Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp tỉnh lớp 9 năm học 2012 - 2013 môn: Tiếng Anh

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO	 LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2012-2013
	 Môn: Tiếng Anh
 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC	 Thời gian: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
	 Ngày thi: 16/3/2013
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 UBND TỈNH KON TUM	KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO	 LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2012-2013
	 Môn: Tiếng Anh
 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC	 Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
	 Ngày thi: 16/3/2013
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Giám khảo 1
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BẰNG SỐ
BẰNG CHỮ
Giám khảo 2
Part 1. Choose the word or phrase of words which best completes each sentence. (2 ms) 
1. We have many well-_________ teachers here.
A. qualify	B. qualified	C. quality	D. qualification
2. One of the major causes _________ heart disease is lack of exercise. 
A. for 	B. to 	C. of 	D. by 
3. The students stopped __________ when their teacher entered the classroom.
A. talking	B. to talk	C. talk	D. talked
4. He _________ an overdose of heroin and died. 
A. used to 	B. used 	C. was used to 	D. was used 
5. She lives with her parents _______ Kon Tum city.
A. in 	 B. on 	C. at 	D. for
6. He is tired _________ he stayed up late watching TV.
A. so	B. because	C. but	D. and
7. I felt ________ disappointed because of their bad behavior.
A. real	B. reality	C. really	D. realize 
8. It is ________ to watch the cartoon films.
A. interest 	B. interested	C. interestingly	D. interesting
9. She is very tired; __________, she has to finish her homework.
A. moreover	B. so	C. and	D. however
10. After coming home, she cleaned the floor _________ cooked dinner.
A. but	B. however	C. moreover	D. and
11. Hanh can’t go to the movies with us tonight. She will have to _________ her little sister.
A. turn on	B. go on 	C. turn off	D. look after
12. I wish it ___________ rain all the time. 
A. couldn’t	B. won’t	C. doesn’t	D. didn’t
13. Mrs. Lam lives here, _________
 	A. does she? 	B. doesn’t she? 	C. is she?	D. isn’t he? 
14. They _________ me if I could speak English.
 	A. told 	B. said 	C. talked 	D. asked
15. The old man walked _________ to the park.
 	A. slow 	B. slowly	 C. quick	D. fastly
16. Tom: I think we should save time and money.	~Mary: “__________” 
 	A. Well done. 	B. Thanks. 	C.That’s a good idea. 	D. All right.
17. ________ resources should be conserved.
 	A. Natural 	B. Nature 	C. Naturally 	D. Naturalist
18. Solar energy doesn't cause _________.
A. pollution 	B. polluted 	C. pollute 	D. polluting
19. Last night I came home, cooked dinner, and _________TV.
A. watch	B. watched	C. was watching	D. would watch
20. It is nearly 3 months_________he visited his parents.
A. while	B. during	C. since	D. when
Your Answer
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Part 2 . Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that best fits the space in the same line. The first one has been done for you as an example. (2 ms)
NOT SUCH GOOD NEIGHBOURS
The families in our street are slowly being driven mad by the (0)__________ of the inhabitants of No.13 to have any form of (1)_________ with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise (2)____________. Every evening, the (3)_________ neighbours used to turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (4)_______ was able to hear anything else. Not knowing what (5)_______ to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (6)______ as to how to deal with the problem. A (7)_______ was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in No.13 and ask them (8)_______ to turn their music down after six in the evening. Unfortunately the visit did not turn out to be (9)_______, as the inhabitants of No.13 refused to talk to them. So, on the (10)________ of local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court.
0. REFUSE
1. COMMUNICATE
2. POLLUTE
3. THINK
4. NEIGHBOUR
5. ACT
6. SUGGEST
7. DECIDE
8. POLITE
9. SUCCESS
10. ADVISE
Your answer
0. REFUSAL
4. 
8.
1.
5. 
9.
2.
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10.
3.
7.
Part 3. Read the text and choose the best answer in 1-5. (2 ms)
“Oh, you’re so lucky living in Bath, It’s such a wonderful, lovely, historical place,” people say enthusiastically, and all you can think of is the awful parking, the crowds of tourists, the expensive shops, the narrow-minded council, and the terrible traffic....
Luckily, I don’t live in Bath but nearly ten miles away in a village called Limpley Stoke in the Avon valley. It seems to be normal in the countryside these days for professional people who work in the town prefer to live in the villages, this makes the housing so expensive that the villagers and agricultural workers have to live in the cheaper accommodation in town, with the result that the farmers commute out to the farm and everyone else commutes in. Certainly, there is nobody in the village could be called an old style villager. The people nearest to me include a pilot, an accountant, a British Rail manager, a retired teacher... not a farm worker among them. But I don’t think there is anything wrong with that- it’s just that the nature of villages is changing and there is still quite a strong sense of community here. A lot of this sense of community comes from the Post Office, which is a center for all the gossip and information. I find out what is going on while I am there, pretending to control my two-year-old son. My feeling is that if my son took the money collected for the children, it would go directly where it was needed but they don’t see it like that.
