ĐỀ 2 ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

Năm học 2022-2023
(Thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 4 phần, trong 10 trang

Điểm bài thi: Chữ ký của giám khảo Số phách

- Bằng số:……………………. Giám khảo 1:…………………
- Bằng chữ:…………………... Giám khảo 2:…………………

(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi này)

SECTION A: LISTENING (5.0 points)

Hướng dẫn thí sinh:
- Phần thi nghe gồm 3 bài. Thí sinh được nghe mỗi bài 2 lần liên tiếp.
- Thí sinh đọc kĩ yêu cầu của từng bài trước khi nghe.
- Hướng dẫn chi tiết bằng Tiếng Anh đã có trong đĩa nghe. Bắt đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín
hiệu nhạc.

Part I: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For question 1 - 8, choose
the best answer A, B or C. (1.6 points)
1. Where does their conversation most likely take place?
A. at a park B. at a school C. at a birthday party
2. What is the girl’s name?
A. Kathy B. Karen C. Nancy
3. What is her parents’ nationality?
A. American B. French C. Scottish
4. Where does the girl probably live now?
A. in France B. in England C. in the US
5. What does her father do for living?
A. He is a travel agent. B. He is a professor. C. He is computer programme.
6. What does her mother do?
A. She is a teacher B. She is a housewife. C. She does nothing at home
7. When did the girl move to the present location?
A. Since she was born B. Since she was nineteen C. Since she was nine
8. What is one thing not mentioned about the girl’s family?
A. Why her parents lived in England for several years
B. Where the girl grew up
C. Where her mother work at present time

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1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____

Part II: Complete the form below.Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for each
answer.(2 points)
CAR INSURANCE
Address: 27 _______________________ (1) Road, Greendale
Contact number: ____________________________ (2)
Occupation: ____________________ (3)
Size of car engine: 1200cc
Type of car: Model:
Manufacturer: Hewton Year: 1997
Previous insurance company: __________________________ (4) Star
Any insurance in the last five Yes  No 
years? Car was ________________________ (5) in 1999
If yes, give brief details:
Name(s) of other driver(s): Simon ______________________ (6)
Relationship to main driver: Brother-in-law
Uses of car: - social
- Traveling to ________________ (7)
Start date: 31 __________________(8)
Recommended insurance arrangement
Name of company: Red _______________________ (9)
Annual cost: $ _________________________ (10)

Your answers:
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________

Part III: Listen to the conversation about the human body and circle the best option to
complete these sentences
1. Only about one tenth of the cells in your body are ...
A. alive. B. really you. C. bacteria.
2. Bacteria are mostly ...
A. really helpful. B. bad for humans. C. neither good or bad.
3. Animals need bacteria to ...
A. fight diseases B. provide energy. C. digest food
4. You have ... cells in your body.
A. 7 million B. 7 octillion C. 7 trillion
5. Most of the atoms are ...
A. tiny cubes. B. empty space. C. not used
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6. You probably have mites in your ...
A. eyelashes. B. ears C. hair
7. Mites are very small creatures that are about ...
A 3 millimetres long. B. a third of a millimetre long. C. 0.03 millimetres long.
Your answers:
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________

SECTION B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (2.0 points)

Part I. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer questions. Write your
answers in the box provided. (1.0 point)
1. Only when you grow up …………… the truth.
A. will you know B. you know C. do you know D. you will know
2. He missed two most important lectures. He …………… very ill.
A. had to be B. must be C. was to be D. must have been
3. Oh, I’m always forgetting …………… these medicines. Is that before or after meal, Ron?
A. when I take B. what I will take with C. on which I should take D. when to take
4. David is tired …………… he stayed up late watching TV last night.
A. for B. since C. when D. during
5 . I feel sick. I wish I ______ so much cake.
A. not ate B. didn’t eat C. hadn’t eaten D. wouldn’t have eaten
6. – “How do you do?” –“______________.”
A. How do you do? B. Not too bad. C. I’m well. Thank you. D. Yeah, OK
7. It's becoming________ to find a job.
A. more difficult and more B. more and more difficult
C. most and more difficult D. more difficult than
8. China is by far _________ country in the world
A. most populated B. the more populated
C. much more populated D. the most populated
9. What time are you _______ duty? Let’s have a coffee after that.
A. over B. on C. off D. out of
10. Although there are cultural ____ between ethnic groups, they still keep the identity of their own
culture.
A. exchanges B. transfers C. relations D. changes

