ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI HUYỆN

KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 PHỔ THÔNG VÒNG HUYỆN
NĂM HỌC: 2008- 2009
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
THỜI GIAN: 150 phút (không tính thời gian chép đề)
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(Thí sinh không phải chép đề vào giấy thi).
I. Read the passage carefully, then circle the correct letter A, B, C or D: (2,5ms)
Long ago a lot of beoble thought the moon was a God. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball cheese! The telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there.
On July 20,1969, that dream came true. Two america men landed on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left foot prints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off.
The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft.
Next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that wait for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to earth.
Behind them they left the plains and tall mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up. And they left footprints that may last forever.
1. This story tells ……………………..
A. about the first men to walk on the moon.
B. how men found footprints on the moon.
C. what the men brought back from their trip to the moon
D. who had left footprints on the moon before the two men landed there.
2. A telescopy……………………….
A. makes balls of light seem brighter
B. turns the moon into another world.
C. makes many of men’s dream come true.
D. makes faraway things seem closer
3. The men throught rocks and dirt from the moon because……………………….
A. they wanted something to show they were there
B. people wanted to use them to learn about the moon
C. they wanted to keep them as souvenirs
D. they might sell them to the scientists
4. The Americans’ machines will most likely stay on the moon until ……………………
A. someone takes them away
B. A storm covers them with dust
C. rain and win destroy them
D. they become rusty and break to pieces
5. The next people who go to the moon most likely could……………………………
A. find that the machines have disappeared
B. leave the first set of footprints on the moon
C. find the places where Armstrong and Aldrin walked.
D. find that dust has wiped off the two men’s footprints
II. Fill in the blanks with proper words: (2ms)
Brightly, friendly, world, colored, fairly, mountains, temperatures, life

Science has told us so much about the moon that it is (1)……… easy to imagine what it would be like to go there. It is certainly not a (2)………….place. As there is no air or water, there can be no (3)…………of any kind. There is no variety of scenery either. For mile after mile there are only flat plains of dust with (4)…………around them. Above, the sun and stars shine in a black sky. If you step out of the mountain shadow, it will mean moving from severe cold into great heat. These extreme (5)………….continually break rocks away from the surface of the mountains. The moon is also a very silent (6)………….for sound waves can only travel through air. But beyond the broken horizon you see a friendly sight. Our Earth is shining more (7)…………..than the stars. From this distance, it looks like an immense ball, (8)…………blue and green and brown.
III. Complete the second sentences: (4ms)
1. He often played the piano at night
He used to…………………………………..
2. They built this house last month
This house……………………………………
3. I asked him,”why don’t you come here to meet her?”
I asked him…………………………………………
4. How long is it since you saw Tom?
When………………………………………………
5. They have worked in that factory since 2001
They started……………………………….
6. She enjoys going swimming
She is interested in……………………………..
7. What about going to the cinema tonight?
Shall we……………………………………?
8. I often go to bed late
I am used………………………………….