Title ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 BẮC NINH 2024-2025.pdf ✅

1 UBND TỈNH BẮC NINH SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi có 14 trang) ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025 Môn: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 9 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) PART A: LISTENING (40.0 POINTS) I. You will hear a talk on education. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording. You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the space provided. (20.0 points) Education is so important because it is supposed to help us get prepared for the challenges in our life. That’s why in most schools of all kinds (1) ____________ with challenges in life is widely studied. However, things such as talent, energy, goodwill, and (2) ____________ seem to disappear. In order to improve education, it is claimed that what we need is not money but that we must pay more attention to the real purpose of education, which is aimed to help us with: working and (3) ____________. To address these needs, two crucial subjects must be included in the curriculum. The first one is (4) ____________ since we don’t fully understand how the economy works. To help to study this subject, maths is taught to help students deal with money. It is hoped that students can get more understanding of the global economy together with other terms such as leadership, marketing, and competition, (5) ____________, and HR. Secondly, students really need to study themselves since we usually misunderstand ourselves. In everyday life, students would be taken through the (6) ____________, defensiveness projection and denial. They should be taught a number of concepts and helped towards their personality maps with particular attention paid to (7) ____________ so that they can understand, among other issues, what type of people they are (8) ____________ to go out. It is essential that they should also be taught (9) ____________ so that they can understand which job they are fit for. The (10) ____________ is one of the important criteria of an ideal education system that helps people live a better life together. II. You will hear an interview with a scientist called Peter Crane, who is talking about an ancient tree called the gingko. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D. You will hear the conversation TWICE. (10.0 pts) 1. What first interested Peter about the gingko tree? A. How its leaves grow B. The family it belongs to C. What’s known about its history D. He can’t forget the distinctive leaves. 2. When asked about the medicinal uses of gingko, Peter says ____________. A. scientists have failed to identify any positive effects.

3 2. A. convect B. consent C. condor D. contend 3. A. mousy B. doubtful C. doughty D. doula 4. A. competition B. preposition C. repetition D. preparation 5. A. chorale B. chivalry C. chameleon D. charisma II. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. (5.0 points) 1. A. shallot B. convene C. demo D. syringe 2. A. insolent B. courageous C. tangential D. adjacent 3. A. arithmetic B. miraculous C. beneficent D. inventory 4. A. dependency B. intimacy C. adequacy D. accuracy 5. A. eccentricity B. favoritism C. imperturbable D. crematorium PART C: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50.0 POINTS) I. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the sentence in each of the following questions. (20.0 points) 1. Justin told Ben about his vacation. - Justin: "Going on vacation with three kids is a lot of work. I'm worn-out." - Ben: "____________." A. I'm on the fence about it! B. There will be a lot of hype! C. Did you have a rousing holiday? D. Tell me about it! 2. It was ____________ clear to me what they meant by their cold manner. A. blatantly B. fully C. abundantly D. acutely 3. Peter is impressed by her friend's house as it has a beautiful patio with many ____________. A. circular terracotta flower-filled pots B. terracotta circular flower-filled pots C. circular flower-filled terracotta pots D. flower-filled circular terracotta pots 4. ____________ with being so busy both at work and at home, she became increasingly tired and bad- tempered. A. Which B. How C. What D. Where 5. The old train chugged along the tracks, leaving behind a ____________ of smoke as it traveled through the scenic countryside. A. puff B. drove C. wad D. dash 6. Two friends David and Tom are talking about their last driving test. - David: "I failed my driving test yesterday." - Tom: "____________." A. You should try your hand at it. B. I wish that we could talk about it.