Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Kỳ thi học sinh giỏi cấp Thành phố năm học 2012-2013

KYØ THI HOÏC SINH GIOÛI CAÁP THAØNH PHOÁ LÔÙP 9-THCS
NAÊM HOÏC: 2012-2013 ANSWER KEY
 PART TWO: USE OF ENGLISH (40 pts)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the sentence. (20 pts)
1.	The more important an exam is, ________________________.
A. the more you’ll get nervous	B. the more nervous will you get	
C. the most nervous you’ll be	D. the more nervous you’ll get
2.	I wish they ___________________less noise; I’m trying to concentrate.
A. are making	B. could make	C. would be making	D. had made
3.	There’s no point ___________________him for money; he won’t lend you any.
A. asking	B. to ask	C. for asking	D. in having asked
4.	I’m sorry I __________________your name again.
A. forget	B. have forgot	C. forgot	D. am forgetting
5.	There ____________________________.
A. came our new teacher	B. is our new teacher coming
C. is coming our new teacher	D. our new teacher comes
6.	I don’t want to be hard on you, but you _________________me before using my laptop.
A. must have asked	B. might have asked	C. needn’t have asked	D. may as well ask
7.	Hardly ____________________time to go to the cinema these days.
A. should I find	B. that I can find	C. when I can find	D. can I find
8.	I met ___________________man in the conference.
A. a tall American interesting	B. an interesting tall American 
C. so tall an American interesting 	D. an American tall interesting 
9.	The whole place has been __________________in such a way to provide the disabled with easy access to all the facilities.
A. laid out	B. put up	C. set about	D. arranged for
10.	The doctor has been ___________________to deal with an emergency.
A. cut out	B. sent with	C. called away	D. told off 
11.	She watched _________________fascination when he was sketching.
A. in	B. from	C. with	D. on
12.	What is your response ____________________this forum?
A. of	B. with	C. to	D. about
13.	A person’s ____________________with determine what they believe is right or wrong.
A. psychology	B. civics	C. ethics	D. identification
14.	It’s possible to get a speeding ticket if you _________________the speed limit.
A. pass	B. overcome	C. extend	D. exceed
15.	The threat of failing an exam provides the ___________________to work harder.
A. go-ahead	B. incentive	C. inspiration	D. vitality
16.	It is ____________________cold outside. Do not go out, please.
A. bitterly	B. scorching	 C. frozen	D. ice
17.	I did some ___________________around the house before I turned on the TV.
A. pins and needles	B. ups and downs	C. ins and outs	D. odds and ends
18.	It takes me a long time to save enough money for a nice vacation, so such trips are __________________for me.
A. few and far between	B. up and about	C. big shots	D. hot air
19.	Yu Na: “I’ll take part in the beauty contest.” 	Father: “______________________”
A. It is really kid’s stuff!	B. I’m sorry about that contestant.	
C. You’ll do nothing of the kind.	D. I can’t say it worries me!
20.	Lucas: “_______________________”	Sarah: “Isn’t my pigeon.”
A. That’s a nice dove.	B. Mike is in deep trouble.
C. What’s the matter with you?	D. What’s the symbol of peace?
WORD FORMS 
Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank. (20 pts)
1.	He’s a university student majoring in climatology. (climate)
2.	The teacher gave us a(n) introductory lesson on conservation. (introduce)
3.	To be completely fair, we need a(n) disinterested person. (interest)
4.	The inauguration ceremony was given worldwide coverage. (world)
5.	After working really hard for the examination, he deserved a(n) well-earned holiday. (earn)
6.	Such important work needs exactitude/exactness. (exact)
7.	The article I read the other day was quite informative. That’s why I keep it for later reference. (inform)
8.	Amazingly enough, no-one else has applied for the job. (Amaze)
9.	Please check the availability of the language lab on that day. (avail)
10.	The tendency now is to personalize our cell phone ringtones. (person)
PART THREE: CLOZE TESTS (75 pts)
Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C, or D) for each blank space.
PASSAGE A (15 pts)
Every year about seventeen million animals are used in laboratory (1)___________________. But in many countries today, a difficult question is being asked: Do we have the (2)__________________to use animals this way?
