Tiêu đề ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 HÀ TĨNH 2023 2024.docx ✅

4 22. For a whole month, Muslims abstain _____________ eating and drinking during daylight hours. 23. I am not averse _____________ an occasional glass of champagne myself. 24. She stands ____________ as one of the finest contemporary British novelists around at the moment. 25. A lorry had broken ______________ on the motorway and we had to wait for over an hour. 26. The noise from the unruly fans celebrating their team's victory didn't let __________ until early in the morning. 27. Your plan doesn't allow _____________ changes in the weather. 28. He said he would make me a rich man, but I saw _______________ him immediately. 29. Owing to circumstances ______________ our control, the flight to Rome has been cancelled. 30. He has an inspirational politician, who put ______________ his ideas with clarity. Part 3: Use the word given in CAPITAL to form a word that fits in the text. Write your answers in the numbered space provided in the column on the right. There are a myriad of lifestyle issues affecting the youth of today. Such is the pressure heaped on many school-goers to achieve academic excellence by their parents that these (31. REAL) ________________ expectations are causing children to become hopelessly depressed. Indeed, some in their (32. DESPAIR) ___________________ to escape and their sense of guilt at being unable to reach the levels of success demanded of them by their (33. PUSH) __________________ parents, either rebel in what is tantamount to a cry for help, or, worse still, engage in self-harm. It is no (34. COINCIDE) _______________ that suicide rates, especially among young males, have been rising steadily for some time now. These are tough times to be a teen. Then there are those who get hooked on the Internet; the (35. VIRTUE) _________________ world becomes their reality. For these teens, their social circle shrinks (36. DRAMA)_________________ until, at last, their friendship sphere is limited solely to their online buddies. Not alone do they commonly suffer from sleep (37. DEPRIVE) _______________ on account of their destructive addiction to game play and net-surfing, their behaviour may become so erratic and peculiar over time as to be considered (38. SOCIETY) _________________. And while they sit at their computer screens (39. HIDE) _________________ away in splendid isolation from the real world, such is lack of exercise they get that their calorie intake far exceeds what is necessary for them to maintain a stable weight. In essence, due to their sedentary lifestyle, their weight skyrockets until such time as they become morbidly (40. OBESITY) __________________. SECTION III: READING (6.0pts) Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes. A number of scientists around the world are now investigating a phenomenon called synaesthesia that may (1)___________ as many as one in 2,000 people. The name (2) ____________ from the Greek words for