De thi HSG anh 9 -1

TEST FOR EXCELLENT STUDENTS

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest .
1.
A. ought
B. thought
C. brought
D. though

2.
A. thick
B. think
C. thus
D. thin

3.
A. foot
B. school
C. book
D. good

4.
A. knew
B. grew
C. threw
D. flew

5.
A. lose
B. close
C. chose
D. rose

6.
A. dosage
B. massage
C. carriage
D. voyage

7.
A. high
B. home
C. hour
D. horn

8.
A. passed
B. forced
C. threatened
D. walked

9.
A. break
B. steak
C. great
D. bread

10.
A. confusion
B. tension
C. seizure
D. measure


II. Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words.
1.
A.
civilian
B.
bacteria
C.
bookbinder
D. assembly

D. principal

D. weightlessness

D. productive

D. international

D. disadvantage

D. advantageous
D. Japanese

D. government
D. colony

2.
A.
apartheid
B.
wonderful
C.
universe


3.
A.
virtually
B.
tobacco
C.
statesmanship


4.
A.
sincerely
B.
signature
C.
synthetic


5.
A.
architecture
B.
alphabetical
C.
opportunity


6.
A.
individual
B.
engineering
C.
remarkable


7.
A.
competition
B.
absolutely
C.
mathematic


8.
A.
patriotic
B.
racialism
C.
federation


9.
A.
associate
B.
marathon
C.
clarify


10.
A.
colonial
B.
professor
C.
inhabitant



III. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1. What`s your birthday, Ann ? - It`s ............................... .
A. on the thirty-one of July
B. on July the thirty-one
C. on the thirty-first of July
D. in July the thirty-first

2. The sun .................. in the west. Look ! It ....................... .
A. set/ is setting
B. sets/ is setting
C. setting/ set
D. set/ set

3. All the boys are good at cooking, but ............ is as good as the girls.
A. either
B. neither
C. none
D. every

4. The weather ................ fine so far this week.
A. is
B. was
C. has been
D. had been

5. I have so many routines that sometimes I feel ........... I am an automatic robot.
A. as if
B. even if
C. even though
D. like

6. The walls of the house are covered ........... a coat of paint.
A. with
B. in
C. by
D. under

7. That was a ............ ceremony.
A. prepared-well
B. prepare-well
C. well-prepared
D. well-prepare

8. That novel was written by a well-known writer. It is worth ............. .
A. to read
B. reading
C. read
D. have read

9. Is this the address to ........ you want the package sent ?
A. where
B. which
C. that
D. whom

10. The father sat by his ........ child’s bedside all night as he was sick.
A. sleep
B. asleep
C. oversleep
D. sleeping

11. He has adopted three orphans ........ his own six children so that, all together, he has nine children to provide for.
A. except
B. beside
C. besides
D. in place of

12. You should take regular exercise ......... sitting in front of the television all day.
A. in spite of
B. instead of
C. without
D. even

13. I don’t want to go out tonight .......... Anna phones.
A. so that
B. even though
C. when
D. in case

14. I object to .......