ANH VAN 6

GD-ĐT Trà Vinh KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS
*** NĂM HỌC 2008-2009
Đề chính thức Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thơì gian làm bài 150 phút
I.Listening: (4 ms)
A.Listen to the tape and write T (True) or F (False)
1/ She brote her arm… …………
2/ The man can run in a marathon… ……….
B.Listen and fill in the blanks.
3/ He got a job in a ……………..company.
4/ The party will be on………………………. …………
C.Listen and answer the questions:
5/ How does he get to work?
………………………………………………………………………..
6/ What the woman doing when the phone rings?
………………………………………………………………………….
II.Choose the correct verb to fill each blank.circle A,B,C or D.(3 ms).
The village was dark and still but in the street there was a babble of many voices,the sound of the camel drivers…(7a)…to their great animals to get down so that the boxes of gifts…(7b)…off their back.The kings…(8)…by a long line of servants,…(9)… . All …(10)…of the wonder of the moment.Only the shepherds…(11)…silent for they…(12)….many wonders in this night and the least of these wonders were the kings of the east and their trains of camels.In the street,the servants…(13)…the big boxes and showed the great bars of gold,bigger than the stones that …(14)…in the fields where the shepherds…(15)…their sheep.
A.shout B.shouted C.shouting D.shouts
A.could be taken B.had been taken C.has been taken D.will be taken
A.follow B.followed C.following D.to follow
A.stop B.stopped C.stopping D.stops
A.speak B.speaking C.spoke D.was speaking
A.be B.being C.was D.were
A.saw B.see C.had seen D.have seen
A.open B.opened C.opens D.opening
A.lay B.lain C.lie D.laid
A.keep B.keeps C.kept D.to keep
III.Fill in each blank with :up,on ,down,toward,or from.(1 m)
The island had been a good place to find shells but now the sun was getting…(16)……… . He must leave before it got dark . He picked….(17)……his bags of shells and walked..(18)……the edge of the island.He came to the sand reef that connected the island with the shore of the mainland.He stopped for a moment to enjoy the sunset…(19)……the ocean water.He walked slowly,stopping a few minutes to rest.He begins to whistle….
IV.There are four mistakes in the following paragraph.Identify the mistakes and correct.(2ms)
The London eye was opened on new Year’s Eve 1999 to celebrate the Millennium.It is 135 metres high ,and from the floor you can see all of London.On a clear day you can even see Windsor castle,who is 40 metres away.The London eye had 32 capsules,each with room for 25 people.Each trip lasts 30 minutes.It moves quite slowly,at a speed of about 15 metres a minute,but it rarely stops.Passengers have to get on when it’s moving.
20. 21.
22. 23.
V.Read the following paragraph carefully.
Cooking in Britain now is a spectator sport.We love watching famous chefs cook on TV,and we buy their books.But do we use them?
A recent study shows 60% of British young people can’t boil an egg.four out of ten never or hardly ever cook.one teenager said,”I can’t cook-but it doesn’t matter.you just go to the supermarket and buy a pizza and put it in a microwareCooking is a waste of time.A lot of adults think the same and don’t cook.They buy pre-cooked meals from supermarkets or takeaway food .And if a mother hate cooking,then she doesn’t teach her children to cook.Many schools don’t teach cooking they prefer to teach computer skills and foreign languages.
A.give the meaning or Vietnamese equivalent of the words bold (1m).
24. boil:
Teenager:
A waste of time:
Takeaway:
B.answer the questions.(2ms)
25.Give three reasons why young people