Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh Khối 8 (Có đáp án)

SECTION A: PHONETICS
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. enough	C. cough	D. rough
2.A. chair	B. cheap	C. chorus	D. child
3.A. missed	B. closed	C. called	D. planned
4.A. fat	B. any	C. gas	D. hat
5.A physics	B. basic	C. sailor	D. subject
6. A. sugar 	B. sorry 	C. seaside 	D. summer
7. A. page 	B. village 	C. luggage 	D. heritage
8. A. seat 	B. great 	C. please 	D. beach
9. A. hotel 	B. photo 	C. move 	D. pagoda
10. A. typhoon 	B. goose	C. food	D. flood
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group.
1. A. realize 	B. improve 	C. possible 	D. comfortable
2. A. important 	B. especially 	C. prefer 	D. influence
3. A. general 	B. opinion 	C. abroad 	D. surprise
4. A. comfort 	B. nation 	C. apply 	D. moment
5. A. medical 	B. advise 	C. vegetables 	D. physical
SECTION B: VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR
I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. I dentify your answer by by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D. 
1. The policeman explained to us . to get to the airport.
	A. how can	B. how can we	C. how we can	D. how
2. Who is your favorite friend? – The man. the car over there.
	A. washing	B. washes	C. washed	D. to wash
3. Would you mind my .	
A. smoke	B. smoking	C. smoked	D. smokes
4. As students, we . our teachers.
A. ought obey	B. must to obey	C. ought to obey	D. must obeying
5. His behaviors make all his colleaguse  and love him.
	A. to admire	B. admired	C. admiring	D. admire
6. After .. a canoe, the Browns paddled around Xuan Huong Lake.
	A. borrowing	B. renting	C. hiring	D. lending
7. Would you mind  off the lights? – I’d rather you didn’t.
	A. if I turned	B. I turn	C. if turned	D. turning
8. His .. always makes people laugh.
	A. quiet character	B. smiles	C. sense of humor	 D. Christmas presents
9. He finally . with the decision to go abroad.
	A. come	B. came with	C. came	D. came up
10. As aleader, he must learn how to speak well.
	A. in public	B. in school	C. outside	D. in country
11. “Recycling” means not .. away.
	A. throwing things a way	B. throw things away
	C. blowing things a way	D. not blowing things away
12. I think it is good to spend time .. English pronunciation.
	A. in	B. on	C. with	D. at
13. Two teams take part in the  contest.
	A. fetching-water	B. water-fetching	
	C. fetcged-water	D. water-fetched
14. She is not old . to go out alone in the evening.
	A. enough	B. for	C. so that	D. that
15. Ha Long Bay, one of the most picturesque sights in Viet Nam, was by UNESCO as world Heritage Site.
	A. recognized	B. signed	C. realized	D. collected
16. Could you help me ..this door, please?
	A. push	B. pushing	C. pushed	D. for pushing
17. At the end of the street there is path ..to the river.
	A. leads	B. leasd	C. leading	D. led
18. All letters .today should arrive tomorrow.
	A. posted	B. post	C. to post	D. posting
19. When I arrived, there was a big red car..outsidethe house.
	A. park	B. parked	C. parking	D. parks
20. I live in a pleasant roomthe garden.
	A. overlook	B. overlooks	C. overlooked	D. overlooking
II. Give the correct tense or form of these verbs.
When the phone rang, I (water) the flowers in the garden.
You should practice (speak) English everyday.
It (get) hotter and hotter in June.
His doctor advised him ( give) up smoking
A doze eggs (cost) twenty thousand VND.
Mr Minh (learn) English at school, but he (forget) most of it.
Please tell me where (buy) this hat.
What (build) next to the post office now.
My uncle (not visit) ..us since he (move)to the new town.
The movie (start)..at 8.15 this evening.
