DE & DAP AN TIENG ANH LOP 9

Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp tỉnh lớp 9 -thcs
Thanh Hoá Năm học 2001-2002
Môn tiếng anh ( Bảng A )
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ( Không kể thời gian giao đề )


Question 1: Supply the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
1. By the time we stop we ( drive ) five hundred miles.
2. Evening ( fall ) when we woke up.
3. ( write ) the letter, she put it in an envelope.
4. When Linda ( come ) back from the beach, she ( look ) very red from the Sun. She (lie) in the Sun too long.
5. I ( finish ) everything by the time you ( get ) back tomorrow.
6. Yesterday I ( walk ) along the street when I ( realize ) a man with a black beard, whom I ( see ) three times already, ( follow ) me.
7. Hello, Mary. The party last night was great. You should ( come ).
8. We fell over some pieces of wood ( leave ) ( lie ) around.

Question 2:
a- Give correct word-forms in brackets to complete sentences.
1. I had my trousers ……. because they were too short. ( long )
2. UFO means ……….. Flying Object. ( identify )
3. He is so ……….. ! No wonder he has no friends. ( agree )
4. He felt very ……….. when he saw he had failed the exam again. ( courage )
5. A ……….. child can hardly feed himself. ( able )

b- Change the following sentences into passive voice.
1. Did anybody see him come down the lane ?
2. They should learn this poem by heart.
3. The noise might have frightened the horse.
4. The cook ought to have prepared it.
5. Someone must tell him not to go out in the rain.

Question 3: Supply the missing prepositions:
1. A care-taker is the person who is paid to take care ……… a building ………. the owner`s absence.
2. Can you help me get ready ……… my mother`s birthday party.
3. He suggested ………. me that we should pay her ………. dollars.
4. …….. spite …….. the heat they went …….. and ……..
5. I`ve been trying to learn English but I`m not satisfied ………. my progress.

Question 4: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word in the following passage
Nobody likes staying at home on a public holiday especially if the weather is fine. Last August we decided to ……1……. the day in the country. The only difficulty was that millions of other people had exactly the same idea. We moved …….2…. of the city slowly behind along …….3……. of cars, but at last we came to a quiet country road and after some time, stopped at a lonely farm. We had ……4……. plenty of food with us and we got ……5….. out of the car. Now everything was ready so we sat down near a path at the foot of a hill. It was very peaceful in the cool grass until we …..6……. bells ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw made us …..7….. up our things and run back …….8……. the car as …….9……. as possible. There were about two hundred sheep coming ……..10……. us down the path .

Question 5: Choose the correct word in brackets to complete the following sentences.
1. The soldier ( rose / raised ) the flag when he heard the blow.
2. My car costs ( twice more than / twice as much as ) hers.
3. The Thames ( flow / flows ) through London.
4. The music sounded too ( noisy / noisily ).
5. You haven`t ( lent / borrowed ) my rubber, have you, Paul ?

Question 6: Rewrite the following sentences without changing their original meaning. Begin with the given words.
1. I`ll be busy working while you`re on holiday.
- During…………
2. You may get hungry on the train, so take some sandwiches.
- In ……………...
3. It is believed that the man escaped in a stolen car.
- The man……….
4. " It certainly wasn`t me who took your car " said Alice.
- Alice denied …………
5. It`s possible that he didn`t get my letter.
- He might …………
6. He forgot about the bag until he got home.
- Not until