Title ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 HOẰNG HOÁ - THANH HOÁ 2024-2025.pdf ✅

2 A. Italy B. Sweden C. France D. Portugal 13. How long did the customers want for their holiday? A. A week B. Ten days C. Two weeks D. Four weeks 14. Why don’t the customers want to go to Italy? A. Because there are too many young people. B. Because it would be too hot. C. Because they’ve been there D. Because the dates don’t suit them 15. Circle the reason that they don’t like to go to Sweden. A. Too expensive. B. Too hot C. No beaches. D. Not enough Question IV: Listen and answer the following questions with short answers with NO MORE THAN 4 WORDS OR NUMBER. 16. What does the speaker suggest the students use when they begin writing résumé? 17. What is useful when applying for a job and should be included? 18. What does the speaker believe the CV should have? 19. What can the words in a CV can describe? 20. What do some people forget to provide on their CV? SECTION B: PHONETICS (5 points) Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line. (3 points) 21. A. tooth B. father C. math D. breath 22. A. threaten B. instead C. bread D. clean 23. A. associate B. sociable C. ancient D. ancestor Question II. Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question. (2 points) 24. A. human B. unite C. colleague D. canteen 25. A. impression B. character C. technology D. attention SECTION C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (25 points) Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 points) 26. Some people prefer to watch a film first, and then read the ______________ in the paper. A. revue B. critic C. criticism D. review 27. Sam still suffers from a rare tropical disease which he ______________ while in Africa.
3 A. infected B. contracted C. influenced D. complained 28. There is no point in phoning him. He’s certain ______________ by now. A. to leave B. to have left C. leaving D. having left 29. Not only the Smiths but also their next-door neighbour ______________ more trees in their neigbourhood so far. A. was planting B. plant C. have planted D. has planted 30. He has always gone ______________ strange hobbies like collecting bottle-tops and inventing secret codes. A. into B. by C. in for D. through 31. Don’t be ______________ by false advertisements. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. A. put off B. given up C. taken in D. put down 32. Tom doesn’t know much about computing, ______________ his brother is an expert at it. A. however B. whereas C. therefore D. in contrast 33. Up to now ______________ space exploring still remains ______________ very risky, complex and expensive endeavor. A. the/ the B. a/ the C. a/ O D. O/ a 34. Jane: "Have you got the time, please?" - Peter: “______________.” A. No, I haven’t. I'm busy B. Sorry. I don’t have a watch now C. I'd rather not D. Sure. I have plenty of time 35. I don’t think you said she was visiting Ha Long Bay, ______________? A. was she B. didn’t you C. did you D. wasn’t she Question II. Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form and tense. (5 points) 36. Don’t call Mr. Mathew between 9 and 11 a.m. He (have) ______________ a meeting with the staff. 37. No wonder he was sacked! He seems (fiddle) ______________ the accounts for years. 38. There (be) ______________ no further business, I declare the meeting closed. 39. Not only Tom (visit) ______________ us but he also brought us many presents. 40. If these students don’t understand what to do, they probably (not listen) ______________ to their teacher earlier. Question III. Put each word in brackets into an appropriate form. (5 points) 41. When I was a child, I often got a weekly ______________ of 15 dollars. (ALLOW) 42. All those foreign visitors can speak Vietnamese very well. There will be a big ______________ to have a translator here. (USEFUL)