Your answers:
1. ___ 2. ___ 3. ___ 4. ___ 5. ___ 6. ___ 7. ___ 8. ___ 9. ___ 10. ___

Part II. Use the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the box
provided. (1.0 point)

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 BOOKS
Nearly all the (0) discoveries (DISCOVER) that have been made through the ages can be found
in books. The (1) (INVENT) of the book is one of humankind’s greatest (2)
(ACHIEVE), the importance of which cannot be overestimated. Books are
very adaptable, providing us with both (3) ( ENTERTAIN). The (4)
(PRODUCE) of books began in Acient Egypt, though not in a form that is (5)
(ACCESS) to us today. The books read by the Romans, however, have some
(6) (SIMILAR) to the ones we read now. Until the middle of the 15 th century,
in Europe, all books were (7) (WRITE) by hand. They were often beautifully
illustrated and always rare and (8) (EXPENSE). With printing came the
possibility of cheap, larze-scale (9) (PULISH) and distribution of books,
making knowledge more (10) (SPREAD) and reliable
Your answers:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

SECTION C: READING (5.0 points)

Part I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. Put
a circle on the letter indicating the correct answer. Write your answers in the boxes
provided. (1,0 point).
Teenagers do not spend as much money as their parents suspect – at least not according to the
findings of a (1) _______ survey. The survey (2) _______ 300 teenagers, 13 -18 years old, from
over Britain.
By the time they reach their teens, most children see their weekly (3) _______ rise dramatically
to an amazing national average of £20. Two thirds think they (4) _______ enough money, but
most expect to have to do something to get it.
Although they have more cash, worry about debt is (5) _______ among teenagers.
Therefore, the majority of children make an effort to (6) _______ some aside for the future.
Greater access (7) _______ cash among teenagers does not, however, mean that they are more
irresponsible (8) _______ a result. Instead of wasting (9) _______ pocket money they have on
sweets or magazines, the 13-year-olds who took part in the survey seem to (10) _______ to the
situation by saving more than half of their cash.

1. A. late B. fresh C. latest D. recent

2. A. counted B. contained C. included D. enclosed
3. A. allowance B. support C. bonus D. profit
4. A. accept B. get C. make D. earn
5. A. gaining B. heightening C. increasing D. building
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 6. A. keep B. save C. spare D. put
7. A. with B. to C. from D. along
8. A. as B. like C. for D. in
9. A. that B. whether C. which D. what
10. A. respond B. answer C. reply D. return

Your answers:
1. ___ 2. ___ 3. ___ 4. ___ 5. ___ 6. ___ 7. ___ 8. ___ 9. ___ 10. ___

