Bài thi môn: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 9

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SECTION A: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

Part I: (10 points). Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the
following sentences. Write it in ‘Your answers’ part.
1. Many buildings which are currently in ________in our city could be put to other purposes.
A. unemployment B. disuse C. unused D. condition
2. You should ________our Viet Nam Dong for dollars before going to Singapore.
A. change B. convert C. exchange D. turn
3. She ________at him and went on reading.
A. regarded B. viewed C. responded D. glanced
4. Prices continued to rise while wages remained low________ the company became
increasingly unpopular.
A. on condition that B. with the result that C. provided that D. in order that
5. I need a good explanation of all the costs ________ in buying a new car.
A. affected B. involved C. concerned D. implied
6. Conical hat made in the village has been ________ from generation to generation because
everybody, young or old, can take part in the process.
A. passed down B. passed by C. passed away D. passed out
7. Action films with big stars tend to ________great public attention.
A. achieve B. show C. attract D. reach
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
words of the following sentence.
8. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on many countries’ aviation industry due to
international travel restrictions.
A. considerably benefited B. negatively changed
C. severely damaged D. completely replaced
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
words of the following sentence.
9. With price increases on most necessities, many people have to tighten their belt for fear of
getting in to financial difficulties.
A. dress in loose clothes B. spend money freely
C. save on daily expenses D. put on tighter belts

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Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete the following
exchange.
10. Linda is thanking Peter for his birthday present.
Linda: ‘Thanks for the book. I’ve been looking for it for month.’
Peter: “__________’
A. you can say that again B. Thank you for looking for it
C. I like reading books D. I’m glad you like it.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part II: (10 points). There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Identify the mistakes
and write the corrections in ‘Your answers’ part.
Line Advice to young people about to start work

1 In these days of high employment, it is often difficult for young people to find a job. If they

2 are lucky enough to ask to go for an interview, they may think that there are at least 20

3 other applicants for the job. If a company is thinking of offering you a job, it will ask you

4 about at least one reference from either your previous employer or anyone who knows you
well.

5 Before taking up your job, you may have to sign a contract. You will probably have to make

6 some training, which helps you to do the job more successfully. Once you have decided that
this

7 is your choosing career, you will then have to work hard to try and get promotion, which

8 usually brings more responsibility and more money! If you are unlucky, you may be made

9 redundance, and not be able to find another job. It is also a good idea to pay some money into

10 a pension scheme, which will help you to look after yourself and your family if you are
retired. 
Finally, good luck!

Your answers:
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Part III: (10 points). Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a
word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.
The Art of Giving and Taking
Gift exchange, which is also called ceremonial exchange, is the transfer of goods or services
that, although regarded as (1) _______ (VOLUNTEER) by people involved, is part of the
expected social (2) _______ (BEHAVE). Gift exchange may be distinguished from other types
of exchange in several respects. The first offering is made in a generous manner and there is no
haggling between donor and (3) _______ (RECEIVE). The exchange is an expression of an
existing social relationship or the establishment of a new one that differs from (4) _______
(PERSON) market relationships; and the profit in gift exchange may be in the sphere of social
relationship and prestige rather than in material advantage. The gift-exchange cycle entails (5)
_______ (OBLIGE) to give, to receive, and to return. Sanctions may exist to induce people to
give. (6) _______ (REFUSE) to accept a gift may be seen as rejection of social relations and
may lead to enmity. The reciprocity of the cycle rests in the (7) _______ (NECESSARY) to
return the gift. The prestige associated with the appearance of (8) _______ (GENEROUS)
dictates that the value of the return is (9) _______ (APPROXIMATE) equal to or greater than
the value of the original (10) _______ (SIGNIFY) expression of social relations.
Your answers:
1.voluntary 6.refusal
2.behavior 7. necessity
3.receiver 8. generosity
4. impersonal 9.approximately
5.obligated 10.significants

Part IV: (10 points). Read the passage below and decide which answer (from A, B, C or D)
best fits each gap. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.
DUTCH CHILDREN ENJOY THEIR FREEDOM
“Let then be free” is the golden rule for child-rearing in the Netherlands. No wonder Dutch
kids have been (1) _________ Europe’s most fortunate by a recent UNICEF survey. From a
tender age, their opinions (2) _________, their wishes respected, and there is no homework until
their last year in preparatory school. Some would (3) _________ that the tendency has (4)
_________ a whole generation into spoilt, undisciplined brats. Others say family members are
remarkably open with one another, feeling free to say anything, and that the way parents (5)
_________ with their children’s anxieties means that the children are well-adjusted, which is (6)
_________ up by the results of the survey.
Dr. Gerrit Breeusma, head of development psychology at the University of Groningen says the
survey’s results came as no (7) _________. “Children have always played a very important role
in the Holland but there were (8) _________ within families during the Sixties, usually over
matters of discipline and conformity. As a result, the generation growing up at that time have
made sure they (9) _________ on better with their kids”, he added.

