TRƯỜNG THCS TRIỆU THỊ TRINH ĐỀ CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9

HUYỆN TRIỆU SƠN NĂM HỌC 2023 - 2024

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn: Tiếng Anh

Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày 30 tháng 9 năm 2023
(Đề gồm 05 phần, 06 trang)

I. Listen to the teacher talking to her class about a visit to a museum and complete the notes
below.

Exercise 30. Listen to two parents talking about their son and mark the statements as true (T)
or false (F).
1. Sean has a test at school tomorrow. ………………. ……………….
2. Sean is afraid he won’t pass the test. ………………. ……………….
3. Sean’s test is at 2:30 in the afternoon. ………………. ……………….
4. Sean’s dad is going to drive him to the test centre. ………………. ……………….
5. Sean’s mum thinks he needs more practice with park. ………………. ……………….
6. This is the first time Sean will take the test. ………………. ……………….

SECTION B: PHONETICS (5.0 points)

I.Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest. (3.0 points)
16. A. arrive B. steward C. coward D. award/0/
17. A. put B. putt/A/ C. pussy D. pulpit
18. A. expansion/sh/ B. television C. precision D. explosion
II. Pick out the word whose stress syllable is placed differently from that ofthe others. (2.0 points)
19. A. supposedly B. curriculum C. surprisingly D. supernatural
20. A. popularity B. beneficial C. continental D. preparatory
SECTION C: LEXICO- GRAMMAR (30.0points)
I.Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the sentence in each of the following questions.
(10.0 points)
21. A: “Who won the election for mayor?”
B: “A man ___________ to represent every minority group in the city.”
A. claim B. claimed C. is claimed D. claiming