Working at home I tend to wander round the village at times when other people are at the office, which has given me a reputation for being incredibly lazy or unbelievably rich but I still don’t get enough time to look after the garden we bought. My wife had a good idea for the first year. “Let’s just leave it and see what comes up” There were some nice plants among the weeds. She had a good idea for the second year as well. “Why don’t we leave it and see if it all comes up again?” We did, and that is why we need to hire a full-time gardener this year.
1. What is the author’s attitude to Bath?
A. It is a wonderful place to live in. 	B. It has far too many disadvantages.
C. He feels fortunate to live there.	D. It has many good shops.
2. The people who live in the village
A. tend to work on the farms. 	
B. are mostly professionals who work in the town. 
C. are able to afford houses in the town. 
D. don’t like the old-style villagers.
3. It would appear from the text that the Post Office
A. sells a wide range of cards. 	
B. is where most of the charity work is organized.
C. is a place where villagers can talk to each other. 
D. sells a range of tinned food as well as stamps.
4. The garden is not in good condition because
A. the author is too lazy to look after it. 	
B. the author can’t afford to pay a gardener.
C. the author’s no interest in it. 	
D. nobody has worked on it for over two years.
5. The author feels that living in the village
A. is better than living in Bath. 	B. has a number of disadvantages 
C. tends to be rather dull. 	D. is something that everyone would enjoy.
Your answer
1.
3.
5.
2.
4.
Part 4. This letter recently appeared in an English magazine. Four sentences have been removed from the letter. Choose from the sentences (A-F) the one which fits the gap (1-4). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. An example is given (0). ( 1.2 m)
I have recently become very worried about my 16 year-old son, Nick. Although he was never brilliant at school, he always used to get reasonably good marks.
0
F
He used to be such a good swimmer that he won several prizes. But now he has given up training. And instead of the neat clothes he used to wear, all he ever puts on is the same pair of shabby old jeans and a dirty sweatshirt.
1
Nick was in the kitchen. The radio was on so loud that he didn't hear me come
in behind him. My handbag was on the table.
2
We had a terrible row. Finally, he broke down and confessed everything. He has been going every day to a big amusement arcade near his school and playing electronic games with names like Space Warrior and Alien Invaders. I had always thought they were
harmless. 
3
He has promised he won't go there again, but I think he's too addicted to stop.
4
What can I do to help him?
A
But now I realize that he's so hooked on them, he'll even steal from his own mother in order to pay for the habit.
B
Even if he wanted to, he couldn't – and he doesn't.
C
I often leave it there so that I won't forget it when I go out.
D
He had taken some money out of it and was just going to put it in his pocket.
E
But that isn't all – last Sunday, I got up earlier than usual.
F
But now his work has become so bad that his teachers say he is just wasting his time there.
Part 5. Match the questions A-E with the answers 1-5. The first example (A) is done for you. (0.8 m)
	A_3_	B_____	C_____	D_____ 	E_____
A 	Would it be OK if I did my homework in the dining room?
B	 Do you mind if I come back late this evening?
C 	Is it OK if my parents phone me here?
D 	Do you mind if I smoke?
E 	Would you mind if I had a bath now?
1 	No, not at all. I'll give you a spare key.
2 	Yes, of course. Have they got the number?
3 	Yes, that would be fine as long as you clear everything away before dinner.
4 	No, not at all. There should be plenty of hot water.
5 	Yes, I do. I find the smell quite disgusting.
Part 6. Read the text. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) in the right column. If a line has an unnecessary word, underline it and write it in the right column. There are two examples at the beginning (0) and (00). (3 ms)
0
The other day, when I was in London, I ran down into
down
00
an old friend of mine who had been at university
√
1
with me. Although that we hadn't seen each other
2
for the ages and had lost touch, it was just like old
3
times, and he told me all his news.
4
He moved to London after leaving from university,
5
and started to train as an accountant. He left after
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a few of months because he didn't find it very
7
interesting, and he didn't feel like it spending the
8
rest of his life in an office. His parents were very
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helpful – they didn't try to make him to carry on
10
training as a qualified accountant, and said him
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they would continue to support him despite of the
12
fact that he didn't have a job to go to. He soon found
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work doing that what he really wanted – writing
14
for a TV show. After the first series end, the producer
15
let him to have his own TV show even though
he was relatively young, and it turned out to be a
great success.
Part 7. There are 10 blanks in the passage. Use the words (phrases) given in the box to fill in the blanks. Use only one word (phrase) in each blank. There are five extra words (phrases) which you do not need to use. (2 ms)
place, easily, alike, bury, carry, contain, imitated, interfered, most, prevent, protect, role, serve, surviving, tamed
	Man probably could not live without the help of animals. The (1)______ of animals in the balance of nature ranks as their most important service to man. 
