Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9 thcs năm học 2012 – 2013 môn: Tiếng Anh (thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)

ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
SỞ GD&ĐT NINH BÌNH
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS
Năm học 2012 – 2013
MÔN:TIẾNG ANH
(Thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 4 phần, trong 7 trang
ĐIỂM BÀI THI
HỌ, TÊN VÀ CHỮ KÍ CỦA 
GIÁM KHẢO
SỐ PHÁCH
(Do Chủ tịch hội đồng chấm ghi)
Bằng số:..........................
Bằng chữ:.......................
Giám khảo 1:...................................................
Giám khảo 2:...................................................
(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi này).
PART A: LISTENING AND PHONETICS
Section 1: Listen carefully and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F). Tick your answer in the right box (1 point)
T
F
Allice met Mark last year
Mark came to London for a holiday
They did not get on well each other
Mark invited Allice to San Francisco
Allice’s job is managing director.
Section 2: Listen and fill in each blank with ONE word / number. Write your answers in the numbered space. (1 point)
	There are many kinds of bicycles available: racing, touring, (1) 	. ordinary.
	They vary in (2). .and quality.
	Prices range from (3) .to $2000
	Their attraction is their (4) and reliability
	Three speed (5)are suitable for frame
Section 3: Listen and answer the question ( 1point)
1. What is the name of the dog?
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2. Can it recognize the sound of a motorbike from distance?
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3. How does it get before the boy reaches home?
.
4.Who does the dog fetch before the boy's father gets home?
Section 4: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D ( 0,5 point).
1. A. arrived	B. laughed	C. ploughed	D. played
2. A. mention 	B. option	C. federation	D. suggestion
3. A. photographs	B. passengers	C. catalogues	D. highlands
4. A. yatch	B. banyan	C. gather	D. manage
5. A. honesty	B. honey	C. honor	D. hour
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Section 5: Choose the words that has a different stress pattern from the others (0,5point):
1. A. industrial
B. destruction
C. energy
D. environment
2. A. activity
B. increase
C. expect
D. mineral
3. A. experience
B. prevention
C. agreement
D. satisfy
4. A. movement
B. exist
C. volcano
D. establish
5. A. linguistic
B. communicate
C. dangerous
D. pagoda
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PART B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Choose the best word or phrase to complete each sentence. (1.5 point)
1. The manager insisted that the project ______ before November 23, 2013.
A. will be completed	B. has been completed
C. would have been completed	D. be completed
2. She was sad all night. He______ the truth.
A. shouldn’t tell	B. shouldn’t have told
C. must have told	D. B and C
3. The government has done all the possible to _____ the effects of the tornado.
A. minimize	B. maximize	C. limit	D. prevent
4. The doorway is low, so _____ your head when you go in.
A. take	B. mind	C. mark	D. attend
5. There are a lot of people who _____work in remote and moutainous areas nowadays.
A. volunteer	B. voluntarily	C. volunteers	D. voluntary
6. When Maria read the letter , she couldn’t help _____ .
A. cries	B. crying	C. to cry	D. cried
7. _______ have tried their best to protect the environment, but their efforts seem to be nothing compared to what people are doing to harm it.
A. Conservationists	B. Economists	C. Environmentalists	D. A and C
8. _____ university is going to be built near my house.
A. The	B. A	C. An	D. Æ
9. It is quite difficult for the new comers to get used _______10 hours a day.
A. to work	B. working	C. to working	D. work
10. Without her help, he _________ 
A. wouldn’t have succeeded	B. would succeed
C. didn’t succeed	D. will succeed
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Put the correct form of the words (1.5 point)
1. Many people still believe that smoking is ______	(harm).
2. The man living next door is one of the ________ in language 	(special).
3. There is a small village by the river and its_______is very beautiful 	(surround).
4. We need to keep our environment ______________ 	(pollute).
5. We want to ______ our city 	(beauty).
6. She listened______ to every word her teacher said 	(attend).
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4______________	5_____________	6____________
Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets (1.5 point)
- A lot of people (1.kill )____ by AIDS recently and I wish nobody (2.die)____anymore.
