PHÒNG GD&ĐT QUỲNH LƯU ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI SƠ TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9

NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
(Đề gồm có 11 trang) Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

ĐIỂM HỌ TÊN, CHỮ KÍ GIÁM KHẢO SỐ PHÁCH

Giám khảo 1:
Bằng số:………………………….. ………………………………………………
Giám khảo 2:
Bằng chữ:………………………….
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SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1 (20 points): Listen to the recording twice. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS or NUMBERS. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
WEST BAY HOTEL - DETAILS OF JOB
Example answer: Newspaper advert for (0) temporary staff.
• Vacancies for (1) ______.
• Two shifts, the late shift lasts (2) ______ hours.
• Can choose your (3) ______ (must be the same each week).
• Pay: £5.50 per hour, including a (4) ______.
• A (5) ______ is provided in the hotel.
• Total weekly pay: £231.
• Dress: a white shirt and dark colored trousers (not supplied), a (6) ______ (supplied).
• Starting date: (7) ______.
• Call Jane (8) ______ (Service Manager) before (9) ______ tomorrow.
Tel: 832009.
• She’ll require a (10) ______.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2 (20 points): Listen to the talk and indicate whether the following statements are true, false or
not given by writing T for true, F for false and NG for not given in the boxes below.
11. The patient couldn’t remember his personal details.
12. The patient definitely came from Yorkshire.
13. The patient also wanted to kill himself then.
14. The patient could speak French and Italian.
15. Joe thinks that the patient might have been running away from something.
16. Joe thinks that the patient was definitely unmarried.
17. The patient has been unable to make contact with anyone he knows.
18. Deborah thinks that the patient can’t have hit his head.
19. Deborah says that the patient’s parents has sent her thanks for helping their son.
20. Deborah thinks that the patient will never recover his memory.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

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Part 3 (10 points). Listen to a manager talking with the new employees about the charity work and
answer the following questions. USE NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for
each answer. Write your answer in the spaces provided.
21. How much time for volunteering does the company allow per employee?
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22. What did some staff do to help unemployed people last year?
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23. What will the company do with a local park this year?
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24. Where will the Digital Inclusion Day be held?
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25. What should staff do if they want to take part in the Digital Inclusion Day?
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SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 points)

Part 1 (10 points). Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C
or D in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. The winter is usually mild, although we sometimes get a cold ______ at the beginning
of the year.
A. spell B. term C. interval D. wave
2. I’m ______ my brother is.
A. nowhere like so ambitious B. nothing near as ambitious as
C. nothing as ambitious than D. nowhere near as ambitious as
3. In this job, experience accounts for more than paper ______.
A. qualifications B. certificates C. quality D. background
4. I know the other team is expected to win, but let’s give them a run for their ______ tonight.
A. fortune B. money C. gold D. check
5. Such characters as fairies or witches in Walt Disney animated cartoons are purely ______.
A. imaginary B. imaginative C. imagining D. imaginable
6. ______ a scholarship, I entered the frightening and unknown territory of private
education.
A. To award B. To be awarded C. Having awarded D. Having been awarded
7. To his own great ______, professor Howard has discovered a new method of bulimia
treatment.
A. reputation B. name C. fame D. credit
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the words OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined words in the following question.
8. The next time somebody tries to push your buttons, remember what Mom said and resist
reacting.
A. praise you B. hate you C. stop you D. urge you
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word in the following question.
9. The guards were ordered to get to the king's room on the double.
A. in a larger number B. very quickly C. on the second floor D. every two hours
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best completes the following
exchange.
10. - Tom: “Can I bring a friend to your birthday party, Jane?” - Jane: ______ .”
A. It’s my honour B. Let’s do it then C. The more, the merrier D. That’s right
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Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2 (10 points). Read the passage below, which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and
write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Line
1. First come the PC, then the internet and e-mail; now the e-book is upon us, a
2. hand-held device similarly in size and appearance to a video cassette. The user
3. simply rings up the website on their PC, selects the desired books, downloads them
4. onto their e-book machine and sits down to read them. In turn a page, the user
5. simply taps the screen. E-book technology is evolving rapidly, and with some of
6. the latest handholds you will even get internet access. But why would one want
7. an e-book machine with preference to a book? Well, one selling point companies
8. emphasized, when these devices hit the market a few years ago, is the space
9. they save when going on holiday. E-books enlighten the load, literally. Ten large
10. novels can be put onto a device that weighs more than the average paperback. One
11. can understand why commercial interests seem to want us to change. After all, the
12. whole production process at first plan by author until delivery to the printer has
13. been done electronically for a while now, so why not save a few millions trees
14 and cut out the hard copy?

