Bộ 30 Đề thi học sinh giỏi tiếng Anh lớp 9 cấp tỉnh

 UBND TỈNH BẮC NINH ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO Môn: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 9
 ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
 (Đề thi có 14 trang)
PART A: LISTENING (40.0 POINTS) 
I. You will hear a talk on education. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS 
taken from the recording. You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the space 
provided. (20.0 points)
 Education is so important because it is supposed to help us get prepared for the challenges in our 
life. That’s why in most schools of all kinds (1) ____________ with challenges in life is widely studied. 
However, things such as talent, energy, goodwill, and (2) ____________ seem to disappear. In order to 
improve education, it is claimed that what we need is not money but that we must pay more attention to 
the real purpose of education, which is aimed to help us with: working and (3) ____________. To 
address these needs, two crucial subjects must be included in the curriculum. The first one is (4) 
____________ since we don’t fully understand how the economy works. To help to study this subject, 
maths is taught to help students deal with money. It is hoped that students can get more understanding of 
the global economy together with other terms such as leadership, marketing, and competition, (5) 
____________, and HR. Secondly, students really need to study themselves since we usually 
misunderstand ourselves. In everyday life, students would be taken through the (6) ____________, 
defensiveness projection and denial. They should be taught a number of concepts and helped towards 
their personality maps with particular attention paid to (7) ____________ so that they can understand, 
among other issues, what type of people they are (8) ____________ to go out. It is essential that they 
should also be taught (9) ____________ so that they can understand which job they are fit for. The (10) 
____________ is one of the important criteria of an ideal education system that helps people live a better 
life together.
II. You will hear an interview with a scientist called Peter Crane, who is talking about an ancient 
tree called the gingko. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D. You will hear the conversation 
TWICE. (10.0 pts)
1. What first interested Peter about the gingko tree?
 A. How its leaves grow B. The family it belongs to
 C. What’s known about its history D. He can’t forget the distinctive leaves.
2. When asked about the medicinal uses of gingko, Peter says ____________. A. scientists have failed to identify any positive effects.
 B. researchers in different parts of the world disagree about it.
 C. the medicinal uses have gone in two directions in the West.
 D. some parts of the plant help the brain to function.
3. Why are there so many gingko trees in cities all over the world?
 A. They don’t suffer from problems that usually affect trees there.
 B. Other trees can’t survive if they are too close to this species of plant.
 C. They are resistant to salt, oxygen, and unattractive to harmful species.
 D. People take more trouble to look after them than other trees.
4. Peter says people can help other species of plant to survive by ____________.
 A. leaving plants to grow in the wild.
 B. growing them in many different places.
 C. protecting them from plant-eating animals.
 D. preserving wild original populations of gingko tree still left in China.
5. How does Peter’s work influence the way he thinks about the world?
 A. It makes him feel concerned about the future of human beings.
 B. It conserves through widespread cultivation is essential for diversities.
 C. It allows him to understand why human beings focus on the present.
 D. It reminds him that human beings are a relatively new species.
III. You will hear a recording of a nutritionist called Penny Flack talking about the effects of 
health and diet in some countries around the world. Decide whether the following statements are 
true (T) or false (F). (10.0 points)
 EATING FOR HEALTH
1. Obesity in Europe and the USA keeps rising at a worrying rate and affects roughly 25% of their 
citizens.
2. Politicians from the European Union and the USA have been discussing the issues of obesity-related 
diseases.
3. The WHO has recommended that the limit of daily sugar intake should be 25 grams.
4. Heart disease among the Inuit in Greenland is common because they eat a lot of unsaturated fat.
5. Scientists have discovered that a type of spice used in Indian cooking possibly can improve brain 
health.
PART B: PHONETICS (10.0 POINTS)
I. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. (5.0 points)
1. A. hombre B. hauteur C. heirloom D. hostile
2. A. convect B. consent C. condor D. contend
3. A. mousy B. doubtful C. doughty D. doula
4. A. competition B. preposition C. repetition D. preparation
5. A. chorale B. chivalry C. chameleon D. charisma
II. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the 
position of primary stress in each of the following questions. (5.0 points)
1. A. shallot B. convene C. demo D. syringe
2. A. insolent B. courageous C. tangential D. adjacent
3. A. arithmetic B. miraculous C. beneficent D. inventory
4. A. dependency B. intimacy C. adequacy D. accuracy
5. A. eccentricity B. favoritism C. imperturbable D. crematorium
PART C: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50.0 POINTS)
I. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the sentence in each of the following questions. 
