KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2018 - 2019

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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
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(Đề thi có 07 trang )

PART A. LISTENING (Each recording will be played TWICE)

Section 1: Questions 1 – 10:

You will hear a man phoning a woman about an advertisement here seen in a newspaper for some
furniture. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer.
ENQUIRY ABOUT BOOKCASES

Both bookcases
Width: 1. __________ (cm)
Made of: 2. __________
First bookcase
Cost: 3. __________
Colour: 4. __________
Number of shelves: six (four are 5. _______________)
Second bookcase
Colour: dark brown
Other features: - almost 80 years old
- has a 6. __________at the bottom
- has 7. __________
Cost: 8. __________pounds
Details of seller
Name: 9. Mrs.__________
Address: 10. __________Oak Rise, Stanton.

Section 2:
Questions 11-15: Choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
Camber’s Theme Park
11. According to the speaker, in what way is Camber’s different from other theme parks?
A. It’s suitable for different age groups.
B. It offers lots to do in wet weather.
C. It has a focus on education.
12. The Park first opened in____
A. 1980. B. 1997. C. 2004.
13. What’s included in the entrance fee?
A. most rides and parking B. all rides and some exhibits C. parking and all rides
14. Becoming a member of the Adventurers Club means____
A. you can avoid queuing so much.
B. you can enter the Park free for a year.
C. you can visit certain zones closed to other people.
15. The Future Farm zone encourages visitors to_____
A. buy animals as pets. B. learn about the care of animals. C. get close to the animals.
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Section 3:
You will hear people talking in five different situations. For questions 1 -5, choose the best answer
(A, B or C)
1. You hear a man talking about long-distance swimming.
What does he like about it?
A. It contrasts with his normal lifestyle.
B. It provides him with challenges.
C. It suits his solitary nature.
2. You hear a woman talking about a film she saw.
How did she feel while she was watching it?
A. bored B. scared C. amused
3. You overhear a conversation in a restaurant.
How does the man think of the dish he’s just eaten?
A. It was better than in other restaurants.
B. It was a bit spicier than he was used to.
C. It was served in a rather unusual way.
4. You hear a man talking about a holiday.
What does he say about it?
A. It wasn’t worth the money he’d paid.
B. The place wasn’t as interesting as he’d expected.
C. The accommodation wasn’t as good as he’d been told.
5. You hear a woman talking about an old camera.
What does she regret?
A. the fact that she didn’t look after it properly.
B. not getting more money when she sold it.
C. her decision to replace it.

PART B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR

Section 1: Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences.
1. _________ that he felt he didn’t need to revise anymore.
A. So confident in passing was that arrogant student
B. Such was the confidence of that arrogant student on passing
C. So confident was that arrogant student of passing
D. Such confidence in passing was that arrogant student
2. _________ is someone who can reduce spending without hurting morale.
A. Being needed B. That which needs C. What is needed D. What needs
3. It was a fantastic film. I enjoyed it _________.
A. endlessly B. unendingly C. without end D. no end
4. He never_________ his word.
A. goes back on B. puts up with C. makes up for D. goes down with
5. I would be very rich now_________ working long ago.
A. if I gave up B. if I couldn’t give up C. were I not to give up D. had I not given up
6. David: “It is raining outside.” ~ Kathy: “________”
A. So is it B. So it is C. So it does D. Is it so?
7. My friend always dreams of having_________.
A. a small red sleeping bag B. a red sleeping small bag
C. a red small sleeping bag D. a sleeping small red bag
8. When Helen agreed to run the school play, she got more than she_________.
A. bargained for B. came down to C. faced up to D. got round to

