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KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10
Khóa ngày 01 tháng 7 năm 2009
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Chuyên
Đề thi gồm 12 câu, 04 trang
Thời gian làm bài : 120 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
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QUESTION I: Listen to the 2 conversations from the CD two times, then complete each sentence below with the information you have heard. (1 pt)

Part A.
1. Brenda is …………………... to New Orleans.
2. Ted asks Brenda if she has been to ………………. yet and she says she has already been to several ones there.
3. Actually, Brenda has gone on a riverboat tour ……… times this week.
4. Because there’s a terrific show at the Saenger Theater, Brenda suggests ………………. .

Part B.
5. For her weekend, the girl went to see ………………. .
6. He is a(n) ……… .
7. He is terrific because he does some ………………. .
8. The man advises the girl to …………………..……… sometime.

QUESTION II: Listen to the 8 different students from the CD talk about how they organize their word learning two times, then state whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE: (1 pt)
1. Her notebook is for the translation only.
2. The man has a notebook. In it he categorizes words into groups and tries to complete one page a day.
He often learns it while phoning someone.
3. The girl learns vocabularies by seeing them everywhere all over her house. She thinks that way is a problem.
4. If this man remembers the new words, he puts them into his right pocket. If he does not remember them, they stay in his left pocket.
5. This girl enjoys reading easy English of stories in simple books. She explains some difficult words in the books.
6. The picture dictionary helps him to learn the vocabularies and also helps to pronounce the words when he is not sure of their pronunciation.
7. He learns the new words by listening to them from a cassette recorder when driving.
8. With a pencil she marks the word she looks up to indicate that she has already dealt with it and this reminds her to try to learn it the next time.

QUESTION III: Pick out the word that has the main stressed syllable different from the others (0.5 pt)

1. A. separate B. category C. encourage D. pesticide
2. A. congratulate B. disappointed C. acquaintance D. appliance
3. A. intermediate B. compulsory C. material D. linguistics
4. A. minimize B. dynamite C. wonderful D. commercial

QUESTION IV: Pick out the word whose underlined syllable is pronounced differently from the others (0.5 pt)
1. A. many B. area C. sandy D. humanity
2. A. layer B. payment C. says D. ways
3. A. polar B. scholar C. solar D. sonar
4. A. county B. mouth C. mountainous D. southern

QUESTION V: Pick out the word that is of different topic from the others (0.5 pt)
1. A. blacklist B. blackmail C. black sheep D. black hole
2. A. astronaut B. alien C. pilot D. Martian
3. A. dolphin B. whale C. shark D. sperm whale
4. A. inevitable B. inflexible C. inexpensive D. invaluable

QUESTION VI: Write the suitable form of the word in parentheses (0.5 pt)
1. It’s hard to understand what he says. His reasoning is ……… . ( logical )
2 Mark Twain sold out a great number of ……… during his lifetime. ( publish )
3. Finally, Mr. Dawson accepted his children’s …….. . . ( persuade )
4. In Western countries, there is a …….. in price of goods in January . ( reduce )

QUESTION VII: Write the correct tense and form of the verbs in parentheses (0.5 pt).
Tony Diep ( 1. bear ) in Hue in 1966. He went to England to study at the University of Oxford in 1992. He met Lucy Lan while they ( 2. study ) together at the university. They got married in 1999 and ( 3.