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However, in several Dutch police precincts, such liberalism is not viewed positively. In an
attempt to (10) _________ underage heavy drinking, police have taken to bringing home
teenagers and threatening parents with obligatory attendance at courses on excessive alcohol
problems of hefty fines unless they keep their children under control.
1. A. rated B. put C. compared D. assessed
2. A. regarded B. recognized C. valued D. measured
3. A. criticize B. argue C. defend D. judge
4. A. resulted B. created C. brought D. turned
5. A. empathize B. understand C. analyze D. handle
6. A. shown B. held C. made D. backed
7. A. doubt B. difference C. surprise D. consequence
8. A. conflicts B. beliefs C. decisions D. traditions
9. A. follow B. get C. carry D. continue
10. A. extinguish B. supervise C. tackle D. dispose
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION B. READING COMPREHENSION

Part I (10 points). For gaps 1-10, read the following text and then choose from the list A-M
the best phrase given below it to fill each of the spaces. There is ONE phrase that you DO
NOT NEED to use. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.
A. with 2,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb
B. and it takes four years to circle the sun
C. of being devastated every 3,000 to 4,000 years
D. exactly what asteroids are
E. that failed to refuse together millions of years ago.
F. to be shunted into a safer orbit
G. travelling at speeds of around 45,000 miles per hour
H. and cause a global catastrophe
I. since it was formed
J. and mistakenly identified as a possible nuclear missile
K. which may pose a threat to mankind.

ASTEROID ATTACK
It was just very recently that astronomers warned that a large asteroid, known as 1997 XF11,
might hit Earth in the year 2028 (1) _________. So, just how concerned should we be about
this?
First of all, we need to understand (2) __________. The asteroid belt, which lies between Mars
and Jupiter, consists of lumps of rock and ice which scientists used to think came into being
after a planet exploded. Today most scientists believe that asteroids are fragments left over from
material (3) __________when the other planets in the solar system were being formed. NASA

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estimated that 1,000 to 4,000 asteroids larger than half a mile in diameter cross the Earth’s orbit.
Of these, scientists have identified 108 PHOs (Potential Hazardous Objects) (4) __________.
The danger actually arises from the kinetic energy released when one of these asteroids, (5)
__________, enters the Earth’s atmosphere. In fact, it is believed that around 140 large asteroids
have hit the Earth (6) __________.
For example, in 1908, a fragment of ice weighing around 100,000 tons exploded above the
sparsely inhabited Lake Tunguska region in Siberia, releasing a fireball (7) __________. This
resulted in a area of 1,000 square kilometers being flattened. In 1994, a meteor skimming
through the Earth’s atmosphere was spotted by US spy satellites (8) __________.
According to NASA scientists, the chances of being killed directly or indirectly by an asteroid
are greater than the chances of being killed by wild animals, fireworks, terrorist bombs and
airline hijackings. In fact, Dr. Victor Clube, an astrophysicist at Oxford University, says that
civilizations have a good chance (9) __________. In theory, however, potentially dangerous
asteroid millions of miles away would only need a small nudge (10) __________. Scientists
believe, for example, that a nuclear warhead donated just off the surface of the asteroid could
divert it into a different orbit.
Your answers:
1. H 2. D 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part II: (10 points). Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank. Write your answers
in ‘Your answers’ part.
BEWARE OF VITAMINS

Vitamins are good for our health, (1) _________ they? Perhaps not. New research suggests that
(2) _________ than ward off disease, high doses of certain vitamins may do more harm than (3)
_________ and could even put you in an early grave. A variety of recent studies suggest that far
from improving health, these vitamins, when (4) _________ in very high doses, may actually
increase the (5) _________ of cancer and a range of debilitating diseases, a discovery that has
sent medical world into a spin.
Scientists are unsure as to (6) _________ vitamins, so essential to health, can be toxic in high
doses. The most likely above is that the body is only equipped to (7) _________ with the levels
found naturally in the environment. If the intake is (8) _________ far above the normal range,
then the body’s internal chemistry can be shunted out of alignment. (9) _________ this means is
that the commercially sold vitamins and those provided by nature are not always compatible.
The commercial (10) _________ may interfere with the body’s internal chemistry by ‘crowding
out’ the more natural and beneficial forms of nutrients.
Your answers:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

