Đáp án kỳ thi học sinh giỏi môn Anh văn lớp 9 năm học 2007-2008

ehearse). At last the (6)___first_____________(one) night comes! When the curtain goes down at the end, will there be enthusiastic (7)___applause__________(applaud) or silence? Will many of the newspaper (8)___reviews___________(view) be good or bad? What will the (9)__critic(s)________(criticize) think? Everyone hopes for a hit that will run for months or years, but the play might be a flop and only last a few days. It’s hard work in the theatre. There are evening (10)__performances_____(perform) six nights a week and afternoon shows called matinees, once or twice as well.
PART FOUR: CLOZE TESTS (60 points)
A. Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C, or D) for each blank space: 
When we think of a shark, we picture a (1)___________________, savage predator. Such ideas might have been (2)______________________in our minds by movies that we have seen on television and in cinemas. The most (3)______________________of these shows will probably be “Jaws”. But this description is true only of a (4)______________________of the species. The idea that all sharks kill and eat humans is a myth. Every year, more people are (5)_____________________by lightning than by sharks.
Some (6)______________________, like the Great White shark and the Tiger shark, have a(n) (7)______________________for attacking humans. Great White sharks feed mainly (8)______________________ seals and porpoises. Some experts believe that the Great White shark attacks humans (9)______________________a person while swimming looks very much like a seal when (10)_____________________from below. The shark usually kills its (11)____________________with one huge bite.
Sharks have very large and sharp teeth. These are used for cutting their food into shreds. A shark may have up to three thousand teeth in its mouth (12)_____________________. These are arranged in several (13)___________________. Only the front teeth are actively used for feeding. The remaining teeth serve as (14)______________________teeth. To (15)____________________that a shark may use more than twenty thousand teeth in its life.
1.	A. swim-fast	B. fast-swim	C. fast-swimming	D. swimming-fast
2.	A. Happened	B. Implanted	C. occurred	D. existed
3.	A. important	B. serious	C. famous	D. notorious
4.	A. minority	B. quantity	C. member	D. amount
5.	A. eaten	B. chased	C. attacked	D. damaged
6.	A. sorts	B. aspects	C. species	D. races
7.	A. fame	B. reputation	C. calling	D. instinct
8.	A. with	B. by	C. in	D. on
9.	A. if	B. since	C. when	D. so that
10.	A. observed	B. looked	C. noticed	D. witnessed
11.	A. prey	B. food	C. enemy	D. predator
12.	A. at times	B. at any one time	C. any time	D. at some time
13.	A. rows	B. queues	C. layers	D. groups
14.	A. replaced	B. replaceable	C. replacement	D. irreplaceable
15.	A. estimate	B. count	C. express	D. confirm
B. Read the passage and fill in each blank space with ONE appropriate word: 
The need for money (1)__comes____________from the fact that different people in society produce different things. This (2)__means____________that people (3)___depend___________on each other for goods and (4)___food______________. Let us take the (5)___example__________of a farmer who produces more food than he requires and a carpenter who earns a (6)___living__________ by selling the tables and chairs that he has made. It will be obvious that (7)__unless____________some means of exchange is found, the farmer will not be able to get (8)___rid______________of his surplus food and the carpenter, having nothing to eat, will (9)___starve___________to death! Clearly, the possible means of exchange for them to use will be barter – in other (10___words_____________, to exchange a certain amount of one kind of goods ((11)__let’s___________say flour) for a certain amount of another (tables or chairs, in this case).
Obviously, barter can (12)__work______________only in a very simple society. In an (13)__advanced_________society one cannot go around carrying things in the (14)___hope____________that he can exchange them for the right things he needs.
So, we need something that will stand for the goods and services that we want to exchange. That (15)__accounts__________for the origin of money.
PART FIVE: READING COMPREHENSION (10 points) 
Choose the item (A, B, C, or D) that best answers the question or completes the unfinished statement about the passage: 
Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education. Proper records are just not kept.
We know that more than 850,000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital. We also know there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.
Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available differ a great deal across the country. It found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher. A further quarter has only a part-time teacher. The special children’s hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off.
From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher – and that contact may be as little as two hours a day. Most children interviewed were surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all. They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school. If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do maths or number work; without a teacher they would only play games.
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do. The position and influence of many teachers was summed up when parents referred to them as ‘the library lady’ or just ‘the helper’.
Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work. Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refused by the school. Once back at school, children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best they can.
Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly. But schools do very little to ease the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed.
1.	The writer of this article points out that ________________________________A. not enough is known about hospital teaching.	B. every child in hospital receives some teaching.C. hospital teaching is of poor quality.D. many children pass through hospital each year.
2.	The words ‘Little wonder’ in line 6 is closest in meaning to A. It’s hardly surprising	B. It’s ironicalC. It’s likely	D. It’s common
3.	This latest survey found that hospital teaching is provided _______________________A. for the whole of the usual school day.	B. for a small proportion of children.C. in every children’s hospital in the country.	D. by full-time teachers.
4.	It seems that the children interviewed in hospital _________________________A. like having maths lessons regularly.	B. wanted to play games most of the time.C. did not expect to receive any teaching	.	D. did not want any contact with their schools.
5.	It is suggested that most teachers of children in hospital were ______________________A. successful in getting the cooperation of parents.B. unable to get help from other hospital staff.C. unable to provide a proper teaching programme.D. in a position of great influence in the hospital.
PART SIX: ERROR IDENTIFICATION (10 points) 
Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that needs correcting: 
1.	The man’s application was turned down because he was found incapable to do the job.  	 A	 B	 C	 D
2.	You have made remarkable progresses in your study in the last few weeks.	 A	 B	 C	 D
3.	She has spent many sleepless nights to examine the question raised by one student.
 A B C D
4.	One of the weaknesses in English is that it is not pronounced the way it is written. A	 B C D
5.	What I know are that the witness still needs to be protected. A	 B	 C	 D
6.	In the first meeting, a headmaster briefly introduced me to the school’s teaching staff. A B C D
7.	I had no sooner put the phone down when she rang back. A B C D
8.	That poor little boy never has any successful result, no matter however hard he tries. A B C D
9.	Motor vehicles are among the majoring causes of air pollution in big city centers. A B C D
10.	Few people would want to sacrifice the convenience of having on their own transport means. A B C D
PART SEVEN: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (30 points)
Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before it. In the last five sentences, you have to use the word in bold, and you mustn’t change the word inany way: 
The police towed away my car.I had my car towed away by the police.
Her parents moved to Hanoi ten years ago.It is ten years since her parents lived in Hanoi.
He can’t have known anything about the murder, I suppose.I’m absolutely certain that he didn’t know anything about the murder.
There are more tourists in the city this year than ever before.Never before have there been as/so many tourists in the city as this year.
Are you fed up with having nothing to do?Don’t you wish you had something to do?
We could just see him in the crowd. (make)We could just make him out in the crowd.
The area is so polluted that it is hard to live there. (pollution)Such is the pollution of the area that it is hard to live there.
Why were you so impatient in such a situation? (supposed)You are supposed to have been patient in such a situation.
He is likely to arrive late again. (probably)He will probably arrive late again.
I don’t mind if you leave now. (objection)I have no objection to you/your leaving now.
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