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1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HÀ NỘI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi có 13 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THÀNH PHỐ NĂM HỌC 2023-2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề Lưu ý: Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề của thí này, không được sử dụng tài liệu và bất kỳ loại tài liệu nào. Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. LISTENING (3.0 PTS) Part 1: You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1-6, circle the answer (A, B, or C) which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. You are going to listen twice. Extract One You hear a husband and wife talking about their child’s education. 1. The couple agree ____________. A. on their son’s ability to make good decisions. B. that their son should be self-sufficient. C. on their son’s need for formal qualifications. 2. Compared to the man, the woman is ____________. A. conservative. B. realistic. C. naive. TRANSCRIPT WOMAN: Now George calm down. I know you always had high hopes for Rob. But that doesn't mean he has to follow in your footsteps. Haven't you always emphasised and quite rightly that he needs to be independent? What's wrong with being a professional musician anyway? MAN: Is that what you'd call someone playing in a rock band? He looks down his nose at me and my colleagues, but imagine where we'd all be now if I hadn't knuckled down and worked hard. Where does he think the money for the music lessons came from in the first place? WOMAN: Oh George, don't be so pompous. MAN: Pomposity has absolutely nothing to do with it. These days you need credible qualifications to succeed in life. WOMAN: Well George, there are a great number of very well known people who have none. MAN: What does a 17 year old know about life? I'm sorry but... WOMAN: Would you please stop this and get back to the subject? Rob has made up his mind and I think the least we can do is to back him in his choice. After all, he is a mature well balanced individual who doesn't act on impulse. I'm sure it was a well thought out decision. Extract Two
2 You hear a specialist discussing color blindness. 3. Total color blindness ____________. A. is more common in men than in women. B. is a hereditary condition. C. affects fewer people than partial color blindness. 4. Color blindness ____________. A. can exempt the sufferer from some types of employment. B. affects many aspects of the sufferer’s life. C. means sufferers are obliged to undergo tests. TRANSCRIPT Total color blindness, in which all hues are perceived as variations of grey, is known as chromatopsia or monochromatism. This is a far more serious defect than partial color blindness, which is unfortunately extremely rare. Unlike simple color blindness, monochromatism affects men and women equally. Partial color blindness, called dichromatism, generally consists of the inability to differentiate between the reds and greens of the color spectrum or the actual inability to perceive reds or greens. Dichromatism is the most common form of color blindness, affecting about 7% of men and less than 1% of women, and is normally a hereditary characteristic. It is interesting that the vision of most colorblind people is normal in all other respects. They can generally learn by experience to associate colors with varying sensations of brightness. Consequently, many people live their lives without even being aware that they are colorblind. Some only discover that they have the condition when they take obligatory tests, such as obtaining driving licenses, or when applying for certain jobs in which color distinction is necessary. Extract Three You hear part of a lecture by a sociologist. 5. According to the lecture, many people left their homes due to ____________. A. the large number of roads and railways. B. their inability to find work. C. the lack of land available. 6. The speaker believes that people’s attitudes to work were based on ____________. A. their backgrounds. B. a desire for profit. C. market forces. TRANSCRIPT If I could continue, please. As the 19th century progressed, more and more farmers who relied on the adverse terms of credit advanced
3 by money lenders were reduced to bankruptcy, and many were ultimately forced to sell their land. The power of large landowners and merchants then drove or kept many individuals from ownership of land. By the 1840s, thousands of landless people were forced into dependent employment as farm laborers or workers on the construction of roads, canals, and railways. The fact that many individuals were unsuccessful in the pursuit of employment is shown by the high rate of migration within the country and by emigration to other countries. In their new countries, despite the fact that the lives of so many people at this time had been affected by capitalist institutions, priorities of work and life were not ordered strictly in terms of economic criteria. Cultural factors were important. Upper Canadians, for example, who mainly came from the British Isles, had been exposing their native lands to the Protestant ethic and its positive enjoyment of hard work and frugality. Thus, considerations of what was useful, rather than what could be exchanged on the market, were also important in the production of goods. Part 2: You will hear a report on how English has become a global language. For questions 7-15, fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS according to what you hear. You are going to listen twice. (1.8 pts) The spread of English around the globe means it is now termed a (7) ______ world language ______. English first started to spread when explorers made (8) ______ voyages of discovery ______ to the other side of the world. The influence of Britain in the past and the influence of American businesses are the (9) ______ two (2) factors ______ which give English its present significance. The number of people whose (10) ______ mother tongue ______ is English is significantly greater in the USA than in the UK. It is difficult to (11) ______ determine ______ the communicative functions of English in some countries. It is sometimes suggested that English is (12) ______ inherently ______ superior to other languages. People tend to judge languages using subjective rather than (13) ______ objective standards ______. English sentence structure is (14) ______(highly) complex ______. Language success is (15) ______ dependent ______ on a variety of different things. TRANSCRIPT Now, English is either the dominant or official language in over 60 countries and is spoken on every continent and across the three major oceans: the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific. It is without any doubt a world language now, but this wasn't always the case. How did English achieve this extraordinarily wide representation? Well, English started to move around the world with the early voyages of discovery to the Americas, Asia, and the Antipodes, and it continued in the 19th century when colonies were established in Africa and the South Pacific. Then, in the 20th century, it took a significant further step when many newly independent states adopted it as
4 an official or semi-official language. Two factors make English important today: the expansion of British colonial power, which peaked towards the end of the 20th century, and the emergence of the US as the dominant economic power of the 20th century. It is this which continues to explain the position of the English language today, although there are people in Britain who find this difficult to accept. But if you look at the statistics, you'll see that the USA contains nearly four times as many English mother-tongue speakers as the UK. And although together these two countries comprise 70% of all English mother-tongue speakers in the world, this dominance gives the Americans a controlling interest in the way the language is likely to develop. However, as we've already seen, Britain and the US are not the only places where English is used as an important vehicle for communication. In countries where English is a second or foreign language, or where English is used simultaneously as a first and a second language, like Canada, for example, or in a country like India, where a history of language contact has produced a legacy of language conflict, it is not easy to determine how and in what situations English is used. One reason people often put forward for English having achieved its worldwide status is its intrinsic linguistic features. People have claimed that it is inherently a more logical or beautiful language than others, or that it's easier to pronounce, simpler, or has a large vocabulary. This is simply not true. There are no objective standards of logic or beauty to compare different languages, and questions of phonetic, grammatical, or lexical complexity are never capable of simple answers. For example, English may not have many inflectional endings, which is what most people think of when they talk about English as grammatically simple, but it has a highly complex syntax. The number of endings actually has no bearing on whether a language becomes used worldwide; you just have to look at the success of Latin or ancient Greek in the past to see that. There has always been one language in a particular era that was high in world esteem, and probably always will be. What gives a language this particular position is dependent on many factors—political, economic, social, religious, literary, maybe—but not necessarily linguistic. PHONETICS (2.0 PTS) I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D. (1.0 pt) 1. A. prescription B. preparation C. preliminary D. presumption /prɪˈskrɪpʃən/ /ˌprɛpəˈreɪʃən/ /prɪˈlɪməˌnɛri/ /prɪˈzʌmpʃən/ 2. A. reserve B. preserve C. conserve D. deserve /rɪˈzɜːrv/ /prɪˈzɜːrv/ /kənˈsɜːrv/ /dɪˈzɜːrv/ 3. A. bought B. naught C. plough D. thought