UBND HUYỆN THUỶ NGUYÊN PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI M«n: tiÕng anh 8 Thời gian: 90 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề) I. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose bold and underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest. 1. A. looked B. watched C. stopped D. carried 2. A. bath B. father C. theater D. health 3. A. danger B. angry C. language D. passage 4. A. whole B. when C. where D. while 5. A. improvement B. equipment C. comment D. development II. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following questions 6. She went to market without ____________ anything. A. buy B. to buy C. bought D. Buying 7. ____________ she plays the piano! A. How well B. How good C. What well D. What good 8. The new shopping mall is quite ____________ the present shopping area. A. different from B. the same C. like to D. similar 9. There were _________________ flowers that I couldn’t dicide what to buy. A. so many B. so few C. so little D. so much 10. Of my parents, my father is _________________ A. the stricterB. the strictest C. strict D. stricter 11. Would you _________________ cleaning the floor for me? A. like B. please C. mind D. rather 12. I’ve never seen such an interesting _______________ A. performing B. performer C. performance D. performed 13. I’m sorry. I’m not ___________ to help you lift the table. A. enough strong B. too strong C. strong enough D. enough strength. 14. I usually go to work by bus, but ________ and then I use my motorbike A. again B. once C. now D. ever 15. There are not _____________ jobs for all of us. A. so B. such C. too D. enough III. Complete the following questions with the correct preposition. 16. She isn’t here ________________ the moment. 17. Warm clothes protect us ________________ bad weather. 18. What do you often do ________________ weekends. 19. We haven’t seen him _____________ last month. 20. He had an accident and was taken __________ hospital. 21. We regarded him ____________ a famous doctor. 22. You’re better ask __________ the information desk. 1 23. He borrowed $ 100 ______________ his father 24. “ Hamlet” is ____________ Shakespeare. 25. Jane fell _________ her bike and hit head on the road IV. Fill the blanks with the right form of the CAPITAL words provided in the right column. 26. Their children have quite _____________ characters. DIFFERENCE 27. What is the correct ______________of this word? PRONOUNCE 28. Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more _________ COMFORT 29. She is one of the greatest ______________ to appear in this theater. PERFORM 30. My house is on the top of a hill. It’s very __________ there in the fall WIND 31. It is _______________ to eat too much sugar and fatty food. HEALTH 32. During his _____________ the family lived in Cornwall CHILD 33. Bell ______________ demonstrated his invention. SUCCESS 34. Every day, there are two _________ from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. FLY 35. ______________ , dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. SUDDEN V. Give the correct form of the verb in brackets. 36. Will you wait a minute while I (look) ____________ through the text ? 37. “ I hear you’ve bought a new house.” - “Yes, I ( move ) __________ in next week” 38. Look at those black clouds. It ( rain) __________ 39. The film ( begin) ___________ at 7.30 or 8.00 this evening ? 40. Mai (telephone)____________ you when she comes back. 41. The pens ( produce ) ___________ by Thien Long Company are usually cheap and good. 42. “Do you mind if I sit here ?” – “ I ‘d rather you ( sit ) __________ over there” 43. The price ( become ) __________ more and more expensive these days. 44, + 45. Mr Binh ( know) ______ how to drive a car although he ( not learn) ________ it yet. VI. Complete the following passage by choosing the best option, A, B, C or D. For many people, traveling by plane is an exciting experience. Others, however, find the whole idea quite terrifying, (46) _____ flying is no more dangerous (47) __________ any other form of travel and some experts say it is considerably safer. It is known, however, that most accident occurs (48) ______________ taking off and landing when a (49) _________ decisions are vitally important. The people, (50) _______ job is to look (51) ______________ the passengers, the stewards and stewardesses play an important part in helping passengers to (52) ___________ safe and comfortable. Indeed for many passengers being (53) ___________ such care of is all part of the total experience. (54) ____________ other form of travel involves waiting for people 2 in quite the same (55) __________, with food, drink, newspapers, magazines, music, and even video films. 