Part II. Read the passage and answer the questions. Write your answers in the boxes
provided. (2,0 points)
Plants and animals will find it difficult to escape from or adjust to the effect of global warming,
Scientists have already observerd shifts in the lifecycles of many plants and animals, such as
flowers blooming earlier and birds hatching earlier in the spring. Many species have begun
shifting where they live or their annual migration patterns due to warmer temperatures.
With further warming, animals will tend to migrate toward the poles and up mountainsides
toward higher elevations. Plants will also attempt to shift their ranges, seeking new areas as old
habitats grow too warm. In many places, however, human development will prevent these shifts.
Species that find cities or farmland blocking their way north or south may become extinct.
Species living in unique ecosystems, such as those found in polar and mountantop regions, are
especially at risk because migration to new habitats is not possible. For example, polar bears and
marine mammals in the Arctic are already threatened by dwindling sea ice but have nowhere
farther to go.
Projecting species extinction due to global warming is extremely difficult. Some scientists have
estimated that 20 to 50 percent of species could be committed to extiction with 2 to 3 Celsius
degrees of further warming. The rate of warming, not just the magnitude, is extremely important
for plants and animals. Some species and even entire ecosystems, such as certain types of forest,
many not be able to adjust quickly enough and may disappear.
Ocean ecosystems, especially fragile ones like coral reefs, will also be affected by global
warming. Warmer ocean temperatures can cause coral to “bleach”, a state which if prolonged will
lead to the death of the coral. Scientists estimate that even 1 Celsius degree of additional warming
could lead to widespread bleaching and death of coral reefs around the world. Also increasing
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere enters the ocean and increases the acidity of ocean waters. This
acidification furter stresses ocean ecosystems.
(Đề thi tiếng Anh kì thi THPT quốc gia 2015)
Question 1: Scionlists have observed that warmer temperatures in the spring cause flowers
to
A. die instantly B. bloom earlier C. become lighter D. lose color
Question 2: According to paragraph 2, when their habitats grow warmer, animali tend to
move .
A. south – eastwards and down mountainsides toward lower
B. north – westwards and up mountainsides toward higher
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C. toward the North Pole and down mountainsides toward lower
D. toward the poles and up mountainsides toward higher
Question 3: The pronoun “those” in paragraph 2 refers to .
A. species B. ecosystems C. habitats D. areas
Question 4: The phrase “dwindling sea ice” in paragraph 2 refers to .
A. the frozen water in the Artie.
B. the violent Arctic Ocean.
C. the melting ice in the Arctic.
D. the cold ice in the Arctic.
Question 5: It is mentioned in the passage that if the global temperature rose by 2 or 3
Celcius degrees, .
A. half of the earth’s surface would be
B. the sea level would rise by 20
C. water supply would decrease by 50
D. 20 to 50 percent of species could become
Question 6: According to the passage, if some species are not able to adjust quickly to
warmer temperatures, .
A. they may be endangered
B. they can begin to develop
C. they will certainly need water.
D. they move to tropical forests.
Question 7: The word “fragile” in paragraph 4 most probably means .
A. very large B.easily damaged C. rather strong D. pretty hard
Question 8: The bleaching of coral reefs as mentioned in paragraph 4 indicates .
A. the water absorption of coral reefs.
B.the quick growth of marine mammals.
c. the blooming phase of sea weeds.
D.the slow death of coral reefs.
Question 9: The level of acidity in the ocean is increased by .
A. the rising amount of carbon dioxide entering the
B. the decrease of acidity of the pole
C. the extinction of species in coastal
D. the lose of acidity in the atmosphere around the
Question 10: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Influence of climate changes on human
B. Effects of global warming on animals and
C. Global warming and possible solutions
D. Global warming and species

Part III. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. (2.0 points)
Paper or Computer?
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A. Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country
in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per- capita basis, than it did ten years ago. The
consumption of uncoated free-sheet paper, for instance the most common kind of office paper —
rose almost fifteen per cent in the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken
as evidence of how hard it is to eradicate old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we
are to the efficiencies offered by computerization. A number of cognitive psychologists and
ergonomics experts, however, don’t agree. Paper has persisted, they argue, for very good reasons:
when it comes to performing certain kinds of cognitive tasks, paper has many advantages over
computers. The dismay people feel at the sight of a messy desk — or the spectacle of air-traffic
controllers tracking flights through notes scribbled on paper strips – arises from a fundamental
confusion about the role that paper plays in our lives.
B. The case for paper is made most eloquently in “The Myth of the Paperless Office”, by two
social scientists, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. They begin their book with an account of a
study they conducted at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, D.c. Economists at the
I.M.F. spend most of their time writing reports on complicated economic questions, work that
would seem to be perfectly suited to sitting in front of a computer. Nonetheless, the I.M.F. is
awash in paper, and Sellen and Harper wanted to find out why. Their answer is that the business
of writing reports – at least at the I.M.F. is an intensely collaborative process, involving the
professional judgments and contributions of many people. The economists bring drafts of reports
to conference rooms, spread out the relevant pages, and negotiate changes with one other. They
go back to their offices and jot down comments in the margin, taking advantage of the freedom
offered by the informality of the handwritten note. Then they deliver the annotated draft to the
author in person, taking him, page by page, through the suggested changes. At the end of the
process, the author spreads out all the pages with comments on his desk and starts to enter them
on the computer — moving the pages around as he works, organizing and reorganizing, saving
and discarding.

