BÀI ĐỌC CHO HSG LỚP 8

Trường THCS Nghĩa Đạo
READING TESTS: (90 phút) (Lần 1)
Name: ………………. ***********************

1). Fill in the blank with a suitable word. (10pts)

The country is (1)…………beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the country (2)…………..the summer holiday though they can’t live (3)…………all the year round. Some have cottage built in a village (4)…………..that they can go there whenever they (5)…………find the time.
English villages are not all alike, but (6)………….some ways they are not very different from (7)…………other. Almost every village (8)……………..a church, the round or square tower of which can (9)………….seen from miles around. Surrounding the church is the church yard, (10)……………..people are buried.

2). Choose the best one to fill in each blank. (10pts)

The tourist industry is considered to be the world’s largest industry. Before 1950 about one million people (1)……….abroad each year (2)………….by the 1990s the figure had (3)……….to over 400 million every year.
…..(4)………large numbers of tourist, however, are beginning to cause problems. For example, in the Alps the skiers are destroying the mountains (5)…………..came to enjoy. Even parts of Mount Everest in the Himalayas are reported to be covered (6)………….old tins, tents and food that have been (7)………….away.
But at a time when we have greater freedom to travel (8)………….ever before, more and more people are asking how they can enjoy their holiday (9)……………causing problems by spoiling the countryside.
Now there is a new holiday guide called Holidays That Don’t Cost the Earth. It (10)…………you how you can help the tourist industry by asking your travel agent or your tour operator the right questions before you go on holiday.

1. A. traveled B. came C. sailed D. were
2. A. as B. because C. but D. when
3. A. gone B. flown C. risen D. raised
4. A. Such B. More C. Few D. So
5. which B. you C. who D. they
6. A. for B. on C. with D. below
7. A. put B. thrown C. given D. tidied
8. A. than B. when C. then D. while
9. A. outside B. instead C. beside D. without
10. A. says B. offers C. tells D. gives

3).Fill in the blank with a suitable word. (10pts)

First- aid is very important. An ordinary person can (1)………..a first aid course and learn what to do until the patien receives professional help. This might (2)………….helping some one until an ambulance comes. Then professionals can use (3)……………..equipment to take charge of the patien. Or it might mean giving first-aid and (4)…………..taking a patien to a doctor. First- aid can keep a person alive (5)…………..he or she reaches a hospital. Electric shock is a situation where first-aid can be used. If enough electricity enters the body, the person (6)…………immediately. First-aid can bring him or her back to consciousness. Another situation is drowning, or dying in (7)…………….., which happens most often in the summer when many people (8)………….swimming. Children can also drown when they are left (9)……………..near a swimming pool . A person trained in first-aid can help a person start to breathe (10)…………..clearing the water out of the airway.

4).Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)

Recycling saves. It saves money, enery, and natural resources. Aluminum cans (1)………very easy to recycle. But, every three months, we throw away (2)……………aluminum to rebuild all the commercial airplanes in the country. So please think (3)………….the next time you throw away a soda can. And we throw away enough iron and steel to supply all of our car makers. If we recycled more metal, our car makers (4)……………never need any new iron and steel. Every week, more than five hundred thousand trees ared used to make newspapers, and two-third of those newspapers are (5)…………away. This year, we’ll throw away enough office and writing paper to (6)…………….a wall three and a half meters high. And that wall would be so (7)…………….it would go from Los Angeles to New York. Every year, we throw away enough glass bottles to fill (8)……………two tallest buildings in New York every two weeks. Those bottles can (9)…………..recycled. We throw away two and a half million plastic bottles every hour. Very (10)…………….plastic bottles are ever