Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi huyện môn Tiếng Anh 8 - Năm học 2015-2016 - Phòng GD & ĐT Can Lộc

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HUYỆN 
CAN LỘC 
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI HUYỆN LỚP 8 
NĂM HỌC 2015 - 2016
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút
I.Choose the words that has the underline pronounced differently from the others. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding word or phrase on your answer paper.
1.A. though	B. bought	C. cough	D. rough
2.A. chicken	B. cheap	C. chorus	D. child
3.A. missed	B. closed	C. travelled	D. planned
4.A. fat	B. any	C. gas	D. cat
5.A physics	B. basic	C. sailor	D. subject
I. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered boxes
1. He completely _____________ with what I said.
A. agreed
B. argued
C. accepted
D. complained
2. Helen was the last applicant to ____________. 
A. interview
B. be interviewing
C. be interviewed
D. have interviewed
3. I can’t find my purse anywhere; I must __________ it at the cinema.
A. leave
B. have left
C. be leaving
D. have been leaving
4. Hoi An is famous ____________ its old streets.
A. of
B. with
C. about
D. for
5. The sheet of paper slipped _________his hand falling _________the ground.
A. off / onto
B. from / down
C. from / upon
D. off / upon
 6. Remember .. anyone about my mistake.
 A.	not telling	B. not tell	C. not to tell	D. don’t tell	
 7. The girl is standing in the room, .. in the mirror.
 A. to look at herself	B. looking at herself C. looking at her	D. looking herself.
 8. My little son is not old enough to .. his own bed
 A. do	B. make	C. get	D. set
 9. The meal will be served .. about ten minutes.
 A. in 	B. on	C. for	D. at
 10. Have you made up your .. to buy a new house yet?
 A. soul	B. mind	C. heart	D. head
11. Why don’t we take Lisa _________with us on our next trip?
A. on
B. in
C. to
D. along
12. When I was younger, I _________to smoke or drink.
A. never used
B. didn’t used 
C. not used
D. wasn’t used
13. When I questioned him, he finally _________ stealing my pen.
A. accused
B. admitted
C. confessed
D. accepted
14.Would you mind if I .. your mobile phone?
 A. use	B. am used	C. used	D. will use
15. Don’t worry. We .. of the test results next week.
 A. will inform	 B. will be informed C. are informing	D. are informed
III . Give the correct form of the words in the brackets.
1. He fell off the bike, but his ......................... were not serious. 	(injure)
2. She gave me a ............................... of the new house. 	(demonstrate) 
3. Environmental __________________ is every body's responsibility. 	(protect)
4. You must read the following .................. precautions carefully. 	(safe)
5. You shouldn’t talk about her character only through her .......... 	(appear)
6. We are waiting for the ................... of our uncle’s train. 	(arrive)
7. The increase in population has led to .................. in many cities. 	(crowd)
8. We had a terrible trip because the weather was ........................	 (please)
9. It’s a good restaurant; the food there is very ....................... 	(taste) 
10. If you want to get more ...................., please contact Mr. Phong. 	(inform)
IV. Put one suitable word in one gap: 
	Health is something we tend to ignore when we have it. When our body is rather well, we're hardly ever (1) ....of it. But illness can come, even (2)........ we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very vulnerable time. Many (3).....attacked children in particular and people knew very little about how to prevent such illness or how to (4).... them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About century ago, however, scientists found out about germs, and then everything (5)....... The cause of many diseases (6)..... known, and cures were developed. As this medical knowledge spread the world became (7)..... safer for children. The result is that whereas a hundred years ago the average man lived for 35 years. Nowadays, in many places of the world, people can expect to (8)..... for years. And what do we except by the years 2010? Undoubtedly, (9)..... science will continue to advance. Some people will be able to (10) ...... medical problems that are unavoidable today.
V.Find a mistake in each line, then underline and correct it.
Example: 0. I haven’t saw you for two month 0/ seen
 Nam is a student. This year he had a very interested summer 
1/ _____________________
holiday. He traveled with him classmates to a mountainous area 
2/ _____________________
in Hoa Binh province. They gone there to help make a road 
3/ _____________________
through a forest among two villages. “ It was very difficult 
4/ _____________________
because there had no water to drink and no shops where we
5/ _____________________
could bought food,”said Nam. “ It was very cold and wet
6/ _____________________
in the mountains. It is one of the wetter places in the country.”
