Đề thi HSG Tiếng anh - lớp 9

THE GOOD ENGLISH WRITING CONTEST FOR GRADE 9
Time: 90 ms

I/ Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. (1pt)
A. great B. bread C. break D. steak
A. weight B. height C. eight D. vein
A. too B. food C. soon D. good
A. enough B. cough C. though D. rough

II/ Complete the sentences with an appropriate form of the words in parentheses (2 pts)
The air in the city is very ...........(pollute)
Please listen to the lecture.............(care).
The accident happened because of driving.........(care)
He is going to ...............all the bags. (collection).
She has.......................provided a picnic lunch for us. (kind)
We’ll make this beach clean and .........again. (beauty)
If the......................continues, what will happen? (pollute)
A large number of inhabitants have made..............on how to protect the environment. (suggest)

III/ Say whether the idioms in the following sentences are used correctly (true) or incorrectly (false) (1,5 pts)

TRUE
FALSE

1. . Men are not usually invited to a hen party.



2. You would probably not be very happy if someone said to you, “You’re a brick”



3. I forgot to phone David- it completely slipped my mind



4. He can’t read music; he plays the piano by ear.



5.My cousin is very strong. He’s extremely tight-fisted.



6. Most people would be pleased if they got a windfall.




IV/ Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. (1,5 pts)
hot on wishful nook weak Tall


Don’t believe a word he says; it’s just another of his..............stories.
She had a very vivid imagination but her spelling was her.........point when it came to writing essays.
Do you know if there’s a/ an........line between 10 Downing Street and the Kremlin?
I don’t really want to be twenty again; it was just.............thinking.
Help! Help! My house is .....fire!
We looked in very.........and cranny for the missing ring, but we couldn’t find it anywhere.
V/ Read the text and choose the best answer to each question. (2pts)
Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects.
Unforrtunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 per cent will be lost by the year 2020. every sixty seconds, onehundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish reading this passage, two hundred acres will be destroyed. When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well.
What is the main point of view that the author expresses in this passage?
The author believes that the rainforest will survive.
The author believes that preserving the rainforest is important to the global ecology
The author believes that he can predict the future of global ecology.
The author believes that the extinction of species is a natural process.
According to the passage, more than half of all the species of plants and animals...........
live in twenty rainforests.
Live in several hundred different varieties of trees
Live in a forty-degree band of latitude.
Live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared
What is the meaning of the word “just” in line 5?
A. fairly B. only C. correctly D. precisely
4. How many of the world’s rainforests are projected to be destroyed if the current rate continues?
A. All of them will be gone by the year 2020.
B. Three-quarters of them will be gone by the year 2020.
C. Half of them will be gone by the year 2020.
D. One-quarter of them will be gone by the year 2020.
VI/ Write the cues given, write a letter to your