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9. Getting a new computer system _______ at the school has become a high priority.
A. installed B. to install C. to be installed D. install
10. Mr. Jack supposes, ________, that he will be retiring at 60.
A. like most people did B. as most of people
C. like most of people do D. as do most people
11. I don’t want to burden my daughter with my problems; she’s got too much_________.
A. up her sleeve B. on her plate C. in effect D. in her mind
12. The cyclist _________ he crossed the main street.
A. looks cautious when B. looked with caution after
C. had looked cautiously before D. was looked cautions when
13. Abraham Lincoln insisted that _________ not just on mere opinion but on moral purpose.
A. to base democracy B. for democracy to be based
C. democracy should be based D. whenever democracy is based
14. _________ as a masterpiece, a work of art must transcend the ideas of the period in which it was
created.
A. Ranking B. To be ranked C. In order to be ranking D. Being ranked
15. She _________ fainted when she heard that her child died.
A. rather than B. nothing but C. all but D. near
16. My parents are not interrupted in modern music. They are _________ the times.
A. beyond B. behind C. beneath D. below
17. Few people can do creative work unless they are in the right _________ of mind.
A. frame B. trend C. attitude D. tendency
18. David looks so terrified and upset. He _________ something terrible.
A. should have experienced B. must experience
C. need have experienced D. must have experienced
19. _________, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Difficult as the homework was B. As though the homework was difficult
C. Thanks to the difficult homework D. Despite the homework was difficult
20. In the business world the big companies seem to be_________ war against the small ones.
A. fighting B. winning C. waging D. staging
Section 2: Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Find out the mistake and correct
it as the example below.
Line 0: their → your
Although people’s reactions to their dress will vary, they will draw 0.....your.....
conclusions about you based on the way you dress. You used to determine what 1…...…….
you are trying to say and then dress appropriately. There are time when it is in 2………….
your best interested to meet the expectations of others. Business managers are 3………….
likely to do a clear idea of the images they want their businesses to portray. If 4………….
you want to prosper with that businesses, you will want to dress in a way that is 5………….
in line on those images. Likewise, audiences expect public speakers to dress 6………….
appropriate for the audience and occasion. People have the right to their 7………….
individual differences, and we believe that society was moving in the right 8………….
direction in allowing persons to express themselves like individuals. 9………….
Nevertheless, your clothes are still perceived by other as clues to your attitudes 10………...
and behaviours. Clothes do communicate, however accurate or inaccurate you
may believe that communication to be.
Section 3: Supply the correct form of the word provided to the right of each blank.
Native Americans probably arrived from Asia in (1) ________ waves over several 1. SUCCESS
millennia, crossing a plain hundreds of miles wide that now lies (2) ________ by 160 2. DATE

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 feet of water released by melting glaciers. For several periods of time, the first
beginning around 60,000 BC and the last ending around 7,000BC, this land bridge
was open. The first people travelled in the dusty trails of the animals they hunted.
They brought with them not only their families, weapons, and tools but also a broad
metaphysical (3) ________, sprung from dreams and visions and articulated in myth 3. STAND
and song, which complemented their (4) ________ and historical knowledge of the 4. SCIENCE
lives of animals and people. All this they shaped in a variety of languages, bringing
into being oral literatures of power and beauty.
Contemporary readers, forgetting the origins of western epic, lyric, and dramatic
forms, are easily disposed to think of “literature” only as something (5) _______. But 5. WRITE
on reflection it becomes clear that the more (6) ________ useful as well as the more 6. CRITIC
frequently employed sense of the term concerns the (7) ________ of the verbal 7. ART
creation, not its mode of presentation. Ultimately, literature is aesthetically valued,
(8) ________ of language, culture, or mode of presentation, because some significant 8. REGARD
verbal (9) ________ results from the struggle in words between tradition and talent. 9. ACHIEVE
Verbal art has the ability to shape out a compelling (10) _____ vision in some 10. IN
skillfully crafted public verbal forms.