(20.0 points)
1. Justin told Ben about his vacation.
- Justin: "Going on vacation with three kids is a lot of work. I'm worn-out." - Ben: "____________."
 A. I'm on the fence about it! B. There will be a lot of hype!
 C. Did you have a rousing holiday? D. Tell me about it!
2. It was ____________ clear to me what they meant by their cold manner.
 A. blatantly B. fully C. abundantly D. acutely
3. Peter is impressed by her friend's house as it has a beautiful patio with many ____________.
 A. circular terracotta flower-filled pots B. terracotta circular flower-filled pots
 C. circular flower-filled terracotta pots D. flower-filled circular terracotta pots
4. ____________ with being so busy both at work and at home, she became increasingly tired and bad-
tempered.
 A. Which B. How C. What D. Where
5. The old train chugged along the tracks, leaving behind a ____________ of smoke as it traveled 
through the scenic countryside.
 A. puff B. drove C. wad D. dash
6. Two friends David and Tom are talking about their last driving test.
- David: "I failed my driving test yesterday." - Tom: "____________." A. You should try your hand at it. B. I wish that we could talk about it.
 C. Oh well. You're in good company. D. You want to pass the test. Dream on!
7. The runner was far ahead for most of the race, but at the end, she won only ____________.
 A. by a whisker B. on the dot
 C. larger than life D. a notch above
8. He is very ____________ about the kitchen - everything has to be perfectly clean and in its place.
 A. creditable B. particular C. concerned D. delectable
9. Each time I visited Aunt Ada, she ____________ the most fascinating stories from her childhood.
 A. would have recounted B. was often recounting
 C. was used to recounting D. would recount
10. ____________, early approaches for coping with workplace stress dealt with the problem only after 
its symptoms had appeared.
 A. Although well-intending B. Although it is a good intention
 C. Although a good intention D. Although well-intended
11. Disappointment ____________ on Richard’s face when his parents didn’t let him go skiing.
 A. enacted B. registered C. extended D. assigned
12. I slept badly last night and am feeling particularly ____________ this morning.
 A. slow-witted B. far-reaching C. off-hand D. top-heavy
13. The project was going smoothly until John decided to ____________ by suggesting a completely 
different approach.
 A. put his foot down B. open up a can of worms
 C. throw in the towel D. take a back seat
14. She didn’t show even a ____________ of emotion when he talked about the diamond ring she would 
get.
 A. gleam B. wink C. flicker D. flash
15. He ____________ us on the last day of the congress, so his presence at the opening ceremony was 
something of a surprise.
 A. could have joined B. had to join
 C. was about to join D. was to join
16. The noise from the unruly fans celebrating their team’s victory didn’t ____________ until early in 
the morning.
 A. carry off B. let up C. give away D. fall over
17. Although the football team should have won the first place, they ____________ their pride and 
congratulated the opponents.
 A. chewed B. digested C. swallowed D. dipped 18. Almost everyone voiced their approval of his proposal that a special scheme ____________ to tackle 
unemployment.
 A. is adopted B. be adopted C. will be adopted D. has to be adopted
19. When his parents are away, his oldest brother ____________.
 A. calls the shots B. draws the line C. is in the same boat D. knocks it off
20. You’ll just have to ____________ yourself to the fact that you can’t always have what you want.
 A. acknowledge B. concede C. allow D. reconcile
II. Give the correct tense/form of the verb in brackets to complete the sentence in each of the 
following questions. (10.0 points)
1. I waited under the clock! - So did I, but I didn’t see you! We (wait) ____________ under different 
clocks.
2. She was breathing fast and deep, as if she (run) ____________.
3. (rank) ____________ as a masterpiece, a work of art must transcend the ideals of the period in which 
it was created.
4. He got angry because he hadn’t been accustomed to (make) ____________ fun like that before.
5. The little girl accompanied by her cats and dogs (wander) ____________ in the backyard at midnight 
the other night.
6. All of us (take) ____________ the seats, the meeting began.
7. He pretended (write) ____________ when the teacher came into the classroom. He expected she did 
not notice him.
8. They (have) ____________ English from nine to ten in this room. Don’t let anyone disturb them then.
9. "Eric is really upset about losing his job." - "Well, (fire) ____________ once myself, I can 
understand."
