Bài tập ôn luyện môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 - Unit 2: City Life

Unit 2: City life
I/ . Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined.
1: A. conduct B. difficult C. stuck D. fun
2: A. metropolitan B. polluted C. forbidden D. affordable
3: A. feature B. culture C. suggestion D. statue
4: A. fabulous B. packed C. asset D. canal
5: A. metro B.ocean C. cosmopolitan D. local
6: A. delicious B. facility C. city D. place
7: A. attraction B. surface C. lacquerware D. artisan
8: A. weave B. treat C. deal D. drumhead
9: A. sculpture B. lantern C. pottery D. treat
III. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
City planners have claimed trees (1) an important role in an urban environment. Children (2) .. close to nature have better health, while walking in parks helps reduce blood pressure, stress and obesity. The problem is to select the right trees and (3) them.
Ha Noi is considered one of the greenest cities in Viet Nam thanks to its beautiful and precious trees. Ancient trees in Ha Noi are frequently (4) . in poems. Each street can be (5) by a tree. To local residents, the hundred-year old trees that line the streets are more than just beautiful, they are part of the city's identity.
Due to the treasured place the trees have in the (6) of the local residents, Hanoians seem to have a lot of concern when construction workers chop them (7) . Workers get away with digging around the trees without much care, and even (8) . the trees without enough earth to grow - making them vulnerable to storms.
To (9) with the problem, Ha Noi's authorities have started a project of replanting trees: each of the capital's streets will be planted with two or three sorts of trees. Moreover, more people should be made (10) of the importance of protecting trees in communities.
1:A. act B. play C. enjoy D. perform
2:A. grow up B. grown up C. growing up D. being grown up
3:A. maintain B. service C. provide D. care
4:A. referred B. indicated C. spoken D. mentioned
5:A. described B. presented C. expressed D. explained
5:A. described B. presented C. expressed D. explained
6:A. brain B. place C. centre D. heart
7:A. away B. off C. down D. Ø
8:A. leave B. remain C. cause D. have
9:A. solve B. come up C. deal D. agree
10:A. understood B. aware C. capable D. know
IV/ . Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Recently, we made a trip to visit Dong Ho village with a desire to meet the old artisan – Nguyen Huu Sam. Just when we arrived villagers at the dyke in the village and talked with the villagers about the artisan, they immediately told us about him.
The old house owned by the artisan is situated in a long alley of the village. On the walls of the house there are many folk paintings in different genres, from daily life paintings to landscape paintings shown in a set of “four seasons”.
Mr. Sam told us about his past. When he was three years old, he was instructed in the craft of making Dong Ho paintings by his father. At five, he could help his father apply the Dong Ho paintings, and learn how to print the paper with proper colours. At seven, he was able to draw with a pen and make the most difficult samples. Years went by and the soul of Dong Ho folk paintings has kept seashell powder paint to the poonah-paper.
In the 1940s, this craft flourished. At that time, he was assigned by his parents to take the paintings to the market for sale. Mr. Sam said that 17 families in the village have been engaged in making Dong Ho paintings.
Artisan Sam has always been devoted to the making of Dong Ho paintings and has waited for opportunities to restore this traditional craft. In 1967, when the local authorities assigned him to restore the traditional genre of Dong Ho folk paintings, he gathered 50 villagers with professional skills and collected hundreds of woodblocks to establish the Dong Ho Painting Cooperative. 
Thanks to his efforts, such famous painting as "Rat's wedding", “Rooster”, “Scene of jealousy” and “Writing verses about precious flowers" have been revived. Dong Ho paintings have been available in many parts of the world such as Japan, France, Germany, Singapore and the United States.
1:The themes of Dong Ho paintings are about ..
 A. landscapes B. weddings C. various aspects of life D. animals and flowers
2:In order to make Dong Ho paintings, we need seashell powder paint, the poonah-paper and ...
 A. proper colours B. water C. markets D. woodblocks
3:From paragraph 3, we can infer that when Mr. Sam was very young, he mostly helped his parents by .
A. applying the woodblocks with proper paints and pressing them on sheets of paper
 B. applying seashell powder to make various paints for painting making 
 C. drawing with a pen and using proper paints to make many copies of paintings 
 D. collecting and taking the paintings to the market for sale
4:All of the following can be inferred about the artisan - Mr. Sam – EXCEPT that ..
A. he is popular in the village B. he could paint when he was three
C. he keeps a collection of Dong Ho paintings in his house D. the local authorities tried to revive the traditional genre
5:In the writer's opinions, the future of Dong Ho paintings is .. 
 A. international B. concerning C. optimistic D. negative
V/ Choose the best option to complete the sentences.
1: As she did so, her parents became ............... 
A. the angriest B. the most angry C. the more angry D. angrier and angrier
2: People should eat ............... and do ............. to reduce the risk of heart disease.
 A. less fat/ more exercise B. less and less fat/ the more exercise
 C. the less fat/ the more exercise D. fatter/ more exercise
3: He spent a year in India and loves spicy food ............... the food is, ............... he likes it.
A. The hotter/ the more and more B. The hotter/the more
C. The more and more hot/ the more D. The hottest/ the most
4: Of course you can come to the party ...............
A. The more the merrier B. The more and the merrier C. The more and merrier D. The more and more merrier
5: I feel ............... I did yesterday.
A. much more tired than B. many more tired than C. as many tired as D. as more tired as
6: She is ............... a spectator.
A. more an athlete than B. more of an athlete than C. an athlete more than D. an athlete of more than
7: His house is ............... mine.
 A. twice as big as B. as twice big as C. as two times big as D. as big as twice
8: ................ live in Ho Chi Minh City than in the whole of the rest of the country.
A. As much as people B. More people C. As many as people D. People more
9: It gets ............... to understand what the professor has explained.
A. the more difficult B. more difficult than C. difficult more and more D. more and more difficult
10: You must drive more slowly in built up areas ..........you drive in the city, it is ..........that you will have an accident.
A. The faster and faster/ the more B. The faster/ the more probable
C. The more and more fast/ the more and more probable D. The more fastly/ the probable
11: The party was ............... I had expected.
A. more a hundred times funny than B. a hundred times funny more than
C. a hundred times funnier than D. a hundred times more funny than
12: He finds physics ............... other science subjects.
A. far more difficult than B. many more difficult than C. too much more difficult than D. more much difficult than
13: ............... he drank, ................ he became.
A. More/ more violent C. The more/ the more violent B. The most/ the most violent D. The less/ less violent
14: Mary was ............... of the two sisters.
A. the clever B. as clever as C. the cleverer D. the cleverest
15: French is a ............... language to learn than English is.
A. difficult B. more difficult C. most difficult D. more and more difficult
II/ . Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
1: A. populous B. determine C. forbidden D. delicious
2: A. metropolitan B. fascinatingly C. multicultural D. recreational
3: A. skyscraper B. convenience C. resident D. vehicle
4: A. affordable B. environment C. variety D. indicator
5: A. handicraft B. lacquerware C. artisan D. pottery
6: A. historical B. embroidery C. authority D. architecture