46- A. although B. too C. and D. because 47- A. than B. as C. then D. with 48- A. while B. during C. for D. through 49- A. leader’s B. chief ’s C. driver’s D. pilot’s 50- A. whose B. which C. their D. that 51- A. for B. up C. after D. round 52- A. feel B. rest C. experienceD. lie 53- A. given B. kept C. shown D. taken 54- A. Any B. No C. All D. Not 55- A. way B. kind C. sort D. part VI. Listen to the the following passage and complete the numbered blanks with one word you hear. When I (56) ________ a child I used to go to (57)_________________my grandmother. I thought her house was very (58)_________________as a palace and the garden seemed bigger than a park. (59) _______ I grew up , the house and garden seemed (60)__________________ but I still loved visiting the (61)_____________ lady. There were so many beautiful things in the house. Sometimes, I played (62) _________ the doll’s house which was older than grandmother herself. At (63) ____________ times, I looked (64)___________ books which were (65)_________ interesting than my children’s book at home. VIII. There is a mistake in the four underlined parts of each sentence. Find it by choosing A, B, C or D. 66. Have you ever seen a painting of Picasso yet ? A B C D 67. “ Do you think anyone saw us ?” she told nervously. A B C D 68. The plays writing by Shakespeare are very popular in the world. A B C D 69. The employer said that he would give them a two – day trip to Phu Tho next week. A B C D 70.My sister is studying very hard in order to pass the exam and getting scholarship at university. A B C D IX. Rewrite the sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first given. 71. Peter spent three hours repainting his house. -> It __________________________________________________________ 3 72. Old car tires are recycled to make shoes and sandals. -> People ______________________________________________________ 73. We arrived too late to see the film. ->. We didn’t ___________________________________________________ 74. “Do you know to speak English?” He asked me. ->. He asked me _________________________________________________ 75. The last time we met each other was ten years ago. -> We haven’t ____________________________________________ ======== The End ======= 4 UBND HUYỆN THUỶ NGUYÊN PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI CHỌN HSG MÔN: ANH 8 I: ( 1pt), Each correct answer get 0.2pt. 1 2 3 4 5 D B A A C II: ( 2pts) Each correct answer gets 0.2pt 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 D A A A D C C C C D III: (2pts), Each correct answer gets 0,2 pt. 16 17 18 19 20 at from At/ on since to 21 22 23 24 25 as at from by off IV: (3pts) . Each correct answer gets 0,3pt. 26 27 28 29 30 different pronunciation comfortable performers windy 31 32 33 34 35 unhealthy childhood successfully flights suddenly V: (3 pts). Each correct answer gets 0,3pt. 36. am looking 37. am going to move ( am moving) 38. is going to rain 39. Does begin 40. will telephone 41. produced 42. sat 43. is becoming 44. knows 45. hasn’t learned/ learnt VI: (2pts) Each correct answer gets 0,2 pt. 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 A A B D A C A D B A VII: (2pts), Each correct answer gets 0,2 pt. 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 was to Very/as when up garden with that in more Listening. When I was a child I used to go to see my grandmother. I thought her house was very beautiful as a palace and the garden seemed bigger than a park. When I grew up , the house and garden seemed smaller but I still loved visiting the old lady. There were so many beautiful things in the house. Sometimes, I played with the doll’s house which was older than grandmother herself. At that times, I looked in books which were more interesting than my children’s book at home. 5 VIII: ( 1pt), Each correct answer get 0.2pt. 66 67 68 69 70 C D B D C IX: (2pts) Each correct answer gets 0,5pt. 71. It took Peter 3 hours to repair his house 72. People recycle old car tires to make shoes and sandals 73. we didn’t arrive early enough to see the film 74. He asked me if I knew to speak English. 75. We haven’t met each other for 10 years. ======== The End ======= 6 . UBND HUYỆN THUỶ NGUYÊN PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI M«n: tiÕng anh 8 Thời gian: 90 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề) I. Select A, B, C or D only to indicate the word whose. ____________________________________________ ======== The End ======= 4 UBND HUYỆN THUỶ NGUYÊN PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI CHỌN HSG MÔN: ANH 8 I: ( 1pt), Each correct answer get 0.2pt. 1 2 3 4 5 D B A A C II: ( 2pts) Each correct. film ( begin) ___________ at 7.30 or 8.00 this evening ? 40. Mai (telephone)____________ you when she comes back. 41. The pens ( produce ) ___________ by Thien Long Company are usually cheap and