10. I suppose I found it hard at my new school because I (just/not use) ____________ to the situation.
III. Give the correct form of the given word to complete each of the following sentences. (10.0 
points)
1. Sue was born into a ____________ family; therefore, she had an opportunity to attend the most 
prestigious private school in the country. (BLOOD)
2. James got into trouble for ____________ a police officer last Sunday. (PERSON)
3. This type of ____________ screen enables drivers to have a clear view even when it is smashed. 
(SHATTER)
4. This affair has triggered the serious concerns of ____________ because this is an unpleasant situation 
related to computerized content and its intellectual property rights. (COPY) 5. Not every journalist could notice the star's shifted grounds; her opinion had changed ____________. 
(PERCEIVE)
6. After the CEO resigned, the company found itself in a ____________ state, struggling to make 
decisions without direction. (LEAD)
7. I was ____________ by James' loud and aggressive voice, so I chose to remain silent throughout the 
discussion. (TIMID)
8. He achieved ____________ for failing a drug test after winning an Olympic final. (NOTORIOUS)
9. This paper argues that it is the underlying economic crises that cause the socio-political ____________ 
in most of these countries. (STABLE)
10. Gates gave a brief, ____________ explanation of his plans for the company. (BUSINESS)
IV. There are FIVE mistakes in this paragraph. Identify the mistakes and give the corrections on 
your answer sheet. (10.0 points)
 The first self-service stores opened in America in the 1920s but they didn’t catch on in Europe 
until later, when the French forged ahead with their massive hypermarkets. Britain lagged behind. 
Although the first self-service shop and the first supermarket were opened in the early 1940s, it was 
thought that British housewives did not particularly want proficiency and speed. Surveys showed that 
while American shoppers complained most about delays in check-out queues, British ones objected to be 
pushed and shoved by other customers. The essence of supermarket shopping is impersonal, with no 
mediating salesman between shoppers and goods, only the ‘silent persuaders’ of packaging and display. 
However, there is a current trend towards ‘boutiques,’ with personal service, within supermarkets – the 
butcher, the baker, the fishmonger – and small specialist shops and farmers' markets are doing a 
comeback in Britain. In France, where every self-respecting provincial town, ringed by supermarkets, 
retains their specialist food shops and weekly street market.
PART D. READING (50.0 POINTS)
I. Read the passage carefully and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (10.0 points)
 An unusual species
 Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is home to a very unusual species – the red crab. Endemic 
to the island, it is estimated that between 40 and 50 million of these bright red crabs live on Christmas 
Island. These large crabs, whose shells or carapaces can reach up to 116 mm, are classed as ‘arthropods,’ 
and they live in the island’s shady, moist rainforest. (1) ____________ they are not nocturnal creatures, 
they prefer to avoid direct sunlight in order to preserve their body moisture. During the dry season, they 
stay hidden in the humid interior of their (2) ____________ burrows.
 Although their diet consists mainly of leaves, fruit, flowers, and seedlings, they are in fact omnivorous scavengers and will also eat other dead crabs and birds. They have no natural predators on 
their island home, which explains their large numbers. At the beginning of the annual wet season, the 
crabs (3) ____________ from their forest habitat to the coast to breed. After mating, the males return to 
the forest, but the females remain on the beach for another two weeks after which they lay their eggs – up 
to 100,000 of them – in the ocean at high tide. The eggs released by the females hatch as soon as they 
come into (4) ____________ with the water. Vast numbers of these tiny larvae are washed out to sea, 
where millions are eaten by fish and whale sharks, but those (5) ____________ survive return to the 
shore about a month later.
1. Read the text and choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. (10.0 
points) 
 Geological deposits of salt were formed millions of years ago, when what is now land, lay under 
the sea. It is hard to believe that salt is now such a cheap (1) ____________, because centuries ago it was 
the commercial equivalent of today's oil. The men who mined salt became wealthy and, although the 
work was (2) ____________ and frequently dangerous, a job in a salt mine was highly (3) 
____________. Nowadays, the specific microclimates in disused mines have been exploited for the 
treatment of respiratory illnesses such as asthma, and the silent, dark surroundings in a mine are 
considered (4) ____________ in encouraging patients to relax. In addition, some disused mines have 
been turned over to different commercial enterprises, although keeping up-to-date with the technology of 
mining is essential to (5) ____________ visitors' safety. Some of the largest underground chambers even 
host concerts, conferences and business meetings.
