A. the flexibility of the medium B.

B. the accuracy of the reporting SỞ GD&ĐT … KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHỐI 9; NĂM HỌC: 2019-2020
C. the ease of access for their users D. the breadth of their potential readership MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
5. What does the writer suggest about newspapers in the last paragrapgh? Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
A. They still have an important role to play. A. PHONETICS
B. They can no longer compete with the internet. Part 1. Choose the word whose underlined part pronounced differently from the others. (HSG10 Bắc Ninh)
C. They will have to change to keep up with the digital age. 1. A. develop B. respond C. devastate D. preserve
D. They will retain a level of popularity among certain types of readers. 2. A. churches B. clothes C. colleges D. exercises
Part 4. In the following text, five sentences or parts of sentences have been removed. Choose from the sentences (A-F) the one 3. A. essence B. passage C. cassete D. mission
which fits each gap (1-5). Choose from the following sentences to fill the spaces in the text. There is ONE extra sentence. Part 2. Choose the word whose stress partern is placed differently from the others. (HSG9 Bắc Ninh)
SENTENCE 4. A. author B. figure C. success D. conflict
A. That is when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened in New York City. 5. A. indirectly B. biography C. represented D. entertainment
B. It is also one of the most visited places in the world. B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR
C. People living in the area needed another way to get to the city besides the small ferry boats. Part 1. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. (1-15. HSGHCM11 2013) (16-20. HSGHCM9 2019)
D. It was named for the body of water that it crosses, the Golden Gate Strait. 1. The school committee paid ______ to their famous former pupil by naming the new gym after her.
E. Only by doing this was the bridge able to be finished on time. A. esteem B. homage C. honour D. respect
F. Still, this was a new safety record for the time. 2. After his long illness, the old man appeared so thin and ______ that a gust of wind might have blown him away.
THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE A. flimsy B. faint C. withered D. frail
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California is one of the world's most beautiful bridges. (1) __________. 3. You could tell that she wasn't happy about the news by the way she ______ her face in disapproval.
Vehicles cross the bridge an average of forty-one million times each year. More than one billion eight hundred million A. came on B. brought round C. settled for D. screwed up
vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than seventy years ago. 4. Going to the unemployment office and having to wait there for hours is a ______ experience.
The bridge has always been painted "International Orange" because that color went well with the natural surroundings. The A. soul-destroying B. heart-stopping C. power-sharing D. thought-provoking
color also is easier to see in the heavy fog that often covers the area. But the Golden Gate Bridge was not named for its orange color. 5. ______ a language family is a group of languages with a common origin and similar vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems.
(2) __________. A. Linguists call it B. It is called by linguists
The Golden Gate Strait is the entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge links the C. What linguists call D. What do linguists call
city of San Francisco with Marin County, California. Planning for the bridge began in the 1920s when the area around San Francisco 6. ________, the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather.
was growing. (3) __________. A. Leaving uncovered B. Having left uncovered
Joseph Strauss was the chief engineer for the project. Work began in 1933. Mister Strauss demanded the strongest safety C. Left uncovered D. Been left uncovered
protections in the history of bridge building. These included the first use of "hard hats" to protect the workers' heads and special glasses 7. The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly _______ note.
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive D. disconcerting
to protect their eyes.
8. Both of the jobs I’ve been offered are fantastic opportunities – I’m in such _______!
A special safety net was suspended under the bridge. This net saved the lives of nineteen men during the construction.
A. a constituency B. a deviation C. an arrhythmia D. a quandary
However, eleven other workers were killed when they fell from the bridge through the net. (4) __________.
9. Sharon is such a positive person – she _______ her problems, whatever they are.
The Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. It extends one thousand two hundred eighty meters across the water. The total A. goes light on B. throws light to C. makes light of D. sheds light upon
length is two thousand seven hundred thirty-seven meters. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world until 1964. (5) ________. 10. The brother and sister were ________ over who would get to inherit the beach house.
Today, the Golden Gate Bridge is the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world. A. at large B. at odds C. at a standstill D. at a loose end
D. WRITING 11. ________ that Kim was getting married, we were sorry she’d be leaving home.
Part 1. Complete the second sentence without changing the meaning of the orignal sentence. (Chọn HSGQG 2012–Quảng Trị) A. Delighted though we were B. As we were delighted
1. She is certainly not a good cook. C. However delighted were we D. As we were so delighted
She is by ________________________________________________________________________. 12. Peter’s so ________! I think he’d think things through a little more carefully.
2. She’ll probably win first prize. A. impulsive B. repulsive C. compulsive D. expulsive
She stands _______________________________________________________________________. 13. I’ve yet ________ a person as Theo.
3. The policeman pointed out the speed limit sign to us. A. to meet as infuriating B. to have met such infuriating
The policeman drew ________________________________________________________________. C. been meeting as infuriating D. been meeting such infuriating
4. The star was surrounded by screaming fans as soon as he arrived at the stage door. 14. Sniffer dogs are able to locate survivors beneath the rubble with ________ .
