Grade 9

THE SECOND SEMESTER EXAM-010

Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced diffrently from that of the others. 1. A. respond B. remote C. control D. notice 2. A. hobby B. deny C. poetry D. primary 3. A. comic B. campus C. income D. access 4. A. government B. moment C. comment D. development 5. A. know B. show C. plow D. flow Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. 6. You really saw a UFO, Mr. Brown, ________? A. werent you B. didnt you C. dont you D. arent you 7. I wish this exam ________easier. A. is B. will be C. would D. were 8. If anybody ________a question, please ask me after class. A. has B. have C. had D. will have 9. Tom ________go fishing with his uncle when he lived in the countryside. A. used to B. is used to C. has used to D. was used to 10. If I ________Johns address, I ________her letter. A. have/write B. had/ will write C. had/ would write D. had/ wrote 11. We havent seen Liz ________two months. A. since B. for C. until D. before 12. The book ________is on the table belongs to my teacher. A. Who B. where C. whose D. which 13. They reached the village before sunset ________the road was flooded. A. although B. whether C. as if D. even 14. After arriving home, they usually ________their uniforms. A. take out B. put out C. take off D. put off 15. He worked ________than his workmates. A. more careful B. as carefully C. carefullier D. more carefully Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets in the following sentences. 16. I (not see) _______________your brother recently. 17. My childrent enjoy (allow) ____________to stay up late when there is something special on TV. 18. When I came to see Mr. Robinson last night, he was reading a newspaper and his two children (listen) _______________to an English song. 19. The ao dai (mention) _______________in poems and songs for centuries, and nowadays they are worn by many Vietnamese women at work. 20. It (not rain) _______________much in our country in winter. 21. The examiner asked me if I _______________ (speak) any foreign languages. 22. If we go on littering, the environment _______________ (become) seriously polluted. 23. I suggest _______________ (reduce) the amount of gas by traveling by public transport. 24. We can save natural resources by __________(use) solar energy instead of coal, gas or oil. 25. If the rice paddies _______________ (pollute), rice plants will die. 26. Remember _______________ (take off) your shoes when you go into the temple. Rewrite each sentence as directed. 27. He often played the piano at night. He used to ______________________________________________________________________________ 28. They built that house last month. That house______________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 THE SECOND SEMESTER

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29. He is very short. He cant reach the ceiling. (Use too to) He is __________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Dont damage the trees he said. He told _________________________________________________________________________________ 31. I dont have much money. I cant buy a house. If _____________________________________________________________________________________ Fill in each blank with a suitable word. 32. We can reduce garbage by ________plastic bags. 33. The explorer________discovered America was Christopher Columbus. 34. The holidays were________cheap that they booked one immediately. 35. Their flight was delayed ________there was so much fog. 36. he didnt study the lesson carefully, ________he got bad mark. Read the passage and answer the questions below. Avonton is a small town. It lies between two rivers, the River Avon and the River Lee. There are two factories in Avonton. The jeans factory is near the railway station. The shoe factory is opposite the cinema. The main shopping street is called Market Street. There are a lot of shops on this street and a big shopping centre on one side. Opposite the shopping centre is a pub. On the corner there is a caf called The Half Moon. A lot of young people go to The Half Moon after school. Most of the teenagers in Avonton go to the secondary school. The school is at the end of Northway Avenue. Theres a park near the school with a football pitch in the middle. The leisure centre is next to the park and opposite the school. Behind the leisure centre there is a tennis court. A lot of people work in Avonton, but some people travel 100 kilometers every day to work in shops and offices in Birmingham. 37. Which two products do they make in Avonton? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 38. What is a popular place for young people to go in town? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 39. What sports can people do outside in Avonton? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 40. Do some people travel 100 km to work in shops and offices in Birmingham everyday ? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Use the given words in the box to complete the following passage. ago country same do because larger French speak Language

In the United States of America the national (41)______is also English. Four hundred years (42)______some English people sailed to North America to lived there, and (43)______brought the new language to this new (44)______. Now in the United States of America people (45)______American English. Most of the words are the (46)______in American and in British English, but American people say some English words not like people (47)______in England. Canada is to the North of the United States of America. It is (48)______than the United States. In Canada many people speak English (49)______they also came from England many years ago. But in some parts of Canada, they speak (50)______People are living in these parts came from France. ------THE END------

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