Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi THCS cấp thành phố Sơn La năm học 2022-2023 môn Tiếng Anh 9 THCS bản PDF

D. river 

D. communication 

D. how 

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66. A. your 

67. A. too 

68. A. Whenever 

B. ours 

B. as 

C. our 

C. enough 

B. Wherever 

C. However 

69. A. yet 

B. still 

C. though 

70. A. together 

B. each other 

C. between 

Your answers: 

61. 

62. 

66. 

67. 

63. 

68. 

64. 

69. 

D. yours 

D. so 

D. Whoever 

D. neither 

D. among 

65. 

70. 

PART 2: Fill each numbered blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the table provided. 

There have been a lot of scientific studies into what makes a friendship. It seems today that ideas of what friendship (71). are also changing. A study in 1993 at the University of Oxford (72). that people could only maintain 150 relationships. However, with the (73). 

of social media since then, many people now have over 300 people who they think of as friends. Some people think that these friends are not (75). friends, but others believe that social media has helped us to expand and 

(75) 

our friendships because we have more time and opportunities. Another change from the past is that people don't stay in the place where they were (76). 

They go to different cities and countries (77) education and jobs. People are in general more geographically mobile nowadays. This means that we have (78). chances to meet and make friends with people from different cultures and different backgrounds. People still often make friends at college who remain friends for life, (79) 

making new friends at work is more difficult. People now have less security at work and this also means that they find it harder to (80). new relationships. Your answers: 

71. 

76. 

72. 

77. 

73. 

78. 

74. 

78. 

75. 

80. 

PART 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer. 

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By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? 

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 2050. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work. 

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union. And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science- fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transport. A larger version of driverless cars driverless trucks may make long-haul drivers obsolete. Meanwhile, 

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the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals" reporting and publishing on niche topics. 

81. What topic does the passage mainly discuss? 

A. The advanced artificial intelligence 

C. The population in the future. 

B. Human life in 2050 

D. How future energy is used 

82. The word "disrupt" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to 

A. establish 

B. settle 

B. banned 

C. replace 

D. disturb 

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83. According to paragraph 2, one of the predictions of life in 2050 is 

A. Humans' life span will be longer than that at the recent time B. Most of the inhabitants will choose to live in rural areas 

C. The education system tends to keep traditional teaching methods D. The separation between home and workplace is bigger 84. The word "obsolete" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to 

A. outdated 

C. replaced 85. What does the word "who" in the last paragraph refer to? 

A. author 

B. Daniel Okrent 

C. New York Times 86. Which of the following is NOT true, according to paragraph 3? 

A. We still cannot have a clear vision of how cities look like in the future. 

B. There will be a big change in the future in terms of news organization. C. Long-haul drivers may become unemployed due to self-driving cars. D. The process of advanced technology will continue uncontrollably. 87. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? 

D. eliminated 

D. Bill Mitchell 

A. Huge inhabitant movement to urban areas is an unavoidable situation in the future. B. Bill Mitchell holds a firm belief in the similarities of future cities and fantasy works. C. Daniel Okrent anticipates the complete disappearance of the conventional news agency. D. Virtual and augmented reality will convert the way we experience entertainment service. 

Your answers: 

81. 

82. 

83. 

84. 

85. 

86. 

87. 

PART 4. For questions 88-90, you are going to read an article and do the tasks below. 

The Context, Meaning and Scope of Tourism 

A. Travel has existed since the beginning of time, when primitive man set out, often travering great distances in search of game, which provided the food and clothing necessary for his survival. Throughout the course of history, people have travelled for purposes of trade, religious conviction, economic gain, war, migration and other equally compelling motivations. In the Roman era, wealthy aristocrats and high government officials also travelled for pleasure. Seaside resorts located at Pompeii and Herculaneum afforded citizens the opportunity to escape to their vacation villas in order to avoid the summer heat of Rome. Travel, except during the Dark Ages, has continued to grow and, throughout recorded history, has played a vital role in the development of civilizations and their economies. 

B. Tourism in the mass form as we know it today is a distinctly twentieth-century phenomenon. Historians suggest that the advent of mass tourism began in England during the industrial revolution with the rise of the middle class and the availability of relatively inexpensive transportation. The creation of the commercial airline industry following the Second World War and the subsequent development of the jet aircraft in the 1950s signalled the rapid growth and expansion of international travel. This growth led to the development of a major new industry: tourism. In turn, international tourism became the concern of 

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a number of world governments since it not only provided new employment opportunities but also produced a means of earning foreign exchange. 

C. Tourism today has grown significantly in both economic and social importance. In most industrialized countries over the past few years the fastest growth has been seen in the area of services. One of the largest segments of the service industry, although largely unrecognized as an entity in some of these countries, is travel and tourism. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (1992), * Travel and tourism is the largest industry in the world on virtually any economic measure including value-added capital investment, employment and tax contributions'. In 1992, the industry's gross output was estimated to be $3.5 trillion, over 12 percent of all consumer spending. The travel and tourism. industry is the world's largest employer with almost 130 million jobs, or almost 7 percent of all employees. This industry is the world's leading industrial contributor, producing over 6 percent of the world's gross national product and accounting for capital investment in excess of $422 billion in direct, indirect and personal taxes each year. Thus, tourism has a profound impact both on the world economy and, because of the educative effect of travel and the effects on employment, on society itself. 

D. However, the major problems of the travel and tourism industry that have hidden, or obscured, its economic impact are the diversity and fragmentation of the industry itself. The travel industry includes: hotels, motels and other types of accommodation; restaurants and other food services; transportation services and facilities; amusements, attractions and other leisure facilities; gift shops and a large number of other enterprises. Since many of these businesses also serve local residents, the impact of sending by visitors can easily be overlooked or underestimated. In addition, Meis (1992) points out that the tourism industry involves concepts that have remained amorphous to both analysts and decision makers. Moreover, in all nations this problem has made it difficult for the industry to develop any type of reliable or credible tourism information base in order to estimate the contribution it makes to regional, national and global economies. However, the nature of this very diversity makes travel and tourism ideal vehicles for economic development in a wide variety of countries, regions or communities. 

E. Once the exclusive province of the wealthy, travel and tourism have become an institutionalized way of life for most of the population. In fact, McIntosh and Goeldner (1990) suggest that tourism has become the largest commodity in international trade for many nations and, for a significant number of other countries, it ranks second or third. For example, tourism is the major source of income in Bermuda, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and most Caribbean countries. In addition, Hawkins and Ritchie, quoting from data published by the American Express Company, suggest that the travel and tourism industry is the number one ranked employer in the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, France, (the former) West Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Singapore, The United Kingdom and the United States. However, because of problems of definition, which directly affect statistical measurement, it is not possible with any degree of certainty to provide precise, valid or reliable data about the extent of the world-wide tourism participation or its economic impact. In many cases, similar difficulties arise when attempts are made to measure domestic tourism. 

Questions 88-91. Reading text has five paragraphs, A-E. 

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-E from the list of heading below 

List of Headings 

i 

Economic and social significance of tourism 

ii 

The development of mass tourism 

iii 

Travel for the wealthy 

iv