The case for using animals in research 
The use of animals in medical research has many practical (3)___________________. Animal research has enabled researchers to develop (4)___________________for many diseases, such as heart disease and depression. It wouldn’t have been possible, years ago, to develop vaccines for diseases like smallpox and polio (5)__________________animal research. Every drug anyone takes today was (6)__________________first on animals. Future medical research is (7)________________ on the use of animals. Which is more important: the life of a rat or (8)____________________of a three-year-old child? 
Medical research is also a(n) (9)____________________way of using unwanted animals. Last year, over twelve million animals had to be killed in animal (10)_________________because nobody wanted them as pets.
The case against using animals in research
The fact that humans benefit cannot be used to (11)___________________using animals in research any more than experimenting on other humans. Animals (12)____________________a lot during these experiments. They are forced to live in small cages, and they may be unable to move. Much of the research that is (13)____________________out is unnecessary anyway.
Animals have the same rights as humans do to be able to move freely and not to have pain or fear forced on them. Researchers must find other ways of doing their research, using cell (14)____________________and computer modeling. There should be no animals in research laboratories (15)__________________.
1.	A. assignments	B. trials	C. experiments	D. inspections
2.	A. law	B. way	C. equality	D. right
3.	A. revenues	B. benefices	C. benefits	D. advances
4.	A. treatments	B. solutions	C. treats	D. symptoms
5.	A. because of	B. let alone	C. thanks to	D. without
6.	A. tested	B. assigned	C. conducted	D. imposed
7.	A. rested	B. originated	C. relevant	D. dependent
8.	A. this	B. which	C. that	D. one
9.	A. embarrassing	B. sickening	C. expedient	D. satisfactory
10.	A. cages	B. shelters	C. gatherings	D. houses
11.	A. justify	B. satisfy	C. popularize	D. reason
12.	A. suffer	B. tolerate	C. bear	D. torture
13.	A. done	B. undertaken	C. carried	D. passed
14.	A. transform	B. format	C. pattern	D. culture
15.	A. at least	B. in the least	C. all the same	D. in all 
Fill in each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word. 
PASSAGE B (30 pts)
As technology develops, robots are programmed to do more amazing things. Here are some of the most important (1) ways in which they help humans. 
Robots are being installed in many hospitals around the world. They have already been used for a variety of operations (2) including heart surgery. (3) According to surgeons, the work robots can do is more accurate than the work humans can do. Robots can also help people with (4) disabilities. For example, robotic arms have been used by people with missing limbs for many years. Now a new robotic arm has been (5) developed which is controlled by thought. For the first time (6) ever, somebody with a false robotic arm just needs to think about a movement like (7) picking up a book, and the Neuro-Controlled Bionic Arm will do it. The arm has already been successful, but doctors are (8) still developing it. They predict that (9) much/far/way faster and stronger version will be (10) made in a few years’ time.
In South Korea, the robot Olympics takes place every year. It (11) brings together groups around the world who are (12) fascinated with robots. At the event, children as young as six build and program robotic creations that can do all kinds of things such as run or kick a football. Robot Wars is (13) another form of entertainment for robot lovers. It’s as TV show that (14) involves remote-controlled robot vehicles taking part in games. The most popular game is when teams of people cause the vehicles to fight each other (15) until only one robot survives. Other games include robot races and robot football.
PASSAGE C (30 pts)
The potential of computers for increasing the control of organizations or society (16) over their members and for invading the privacy of those members has (17) caused considerable concern.
The privacy issue has been (18) raised most insistently with (19) respect to the creation and maintenance of data files that assemble (20) information about persons from a multitude of sources. Files of this kind would be highly valuable for many kinds of economic and social research, but they are bought at too high a (21) price if they endanger human freedom or seriously enhance the opportunities of blackmailers. (22) While/Whereas such dangers should not be ignored, it should be noted that the lack of comprehensive data files has never (23) before been the limiting barrier to the suppression of human freedom.
Making the computer the villain in the (24) invasion of privacy or encroachment on civil liberties simply diverts attention from the real dangers. Computer data banks can and must be given the highest (25) degree of protection from abuse. But we must be careful, also, that we do not employ crude methods of protection as to deprive our society (26) of important data it needs to understand its own social process and to analyze its problems.
Perhaps the most important questions of all about the computer is (27) what it has done and will do to man’s view of himself and his place in the universe. The (28) most heated attacks on the computer are not focused on its possible economic effects, its presumed destruction of job (29) satisfaction, or its threat to privacy and liberty, but upon the claim that it causes people to be viewed, and to view (30) themselves as machines.
