Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh 9

TEST 
PART I: PHONETICS (2.0pts) 
I. Choose the word whose BOLD part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D. (1.0pt) 
1. A. health B. appear C.bread D. heavy 
2. A. attended B. wanted C. naked D. coughed 
3. A. change B. children C. machine D. church 
4. A. guitarist B. passenger C. generous D. village 
5. A. other B. long C. possible D. constancy 
II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others by circting A, B, C or D. (1.0pt). 
1. A. community B. company C. commission D. protection 
2. A. infant B. apply C. reply D. inside 
3. A. concert B. allow C. reduce D. admit 
4. A. repeat B. affect C. accept D. wonder 
5. A. awake B. aboard C. channel D. amount 
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (6.5 points) 
I. Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences. (l.5 pts) 
1. He regrets ______________Ann the truth. He shouldn't have trusted her. 
A. to tell B. tell C. telling D. be told 
2. That old woman asked me ______________ a coin but I didn't have any. 
A. with B. for C. by D. of 
3. You are going to come to the party, __________? 
A. will you B. aren't you C. do you D. won't you 
4. We saw many soldiers and tanks ___________were moving to the front. 
A. that B. which C. who D. whose 
5. We didn't _________to the station in time to catch the train. 
A. get B. reach C. arrive D. leave 
6. Either John or his brothers __________the money. 
A. has stolen B. have stolen C. has been stolen D. have been stolen 
7. On Sundays in England, most shops were closed and_____ the theatres and cinemas. 
A. so were B. neither were C. were too D. so weren’t 
8.___________ you study harder, you won't be able to pass the examination. 
A. Unless B. Because C. If D. Without 
9. That’s a nice coat, and the color______________ you well. 
A. suits B. fits C. suit D. matches 
10 There are two small rooms in the beach house, ____________served as a kitchen. 
A. smallest of that B. the smallest of which C the smaller of them D. the smaller of which 
11 They decided to buy a (an)________________ car that doesn't use too much petrol. 
A. economic B. low-priced C. economical D. economy 
12. You will have to go for an interview tomorrow, but don’t worry. It’s just a_______ 
A. form B. formality C. format D. formulation 
13. The brothers are so alike I cannot ____________ one from the other. 
A. say B. notice C. mark D. tell 
14. My mother was ______________ of making a cake when the front door bell rang. 
A. at the centre B. on her way C. in the middle D. halfway through 
15. He has just taken an examination__________________ chemistry. 
A. on B. about C. for D. in 
II. Fill in each gap of the following sentences a suitable preposition: (1.0 pt) 
1. We have acted_______________ accordance with your wishes. 
2. They often spend their holidays in their hometown. Last year they went abroad ____________ a change. 
3. To be elegant, you must wear something that is___________ fashion. 
4. They were 1ate _______________account of the rain. 
5. After walking around the garden, he sat_____________ ease in an armchair. 
6. I don’t believe you made the pot _________hand. Can you show me how to make it __________ your hands? 
7.__________others he began to use foreign languages as a means to know the world. 
8. With the help of my classmates, I made progress in all subjects__________ physics. 
9. She lives in a world of her own. She is out____________ touch with reality. 
You are going to read an article about noise. For questions 1- 6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best 
according to the text. 
Noise: traveller's enemy or traveller'sfriend? 
'Passport, boarding pass, phone ... ' As my taxi zips towards the airport, suddenly a cord of panic pulls tight around my chest. I 
thrust my hand into one compartment of my handbag, then another. It's not anywhere. My mouth opens, and the words, 'Driver, 
turn around! Now!' almost spring out. But I swallow them. We're halfway to the airport, and I'm already running late. Surely I 
can survive one trip without my supply of foam earplugs? 
I'm a generally good traveller except for one thing that undoes me every time: noise. Ask me about my absolute worst travel 
experiences, and I'll tell you the story about that night I spent in a cheap hotel that also happens to be the venue for the most 
popular Saturday night disco in the area. Elsewhere, there were the chickens that always began crowing at 2 a.m. at a rural 
retreat (no one, I guess, informed them that they shouldn't get going until dawn). And there was also the deeply discounted 
hotel room with 'swimming pool view' that I was so pleased with myself for finding. The swimming pool, it turned out, was 
under renovation. Actively. With power drills. Directly below my window. 
In my ideal traveller's world I'd control the volume of everything, like a music producer at a giant mixing board. There would 
be no blasting television sets hanging above public squares or embedded in taxi seats, no cheesy songs playing in the shops. 
Loud noise would be completely absent. Everywhere. But no traveller can remain in a perfectly controlled sonic bubble. Not 
when we're moving through a world in which what constitutes noise has so many different interpretations, including whether 
noise is ever a bad thing. For sound is relative: one person's noise is another person's music, or expression of happiness. 
