Đề thi HSG Tiếng Anh 9 Tỉnh Hà Tĩnh năm 2023 có đáp án

SECTION 1: LISTENING  

Part 1: Listen to Greta, talking to Jayden, about schoolwork. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C for each of the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

 1. What school work is the most important to Greta at the moment?

What was Greta’s brother doing while she was doing her homework?

What did Greta want to find out about?

When is Greta taking part in the public speaking debate?

What would Greta like to be one day?

Part 2: You will hear a part of a lecture about advertising. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

The important factor to consider

- The (6)_____________ customers must travel affects the possibility that they will buy the product.

- (7)________________ are easier to remember if there is a sound played with them.

Mandy’s Candy Store appeals to people’s (8) ____________ of smell to draw in customers.

To an ad campaign for digital products, it is (9)______________ that is extremely important.

The customer’s (10) ________________ after he or she experiences the ad is most important.

On (11) _______________ flights, it is wise for the advertisement to be displayed in the common languages of most passengers.

Very few young people buy (12)_____________.

- The UNESCO website would be a good place to advertise for companies (13) _____________ to improve the environment.

One good location to place ads for (14) __________________ is the swimming pool.

A good scene for a water purification commercial would be (15) _____________.

Part 3: For questions 16-20, listen to a discussion between a teacher and Mrs Bromley, a student’s mother about her son Billy and decide whether these statements are true (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

16. The teacher asked to see Mrs. Bromley to discuss why Billy performed poorly in his exams.

Billy has become more isolated from his parents since his brother left home.

The teacher says that children tend to act out scenes from the violent films they watch.

The teacher suggests that Billy should seek professional help.

The teacher feels optimistic about finding a solution.

SECTION II: GRAMMAR AND LEXICAL ITEMS

 Part 1: Choose the correct word and phrase to complete each sentence. Write your answers A, B, C, or D in the numbered boxes.

21. Anyone __________ scholastic record is above average can apply for the scholarship.

____________ that at the age of 15, he would be playing for his country.

How beautiful she is! She is wearing a _______________.

Peter and his friend, Margaret are talking about her cooking.

Peter: What a fantastic cook you are, Margaret!           Margaret: “ ___________”

It is necessary that a life-guard __________ the swimming pool while the children are taking their swimming lessons.

It was found that he lacked the _________to pursue a difficult task to the very end.

The doctor said that sweets should be eaten in ___________.

Using bare toes, lift a towel from the floor 10 times with the painful foot, then 10 times with ______.

When he was a child, he loved taking things to ___________ - to see how they worked.

What he told me was a __________ of lies

The new curriculum has been designed to ______ students’ learning by combining theory with hands-on practice.

My father is going to go up to the_________ when he found out I’ve lost the car keys.

If Jenkins fails to ________ the goods one more time, I’ll fire him.

Shakespear’s plays have stood the ____________ of time because they are so well-written.

The popular press often contains a lot more ________ than hard facts.

There has been a(n) ________ of the disease in several villages in the south of the country.

When I started to study archaeology, I knew ______ no Latin, but within a year I could read it rather well.

What the company needs is a ___________ actor who can take on a variety of roles.

Our hosts had prepared a ______ meal with seven courses to celebrate our arrival.

A major problem in the construction of new buildings _____________.

Part 2: Fill in each blank with suitable particle(s). Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

41. “ You set me _______!” said the mobster to the double agent as the police took him away.

The survivors of the Titanic were _________ sea for several days before being rescued.

The car’s in quite good condition but you can try it ______ before you make any decision to buy.

Everyone in the office is contributing money _____ his leaving present.

Mr. Nixon refused to answer the question ______ the grounds that the matter was confidential.

Most people would jump _______ the chance to spend a year in America.

Every New Year’s Eve they let _______ fireworks in the main square.

We’d just set _______ on our camping trip when we realized we’d forgotten the tent.

I am glad my sister got __________ all her exams last semester.

After a year of overindulging himself __________ drinking, he now suffers from a nervous breakdown.

Part 3: Use the word given in CAPITAL to form a word that fits in the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered space provided in the column on the right.

 Until (51. COMPARE) ____________ recent times science and technology performed different and separate functions

the progress of one so often completely (52. RELATE) _________ to the progress of the other.

(53. HISTORY) _____________have established that, since the earliest time, the improvements in our way of life have resulted from an empirical approach

(54. PHILOSOPHY)_____________ and pragmatic in approach, stems from the seventeenth century when

(55. EXTEND)__________ investigations into the natural laws governing the behavior of matter were (56. TAKE)_____.

investigations into the natural laws governing the behavior of matter were (56. TAKE)_____.

