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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LỚP 9 THCS - NĂM HỌC 2019 -2020
Ngày thi: 04/12/2019
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
SECTION I: LISTENING (4.0 pts).
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 10 giây.
 Mở đầu mỗi phần nghe có một khoảng lặng, mỗi phần cách nhau 20 giây
 Thí sinh đọc kỹ câu hỏi và hướng dẫn trước khi làm bài.

PART 1: You will hear six people telling what they did on the weekend. For each question, choose
the correct answer. Write your answers in the numbered box There is an example at the beginning
(1)
1. He.................................................................................................................................................................................
A. watched a science program on TV B. played video games C. went to a movie
2. He.................................................................................................................................................................................
A. stayed at home B. went to the beach for the weekend C. went to the mountains
3. He.................................................................................................................................................................................
A. read lots of interesting magazines B. used the computer C. read an interesting book
4. She...............................................................................................................................................................................
A. played in a band B. went to a concert C. played tennis
5. She................................................................................................................................................................................
A. stayed home and watched TV B. studied for an exam C. went out with friends
6. She...............................................................................................................................................................................
A. visited friends B. went to the countryside C. went out with friends
Your answers
1. C 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
PART 2: You will hear a conversation between a boy, Mark, and his cousin, Anna, about their
rooms. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect If it is correct, write (T) True; If it is
incorrect, write (F) False in the numbered box
1. Anna is surprised that Mark’s mum let him make changes to his room.
2. Mark is satisfied with the colour he’s chosen for his room.
3. Anna and Mark both wish they had more space in their rooms.
4. Mark regrets giving away his old books and computer games.
5. Anna is keen to replace some of the things in her room.
6. They both think sharing a room with a brother or sister has advantages.
Your answers
1. C 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
PART 3: You will hear a team coach talking about team rules. For each question, Jill in the missing
information in the numbered space
TEAM RULES
Changing rooms
No family/friends in the changing room.
The team must take turns to (1).......................the changing room after a match.
Matches
Try to phone the coach (2) .......................hours before a match if you cannot play.
Contact the coach or assistant coach (Jim (3) .......................099879654).
You must wear (4) ............................. socks and shorts.
Matches away from home: arrive (5) ............................minutes before the bus leaves.
Date of first match: (6)........................
Your answers
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
SECTION II: LEXICO - GRAMMAR (5.0 pts)
PART 1: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answer (A, B, C,
or D) in the numbered box. (2 pts)
1. Do come _______ instead of standing there on the doorstep in the rain.
A. into B. in C. to D. by
2. Don’t invite John to dinner; I can’t stand his bad _______.
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 A. mood B. mind C. character D. temper
3. You will not success _______working harder.
A. unless B. if C. without D. although
4. Mr and Mrs Black were delighted when they _______ to sell their house so quickly.
A. managed B. succeeded C. risked D. enjoyed
5. Just keep _______ on the baby while I cook the supper, will you?
A. a look B. a glance C. an eye D. a care
6. A soldier has to learn to carry _______ orders as soon as they are given.
A. on B. out C. through D. off
7. When you _______ him, give him my best wishes.
A. would visit B. will visit C. have visited D. visit
8. Surely David’s not going to drive, _______ he?
A. does B. is C. isn’t D. will
9. This wet weather has lasted for three weeks now; _______ rained every single day.
A. there has B it has C. there was D. it was
10. _______ amount of money can buy true friendship.
A. No B. Never C. None D. Not only
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
PART 2: Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap in the
same line. Write your answer in the numbered box
Memories and reality
There is well-known (1. say) _______ “School days are the best days of your life.” No (2. study) _______ at
school ever believes it though, and by the time you realise it’s true, it’s too late!
It’s when you’re worried about your (3. finance) _______ situation and are beginning to hate the (4. bore)
_______ of working in an office or factory every day that you look back fondly on the (5. excite) _______ times
you had at school. When you are still at school you often focus on the negatives, like having to pay (6. attend)
_______ during the tedious chemistry lesson, being punished for bad (7. behave) _______ (when you didn’t do
anything wrong anyway) or feeling (8. help) _______ in an exam because you don’t know any of the answers
(and, in fact, had completely (9. understand) _______ the questions too!). But it’s quite (10. accept) _______
to complain about things and then have great memories afterwards. Just have a good time at the time as well.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
PART 3: Read this text. Most lines contain an extra word - a word that is either grammatically
incorrect or one that does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.
Find the extra word, cross it out, and write it after the line. Tick () the correct lines.