On his ___________________________________________________________________________. A. precision B. correctness C. meticulousness D. exactitude
5. I haven't lent my new lawnmower to anybody. 15. The locks to the doors of the building are controlled ________ .
Nobody _________________________________________________________________________. A. mainly B. centrally C. solidly D. completely
Part 2. “Some people think parents should supervise their children’s activities closely, while others believe children should have 16. They ran all the way to the shop only to realize that they __________ that.
more freedom.” A. didn’t need to do B. wouldn’t have done C. couldn’t have done D. needn’t have done
17. __________ he will be ill if he doesn’t have a holiday soon.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
A. In all likeness B. It is highly likely that C. Every probability is that D. The possible chances are
Write in about 200-word essay to give your opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from
18. The boy will never forget __________ in front of the school for his outstanding performance.
your own experience or knowledge.
A. being praised B. to be praised C. having praised D. to have praised
THE END 19. In different circumstances, I __________ yes.
BEST OF LUCK A. will say B. may have said C. could be said D. would have said
Họ và tên thí sinh: ……………………………………………………………………… SBD: …………………… 20. My bike __________, so I have to take the bus to school now.
A. didn’t start B. won’t start C. doesn’t start D. is not starting

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 There are about 3,000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important (1) __________. Two-thirds Part 2. Supply the correct form of the word to the right of the passage. (PTNK 2019)
of the world’s population speaks those languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their (2) __________ tongue. The (0)_imbalance_ of power between men and women is being hotly debated. But no one benefits 0. BALANCE
Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows (3) __________ many people speak it as a foreign language. from a (1)_____ society, so how did we get here, and where should we go next? 1. PATRIARCH
Chinese is the language with more speakers (4) __________ English, but it is only (5) __________ language for over one billion There is still a long way to go, however. In most cultures around the world, men are still more
Chinese people. English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area the world (6) __________. It is (7) __________ in North
(2)_____ to hold positions of economic, cultural and political power and earn the biggest salaries. One stark 2. LIKE
America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa and India, it is one of the official languages. In many countries,
the textbooks in universities are (8) __________ in English. More than three-fourths of the world’s mail is composed in English. More example can be seen at the very top: of 193 member states of the United Nations, just 12 have a female head of
than threefifths of the radio stations (9) __________ programs in English. More than half of the scientific and research (10) government. Anyone who doubts the (3)_____ of the patriarchy has a mountain of similar empirical data to 3. EXIST
__________ are in English. English is the language of international communication. argue their way over. This is hardly a recent state of affairs – and gender (4)_____ has been much worse in the 4. EQUAL
Part 3. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to the following questions. (HSGVP11 2018) past. But with movement like #MeToo and people from all walks of life expressing (5)_____ with the status 5. SATISFY
THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS quo, the movement for gender equality finally seems to be winning the (6)_____. 6. ARGUE
Anybody who says they can reliably forecast the future of newspapers is either a liar or a fool. Look at the raw This makes now a good time to ask why the patriarchy exists and why does it persist? There is no
figures, and newspapers seem doomed. Since 2000, the circulation of most UK national dailies has fallen by between a third
(7)_____ of explanations. Most are political, social or economic. But there is also a good deal to be gained 7. SHORT
and a half. The authoritative Pew Research Center in the USA reports that newspapers are now the main source of news for
only 26 percent of US citizens as against 45 percent in 2001. There is no shoratge of prophets who confidently predict that the from examining these questions from a scientific perspective – especially the (8)_____ origins of inequality 8. EVOLVE
last printed newspaper will be safely buried within 15 years at most. and the psychology of gender, sex and power.
Yet one of the few reliable facts of history is that old media have a habit of surviving. An over-exuberant New York Our special report on the science of the patriarchy doesn’t supply a complete explanation or (9)_____ 9. PRESCRIBE
journalist announced in 1935 that books and theatre ‘have had their day’ and the daily newspaper would become ‘the greatest for change. But if you want to understand why we live in a man’s world, it adds a fresh and (10)_____ new 10. VALUE
organ of social life’. Theatre dully withstood not only the newspaper, but also cinema and then television. Radio has perspective.
