Đề thi HSG môn Tiếng Anh lớp 9 huyện Bảo Thắng năm học 2014 - 2015

UNICEF means the United Nations Children's Fund. It serves children in (1) ________ all over the world. It helps children of (2) ________ races, nationalities, religions and political systems in more than 140 worldwide countries. The (3) ________ of UNICEF is to help provide a better life for children and their mothers. UNICEF (4) ________ both long-term assistance and emergency. UNICEF was (5) ________ in 1946 to help bring food and medicine to children who suffered during World War two in Europe. It began (6) ________ a temporary agency, but became a permanent part of the United Nations in 1953 (7) ________ the need for its services around the world. UNICEF's primary concern is to help governments of developing countries improve the (8) ________ of life for almost one billion children. UNICEF's main office is in the United Nations, New York City, (9) ________ it also has more than 40 offices and 100 programs worldwide. In 1965, UNICEF won the Nobel Peace Prize (10) ________ its work helping children and building brighter future.

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A hundred years ago, most people traveled on foot, by train, or on horseback. Railways made (1) ______ possible to travel rapidly over long distances. (2) _____ were also becoming popular, after the invention of the air - filled tire, which made cycling a lot more comfortable. Buses, trams and underground railways (3) _____ invented, and cities all over the (4) _____ already had traffic jams. There were very (5) ______ private cars and city streets were still full of horses. What a difference a hundred years have made? Nowadays we have got used (6) _____ the problem of private cars, and some cities are (7) _____ noisy and polluted that in many places vehicles have been banned from the city center. (8) _____ will we travel in a hundred years’ time? Perhaps by then there will be only personal helicopters. (9) ______may be no need to travel to work or school in the future, since everyone will have a computer at home. There might even be more (10) _____ walking and horse - riding, for pleasure and exercise.

Zamenhof invented a new language called Esperanto to improve understanding between people of different countries. He showed Esperanto to his friends to find out what they thought about it. Later in the same year he went to study at a university in Moscow. He wanted to improve Esperanto. Zamenhof's friends then worked hard to spread the new language. They try to persuade schools throughout the world to teach it. However, only a few people today speak Esperanto because more and more people use English as a foreign language.