Luyện đề Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Đề 4 (Có file nghe và đáp án)

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1. A. as severe as B. so severe as C. more severe than D. the most severe 46.They’ve _______ a new tower where that old building used to be. A. put up B. put down C. pushed up D. pushed down 47.In order to get high scores at the entrance of the exam, Mike keeps his nose to the _____ A. back B. grindstone C. rock D. teeth 48. “When are you going to get rid of those ________ trousers?”– “Hmmm I don’t know but I like them a lot.” A. short nylon dreadful French B. short dreadful French nylon C. dreadful French nylon short D. dreadful short French nylon 49.He got down to writing the letter as soon as he returned from his walk. A. No sooner had he returned from his walk when he got down to writing the letter. B. Not until he returned from his walk did he get down to writing the letter. C. Only after he had returned from his walk did he get down to writing the letter. D. Hardly had he returned from his walk when he got down to writing the letter. 50.“What did the meeting discuss? I didn’t attend it because of traffic jam.” - “______________” A. I didn’t, either. B. That was great. C. You missed the meeting. D. I’m sorry, I can’t. Part 2: Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the numbered spaces provided. There is an example at the beginning (1 pt) The culture of Vietnam is one of the oldest in the Southeast Asia region. Although Vietnam lies(51)___________ in Southeast Asia, long periods of Chinese (51)GEOPHRAPHY domination and influence has resulted in the emergence of many East Asian(52)___________ in Vietnamese culture, and generally Vietnam is said to be (52) CHARACTER a part of the East Asian cultural sphere, known widely as Chinese cultural sphere. Despite(53)__________ foreigninfluence, Vietnamese people have (53) CONSIDER managed to retain many distinct customs. While Chinese culture has the largest influence on traditional Vietnamese culture, there is also a much smaller influence from the Cham and later Western cultures, most notably of France, Russia and the United States. Interm of prehistory, mostVietnamese(54)________consider the ancient Dong Son (54) HISTORY Culture to be one of the defining aspects of early Vietnamese (55)__________.Vietnam’s population in 2006 was 84,402,966, with a population (55) CIVILIZE density of 253 people per km2. Most people live in or near the densely populous Red River or Mekong deltas. Answers: 51. ........................... 52. ........................... 53 ........................... 54. ........................... 55. ........................... Part 3. There are 5 mistakes in the passage. Find and correct them. (0,5pt) Example: 0. During the teenage years, much young people can at times be difficult to talk. During the teenage years, muchyoung people can at times be difficult to talk. 0.______many________ They often seem to dislike being questioned. They may seem unwilling to talk about their work in school. This is a normal development at this age , though it 56.___________________ can be very hardly for parents to understand. It is part of becomingdependent of teenagers trying to be adult while they are still growing up . Young people are 57.___________________ usually more willing to talk if they believe that questions are asked out of real interest and not so people are trying to check up on them . 58.___________________ Parents should do their best to talk to their sons and daughters about school work and future plant but should not push them to talk if they don't want to . 59. __________________ Parents should also watch for the danger signs: some young people in trying to be adult may experiment of sex, drugs, alcohol, or smoking. Parents need to watch 60.__________________ for any signs of unusual behaviour which may be connect with these and get help if necessary. SECTION III: READING (6 POINTS) Part 1: Read the following passage then choose the best answer to fill in the gap by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.(1pt) 3
2. The Rocky Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the North West, but lie only a (61) _____ hundred miles from the centre in the more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (62) _____ the Alps, they are no less beautiful. There are many roads across the Rockies, (63)_________ the best way to see them is to (64)_______by train. You start from Vancouver,(65)______ most attractive of Canada’s big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its feet in the mountains, this city (66) ______ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city (67)______ Thirty passenger trains a day used to (68) _____ off from Vancouver on the cross–continent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure. You sleep (69)________ board, which is fun, but travel through some of the best (70)_______at night. 61.A. many B. lot C. few D. couple 62.A. from B. to C. as D.than 63.A.but B. because C.unless D.since 64.A. drive B. travel C. ride D.pass 65.A a B. one C. the D. its 66.A. lets B.allows C. offers D. gives 67.A. centre B. circle C. middle D. heart 68.A. leave B. get C. take D. set 69.A. when B. which C. who D. where 70.A. scenery B. view C.site D.beauty Part 2: Read the text below and think of word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. (2pts) In the past many educated people learned and spoke French when they met people from other countries. Today most people speak English (71) __________ they meet foreiners. It has become the new international language. There are more people who speak English as a second language (72)__________people who speak English as a first language. Why is English a popular language ? There are many (73) __________why English has become so popular. One of them is that English has become the language of business. (74)__________important reason is that popular American culture ( like movies, music, and McDonad’s) has quickly speard throught the world. It has brought its language with it. It is good (75)__________English has speard to all parts of the world so quikly ? It’s important to have a language that the people of the earth have in (76) __________Our world has become very global and we need to communicate with one another. On the other (77)__________, English is a fairly complicated language to learn and it brings its culture with it. Do we really need that ? Scientists have already tried to create an artificial (78) __________that isn’t too difficult and doesn’t include any one group’s culture. It is (79__________Esperanto. But it hasn’t become popular. But maybe the popularity of English won’t last that long (80) __________ Who knows ? There are more people in the world who speak Chinese than any other language. Maybe someday Chinese will be the new international language. 