Title ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 TP HUẾ 2024-2025.docx ✅

1 PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO THÀNH PHỐ HUẾ ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 MÔN TIẾNG ANH – NĂM HỌC 2024 – 2025 Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề) LISTENING (25 points) Listen carefully and answer the question below. You will hear each part twice. PART I. You will hear a conversation between Vincent and his sister, Catherine, about a party. Mark the sentences below as True (T) or False (F). (6 pts) 1. Catherine and Vincent feel the same way about meeting new people. F 2. The woman talking to Catherine had long straight blonde hair. F 3. Vincent thinks the writer should have given him a chance to speak. T 4. The man from the flooded village was rescued by the divers. F 5. Vincent enjoyed hearing about the graduation ceremony. F 6. Vincent met one nice person at the end of the evening. T TRANSCRIPT Catherine: It was quite a good party wasn't it? Vincent: Yes, though there were lots of people we didn't know. I'm not that keen on going around introducing myself to strangers. Catherine: Oh, I enjoy new faces and everyone was very friendly (1). Vincent: They certainly were. I heard enough people's life stories to last me a lifetime. Catherine: Oh, there was one woman who told me all about her summer holiday in great detail. Vincent: Was that the woman with short blonde hair? She told me... Catherine: No, she had long, straight brown hair (2). She was wearing big green earrings. Vincent: Yes, I know you mean. Did you meet the writer, a tall man with curly grey hair? Catherine: No, was he interested to talk to? Vincent: Well, he did most of the talking. He told me the entire plot of his latest novel, an adventure story set in Nicaragua. I couldn't get a word in edgeways (3). Catherine: A man was telling me about the narrow escape he'd had when his village was flooded last winter. Vincent: Wow. Catherine: Yes, the police were travelling around in small boats, checking everyone was alright. This man was trapped on the roof of his house for 15 hours, but he was eventually rescued by the fire brigade (4). Vincent: Another woman was talking to me about her daughter's graduation ceremony, the party beforehand. Then everything about the ceremony, the speeches, what the students did. She just couldn't see that I wasn't

3 A: I see ... B: But not all volcanoes are dangerous killers ... A: Really? B: Take Mount Etna, in Sicily. Everybody has heard of Mount Etna. It’s called the “Friendly Giant”, not because it’s big - though it is - but because its lava moves very slowly. This gives people time to escape. It’s not a killer volcano (9) ... even though it looks terrible during its eruptions ... A: Oh, I didn’t know that about its lava ... B: It’s true. Also, people have recorded the deaths caused by Mount Etna for over three thousand years, and it has only killed seventy-three people in all that time (10). That’s not very many when you think about it, though there was a large eruption in sixteen sixty-nine ... but nobody recorded any deaths ... A: Amazing ... B: Volcanoes are always changing ... for example, the cone, that’s the channel the lava flows through, can close up and a new cone can form. A new cone is actually a new volcano. On the site of Mount Fuji in Japan, there were two other volcanoes there before the present one ... (11) A: Amazing! B: Mount Fuji is actually a very popular place for tourists, including the Japanese. It has about four hundred thousand visitors a year. In the summer, there can be twenty thousand a day ... A: And can you tell us about the word “volcano” itself? B: Yes ... it comes from the Italian word “vulcano” which means “burning mountain”, and from the Latin “Vulcanus”. All “burning mountains”, like Vesuvius and Mount Fiji, were given this name, but the name “Vulcanus” was first given by the Romans to Mount Etna because they thought that it was the home of the god Vulcanus ... (12) PART III. Mary and Charles are talking about how to improve memory. Listen and write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. (13 pts) HOW TO IMPROVE MEMORY 1. Process of memorization: - People use (13) ______memory______ in the same way, and do this since being at nursery school. - Two forms of memorization: (14) ______long-term______ and (15) ______short-term______ memory. 2. Tips for improving memory: - Associate a word or (16) ______(a) phrase______ with what you are trying to remember. Example: see name of your pet dog to remember a scientific (17) ______equation______. - Visualize as (18) ______image______ that is linked to what you need to remember. Example: to remember the (19) ______date______ of the fall of Berlin Wall, visualize a picture of a (20)