De HSG 8

PHÒNG GD- ĐT VÂN CANH
TRƯỜNG THCS CANH VINH
Tên : …………………………………………..
Lớp : 8A ….
ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 8
NĂM HỌC 2012- 2013
MÔN THI TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 90 phút


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( Học sinh làm bài trực tiếp lên giấy thi này )


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. The new shopping mall is quite ____________ the present shopping area.
A. different from B. the same C. like to D. similar

8. There were _________________ flowers that I couldn’t dicide what to buy.
A. so many B. so few C. so little D. so much

9. Of my parents, my father is _________________
A. the stricter B. the strictest C. strict D. stricter

10. Would you _________________ cleaning the floor for me?
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III. Complete the following questions with the correct preposition.
11. She isn’t here ________________ the moment.
12. Warm clothes protect us ________________ bad weather.
13. What do you often do ________________ weekends.
14. We haven’t seen him _____________ last month.
15. He had an accident and was taken __________ hospital.
16. We regarded him ____________ a famous doctor.
17. Nam has known me ________________ two years .
18. Nam is looking forward _______ hearing from you .
19. “ Hamlet” is written ____________ Shakespeare.
20. 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.
21. Their sons have quite _____________ characters. DIFFERENCE

22. He is drinking beer . He drives ________________ . CARELESS

23. During his _____________ the family lived in Cornwall. CHILD

24. Mr Ba has three ___________________ . CHILD

25. Every day, there are two ________ from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. FLY

26. __________ , dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. SUDDEN
V : Read and find out 10 mistakes, Write in the following box
In a modern life today, the work of the farm is less hard because he is helped a lot by machines. That mean more food is produced and less labour and less work hours are spent. He also has more free time for intertain and more things such as a big house, motorbike, television. Her life is getting better and good day by day. His children go to school. Before they finish school, they are sent to universityes. The farmer still have to work hardly but his life is much improved.
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VI Give the correct form of the verb in brackets.
37. I have bought this house since I ( come ) ______________ here .
38. Look at those black clouds. It ( rain) __________________ .
39. Nam ( have ) ____________________ lunch at 8 o’clock last night .
40. Mai (telephone)____________ you when she comes back.
41. I ( do ) ___________my homework while my mother ( cook) ____________
VII 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, (42) _____ flying is no more dangerous (43) __________ any other form of travel and some experts say it is considerably safer. It is known, however, that most accident