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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO<br /> PHÚ THỌ<br /> ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC<br /> <br /> KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH<br /> LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2015-2016<br /> Môn: TIẾNG ANH<br /> <br /> Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề<br /> <br /> HƯỚNG DẪN THÍ SINH LÀM BÀI THI<br /> A. CẤU TẠO ĐỀ THI:<br /> Đề thi gồm có 5 phần:<br /> I. NGHE HIỂU (Listening)<br /> : 10 câu.<br /> II. NGỮ ÂM (Phonetics)<br /> : 10 câu.<br /> III. TỪ VỰNG VÀ NGỮ PHÁP (Lexico-grammar) : 35 câu.<br /> IV. ĐỌC HIỂU (Reading):<br /> : 25 câu.<br /> V. VIẾT (Writing):<br /> : 20 câu.<br /> B. HƯỚNG DẪN THÍ SINH LÀM BÀI:<br />  Thí sinh làm toàn bộ bài thi trên đề thi theo yêu cầu của từng phần. Thí sinh phải viết câu trả lời vào<br /> phần trả lời được cho sẵn ở mỗi phần. Trái với điều này, phần bài làm của thí sinh sẽ không được chấm<br /> điểm.<br />  Đề thi gồm có 8 trang. Thí sinh phải kiểm tra số tờ đề thi trước khi làm bài.<br />  Thí sinh không được ký tên hoặc dùng bất cứ dấu hiệu gì để đánh dấu bài thi ngoài việc làm bài theo yêu<br /> cầu của đề ra. Không được viết bằng mực đỏ, bút chì, không viết hai thứ mực trên tờ giấy làm bài.<br /> Phần viết hỏng, ngoài cách dùng thước để gạch chéo, không được tẩy xóa bằng bất kỳ cách gì khác (kể cả<br /> bút xóa màu trắng). Trái với điều này bài thi sẽ bị loại.<br />  Thí sinh nên làm nháp trước rồi ghi chép cẩn thận vào phần bài làm trên đề thi. Giám thị sẽ không phát<br /> giấy làm bài thay thế đề và giấy làm bài do thí sinh làm hỏng.<br />  Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm về đề thi. Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu gì kể cả từ điển.<br /> <br /> SECTION 1. LISTENING<br /> I. Part 1. Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR<br /> NUMBERS for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. (10 points)<br /> LIBRARY INFORMATION<br /> For registration, the man must take:<br />  Two (1)__________<br />  Two forms of I.D.e.g. driving licence, (2)_________<br /> Cost to join per year (without current student card): (3) £__________<br /> Number of items allowed: (members of public): (4)____________<br /> Fines start at (5) £__________<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 …………….. 2........................ 3......................... 4........................ 5.....................<br /> II. Part 2:<br /> You will hear a conversation between a man (Marco) and his wife (Sarah) about the<br /> film they’ve just seen at the cinema and decide whether each sentence is correct (T) or<br /> incorrect (F). (10 points)<br /> 1. Marco and Sarah agree that the city in the film was London.<br /> 2. Marco feels that the length of the film made it rather boring.<br /> 3. Sarah was upset about how some of the audience behaved during the film.<br /> 4. Sarah was disappointed with the way the main actor performed.<br /> 5. Marco thinks this film is the best the director has made.<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 ………..<br /> <br /> 2..................<br /> <br /> 3...................<br /> <br /> 4..................<br /> <br /> 5................<br /> Page 1 of 10<br /> <br /> SECTION 2: PHONETICS<br /> III. Choose the word whose underlined<br /> answers in the space provided. (10 points)<br /> 1. A. notice<br /> B. post<br /> 2. A. river<br /> B. rivalry<br /> 3. A. muscles<br /> B. needles<br /> 4. A. sacred<br /> B. died<br /> 5. A. catastrophe<br /> B. confidence<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> <br /> part is pronounced differently. Write your<br /> C. monument<br /> C. icon<br /> C. routes<br /> C. naked<br /> C. recipe<br /> <br /> 1 ………..... 2................... 3....................<br /> <br /> 4..................<br /> <br /> D. comb<br /> D. stripe<br /> D. wardens<br /> D. wanted<br /> D. sesame<br /> 5................<br /> <br /> IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three of the group.<br /> Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points)<br /> 1. A. readable<br /> B. satisfy<br /> C. evidence<br /> D. distinguish<br /> 2. A. relationship B. deliberate<br /> C. customer<br /> D. equipment<br /> 3. A. participate B. literature<br /> C. intimate<br /> D. powerful<br /> 4. A. baggy<br /> B. chairman<br /> C. dumping<br /> D. severe<br /> 5. A. antonym<br /> B. consequence C. opponent<br /> D. lunatic<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 …………….. 2........................ 3......................... 4........................ 5.....................<br /> SECTION 3. LEXICO - GRAMMAR<br /> V. Choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write your<br /> answers in the space provided. (40 points)<br /> 1. Your parents must be proud of your result at school". - "_______"<br /> A. Sorry to hear that.