7/ _____________________
Nam stayed in the mountains since six weeks. It was hard work,
8/ _____________________
But he says it was the best thing he has ever did. He is hoping
9/ _____________________
to return next year to do any more work there
10/ ____________________
VI. Read the following passage. Choose the correct answer by writing down its corresponding letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet.
It is five o’clock in the evening when Rene Wagner come home from work. She walks into the living room and looks at her three children. They are 14,13 and 9 years old. They are watching TV. The living room is a mess. There are dirty socks on the floor and cookies on the sofa. Games and toys are every where. Rene is angry ,“This place is a mess” she tells her children, “I can’t work all day and then do housework all evening. I’m not going to do housework!”	Rene doesn’t do housework. She doesn’t clean or wash dishes. She doesn’t wash clothes, either. Every evening she sits on the sofa and watches TV.
	After two weeks, every plate, fork and glass in the house is dirty. All the children’s clothes are dirty. Every garbage basket is full. The house is a mess.
	Then, one day Rene comes home from work and gets a big surprise. The kitchen is clean. The children clean the kitchen !
	The next day, the living room is clean, and the children are washing their clothes. Rene tells the children “OK, I’ll do the housework again. But you have to help me.”
	Now Rene and her three children do the housework together. Then they all sit on the sofa and watch TV !
1. When Rene came home from work, she found the house ................ .
A. clean and dirty	B. dirty and tidy	C. dirty and untidy	D. clean but untidy
2. Rene told her children ....................... .
A. to do the housework	B. she couldn’t do housework
C. not to do housework	D. she wouldn’t do housework
3. Two weeks later, the house was .................. .
A. very clean	B. a mess	C. tidy	D. rather dirty
4. Some days later, the house was clean again because ......................... .
A. she couldn’t let it that way	B. her children did housework.
C. her children didn’t do housework.	D. she did housework again.
5. Now Rene does housework again because ...................... .
A. her children help her.	B. they can watch TV together.
C. her children wash their clothes.	D. her children don’t do it.
VII.Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Most people agree that computers are the most important (1)_____ of the 20th century. The 1st business computers (2) ________ introduced just about 30 years ago, and now they are being (3) _______ a wide variety of fields; from banking to space travel (4) _______, until just few years ago, computers were wery large expensive (5) _______ owned by large corporations and governments. (6) _______ everyone knew that computers existed, very few people had ever seen one and even fewer had used one. Then in the 19705 the silicon chip was invented. Because this electronic device could store a large (7) _________ of information in a very small spare, computers could be much smaller and less (8) ______ than the huge mainframe computers used by corporation. Some computer manufacturers believed that people might like (9) ________ computers in their homes, offices and schools so the (10) ______ computers were born.
1- A. discovery	B. invention	C. exploration	D. production
2- A. have	B. were	C. had	D. are
3- A. used in	B. used to	C. used for	D. used
4- A. Moreover	B. However	C. Although	D. Besides
5- A. computers	B. machines	C. things	D. tools
6- A. Despite	B. In spite of	C. Although	D. Because
7- A. number	B. amount	C. size	D. sum
8- A. cheaper	B. beautiful	C. expensive	D. helpful
9- A. having	B. have	C. to have	D. to buy
10- A. person	B. personal	C. hand	`	D. handable
VIII.For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence using the word given. Do not change the given word.
If I were Jane, I’d take an umberella and a raincoat! Said Annabel.	ADVISED
- Annabel _________________________________________ an umberella and a raincoat.
2. Thomas would have gone to the meeting if he had not been so tired.	TIRED
- Thomas was ___________________________________________ to the meeting.
3. There are very few buildings in the old city higher than this.	ONE
- This is __________________________________________ buildings in the old city.
4. Gerald is too young to vote.	OLD
- Gerald ____________________________________________ vote.
5. We couldn’t solve the problem.	SOLUTION
- We were unable ________________________________ the problme.
IX Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words.
1. We couldn't drive because of the fog.
- The fog prevented _____________________________________________________________
2.We began to live independently when we were 18 years old
- We have _____________________________________________________________________
3. I can't cook as well as my mother does.
- My mother ___________________________________________________________________
4. They have built a new hotel in Ha Tinh since 2006.
- A __________________________________________________________________________
5. Please don't say things like that.
- I wish ______________________________________________________________________
6. Huong last wrote to her penpal five months ago.
- Huong hasn't ________________________________________________________________