Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9 môn Tiếng Anh năm 2009 Bảng A Nghệ An

Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.

Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words.

Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

Supply the correct verb forms to complete the sentences.

Choose the correct word to complete the passage.

NOISE POLLUTION

The families in our streets are slowly being driven mad by the _______(1) of the inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of______ (2) with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise pollution. Every evening, the_____ (3) neighbors used to turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the______ (4) was able to hear anything else.

Not ______(5) what action to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any suggestions as to how to deal with the problem. A______ (6) was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in No 13 and ask them ______(7) to turn their music down after six in the evening. ______(8), the visit did not turn out to be____ (9) , as the inhabitants of No 13 refused to talk to them. So on the _____(10) of the local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court.

IDENTIFY and CORRECT a mistake in each line in the following passage.

SAVING ENERGY

Many people still believe that natural resources will never be used up. Actual, the world’s energy resources are limited. Nobody know exactly how much fuel is left. However, we also should use them economically and try finding out alternative sources of power. According for Professor Marvin Burnham of the New England Institute of Technology, we have to start conserving coal, oil and gas before it is very late; and nuclear power is the only alternative. However, many people do not approve of using nuclear power because of it’s very dangerous.  What would happen whether there were a serious nuclear accident? Radioactivity causes cancer and may bad affect the future generations. The most effective thing is that we should use natural resources as economically as possible.

 Read the passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

A RICH TEENAGER

Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a chequecard. Instead he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18. The 16- year- old works for a small company in Liverpool, where the problem of most people of his age is finding a job. David’s company releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month.

But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules with bonus payment and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards. He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him five miles to work and back everyday because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool - based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six 0- levels and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the company knew I had already written some programmes,” he said. I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but in fact that is being pessimistic.

I hope it will come to records and clothes and he gives his mother $20 a week. But most of his free time is spent working. "Unluckily, computing was not a part of our studies at school,” he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my free time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young anyway.”

David added, “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never knew when the market might disappear.”

Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word.

A DOCTOR

A doctor who worked in a village was very annoyed because many people_______(1) to stop him in the street and ask ____(2) his advice. In this way, he was never paid for his services, and he never managed to earn much ______(3). He made up_____ (4) mind to put an end to do this. One day, he ______(5) stopped by a young man______ (6) said to him, “Oh, doctor, I’m so happy to see you. l’ve got a severe pain in my left side”. The doctor pretended to be interested_____ (7) said. “Shut your eyes and stick your tongue ______(8) of your mouth”. Then he went away, leaving the man standing in the _____(9) with his tongue hanging out and a large crowd of people laughing _______(10) him.

Complete the second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first one.