SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI

CẤP TỈNH LỚP 9 NĂM 2018

ĐỀ ÔN THI SỐ 26
(Đề thi gồm có 08 trang) MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Ngày thi: ………………………………..

SECTION I. LISTENING: (3.0 points-0.2/each)

Part 1: Listen to the recording twice then choose A, B or C to best answer the questions.
1. What is the main topic of the conversation?
A. problems with living in an apartment
B. a search for a new apartment
C. the cost of rent near universities
2. Why doesn't Ann like her current apartment?
A. It's too expensive.
B. The neighborhood is noisy.
C. It's located some distance from school.
3. How much money does Ann want to pay for rent?
A. no more than $200 B. around $200 C. a little more than $200
4. What kind of place is she looking for?
A. somewhere that is within a short driving distance of campus
B. an apartment with furniture already in it
C. a place where she can live alone
5. How is Roger going to help her?
A. He is planning on calling a friend who owns an apartment building.
B. He will check the newspapers to see if he can find an apartment for rent.
C. He is going to visit an apartment building near his place.
Part 2: Questions 6-15. A new business owner enquires about courses. Listen to the conversation and
complete each gap with no more than THREE words.
BUSINESS NATIONWIDE
Courses available:
Name of Course: (0) Getting Started
Time: Two hours from (6) ……………………………………..
Cost: Free
Course Content: Is starting a business right for me?
Writing a (7) …………………………………….. Plan
Some legal issues
Nearest Location: Handbridge
Next Course Date: 20th March

Name of Course: (8) ……………………………………..

Length of course: (9) ……………………………………..
Cost: (10) £ …………………………………… or £20 for recently unemployed
Course Content: Day One: Legal Issues

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 Day Two: Marketing and Pricing
Day Three: Accounting and (11) ……………………………………..
Nearest Location: Renton
Next Course Date: 5th March or (12) ……………………………………..
CALLER’S DETAILS
Name: (13) ……………………………………..
Address: (14) …………………………………….., Eastleigh
email: (15) ………………………………@rainbow.com
SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (7.0 POINTS)
Part 1: Choose the best answer to each question. (3.0 points - 0.15/ each)
16. She _______ him of lying to her.
A. accused B. blamed C. threatened D. criticized
17. Losing my job was a great shock, but I think I’m _______ it.
A. seeing to B. putting up with C. getting over D. standing for
th
18. Judo was _______ developed in Japan in the late 19 century.
A. origin B. original C. originally D. originated
19. His parents never allowed him _______.
A. smoke B. smoking C. smoked D. to smoke
20. One of the solutions _______ by environmentalists is to ban vehicles from the city center.
A. are suggested B. is suggested C. suggesting D. suggested
21. _______ where to find the key, the boy could not open the safe.
A. Knowing not B. Knew not C. Not knowing D. Didn’t know
22. They received _______ advice from their parents that they became successful.
A. so good B. such a good C. so good an D. such good
23. The earlier she leaves _______.
A. the sooner she will arrive B. the soonest she will arrive
C. she will soon arrive D. she will arrive sooner
24. Sue has been our next-door neighbor for years; _______.
A. and we hardly ever see her B. therefore, she never sees us
C. so we hardly ever see her D. however, we hardly ever see her
25. A lot of progress has been _______ since the country became independent
A. created B. done C. built D. made
26. Don’t let a good chance_______.
A. go by B. go off C. go down D. go over
27. Mr. Brown’s _______ of humor distinguishes him from others.
A. feeling B. sense C. hobby D. temper
28. He has two children and he loves _______.
A. them both B. them each C. all of them D. every one of them
29. Where have you been? I have been trying _______ you for nearly an hour.
A. saw B. phone C. to phone D. for phoning
30. These clothes need _______ immediately.
A. be washed B. washing C. washed D. to wash
31. If I were ten years younger, I _______ to drive a car.
A. am learning B. will learn C. would learn D. learnt