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 22. __________, they remained optimistic.
A. Though fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial his lawyers were
B. Fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial as his lawyers were
C. Fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial as were his lawyers
D. Despite fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial his lawyers were
23. The music aroused an ________ feeling of homesickness in him.
A. intense da diết B. intentional C. intensive D. intended
24. All of the plants now raised on farms have been developed from plants _________ wild.
A. once they grew B. they grew once C. that once grew D. once grew
25. ____________ the history of the tough, strong-willed Nebraska farmer.
A. Not only is much of the history of Nebraska
B. Although it is much of the history of Nebraska that is
C. It is much the history of Nebraska’s being
D. Much of the history of Nebraska is
26. They must have gone away, _____________?
A. shouldn’t they B. haven’t they C. mustn’t they D. didn’t they
27. I know we had an argument, but now I‘d quite like to __________.
A. look down B. bring up C. fall out D. make up làm
hòa
28. All the way along the winding street __________.
A. he came B. came he C. did he come D. comes he
29. According to a recent report, the disease is rare, affecting __________ ten thousand adults.
A. out of every one B. the only one of
C. every one from D. only one out of every
30. Emma: "I love your gardens. The plants are well taken care of!"
Dennis: "Thanks. Yes, I suppose I've always_____________.”
A. had a good root round=look for B. had green fingers giỏi làm vườn
C. been up a gum tree lúng túng D. taken leave of my senses lm mất khả
năng phán đoán
II. Give the correct tense/form of the verb in brackets to complete the sentence in each of the
following questions. (8.0 points)
31. I wouldn’t recommend (eat)______eat______ in that restaurant. That’s awful.
32. Although she (go)____have been going_____ to the doctor for three months, he didn’t feel any
better.
33. I hope (live)____to have lived_______in my own house in five years’ time.
34. The speed limit is 30 miles an hour but Tom is driving at 50. He ( drive )__have been
driving________ so fast.
35. (Collapse) ___having collapsed_______ as a result of water damage, some parts of the floor are
now being painstakingly reconstructed by master builders.
36. Not once in my life I (experience) __have experienced____________ such a luxury cruise.
37. It is understood that the escaped prisoner might (hide)have hided ______ in a friend’s house for
the last month.
38. I’m sure she’ll do all she can (help)__ help____________.
III. Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in parentheses.(7.0 points)
39. Some people show__________ attitude toward to the mistery of others, totally disPASSIONate
untouched by their suffering.
40. Don’s father wrinkled his brow in __________ when he heard that Don had disPLEASure
failed the examination. non-
41. It is strongly advised that we drink something _________ when driving. ALCOHOLic
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42.The symtoms of Attention Deficiency Disorder include__________ and having inATTENtive
difficulty getting organized, as well as becoming distracted. thiếu chú ý
43. Some gases ___________ at cold temperatures.
44. The students are _________ seperated into 3 differnt classes. LIQUIzation
45. The demand for the vote by American women was first __________ in New QUALitatively
York in 1848. FORMulated
IV. The passage below contains FIVE mistakes( from 46 to 50). Identify the mistakes and give the
corrections on your answer sheet. (5.0 points)
Example: Line 1: in  of
Line Passage
1 Many in us thought the world had four oceans - the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Arctic
2 Oceans. That's which->what we were taught in school. Moreover, a search on the
3 Internet will show that there is also a "Southern Ocean" around the South Pole and
4 Antarctica. The National Geographic Society has now officially accepted that this body
5 of water around Antarctica is a real ocean. Geography teachers will now have to teach
6 their students that the world has five oceans.
7 National Geographic said its recognition of the world have ->having a fifth ocean would
8 have an impact on how children see the world. Alex Tait, a geographer and cartographer
9 at National Geographic, said that realizing the Southern Ocean would help students
10 understand more about climate change. National Geographic added that: "The Southern
11 Ocean has unique and fragile marine ecosystems that are home for wonderful marine life
12 such as whales, penguins and seals."
SECTION D: READING (30.0 points)
I. Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space. (10.0 points)
Almost all governments in sub-Saharan Africa faced with the problem of a (51)_________
human population and limited financial resources. In this situation, many other topics are
(52)_______ to be higher on their list of priorities than the protection of the many species in danger
of extinction. Nevertheless, much can be done. South Africa is home to an astonishing array of wild
life, (53)________ from elephants and rhinoceros to thousands of species of insects. Herds of animals
that are (54) __________ for extinction elsewhere are free to roam over 70,000 square kilometres of
nature (55) _________. Yet these areas only account for six per cent of the country so that,
increasingly, private land and farms are playing a major role in conserving wildlife. As a result, some
progress has been (56)__________. The black rhinoceros, numbering 100,000 only fifty years ago,
was decimated by the trade in its horn for medicines in Asia and ornamental (57)___________ for
weapons in the Middle East but the signs are that the trend towards the (58)__________ of the
species has at least been halted, if not reserved. The change has come about largely because of greater
co-operation between government and private agencies. The law has been much more (59)
_________ enforced. Poachers now face heavy fines and sentences of ten years in prison. Those who
live (60) __________ to protected areas now feel they have a stake in the preservation of the
country’s wild life. This is an immense advantage in ensuring the survival of the species.
51. A. growing B. gaining C. developing D. lifting
52. A. granted B. assured C. bound chắn chắn sảy ra D.
undoubted
53. A. crossing B. ranging từ C. spreading D. stretching
54. A. directing B. going C. heading D. proceeding
55. A. enclosures bao vây B. folds C. parks D. reserves dự
trữ
56. A. brought B. made C. got D. done
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57. A. grips B. handles C. holds D. levers
58. A. abolition B. suppression C. removal D. elimination
59. A. strictly nghiêm ngặt B. firmly vững chắc C. extremely D.
strongly
60. A. alongside B. approximate C. close D. nearby
II. Read the following passage and fill in each blanks with a suitable words (10.0 points)
The Birth of YouTube
In 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two software designers from Silicon Valley in
California, (0) were invited to a dinner party. Several people had brought their camcorders to the
party and these people were complaining about (61) __how______ difficult it was to share home
videos online. That was when Chad and Steve came up with the idea (62)_for_______ YouTube, the
site which makes it easy to (63)____upload______ home videos onto the Internet. They formed a
company, borrowed some money and set (64)____themselves _____ up in business.
It turned out that millions of people already had short home video clips that they thought it
(65)____would____ be fun to share with other enthusiasts around the world. Launched in December
