ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP HUYỆN VÒNG 2

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9
Năm học: 2009 – 2010
Môn: Tiếng Anh (Vòng 02)

Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)


Chú ý: - Bộ đề thi này gồm có 07 trang, từ trang 01 đến trang 07.
Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào bộ đề thi này.



Điểm
Họ tên, chữ ký của người chấm thi số 1:
Số phách

- Bằng số:……………..
………………………………………...
(Do Chủ tịch hội đồng chấm thi ghi)

- Bằng chữ:……………
Họ tên, chữ ký của người chấm thi số 2:
…………………..

………………………...
………………………………………...





Part a: listening:
Listen to the following newspaper stories and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word: (10
0,2=2mks):

1/ Hands up, I’ve got a burger!
Last Tuesday a man armed with just a hot (1)………………… in a bag stole $1,000 from a bank in Danville, California.
Police Detective Bill McGinnis said that the robber, who was (2)…………………. a mask, entered the Mount Diablo National Bank at about (3)…………………. p.m. and gave the teller a note demanding $1,000. He claimed that he had a bomb in the bag. The teller said she could smell a distinct odour of hamburger coming from the bag. Even so, she handed the (4)…………………. to the man. As he was running out of the bank, he dropped the bag with the hamburger. He (5)…………………. in a car that was waiting for him outside.








2/ Teenage party ends in tears:
When Jack and Kelly Harman (6)…………………. away on holiday, they left their teenage (7)…………………. alone in the house. Zoe, aged 16, wanted to stay at home because she was revising for exams. Her parents said she could have friends to stay. However, Zoe decided to have a (8)…………………. . Everyone was having a good time when suddenly things started to go wrong. Forty uninvited (9)…………………. arrived, and some of them were carrying knives. They broke furniture, smashed windows, and stole jewellery.
When Mr. and Mrs. Harman heard the news, they came home (10)…………………. .








Part b: phonetics
Choose the word in each group which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others (5
0,2=1mk):
1. A. nature
B. natural
C. volcano
D. waste

 2. A. conserve
B. preserve
C. reserve
D. exhaust

 3. A. honour
B. hero
C. held
D. happy

 4. A. champion
B. character
C. match
D. cheerful

 5. A. spread
B. disease
C. health
D. pleasure


Part c: vocabulary and structures: (6mks)

I. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each of the sentences that needs correcting: (5
0,2 = 1 mk)

1. My father says he will never forget the day on when he joined the army.
A B C D
2. The boy took his dog for a walk after he has finished his homework.
A B C D
3. The young teacher had no difficult getting the students to understand.
A B C D
4. Products which have bought during the sale can not be exchanged.
A B C D
5. Before printing was invented, people had to be written.
A B C D
II. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms or tense of the verbs in brackets (6
0,25=1,5mks):

My dog (walk) ……………..…. along quickly when Mrs. Baker’s dog attacked him.
Mr. Brown expected (offer) ……………..…. the job in Spain.
If you (not take) ……………..….those photographs, we wouldn’d have been arrested.
It’s just struck midnight. It’s high time we (leave) ……………..….
There’s smoke and we smell something (burn) ……………..….
When you next see me, I (wear) ……………..…. my new dress.

III. Choose the word or phrase which best fits each gap of the sentence: (10
0,2=2mks):

1. The plate is empty; the birds ……………..….all the food.
A.