Your answers
City pollution 0. _______
0. Since the introduction of the motor car at the beginning of this 00. _______
00. century, our roads have become more and more congested and our 1. _________
1. cities has increasingly polluted. In Mexico City, for example, where 2. _________
2. there are over two million of cars, children are quite used to smog 3. _________
3. alerts. It is said that the damaged being caused to children’s lungs 4. _________
4. is the same as that from smoking the two packets of cigarettes a day. 5. _________
5. Seen from up the air, cities such as London and Los Angeless appear 6. _________
6. to be covered in a blanket of cloud that is, in a fact, the haze of 7. _________
7. pollution. Car- manufacturers and cities planners are now hard woking 8. _________
8. to try and control the number of vehicles and improve the way they 9. _________
9. run to make them less bad polluting. One major advance has been the 10. _________
10. development of the electric car. Using batteries, these vehicles are able
to move quietly around cities creating very little pollution.
SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (6.0 pts)
PART 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write
your answer in the numbered box
Tom Daley, Diving Champion
Tom Daley took up diving at the age of seven. (1) _______ he was only fourteen years old; Daley was the youngest
(2) _______ of Great Britain's team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the youngest to (3) _______ in
a final. Unfortunately, Daley (4) _______ to win a medal in Beijing and only scored enough points to (5)
_______ seventh place. However, the following year, at the age of just fifteen, Daley (6) _______ world
champion for the 10-metre platform diving event. (7) _______ he was training to achieve his dream, Daley (8)
_______ an hour and a half of homework (9) _______ weekday before going to the gym and the pool for four
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hours. Twice a week he practised for two hours before school and on Saturday morning he trained again for three
hours. Daley believes that (10) _______ work is the key to his success.
1. A. When B. As C. How D. Unless
2. A. person B. member C. player D. competitor
3. A. challenge B. compete C. involve D. face
4. A. lost B. defeated C. failed D. dropped
5. A. arrive B. beat C. succeed D. reach
6. A became B. won C. took D. gained
7. A If B. Whether C. So D. While
8. A made B, wrote C. did D. spent
9. A all B. most C. every D. some
10. A strong B. difficult C. heavy D. hard
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
PART 2: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following
questions. Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered boxes.
Smart Exercise
Are you preparing for a big test? If so, you may want to go play some basketball in between hitting the books.
Based on information they have collected over the years, researchers have seen an apparent connection between
exercise and brain development. Judy Cameron, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, studies
brain development. According to her research, it seems that exercise can make blood vessels, including those in the
brain, stronger and more fully developed. Cameron claims this allows people who exercise to concentrate better.
She says, “While we already know that exercise is good for the heart, exercise can literally cause physical changes in
the brain.”
The effects of exercise on brain development can even be seen in babies. Babies who do things that require a
lot of movement and physical activity show greater brains development than babies who are less physically active.
With babies, even a little movement can show big results. Margaret Barnes, a pediatrician, believes in the
importance of exercise. She thinks that many learning disabilities children have in elementary school or high school
can be traced back to a lack of movement as babies. “Babies need movement that stimulates their five senses,” Says
Barner. “They need to establish a connection between motion and memory. In this way, as they get older, children
will begin to associate physical activity with higher learning.”
The benefits of exercise on the brain are not just for babies. Older people can beef up their brains by working
out as well. Researchers at Cornell University studied a group of seniors ranging in age from seventy to seventy-
nine. Their study showed a short-term memory increase of up to forty percent after exercising three hours a week.
The exercise does not have to be very difficult, but it does have to increase the heart rate. Also, just like the motion
for infants, exercise for older people should involve some complexity. Learning some new skills or motions, such as
with yoga or tai-chi, helps open up memory paths in the brain that may not have been used for a long time.
For most people, any type of physical activity that increases the heart rate is helpful. The main goal is to
increase the brain’s flow of blood. Your brain can benefit from as little as two to three hours of exercise a week.
1. What is the main idea of this reading?
A. How to exercise. B. How exercise helps the brain.
C. How to get good scores on the test. D. How the brain can change.
2. According to the reading, what is the connection between exercise and brain development?
A. Exercise makes us less intelligent. B. The brain needs special mental exercise.
C. The more exercise, the bigger the brain. D. Physical exercise helps us think better.
3. The minimum amount of exercise required to gain any benefit is .
A. Three hours per week. B. Forty hours per week.
C. Three hours per day. D. Forty hours per month.
4. Why is yoga recommended for seniors?
A. It is easy on joints. B. It does not increase the heart rate.
C. It can be done in groups. D. It includes learning new motions.
5. What type of patient does a pediatrician probably treat?
A. Poor people B. Children C. Animals. D. Old people.
PART 3: You are going to read an article about a language. Six sentences have been removed from
the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one sentence
you do not need to use.
I’m the last speaker of my language
I come from Chile and I’ve always been interested in my country’s history and culture. It all started when I
was about eight and I started to learn about the country’s indigenous inhabitants. When I first found out about the
native people of Patagonia, in the far south, I had no idea that my mother’s family was from there and that her
grandfather had been a Selk’nam. The last speaker of Selk’nam died in 1974. I really wanted to learn Selk’nam, so
relatives on my father’s side who live in Punta Arenas, the southernmost town in mainland Chile, sent me
dictionaries. (1) _______ But I had no idea what these sounded like.