PART C. READING
Section 1: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
English spelling
Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down
when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (1) _______. They used the 23 letters of Latin to
write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard. However, English has a (2) _______range
of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were
needed to express the different sounds. Inevitably, there were (3) _______ in the way that letters were
combined. With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put (4) _______ risk.
English survived, but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French patterns, and many
French words were (5) _______ into the language. The result was more irregularity.
When the printing press was (6) _______ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English
texts spoke other first languages. They (7) _______ little effort to respect English spelling. Although one
of the short-term effects of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it
created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way. Rules were (8) _______
and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English
was not fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the
Anglo-Saxon period, like the “k” in “knife”, now become (9) _______. Also, the pronunciation of vowels
then had (10) _______ in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn't changed.
1. A. ages B. centuries C. years D. times
2. A. deeper B. longer C. thicker D. wider
3. A. inconsistencies B. similarities C. contretemps D. contraventions
4. A. on B. in C. at D. under
5. A. introduced B. found C. announced D. started
6. A. discovered B. invented C. conceived D. taken up
7. A. brought B. did C. made D. put
8. A. handed out B. come up with C. got across D. drawn up
9. A. quiet B. silent C. dump D. speechless
10. A. much B. little C. few D. many

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Section 2: Read the following passage and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
word for each space.
After more than fifty (1) ______ of television, it might seem only obvious to conclude that it is here
to stay. There have been many objections to it during this time, of course, and on a variety of grounds.
Did it (2) ______ eye-strain? Was the (3) ______ bombarding us with radio activity? Did the
advertisements contain subliminal messages, persuading us to buy more? Did children turn to violence
through watching it, either because so (4) ______ programs taught them how to shoot, rob, and kill, or
because they had to do something to counteract the hours they had spent glued to the tiny screen? Or did
it simply create a vast passive audience drugged (5) ______ glamorous serials and inane situation
programs? On the other hand, did it increase anxiety by sensationalizing the news [or the news (6) ______
was accompanied by suitable pictures] and filling our living rooms with war, famine and political unrest?
(7) ______ in all, television proved to be the all-purpose scapegoat for the second half of the century,
blamed for everything, but above all, eagerly watched. For no (8) ______ how much we despised it, feared
it, were bored by it, or felt that it took us (9) ______ from the old paradise of family conversation and
hobbies such as collecting stamps, we never turned it off. We kept staring at the screen, aware that our
own tiny (10) ______ was in if we looked carefully.

Section 3: Read the following passage and choose the best option marked A, B, C or D to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions.
Drunken driving-sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder-has become a
national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken
drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers,
glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part
of the American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has
recently caused so many well-publicised tragedies, especially involving young children, that public
opinion is no longer so tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to
18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped
it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied
by educational programmes to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and
teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline
in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in
Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously
intoxicated” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak
well of the 13 years old of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover
called the “noble experiment”. They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged
political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy
solution.

1. Drunken driving has become a major problem in America because____

A. most Americans are heavy drinkers. B. drinking is a socially accepted habit in America.
C. accidents attract so much publicity. D. Americans are now less shocked by road accidents.
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2. Why has public opinion regarding drunken driving changed?
A. Detailed statistics are now available. B. Drivers are more conscious of their image.
C. Judges are giving more severe sentences. D. The news media have highlighted the problem.
3. Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that ___
A. many drivers were not of legal age. B. young drivers were often bad drivers.
C. the legal drinking age should be raised. D. the level of drinking increased in the 1960s.
4. Laws recently introduced in some states have ____
A. reduced the number of convictions. B. resulted in fewer serious accidents.
C. specified the amount drivers can drink. D. prevented bars from serving drunken customers.
5. Why is the problem of drinking and driving difficult to solve?
A. Legislation alone is not sufficient. B. Drinking is linked to organized crime.
C. Legal prohibition has already failed. D. Alcohol is easily obtained.
Section 4: You are going to read an article about Taekwondo. Five sentences have been removed from
the article. Choose the sentences from A – F the one which best fits gaps 1 – 5. There is one extra
sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0)
SENTENCES:
A. You should be careful when you are deciding where to learn it.
B. All students promise never to misuse what they learn.
C. It is a safe activity if you take plenty of care.
D. Some people are changing to Taekwondo from another martial art.
E. The colour for each grade has its own particular meaning.
F. People take up Taekwondo for a variety of reasons.
G. It is a unique and increasingly popular activity.

