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PHÒNG GD&ĐT THANH CHƯƠNG BÀI THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI
------------------ NĂM HỌC 2015 -2016
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 9 - VÒNG 3
Thời gian làm bài 150 phút
(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi)

Điểm Họ tên, chữ ký giám khảo Số phách

Bằng số: ……………………......... Giám khảo 1: …………………………….
Bằng chữ: ………………………… Giám khảo 2: …………………………….

SECTION A. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

Question 1 (10 points). Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the
following sentences.
1. Are you sure you told me? I don’t recall ____________ about it.
A. having told B. having been told C. to have told D. to have been told
2. If you want to develop inner tranquility, you have to stop ____________by every little thing that
happens.
A. bothering B. being bothered C. to bother D. to be bothered
3. Never ___________that poem.
A. do I have read B. I read C. have I read D. I have read
4. Only by working independently ____________ so quickly.
A. he could grow up B. he did grow up C. he grew up D. could he grow up
5. _____________ the salary meets my expectations, I will accept the job offer.
A. Due to B. Even if C. Provided that D. Unless
6. No one could account for it. They couldn’t __________ it.
A. explain B. estimate C. interpret D. describe
7. Many a candidate ____________ unsuccessful in the oral test.
A. was B. aren’t C. weren’t D. were
8. You have to pay extra if you take too _________ with you.
A. much luggages B. many luggages C. much luggage D. many luggage
9. She told me that she _____________ happy for what he _________.
A. is feeling/did B. was feeling/had done C. feels/did D. had left/ has been doing
10. The professor said that Vietnam __________ to South-East Asia.
A. has belonged B. had belonged C. belonged D. belongs
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Question 2 (10 points). Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines
are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√)
by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in the blanks on the
right. Number 0 and 00 have been done for you.
CITY LIGHTS Line
0. I was born in a small country town. When I was young 0………..√….
00. it seemed as an idea place to live. I had lots of friends to play with and I 00……as….
01. was enough happy. But, as I got older, everything suddenly seemed 01…………....
02. like a bit boring. I wanted to go to museums and theaters but they were too far 02……………
03. away to get to very often. Then, when I was 16, we moved to London because 03……………
04. my father was offered a much more better job in a big hospital in the city center. 04……………
05. At first, my brothers and I were very unhappy. The people in the city seemed be 05……………
06. really unfriendly to us. However, we made friends eventually and we slowly 06……………
realized
07. there was a lot much more to do in the city than in the country. Near our house, 07……………
08. for example, there was a fantastic amusement park. It was the most greatest 08……………
place
09. I could imagine! We used to spend as much time as we could there. We were 09……………
too
10. young for to go on many of the rides, but we loved the atmosphere. When I was 10……………
a little older, I discovered many more exciting places to visit.

Question 3 (10 points). Read the text below. Use the word given in capital letters at the end of
each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Number (0) has been done for
you.

VOICES FOUNDATION
Voices Foundation is a music education (0) organization. Its founder, Susan
0) ORGANISE
Digby, believes (1) _________________ that learning to sing is the best way
1) PASSION
to introduce children to music. ‘Playing a (2)
2) MUSIC
___________________instrument is difficult, and the (3)
3) MAJOR
_______________of children who begin usually give up, but everyone has a
voice,’ she says. 4) INSPIRE
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Digby’s (4) _________________for the Foundation came when she was

5) DEVELOP
travelling in Hungary. ‘People there believe that a child’s (5)
6) SIGNIFY
______________________benefits from music education, and it has a (6)
7) MATHEMATICS
___________________effect on other skills, like (7) ________________and
8) COMMUNICATE
linguistic skills. Music education provides a training which extends children’s
9) ENJOY
(8) ________________and listening powers.’ Digby believes that if children
10) WILL
get (9) ______________from singing, they are more likely to learn an
instrument (10) __________________when they are older.

SECTION B. READING COMPREHENSION

Question 1 (10 points). Complete this passage using sentences marked by A-G. There is one
extra sentence which you do not need to use. Write your answer in the box.
MUSIC TO HELP YOUR BRAIN
A. Pupils were put into groups to listen to different things
B. Pupils doing best had probably liked what they had heard.
C. Those listening to pop music did best on the test.
D. It was thought that difficult music made the brain work better.
E. The experiment suggests that the children did not listen to Mozart.
F. Listening to Mozart seemed to improve mental ability.
G. The experiment was carried out in all parts of Britain
0 G

Listening to pop music may make you cleverer, according to a Megalab experiment in which
11,000 children in 250 schools across Britain took part.

The idea was put forward as a scientific study by Dr Sue Hallam of the Institute of Education,
London, to follow up work in California which suggested that listening to music by Mozart for ten
minutes had a direct effect on people’s ability to work out problems.

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The Megalab experiment took place at eleven o’clock one Thursday morning. School children were
split at random into three separate groups: one listening to Mozart, one to a pop group and one to a
conversation in which Dr Hallam discussed Megalab.

The children were the given problem-solving tasks. The group which had listened to the discussion
scored 52 per cent, those who had listened to Mozart also scored 52 per cent, but those who had
listened to pop group scored 56 per cent. Dr Hallam said the result is interesting and ‘approaching
significance’.

She thought that the reason was not due to the ‘Mozart effect’ but because the mood of the children
had changed, so they were more aroused and tried harder. ‘They were probably enjoying it and so
they were well motivated,’ she said. ‘The others were probably uninterested or not particularly
inspired by Mozart or by the discussion.’

Dr Frances Rauscher, of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Berkeley,
California, had suggested that students would do better after listening to Mozart because his music
is complex and stimulates particular activity in the brain.

