SỞ GD&ĐT TRÀ VINH
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Đề thi chính thức
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2009 – 2010
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)



I – Listening (4ms)

A. Listen to the tape and tick (() the words you hear.
1. small
6. real
11. nice

2. comfortable
7. nervous
12. join

3. exciting
8. lively
13. wrote

4. mean
9. queen
14. interesting

5. uncomfortable
10. horrible
15. word

B. Listen again and answer the question.
Who had the worst experience, speaker 1, speaker 2, or speaker 3? Why?
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II – Choose the correct verb to fill in each blank. Circle A, B, C or D (3ms)

I am an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow and I decided to take one more man to help write legal papers. I (1)_________ a great many people in my life, but the man who (2)_________ my advertisement was the strangest person I (3)_________ of or met.

He stood outside my office and (4)_________ for me (5)_________. He was a small man, quiet and (6)_________ in a clean but old suit. I asked him his name. It was Bottlebie.

At first Bottlebie almost worked himself too hard (7)__________ the legal papers I gave him. He worked through the day by sunlight and into the night by candlelight. I was happy with his work but not happy with the way he worked. He was too quiet but he worked well like a machine, never (8)_________, or speaking. One day, I asked Bottlebie (9)_________ to my office to study a legal paper with me. Without (10)_________ from his chair, Bottlebie said “I do not want to”. I sat for a short time, too surprised (11)_________ . And I became (12)_________. “You do not want to? What do you mean?”.

1.
A. meet
B. met
C. has met
D. have met

2.
A. answer
B. answered
C. answering
D. to answer

3.
A. hear
B. had heard
C. have heard
D. heard

4.
A. wait
B. waiting
C. waited
D. waits

5.
A. speak
B. speaking
C. spoke
D. to speak

6.
A. dress
B. dresses
C. dressed
D. was dressed

7.
A. write
B. writing
C. writes
D. wrote

8.
A. look
B. looks
C. looking
D. looked

9.
A. come
B. comes
C. came
D. to come

10.
A. moving
B. moved
C. move
D. to move

11.
A. moving
B. moved
C. move
D. to move

12.
A. excite
B. excited
C. exciting
D. to excite


III – Fill in each blank with up, on, for, to, from or with. (1m)

At the end of the street all could see a manger and some hay, the place where the trip must end. The star they had followed shone down upon the manger and lit (1)_______ strange light. Because it was only a small place, and because there were so many (2)________ the party of the Kings, the shepherds stepped (3)________ one side. They wanted the King and the gifts to go first. The oldest of the wise men saw this and said “Come. Do not make yourselves small before us. Join us and come to see the child. It doesn’t matter if we come from far or near, or if we are poor or rich, we come (4)________ for the same reason. We should enter together.

IV – There are four mistakes in the following paragraph. Identify the mistakes and correct. (2ms)

He went into the house. His hands and feet were as cool as the snow outside. He put his arms around his wife and kissed her. He had done a decision. He said, “Ida, tonight, we are really going to eat and drink, no more saving. I want plenty of good. I’m going to open that bottle of wine we’ve been keeping”. Ida’s eyes brightened. Adam said, “There are people who has less than we do. Let us be happy with what we have.