71__________ 72__________ 73__________ 74__________ 75__________ 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ Part 3: Decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F)or Not Given(NG).(1pt) In 1818, Luke Howard Published The Climate of London in which he identified an emerging problem: urban development was having a direct impact on the local weather. The early 1800s was a time of great expansion for London and Howard noticed that temperatures in the city were gradually becoming higher than those in rural areas. We now refer to these areas as Urban Heat Islands. The difference in temperature is usually greater at night and the phenomenon occurs in both winter and summer. Experts agree that this is due to urban development, when open green spaces are replaced with asphalt roads and tall brick or concrete buildings. These materials retain heat generated by the Sun and release it through the night. In Atlanta, in the US, this has even led to thunderstorms occurring in the morning rather than, as is more common, in the afternoon. Officials there are advising builders to use light-colored roofs in a bid to reduce the problem. Large cities around the world are adopting strategies to combat this issue. It is not uncommon to find plants growing on top of roof or down the walls of large buildings. In Singapore, the government has pledged to transform it into a city within a garden’ and, in 2006, they held an international competition calling for entries to develop a master plan to help bring this about. One outcome was the creation of 19 “Supertrees.” These metal constructions are made to resemble very tall trees and range in height from 25m to 50m. Each one is a vertical freestanding garden and is home to exotic plants and ferns. Their structure allowed the designers to create an immediate rainforest canopy without having to wait for trees to reach such heights. They contain solar panels used to light the trees at night and also containers to collect rainwater, making them truly self-sufficient. 81. .City temperatures are higher than country temperatures regardless of the season. 4
3. 82. . Atlanta has experienced more dramatic weather change than other areas of the US. 83. . Singapore’s Supertrees are made entirely from natural materials. 84. . The designers of the Supertrees originally planned to plant very tall trees. 85. .The Supertrees require regular maintenance. Part 4: Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. (1pt) The ability to conduct electricity is one of the key properties of a metal. Other solid material such as silicon can conduct electricity but only effectively at certain temperatures. Also, some substances such as salt (sodium chloride) can conduct when molten or when dissolved in water. The ability of metals to conduct electricity is due to how their atoms bond together. In order to bond together the metal atoms lose at least one of their outermost electrons. This leaves the metal atoms with a positive charge and they are now strictly ions. The lost electrons are free to move in what are known as a sea of electrons. Since the electrons are negatively charged they attract the ions and this is what keeps the structure together. An electric current is a flow of charge and since the electrons in the sea of electrons are free to move they can be made to flow in one direction when a source of electrical energy such as a battery is connected to the metal. Hence we have an electric current flowing through the wire, and this is what makes metals such good conductors of electricity. The only other common solid conducting material that pencil users are likely to encounter is graphite (what the ‘lead’ of a pencil is made from). Graphite is a form of carbon and again the carbon atoms bond in such a way that there is a sea of electrons that can be made to flow as an electric current. Likewise, if we have an ionic substance like salt we can make the electrically charged ions flow to create a current but only when those ions are free to move, either when the substance is a liquid or dissolved in water. In its solid state an ionic substance like salt cannot conduct electricity as its charged ions cannot flow. Electrical insulators are substances that cannot conduct electricity well either, because they contain no charged particles or any charged particles they might contain do not flow easily. Water itself is a poor conductor or electricity as it does not contain a significant amount of fully charged particles (the ends of a water molecule are partly charged but overall the molecule is neutral). However, most water we encounter does contain dissolved charged particles, so it will be more conductive than pure water. Many of the problems that occur when touching electrical devices with wet hands result from the ever-present salt that is left on our skin through perspiration and it dissolves in the water to make it more conductive. 86.According to the passage, What can a metal conduct electricity due to ? A. the absence of free electrons B. its atoms with a positive charge C. the way its atoms bond together D. the loss of one electron in the core of its atoms 87.The word “outermost” in paragraph 1 mostly means ________. A. the lightest. B. nearest to the inside. C. furthest from the inside. D. the heaviest. 