Your answers:
Number Line Mistake Correction
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

SECTION C. READING (70 points)

Part 1 (10 points). Read the passage and choose the best answer. Write your answers A, B, C or D in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
GIRLS AND TECHNOLOGY
If you want your daughter to succeed, buy her a toy construction set. That is the advice from
Britain’s (1) ______ female engineers and scientists. Marie-Noelle Barton, who heads an Engineering
Council campaign to encourage girls into science and engineering, maintains that some of Britain’s most
successful women have had their careers (2) ______ by the toys they played with as children. Even girls
who end (3) ______ nowhere near a microchip or microscope could benefit from a better (4) _____ of
science and technology. ‘It’s a (5) ______ of giving them experience and confidence with technology so
that when they are (6) ______ with a situation requiring some technical know-how, they feel they can
handle it and don’t just (7) ______ defeat immediately,’ says Mrs. Barton. ‘I believe that lots of girls
feel unsure of themselves when it comes (8) ______ technology and therefore they might be losing out
on jobs because they are reluctant even to apply for them.’ Research recently carried (9) ______
suggests that scientific and constructional toys should be (10) ______ to girls from an early age,
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otherwise the result is ‘socialisation’ into stereotypically female character, which may explain why
relatively few girls study science and engineering at university in Britain.

1. A. foremost B. uppermost C. predominant D. surpassing

2. A. styled B. shaped C. built D. modeled
3. A. in B. by C. on D. up
4. A. hold B. grasp C. insight D. realisation
5. A. matter B. situation C. state D. cause
6. A. approached B. encountered C. presented D. offered
7. A. admit B. allow C. receive D. permit
8. A. for B. to C. from D. with
9. A. off B. through C. forward D. out
10. A. accessible B. feasible C. reachable D. obtainable

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

Part 2 (10 points). Read the text below and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. Write the
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
THE CULT OF CELEBRITY
Once, children had ambitions to be doctors, explorers, sportsmen, artists or scientists. Now taking
their lead from TV, they just "want to be famous". Fame is no longer a reward for gallant service or great,
perhaps even selfless endeavor. It is an end in (11) ______, and the sooner it can be achieved, the sooner the
lonely bedroom mirror can be replaced by the TV camera and flash gun, (12) _____ better. Celebrity is the
profession of the moment, a vainglorious vocation which, (13) ______ some 18th- century royal court, seem
to exist largely so that the rest of us might watch and be amazed (14) ______ its members live out their lives
in public, like self-regarding members of some glittering soap opera.
Today, (15) ______ everyone can be famous. Never has fame (16) ______ more democratic,
more ordinary, more achievable. (17)______ wonder it's modern ambition. It's easy to see why people
crave celebrity, (18) ______ generations reared on the instant fame offered by television want to step out
of the limousine (19) ______ the flashlights bouncing around them. Who doesn't want to be the center of
attention at some time in their lives?
Modern celebrity, peopled by the largely vain and vacuous, fills a need in our lives. It peoples
talks shows, sells goods and newspapers and rewards the famous for, well, (20) ______famous.

Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 3 (10 points). Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Write your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered boxes provided.
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure – the pain that comes from the
ending of a relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love affair or a deep friendship, in fact,
any strong emotional tie between people. Such a relationship may come to an abrupt but premeditated
end or it may simply fade away slowly as people and circumstances change. You may be the one to
“break it off”, with a short note or a brief phone call. Or you may be on the receiving end, like the
soldier who dreads getting a “Dear John” letter from a girlfriend who has got tired of waiting. But
however it ended and whoever decided to end it, the pain is equally hard to bear. It is a sort of death, and
it requires the same period of mourning, the same time for grief.

