. DEPEND As for our own social life, the neighbors were rather cold and (10) ....................., so we felt very isolated and lonely. It was not FRIEND the rural idyll we had expected.” Question 3: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct but some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number on the separate answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it next to the number. (10 points).

A glass of orange juice 0. The train was crowded and I as couldn’t find anywhere to sit. So, after .....as..... 00. searching every compartment for an empty seat without success, I .... √ .... 1. decided to pop along to the refreshment car, where you can usually get ............ 2. something up to drink and a bite to eat . Even here, all the seats were ............ 3. taken, so I just had to stand at the bar. The only other person was standing ............ 4. at the bar was a strange-looking man wearing an enormous overcoat. This ............ 5. struck me as very peculiar, because that it was a very hot …