III. Give the correct frorm of these words.
1. I know all the people who live in my ...............................	NEIGHBOR
2. During his ......................... the family lived in Cornwall	 	CHILD
3. Mr. Minh has made an to see us at 3 o’clock.	ARRANGE
4. Bell.. demonstrated his invention.	SUCCESS
5. ...., dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. 	FORTUNATE
6. Every day, there are two . from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. 	FLY
7.I like the city life because there are many kinds of  	ENTERTAIN
8.My uncle often spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local . ORPHAN
9.Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more.... 	COMFORT
10.She is one of the greatestto appear in this theater. 	PERFORM
IV.Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. 
1. Could I help you ______________ your bag?
2. Na got up late this morning because her alarm clock didn’t go ___________ .
3. I’m looking forward ____________ seeing you in June.
4. In the competition, everyone fell ______________ the deep and dangerous water.
5. Ha Long Bay is recognized _____________ UNESCO as a World Heritage Site
6. They have a meeting ___________ 6.30 and 9.30.
7. My mother often picks me ___________ from the school.
8. I’m going to invite my friends to come over ___________ dinner tonight.
9. Next summer, my family will have a vacation __________ Thailand and stay there ________ one week. 
V . Find out correct one mistake in A, B, C or D of each sentence.
1. He slept in his room when the fire alarm rang.
	 A	 B	 C	 D
2. Shall you close the window for me, please?
 A	B	 C	 D
3. He gets up early in order to reviewing lessons before school.
	 A	 B	C	D
4. The ambulance will be there for about ten minutes.
 A	 B	 C	 D	
5. I’ve been leaning English since 4 years.
 A	 B	 C D
6. The hospital hasn’t been repaired since it built.
 A	B	 C	 D	
7. The book writing by Jack London is very popular in the world.
 A	 B	 C	D
8. If the victim gets shock, don’t give him some food.
 A	 B C	 D	
9. The building has to be pulled down, then a new bank can be build in the same place
	 A B C D 
10. Someone is training the new solders. They are being train carefully.
	A B C D
SECTION C: READING
I.Fill in each gap with one suitable word.
The world’s(1)famous clock is Big Ben standing (2).to the Houses of parliament in London. Big Ben is the (3)..of the bell which chimes every hour. 
The bell(4)..named after Sir Benjamin Hall,the man (5)..was given the task of hauling the bell up the clock tower.The clock (6)..four faces and keeps accurate time.It can (7).adjusted by the removal or addition of coins (8).a stray attached to the clock’s pendulum.
One interesting thing about the clock is (9).the light shines abover the belfry at night,it (10)..that the House of common is still in session.
Your answers:
1. ..
2. 
3..
4. .
5. ..
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. .
10. ..
II. Choose the words or phrases that best fit each of the blank spaces.
How to be a friend to the earth.
There (1) many simple things we can do to stop the (2)..of the environment. First of all, we should not dump our rubbish without (3)..which things, such as bottles and paper can (4)..
We should put objectives that we can recycle in (5)bins. Secondly,instead of talking our car wherever we go, we ought to leave it at home (6)possible, and go on foot or (7) .public transport. When we have to drive to the supermarket (8) our shopping, we should always remember (9)our own bags (10)  we don’t need to use the supermarket’s plastic bags.
1. A. are	B. is	C. was	D. were
2. A. destroy	B. destroyed	C. destructive	D. destruction
3. A. think	B. to think	C. thinking	D. thought
4. A. be recycled	B. recycle	C. recycling	D. being recylced
5. A. recycle	B. recycles	C. recycled	D. recycling
6. A. where	B. whenever	C. where	D. wherever
7. A. on	B. in	C. by	D. to
8. A. to do	B. do	C. to make	D. making
9. A. taking	B. to take	C. take	D. took
10. A. so	B. that	C. so that	D. so as	
SECTION D: WRITING
I. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first.
1. Thinking of making toys from used paper was his interesting idea.
It’s interesting that.................................................................................