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 Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain and to make
us forget our tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves busy with work, we try to
immerse ourselves in our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink more than we should to drown our sorrows
or we follow the conventional advice and join a club or society. But these things only relieve the
symptoms of the illness, they cannot cure for it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry to get rid of our
grief. It is as if we were ashamed of it. We feel that we should be able to “pull ourselves together”. We
try to convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are much too old to be crying. Some people
bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess what they are going through. Others
seek relief by pouring their hearts out to their friends, or to anyone else who can offer a sympathetic
shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends start to show their impatience, and suggest with
their reproachful glances that it is about time we stopped crying. They, too, are in a hurry for the thing to
be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we would never
expect anyone to overcome physical pain simply by an effort of will power. Part of the answer must lie
in the nature of grief itself. When the love affair dies, you cannot believe that you will ever find another
person to replace the one who has gone so completely out of your life. Even after many, many months,
when you think that you have begun to learn to live without your lost love, something-a familiar place, a
snatch of music, a whiff of perfume- will suddenly bring the bitter – sweet memories flooding back. You
choke back the tears and the desperate, almost angry, feeling that you are no better now than the day the
affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade eventually, a healing
skin does start to grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden glimpses of the love you have lost
do get longer. Bit by bit, life resumes the normal flow. Such is the complexity of human nature that we
can even start to feel guilty as these things start to happen, as if it were an insult to our lost love that we
can begin to forget at all.
The important thing to admit about grief, then, is that it will take its time. By trying to convince
ourselves that it ought to be over sooner, we create an additional tension which can only make things
worse. People who have gone through the agony of a broken relationship – and there are few who have
not- agree that time is the “greater healer”. How much time is needed will vary from person to person,
but psychiatrists have “a rule of thumb”: grief will last as long as the original relationship lasted. The
sad thing is that, when the breakdown occurs, we can only stumble over the stories beneath our feet. It is
dark ahead, and you will feel painfully many times before we begin to see the light at the end of the
tunnel.
21. Psychiatrists tell you that grief will last as long as the original relationship. This calculation is
_________
A. based on a deep understanding of human nature B. generally true but with many exceptions
C. the result of scientific research D. no more than a hopeful guess
22. Relationships often come to an end because _________
A. people do not realize the pain they can cause B. very few people really know how to love
C. the feeling of the people were not very deep D. people do not always stay the same
23. You tell your friends about your unhappiness because _________
A. you want them to feel sorry for you
B. you hope it will make you feel better
C. you want them to hear the story from you
D. you feel sure that they have had similar experiences

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24. If you seek advice on what to do about a broken relationship, you will probably be told to
_________
A. keep busy at work B. find someone else
C. pull yourself together (use your will power) D. join a club.
25. When your friends get tired of listening to you they will _________
A. tell you to pull yourself together B. try to avoid your company
C. show by their expressions that they have had enough D. help you to get over your grief
26. Often we are ashamed when we cry because _________
A. only children and babies cry
B. we are worried about what others will think of us
C. we do not expect our unhappiness to last so long
D. we think it is a childish thing to do
27. Memories continue to upset you, and this makes you feel that you _________
A. will never get over your grief B. have no will power
C. are utterly alone D. have made no progress at all
28. If we try to recover too quickly from grief, we shall make ourselves _________
A. nervous B. tense C. ill D. unpopular
29. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so _________
A. unexpectedly B. rapidly C. frequently D. rarely
30. One way to get over a broken relationship is to _________
A. try to forget the other person B. write a “Dear John” letter
C. make a brief phone call D. form new relationships

Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Part 4 (20 points). You are going to read an article about student accommodation in which four
college students talk about the place they live. Choose from the people (A-D). The people may be
chosen more than once. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Which student says?
0. My accommodation seems quite expensive. A
31. I have plenty of storage space. ………
32. My college doesn’t provide accommodation. ………
33. My room is maintained to a high standard. ………
34. I have washing facilities in my room. ………
35. I would like to have more independence. ………
36. I had to buy some extra electrical equipment. ………
37. I would like to have more private space. ………
38. It’s easy to keep in touch with people here. ………
39. My room is not very well-furnished. ………
40. This is the only place where I can afford to live. ………