PART FOUR: Reading Comprehension (40 pts) 
Choose the item (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the unfinished statement about the passage.
PASSAGE A (20 pts)Because the low latitudes of the Earth, the areas near the equator, receive more heat than the latitude near the poles, and because the nature of heart is to expand and move, Heat is transported from the tropics to the middle and high latitudes. Some of this heat is moved by winds and some by ocean currents, and some gets stored in the atmosphere in the form of latent heat. The term “latent hear” refers to the energy that has to be used to convert liquid water to water vapor. We know that if we warm a pan of water on a stove, it will evaporate, or turn into vapor, faster than if it is allowed to sit at room temperature. We also know that if we hang wet clothes outside in the summertime they will dry faster than in winter, when temperatures are colder. The energy used in both cases to change liquid water to water vapor is supplied by heat – supplied by the stove in the first case and by the Sun in the latter case. This energy is not lost. It is stored in water vapor in the atmosphere as latent heat. Eventually, the water stored as vapor in the atmosphere will condense to liquid again, and the energy will be release to the atmosphere.
In the atmosphere, a large portion of the Sun’s incoming energy is used to evaporate water, primarily in the tropical oceans. Scientists have tried to quantify this proportion of the Sun’s energy. By analyzing temperature, water vapor, and wind data around the globe, they have estimated the quantity to be about 90 watts per square meter, or nearly 30 percent of the Sun’s energy. Once this latent heat is stored within the atmosphere, it can be transported, primarily to higher latitudes, by prevailing, large-scale winds. Or it can be transported vertically to higher levels in the atmosphere, where it forms clouds and subsequent storms, which then release the energy back to the atmosphere.
1.	The passage mainly discussed how heat ________________________.
A. is transformed and transported in the Earth’s atmosphereB. is transported by ocean currents
C. can be measured and analyzed by scientists D. moves about the Earth’s equator
2.The passage mentions that the tropics differ from the Earth’s polar regions in which of the following ways?
