PHÒNG GD&ĐT THÀNH PHỐ SẦM SƠN ĐỀ KHẢO SÁT ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG LỚP 9

TRƯỜNG THCS NGUYỄN HỒNG LỄ MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Ngày khảo sát: 01/12/2022
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

SECTION A: LISTENING (15 pts)

Part I. Listen to a tourist office assistant’s talking about a City Bus Tour and fill in the
missing information in the numbered space. NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR
NUMBERS NEEDED. (5pts)

City Bus Tour Booking Form:

Number of passengers: 2
Passenger name(s): Susan Field and James (1)____________
Contact telephone number: (2) ____________________
Hotel: (3) ______________________
Bus tour time: (4)____________________ p.m
Bus tour date: (5) _______________

PART II. Listen to a teenager talking about looking for a house and decide whether each of
the following statements is True (T) or False (F).(5 pts)
6. The speaker and her friend decided to look for another housemate because their house
was too big for them.
7. Melanie was one of the three people who replied to the advert.
8. The speaker complains that she has to cook every evening.
9. The girls don’t enjoy looking after the garden.
10. The girls are going to look for a house together next year.

PART III. Listen to three short scenes and choose the correct answers. (5pts)
11. The phone call between Zara and Libby ends at ________________.
A. three o’clock. B. ten past three.
C. ten to three. D. three minutes to ten.
12. How does Zara describe the relationship between Anna and Mike?
A. They don’t see each other very often. B. They are going out together.
C. They’ve split up. D. They argue a lot, but they like each other.
13. Who is Zara expecting to receive a text message from after the rehearsal?
A. Libby. B. Mike. C. The director of the show. D. Her dad.
14. What did Libby ask Mike when they spoke on the phone?
A. Whether he liked ballet. B. Whether he wanted to meet up for a coffee.
C. Why he had phoned her. D. Whether he had heard from Anna.
15. How many times has Mike seen ballet shows?
A. He has seen once. B. He has seen twice.
C. He has seen three times. D. He has never seen.

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 SECTION B: PHONETICS (5 points)
PART I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced different from that of the
others in the same line and write A, B, C o D on your answer sheet. (2 points)
16. A. chamber B. ancient C. danger D. ancestor
17. A. tooth B. smooth C. theory D. author
PART II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others in the same
line and write A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. (3 points )
18. A. appropriate B. expectation C. accomplished D. invaluable
19. A. prohibit B. separate C. president D. elephant
20. A. assimilate B. committee C. tomorrow D. relative

SECTION C: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (30 points)

