TEST 13 ĐỀ LUYỆN THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9 THCS NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

Môn: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
PART 1: LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Part 2. Listen to the recording twice. Complete the form below. Write no more than three words or numbers for
each answer.
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Entry Details
Example
Cost of entry: …………..£5……………………
Length of story: approximately (1) ……………………………..
Story must include: a (2) …………………………….. ending.
Minimum age: (3) ……………………………..
Last entry date: 1st ……………………………..
Web address: www.(5) ……………………………...com
Don’t: (6) …………………………….. the story to the organizers.
Judging and Prize Details
The competition is judged by (7) ……………………………..
The top five stories will be available (8) ……………………………..
The top story will be chosen by the (9) ……………………………..
The first prize is a place at a writers’ workshop in (10) ……………………………..
Question III. You will listen to a piece of news about cycling. For questions 11-15, decide whether the statements are
true (T) or false (F).
11. Mr Jones is travelling on his own.
12. Mr Jones only stays in hotels.
13. Edward Genochio completed a 41.000km trip to China and back.
14. Cycling is becoming more popular in the UK.
15. Boris Johnson cycles to show people that he cares about the environment.
Part 3: You will hear an interview with travel writer Amy McCarthy about her first experience of travelling
abroad. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer (A, В, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. Write
your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Why did Amy want to go abroad?
A. She felt she was good at learning languages. B. She wanted to find a job in another country.
C. She wanted to show confidence in travelling by herself. D. Her friends had invited her to go with them. Question
2. Amy and her friends decided to go to Ibiza because __________
A.they loved cold climate there. B.it was cheaper than similar destinations.
C.there were lots of things to do there. D. none of them had been there before.
3. When she was at the airport, Amy felt___________
A. glad she had taken sandwiches with her. B. angry that she had nothing to eat.
C. worried that she might miss the plane. D. annoyed that she had spent so much.
4. Amy’s friend Carla annoyed Amy because Carla _____________
A. often disagreed with her when problems arose. B. sometimes left dirty dishes in the living room.
C. often forgot her keys when she went out. D. wouldn’t do any food shopping.
5. What were Amy’s feelings when she got home?
A. She never wanted to go on holiday with friends again. B. The holiday had been a useful learning experience.
C. Next summer she would look for work abroad. D. She was bitterly disappointed with her mistakes.
SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. Write the answers on your answer
sheet.
1. It is really a (n)_____________ which is suitable for my daughter.
A. undergraduate interesting economics course B. economics course interesting undergraduate
C. interesting economics undergraduate course D. interesting undergraduate economics course
2. You can see _________ people jogging along _________ side of the river in the morning.
 A. less – each B. those – both C. other – all D. a lot of – either
3..The aim of the repetitions of the same commercial on television is nothing but to brainwash consumers into
______consumption.
A. consummate B. comprehensive C. confirmed D. compulsive
4. According to ______ National Weather Service, _____ cyclones are _____ areas of
circulating winds that rotate counterclockwise in ________ Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in ______Southern
Hemisphere
A. ø/ø/the/the/the B. the/ø/ø/the/the C. the/ø/the/ø/ø D. the/ø/ø/an/the
5. Please cut my hair ______________ the style in this magazine.
A. the same length as B. the same length like C. the same long like D. the same long as
6. People have searched for true rhymes in English for the words orange, purple and silver, but have found _________.
A. no B. none C. neither D. not
7. She ____________ for her parents’ support during her university education, but she preferred to work part-time and
support herself.
A. should have asked B. could have asked C. must have asked D. ought to ask
8. I don't want to sound ______, but I thought my picture was the best.
A. big-headed B. blue-eyed C. narrow-minded D. thick-skinned
9. Why did you and mention the party to George ? It was supposed to be a surprise ?
A. let the cat out of the bag B. put the cat among the pigeons
C. have kittens D. kill two birds with one stone
10. My father sees_____when he sees my sister going out with a strange boy.
A. green B. red C. yellow D. blue
Read the passage and give the correct form of the words.
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the (1)_______NAME of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina.