On one of the first extended trips I ever took, I travelled to an island for Carnival, which is basically like deciding to pitch your 
tent inside a dance hall for three weeks. At any hour, different kinds of music would float through the air and, without warning, 
straight into my ear. Neighbours shouted to each other over the din, then turned up the volume on their radios. It was a non-
stop celebration, during which I got very little sleep. It was fabulous. The thing is, the noise that wraps a city in Carnival 
happiness is more than just noise: it's the sound of a human community. To block it out is to risk missing something really 
fundamental about a place – and the reassuring feeling of being part of something larger than yourself. Noise brings people 
together. I've learnt this over and over in my travels, but it hasn't been an easy lesson to accept. 
I struggle against my instinct to isolate myself in a cocoon of silence. I really don't want to cut myself off from the thrill of 
human noise. But I don't want to go crazy, either. Nowadays, unwanted – and largely non-human – sounds push and shove 
travellers from all directions. Cars, subways, construction, jet engines: their clamour seems omnipresent. Yet instead of 
lowering the volume of everyday living, we seem to layer noise upon noise. The hotel bar jacks up its techno music to 
counteract the babble in the lobby. The traveller walking along traffic-choked streets retreats into her iPod. 
On the plane, I press my foam earplug deep into my ear. As it slowly expands to fill my ear canal, I savour the journey into the 
bliss of noiselessness. Thank goodness the convenience store at the airport stocks one of travel's most essential items. The 
headache-inducing whine of the jet engines magically fades away, and I'm once again the master of my private sonic world. To 
appreciate the comfort of noise, you also need the comfort of silence. I'll unplug when I get to where I'm going. 
1. What is the writer doing in the first paragraph? 
A. demonstrating how well organised she is 
B. explaining why she is in a particular situation 
C. describing something that often happens to her 
D. showing how important something is to her 
2. What do the writer's worst travel experiences tell us about her? 
A. She is annoyed when the facilities advertised are not available. 
B. She is willing to stay in places that are not particularly luxurious. 
C. She tries to plan ahead in order to avoid certain situations. 
D. She finds unusual locations especially attractive. 
3. What does the writer say about her 'ideal traveller's world'? 
A. She realises it isn't actually the best way to travel. 
B. She wishes she didn't have to share it with others. 
C. She travels in the hope of finding it one day. 
D. She knows other people wouldn't like it. 
4. What does 'It' refer to in line 24? 
A. getting very little sleep 
B. the volume on people's radios 
C. the non-stop celebration 
D. the neighbours shouting 
5. What does the writer say about noise in the fifth paragraph? 
A. People are born with a need to hear it. 
B. People deal with it by creating more of it. 
C. It affects people in a number of different ways. 
D. Modern life offers effective protection from it. 
6. How does the writer feel in the final paragraph? 
A. relieved she will not have to hear any noise at her destination 
B. grateful to know she can find earplugs wherever she goes 
C. pleased she can decide for herself whether to hear things or not 
D. glad to be able to choose what music she'll listen to on the flight 
You are going to read an article about an expedition to look at a mountain under the sea. Six sentences have been removed 
from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (7-12). 
Mountains in the sea 
An ocean scientist visits a mountain, or 'seemount', deep under the ocean. 
Sealed in our special deep-sea sphere, we wait until we are untied, drifting, a tiny dot on the immense Pacific Ocean. Then we 
sink into the water, surrounded by bubbles. A diver pokes through the bubbles to make a final adjustment to the camera 
mounted on the outside of the submersible sphere (known as a 'sub'). Out there with the camera are hydraulics, thrusters, and 
hundreds of other essential parts that will keep us safe. 
Three of us are crammed inside a sphere 1.5 metres in diameter, surrounded by communication equipment, controls, snacks, 
cameras. (7) __________ Its peaks, rarely seen up close before, rise from the bottom of the Pacific near Cocos Island. The 
highest peak here is more than 2,200 metres tall. 
Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the sea floor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the 
surface become islands). Scientists estimate that there are some 100,000 seamounts at least one kilometre high. But if you 
include others that range from small hills to rolling mountains, there may be as many as a million of them. We've seen little of 
these oases of life in the deep. Of all earth's seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. (8)__________ 
Scientists don't often explore their slopes first hand - or even their shallower summits: living mazes of hard coral, sponges and 
sea fans circled by schools of fish. (9) ___________ Among this abundance of sea creatures, might there be new species that 
could produce new chemical compounds that can cure diseases? 
Unfortunately, more and more frequently deep-sea fishing trawlers drag nets weighted with heavy chains across seamounts to 
catch schools of fish that congregate around them. (10)____________ Once these underwater communities are disrupted, it can 
take hundreds, even thousands, of years for them to re-establish themselves. 