<br /> B. I am glad you like it.<br /> C. Thanks. It's certainly encouraging.<br /> D. Of course<br /> 2. Is it necessary that I _____ here tomorrow?<br /> A. am being<br /> B. will be<br /> C. be<br /> D. would be<br /> 3.When you use the Internet, you have so much information at your ______.<br /> A. fingers<br /> B. hands<br /> C. thumbs<br /> D. fingertips<br /> 4. I read the contract again and again _______ avoiding making spelling mistakes<br /> A. in terms of<br /> B. by means of<br /> C. with a view to D. in view of<br /> 5. Not until a monkey is several years old ________to exhibit signs of independence<br /> from its mother.<br /> A. beginning<br /> B. does it begin C. and begin<br /> D. it begins<br /> 6. I must go to the dentist and ___________<br /> A. get my teeth to take care of<br /> B. take care of my teeth<br /> C. my teeth be taken care of<br /> D. get my teeth taken care of<br /> 7. He had travelled<br /> for 20 years and then he decided to return home.<br /> Page 2 of 10<br /> <br /> A. farther away<br /> B. far and wide<br /> C. far from it<br /> D.farthest of all<br /> 8. “You should stop working too hard<br /> you’ll get sick.”<br /> A. or else<br /> B. if<br /> C. in case<br /> D. whereas<br /> 9. He carried a(n)<br /> driving license.<br /> A. artificial<br /> B. unfaithful<br /> C.untrue<br /> D. false<br /> 10. Despite playing under strength, the village team _____ beat the rivals.<br /> A. could<br /> B. were able to<br /> C. couldn’t<br /> D. weren’t able to<br /> 11.The government has introduced _______.<br /> A. a children’s clothes tax<br /> B. a tax on children clothes<br /> C. a children clothes tax<br /> D. a tax on children’s clothes<br /> 12. ______, they slept soundly.<br /> A. Hot though was the night air<br /> B. Hot though the night air was<br /> C. Hot the night air as was<br /> D. Hot although the night air was<br /> 13. He suddenly saw Sue ____ the room. He pushed his way ____ the crowd of people to<br /> get to her.<br /> A. across…through<br /> B. over…through<br /> C. across…across<br /> D. over…along<br /> 14. Nobody likes his behaviour, ________?<br /> A. do they<br /> B. don’t they<br /> C. does he<br /> D. doesn’t he<br /> 15. I like that photo very much. Could you make an _____ for me?<br /> A. increase<br /> B. enlargement<br /> C. extension<br /> D. expansion<br /> 16. – “When are you planning to resign?”<br /> - “By Christmas....................”<br /> A. no later<br /> B. until lately<br /> C. at the latest<br /> D. if not later<br /> 17. Please _____ your luggage and leave now. I can’t stand your presence any more.<br /> A. throw off<br /> B. pack up<br /> C. fit in<br /> D. pile up<br /> 18. _______, he would have been able to pass the exam.<br /> A. Studying more<br /> B. Had he studied more<br /> C. If he studied more<br /> D. If he were studying more<br /> 19. Joe seemed to be in a good mood, ____ he snapped at me angrily when I asked him<br /> to join us.<br /> A. yet<br /> B. for<br /> C. and<br /> D. so<br /> 20. I had to pay through the nose to get my car repaired at a service station in the middle<br /> of the desert.<br /> A. spend less money than usual<br /> B. pay too much for something<br /> C. make a lot of money<br /> D. cost a lot of money<br /> Write your answers (A, B, C or D) here<br /> 1 ………..<br /> <br /> 2................... 3.................... 4...................<br /> <br /> 5................<br /> <br /> 6 ………..<br /> <br /> 7................... 8.................... 9...................<br /> <br /> 10..............<br /> <br /> 11 ….…...<br /> <br /> 12.................<br /> <br /> 13.................<br /> <br /> 14................. 15...............<br /> Page 3 of 10<br /> <br /> 16 ……....<br /> <br /> 17.................<br /> <br /> 18.................<br /> <br /> 19................. 20...............<br /> <br /> VI. There is one mistake in each sentence. Identify the mistake and write your<br /> correction in the space provided. (10 points)<br /> 1. Humus, a substance found in soil, is soft and spongy and enables plant roots to<br /> send out tiny hair through that they absorb water and food.<br /> 2. From the monitoring of earthquake waves it is evidence that the Earth’s outer<br /> core is liquid, whereas the inner one is solid.<br /> 3. People tend to make a lot of shopping at Xmas time.<br /> 4. Stuart stopped to write his letter because he had to leave for the hospital.<br /> 5. A fully grown male mountain lion may be eight long feet.<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1<br /> <br /> 2<br /> <br /> 3<br /> <br /> 4<br /> <br /> 5<br /> <br /> Mistake<br /> <br /> …………….