His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina's school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his
(2)_______LIVE love of books. By 1881 he was a (3)________LICENSE pharmacist. However, within a year, on the
recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father's, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding
sheep. During the time, Webster's (4) _____BRIDGE Dictionary was his constant (5) ______ACCOMPANY, and Porter
gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later (6) ______COPORATE into many of his short stories. He then moved to
Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pen name appeared, (7) _______ALLEGATION
derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a
draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank. In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling
Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First
National Bank was examined, and the (8)___________SEQUENTIAL indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had
embezzled funds. Porter then fled to 16 New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He
returned in 1897 because of his wife's continued (9)____________HEALTHY , however, she died six months later. Then,
in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of 35, he entered prison as a
defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his invented name he now used to hide his identity. He
wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after (10)__________GAINFUL his freedom, went to New York City, where he
published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite short story writer. Porter married again in 1907,
but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of 48 in 1910. O. Henry's stories have been
SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION
Question I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase for each of the blanks.
Technology
When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two
……….(1). They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow
makes life less than ……….(2). Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they
could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an example. For many of us, they still represent a ……….( 5) to
our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines. This may be
because they seem mysterious, and difficult to understand. Ask most people what you can use a home computer for, and
you usually get ……….(7) answers about how ‘they give you information’. In fact, even those of us who are familiar with
computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of how they work. But it does not take long to learn how
to operate a business programme, even if things occasionally go wrong for no apparent reason. Presumably much the same
happened when the telephone and the television became ……….(8). What seems to alarm most people is the speed of
technological change, rather than change itself. And the ……….(9) that are made to new technology may well have a
point to them, since change is not always an improvement. As discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the
oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don’t have to be ………..( 10) in to
work.
1. A. moments B. kinds C. ways D. types
2. A. formerly B. lively C. personal D. human
3. A. adapt B. react C. conform D. use
4. A. decide B. wonder C. suppose D. admit
5. A. hazard B. risk C. control D. threat
6. A. measures B. decisions C. chances D. instructions
7. A. vague B. such C. up with D. hundreds
8. A. in existence B widespread C. through D. extensive
9. A. objections B appliances C. criticisms D. fears
10. A. wired B batteries C. plugged D. connected
Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
Most human diets contain between 10 and 15 percent of their total calories as protein. The rest of the dietary energy
comes from carbohydrates, fats, and in some people, alcohol. The proportion of calories from fats varies from 10 percent
in poor communities to 40 percent or more in rich communities.
In addition to providing energy, fats have several other functions in the body. The fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and
K, are dissolved in fats, as their name implies. Good sources of these vitamins have high oil or fat content, and the
vitamins are stored in the body’s fatty tissues. In the diet, fats cause food to remain longer in the stomach, thus
increasing the feeling of fullness for some time after a meal is eaten. Fats add variety, taste, and texture to foods, which
accounts for the popularity of fried foods. Fatty deposits in the body have an insulating and protective value. The curves
of the human female body are due mostly to strategically located fat deposits.
Whether a certain amount of fat in the diet is essential to human health is not definitely known. When rats are fed a
fat-free diet, their growth eventually ceases, their skin becomes inflamed and scaly, and their reproductive systems are
damaged. Two fatty acids, linoleic and arachidonic acids, prevent these abnormalities and hence are called essential
fatty acids. They also are required by a number of other animals, but their roles in human beings are debatable. Most
nutritionists consider linoleic fatty acid an essential nutrient for humans.
(Source: TOEFL Practice Tests – The Heinemann, Oxford)
1. This passage probably appeared in which of the following?
A. A diet book B. A book on basic nutrition
C. A cookbook D. A popular women’s magazine
2. We can infer from the passage that all of the following statements about fats are true EXCEPT .
A. fats provide energy for the body
B. economics influences the distribution of calorie intake
C. poor people eat more fatty foods
D. alcohol is not a common source of dietary energy
3. The phrase “stored” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. attached B. manufactured C. measured D. accumulated
4. The word “essential” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. required for B. desired for C. detrimental to D. beneficial to
5. According to the author of the passage, which of the following is true for rats when they are fed a fat-free diet?
A. They stop growing. B. They have more babies.
C. They lose body hair. D. They require less care.
6. Lioleic fatty acid is mentioned in the passage as .
A. an essential nutrient for humans B. more useful than arachidonic acid
C. preventing weight gain in rats D. a nutrient found in most foods
7. The phrase “these abnormalities” in the third paragraph refers to .
A. a condition caused by fried foods
B. strategically located fat deposits
C. curves on the human female body
D. cessation of growth, bad skin, and damaged reproductive systems
8. That humans should all have some fat in our diet is, according to the author, .
A. a commonly held view B. not yet a proven fact
C. only true for women D. true by experiments on rats
III. Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers than ever before, the
number of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a solution to this problem, they often try
some of the popular fad diets being offered. Many people see fad diets as innocuous ways of losing weight, and they are
grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only don’t fad diets usually do the trick, they can actually be dangerous for
your health.
