Đề chọn HSG Anh 9

ĐỀ THI HSG TIẾNG ANH 9
Thời gian: 150 phút

I. LISTENING (20 pts)
II. PHONETICS (20 pts)
Exercise 1: Choose the word that has the underlined parts pronounced differently from the others (10pts):
1. A. equal
B. fashion
C. champagne
D. match

2. A. economy
B. occasion
C. freedom
D. logical

3. A. invite
B. river
C. shrine
D. primary

4. A. encourage
B. proud
C. enough
D. young

5. A. invited
B. arrived
C. mentioned
D. loved

Exercise 2: Choose the words that has a different stress pattern from the others (10pts):
1. A. practical
B. designer
C. minority
D. occasion

2. A. consist
B. fashion
C. design
D. collect

3. A. enjoyment
B. pagoda
C. collection
D. business

4. A. economical
B. federation
C. itinerary
D. complication

5. A. advertise
B. deposit
C. candidate
D. institute


III. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (70 pts)
Exercise 3: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence (20p):
1. She speaks Chinese as ______ as I do
A. good
B. better
C. very good
D. well

2. Jim is five centimeters ______ than Tom.
A. taller
B. tallest
C. high
D. tall

3. The harder she works, the _______ money she earns
A. better
B. much
C. more
D. less

4. Lucy answered the questions _______ than Sarah.
A. intelligent
B. more intelligently
C. most intelligent
D. more intelligent

5. I knew they were talking about me ______ they stopped when I entered the room.
A. because
B. so that
C. despite
D. therefore

6. The librarian told us not ______ reference books out of the library.
A. to take
B. taking
C. take
D. took

7. When I came to visit her last night , she ______ a bath .
A. had
B. was having
C. were having
D. is having

8. He has really worked hard so far, ______ he?
A. does
B. has
C. doesn’t
D. hasn’t

9. Nobody liked the film, ______ ?
A. does he
B. doesn’t he
C. did they
D. didn’t they

10. ______ the students in my class enjoy taking part in social activities.
A. Many
B. Most
C. Most of
D. The number of


Exercise 4: There are 11 mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. There is an example for you (20pts):
Ex: looks → look
Sally Ride, American’s first spacewoman, doesn’t looks very different from a lot of other American professional women. She is attracting with curly brown hair, dark brown eyes, and a bright smile. She like to dress simply: she wears comfortable but colorful clothes, like much people from California. But in 1983 Sally Ride became America`s first woman astronaut. She was one of the five astronaut on the space shuttle Challenger, which completed a successful six-days voyage in space in June 1983. What makes a woman want to go in space?
Sally Ride grows up in Los Angeles, California. Her father is a professor at Santa Monica College, and his mother is housewife. At Westlake High School for girls, she was both an excellent student but a tennis player.Today she still looks like a sportswoman. She is 1.6 meters tall, weighs 52 kilos, and very fit.While she was till a student, she became a very successful tennis player. She thought on becoming a professional sportswoman but she decided to continue with her studies at college, and later at university.
Your answers:
1. ………… 2. ………… 3. ………… 4. ………… 5. …………
6. ………… 7. ………… 8. ………… 9. ………… 10. …………
Exercise 5: Provide the correct form of the words in brackets (20p):
1. It’s very _______ (HEALTH) to live in damp room.
2. I’m not used to ______ (DRIVE) on the left.
3. He was punished for his ______ (LAZY).
4. We had a very ______ (ENJOY) evening in Lon don last month
5. I believe you because I know you are ______ (TRUTH).