Question 2 (10 points). Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for each
question. Choose the correct answers by circling A, B, C or D.
TEACHING THE VIOLIN
‘The best age to start learning the violin is between three and six,’ said Margaret Porter, a
violinist and music teacher. ‘It’s the time when you are learning about the world,’ Margaret, who
lives in London, prefers to take pupils at three and four, although she has made lots of exceptions
for keen five-year-olds. When she started teaching the violin in 1972, her first class consisted of her
children’s five-year-old school friends.
Margaret’s pupils have group lessons. Each group has about a dozen pupils and each lesson
lasts an hour, once a fortnight. In addition, each pupil has one individual lesson a week with her.
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Parents also have to attend the lessons. It is important that the parents take an active interest in the
lesson.
From the earliest lessons pupils learn to play by ear. They do not even try to read music until
they have been playing for several years, and for a long time there is a big difference between their
playing and reading of music. Margaret says that her method is not supposed to produce great
violinists, and always suggests that pupils who perform particularly well should leave and study the
violin using more traditional methods.
1. What is the writer trying to do in the text?
A. explain why Margaret likes teaching the violin.
B. describe a different way of learning the violin.
C. give advice on how to find a music teacher
D. explain why Margaret has a lot of pupils
2. Why should someone read the text?
A. to discover how Margaret learnt the violin
B. to learn why it is important to read music.
C. to find out about Margaret’s teaching method.
D. to learn why children should play the violin.
3. What opinion does Margaret have about her best pupils?
A. They ought to find another teacher.
B. They will become great violinists using her method
C. They could try harder
D. They take several years to learn to read music.
4. Who were Margaret’s first pupils?
A. her children B. three and four – year – olds
C. her own friends D. her children’s friends
5. Which of the following would Margaret include in an advertisement for her classes?
A. Learn to play the violin with your children – 2 lessons a week
B. Watch your children learn to play the violin.
C. Group violin lessons for children – no more than 5 per group.
D. We’ll look after your children while you learn the violin.
Question 3 (10 points). Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank.
DICTIONARIES
Dictionaries are (0) AMONG the most important tools of self-education.
(1)________________Samuel Johnson wrote his influential English dictionary in the eighteenth
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century, the work kept him busy for seven years. At the end of that period he (2)
__________________written the meanings of over forty thousand words. Most modern dictionaries
require a (3)_________________ deal less time and effort to write because writers often use earlier
dictionaries as a source of reference.
Nowadays, most dictionaries are put together by teams of writers, or lexicographers. Sometimes
they need to work together in meetings; at other times they work independently of
(4)__________________other, on different parts of the dictionary.
(5) ____________________one time, the starting point for deciding on which words to include
used to be the lexicographer’s own knowledge. These days, teams (6) ____________________use
of a large collection of examples of (7)__________________only writing but also every day speech,
which is known as a corpus. Teams also refer (8) _________________books and articles about
language as (9) ______________ as asking experts in particular subjects about the more specialized
words. Finally, ordinary people are asked to say what they think about the way the words are
defined and (10) ____________they find the examples provided helpful or not.
SECTION C. WRITING
Question 1 (10 points). Using the word in capital letters, complete the second sentence so that
it has a similar meaning to the first one. Do not change the word given.
1. He took a taxi so he wouldn’t have to walk in the rain. AVOID
 He took a taxi _______________________________________________________in the rain.
2. No one has ever stolen my car. HAD
 I have __________________________________________________________ stolen.
3. My parents met for the first time thirty years ago. THAT
 It _______________________________________________________my parents first met.
4. Although the main actor performed well, the critics didn’t like the play. GOOD
 In spite _________________________________________by the main actor, the critics didn’t
like the play.
5. I always trust Carla’s advice. SOMEBODY
 Carla __________________________________________ I always trust.
6. We appear to have been given the wrong address. AS
 It ________________________________________________ we have been given the wrong
address.
7. Valerie doesn’t object to her photograph appearing in the magazine. OBJECTION
 Valerie ________________________________________her photograph appearing in the
magazine.
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8. I find Robert’s taste in music very hard to tolerate. PUT

 I find it _____________________________________________Robert’s taste in music.
9. Golf is becoming increasingly popular in Britain. POPULARITY
 The ___________________________________________in Britain.
10. Too tired to continued, Phil stopped walking. CARRY
 Phil couldn’t ________________________________________ he was too tired.
Question 2 (10 points). Rewrite the following sentences so that they have the same meaning as
the original one.
1. I left without saying goodbye as I didn’t want to disturb the meeting.
 Rather……………………………………………………….………………………………………
2. That’s the last time I go to that restaurant.
 I certainly…………………………………………………………………………………………
3. The drama critic of the ‘Daily News’ regards the new play as a major breakthrough.
 According to.………………………………………………………………………………………
4. I didn’t realize he was the author and that’s why I was rude about his new book.
 Had………………………….………………………………………………………………………
5. She never seems to succeed, even though she works hard.
 However………….…………………………………………………………………………………
6. The people who were there didn’t notice anything unusual.
 No one …..…………………………………………............………………………………strange
7. I wasn’t a bit surprised to hear that Karen had changed her job.
 I came as..…………………………………………………………………………………………
8. It was more of an argument than a discussion.
 It was not so ….……………………………………………………………………………………
9. I would do anything for you.
 There’s…………………………………………………………………………………………
10. The computer will be available anytime but one o’clock.
 The computer will ..………………………………………………………………………………
Question 3 (20 points). Nowadays some parents think that English Grammar is more
important than spoken English. Do you agree or disagree with that? Write an essay about
120 – 150 words to express your ideas.
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