Bộ 10 đề ôn thi học sinh giỏi Tiếng anh lớp 9 có đầy đủ đáp án (Đề 8)

SECTION I: LISTENING

Listen to the recording twice. Choose the correct letter from A, B or C for each of the following questions.

What is the purpose of the talk?

Listen to the recording twice. Complete the notes below. Write no more than two words or numbers for each answer.

SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR

Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to best complete the following sentences.

Had the drought not lowered the reservoir the ancient village__________

Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each sentence.

My mother always complains about my _{……………..………..}. (tidy)

Each of the following sentences has an error. Find the errors and correct them.

I'm boring and I wonder if you can tell me what to do for fun.

Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition.

One major disadvantage _{……….…………..} the area is the lack of public transport.

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

HOW TRANSPORTATION AFFECTS OUR LIFE?

Without transportation, our modern society could not (56) ______. We would have no metal, no coal and no oil nor would we have any (57) ______ made from these materials. (58) ______ we would have to spend most of our time (59) ______ food and food would be (60) ______ to the kinds that could grow in the climate and soil of our neighborhood.

      Transportation also (61) ______ our lives in other ways. Transportation can speed a doctor to the (62) ______ of a sick person, even if the patients’ lives on an isolated farm. It can take police to the (63) ______ of a crime within a moments of being noticed. Transportation (64) ______ teams of athletes to compete in national and international sports contests. In time of (65) ______ transportation can rush aid to persons in areas stricken by floods, families and earthquakes.

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

Pandemic

Diseases are a natural part of life on Earth. If there were no diseases, the population would grow too quickly, and there would not be enough food or other resources. So in a way, diseases are nature's way of keeping the Earth in balance. But sometimes they spread very quickly and kill large numbers of people. For example, in 1918, an outbreak of the flu spread across the world, killing over 25 million people in only six months. Such terrible outbreaks of a disease are called pandemics.

Pandemics happen when a disease changes in a way that our bodies are not prepared to fight. In 1918, a new type of flu virus appeared. Our bodies had no way to fight this new flu virus, and so it spread very quickly and killed large numbers of people. While there have been many different pandemic diseases throughout history, all of them have a few things in common.

First, all pandemic diseases spread from one person to another very easily. Second, while they may kill many people, they generally do not kill people very quickly. A good example of this would be the Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is an extremely infectious disease. In addition, it is deadly. About 70-80% of all the people who get the Marburg virus die from the disease. However, the Marburg virus has not become a pandemic because most people die within three days of getting the disease. This means that the virus does not have enough time to spread to a large number of people. The flu virus of 1918, on the other hand, generally took about a week to ten days to kill its victims, so it had more time to spread.

While we may never be able to completely stop pandemics, we can make them less common. Doctors carefully monitor new diseases that they fear could become pandemics. For example, in 2002 and 2003, doctors carefully watched SARS. Their health warnings may have prevented SARS from becoming a pandemic.

Read the text and think of one word which best fits each gap.

Mickey Mantle was one of (76) ……………….…….. greatest baseball players of all times. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to (77) ……………….…….. professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular (78) ……………….…….. in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time. Mantle was a fast and powerful (79) ……………….…….. who could bat both right-handed (80) ……………….…….. left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship (81) ……………….…….. another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, (82) ……………….…….. this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him. Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”: a person who wins without seeming to try, (83) ……………….…….. talent appears to come from an inner grace. That was Mickey Mantle. But (84) ……………….…….. many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life full of problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain (85) ……………….…….. injuries. He lived to fulfil his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death. Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63.

SECTION IV. WRITITNG

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.

 I was not surprised to hear that Harry had failed his driving test.

 It came _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

The only reason the party was a success was that a famous film star attended.

Had it not _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

“Shall I help you do the dishes, Carlo?” said Robert.

Robert offered _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

"That's a lovely new dress, Jean" said her mother.

You may be disqualified if you don’t obey the regulations.

Failure _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

“Nothing will persuade me to sleep in that haunted house,” she said.

She flatly _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

She wore a hearing-aid, even though she could hear the phone ring perfectly well.

She wasn’t so _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

“Why can’t you do your work more carefully?” Helen’s boss said to her.

Helen’s boss criticized _{........................................................................................................................................................}

We couldn’t relax until all the guests had gone home.

Only _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

Immediately after his appointment to the post, the new editor fell ill.

No sooner _{.........................................................................................................................................................................}

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given.

People don’t want to buy cars with large engines any more. (call)

There is _{………………………………………………………………..….……..}cars with large engines.

You’d feel better if you had a quiet holiday. (do)

A quiet holiday _{………………………………………………………………..….……..}

We've postponed the lunch until next week. (off)

The lunch _{…………………………………………………………..……..} until next week.

He is not sure whether to go or not (minds)

He is _{………………………………………………………………..……..} whether to go or not.