Đề và đáp án thi chọn học sinh giỏi Tiếng anh lớp 8 - Đề 9 - Phòng GD & ĐT Thủy Nguyên

UBND HUYỆN THUỶ NGUYÊN
PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
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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 stricter	B. 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.
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 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. experience	D. 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 __________________________________________________________
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 ____________________________________________
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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. 
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.
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