	Animals also (2)______ man by supplying him with many foods and other useful products. Without animals, man would have no meat, milk, eggs, or honey; or wool, fur, or silk.
	For thousands of years, man has caused changes in the animal kingdom. He has (3)______ many kinds of animals and used them for food and clothing. He has killed or driven away animals that once attacked him or (4)______ with his use of land. Today, he tried to (5)______ many kinds of animals that are in danger of dying out. 
	Like man, (6)______ plants depend on animals for many of their basic needs. Without animals, many plants could not (7)______ reproduce. For example, many plants with flowers depend on bees and other insects to (8)______ their pollen from plant to plant. Many oak trees grow from acorns that squirrels (9)______ and then forget, or from acorns that deer step on and push deep into the soil. Birds often fly from one (10)______ to another with seeds clinging to their feet. The seeds may sprout a great distance from the parent plants.
Your answer
1. 
5. 
9.
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10.
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Part 8. Read the following letter from someone who is doing a language course in France then choose the best word to fill in the gap by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. (3 ms)
Dear Mum and Dad,
This is just a quick letter to let you know that I’m fine. We’re all working quite hard because the exams are only a few weeks away, but our teacher (1) _________ he thinks we’ll do well. (My landlady’s not so sure - she keeps (2) ________ me I should stop (3)_________ so much TV and do a bit more reading!)
Anyway, we had a wonderful time at half-term. I went off to Paris for (4) ________ days with some of the others from the school, and we went on a guided (5) _________ of the city. We saw most of the famous (6) ___________ like the Louvre, where they have an amazing (7)__________ of paintings, and the Eiffel Tower. Then, we went down to the South of France (8)__________ train. It was so fast – the whole (9)_________ was only about four hours. We spent (10)_________ time in Nice and in Cannes as well, and we all really enjoyed it. On our last day, we went to a small island (11)________ the Ile des Pelerines, and we saw the castle where they used to keep the “Man in the Iron Mask”. All in all, we had a great time and (12)_________ weather was really good as well. The only thing I felt (13)_________ about was that we didn’t have enough time to (14)________ to go swimming – maybe next time.
Anyway, I must go now as I’ve got to (15)_________ a bit of homework for tomorrow.
Love, 
Janie
1. A. says	B. tells	C. speaks	D. talks
2. A. saying	B. telling	C. speaking	D. talking
3. A. watch	B. watched	C. to watch	D. watching
4. A. a little	B. little	C. a few	D. few
5. A. trip	B. visit	C. tour	D. excursion
6. A. shows	B. sights	C. views	D. looks
7. A. set	B. group	C. gallery	D. collection
8. A. in 	B. by	C. with	D. on
9. A. voyage	B. travel	C. drive	D. journey
10. A. a little	B. little	C. a few	D. few
11. A. spoken	B. said	C. called	D. told
12. A. any	B. a	C. the	D. those
13. A. sorry	B. apologetic	C. displeased	D. regretful
14. A. spend	B. waste	C. spare	D. take
15. A. make	B. do	C. solve	D. see
Your answer.
1. 
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Part 9. Rewrite the sentences in such a way that they mean almost the same as those printed before them. (2 ms)
1. They have just introduced a new style of Jeans in the USA.
A new style of Jeans ............................................................................................................
2. What a pity I can’t speak English well.
I wish ................................................................................................................................
3. Keep your feet dry or you will get a cold.
If ........................................................................................................................................
4. “Do you sometimes go to the English Speaking Club?” Mrs.Brown asked.
Mrs.Brown asked me ............................................................................................................
5. “Let’s go abroad for our holiday this year,” said Mr.Ba.
Mr.Ba suggested ...................................................................................................................
6. Mr Jones remembered the date of wedding, and so did his wife.
Mr Jones didn’t 
7. There is a great danger in driving too fast
Driving too fast .
8. She last ate this kind of food in January.
She hasn’t ..
9. “Where do you live, Nam?” Mary asked 
Mary asked Nam ...
10. No one can answer this question.
This ..
Part 10. Use the cues to complete the sentences that make a story. You may change the forms if necessary. (2 ms)
1. It/ a nice morning/ May.
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2. My friends/ I/ take/ a boat trip/ the Mekong Delta.
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3. We/ see/ a lot of women/ plant/ rice/ rice fields.
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4. After an hour/ we/ stop by/ island/ and/ visit/ snake farm/ see the snakes.
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5. At noon/ we listen/ traditional music/ play/ local people.
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6. Then we/ have lunch/ rice and fresh food/ fruit garden.
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7. After the meal/ we continue/ trip/ floating market.
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8. There we/ enjoy/ buy/ fruit and many local specialties.
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9. At 4 pm/ we visit/ famous pagoda/ before/ coming/ home/ coach.
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10. The trip/ very interesting/ we/ enjoy/ very much.
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