Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp trường môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Năm học 2018-2019 - Trường THCS Yên Bồng (Có đáp án)

PHÒNG GD& ĐT LẠC THỦY ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG LỚP 9
 TRƯỜNG THCS YÊN BỒNG NĂM HỌC 2018 – 2019
 Môn: Tiếng Anh
 ( Thời gian 150 phút không kể giao đề. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi)
 Điểm
 Giám khảo 1
 Giám khảo 2
 Số phách
Bằng số
 Bằng chữ
 A. LISTENING ( 3,0 pts)
Question I : Listen to two teenagers calling the helpline. Circle the best answer A, B or C. You will listen TWICE. ( (1,5pts) 
1.
Lan is now feeling ______.
A. annoyed
B. frustrated
C. depressed
2.
Lan can’t ______ all the deadlines.
A. remember
B. catch up with
C. finish
3.
Lan feels she doesn’t need to work too hard because she’s not going ______.
A. to enter gifted schools
B. to continue her study
C. to have time for herself
4.
Nam feels ______.
A. tired of his study
B. worried about his girlfriend
C. depressed 
5.
Nam’s friend _____________ in front of other students.
A. made use of him
B. made fun of him
C. made joke about him
Question 
 II. Listen to a convers...____ the T.V for me, will you? I want to watch the weather forecast.”
 A. Turn down B. Turn into C. Turn off D. Turn on
10. Mary wishes she _________ her uncle this coming weekend.
 A. will visit B. had visited C. visits D. could visit
Question VI. Provide the correct form of the words in brackets. (1,5pts)
1.The _______ in this town are very friendly. ( RESIDE) 
2. A lot of toys encourage children’s __________ ( IMAGINE) 
3. A holiday in America can be __________ cheap. ( SURPRISE) 
4. Professor Ngo Bao Chau is a well- known __________. He won many international awards. 
( MATHEMATICS) 
5. This is very ___________. Can’t you practise your violin somewhere else?
 ( CONVENIENCE) 
6. If we don’t ________ on electricity, there will be a power cut. ( ECONOMY) 
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Question VII. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (1,5 pts)
1. When my mother came home from work, I (1. cook) _________ dinner.
2. Are you used to (2. watch) ____________ television after dinner?
3. This horse can (3. ride) ____________by the boy.
4. It is essential that the plan (4. inform) ________to everyone in advance.
5. At that time I (5. not know) _________ what ( 6. do) _______ as I was too shocked
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 D. READING (5,0pts)
Question VIII: Read the passage then choose the best answers. (1,5 pts)
 In many ways, the increasingly rapid pace of climate change is a direct result of the growth of the human population. In the last 100 years, the world population has more than tippled. Obviously, this has meant that the world has needed to produce three times as much food, energy, and other natural resources.
 In addition, the average person uses more energy and natural resources than the average person one hundred years ago, meaning that the rates of comsumption are actually much higher than just the increase in population would imply.
 All the activities: food p...rld nations create less population than developing nations.
 C. The use of natural resources is directly related to the standard of living.
 D. High standards of living lead to increases in world population.
5. Why does the author discuss China, Japan, and the United States?
 A. To compare the standards of their citizens.
 B. To explain why China will not be able to become a first world nation.
 C. To better illustrate the effects of an increase in standards of living.
 D. To explain why the world’s use of energy will need to double soon.
Question IX: Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (2,0pts)
SPRING FESTIVAL
	From (1) ______ times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most important Christian festivals is Easter, (2) ______ Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
	Easter, however, is not the (3) ______ spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of the winter by making (4) ______ bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of Holi. In some villages children are carried round bonfires by their mothers to protect them (5) ______ danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand soak (6 ) ______ in water when celebrating their New Year, which falls in the middle of April. In Antigua in Guatemala they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (7) ______ colourful, but (8) ______ flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets. 
	1. A. earliest	B. latest	C. previous	D. old
	2. A. which	B. when	C. because	D. by then
	3. A. single	B. one	 C. only	D. lonely
	4. A. giant	B. tremendous	C. extreme	D. huge
	5. A. in	B. out of	C. against	D. from
	6. A. through	 B. one other	C. each other	 D. mutually
	7. A. the same	B. as	C. not less	D. equally
	8. A. instead of	B. on behalf of	C. in spite of	D. place of
Question X: Put ONE suitable word in each space. (1,5pts)
 The demand for ener