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 A. Jack Pitt
I live in what’s called a hall of residence where I get full board as well as a room. It’s not exactly what
you call cheap, though, I pay £87 per week for my single room and three meals a day. This also includes
the use of a washing machine and ironing board. But I can’t complain because my room has just been re-
carpeted, the furniture’s new and the cleaner comes in daily. The main drawback is sharing the bathroom
with nine other students and we don’t have any kitchen facilities. The first thing I did when I arrived was
buy myself a mini-fridge, so I could have cool drinks whenever I wanted. But, we’re on the university
network, so I have access to the Internet and free e-mail from my room, and we get room phones so I
can ring friends around the campus for nothing.
B. Jessica Alba
The city where I study is appalling for cheap accommodation, and the college has nothing of its own to
offer you, but I was lucky, I found a room in a nice little terraced house with central heating which I
share with three other girls. I have a yearly contract with a private landlady and I pay £220 a month for
my study bedroom. This is not bad as it also has a large walk-in wardrobe where I put all my stuff. I
share the bathroom, kitchen and a small living room with the other girls, and we split all the bills
between us. We tried to make a rote for the washing up, cleaning and putting out the rubbish, but it’s not
always strictly followed. Cooking your own food is much cheaper than eating at college, and I like it
because I have what I want when I want it.
C. Marilyn Jackman
I live in a college-owned self-catering block. There’s not much luxury, but I get value for money. For
my £38 per week rent, I get a reasonably-sized room with an old wardrobe, a tiny desk, one shelf, a
rather stained carpet and a sink. When I first moved in, I probably spent more on decoration than I did
on food. My only real complaint, though, was that I had to buy a new pillow because the one I was
provided with felt like a plastic bag full of old towels. I share the kitchen and bathroom with six other
girls. One of them has a TV in her room, but she is a bit possessive about it. The fridge is not huge, so
you’re always trying to squeeze your food into the last remaining inch of space. I twice set off the fire
alarm by burning my dinner, so tended to give up on cooking after that. We eat a lot of take-aways. In
the next block there’s a games room where we hang out which has things like table football and satellite
TV if you need a break from studying.
D. Henry Trump
I made the big mistake of going to a college fairly near my home. It isn’t so much the course that I don’t
like, but the fact that I’m stuck at my parents’ house so I don’t feel in touch with what’s going on at
campus. In some ways I’m lucky because I’m not paying out all the money for food and rent that other
people have to find, and I have someone to do my washing, but I don’t have the same amount of freedom
or privacy as the people who’re living away from home. I even have to share a room with my younger
brother. When I told my parents I wanted to move out and go into college accommodation, they said
they’d stop supporting me financially. So, in the end, I had to give up the idea, that hasn’t made any of us
very happy.

Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Part 5 (20 points). This part of reading has seven paragraphs A-G.
For questions 41-45, choose the correct heading for paragraphs B, C, D, E, and F from the list of the
headings below. Write your answers in answer box below.
List of Headings
i The reaction of the Inuit community to climate change
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 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
Example: Paragraph A Answer: viii
41. Paragraph B ___________
42. Paragraph C ___________
43. Paragraph D ___________
44. Paragraph E ___________
45. Paragraph F ___________
Climate change and the Inuit
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.
B
For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in 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.
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 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, 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.

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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.
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 a 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.
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.
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.

For questions 46 - 50, choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD from paragraphs C, D and E to fill in
each blank in the summary below.
If you visit the Canadian Arctic, you immediately appreciate the problems faced by people for whom
this is home. It would clearly be impossible for the people to engage in (46) ______ as a means of
supporting themselves. For thousands of years they have had to rely on catching sea mammals
and fish as a means of sustenance. The harsh surroundings saw many who tried to settle there pushed
to their limits, although some were successful. The (47) ______ people were an example of the latter
and for them the environment did not prove unmanageable. For the present inhabitants, life continues
to be a struggle. The territory of Nunavut consists of little more than ice, rock and a few (48) ______.
In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their (49) ______ lifestyle, but they
continue to depend mainly on nature for their food and clothes. Imported produce is particularly

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expensive. Besides, with the spread of common diseases and the loss of conventional techniques, the
(50) ______ problem and a crisis of identity are becoming a matter of concern of almost everyone.

Your answers
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

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 SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)
Part 1 (10 points). Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. Use
the word given in capital letters if given and the word mustn’t be changed in any way.
1. I object to people criticizing me unfairly. (IT)
→ I ________________________________________________me unfairly.
2. Nobody expected Henry to lose, but he did. (EXPECTATION)
→ ___________________________________________________, Henry lost.
3. The exhibition has not been so well attended this year. (DOWN)
→ ____________________________________________________this year.
4. Teaching doesn’t suit impatient people. (CUT)
→ Impatient people ________________________________________________teaching.
5. Casper didn’t mention the fact that we had met before. (REFERENCE)
→ Casper _____________________________________________the fact that we had met before.

