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1 SỞ GD&ĐT NINH BÌNH ĐỀ MINH HOẠ ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC: 2021-2022 Môn: TiếngAnh Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Đề thi này gồm 04 phần, 12 trang. SECTION 1: LISTENING (5 points) PART 1: Section 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8, choose the best answer (A, B or C). 1. You hear a restaurant manager talking about the cooks who work for him. What does he say about them? A. They dislike cleaning tasks. B. They have a choice of jobs. C. They help to decide the menu. 2. You hear a woman talking about a new book. What does she particularly like about the book? A. It is educational. B. It is well organised. C. It is enjoyable. 3. You hear the writer of a television soap opera being interviewed about the programme. What will happen next in the story? A. Someone will make an important decision. B. Someone will go away unexpectedly. C. Someone will learn the truth at last 4. You hear part of a radio interview. Who is speaking? A. a taxi driver B. a porter C. a tourist guide 5. You hear a woman talking about how she keeps fit. Why did she decide to take up line dancing? A. She thought the pace would suit her. B. She had heard about it on television. C. She wanted to try exercising to music. 6. You overhear a conversation in a restaurant. What does the woman think about the food she has just eaten? A. It was expensive. B. It was delicious. C. It looked wonderful. 7. You turn on the radio and hear a man talking. What is he talking about? A. drawing pictures B. writing fiction C. composing music 8. You overhear a student phoning her parents. What is her opinion of the place she is living in while at college?
2 A. She is not sure she will have enough room to study. B. She has difficulty in working because of the noise. C. She does not get on well with her room-mates. Part 2. Questions 1-10. Complete the notes below. Write one word or number for each answer. CYCLE TOUR LEADER: APPLICANT ENQUIRY Example Name: Margaret _____Smith______ About the applicant: • wants a (1) ___________ job • will soon start work as a (2) ___________ • has led cycle trips in (3) ___________ • interested in being a leader of a cycling trip for families • is currently doing voluntary work with members of a (4) ___________club • available for five months from the 1 st of (5) ___________ • can’t eat (6) ___________ Contact details: • address: 27 (7) ___________ Place, Dumfries • postcode: (8) ___________ Interview: • interview at 2.30 pm on (9) ___________ • will plan a short (10) ___________ about being a tour guide. Part 3 You will hear an interview with Trina Trevose, a pop singer who is only fifteen. For questions 24-30, choose the best answer (A, B or C). 1. When Trina went to the USA, she ___________. A. thought the records she made would be unsuccessful. B. knew her friends would be jealous of her. C. didn't tell many people why she was going. 2. When Trina was in the USA, she wrote songs about ___________. A. her home. B. the weather. C. people she met 3. Where was Trina performing when she was noticed by the record company?
3 A. in London B. near her home C. in the USA 4. Why did Trina sing with David Pearson? A. He needed some help. B. She wrote a song for him. C. The record company asked her to. 5. Trina was asked to return to the USA to ___________. A. re-do some work. B. appear on TV again. C. record a new song. 6. Why isn't Trina popular in Britain? A. Her kind of music isn't popular in Britain. B. The company don't want to sell her records in Britain. C. Her records haven't been available in Britain 7. How does Trina see her future? A. She will continue making records in the USA. B. She may make singing her career eventually. C. She wants to study music at college. SECTION B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY. (2 points) Part I. Choose the best answer by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C or D (3 pts) 1. - Daisy: “What a lovely house you have!” - Mary: “______.” A. Lovely, I think so B. Thank you. Hope you will drop in C. Of course not, it’s not costly D. No problem 2. Analysts suggested the country __________its infrastructure to get foreign investment. A. improve B. to improve C. improves D. improving 3. Shhh. I hear someone _________ from the distance. Do you hear anything? A. interesting B. thinking C. boring D. crying 4. We looked for him everywhere but he was nowhere_________. A. to be seen B. saw C. seeing D. seen 5. John is working in a factory. His job is_________ broken machines. A. repairing B. repaired C. to repair D. repair 6. If he had not been absent yesterday, everything _________ A. would be ok at the moment. B. wouldn’t ok at present. C. won’t be alright now. D. wouldn have been ok now. 7. The more paper we save, the_________ wood we use for making it. A. fewer B. less C. smaller D. more
4 8. I wrote to them a fortnight ago but_________ I have not had a reply. A. as yet B. those days C. so long D. just now 9. A lot of progress has been _________since the country became independent A. created B. done C. built D. made 10. Don’t let a good chance_________. A. go by B. go off C. go down D. go over PART II: Use the correct form of the words in brackets. NEW WATERPROOF CLOTHING There are few experiences as unpleasant as being (0. bitter) bitterly cold and dripping wet on board a boat. The (1. know ) ___________ that you may be several hours away from warm, dry clothing is enough to slow down even the (2. tough) ___________ sailor. However, recent (3. science) ___________ development in the types of material used to make waterproof clothes have, hopefully, put an end to the (4. suffer) ___________ of the sailor. New suits, trousers and jackets have been designed which allow people to stay warm and dry at sea and can be worn (5. comfort) ___________ for days on end. The new clothing is by no means cheap, but that will not stop it from selling well, and not just in the sailing market. (6. like) ___________ previous types of waterproof clothing, which tended to leave the wearer hot, sweaty and sticky even after a (7. relative) ___________ short burst of (8. energy) ___________activity, these new clothes are manufactured with an (9. addition) ___________ inner layer. This is made of a special material which allows the clothes to 'breathe' - in other words, body heat can escape so that the body stays dry, but still maintains its (10. warm) ___________in all weathers. SECTION C: READING (5 points) For questions 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0) Put a circle on the letter indicating the correct answer. THE MUSTARD SHOP Norwich, a city in the east of England, is a (0) ___________ shopping centre for thousands of people. In particular, visitors love to (1) ___________ the small, unusual shops hidden away in Norwich's narrow streets. The Mustard Shop is usually high on everybody's (2) ___________ of interesting shops to see. The (3) ___________ between mustard, a type of sauce, and Norwich (4) ___________ back to the nineteenth century. Jeremiah Colman began to make mustard in 1814 in a nearby village. The yellow fields,