We turn a ghostly greenish blue in the light, kept dim so we can see outside. Clear, pulsing jellies glide gently in the dark, 
bouncing off the sub in every direction. A black-and-white manta ray flexes its wings and soars past for a look. We are still in 
what is called the photic zone, where sunlight penetrates and provides energy for countless microscopic, photosynthetic ocean 
plants that create much of the earth's oxygen.(11)_____________ 
At about 200 metres the sub's dazzling lights bring the bottom into view. (12) _______________ We joke that maybe we've 
found a new wreck, but instead it is the remains of a volcano, perhaps millions of years old. Within minutes the sub is hovering 
a few centimetres from the bottom, inside an ancient, circular vent of the now extinct volcano that forms Las Gemelas. Its 
sculptured walls look like the facade of a deep-sea cathedral. 
Our sub surfaces after five hours – all too soon. We begin the long journey back to our land-based lives, where we will analyse 
our data and add one more piece to the puzzle of our global ocean. 
A. This process also destroys long-lived and slow-growing corals, sponges, and other invertebrates. 
B. These under-sea mountains have therefore been well known for a number of years. 
C. Then we descend further, and the ocean around us is completely black. 
 D. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. 
E. Suddenly something just beyond them rises from the otherwise featureless sea floor. 
F. We have everything we need for our journey to reach a seamount named Las Gemelas. 
G. Some of these animals have even lived to be more than a hundred years old. 
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the 
beginning (0). 
School lunch 
Research has (0)_________that over half the children in Britain who take their own lunches to school do not eat properly in the 
middle of the day. In Britain schools have to provide meals at lunchtime. Children can (1) _______ to bring their own food or 
have lunch in the school canteen. 
One surprising (2) ______ of this research is that school meals are much healthier than lunches brought in from home. There 
are strict standards for the preparation of school meals, which have to include fruit, vegetables, meat and a dairy item. 
Lunchboxes (3) ______ by researchers contained sweet drinks, crisps and chocolate bars, so the children (4) ______ an 
unhealthy amount of sugar at lunchtime. 
The research will provide a better (5) ______ of why the percentage of overweight students in Britain has (6) ______ in the last 
decade. Children can easily develop bad eating (7) _____ at this age, and it's important to try and do something to (8) _____ it. 
0 A informed B told C shown D said 
1 A prefer B manage C want D choose 
2 A finding B number C figure D factor 
3 A examined B found C taken D looked 
4 A take B contain C consume D consist 
5 A view B knowledge C understanding D opinion 
6 A expanded B increased C extended D added 
7 A customs B styles C attitudes D habits 
8 A prevent B define C decide D delay 
For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There 
is an example at the beginning (0) 
History and storytelling 
Over the last few years (0) THERE has been more interest in the subject of history, perhaps because historical documentaries 
on television have (9) ___________ attracting large audiences. According to a recent survey, more people are applying 
(10)___________ places at university, and the number of those wanting to study history (11) ___________ increased. 
However, professors of history are (12) ___________ particularly happy about this and have expressed concern about the 
quality of their students. They claim that most of their first-year students have never read a history book and don't have the 
skills (13) ___________ study the subject in depth. TV programmes make students think that studying history is as simple as 
storytelling. Documentaries oversimplify the subject and concentrate (14)___________ personalities in an attempt to attract 
audiences. 
On the other hand, traditional historians could learn (15) ___________ to tell a story from the makers of such documentaries. 
Many historians don't have good narrative skills, which is (16) ___________ so many history books are not popular with 
readers. 
For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits 
in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). 
Diving deeper 
Free-diving is an extremely (0) dangerous sport, which is perhaps 
why its (17) ____________ has grown so fast. Free-divers are attached 
to a line, and then they have to take a deep breath, dive as deep as they 
can and come up (18) ______________. 
The British free-diver, Tanya Streeter, trains very (19) ______________ 
before each dive to build up her physical (20) _____________ She never 
dives until she's completely confident that she's ready. 
'The danger is caused by the great (21)____________ at those depths. I 
think that safety procedures have to be very strict if we want to avoid 
accidents,' Tanya says. Tanya feels that mental strength is also very 
important. She has an emotional response to water and feels very calm 
when she's underwater. Perhaps Tanya's greatest asset is her (22)______ 
to focus. 'In free-diving there are no (23)___________ around you and 
there are no cheering spectators to (24)_____________ you. It's a lonely 
sport,' says Tanya. 
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For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. 
Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). 
25. The basketball coach will make me train very hard. MADE 
I ________________________________________________ very hard by the basketball coach. 
26. 'You can watch if you keep quiet,' said the actor. PROVIDED 
The actor said that I could watch __________________________________________ quiet. 
27. I regret not telling you the whole truth. TOLD 
I wish _________________________________ the whole truth. 
28. After hours of negotiation, they managed to get the new contract. SUCCEEDED 
After hours of negotiation, they _________________________________ the new contract. 
29. She tried to stay cheerful although she felt sick. SPITE 
She tried to stay cheerful _____________________________________ sick. 
30. Mike probably won't come to the party. UNLIKELY 
Mike ________________________________________ to the party.