Tài liệu bồi dưỡng học sinh giỏi lơp 9

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
1/ Philippa asked Olive if she could remember where she had put camera.
Philippa said “ Olive......................................................................................
2/ It is a six hour drive from London to Edinburgh.
It takes.............................................................................................................
3/ John asked if it was the blue one or the green she wanted.
“ Which........................................................................................................
4/ Joan doesn’t like to read her stories.
Joan isn’t..........................................................................................................
5/ The train couldn’t run because of the snow.
The snow.........................................................................................................
6/ He would prefer you to pay him immediately.
He’d rather.......................................................................................................
7/ The water was so cold that children could not swim in it.
The water was not...........................................................................................
8/ Somebody repaired her car yesterday.
She...................................................................................................................
9/ Hand your books to me when you have finished, please.
He asked students.............................................................................................
10/ A train leaves at eight o’clock every morning.
There is.............................................................................................................
11/ I would like you to help me to put the chairs away.
Do you mind ..................................................................................................
12/ This is too hard a question for her to answer.
The question ...................................................................................................
13/ We have never read such an interesting novel like this.
This is the........................................................................................................
14/ It is said that he died by his own hand.
He is ...............................................................................................................
15/ Carol finds it easy to make friends.
Carol................................................................................................................
16/ It isn’t necessary to finish the work today.
You don’t........................................................................................................
17/ My sister has studied French for two years.
My sister began...............................................................................................
18/ The train was delayed for twenty minutes because of the bad weather.
Because...........................................................................................................
19/ My brother isn’t good at French. I am not good at French.
Neither............................................................................................................
20/ I haven’t eaten this kind of food before.
This is the first.................................................................................................

SECTION II: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Questions 1 - 15 are in complete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see fours or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C)and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1.Captain Henry,.................... crept slowly through the underbrush.
A. being remote from the enemy,
B. attempting to not encounter the enemy,
C. trying to avoid the enemy,
D. not involving himself in the enemy,
2. Tom was one ......................
A. of happy childs of his class
B. of the happiest child in the class
C. child who was the happiest of all the class.
D. of the happiest children in the class.
3. ......................he began to make friends more easily.
A. Having entered school in the new city, it was found that
B. After entering the new school
C. When he had been entering the new school,
D. Upon entering into the new school,
4.It is very difficult to stop the cultivation of marijuana because..................
A. it grows very carelessly B. of it’s growth without attention
C. it grows well with little care D. it doesn’t care much to grow
5 The fact that space exploration has increased dramatically in the past thirty years ........
A. is an evidence of us wanting to know more of our solar system
B. indicates that we are very eager to learn all we can about our solar system.
C. How we all to learn more about the solar system.
D. is point to evidence of our intention to know a lot more about what is
called our solar system.
6. many of current international problem we are now facing ..................................
A. linguistic in competencies
B. are the result of the misunderstandings.
C. are because of not understanding themselves
D. lacks of the intelligent capabilities of understanding each other.
7. Mr. Robert is a noted chemist ..............................................
A. as well as an effective teacher.
B. and to efficient teacher
C. but he teaches very good in addition.
D. however he teaches very good also.
8. Public television stations are different from commercial stations ...........................
A. because they receive money differently and different types of show.
B. for money and program types.
C. in the areas of funding and programming.
D. because the former receive money and has programs differently from the later.
9. The chairman requested that.....................................
A. the members studied more carefully the problem
B. the problem was more carefulnessly studied
C. with more carenessly the problem could be studied
D. the members study the problem more carefully
10. California relies heavily on income from fruit crops, and .........................
A. Florida also B. Florida too C. Florida is as well D. so