Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 9 môn Tiếng Anh năm 2009 - Hải Dương

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.

Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence

Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the sentences

Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correction.

Match each sentence with its suitable response

Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C, D best fits each space

Man has always depended on plants ______(1) food and many other useful products. For this reason, farming is one of the world's most important industries. At first, _____(2) man did not know how to plant seeds and raise crops. He _____(3) wild fruits and vegetables where he found them. Then man discovered how to grow his own food. He_____ (4) seeds and waited for the crop to grow. For the first time, he could be reasonably sure of his food supply. He could settle down and set up shelters in the places_____ (5) he grew food.

As populations began to increase, the ______(6) for food became greater. Old-fashioned tools and farming methods were insufficient in _____(7) the demand, so man cultivated more and more land and invented complicated machines to make his work easier. Tractors replaced horses and other farm animals. Scientists studied and _____(8) with plants. They told farmers how to control plant diseases, and how to grow bigger and better crops. Now one man, _______(9) a wide knowledge of plants and the help of machines, can cultivate hundreds of acres. He can raise plants which did not originally grow in the soil or ______(10) of his community.

Read the following passage and fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word.

It is very important to eat well, especially____ (1) you're students. If you are at school, you may go home______ (2) lunch, and have a cooked meal of meat or fish and vegetables. Or perhaps you take some food with you to school. and eat it in the lunch _____(3) . A chicken and lettuce sandwich, with some fresh fruit would be a light _____(4) healthy lunch. Many people around the world eat plain, boiled rice two or three ______(5) a day.

Students do not often eat well when they are revising for an _____(6) , they eat chocolate and drink______ (7) of black coffee. And by the ______(8) , doctors say everybody should start the day _____(9) a healthy breakfast. It is_____ (10) good for you to drink a lot of water right through the day.

Read the following passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) research, the emission from car exhausts causes more deaths than road accidents. The research found that one third of all harmful air pollution was caused by road transport, and that long term exposure to pollution caused estimated 21,000 premature deaths a year across the three countries, France, Austria and Switzerland. This is much higher than the 9,947 who died that year as a result of road accidents.

In addition, the researchers calculated that the car fumes caused 300,000 extra cases of bronchitis in children, and 15,000 extra hospital admissions for heart

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

Use the suggest words and phrases to write complete sentences of a passage.