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 Then, when I was about eleven, I saw a television programme about the Yagan people who lived on the island
of Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. The programme interviewed two sisters, Cristina and
Ursula Calderon, and said they were the only two speakers of their language left. (2) _______. Only later did I
discover that the two languages are quite different; that the two peoples couldn’t communicate with each other.
One day, my mother told me that although she was born in the capital, Santiago, her grandfather was a
Selk’nam from the north of Tierra del Fuego. Nobody had ever told me anything about this before. When I asked
why, she said that when she was young, she had been teased for looking different, and so she had just kept quiet
about it.
When I was thirteen, I went to the south for the first time on my own to meet Cristina Calderon. (3)
_______. I discovered that there used to be four thousand Selk’nam in Tierra del Fuego. They were hunters of wild
cats and foxes. The Yagan lived further south and travelled by canoe all the way down to Cape Horn, but the
Selk’nam moved on foot.
Settlers from the north arrived in the nineteenth century and introduced diseases like measles and typhoid,
which affected the local people very badly. Now, there’s no way back. I got hold of some recordings of a Selk’nam
shaman from the 1960s and started to study them. (4) ________. Gradually, however, I begin to understand how
the words sounded and began to reproduce them.
The Selk’nam express themselves using lots of prefixes and suffixes, and the sounds are guttural, nasal and
tonal. (5) _______. For example, it has lots of different words for the weather. The hardest thing in Selk’nam,
however, is the verbs — they all sound a bit the same. There are some English loanwords, such as ‘bread’ and
‘money’. Others are descriptive: ‘read’ translates as ‘playing with words’ and ‘drum’ as ‘Vibrating leather’. Then
there are words for modern things — for ‘telephone’, you have to say ‘speak from afar’, and ‘car’ is ‘go on four
wheels’. I speak the language well now. Cristinas husband spoke Selk’nam and apparently I sound just like him.
Because music is something that reaches lots of people, I started composing traditional songs in Selk’nam
and formed a band with two friends. This meant that they had to learn some words, too. (6) _______ I need to
teach my language to more people because if something happened to me, it would die out all over again.
A. I felt a sudden desire to learn that one too.
B. It was slow because I had no one to talk to.
C. Yagan is quite different, however, because it has more vocabulary.
D. This meant that I was able to start learning words, verbs and expressions.
E. This was good because I didn't want to be the only one
F. These turned out to be rather hard for me to pronounce, however.
G. The trip seemed the best way to find out about my roots
Your answers
1. C 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
PART 4: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in
each space. Write your answer in the numbered box
When Walter was eight years old, in 1908, he used to work for an old lady who lived in his village. Every day, before
and after school, he (1) _______ chop wood, light fires, and go shopping for her. He was paid 5p (2) _______
week, which was (3) _______ very much even then.
This old lady kept (4) _______ many cats that she didn’t know exactly (5) _______ many. (6) _______day, one
of these cats was found dead in the garden, and the lady, (7) _______ was very upset, asked Walter to dig a grave
and bury it. Walter did this and (8) _______ given 10p. He couldn’t (9) _______ noticing that he got (10)
_______ as much for burying the cat as for a whole week’s work.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
SECTION IV: WRITING (5.0 pts)
PART 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence.
1.“You’d better not lend him any more money, Elizabeth,” said John.
John advised Elizabeth.................................................................................................................................................
2. I started work for the company a year ago.
I’ve.................................................................................................................................................................................
3. Susan felt sick, because she ate four cream cakes.
If Susan..........................................................................................................................................................................
4. My suit needs to be cleaned before the interview.
I must.............................................................................................................................................................................
5. Because of the rough sea, the ferry couldn’t sail.
The rough sea................................................................................................................................................................
PART 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words,
including the word given.
1. The knife was too blunt to cut the bread. sharp
The knife................................................................................................................................. to cut the bread.
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2. He was holding some flowers when he knocked at Margaret’s door. hand
He had.................................................................................................. when he knocked at Margaret’s door.
3. Bloggs had committed a serious crime. guilty
Bloggs..................................................................................................................................... a serious crime.
4. I slept until the thunder woke me at seven o’clock. woken
I.............................................................................................................................................. at seven o’clock.
5. He’d forgotten Jill’s phone number. couldn’t
He.............................................................................................................................. Jill’s phone number was.
PART 3: Make all changes and additions necessary to produce, from the following sets of words and
phrases, sentences which together make a complete letter.
Dear Michael,
1. I meet Peter Hurst/ London last week/ we have coffee together.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
2. He tell me/ you pass/ final examinations.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
3. What you go/do now?
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
4. First, I expect you think/ have/ holiday after study/ hard.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
5. You want/ work/ Oxford/ you apply/ jobs/ other towns?
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
6. If you like, I ask some/my colleagues/ they look out/ vacancies/ this area.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
7. Peter say he ask/ friends/ London/ you too.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
8. hope /you not think/ we interfere too much.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
Let me know if I can help.
With best wishes,

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