flourished in the TV age; cinema, in turn, has held its own against videos and DVDs. Even vinyl records have made a Part 3. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some are incorrect. If a line is
comeback, with online sales up 745 percent since 2008. correct, put a tick (√) by the number of the question on the answer sheet. If a line is incorrect, write the error and provide
Newspapers themselves were once new media, although it took several centuries before they became the dominant correction by the number of the question on the answer sheet. There are three examples at the beginning. (CSP2019)
medium for news. This was not solely because producing up-to-date news for a large readership over a wide area became
0. Correct (√) 00. Feeling →to feel 000. The British →British
praticable and economic only in the mid-19th century, with the steam press, the railway and the telegraph. Equally important
was the emergence of the idea that everything around us is in constant movement and we need to be updated on its condition 0. We have all heard tales about difficult people at work, usually managers, but the office is
at regular intervals- a concept quite alien in the medieval times and probably also to most people in the early modern area. 00. also where many people make friends, and friends inspire us to feeling more enthusiastic
Now, we expect change. To our medieval ancestors, however, the only realities were the passing of the seasons, punctuated 000. about the job we do.Research has found that more than half of British workers meet their
by catastrophes such as famine, flood or disease that they had no reliable means of anticipating. Life, as the writer Alain de 1. best friends in the office and more than a third say that they go on holiday with their fellow
Botton puts it, was ‘ineluctably cyclical’ and ‘the most important truths were recurring’. 2. workers .The changing nature of work – more flexibility, more multi-tasking – means that
Journalism as a full-time trade from which you could hope to make a living hardly existed before the 19th century. 3. people seek stability from their workmates. Friendships bring support in a changing world. A
Even then, there was no obvious reason why most people needed news on a regular basis, whether daily or weekly. In some 4. collaborative working environment paves a way to make job-sharing and expansion
respects, regularity of newspaper publication and rigidity of format was, and remains, a burden. Online news readers can dip 5. roles more with an option for employers and employees. So fun workplaces, where friendships
in and out according to how they perceive the urgency of events. Increasingly sophisticated search engines and algorithms 6. flourish, attract workers who can handle with changing job roles. This is not entirely surprising
allow us to personalise the news to our own priorities and interests. When important stories break, internet news providers 7. although it may be when Elton Mayo conducted experiments in human behaviour with workers
can post minute-by-minute updates. Error, misconception and foolish speculation can be connected or modified almost 8. at the Western Electric Company in Chicago in the 1920s. By fiddling with the factory lighting
constantly. There are no space restrictions to prevent narrative or analysis, and documents or events cited in news stories can 9. levels, Mayo found that productivity and morale were affected morale were affected ore by cohesion levels among
often be accessed in full. All this is a world away from the straitjacket of newspaper publication. Yet few if any providers 10. staff as by physical conditions. The conclusion he drew from these experiments was that work is a social affair.
seem alive to the new medium’s capacity for spreading understanding and enlightenment. C. READING
Instead, the anxiety is always to be first with the news, to maximise reader comments, to create heat and sound and Part 1. Read the passage and choose the correct option A, B, C or D that best fits in the numbered blank. (HCM2019)
fury and thus add to the sense of confusion. In the medieval world what news there was was usually exchanged amid the In this week’s issue, our resident film critic discusses the etiquette of cinema going, and the audiences who prefer chewing
babble of the market place or the tarven, where truth competed with rumour, mishearing and misunderstanding. In some hotdogs, slurping drinks, gossiping and rustling crisp packets to actually watching the film. (1) __________ complaint, or just cinema
respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning. Newspapers have never been very good- or not as good as they ought
snobbery?
to be- at telling us how the world works. Perhaps they now face extinction. Or perhaps , as the internet merely adds to what
It’s the munchers and talkers, not those who complain about them, who are (2) __________ other people’s simple pleasures
de Botton discribes as our sense that we live in ‘ an improvable and fundamentally chaotic universe’, they will discover that
they and they alone can guide us to wisdom and understanding. and the (3) __________ seem to me to be self-evident. Junk foods and even popcorn and choc ices, when eaten in a (4) __________
1. In the first paragragh, the writer is presenting and possibly crowded space, are (5) __________ to demand living space. They spread themselves – usually onto other people’s (6)
A. his interpretation of a current trend. _______. Crisps, peanuts and boiled sweets make a lot of noise, first when being (7) ______ then when being crunched or sucked.
B. evidence that supports a widespread view. These are definite (8) _______, especially if you yourself – having merely come to see and hear the film – are not eating and not
C. his prediction on the future of print journalism. therefore generously (9) ______ your fried onions, mustard and ketchup with the trousers of the stranger in the (10) __________ seat.
D. reasons for the decline in newspaper readership. 1. A. Discernible B. Fair C. Feasible D. Official
2. What point is the writer making in the second paragraph? 2. A. damaging B. spoiling C. hurting D. injuring
A. Existing media are not necessarily replaced by new ones. 3. A. excuses B. accusations C. reasons D. complaints
B. The best media technologies tend to be the most long-lasting.v 4. A. confined B. closed C. reduced D. narrow
C. Public enthusiasm for new types of media is often unpredictable. 5. A. cajoled B. entitled C. inclined D. tempted
D. It is inevitable that most media technologies will have a limited life. 6. A. dress B. costume C. outfit D. clothing
3. In the third paragraph, the writer stresses the importance of
7. A. unpacked B. untied C. unwrapped D. unfolded
A. a shift in people’s attitudes towards the outside world.
8. A. inconveniences B. amusements C. anxieties D. irritations
B. certain key19th- century advances in mechanisation.
C. the challenges of news distribution in the pre-industrial era. 9. A. exchanging B. dividing C. splitting D. sharing
D. the competition between newspapers and more established media. 10. A. next B. nearest C. previous D. closest
4. What does the writer suggest is the main advantage of online news sites? Part 2. Read the passage carefully and think of ONE word that best fits in the numbered blank. (HSG9Q2TPHCM 2010)

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