2005, YouTube soon (66)___contained____ more than a million short video clips. People were
uploading 8,000 clips a day, and watching three million a day. They had mostly heard about the site
through word (67)__of_______ mouth, email and hyperlink, and eighty percent of the clips had been
made by amateurs.
So why was YouTube such an immediate success? Researchers found that, (68)__on__________
average, people were spending fifteen minutes on the site during each visit, (69)___which________
was enough time to view several short funny clips. In (70)__other_______ words, they were using
YouTube to give them a little break from their work or study.
III. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer
to each of the following questions. (10.0 points)
We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. In his book Counting Sheep, Paul Martin –
a behavioural biologist – describes a society which is just too busy to sleep and which does not give
sleeping the importance it deserves.
Modern society has invented reasons not to sleep. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and
services must be available all hours. We spend longer hours at work than we used to, and more time
getting to work. Mobile phones and email allow us to stay in touch round the clock and late-night
TV and the Internet tempt us away from our beds. When we need more time for work or pleasure, the
easy solution is to sleep less. The average adult sleeps only 6.2 hours a night during the week,
whereas research shows that most people need eight or even eight and a half hours’ sleep to feel at
their best. Nowadays, many people have got used to sleeping less than they need and they live in an
almost permanent state of “sleep debt”.
Until the invention of the electric light in 1879 our daily cycle of sleep used to depend on the
hours of daylight. People would get up with the sun and go to bed at nightfall. But nowadays our
hours of sleep are mainly determined by our working hours (or our social life) and most people are
woken up artificially by an alarm clock. During the day caffeine, the world’s most popular drug,
helps to keep us awake. 75% of the world’s population habitually consume caffeine, which up to a
point masks the symptoms of sleep deprivation.
What does a chronic lack of sleep do to us? As well as making us irritable and unhappy as
humans, it also reduces our motivation and ability to work. This has serious implications for society
in general. Doctors, for example, are often chronically sleep deprived, especially when they are on
“night call” and may get less than Three hours’ sleep. Lack of sleep can seriously impair their mood,
judgment, and ability to take decisions. Tired engineers, in the early hours of the morning, made a
series of mistakes with catastrophic results. On our roads and motorways lack of sleep kills
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thousands of people every year. Tests show that a tired driver can be just as dangerous as a drunken
driver. However, driving when drunk is against the law but driving when exhausted isn’t. As Paul
Martin says, it is very ironic that we admire people who function on very little sleep instead of
criticizing them for being irresponsible. Our world would be a much safer, happier place if everyone,
whatever their job, slept eight hours a night.
71. Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Accident Prevention: Urgent! B. Sleep Deprivation: Causes and Effects
C. A Society of Sleepless People D. A 24/7 Society and “Sleep Debt”
72. The phrase “round the clock” in second paragraph is similar in meaning to ______.
A. surrounded with clocks B. having a round clock
C. during the daytime D. all day and night
73. The writer mentions the Internet in the passage as ______.
A. a temptation that prevents us from sleeping
B. an easy solution to sleep deprivation
C. an ineffective means of communication
D. a factor that is not related to sleep deprivation
74. According to the third paragraph, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Our social life has no influence on our hours of sleep.
B. The sun obviously determined our daily routines.
C. The electric light was invented in the 19th century.
D. The electric light has changed our daily cycle of sleep.
75. The word “which” in the third paragraph refers to ____________.
A. reaching a point B. masking the symptoms
C. the world’s population D. caffeine consumption
76. Which of the following is TRUE, according to the last paragraph?
A. Doctors ‘on night call’ do not need more than three hours of sleep a day.
B. Our motivation decreases with the bigger number of hours we sleep.
C. Sleep deprivation has negative effects on both individuals and society.
D. Thousands of people are killed every day by drunken drivers.
77. The word “catastrophic sự thê thảm” in the last paragraph probably means ___________.
A. bound to bring satisfaction B. becoming more noticeable
C. causing serious damage or loss D. likely to become worthless
78. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Driving when exhausted is against the law.
B. Both drunken drivers and sleep-deprived people should be criticized.
C. There is no point in criticizing irresponsible people in our society.
D. We certainly can function well even when we hardly sleep.
79. All of the following are mentioned as those whose performance is affected by ‘sleep debt’
EXCEPT______.
A. doctors B. drivers C. biologists D. engineers
80. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE about Paul Martin?
A. He shows his concern for sleep deprivation in modern society.
B. He gives an interesting account of a sleepless society.
C. He is a scientist who is chronically deprived of sleep.
D. He describes the modern world as a place without insomnia.
SECTION E: WRITING (20.0 points)
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning
to the sentence printed before it. (5.0 points)
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81. His efforts to find a solution didn’t deserve such a savage criticism.
→ He shouldn’t have been negatively criticized for his efforts to come up with a solution to the
problem
82. Marie distrusts modern technology strongly.
→Marie has a strong distruct đánh lạc hướng of modern technology.
83. You cannot say anything that would persuade me to live overseas.
→ nothing you say would take me into live overseas
84. It was difficult to understand her colleagues’ open hostility towards her proposal.
→ That her colleagues were hostile towards her proposal
85. David played the plain role when the proposal was drafted.
David was instrumental in drafting the proposal
II. Rewrite the sentences using the words in bold, in such a way that it means the same as the one
given. Do not alter these words in any way. (5.0 points)
86. I resent the way that she clearly feels herself to be superior to me. NOSE
I resent the way that she looks down her nose at me
87. He didn’t hesitate to recommend me for the job. BONES
He made no bones about recommending me for the job
88.Naturally, they will deduct points if you arrive late. PENALIZED bị phạt
→ Naturally, you'll be penalised by deducting points if you arrive late
89. Books on animal diseases in Outer Mongolia are not exactly best sellers. CALL
→ There is There is not much call for books on animal diseases in Outer Mongolia.
90. Wilson has so much talent that a number of different clubs are interested in him. SO
→Wilson is so talented a player that a number of different clubs are interested in
him_____________________________________________________.
III. Paragraph writing (10.0 points)
Many people say that a lot of students lack life skills after graduating from secondary
schools. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience. You should write a paragraphfrom 130 to 160 words.

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