PART I. Choose the word/ phrase that best fits the gap in each of the following sentences and
write A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. (10 points)
21. _________ more help, I could call my neighbour.
A. Needed B. Should I need C. I have needed D. I should need
22. I applied for the job that I saw __________ in the paper.
A. advertising B. advertised C. be advertised D. being advertising
23. Jake’s completely round the _______________, isn’t he?
A. edge B. side C. corner D. bend
24. _________that she burst into tears.
A. Such her anger was B. She was so anger
C. So angry she was D. Such was her anger
25. Although the patient’s condition is serious, she seems to be out of ______.
A. place B. control C. danger D. order
26. Exactly ______ we can replace our soil disappearing through erosion is not known.
A. how B. what C. if D. by which
27. I'd sooner they _________ deliver the new furniture tomorrow.
A. mustn't B. shouldn't C. didn't D. wouldn't
28. People who are unemployed can receive the ________ .
A. pension B. dole C. scholarship D. allowance
29. Unfortunately, I might have to leave for Boston ________ .
A. for short notice B. under short notice
C. at short notice D. to short notice
30. Very soon I found some other people to ________ and we began to write songs.
A. keep up with B. team up with C. talk through with D. get along with
PART II. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
(8 points)
31. His Grandfather is said (wound)________ in a forefront combat in the last war.
32. Had I parked my car in the car park, they (not/ take)_________it away.
33-34. (Convince)_____ that they (try)_____ to poison him, he refused to eat anything.
35-36. I ( consider ) _______ buying a house but now I ( change ) ________my mind.
37. My supervisor is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I (do)_________ last week
38. I didn’t know you were asleep. Otherwise, I (not make)_________so much noise when I
came in.
PART III. Supply the correct form of the words in capital. Write the answers on your answer
sheet. (7 points)
39. There are still enormous___________about life in space CERTAIN
40. Eating fish and lots of vegetables greatly increases your life________ . EXPECT
41. Marty sometimes hurts others when he criticizes their work because he is too ____ SPEAK
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42. I’m sure that the whole problem is a simple_________ UNDERSTAND
43. You look rather_______. Are you worried about something? OCCUPY
44. Unless something is done about unemployment, the_________for the future is not good
LOOK
45. The government’s_________approach has brought criticism COMPROMISE
PART IV. There are FIVE mistakes in the text (from 46 to 50). Identify each mistake, write it
down and give your correction. (5 points)
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1 People have always valued elephants because of their size and strength. Asian
elephants have been captured and trained to work for human beings for two thousand
years. They were used in battles from the 3rd century to World War II. Because they
are easy trained, they have been used to transport goods and carry huge logs from
5 forests which were once their homes. Approximately twenty-five percents of the
world’s population of Asian elephants have been caught and trained to do variety jobs,
including carrying passengers and help to capture more wild elephants. Elephants are
considered to be more intelligent than most animals, including domestic dogs and cats.
This shows by the way they can easily learn to do tricks and perform tasks, as well as
10 by the playful behavior of young elephants, who energetically play games of hide and
seek and tug of war.

SECTION D: READING (30 points)

PART I. Supply the most suitable word for each blank. (10 pts)
Autism is a mental disease which prevents those who suffer from it from communicating
with the (51)______ world. Victims seem to live in a world of their own which, (52)______
now, doctors are unable to penetrate. The illness was first (53)______ a name in 1943, and yet
doctors have made very little progress in their understanding of the disease since then.
According to statistics, between two and four children out of every 10,000 are born
(54)______. Often victims are not able to (55)______ ,read or write. But (56)______ is most
extraordinary about illness is the fact that in other areas many of the children can use their
(57)______ in ways which are almost super-human. One of the more common skills these so-
called autistic savants have is calendrical calculation, that is the ability to say which day of the
week a particular date falls (58)______. Jackie, for instance, who is now 42 years old, could do
this from the age of six, when she first began to talk. She can tell you what day of the week it
was on 1 April 1933 with (59)______ a moment’s hesitation. But if you ask her (60)______ she
does it, she will say she doesn’t know.
PART II. Read the text and choose the most suitable word from the ones given below to fill in
each gap. Write A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. (10 points)
Modern cinema audiences expect to see plenty of thrilling scenes in action film. These
scenes, which are (61)_______as stunts, are usually given by stuntmen who are specially
trained to do dangerous things safely. (62)________ can crash a car, but if you’re shooting a
film, you have to extremely (63)______sometimes stopping right in front of the camera and the
film crew. At an early (64)________ in the production, an expert stuntman is (65)______in to
work out the action scenes and form a team. He is the only person who can go against the wishes
of the director, (66)_______ he will usually only do this in the regards of safety.
Many famous actor like to do the dangerous part by themselves, which produces better
shots, since stuntmen don’t have to (67)______ in for the actors. Actors like to become
(68)______in all the important aspects of the character they are playing, but without the recent
process in safety equipment, insurance companies would never (69) _______them take the risk.

