Đề thi hsg tiếng anh 9

(*)Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
Question 1: A. laughter B. caught C. daughter D. augment
Question 2: A. incline B. eradicate C. exacerbate D. enclosure
Question 3: A. friends B. opinions C. picnics D. computers
Question 4: A. chimpanzee B. interviewee C. refugee D. committee
Question 5: A. politeness B. conversation C. resolution D. introduction
(*)Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
Question 6: I`d love to have lived in the old days, when people.......to market by horse and carriage.
A. have been travelling B. got used to travelling
C. would travel D. had been travelling
Question 7: I`ll give you the phone number of my hotel so that you can reach me if anything happens. ......anything happen. I want you lo look after my children.
A. Can B. Might C. Will D. Should
Question 8: We`ve been together through......in our friendship, and we won`t desert each other now.
A. bad and good B. thick and thin C. odds and ends D. spick and span
Question 9: ......a scholarship, I entered the frightening and unknown territory of private education.
A. To award B. Having awarded
C. To be awarded D. Having been awarded
Question 10: Millions of people say Coke tastes best from a bottle, and whether this is scientifically provable or not. These millions know they like the look of the bottle and the way it fits so......into the hand.
A. neatly B. orderly C. tidily D. finitely
Question 11: Language is so......woven into human experience that it is scarcely possible to imagine life without it.
A. tightly B. tautly C. rigidly D. stiffly
Question 12: ......I`d like to help you out, I`m afraid I just haven`t got any spare money at the moment.
A. Much as B. Try as C. Even D. Despite
Question 13: She was very badly depressed after the car accident. Now she is beginning to think that there could be light at the end of the.......
A. tunnel B. subway C. passage D. journey
Question 14: The government must......strong measures against crime.
A. be seen be taking B. see to be taking
C. be seen to be taking D. seen to take
Question 15: Athough she would have preferred to carry on working, my mum........her career in order to have children.
A. devoted B. aholishcd C. repealed D. sacrificed
Question 16: A number of landslides have ....... Nepal since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 25th April which killed more than 8,000 people and injured many more.
A. stroke B. caused C. hit D. blown
(*)Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others.
Question 17: A. compliment B. excellent C. nominate D. distinguish
Question 18: A. remember B. quality C. occasion D. terrific
Question 19: A. worldclass B. wheelchair C. firewood D. blackmail
Question 20: A. volunteer B. referee C. spiritual D. recommend
Question 21: A. influential B. accessible C. rudimentary D. incidental
(*)Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions that follow.
GETTING THE BEST OUT OF OUR CHILDREN
There is a strange paradox to the success of the Asian education model. On the one hand, class sizes are huge by western standards with on average between 30 and 40 students per class in countries like Japan and Korea. On the other hand, school children in developed Asian economies rank among the highest in the world for academic achievement in the areas of science and mathematics, especially on standardised tests. Meanwhile, British secondary school students fail to shine in conditions most educational researchers would say are far more likely to help them succeed.
Why do Asian students seem to perform so well then? Is it their legendary discipline? Certainly, classroom management seems to be a whole lot easier in places like Korea, and perhaps lessons are more effective as a direct consequence. After all, we are only too aware of the decline in discipline standards in our own schools; belligerent and disrespectful students appear to be the norm