Đề thi HK2 môn Tiếng Anh 9 năm 2021-2022 - Trường THCS Lý Tự Trọng

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Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage How old (16) _______ you be on Friday 13, 2029? That is how old you will be when a large asteroid, called Apophis, comes very, very close to (17) ________ planet. Asteroids are rocks that circle the sun in space and sometimes (18) _________ close to Earth and even hit it. Most asteroids are very small and, if you are lucky, you can sometimes see (19) ________ in the night sky as “falling stars”. However, most scientists believe one large asteroid, about six to twelve kilometers across, hit the earth and (20)_________ all the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. Apophis is also big. Scientists (21) ______ it was (22) ___________ 2004 and they say that it is about 300 meters across. That’s about the size of a large sports stadium. An asteroid this size, according to scientists, is (23) __________ large enough to destroy our world, but it is large enough to destroy several cities. It will probably miss the earth, they say, but not by very much – it will miss us by about only 35,000 kilometers – that’s much closer than our moon (24) _____ is about 240,000 kilometers away. Another way of thinking about it is that it will (25) ________ us by only a few minutes.

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question Have you ever had a dream about traveling to another planet in our solar system? If you have, there is an actual programme that is happening right now, and it hopes to send people to Mars in 2023. Known as the Mars One Mission, it will send a crew of four people on a one-way mission to colonize Mars. Those chosen people will have to be ready to say good-bye to the earth forever, as there will not be a return trip. For the people chosen, they will have to learn to do many different things. First of all, they will be living the rest of their lives with just a handful of other people, so they all must have personalities that allow them to get along. Second, the living quarters that they will have won’t be very spacious, so they will have to deal with that condition as well. If they feel homesick, they will only be able to communicate with people back on the earth via e-mail and videos and audio sent back and forth. However, there won’t be any real-time communication. Even at the speed of light, communication between the earth and Mars takes about 20 minutes. Whether the Mars One Mission will actually happen is the big question that a lot of people are asking. There is an enormous skepticism in the science community, and Wired magazine gave the mission a miserable score of two out of ten on its probability scale. However, for those who dream to go to Mars, at least they can say there is a possibility that it could happen.

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