<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> Correction<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> …………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> ……………<br /> <br /> VII. Supply the correct form of the words in bracket. Write your answers in the space<br /> provided. (10 points)<br /> 1. She supports her theory with......................evidence. (COPY)<br /> 2. Will it ever be possible for the human race to reach the extreme............. of the<br /> universe? (BOUND)<br /> 3. He says he had no intention of hurting me, but I am sure he hit me...........<br /> (PURPOSE)<br /> 4. Safety tests on old cars have been............................... throughout Europe.<br /> (STANDARD)<br /> 5. The teacher warned the children that if they................again, they would be<br /> punished. (BEHAVE)<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 …………….. 2........................ 3......................... 4........................ 5.....................<br /> VIII. Supply the correct form and tense of the verbs in brackets (10 points)<br /> 1. We would like (invite) ....... to the president’s reception, but we weren’t.<br /> 2. Did you know that Oscar Wilde (live) .......... in Paris during his final years?<br /> 3. There was no sign indicating that the cottage (break) .......... into.<br /> 4. Without their valuable assistance we (never, gather) ........... enough money for our<br /> son’s operation.<br /> 5. By the time I go to bed tonight, I (write) .......... more than ten pages of the novel.<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 …………….. 2........................ 3......................... 4........................ 5.....................<br /> Page 4 of 10<br /> <br /> SECTION 4. READING<br /> IX. Exercise 1: Read the passage and choose the best option to complete the passage<br /> (20 points)<br /> Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at<br /> night but can’t find the energy to get out of bed (1) ________ for school? According to a<br /> new report, today’s generation of children are in danger of getting so (2)_______ sleep<br /> that they are putting their mental and physical health at (3)_______. Adults can easily<br /> survive on seven to eight hours’ sleep a night, (4)_______teenagers require nine or ten<br /> hours. According to medical experts, one in five youngsters (5)________ anything<br /> between two and five hours’ sleep a night less than their parents did at their age.<br /> This (6) _____ serious questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s<br /> ability to concentrate at school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in<br /> memory, impaired reaction time and poor concentration is well (7) _______. Research<br /> has shown that losing as little as half an hour’s sleep a night can have profound effects<br /> (8) ______how children perform the next day. A good night’s sleep is also crucial for<br /> teenagers because it is while they are asleep (9)______ they release a hormone that is<br /> essential for their ‘growth spurt’ (the period during teenage years when the body grows at<br /> a rapid rate). It’s true that they can, to some (10) ______, catch up on sleep at weekends,<br /> but that won’t help them when they are dropping off to sleep in class on a Friday<br /> afternoon.<br /> 1. A. behind time<br /> B. about time<br /> C.in time<br /> D. at time<br /> 2. A. few<br /> B. less<br /> C. much<br /> D. little<br /> 3. A. jeopardy<br /> B. threat<br /> C. risk<br /> D. danger<br /> 4. A. or<br /> B. because<br /> C. whereas<br /> D. so<br /> 5. A. puts<br /> B. gets<br /> C. brings<br /> D. makes<br /> 6. A. raises<br /> B. rises<br /> C. results<br /> D. comes<br /> 7. A. organized<br /> B. arranged<br /> C. established<br /> D. acquired<br /> 8. A. in<br /> B. on<br /> C. to<br /> D. at<br /> 9. A. at which<br /> B. which<br /> C. where<br /> D. that<br /> 10. A. rate<br /> B. extent<br /> C. level<br /> D. point<br /> Write your answers here:<br /> 1 ………..... 2................... 3....................<br /> <br /> 4..................<br /> <br /> 5................<br /> <br /> 6 ………..... 7................... 8....................<br /> <br /> 9..................<br /> <br /> 10...............<br /> <br /> X. Exercise 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each<br /> question. (10 points)<br /> Universally acclaimed as America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill was born in<br /> 1888 in the heart of the theater district in New York City. As the son of an actor he had<br /> early exposure to the world of the theater. He attended Princeton University briefly in<br /> 1906, but returned to New York to work in a variety of jobs before joining the crew of a<br /> freighter as a seaman. Upon returning from voyages to South Africa and South America,<br /> he was hospitalized for six months to recuperate from tuberculosis. While he was<br /> Page 5 of 10<br /> <br />