PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC- ĐÀO TẠO
THANH OAI
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI HUYỆN LỚP 9
Năm học 2013 - 2014

Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

* Lưu ý: Học sinh làm bài vào Tờ giấy thi (Đề thi gồm 5 trang)
A. PHONETICS
I. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose bold and underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the following questions of 1 to10 ( 2points).
1. A. good
B. mood
C. noon
D. pool

2. A. music
B. student
C. use
D. study

3. A. thank
B. month
C. within
D. eigth

4. A. whisper
B. whistle
C. who
D. why

5. A. chapter
B. chemist
C. cheese
D. rich

6. A. feather
B. heat
C. meat
D. seat

7. A. missed
B. worked
C. hated
D. watched

8. A. cow
B. brown
C. how
D. grow

9. A. third
B. fire
C. first
D. sir

10. A. relaxes
B. watches
C. misses
D. lives

II. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose stress pattern is different from the rest in the following questions of 11 to 15( 1point).
11. A. morning
B. college
C. arrive
D. famous

12. A. writer
B. teacher
C. builder
D. career

13. A. attend
B. option
C. percent
D. become

14. A. cartoon
B. western
C. teacher
D. theatre

15. A. eleven
B. yesterday
C. attitude
D. evening

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
I. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following questions of 16 to 25 ( 2points).
16. You have plenty of time to finish your breakfast. There _________ any school today.
A. doesn’t be
B. aren’t
C. not being
D. isn’t

17. They tell me he is _________ a lot of money in his new job.
A. having
B. earning
C. gaining
D. profiting

18. It is no good _______ him to see you off.
A. to expect
B. expecting
C. of expecting
D. for him to expect

19. Go on to the _______ exercise when you have finished this one.
A. all
B. other
C. either
D. every

20. Now, the weather is cold on our vacation. I wish it _________ warmer.
A. was
B. were
C. would be
D. had been

21. The shop are always ____________ of people at Christmas time.
A. full
B. stuffed
C. busy
D. crowded

22. How many photographs _________ of the Sydney Opera house every year?
A. are taken
B. took
C. were taken
D. are taking


23. Miss Anna __________working in this school ten years ago.
A. starts
B. started
C. has started
D. have started

24. Jennifer lives in a small apartment _________ the ground floor.
A. under
B. by
C. in
D. on

25. That is the ________ interesting film I’ve ever seen.
A. more
B. even
C. most
D. very

II. Complete the following sentences from 26 to 35 with the correct preposition( 2points).
26. The problem is becoming serious. We have to do something ______ it.
27. I prefer this chair ________ the other one. It’s more comfortable.
28. The river divides the city __________ two parts.
29, 30. “Have you ever been ______ Borle?” “No, I’ve never heard _________ it?”
31. What have you done with the money you had? What did you spend it _________?
32. Don’t ask me to decide. I’m not very good __________ making decisions.
33. What do you think the best solution _____________ the problem.
34. There has been a big insrease ______________ the price of land recently.
35. He doesn’t have much contact __________ other people.
III. Fill the blanks from 36 to 45 with the right form of the CAPITAL words provided ( 2points).
36. You must be ___________ when you open that door.