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PHÒNG GD&ĐT LỤC NAM
TRƯỜNG THCS BẢO ĐÀI
đề thị chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9
NĂM HỌC 2010-2011
CẤP TRƯỜNG
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút




I) Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words

1. A. good B. foot C. pool D. look
2. A. singular B. dictates C. cost D. pleasure
3. A. huge B. garage C. ginger D. dangerous
4. A. cloth B. the C. with D. without
5. A. chair B. cheap C. chorus D. child
6. A. though B. enough C. cough D. rough
7. A. caused B. increased C. practised D. promised
8. A. suitable B. biscuit C. guilty D. building
9. A. umbrella B. union C. usage D. university
10. A. come B. roll C. comb D. grow

II) Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words in the same lines
11. A. answer B. begin C. refuse D. complain
12. A. politic B. historic C. electric D. specific
13. A. service B. decade C. serve D. begin
14. A. electrician B. comfortable C. manufacture D. accidental
15. A. creature B. manure C. figure D. posture
16. A. about B. around C. between D. under
17. A. business B. release C. salesman D. scandal
18. A. answer B. extend C. mountain D. servant
19. A. activity B. extremely C. photography D. entertainment
20. A. knowledge B. mature C. scientist D. sudden

III) Fill in each blank with one word in the box to complete the text.
transmission growth developed energy popular
basic possible improved practical regular


Television was not really invented. Many scientists invented or (21parts of the system that have become the television systems we know now. Radio, of course, was necessary before television could be (22) ……........because television uses the same principles of electromagnetic waves that radio does. As soon as radio became possible, the possibility of television (23was also known, but it took many years for it to become (24British and American scientists helped to develop the (25ideas that made television (26but it was a Russian who made the first practical television system. By 1923, Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian, had invented a camera tube that could turn pictures into electric (27) ………… . By 1929, Zworykin had built a television system that worked. By 1935, (28) television broadcasts were begun in German. The first broadcasts in the United States began in 1939, but television did not really become (29) until after the Second World War. Between 1945 and 1955 there was rapid (30) ………… in the practical use of television.

IV) Choose the best answer:
31. Someone wants you to a good hotel.
A. introduce B. direct C. recommend D. tell
32. Does anyone know this hat might be?
A. who B. whose C. whom D. to whom
33. The old man is said all his money to an old people’s home when he died.
A. to leave B. to leaving C. have left D. to have left
34. Nobody was injured in the accident,
A. was there B. was he C. were they D. wasn’t it
35. If the weather stays fine, the plane land at 8.30 local time.
A. does B. might C. should D. ought
36. It’s hour since he so he should be at home now.
A. left B. had left C. has