A. The height of cloud formation in the atmosphere B. The amount of heat they receive from the Sun
C. The strength of their large scale winds D. The strength of their oceanic currents
3.	The word “convert” in line 5 is closest in meaning to ___________________.
A. mix	B. change	C. adapt	D. reduce
4.	Why does the author mention “the stove” in line 9?
A. To describe the heat of the Sun	B. To illustrate how water vapor is stored	
C. To show how energy is stored	D. To give an example of a heat source
5.	According to the passage, most ocean water evaporation occurs especially _______________.
A. around the higher latitudes	B. in the tropics	
C. because of large-scale winds	D. because of strong ocean currents
6.	According to the passage, 30 percent of the Sun’s incoming energy __________________.
A. is stored in clouds in the lower latitudes B. is transported by ocean currents
C. never leaves the upper atmosphere	D. gets stored as latent heat
7.	The word “it” in line 17 refers to ____________________.
A. square meter	B. the Sun’s energy	C. latent heat	D. the atmosphere
8. 	The word “primarily” in line 17 is closest in meaning to _____________________.
A. chiefly	B. originally	C. basically	D. clearly 
9.	The word “prevailing” in line 18 is closest in meaning to _____________________.
A. essential	B. dominant	C. circular	D. closest
10.	All of the following words are defined in the passage EXCEPT ________________.
A. low latitudes (line 1)	B. latent heat (line 4)	
C. evaporate (line 6)	 	D. atmosphere (line 13)
PASSAGE B (20 pts)Diffusion, the process of introducing cultural elements from one society into another, occurs in three basic patterns: direct contact, intermediate contact, and stimulus diffusion.In direct contact, elements of a society’s culture may be adopted first by neighboring societies and then gradually spread farther afield. The spread of the manufacture of paper is an example of extensive diffusion by direct contact. The invention of paper is attributed to the Chinese Ts’ai Lun in A.D. 105. Within fifty years, paper was being made in many places in central China. By 264 it was found in Chinese Turkmenistan, and from then on the successive places of manufacture were Samarkand (751), Baghdad (793), Egypt (about 900), Morocco (about 1100), and France (1189). In general, the pattern of accepting the borrowed invention was the same everywhere. Paper was first imported into each area as a luxury, then in ever-expanding quantities as a staple product. Finally, usually within one to three centuries, local manufacture started. Diffusion by intermediated contact occurs through the agency of third parties. Frequently, traders carry a cultural trait from the society that originated it to another group. As an example of diffusion through intermediaries, Phoenician traders spread the alphabet, which may have been invented by another Semitic group, to Greece. At times, soldiers serve as intermediaries in spreading a culture trait. During the Middle Ages, European soldiers acted as intermediaries in two ways: they carried European culture to Arab societies of North Africa and brought Arab culture back to Europe. In the nineteenth century Western missionaries brought Western-style clothing to such places as Africa and the Pacific islands. In stimulus diffusion, knowledge of a trait belonging to another culture stimulates the invention or development of a local equivalent. A classic example of stimulus diffusion is the creation of the Cherokee syllabic writing system by a Native American named Sequoya. Sequoya got the idea from his contact with the English; yet he did not adopt the writing system nor did he even learn to write English. He utilized some English alphabetic symbols, altered others, and invented new ones. All the symbols he used represented Cherokee syllables and had a distinctly Cherokee form.
11.	The passage mainly discusses how _______________________.
A. cultures retain their unique characteristics B. cultural elements transfer from one culture to another
C. paper came into general use	
D. economies grew through trade and manufacturing
12.	The word “attributed” in line 5 is closest in meaning to ______________________.
A. credited	B. presented	C. promised	D. limited	
13.	The word “successive” in line 7 is closest in meaning to ____________________.
A. specialized	B. principal	C. prosperous	D. subsequent
14.	The word “it” in line 13 refers to ____________________.
A. diffusion	B. contact	C. trait	D. society
15.	According to the passage, a change that occurred in Africa and the Pacific islands as a result of the arrival of missionaries was ___________________.
A. an increase in the presence of soldiers	B. variation in local style of dressing
C. the manufacture of paper	D. the introduction of new alphabetical systems
16.	In stating that the Cherokee writing system is a classic example, the author means that this example is especially _____________________.
A. representative	B. understandable	C. difficult	D. old	
17.	What did Sequoya do?
A. Adopt the English writing system for use in Cherokee
B. Study English intensively in order to learn to write it	
C. Teach English to Cherokee Native Americans
D. Create a Cherokee writing system based on elements of the English alphabet
18. 	The origins of the Greek and Cherokee writing systems were discussed in the passage because both systems _______________________.
A. underwent identical patterns of development in different parts of the world
B. influenced the development of alphabets of other languages
C. represented distinct ways in which elements could be introduced into a culture
D. were introduced by religious missionaries
19.	Which of the following statements about direct contact, intermediate contact, and stimulus diffusion is NOT true?
A. They all cause changes in culture.	
B. They all occur in more than one culture.
C. They all involve the interaction of cultures.	
D. They all require the trading of manufactured products.
20.	The author organized the discussion in the passage by __________________.
A. establishing a historical chronology from the past through the present
B. illustrating specific categories with examples
C. identifying important geographic regions
D. ranking categories from most to least significant
PART FIVE: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 pts)
Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before it.
Use the word in brackets. 
They say he is able to swim across this river. (swimming)
He is said to be capable of swimming across this river.
They may be there at the meeting, or they may not. (out)
It is uncertain that/whether they will turn out at the meeting.
“Don’t forget to hand in the paper by the deadline,” said the teacher. (reminder)
The teacher sent/gave us/sent out a reminder that we had to hand in the paper by the deadline.
Learning English is becoming more and more popular in our city. (increasingly)
It has become increasingly popular to learn English in our city.
Right after disembarkation from the plane, he was taken into custody. (got)
As soon as he got off the plane, he was taken into custody.
The teacher and his students knew nothing about the crack on the wall. (idea)
Neither the teacher nor his students had any idea about the crack on the wall.
The boy’s effort really impressed the audience and judges. (left)
It was the boy’s effort that left a good impression on the audience and judges.
Instead, you must try to have a good relationship with the others. (get)
I wish you would try to get along well with the others.
I always go jogging in the morning to keep fit. (invariably)
In order to keep fit, I invariably go jogging in the morning.
Doubtlessly, Katie is the best violinist in the conservatory. (no-one)
It goes without saying that no-one else in the conservatory plays the violin as well as Katie does.
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