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VINH LÔÙP 9 THCS NAÊM HOÏC 2009 – 2010

*** Moân thi: Tieáng Anh
Ñeà thi chính thöùc Thôøi gian laøm baøi: 150 phuùt (khoâng keå thôøi gian giao
ñeà)

I – Listening (4ms)

A. Listen to the tape and tick () the words you hear.
1. small 6. real 11. nice
2. comfortable 7. nervous 12. join
3. exciting 8. lively 13. wrote
4. mean 9. queen 14. interesting
5. uncomfortable 10. horrible 15. word
B. Listen again and answer the question.
Who had the worst experience, speaker 1, speaker 2, or speaker 3? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________

II – Choose the correct verb to fill in each blank. Circle A, B, C or D (3ms)

I am an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow
and I decided to take one more man to help write legal papers. I (1)_________ a great many
people in my life, but the man who (2)_________ my advertisement was the strangest person I
(3)_________ of or met.

He stood outside my office and (4)_________ for me (5)_________. He was a small

man, quiet and (6)_________ in a clean but old suit. I asked him his name. It was Bottlebie.

At first Bottlebie almost worked himself too hard (7)__________ the legal papers I gave
him. He worked through the day by sunlight and into the night by candlelight. I was happy with
his work but not happy with the way he worked. He was too quiet but he worked well like a
machine, never (8)_________, or speaking. One day, I asked Bottlebie (9)_________ to my
office to study a legal paper with me. Without (10)_________ from his chair, Bottlebie said “I
do not want to”. I sat for a short time, too surprised (11)_________ . And I became
(12)_________. “You do not want to? What do you mean?”.

1. A. meet B. met C. has met D. have met

2. A. answer B. answered C. answering D. to answer
3. A. hear B. had heard C. have heard D. heard
4. A. wait B. waiting C. waited D. waits
5. A. speak B. speaking C. spoke D. to speak
6. A. dress B. dresses C. dressed D. was dressed
7. A. write B. writing C. writes D. wrote
8. A. look B. looks C. looking D. looked
9. A. come B. comes C. came D. to come
10. A. moving B. moved C. move D. to move
11. A. moving B. moved C. move D. to move
12. A. excite B. excited C. exciting D. to excite
III – Fill in each blank with up, on, for, to, from or with. (1m)

At the end of the street all could see a manger and some hay, the place where the trip
must end. The star they had followed shone down upon the manger and lit (1)_______ strange
light. Because it was only a small place, and because there were so many (2)________ the party
of the Kings, the shepherds stepped (3)________ one side. They wanted the King and the gifts
to go first. The oldest of the wise men saw this and said “Come. Do not make yourselves small
before us. Join us and come to see the child. It doesn’t matter if we come from far or near, or if
we are poor or rich, we come (4)________ for the same reason. We should enter together.

IV – There are four mistakes in the following paragraph. Identify the mistakes and
correct. (2ms)

He went into the house. His hands and feet were as cool as the snow outside. He put his
arms around his wife and kissed her. He had done a decision. He said, “Ida, tonight, we are
really going to eat and drink, no more saving. I want plenty of good. I’m going to open that
bottle of wine we’ve been keeping”. Ida’s eyes brightened. Adam said, “There are people who
has less than we do. Let us be happy with what we have.

1.____________ 2._________ 3.___________ 4.______________

V – Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the questions (3ms)

He stood up and looked around again. If they swam out to sea, he could swim to the shore
before they could see him. He saw the sharks rolling and playing. Their hunger was now gone.
They were killing for fun. How could he make them move? He pulled his knife from his belt.
“Sharks can smell blood”, he thought. He put the knife against his leg and cut deep into the
flesh. The blood ran out. He caught it on his white shirt. When the shirt was red and wet, he tied
some cloth around his leg to stop the flow of blood. He tied a long piece of cloth to the shirt,
then walked to the edge of the sand. He threw the shirt into the water and pulled it with the long
piece of cloth. The sharks smelt the blood. They came racing toward the shirt. He ran down the
sand reef, pulling the shirt. The sharks raced after it. He was leading them away from shore.
Suddenly, he dropped the cloth turning toward shore and ran as fast as he could. He jumped into
the water and swam. He was half way across when he turned to look back. A high, bony fin was
cutting through the water toward him. He put his face in the water and kicked and pulled himself
toward as fast as he could. The shore was nearer but he thought of his belly under the water.
How defenceless it was! He thought of the flat nose of the shark hitting from below. He lifted
his head again to breathe. He saw the shore coming near. From behind he felt water rush toward
him, almost pushing him, helping him. He kicked and shouted, then a great grey body hit him. It
almost rolled him over in the water. He touched the shore with his fingers and pulled himself up
the stones. The shark, excited by the smell of blood and the chase, went after him. Its great body
crashed against the stones. It rolled and turned as it dropped back into the water. The other
sharks jumped on it. The end came quickly when the shark’s blood turned the water red. The
injured shark was eaten alive when it tried to escape.

1. Would you do the sane if you were the man? Why?

_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. Did the shark catch the man’s leg and hurt it?
_____________________________________________________________________
 3. Who killed the shark?
_____________________________________________________________________

VI – Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (1m)

He had to go into the house alone that year because Seth had moved to another part of the
country. But John remembered everything his Indian friend taught him. He stayed in Seth’s
cabin, he hunted animals everyday of that long, lonely winter. (1)____________ time, he stayed
until the end of April. By (2)____________, he had so many piece of fur that he had to leave his
traps behind. The (3)____________ over the river had melted when he reached it. He built a raft
to (4)___________ him across even though it took him an extra day.

VII – Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
one printed before it. (2ms)

1. We opened the last box.

 The______________________________________________________________________
2. He said to Jane, “Look at this small box, please.”
He asked Jane______________________________________________________________
3. He is not your brother. You don’t support him.

If he______________________________________________________________________
4. She always trusts the man. He never trusts her.
She always________________________________________________________________

VIII – Write a paragraph about one of your worst dream (150 words) (4ms) When did you
have it? Did you meet any one? What did you see? What frighten you most? Did you run away?
Did you cry? What did you do when you woke up?