88.The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to ________. A. charged ions B. electric currents C. charged particles D. electrical insulators 89.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. Pure water is much more conductive than most water we encounter every day. B. Graphite is a common solid substance that can conduct electricity. C. Salt can conduct electricity when it is molten or dissolved. D. Some materials are more conductive than others. 90.Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage? A. Electrical Energy B. Electrical Devices C. Electrical Insulators D. Electrical Conductivity Part 5:You are going to read a magazine article about people who collect things. For questions 61 – 70, choose from the people (A – D). The people may be chosen more than once.(1pt) Which of the people states the following? Questions had to re-start their collection? 91: . has provided useful advice on their subject? 92. . was misled by an early success? 93. . received an unexpected gift? 94. . admits to making little practical use of their collection? 95. . regrets the rapid disappearance of certain items? 96. . is aware that a fuller collection of items exists elsewhere? 97. . has a history of collecting different items? 98. . performed a favour for someone they knew? 99. . is a national expert on their subject? 100. . 5
4. THE WORLD OF COLLECTING A - Ron Barton Ron Barton shares his home with about 200 sewing machines. His passion began when he was searching for bits of second-hand furniture and kept seeing ‘beautiful old sewing machines that were next to nothing to buy’. He couldn’t resist them. Then a friend had a machine that wouldn’t work, so she asked Barton to look at it for her. At that stage he was not an authority on the subject, but he worked on it for three days and eventually got it going. Later he opened up a small stand in a London market. ‘Most people seemed uninterested. Then a dealer came and bought everything I’d taken along. I thought, “Great! This is my future life.” But after that I never sold another one there and ended up with a stall in another market which was only moderately successful.’ Nowadays, he concentrates on domestic machines in their original box containers with their handbooks. He is often asked if he does any sewing with them. The answer is that, apart from making sure that they work, he rarely touches them. B - Chris Peters As a boy, Chris Peters collected hundreds of vintage cameras, mostly from jumble sales and dustbins. Later, when the time came to buy his first house, he had to sell his valuable collection in order to put down a deposit. A few years after, he took up the interest again and now has over a thousand cameras, the earliest dating from 1860. Now Peters ‘just cannot stop collecting’ and hopes to open his own photographic museum where members of the public will be able to touch and fiddle around with the cameras. Whilst acknowledging that the Royal Camera Collection in Bath is probably more extensive than his own, he points out that ‘so few of the items are on show there at the same time that I think my own personal collection will easily rival it.’ C - Sylvia King Sylvia King is one of the foremost authorities on plastics in Britain. She has, in every corner of her house, a striking collection of plastic objects of every kind, dating from the middle of the last century and illustrating the complex uses of plastic over the years. King’s interest started when she was commissioned to write her first book. In order to do this, she had to start from scratch; so she attended a course on work machinery, maintaining that if she didn’t understand plastics manufacture then nobody else would. As she gathered information for her book, she also began to collect pieces of plastic from every imaginable source: junk shops, arcades, and the cupboards of friends. She also collects ‘because it is vital to keep examples. We live in an age of throw-away items: tape-recorders, cassettes, hair dryers – they are all replaced so quickly.’ King’s second book, Classic Plastics: from Bakelite to High Tech, is the first publishedguide to plastics collecting. It describes collections that can be visited and gives simple and safe home tests for identification. King admits that ‘plastic is a mysterious substance and many people are frightened of it. Even so, the band of collectors is constantly expanding.’ D - Janet Pontin Janet Pontin already had twenty years of collecting one thing or another behind her when she started collecting ‘art deco’ fans in 1966. It happened when she went to an auction sale and saw a shoe-box filled with them. Someone else got them by offering a higher price and she was very cross. Later, to her astonishment, he went round to her flat and presented them to her. ‘That was how it all started.’ There were about five fans in the shoe-box and since then they’ve been exhibited in the first really big exhibition of ‘art deco’ in America. The fans are not normally on show, however, but are kept behind glass. They are extremely fragile and people are tempted to handle them. The idea is to have, one day, a black-lacquered room where they can be more easily seen. Pontin doesn’t restrict herself to fans of a particular period, but she will only buy a fan if it is in excellent condition. The same rule applies to everything in her house. SECTION IV: WRITING (5pts) Part 1: Last week, you didn’t come to your friend’s birthday party because of your sickness. In about 80 - 100 words, write a letter to your friend to apology for that (2pts) (You mustn’t write your name, address, school name in the letter) Dear Mai, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6
5. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Lan Part 2: Fast food is not good for our health. In about 130 - 150 words write a paragraph about the drawbacks of fast food. (3pts) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7
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