Đề thi chọn hsg cấp trường - TA 9

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 9; thời gian: 120 phút
A. PHONTICS (10 points)
I. Choose one word (A, B, C or D) whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group.( 5 points)
1. A. flood B. cook C. good D. foot
2. A. exam B. France C. national D. ability
3. A. baggy B. qualify C. grocery D. happy
4.A. ploughed B. watched C. worked D. laughed
5. A. environment B. government C. comment D. development
II. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose stress pattern is different from the rest ( 5 points)
6. A. education B. community C. development D. unbreakable
7. A. prepare B. repeat C. purpose D. police
8. A. literature B. entertainment C. recreation D. information
9. A. chocalate B. structural C. important D. national
10. A. cinema B. position C. family D. popular
B. VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS (30 points)
I. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete each sentence below. (10 points)
11. If only I _______ speak English well.
A. can B. could C. will D. would
12. My favourite ________ at school are English and Math.
A. topic B. subject C. topics D. subjects
13. It took me two days _______ for my birthday party.
A. prepare B. to prepare C. preparing D. prepared
14. You can’t pass the entrance exam __________ you study harder.
A. unless B. if C. because D. so
15. Sit down And have a cup of coffee, ___________?
A. do you B. don’t you C. will you D. won’t you
16. These two cities are often _______ in some ways.
A. differ B. different C. difference D. differencely
17. Your windows need ______ immediately
A. paint B. to paint C. painting D. painted
18. We work hard all day _________ we have our comfortable life
A. for B. because C. so as to D. so that
19. On the ________ to the village, we saw a big old banyan tree.
A. entrance B. direction C. way D. road
20. “ I usually go dancing at night.”
“ You _______ do that.”
A. had better not B. had better not to
C. had not better D. had not better to
II. There is a mistake in the four underlined parts of each sentence A, B, C or D. Find the mistake and correct it. (5 points)
21. My family used to having dinner at 7 o’clock in the evening
A B C D
22. Learn English is really interesting .
A B C D
23. Lan says she was badly sick since she returned from abroad.
A B C D
24. I wish you and your family were here tomorrow.
A B C D
25. Everyone will get up and prepare something for breakfast, won’t he ?
A B C D
III. Provide the correct form of the words given. (5 points)
26. His _______ made us shocked and mounful. (DIE)
27. It is not _______ to eat to much sugar and meat (HEALTH)
28. Our soccer players have played ___________ (SKILL)
29. I _________ Maryam to Hanoi last week (INVITATION)
30. When you take an exam, you are an _______ (EXAMINE)
IV. Match each sentence in colun A with its suitable response in column B. Using each response once only. ( 5 points)

Your answer: 31 - ____; 32 - _____; 33 - _____; 34 - _____; 35 - ______
A
B

31. If you want to make progress in your study,
32. I caught a cold
33. You can learn to read English faster
34. Why are you late?
35. Before going to bed,
a. Because I overslept.
b. I turned off all the lights.
c. so I switched off all the lights.
d. You should spend more time learning at home
e. by reading books in English.
f. he shouldn’t go out anymore.
g. when we went out in the rain.

C. READING (30 points)
I. Read the passage carefully and fill each gap with a suiable word. (10 points)
I strongly believe that it is important to (36) ______ uniforms when students are at