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 32. Although Tom is intelligent, _______.
A. he doesn’t do well at school B. but he doesn’t do well at school
C. however he does well at school D. the fact that he does well at school
33. There was _______ rain last week that several roads were flooded.
A. so many B. so much C. such many D. such much
34. The teacher encouraged the students to speak.
A. required B. persuaded C. stimulated D. forced
35. Approximately half the people interviewed were in manual occupations.
A. hobbies B. careers C. jobs D. visits
Part 2: Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the following sentences. (1.5 points -
0.15/ each)
36. Tim is one of the _____________ on a boat trip on Lake Michigan. (PARTICIPATE)
37. If you can give a reasonable _____________ for your bad behavior last night. I'll forgive you. (EXPLAIN)
38. When Jack left home, he began to enjoy his _____________. (DEPEND)
39. Our house is _____________ by several burglar alarms. (PROTECTION)
40. Mispronunciation in speaking a language usually leads to _____________. (UNDERSTAND)
41. She made a deep _____________ on the members of her class. (IMPRESS)
42. Our main _____________ to export are rice, coffee and rubber. (PRODUCE)
43. The _____________ in this town are very friendly. (RESIDE)
44. Why don't you ask Uncle John this question? He is very _____________ about the history of English. (KNOW)
45. We should use wind energy. It is clean and _____________. (LIMIT)
Part 3: Each of the following sentences has an error. Find the errors and correct them. (1.5 point - 0.15/ each)
(Thí sinh ghi từ sai và từ được sửa ra tờ giấy thi.
Ví dụ câu: 00.  Easily  easy
00. She didn’t find it easily to keep the children amused.
46. Measles are one of the infectious diseases that children get.
47. Nam looks very angrily because his friends say no words.
48. My teacher always forces us do all these exercise.
49. It's important that he submits his term paper by the end of next week.
50. Kangaroos, that can be seen everywhere in Australia, have long tails.
51. She was waiting nervous in the waiting room for the interview.
52. The children are very boring and they don’t know what to do.
53. You can download a lot of informations from the Internet onto your own computer.
54. Many kinds of tigers are at danger now.
55. My father prefers watching films at home than going to the cinema.
Part 4. Fill in the blank with right preposition to complete the following sentences. (1 point-0.2/each)
56. That book was written ________ Stephen King.
57. Ho Chi Minh devoted all his life to the struggle________ the liberation of our country.
58. The passage is written ________ English.
59. The advantage ________ having a lot of money is that you can do more to help poor people.
60. Frankly speaking, your daughter does not take ________ you at all.
SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS)
Part 1: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions. (2 points-0.2/each)

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 Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helped to preserve it, and that the
easiest way to do this was to expose the food to sun and wind. In this way the North American Indians
produced pemmican (dried meat ground into powder and made into cakes), the Scandinavians made stockfish
and the Arabs dried dates and apricots.
All foods contain water - cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and
other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If
this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to go bad is checked.
Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries, and also in California,
South Africa and Australia. The methods used vary, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying
yards in the hot sun. In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes of
burning sulphur before drying. Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and
currants, are dipped in an alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax
coating, so increasing the rate of drying.
Nowadays most foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put food
in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 110°C at entry to about 45°C at exit. This
is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.
Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal
steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case,
the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still
relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where
recognizable pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and
then mixed.
Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do
not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and
soldiers in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so
little time to cook them.
61. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Advantages of dried foods. B. Water: the main component of food.
C. Mechanization of drying foods. D. Different methods of drying foods.
62. The phrase “do this” in the first paragraph mostly means ______.
A. expose foods to sun and wind B. remove moisture from foods
C. produce pemmican D. moisten foods
63. The word “checked” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. reduced considerably B. put a tick C. examined carefully D. motivated to develop
64. In the process of drying certain kinds of fruits, sulphur fumes help ______.
A. remove their wax coating B. kill off bacteria
C. maintain their color D. crack their skin
65. Nowadays the common method for drying vegetables and minced meat is ______.
A. spreading them out on trays in drying yards
B. dipping them in an alkaline solution
C. putting them in chambers and blowing hot air through
D. pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder
66. What does the word “which” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
A. Vegetables B. Foods C. Things D. Chambers

