Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9 môn Tiếng Anh năm 2009 - Bắc Ninh

Circle the word whose underlined part is differently pronounced from the others

 

Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Circle A, B, C or D.

Choose the best word or phrase with the same meaning as the underlined part. Circle A, B, C or D.

Each of these sentences contains 1 mistake. Find and correct them.

Give the correct form of the words in bold in the same line. Write your answers on the numbered blanks.

Supply the correct tenses of the VERBS in bracket in either active or passive voice

Every ten minutes, one species of animal, plant, or insect ______(1. die) out for ever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today ______(2. become) extinct twenty years from now.

Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund _____(3.found) - a small group of people who ______(4. want) to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction. Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It _____(5. raise) over 35 million pounds for conservation projects, and has given support to National Parks in six continents. It _______(6. help) 30 mammals and birds - including the tiger to survive. Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start.

If more people_____ (7. give) more money - and if more governments wake up to what ______(8. happen) - perhaps the World Wildlife Fund____ (9. be) able to help us avoid the disaster that ______(10. threaten) the natural world, and all of us with it.

Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle A, B, C or D to indicate your answers.

Are you one of the thousands of people who eagerly follow every new (1)_____ that appears? Or are you one of those who go to the shops and just buy (2)____ they can find in their size that (3)______ them? Or perhaps you order from a mail- order catalogue, and then have to send everything back because nothing fits?

Whatever kind of shopper you are, one thing is certain. Every one finds clothes important. (4)______ a recent survey, people spend more time (5)________ buying clothes or thinking about buying them, or looking at them in shop windows, than they do on most other products, apart from food. And the reason is obvious. Clothes are an important part of our appearance. At work, you may need to impress a customer. or persuade the boss that you know what you are doing, and clothes certainly help. Well dressed people, so they say, get on in the world. And as far as attracting the opposite sex is concerned, clothes also play a vital role. (6)_______a friend who has been wearing the same old jacket or the same old dress suddenly appears in the (7)_____ fashion, you can be sure that romance is in the air. And apart from work and romance, there are the (8)_____ of sport, music and leisure on the way we dress. So excuse me while I (9)_____ on my tracksuit and training shoes. I‘m just dashing off ( 10)__ some fast window-shopping.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Circle A, B, C or D to indicate your answers.

The search for alternative sources of energy has led in various directions. Many communities are burning garbage and other biological waste products to produce electricity. Converting waste products to gases or oil is also an efficient way to dispose of waste.

Experimental work is being done to derive synthetic fuels from coal, oil shale and coal tats. But to date, the process has proven expensive. Other experiments are underway to harness power with giant windmills. Geothermal power, heart form earth, is also being tested.

Some experts expect utility companies to revive hydroelectric power derived form streams and rivers. Fifty years ago hydroelectric power provided one third of the electricity used in the United States, but today it supplies only four percent. The oceans are another potential source of energy. Scientists are studying ways to convert the energy of ocean currents, tides and waves to electricity. Experiments are also underway to make use of the temperature differences in ocean water to produce energy.

Read the following passage. Choose from the sentences below which best fits in each numbered gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Carnival is definitely not a spectator sport. lt’s very difficult to get carried away by the atmosphere unless (0)__(you are taking part yourself)___ and by that I mean wearing a disguise of some kind, even if it‘s nothing more than a mask or a funny hat. In fact, the number of people (1)_______is usually fairly small, so you will almost certainly be conspicuous out of fancy dress. You are bound to regret not having gone to a bit of trouble when (2)____ having the time of their lives. Ask a friend to lend you a costume if (3)____. You may even find that (4)_____ . If all else fails, you can always improvise with old streets and clothes, after all, you don’t have to look spectacular, elegant or beautiful, but you should try to enter into the spirit of the festivities if (5)_____

Fill in each numbered space with one suitable word.

I’d like to talk about some of the problems that students face_____ (1) they follow a course of study through the medium of English ______(2) English is not their mother tongue. The problems can be _____(3) into three broad categories: psychological, cultural and linguistic. The first two categories mainly affect those ____(4) come to study in Britain. I’ll comment only briefly on these two categories and then spend most of the time looking at linguistic difficulties apply to everyone. Some of the common psychological problems really involve fear of the unknown: for _____(5) , whether one’s academic studies will be too difficult. Looking at the cultural problems, we can see that some of them are of a very practical nature, e.g. arranging satisfactory accommodation. Others are less easy to define. ____(6) largest category seems to be linguistic. Let’s look at this ______(7) some detail. Most students, in their (8) countries, will have little opportunity to practice using____(9) . When foreign learners first have the opportunity to speak to an English-speaking person they may have a shock: they often have great _____(10) in understanding.

Finish the second sentence in each pair in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it.

Write the second sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Use the word given in brackets and other words as necessary. Do not change the form of the given word. 

Write meaningful sentences using suggested words.