C. Without paper, this kind of collaborative and iterative work process would be much more
difficult. According to Sellen and Harper, paper has a unique set of “affordances” — that is,
qualities that permit specific kinds of uses. Paper is tangible: we can pick up a document, flip
through it, read little bits here and there, and quickly get a sense of it. Paper is spatially flexible,
meaning that we can spread it out and arrange it in the way that suits US best. And it’s tailorable:
we can easily annotate it, and scribble on it as we read, without altering the original text. Digital
documents, of course, have then own affordances. They can be easily searched, shared, stored,
accessed remotely, and linked to other relevant material. But they lack the affordances that really
matter to a group of people working together on a report. Sellen and Harper write:
D. Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance, the top of your desk. Chances
are that you have a keyboard and a computer screen off to one side, and a clear space roughly
eighteen inches square in front of your chair. What covers the rest of the desktop is probably
piles- piles of papers, journals, magazines, binders, postcards, videotapes, and all the other
artifacts of the knowledge economy. The piles look like a mess, but they aren’t. When a group at
Apple Computer studied piling behavior several years ago, they found that even the most
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disorderly piles usually make perfect sense to the piler, and that office workers could hold forth in
great detail about the precise history and meaning of thefr piles. The pile closest to the cleared,
eighteen-inch-square working area, for example, generally represents the most urgent business,
and within that pile the most important document of all is likely to be at the top. Piles are living,
breathing archives. Over time, they get broken down and resorted, sometimes chronologically and
sometimes thematically and sometimes chronologically and thematically; clues about certain
documents may be physically embedded in the file by, say, stacking a certain piece of paper at an
angle or inserting dividers into the stack.
E. But why do we pile documents instead of filing them? Because piles represent the process of
active, ongoing thinking. The psychologist Alison Kidd, whose research Sellen and Harper refer
to extensively, argues that “knowledge workers” use the physical space of the desktop to hold
“ideas which they cannot yet categorize or even decide how they might use.” The messy desk is
not necessarily a sign of disorganization. It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with
many unresolved ideas simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they
haven’t yet sorted and filed the ideas in their head. Kidd writes that many of the people she talked
to use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to’’ recover a complex set of threads without
difficulty and delay” when they come in on a Monday morning, or after their work has been
interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the
contents of our brains.

F. This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry
from the way we have historically thought about the stuff. Paper first began to proliferate in the
workplace in the late nineteenth century as part of the move toward “systematic management.”
To cope with the complexity of the industrial economy, managers were instituting company-wide
policies and demanding monthly, weekly, or even daily updates from their subordinates. Thus
was born the monthly sales report, and the office manual and the internal company newsletter.
The typewriter took off in the eighteen-eighties, making it possible to create documents in a
fraction of the time it had previously taken, and that was followed closely by the advent of carbon
paper, which meant that a typist could create ten copies of that document simultaneously. Paper
was important not to facilitate creative collaboration and thought but as an instrument of control.
Questions 1 - 6: The first six paragraphs of reading passage are lettered A-F. Choose the
most suitable headings for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.

(There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.)
Paragraphs Lists of Headings
1. Paragraph A i. paper continued as a sharing or managing must
2. Paragraph B ii. piles can be more inspiring rather than disorgnising
3. Paragraph C iii. Favorable situation that economists used paper pages
4. Paragraph D iv. overview of an unexpected situation: paper survived
5. Paragraph E v. comparison between efficiencies for using paper and using
6. Paragraph F computer

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 vi. IMF’ paperless office seemed to be a waste of papers
vii. example of failure for avoidance of paper record
viii. There are advantages of using a paper in offices
ix. piles reflect certain characteristics in people’ thought
x. joy of having the paper square in front of computer
Your answers:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______ 6. ______

Questions 7-10: Complete each of the following statements with words taken from the
passage.Write ONE or TWO WORDS for each answer.

Compared with digital documents, paper has several advantages. First it allows clerks to work in
a (7)……………………… way among colleagues. Next, paper is not like virtual digital
versions, it’s (8) …………………...Finally, because it is (9) ………………….. , note or
comments can be effortlessly added as related information. However, shortcoming comes at the
absence of convenience on task which is for a (10) ……………………………
Your answers:
7.______________ 8.______________ 9.______________ 10. _____________

SECTION C: WRITING (5.0 pts)

1: Email writing (2.0pts)
Read this email from your English speaking friend Julia and the notes you have made.
Write your email to Julia using all the notes.
From: Julia
Subject: Jane’s leaving party
Hi!
I’m writing because, as you know, Jane is leaving our school and moving to Australia. I was
thinking of having a party to say goodbye. Do you think it’s a good idea? (Great Idea!)
If so, can you think of a good place to have the party? (Suggest ...)
Would it be best to have it on a weekday or at the weekend? (Answer and explain)
Also, I’m thinking of hiring a band for the party. Do you know what sort of music Jane likes
best? (Answer the question)
See you soon!
Julia
Your email:
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II. Write a paragraph of 150 - 180 words to explain why teens are often stressed. (3.0 pts)
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