- Little the police (3. suspect) _______that the secretary was the robber.
- The doctor advised him against (4. smoke)________.
- If only I (5. pass)_____ my exam last year. Then I (6. not have)____ to work this hard.
1______________	2_____________	3____________
4______________	5_____________	6____________
Find the mistakes in the following sentences and then correct them. Each sentence has ONE mistake only. ( 2 points)
1. They thought (A) that it had (B) been a (C) very satisfied (D) dinner.
2. However cheap(A) it is (B), poor quality (C) products never appeal to (D)customers.
3. 45 minutes are (A)not long enough (B) for the students (C) to finish the (D)test.
4. A constructed badly(A) car can cause injury (B) or even (C) death to its (D) passengers.
5. The person to who (A)this letter was addressed(B) died (C)three years ago(D).
6. We will have (A)to replace (B)all the furnitures that were (C)damaged in (D)the flood.
7. Although he doesn’t like classical (A) music, but (B) he listens to (C) that kind 
of (D) music at home. 
8. My sister broke (A) the (B) glass because (C) her tiredness (D).
9. I think (A) I’m very lucky to having (B) been noticed (C) so early in my career(D).
10. The secretary (A) is responsible for (B) her boss for (C) classifying (D) the document.
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PART C: READING
I. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. (2 points)
KETCHUP
	The sauce that is today called ketchup (or catsup) in Western cultures is a tomato-based sauce that is quite distinct from Eastern ancestors of this product. A sauce called ke-tjap was in used in China at least as early as the 17th century, but the Chinese version of the sauce was made of picked fish, shellfish, and spices. The popularity of this Chinese sauce spread to Singapore and Malaysia, where it was called kechap. The Indonesian ketjab derives its name from the same source of the Malaysian sauce but is made from very different ingredients. The Indonesian ketjab is made by cooking black soy beans, fermenting them, placing them in a salt brine for at least a week, cooking the resulting solution further, and sweetening it heavily; this process results in a dark, thick and sweet variation of soy sauce.
	Early in the 18th century, sailors from the British navy came across this exotic sauce on voyages to Malaysia and Singapore and brought samples of it back to England on return voyages. English chefs tried to recreate the sauce but were unable to do exactly because key ingredients were unknown or unavailable in England; chefs ended up substituting ingredients such as mushrooms and walnuts in an attempt to recreate the special taste of the original Asian sauce. Variations of this sauce became quite the rage in the 18th century England, appearing in a number of recipe books and features as an exotic addition to menus from the period.
	The English version did not contain tomatoes, and it was not until the end of the 18th century that tomatoes became main ingredients in the ketchup of the United States. It is quite notable that tomatoes were added to the sauce and that tomatoes had previously been considered quite dangerous to health. That tomato had been cultivated by the Aztecs, who had called it tomalt; however, early botanists had recognized that tomato was a member of the Solanecaea family, which does include a number of poisonous plant, the leaves of the 
tomato plant are poisonous, though of course the fruit is not. 
	Thomas Jefferson, who cultivated the tomato in his gardens at Monticello and served dishes containing tomatoes at lavish feasts, often receive credit for changing the reputation of the tomato. Soon after Jefferson had introduced the tomato to American society, recipes combining the new fashionable tomato with the equally fashionable and exotic sauce known as ketchap began to appear. By the middle of the 19th century, both of the tomato and tomato ketchup were stables of the American kitchen.
	Tomato ketchup, popular through it was, was quite time-consuming to prepare. In 1876, the first mass-produced tomato ketchup, a product of German-American Henry Heizn, went on sale and achieved immediate success. From tomato ketchup, Heizn branched out into a number of other products, including various sauces, pickles, and relish.
