DE KT GIUA HOC KY I TA 9

Đề kiểm tra chất lượng giữa học kỳ I năm học 2011 – 2012
Môn: Tiếng anh 9
I/ Choose the word whose underline part is pronounced differently from the others (1pt)
1.
A. kind
B. line
C. primary
D. material

2.
A. century
B. cotton
C. casual
D. college

3.
A. changed
B. mentioned
C. stopped
D. embroidered

4.
A. lively
B. poetry
C. style
D. minority

II/ Underline the best answer to complete the sentences (2pts)
English is the (office/ official/ officially/ officier) language in the USA.
Maryam can’t go with us. I wish she (will go/ should go/ could go/ goes).
We were impressed (by/ with/ on/ to) the beauty of DaLat.
In the 18th century, Jean cloth completely (made/ was made/ has made/ was making) from cotton.
The weather was bad, (but/ because/ however/ so) we didn’t go on a picnic.
Mary (use to/ used to/ is used to/ was used to) write to me last year.
Can you divide this cake (in/ to/ into/ among) four equal pieces?
Have you (ever/ just/ already/ never) gone skiing?
III/ Put the verbs in the blanks into the correct tense of form (2pts)
She (take) _________ her younger brother to the zoo last Sunday.
He wishes he (be) __________ a good doctor.
I can’t go out because I (not/ do) __________ my homework yet.
A new hospital (build) __________ next year.
IV/ Read the passage then answer the below questions (2pts)
Clothes can tell a lot about a person. Some people like very colorful clothes because they want everyone to look at them and they want to be the center of things. Others people like to wear nice clothes, but their clothes are not colorful or fancy. They do not like people to look at them. Clothes today are very different from the clothes of the 1800s. One difference is the way they look. For example, in the 1800s all women wore dresses. The dresses all had long skirts. But today women do not always wear dresses with long skirts. Sometimes they wear short skirts. Sometimes they wear pants. Another difference between 1800s and today is the cloth. In the 1800s, clothes were made only from natural kinds of cloth. They were made from cotton, wool, silk or linen. But today. there are many kinds of man-made cloth. A lot of clothes are now made from nylon, rayon, or polyester.
Why do some people like very colorful clothes?
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Are clothes today the same as the clothes of the 1800s?
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What were the dresses in the 1800s like?
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What do women wear today?
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V/ Complete the second sentences with the same meaning as the first ones (2pts)
Ba last wrote to his pen pal five months ago.
( Ba hasn’t …………………………………………………………
People use computers to design new models.
( Computers are …………………………………………………….
What a pity! I don’t have a car.
( I wish ……………………………………………………………..
They often went to Vung Tau at weekends
( They used to ………………………………………………………
VI/ Find and correct one mistake in each sentence (1pt).
My brother starts to give up smoking two years ago. ………………………
Life in Vietname is different with that in Malyasia. ………………………
The currency of Malaysia is dollar. ………………………
I wish it doesn’t rain now. ……………………...