 Scientific knowledge was not in itself seen as a (57. PLACE)____________ for the earlier system of trial and error

but it did help the technical innovators to see which path of (58. EXPERIMENT)__________ might be more fruitful

With the industrialization of the nineteenth century, the bond between science and technology (59. STRONG)______.

In our own time, the mutual (60. RELY)_________ of one discipline upon the other has increased still further.

Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C, or D best fits each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

           It is important to recognize that online learning has (61) _________ advantages and disadvantages. Although students’ grades appear to be unaffected by the mode of instruction, certain courses are more challenging to students who (62) _________ their studies in the virtual environment than in the classroom.

However, in online classes, participation in learning activities may be less (63)__________, especially for shy students, and the quality and quantity of student-student and teacher-student interaction may be higher. Increasingly, it is a/an (64) ________ issue for designers of online curriculums to decide how to match the advantages of different modes of instruction to specific courses, by offering not only fully classroom-based or online courses, but also that take the best element of both types to (65) ________ the needs of students and teachers and to (66) _________ the most efficient use of resources.

           Students who study online tend to lack a sense of community, trust, and positive interaction with other course members and teachers - all elements that were in the past believed to increase the effectiveness of classroom learning, amongst least confident learners. However, online students generally also feel that they learn at a similar rate to their (67) _______ in the classroom, and in fact at my college their grades are just as good as those who are taught in (68) _________. But just imagine how much more effective our online courses could be if they fostered a culture of class cohesion, spirit, trust, and interaction, both among students and between students and faculty. Perhaps the most effective way to achieve this improvement is for online educators to give more (69) ________ contact and to encourage students to collaborate.

           Online learning provides a far more student-centered teaching approach than the traditional classroom method, and all schools (70) _______should aim to adopt it as their main means to deliver education.

It is important to recognize that online learning has (61) _________ advantages and disadvantages.

Although students’ grades appear to be unaffected by the mode of instruction, certain courses are more challenging to students who (62) _________ their studies in the virtual environment than in the classroom

However, in online classes, participation in learning activities may be less (63)__________

Increasingly, it is a/an (64) ________ issue for designers of online curriculums to decide how to match the advantages of different modes of instruction to specific courses

by offering not only fully classroom-based or online courses, but also that take the best element of both types to (65) ________ the needs of students and teachers

to (66) _________ the most efficient use of resources.

However, online students generally also feel that they learn at a similar rate to their (67) _______ in the classroom

and in fact at my college their grades are just as good as those who are taught in (68) _________.

Perhaps the most effective way to achieve this improvement is for online educators to give more (69) ________ contact and to encourage students to collaborate.

Online learning provides a far more student-centered teaching approach than the traditional classroom method, and all schools (70) _______should aim to adopt it as their main means to deliver education.

Part 2: Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

THE BIRTH OF YOUTUBE

In 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two software (71) ______ from Silicon Valley in California, were invited to dinner party. Several people had brought their camcorders to the party and these people were complaining about (72) _____ difficult it was to share home videos online. That was when Chad and Steve came up with the idea for YouTube, the site which makes it easy to upload home videos onto the Internet. They formed a company, borrowed some money, and set themselves up in (73)_________.
           It (74)______ out that millions of people already had short home video clips that they thought it (75)______ be fun to share with other enthusiasts around the world. Launched in December 2005, YouTube soon contained more than a million short video clips. People were uploading 8,000 clips a day, and watching three million a day. They had mostly heard about the site through (76)______ of mouth, email, and hyperlinks, and eighty percent of the clips had been (77)______ by amateurs.
           So why was YouTube (78)_____ an immediate success? Researchers found that, on (79)______, people were spending fifteen minutes on the site during each visit, which was enough time to view several short funny clips. In (80)_____ words, they were using YouTube to give them a little break from their work or study.

In 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two software (71) ______ from Silicon Valley in California, were invited to dinner party.

Several people had brought their camcorders to the party and these people were complaining about (72) _____ difficult it was to share home videos online.

They formed a company, borrowed some money, and set themselves up in (73)_________.

It (74)______ out that millions of people already had short home video clips

that they thought it (75)______ be fun to share with other enthusiasts around the world.

They had mostly heard about the site through (76)______ of mouth, email, and hyperlinks

and eighty percent of the clips had been (77)______ by amateurs.

So why was YouTube (78)_____ an immediate success?

Researchers found that, on (79)______, people were spending fifteen minutes on the site during each visit, which was enough time to view several short funny clips.

In (80)_____ words, they were using YouTube to give them a little break from their work or study.

