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the first-semester examination for grade 9
(Time: 45 minutes)
Exercise 1: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the
others.
1.
A. terrible B. dormitory C. examine D. edition
2.
A. examine B. award C. campus D. candidate
3.
A. exercise B. persuade C. intermediate D. detail
Exercise 2: Find the choice that best completes the sentence.
4. She said that she……… learning English with you.
A. liked B. to like C. like D. liking
5. They couldn’t pass the final………
A. examine B. exam C. examination D. examining
6. I saw your school’s advertisement in today’s endition of the Vietnam News.
A. advertiser B. advertisement C. advertise D. advertising
7. If you study at The Brighton Language Center – UK, you can live in………. on campus.
A. hotel B. private room C. mobile room D. dormitory
8. He thinks that……….. on the Internet is a waste of time.
A. chatter B. to chat C. chat D. chatting
9. Don’t forget……….. the letter for me! I won’t.
A. posting B. posted C. post D. to post
10. I can complete a………. English test if you want.
A. spoke B. speak C. spoken D. speaking
11. This year the only award for the……….. student belongs to him.
A. best B. good C. well D. better
12. What aspect of ……… English do you find difficult?
A. studied B. study C. learnt D. learning
13. If you want to attend the course, you……… pass the examination.
A. had to B. has to C. have to D. could
14. Can you tell me who………. this kind of machine?
A. inventor B. invention C. invented D. inventive
15. I have sent you a lot of letters but you have never been
A. responsive B. response C. respond D. responsively
16. She thinks chatting on the Internet is time………
A. consumption B. comsume C. consumer D. consuming
17. Your teacher writes poems or stories, ………. she?
A. don’t B. won’t C. didn’t D. doesn’t
18. The restaurant has the ………. for serving some of the finest food.
A. reputed B. reputation C. reputable D. repute
19. Going swimming in the summer is very interstin, ……… it?
A. is B. isn’t C. aren’t D. are
20. She asked me where I…………. from.
A. came B. come C. coming D. to come
21. Who told you of the news? The……… may not be correct.
A. informational B. inform C. onformative D. information
22. Excuse me. Can I …………. in this area?
23. By learning English, you can get access to the world’s
A. develop B. development C. developing D. diveloped
Exercise 3: Rewrite each of the sentences, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the
same.
24. People have used the Internet all over the world.
The In ternet has……….
25. “Why don’t you go with me?”, he asked me.
He asked me why…………..
26. What about going to the cinama tonight?
Shall we……….
27. Does he spend most of free time playing video games?
Does it take…………
Exercise 4: Make sentence from the suggested words.
28. phone / her / should / return home / tell / we / to / late / to / your / going / are / mother?
29. mother / money / always / me / and / my / spend / some / sweets / gives / on / and
magazines
30. picked / garden / of / some / classmates / from / fruits / the / three / my.
31. exam / to / calculator / were / a / allowed / the / use / in / you / ?
Exercise 5: Read the passage and then answer the questions.
Peole who know Salley Ride say she is intelligent and confident. She also thinks deeply abot
things, but she is not always serious. She is fun and enjoys humor but she is in a hurry to get
on to more important things.
At high school she became interested in science. At university she studied English and
Physics. After completing her studies at Standord University, she worked as a researcher. In
1977, she was one of the 1,000 women and 7,000 men who applied for the astronaut training
program when she was 25. She was one of the 35 women who were accepted to start the
program in 1978. As part of her training, she learnt to be a jet pilot and a flight engineer. She
married during her traingin. Her husband, Havley, is also an astronaut. They do not plan to
have any children yet.
32. Is she a pleant woman? How do you know?
33. What did she learn?
34. Who did she marry?
35. What was she interested in at high school?
36. How old is Salley Ride now?
Exercise 6: Listen and choose the best answer.
37.
A. at B. on C. since D. from
38.
A. necessity B. unnecessary C. necessary D. unnecessarily
39.
A. more B. less C. many D. much
40.