1. A. product B. utility C. material D. commodity
2. A. critical B. demanding C. needy D. straining
3. A. regarded B. admired C. required D. honoured
4. A. profitable B. agreeable C. beneficial D. popular
5. A. insure B. pledge C. ensure D. support
III. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (15.0 points)
 VOLUNTEER VACATIONERS
A. A growing number of Americans are using their holiday time not to laze on the beach or to frequent 
casinos but to restore old railways, snorkel for science and band rare birds. They are a group of 
individuals known as "volunteer vacationers", and many of them are professional people. "We've seen a 
huge increase in interest from professionals as well as others who want short-term meaningful vacations", 
said Christine Victorino of the International Volunteer Programs Association. Her group was formed to 
organize the non- profit bodies which arrange working vacations. B. And these organizations want money as well as time; volunteers' contributions typically top US 
$1,500 for one week, and the airfare is extra. Altruism doesn't come cheap, but these vacations are 
partially tax- deductible, provided the volunteers put in at least five eight-hour days.
C. "If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd pay to pick weeds on a tropical island, I would have 
told them they were crazy," said Leonard Stone, a retired dentist from Chicago. Yet Stone and his wife 
each paid to go on a week-long Oceanic Society expedition to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. They 
worked on a tiny island helping ornithologists look after albatross nesting areas and counting chicks. Like 
most sites where volunteers work, the conditions were Spartan; the volunteers lived in an army barracks 
dating from World War II. But Stone, who is an enthusiastic bird watcher, found it a worthwhile 
experience. He thoroughly enjoyed his daily access to the rare birds and the lectures and films about 
wildlife arranged by the Society.
D. Some volunteers are motivated by a desire to lend a helping hand to the developing world. In the 16 
years it's been in business, Global Volunteers has sent thousands of people all over the world on projects 
ranging from constructing a children's home in India to looking after orphans in Romania. Like other 
such organizations, Global Volunteers has trimmed the longer trips to accommodate professionals' busy 
schedules, and added less-strenuous options for retirees, who now make up one-third of its clients. Steve 
Rosenthal of Cross-cultural Solutions places vocationers on 21-day projects. Volunteers help women in 
India start small businesses or teach English to children in Ghana.
E. Rosenthal said that the number of students, professionals and retirees signing up for his trips has 
consistently doubled over the past five years. Many people agree that this seems to indicate a rising tide 
of disillusionment among Americans with their materialistic way of life. Once he explains that most of 
program fee funds community-based organizations in the host countries, the volunteers are quite happy to 
pay for a working holiday. “I’d rather be paying my vacation money to a non-profit company which is 
helping poor people than to a hotel corporation,” said Ron Cooke, who is a veteran volunteer vacationer. 
He and his wife have counted birds in Costa Rica and trapped ocelots in Mexico. Cooke’s last trip was an 
eight-day vacation helping the environmental group Earthwatch in the Caribean. “We spent part of each 
day snorkeling and counting shellfish”. They also interviewed fishermen and made a survey of seashells, 
while camping on a Dominican Republic beach.
F. Not all the vacationers consider the vacations work; some of the programs are designed for hobbyists, 
or for people who want to learn a new skill. For example, each summer railway enthusiasts join in the 
ongoing restoration of a historic narrow-gauge railway in the southwest US. A special group of volunteer 
vacationers work on organic farms. In return, they learn about organic farming and get to eat a lot of 
healthy food.
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them. You may use any heading more 
than once.
 List of headings
 i. The Psychology of Volunteer Vacationers
 ii. Paying to work
 iii. Benefits for Volunteers
 iv. Helping Poor Countries
 v. Environmental Tourism
 vi. Vacations to Learn
 vii. The Cost of Volunteering
 viii. The Attraction of Non-profit Bodies
 ix. Holidays with a Difference
Example: Answer 
Paragraph A- ix
1. Paragraph B ____________
2. Paragraph C ____________
3. Paragraph D ____________
4. Paragraph E ____________
5. Paragraph F ____________
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the passage? WRITE:
YES if the statement agrees with the information
NO if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
6. All volunteers enjoy their vacations.
7. There is a trend to keep volunteer vacations short.
8. People do not save money by volunteering.
9. The only attraction of volunteering is the chance to help others.
10. Non-profit associations are undermining regular tourism companies.
IV. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to 
each of the following questions. (15.0 points)
 The influence of artificial intelligence on modern life
 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing every aspect of our lives, from the way we