Bộ 10 đề ôn thi học sinh giỏi Tiếng anh lớp 9 có đáp án (Đề 1)

Most people are surprising to see how rapidly bacteria can multiply under favorable conditions

          Television is one of man’s most important (56) ________ of communication . It brings (57) ________and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President (58) ________a speech or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being fought and watch statesmen try to (59) ________about peace. (60) ________television, home viewers can see and learn about people, places, and things in faraway lands. TV even takes its viewers out of this world. It brings them (61) ________of America’s astronauts as the astronauts explore out of space. In (62) ________to all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programs that are (63) ________to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more (64) ________programs than any other kinds. The programs include action packed dramas, light comedies, sporting (65) ________and motion pictures.

          Today we take electricity for granted and perhaps we do not realize just how useful this discovery has been. Steam was the first invention that replaced wind power. It was used to drive engines and was passed through pipes and radiators to warm rooms. Petrol mixed with air was the next invention that provided power. Exploded in a cylinder, it drove a motor engine. Beyond these simple and direct uses, those forms have not much adaptability.

          On the other hand, we make use of electricity in thousands of ways. From the powerful voltages that drive our electric trains to the tiny current needed to work a simple calculator, and from the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a doorbell, all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to heat a huge mass of molten metal in a furnace, or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee.

          Other than atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the greatest power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It travels so easily and with incredible speed along wires and conductors that it can be supplied instantly over vast distances.

          To generate electricity, huge turbines or generators must be turned. In Australia they use coal or water to drive this machinery. When dams are built, falling water is used to drive the turbines without polluting the atmosphere with smoke from coal.

          Atomic power is used in several countries but there is always the fear of an accident. A tragedy once occurred at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, at an atomic power plant used to make electricity. The reactor leaked, which caused many deaths through radiation.

          Now scientists are examining new ways of creating electricity without harmful effects to the environment. They may harness the tides as they flow in and out of bays. Most importantly, they hope to trap sunlight more efficiently. We do not use solar heaters for swimming pools but as yet improvement in the capacity of the solar cells to create more current is necessary. When this happens, electric cars will be viable and the world will rid itself of the toxic gases given off by trucks and cars that burn fossil fuels.

Part 3: Questions 76 – 85. (2.0 points- 0.2/ each).

My mother and my father are very different people. Mum is always very calm; not exactly easy-going, because she (76) …………………..things very seriously sometimes, but she doesn’t get excited. When we  (77) …………………..small she almost never shouted at us. When we (78) …………………..something wrong, she talked to us about it very firmly, but in a soft tone of (79) …………………... If we shouted and cried, she made us go and sit (80) …………………..ourselves in her sewing-room (81) …………………..we calmed down. So when the news came, she reacted in her usual way, quietly seeing what she could do to prepare (82) …………………..the changes that were coming. Dad, on the other  (83) ………………….., shouted, kicked a chair, and went for along walk to try cool off. During the next few days he was cross with us, as nothing was our fault. All of our kids were worried (84) …………………..what was going to happen, and a (85) …………………..afraid, but we didn’t talk to our parents much. We were also were sad about having to leave all of our school friends.

The boss made them work very hard.

->They …………………..