Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi huyện
Môn Tiếng Anh 9 - Năm học: 2006-2007
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ( Không kể giao đề )
Lưu ý: Học sinh chỉ ghi phần bài làm vào tờ giấy thi

Part 1. Choose the correct word or phrase underlined to complete the sentences:
1. Mai can’t take part in the volleyball game because she doesn’t cook / didn’t cook/ hasn’t cooked / has cooked dinner for her parents.
2. The woman is keen of / in / on / with about her daughter.
3. She wondered how / whose / which / what her father looked like then.
4. He tried everykey in turn but no / neither / any / none fitted.
5. I wish my mother had lived / has lived / would live / lived together with us this weekend.
6. The boys used to playing / play / played / plays football in my back garden.
7. Her blouse is the same color like / so / from / as mine.
8. Every one in my company has never talked to you about that, has she / has every one / hasn’t she / have they?
9. The weather was awful, because / so / if / but they had to go to work by bus.
10. When we had heard / were hearing / hear / heard the alarm, all of us ran out of the building.
Part 2. Choose one word from the list given to fill in each of the gaps in the text below. Each word is used once only:
dying example about know dead smoking dangerous plane do usually drinking motorbike
People ….(1) that climbing is a dangerous activity, but what ….(2) the danger in our everyday lives? Many activities that we can be dangerous, and some are much more ….(3) than the others. Did you know, for ….(4), that the risk of death through riding was 1 in 1,000? People ….(5) think that traveling by ….(6) is dangerous, but the risk of dying in an accident is only 1 in 25,000! The two most dangerous things that we can ….(7) in our daily lives are riding a motorbike and smoking. The risk of death from a ….(8) accident is 1 in 500, but ….(9) is the worst. The risk of ….(10) from lung cancer is 1 in 200.
Part 3. Supply the correct form of the words in brankets:
1.The Internet has ….. developed and become part of our life. ( increase )
2.The articles in that newspaper are quite ….. . ( inform )
3. Lan talked aloud when the teacher was teaching us. she was ….. . ( think )
4. The children living in this village are very ….. . ( study )
5. When you take an exam, you are an ….. . ( examine)
6. They moved to a ….. area in the north-east of the country. ( mountain )
7. We must learn about keeping the environment ….. . ( pollute )
8. People use the Internet for many purposes ; however, it has ….. . ( limit )
9. The novels ….. in the 1990’s are the best-sellers in many countries in the world. (write )
10. Lan is looking for some ….. information to finish her essay. ( far)
Part 4. Read the passage and decide if the following statements are (T) True or (F) False:
The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasant to live in. Many people think so and go to the country for the summer holidays though they can not live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find the time. English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen for many miles around. surrounding the church is the churchyard, where people are burried. The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are around it. Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have water brought through pipes into each house. Most villages are so near some small town that people can go there to buy anything they can’t find in the village shops..
1. Many people spend their summer holidays in their own cottages in the country.
2. English villages also go to the country whenever they have time.
3. Many people think it’s pleasant to live in the country
4. There is a church in almost every village.
5.The church is tall and you can see it from a long distance.
6. After dying, people are burried in the churchyard.
7. Villagers depend on wells or rivers for drinking water.
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