TAEKWONDO
0 – G: Taekwondo is the Korean name for the “art of foot and hand fighting”. There is no other martial
art style like it and none is so enjoyable in its freedom of expression. Jumping and spinning in the air and
striking out with hands and feet are its special characteristics. There can be wonderful to perform and
great to watch. Today there are more than twenty million practitioners of Taekwondo and the numbers
are growing quickly.
We are not certain where the art of self-defence began: The history of the martial arts is the subject
of much discussion and there are many theories concerning its origins. China, Japan, Korea and India all
have strong claims to the beginnings of unarmed combat, while fighting skills were a natural development
throughout the world for self-protection. Taekwondo itself began in Korea, a country which has a tradition
of martial arts that goes back more than two thousand years.
1. __________
If you have visited a traditional Karate class and found it too formal or even military in its approach,
you will recognize that Taekwondo is more modern in the way things are done. None of the politeness or
discipline you would expect in a martial arts club is missing, but there is an air of enjoyment. Many people
who previously did Karate are now training in Taekwondo as it is in many ways more progressive, more
dynamic, more exciting and more entertaining.
2. __________
Beginners are often attracted by what is an enjoyable, physical form of recreation with the added
benefit of self-defence and increased self-confidence. For some the fascination of learning techniques and
performing them to exacting standards, combined with a high level of fitness, speed and strength, may be
what appeals. Others enjoy being a part of a disciplined group of people of both sexes, of all ages and
from many different backgrounds who can work together and help achieve their aims. It is not unusual to
find a 12-year-old girl or a 70-year-old man wearing a Black Belt.

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3. __________
To reach that level takes years of hard work. Your first belt is white, which shows the innocence of
the student who has no previous knowledge of Taekwondo. If you pass your first grading exam, you
receive a yellow belt. This represents the Earth, where a plant takes root as the Taekwondo foundation is
being laid. The next grade is green, symbolizing the plant’s growth as skills begin to develop. This is
followed by blue: the plant is now maturing arid growing towards heaven as training progresses. Then
comes red, meaning danger, cautioning self-control to the student and warning the opponent to stay away.
Finally there is black, meaning maturity and proficiency in Taekwondo. It also indicates the wearer’s
conquest of darkness and fear.
4. __________
The first thing to learn, though, is that Taekwondo is a martial art to be practised with control. Careless
practice or fooling around can lead to injury. Strict rules of conduct and close attention to them will help
keep injuries to a minimum, particularly when you are training one-to-one with another student. In all
combat situations like this you will have to wear thick gloves and padded boots to avoid damaging either
yourself or your opponent, and – depending on the club you join – you may also need to wear a helmet
and a chest protector.
5. __________
In a good club there should be a feeling of friendliness. The pace may be fast and the training might
be tough at times, but nobody should be getting hurt. Sit in on a class, see if people are enjoying themselves
and have a look at who is there. If the club has been going for a few years there should be, apart from the
instructor, some other high grades – Blue, Red and Black Belts – practising, because there is always more
to learn. From Black Belt 1st Dan you can go further still, possibly reaching 5th, 6th or even higher Dans
after many years’ training.

PART D. WRITING
Section 1: Write the sentence beginning with the word(s) given so that it has the closest meaning to the
original one. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
1. People think that the prisoner was recaptured while drinking in the pub.
The prisoner_________________________________________________.
2. He delayed writing the book until he had a lot of research.
Only after___________________________________________________.
3. Do phone me when you arrive at the airport, even if it’s very late.
However____________________________________________________.
4. Just thinking about her face at that moment makes me laugh.
The very ____________________________________________________.
5. Nobody expected her to lose the game, but she did.
Against _____________________________________________________.
Section 2: Write an essay within 250 words on the following topic:
Young people in the modern world seem to have more power and influence than any previous
young generation.
- Why is this the case?
- What impact does this have on the relationship between old and young people?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.

_____THE END_____
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