Part 2 (20 points). Imagine you are Linh. You have got a letter from your friend, Vy. She is going to
join a volunteer trip to a flooded area. Write an e-mail to her telling her your experience. In your
letter, you should:
+ tell her the time and place of your previous trip.
+ mention the things to do and not to do during staying in a new area.
+ give her advice on how to prepare personal stuff.
You should write about 90 - 100 words.
You do NOT need to write your address.

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Part 3 (30 points). Choose ONE option only.
Option 1: Write a story of about 180-200 words beginning with the following words:
It was a cold day, I had just got home after a hard day when …
Option 2: Write an essay of about 200-250 words on the following topic:
Nowadays, many people are following hot trends on social networks. Do you think it is
advantageous? Why (not)?

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 HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI SƠ TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI
LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC 2024 – 2025
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
(Hội đồng chấm thi có hướng dẫn chấm chi tiết riêng sau khi thống nhất)

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1 (20 points): Listen to the recording twice. Fill in each blank with NO MORE
THAN TWO WORDS or NUMBERS.
1. waiters 2. 7/ seven 3. day off 4. break 5. (free) meal
6. jacket 7. 28 June 8. Urwin 9. mid-day 10. reference

Part 2 (20 points): Listen to the talk and indicate whether the following statements are
true, false or not given by writing T for true, F for false and NG for not given in the
boxes below.
11. T 12. F 13. NG 14. T 15. T 16. F 17. F 18. F 19. NG 20. F

Part 3 (10 points). Listen to a manager talking with the new employees about the charity work and
answer the following questions. USE NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for
each answer.
21. Eight/8 hours per year
22. Communication skills
23. A new volunteering project
24. At a college
25. Fill in a form

SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 points)

Part 1 (10 points). Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C
or D in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. C 9.B 10. C

Part 2 (10 points). Read the passage below, which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the
mistakes and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Number Line Mistake Correction
11. 1 come came
12. 2 similarly similar
13. 3 rings calls
14. 4 In To
15. 6 handholds handhelds
16. 7 with in
17. 9 enlighten lighten
18. 10 more less
19. 12 at from
20. 13 millions million

SECTION C. READING (70 points)

Part 1 (10 points). Read the passage and choose the best answer.
1. A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.A 6.C 7.A 8.B 9.D 10.A

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Part 2 (10 points). Read the text below and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word.
11. itself 12. the 13. like 14. as/while 15. almost
16. become/ 17. No/Small/Little 18. why 19. with 20. being
seemed/been/appeared

Part 3 (10 points). Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
21. B 22. D 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. D

Part 4 (20 points). You are going to read an article about student accommodation in which

four college students talk about the place they live. Choose from the people (A-D). The
people may be chosen more than once.
31.B 32.B 33.A 34.C 35.D 36.A 37.D 38.A 39.C 40.D

Part 5 (20 points). This part of reading has seven paragraphs A-G.
41. i 42. vi 43. iii 44. vii 45. iv
46. farming 47. Thule 48. islands 49. nomadic 50. health

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1 (10 points). Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. Use
the word given in capital letters if given and the word mustn’t be changed in any way.
1. I dislike it when people criticize me unfairly.
2. Against everybody’s expectation, Henry lost.
3. Attendance at the exhibition has been down this year.
4. Impatient people aren’t (really) cut out for teaching.
5. Casper made no reference to/ didn’t make (any/a) reference to the fact that we had met before.
Lưu ý: Nếu HS làm cách khác đúng vẫn cho điểm tối đa.
Part 2 (20 points).
- Length (1pt): 80-100 words
- Ideas (10 pts):
+ Opening
+ 3 main ideas
+ Closing
- Organization and Style (2pts): informal
- Vocabulary and grammar (7pts)
Part 3 (30 points).
The mark given to part 3 is based on the following criteria:
1. Length: (2pts).
2. Organization & style: (3pts) ideas are organized and presented with coherence, style, and
clarity appropriate to writing stories
3. Ideas (15 pts)
4. Grammar and Vocabulary (10pts) a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the
level of English language gifted lower-secondary school students.

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