2. He hasn’t come back to his home village for over 20 years now.
It’s...................................................................................................................
3. That’s the strangest film I’ve ever seen.
I have never..................................................................................................
4. The last time we met each other was ten years ago.
We haven’t...........................................................................................................
5. Mai said “It is raining heavily outside .”
Mai said
6. Have you ever played a computer game before?0
Is this.....................................................................................................................
7. France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876.
The Statue ..............................................................................................................
8. The water was so cold that the children couldn’t swim in it.
The water wasn’t..................................................................................................
9. People should stop experiments on animals.
Experiments.............................................................................................
10. Ann said to me “ will you do English test tomorrow?.”
	Ann asked me
II. Use the following words and phrases. Make all the necessary changes and additions to write complete and meaningful sentences. 
1. I/ not/ see/ him/ since/ we/ leave/ school
2. This / be/ first time/ Tim/ see/ rice paddies
 ..
3. compost/ make/ from household and garden waste
4. he/ tell/ me/ that/ he/ borrow/ book/ school library
5. would/ you/ mind/ if / I / sit/ here?
SECTION A: PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling the corresponding letter A or B, C, D. (10 điểm) - Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. A
7. A
8. B
9. C
10. D
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. (5 điểm) - Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1 – B 
2- D 
3-A 
4- C
5- B
SECTION B: VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR
I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. I dentify your answer by by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D. (10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 0,5 điểm
1. D
2. A
3. B
4.C
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. A
11. A
12. B
13. B
14. A
15. A
16. A
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. D
II. Give the correct tense or form of these verbs.(10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1. was watering
2. speaking
3. is getting
4. to give
5. costs
6. learnt – has forgotten
7. to buy
8. is being built
9. hasn’t visited- moved
10. starts
III. Give the correct frorm of these words.(10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1. neighborhood
2. childhood
3. arrangement
4. successfully
5. unfortunately
6. flights
7.entertainment 
8.orphanage
9.comfortable
10.performers
IV.Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. 
10 điểm – Mỗi giới từ đúng 1 điểm
1. with
2. off
3. to
4. into
5.by
6. between
7. up
8. for
9. in / for
V . Find out correct one mistake in A, B, C or D of each sentence.(10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1. A
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. D
7. B
8. D
9. C
10. C
SECTION C: READING
I.Fill in each gap with one suitable word.(10 điểm) - Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1.most
2. next
3. name
4. was
5. who
6. has
7. be
8. on
9. that
10.means
II. Choose the words or phrases that best fit each of the blank spaces.(10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu chọn đúng cho 1 điểm
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. C
SECTION D: WRITING
I. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first.(10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu viết đúng cho 1 điểm
1. It is interesting that he thought of making toys from used paper.
2. It’s over twenty years since he last came back to his home village.
3. I have never seen such a strange film before.
4. We haven’t met each other for ten years.
5. Mai said It was raining heavily outside.
6. Is this the first time you have played a computer game?
7. The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United State by the France in 1876.
8. The water wasn’t warm enough for the children to swim in.
9. Experiments on animals should be stopped. 
10.Ann asked me if I would do English test the next day/ the following day.
II. Use the following words and phrases. Make all the necessary changes and additions to write complete and meaningful sentences. (10 điểm) 
- Mỗi câu viết đúng cho 1 điểm
1. I have not seen him since we left school. 
2.This is the first time Tim has seen (the) rice paddies.
3. Compost is made from household and garden waste.
4. He told me that he borrowed this/ that/ a book from the school library.
5. Would you mind if I sat here? 
Chú ý : - Một lỗi chính tả trừ đi một nửa số điểm của câu, mắc hai lỗi chính tả thì câu đó không có điểm
II. HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM:
- Tổng điểm toàn bài: 100 điểm	
- Thang điểm 10	
	Tổng những phần làm đúng
- Điểm bài thi = 	 
	 10