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 67. The final product of the process of drying liquids that uses the first method will be ______.
A. small flakes B. fine powder C. dried soup D. recognizable pieces
68. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Liquids are not dried in the same way as fruits and vegetables.
B. Dried foods have several advantages over canned or frozen foods.
C. Fruit is usually dried by being laid out on trays in the sun.
D. People in India began to use drying methods centuries ago.
69. According to the passage, dried foods are most useful for ______.
A. explorers who are underweight B. soldiers who are not in battle
C. people who are on the move D. housewives who have little storage space
70. This passage is mainly ______.
A. argumentative B. analytical C. informative D. fictional
Part 2. Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question (2.0 points - 0.2/ each)
GLOBAL WARMING
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Many
scientists (71) _________ the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase in the world’s temperatures
and are convinced that, more than (72) _________ before, the earth is at risk from the forces of the wind, rain
and sun. (73) _________ to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and
droughts, even more (74) _________ and causing sea levels all around the world to (75) ________.
Environmental groups are putting (76) _________ on governments to take action to reduce the amount
of carbon dioxide which is given (77) _________ by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at
its source. They are in (78) _________ of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave
energy devices, which could then replace existing power (79) _________.
Some scientists,(80) _________, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into
the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait several hundred years to notice the results. Global warming,
it seems, is here to stay.
71. A. put B. give C. take D. have
72. A. yet B. never C. once D. ever
73. A. Concerning B. Regarding C. According D. Depending
74. A. strict B. severe C. strong D. heavy
75. A. raise B. arise C. rise D. lift
76. A. force B. encouragement C. persuasion D. pressure
77. A. off B. away C. up D. over
78. A. belief B. request C. favor D. suggestion
79. A. factories B. stations C. houses D. generations
80. A. however B. although C. despite D. but
Part 3: Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. (2.0 points- 0.2/ each)
ADVICE BEFORE STARTING WORK
In these days of high unemployment, it is often difficult (81) __________ young people to find a job.
If they are lucky (82) ________ to be asked to go for an interview, they may find (83) __________there are at
least 20 other applicants for the (84) __________. If a company is thinking of offering (85) __________ a job,
they will ask you for at least one reference from either your previous employer (86) __________ someone
who knows you well. (87) __________taking up your job, you may have to sign a contract. You will probably
have to do some training, (88) __________helps you to do the job more successfully. Once you have decided

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 that this is your chosen career, you will then have to work (89) __________ to try and get promotion, which
usually brings more responsibility and more money! If you are unlucky, you may be made redundant, and not
be able to find (90) __________ job. It is also a good idea to pay some money into a pension scheme, which
will help you to look after yourself and your family when you are retired. Finally, good luck!

SECTION IV. WRITITNG (4 POINTS)

Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. (1 point- 0.25/ each)
91. He said, “You broke my camera, Jane.”
 He accused ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
92. Although the weather was so cold, they decided to hold an open-air concert.
 In spite .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
93. I have never read such a romantic story.
 This is ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
94. I'm sorry that I didn't finish my homework last night.
 I wish .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Part 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given. Do not change the word given. (1 point – 0.25/ each)
95. Bill didn’t succeed in getting a better job. (failed)
 Bill ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
96. Reading scientific books is one of my interests. (interested)
 I'm ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
97. It’s my opinion that you should take more exercise. (would)
 If I.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
98. I do not intend to tell you about my projects. (of)
 I have ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Part 3: Essay writing (2 points)
“People say that secondary school should not use smart phones at school.”
What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 150 words to show your opinion.
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