 1. It is stated in the first paragraph that
A. The Chinese sauce was different from the Malaysia one
B. The Chinese version was made from seafood only
C. The Chinese sauce was in existence in the 17th century.
D. The Indonesian sauce was similar to the Chinese sauce
2. The word it in the first paragraph means
A. Malaysian sauce	 B. Indonesian version	C. Chinese sauce	D. Singapore one
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that mushrooms and walnuts were 
A. not availabe in England B. moved from England to Asia
C. not native to England D. not included in the recipe of the Asian sauce
4. According to the paragraph 3, the tomato plant .
A. was not considered poisonous 	
B. is a member of a family that hasn’t got any poisonous plants
	C. has leaves that cannot be eaten
	D. has edible fruit.
5. Where in paragraph 4 can the following sentence go in? “It turned from very bad to good”
A. at the beginning of the paragraph 4
B. before the sentence “By the middle of the 19th century .”
C. before the sentence “Soon after Jefferson ”
D. at the end of the paragraph 4
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II. Read the passage and fill in blanks with suitable words. Each blank ONE word only( 2 points)
Today, supermarkets are found in (1)_____ every large city in the world. But the first supermarket (2)______ opened only fifty years ago. It was opened in New York by a man (3)_____ Michael Cullen. A supermarket is (4)______ from other types of stores in several ways. In supermarkets, goods are placed on open shelves. The (5)______ choose what they want and take them to the checkout counter. This means that (6)________ shop assistants are needed than in other stores. The way products are displayed is another difference (7)_____ supermarkets and many other types of stores; For (8)______ , in supermarkets, there is usually (9)_____ display of small inexpensive items just in front of the checkout counter: candies, chocolates, magazines, cheap foods and so on. Most customers who go to a supermarket buy goods from a shopping list. They know exactly what they need to buy. They (10)______ the shopping according to a plan. 
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III. Choose the best words or phrases to complete the following passage ( 2 points)
About twenty percent of the world’s present energy comes from the sun in one form or another. Special devices have already been made available to (1)..on the roofs of houses and flats to (2)the sun’s rays and thus heat water. Thousands(3)these devices are now being used to provide (4)..in homes throughout the United States while more (5).a million solar water- heating units have already been (6)..in homes in Japan. Other purposes for which(7)energy is, at present, being used include the (8)..of salt from seawater, irrigation and sewage disposal. (9)most people in developing countries, the need is not for air- conditioners or central heating but for cheap(10)..of cooking food, drying crops, and lighting houses.
1.A. put
B.locate
C.fit
D.fix
2. A.greet
B.catch
C.contain
D.manufacture
3. A.in
B.with
C.on
D.of
4. A.light
B.energy
C.life
D.existence
5. A.than
B.of
C.through
D.over
6. A.built
B.planned
C.standing
D.attached
7. A.sun
B.sky
C.space
D.solar
8. A.passing
B.separation
C.divorce
D.delivery
9. A.Through
B.By
C.For
D.At
10. A.manners
B.ways
C.models
D.types
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PART D: WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it ( 1 point)
1. Jane’s career as a television presenter began five years ago. 
àJane has....
2. It was an impressive building but it wasn’t to my taste.
 àImpressive 
3. Work hard or your parents won't be happy
Unless
4. If someone understands this book, they are cleverer than I am. 
àAnyone.
5. The bomb exploded as soon as they left their office.
No sooner.
II. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original one, but using the word given. This word must not be changed in any way. (1.0 point)
1. Although she was beautiful and intelligent, she didn’t win the Miss World competition. (DESPITE)
..
2. The manager was angry for his disobedience (IF)
.
3. When the unemployment rate is high, the crime rate is usually also high ( THE HIGHER)
.
4. The student wishes he had prepared for the lesson. (REGRETS)
5. The child didn’t manage to open the window. (DIFFICULTY)
.
III. Write a paragraph ( 80 - 100 words) on the following topic (1,5 points)
"The advantages of the Internet for your studying English"
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