Section A
 Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud, following early thaws. There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the Arctic, it is already having dramatic effects - if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon become virtually ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, increased precipitation, and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly keen to find out what's going on because they consider the Arctic the ‘canary in the mine’ for global warming - a warning of what's in store for the rest of the world.

Part 3: Read the text and do the following tasks.

 Climate change and the Inuit

Section A
 Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud, following early thaws. There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the Arctic, it is already having dramatic effects - if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon become virtually ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, increased precipitation, and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly keen to find out what's going on because they consider the Arctic the ‘canary in the mine’ for global warming - a warning of what's in store for the rest of the world.

Section B
 For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in a precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, is a direct threat to their way of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content simply to stand back and let outside experts tell them what's happening. In Canada, where the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hard-won autonomy in the country's newest territory, Nunavut, they believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science. This is a challenge in itself.

Section C
 The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that's covered with snow for most of the year. Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings. Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the colonists were successful, and sometimes they failed and vanished. But around a thousand years ago, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery, and iron tools. They are the ancestors of today's Inuit people.

Section D
 Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh. Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometers of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole. It's currently home to 2,500 people, all but a handful of them indigenous Inuit. Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing. Provisions available in local shops have to be flown into Nunavut on one of the most costly air networks in the world, or brought by supply ship during the few ice-free weeks of summer. It would cost a family around £7,000 a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat. Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many people, state benefits are their only income.

Section E
 While the Inuit may not actually starve if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate change, there has certainly been an impact on people's health. Obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are beginning to appear in people for whom these have never before been problems. There has been a crisis of identity as the traditional skills of hunting, trapping, and preparing skins have begun to disappear. In Nunavut's ‘igloo and email’ society, where adults who were born in igloos have children who may never have been out on the land, there's a high incidence of depression.

Section F
 With so much at stake, the Inuit are determined to play a key role in teasing out the mysteries of climate change in the Arctic. Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task. And Western scientists are starting to draw on this wisdom, increasingly referred to as ‘Inuit Qaujimajatugangit’, or IQ. ‘In the early days, scientists ignored us when they came up here to study anything. They just figured these people don't know very much so we won't ask them,’ says John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician. ‘But in recent years IQ has had much more credibility and weight.’ In fact, it is now a requirement for anyone hoping to get permission to do research that they consult the communities, who are helping to set the research agenda to reflect their most important concerns. They can turn down applications from scientists they believe will work against their interests, or research projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities.

Section G
 Some scientists doubt the value of traditional knowledge because the occupation of the Arctic doesn't go back far enough. Others, however, point out that the first weather stations in the far north date back just 50 years. There are still huge gaps in our environmental knowledge, and despite the scientific onslaught, many predictions are no more than best guesses. IQ could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we're seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is the consequence of human activity.

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of the heading below. Write the correct number i-ix for questions 81-86.

Paragraph A has been done as an example.

List of Headings

i. The reaction of the Inuit community to climate change

ii. Understanding of climate change remains limited

iii. Alternative sources of essential supplies

iv. Respect for Inuit opinion grows

v. A healthier choice of food

vi. A difficult landscape

vii. Negative effects on well-being

viii. Alarm caused by unprecedented events in the Arctic

ix. The benefits of an easier existence

Understanding of climate change remains limited

Alternative sources of essential supplies

Respect for Inuit opinion grows

A healthier choice of food

A difficult landscape

Complete the summary of paragraphs C, D, and E below. Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD from paragraphs C, D, and E for each answer.

 It would clearly be impossible for the people to engage in (87) ________as a means of supporting themselves

The (88)________ people were an example of the latter and for them, the environment did not prove unmanageable.

The territory of Nunavut consists of little more than ice, rock, and a few (89)________.

In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their (90)________ lifestyle, but they continue to depend mainly on nature for their food and clothes

(91)_________ problem and a crisis of identity are becoming a matter of concern for almost everyone.

Part 2. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first printed, using the word given in CAPITAL. Do not change the word given. You must use between THREE and SIX words. Write each answer in the space provided.

92. Mary cried her eyes out just after she was told she’d been rejected for the job. (BROKE)

=> Mary ________________________she heard that she’d been rejected for the job.

Everybody knows that the president died in a plane crash. (KNOWLEDGE)

=> It is_____________________________ the president died in a plane crash.

The reforms will not succeed unless they are carefully planned. (CRUCIAL)

=> Careful__________________________________ the success of the reforms.

The sales director told his staff nothing about the new marketing post.           (DARK)                

=> The sales director____________________________________about the new marketing post.

She wasn’t speaking seriously. (TONGUE)

=> She was speaking with _____________.