Although permanent weight loss is the goal, few are able to achieve it. Experts estimate that 95 percent of dieters return
to their starting weight, or even add weight. While the reckless use of fad diets can bring some initial results, long-term
results are very rare.
Nonetheless, people who are fed up with the difficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to fad diets. Rather
than being moderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes. They advise eating only one type of food, or they
prohibit other types of foods entirely. This results in a situation where a person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and
other things that it needs to stay healthy.
One popular fad diet recommends eating lots of meat and animal products, while nearly eliminating carbohydrates. A
scientific study from Britain found that this diet is very high in fat. According to the study, the increase of damaging fats
in the blood can lead to heart disease and, in extreme cases, kidney failure. Furthermore, diets that are too low in
carbohydrates can cause the body to use its own muscle for energy. The less muscle you have, the less food you use up,
and the result is slower weight loss.
Veteran dieters may well ask at this point, “What is the ideal diet?” Well, to some extent, it depends on the individual. A
United States government agency has determined that to change your eating habits requires changing your psychology of
eating, and everyone has a different psychology. That being said, the British study quoted above recommends a diet that
is high in carbohydrates and high in fiber, with portions of fatty foods kept low. According to the study, such a diet is the
best for people who want to stay healthy, lose weight, and keep that weight off. And, any dieting program is best
undertaken with a doctor’s supervision
1. What is the author’s main point?
A. Reckless fat dieting probably takes weight off the fastest.
B. Most people shouldn’t try to lose weight
C. High-protein diets can make you sick.
D. Fad diets are ineffective and unsafe; high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets are best.
2. According to the passage, why are there more overweight people nowadays?
A. They are using fad diets. B. They spend a lot of time in front of computers.
C. They have heart disease. D. They are eating more protein than ever before.
3. After losing weight by dieting, what usually happens to people?
A. they have kidney failure B. they gain weight back again
C. they keep the weight off D. they have less muscle
4. Which of the following best expresses the essential information in paragraph 3?
A. Fed up people turn to fad diets, which, being too extreme, don’t give the body everything it needs.
B. People are fed up with fad diets and turn to diets which provide what the body needs.
C. People prefer fad dieting to moderate dieting because it requires fewer foods to give the body what it needs.
D. Fad diets give fed up people the moderate dietary changes they need to get all the required vitamins.
5. Which is not mentioned as an effect of the meat and animal product diet?
A. heart disease B. slower weight loss C. psychological changes D. kidney failure
6. According to the passage, why does the ideal diet depend in the individual?
 A. The less muscle you have, the less food you use up.
B. Everyone can gain weight back.
C. Everyone has a different psychology.
D. Everyone likes different food.
7. According to the passage, what diet does a British study recommend?
A. a meat and animal product diet
B. a diet high in carbohydrates, low in fiber, and high in fat.
C. a fad diet but with healthier foods.
D. a diet high in carbohydrates, low in fiber, and low in fat.
8. The word “ innocuous” in the paragraph 1 can be best replaced by .
A. helpful B. harmless C. effective D. beneficial
9. What does the word “this’ in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. changing eating habits. B. that people change their habits.
C. extreme dietary change D. eating one type of food.
10. What does the writer imply in the last paragraph?
A. There are many different ways of dieting.
B. The best way of dieting is psychological.
C. There is no such a thing called best diet for all.
D. Dieting takes a lot of psychology.
SECTION D: WRITING
I.Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the
sentence printed before it. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
1. The children are in disgrace for being so badly behaved.
→The children________________________________________________.
2. Someone has proposed revising the case.
→It ___________________________________________________.
3. On the day she agreed to marry him, he was happier than he had ever been in his life.
→ The day___________________________________________________.
4. He tried hard so that he would win the first prize.
→ With______________________________________________________.
5. You won’t find a school anywhere whose students get such good results.
→Nowhere___________________________________________________.
Part II. Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such
a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT change the form of the
given word.
1. You’d better start studying seriously. (KNUCKLED)
→ I'd __________________________________________________________________
2. Without financial backing, the project couldn’t go as planned. (WANT)
→ The project fell
3. Although some members objected to the proposal, it met with the council’ s approval (GO-AHEAD)
→ Notwithstanding
4. I won’t change my mind, no matter what you say. (BLUE)
→ You can talk
5. Because of his arrogance, nobody was wiI|ing to help him. (FULL)
→ Had he
III. In about 150 words, write a passage about the advantages of using computer technology in our life.