De thi GVG huyen 08-09

Đề thi giáo viên giỏi cấp THCS huyện Kỳ Anh năm học 2008-2009
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 9
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences:
1. How/What/Which/Where beautiful flowers!
2. Hoa wishes her mother bought/had bought/would buy/buys her a new bike last month.
3. Would you like to travel/travel/traveling/traveled around the world in the future?
4. We hate watching/to watch/watch/watched football matches on TV.
5. While/When/Because/But Oanh enjoys pop music, Ha is fond of classical music.
6. Although/Therefore/Consequently/Because the salary was high, he gave up that job.
7. Nobody has been to this village for years, has/have/hasn’t/haven’t they?
8. Twin Towers/The Statue of Liberty/The Great Wall/Hanging Garden of Babylon belongs to The United States.
9. They put a lot of readers in/on/at/into the front of the public library.
10. Herbs are used to/are often used/often use/get used to in soups and sauces.
11. Susan couldn’t help to laugh/laugh/to be laughed/laughing when I told her the joke.
12. Last night, there being/there having/having had/being nothing to watch on TV, we went out.
13. My grandfather often speaks/tells/says/converses of the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
14. Our parents often have a strong impact/effect/result/influence on our lives.
15. Too many exams and tests have put high school students on/in/under/into pressure.
16. Mai as well as her friends is/are/has been/have been to Ha Noi several times.
17. Don’t talk about your computer again. You always talk/are always talking/are talking/always talked about it.
18. Minh had his apartment broke/breaking/broken/break into yesterday.
19. That house is being covered by/on/in/with smoke.
20. Hanh was watching/was watched/watching/watched that soccer match at this time last night.
II. Supply the correct form of the words:
Angkor Watt is one of the famous tourist ….. in Cambodia. (attract)
You should talk to ….. about advantages of that project. (inhabit)
This wood pulp is cleaned and chemically ….. . (white)
These books were so ….. that many people buy them. (expense)
After many ….. attempts, he broke the world record on December tenth 2007. (success)
We should put all …... and drugs in the locked cupboard. (chemistry)
A fairy ….. changed Tam’s rags into beautiful clothes. (magic)
On this festival, people celebrate freedom from ….. . (slave)
When your motorbike is broken, you ought to have a ….. repair it. (machine)
French is a ….. difficult language to learn. You must work hard. (compare)
III. Fill a suitable word in each numbered blank
Ten years went by, in those ten years Mr. Young started a new life. He ….. (1) a new name and found a new job. He ….. (2) met another woman, Nancy Lewis. He promised to marry her. He was on his ….. (3) to the church to marry her last week ….. (4) he had another accident. ….. (5) hit his head in the accident ….. (6) woke up in hospital again. Suddenly he could remember everything ….. (7). He remembered his old name, his address. The fact that he was already ….. (8). He phoned his wife from ….. (9), and tried to explain everything. He also phoned Miss Lewis. Both women refused to believe his story. They both thought he ….. (10) lying.
IV . Complete the story with the words and expressions given. Number them from 1 to 10. One given isn’t used. 0 is an example:

0 in the deserts of Somalia flew to Britain to work called me
will give me five camels found a place to stay asked me
appeared on the cover got me a part in the walked through
loved my mother more than was worth five camels called Michael Goss

When I was a girl, ....(0)....., my family was nomadic, moving around with our animals. We were happy and I ........(1).......anything.
I was about 13 when my father ........(2)........at the end of a hot day. “Come and sit here”, he said. “I’ve found you