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Part III: (10 points). Read the following text and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or
D to each question.
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure – the pain that comes from the
ending of a relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love affair or a deep friendship,
in fact, any strong emotional tie between people. Such a relationship may come to an abrupt but
premediated end: or it may simply fade away slowly as people and circumstances change. You
may be the one to “break it off”, with a short note or a brief phone call. Or you may be on the
receiving end, like the soldier who dreads getting a “Dear John” letter from a girl friend who has
got tired of waiting. But however it ended and whoever decided to end it, the pain is equally
hard to bear. It is a sort of death, and it requires the same period of mourning, the same for grief.
Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain and to make
us forget our tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves busy with work, we
try to immerse ourselves in our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink more than we should to drown
our sorrows or we follow the conventional advice and join a club or society. But these things
only relieve the symptoms of the illness: they cannot cure it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry
to get rid of our grief. It is as if we were ashamed of it. We feel that we should be able to ‘pull
ourselves together.’ We try to convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are too much
old to be crying. Some people bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess
what they are going through. Others seek relief by pouring their heart to their friends, or to
anyone else who can offer a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends
start to show their impatience, and suggest with their reproachful glances that it is about time we
stopped crying. They too, are in a hurry for the thing to be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we would never
expect anyone to overcome physical pain simply by an effort of will power. Part of that answer
must lie in the nature of grief itself. When the love affair dies, you cannot believe that you will
ever find another person to replace the one who has gone so completely out of your life. Even
after many months, when you think that you have begun to learn to live without you lost love,
something – a familiar place, a snatch of music, a whiff of perfume – will suddenly bring the
bitter – sweet memories flooding back. You choke back the tears and the desperate, almost
angry, feeling that you are no better now than the day the affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade eventually, a healing
skin does start to grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden glimpses of love you have
lost do get longer. Bit by bit, life resumes its normal flow. Such is the complexity of human
nature that we can even start to feel guilty as these things start to happen, as if it were an insult
to our lost love that we can begin to forget at all.
The important thing to admit about grief, then, is that it will take its time. By trying to convince
ourselves that it ought to be over sooner, we create an additional tension which can only make
things worse. People who have gone through the agony of a broken relationship – and there are
few who have not – agree that time is the “greater healer”. How much time is needed will vary
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from person to person, but psychiatrists have a “rule of thumb”: grief will; last as long as the
original relationship lasted. The sad thing is that, when the breakdown occurs, we can only
stumble forward over the stories beneath our feet. It is dark ahead, and we will feel painfully
many times before we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
1. Relationships often come to an end because ___________.
A. the feeling of the people were not very deep
B. people do not realize the pain they can cause
C. people do not always stay the same
D. very few people really know how to love
2. One way to get over a broken relationship is to__________.
A. write a ‘Dear John’s letter’
B. form new relationships
C. make a brief phone call
D. try to forget the other person.
3. If you seek advice on what to do about a broken relationship, you will probably be told to
_________
A. pull yourself together (use your will power)
B. keep busy at work
C. find someone else
D. join a club
4. Often we are ashamed when we cry because__________.
A. we think it is childish thing to do
B. we do not expect our unhappiness to last so long
C. we are worried about what others will think of us
D. only children and babies cry.
5. You tell your friends about your unhappiness because __________.
A. you hope it will make you feel better
B. you want them to hear the story from you
C. you feel unsure that they have had similar experiences
D. you want them to feel sorry for you
6. When our friends get tired of listening to you they will__________.
A. tell you to pull yourself together.
B. try to avoid your company
C. show by their expressions that they have had enough
D. help you to get over your grief
7. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so__________.
A. unexpectedly
B. rapidly
C. frequently
D. rarely
8. Memories continue to upset you, and this makes you feel that you__________.
A. will never get over your grief
B. have no will power
C. are utterly alone
D. have made no progress at all
9. If we try to recover too quickly from grief, we shall make ourselves __________.
A. nervous

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 B. tense
C. ill
D. unpopular

10. Psychiatrist tell you that grief will last as long as the original relationship.
This calculation is __________.
A. the result of scientific research
B. no more than a hopeful guess
C. generally true but with many exceptions
D. based on a deep understanding of human nature.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION C. WRITING
Part I: (8 points).
*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.
1. We will be able to relax soon if we get there as quickly as possible.
= The quicker…………………………………………………………………………………..
2. They used to have a very nice cat.
= They no …………………………………………………………………………………………
3. The house prices have increased in the past few years.
= There………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. The party was so great that we would never forget.
= It was ………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. I’m sure that her success made her parents feel wonderful.
= Her success must………………………………………………………………………………

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, using the word given. Do not change the word
given.
6. I am afraid that I cannot afford that car. (MEANS)
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7. They decided not to go by boat because they thought they would be seasick. (FEAR)
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8. “It’s not worth worrying about the past,” I told him. (POINT)

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Part II: (12 points) Imagine you are Peter. You have moved to live in a new house in the
suburb. Write an email to Jane, your friend, telling her about the new house, the neighborhood
and what you like most about your new place. You should write 90-100 words. DO NOT write
YOUR REAL NAME or ADDRESS in your writing.
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Part III: (30 points) Your English teacher has asked you to write a story (110-120 words) for
your school story writing competition. Your story MUST begin with the following words:
I was really happy to see Jane
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