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To do their own stunts, actors need to be good athletes, but they must also be sensible and know
their (70)_______. If they were to be hurt, the film would come to a sudden halt.
61. A. remarked B. known C. referred D. named
62. A. Everyone B. Someone C. Anyone D. Noone
63. A. detailed B. plain C. straight D. precise
64. A. period B. minute C. part D. stage
65. A. led B. taken C. drawn D. called
66. A. despite B. so C. although D. otherwise
67. A. work B. get C. put D. stand
68. A. connected B. arranged C. involved D. affected
69. A. allow B. let C. permit D. admit
70. A. limits B. ends C. frontiers D. borders

PART III. Read the text and choose the best answer to each question that follows. Write A, B,
C or D on your answer sheet. (10 points)
Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the
past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems
with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and
fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is
jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems.
As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of
Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine ecosystems (such as
wetlands), the most common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is
irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of
activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by
significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the
course of evolution.
Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred.
The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic.
There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species
reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have
survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and
which died out.
However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species
is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is
wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes
themselves, that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as
slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time
for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new
genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs
B. The variety of species found in tropical rain forests
C. The impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems
D. The time required for species to adapt to new environments
2. The word "critical" in line 1 is closest in meaning to
A negative B. essential C. interesting D. complicated
3. The word "jolting" in line 5 is closest in meaning to
A predicted . B. shocking' C. unknown D. illuminating
4. The author mentions the reduction of the variety of species on Earth to suggest that
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 A. A new habitats can be created for species
B. humans are often made ill by polluted water
C. some species have been made extinct by human activity
D. understanding evolution can prevent certain species from disappearing
5. The author mentions all of the following as examples of the effect of humans on the
world's ecosystems EXCEPT
A. destruction of the tropical rain forests
B. habitat destruction in wetlands
C. damage to marine ecosystems
D. the introduction of new varieties of plant species
6. The author mentions the extinction of the dinosaurs in the 2nd paragraph to emphasize
that
A. the cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is unknown
B. Earth's climate has changed significantly since the dinosaurs' extinction
C. not all mass extinctions have been caused by human activity
D. actions by humans could not stop the irreversible process of a species' extinction
7. The word “magnitude” in line 19 is closest in meaning to………
A. concern B. determination C. carelessness D. extent
8. According to the passage, natural evolutionary change is different from changes
caused by humans in that changes caused by humans.........
A. are occurring at a much faster rate
B. are less devastating to most species
C. affect fewer ecosystems
D. are reversible
9. Which of the following can best replace "in flux" ?
A. increasing B. breaking C. producing D. changing
10. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
A. Human influence on ecosystems should not be a factor in determining public policy.
B. The extinction of a few species is an acceptable consequence of human progress.
C. Technology will provide solutions to problems caused by the destruction of
ecosystems.
D. Humans should be more conscious of the influence they have on ecosystems.

SECTION E: WRITING (20 points)

PART I. Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same.
Write the answers on your answer sheet. (5 points)
81. The boy does whatever his father wants in an obedient way.
--> The boy dances ................................................................................................
82. If he hadn’t contributed generously, we wouldn’t have continued our work.
But…………………………………………………………………………………………
83. I’m sure he didn’t do it by himself.
He................................................ .................................................................................. …
84. Mrs. Wilson says she’s sorry she didn’t attend the meeting yesterday morning.
 Mrs. Wilson sends…………………………………………………………………………
85. It’s not common for there to be so much rain in March.
Seldom………………………………………….............................................................
PART II. Rewrite each of the following sentences using the given word so that it keeps the
same meaning. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (5 points)
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86. Nobody expected Sally to resign. (CAME)
 Sally’s ……………………………………………………...
87.If someone understands this theory, they are cleverer than I am. (WHO)
………………………………………………………………………………..……………
88. To tell you the truth, I bought these shoes on the cheap. (SONG)
………………………………………………………………………………..……………
89. Our lawyers are working on the agreement at the moment. (UP)
………………………………………………………………………………..……………
90. He had a very traditional upbringing, didn’t he? (TRADITIONALLY)
………………………………………………………………………………..……………
PART III. Paragraph writing (10 points)
“Social networking is damaging teenagers’ social skills ". To what extent do you agree with
this statement? Give a paragraph of from 130 to 160 words to support your ideas. (10 points)
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