ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP TRƯỜNG (11-12)

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO
TRƯỜNG THCS AN HÒA

THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG
Năm học 2011-2012
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 8
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề)

I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently(1m)
1. a. planet b. character c. happy d. classmate
2. a. letter b. twelve c. person d. sentence
3. a. dark b. father c. star d. principal
4 a. reserved b. received c. booked d. annoyed
5. a. chair b. cheap c. Christmas d. children
II. Write A,B,C, or D which best completes the sentences(3ms) :
1. Playing football and going camping are ______________activities .

A. outdoor
B. outside
C. inside
D. outer

 2. She advised me _______________________ late for school.

A. not
B. not to be
C. not be
D. not being

 3. When I was a little girl, I used to _____________ with my doll .

A. play
B. to play
C. playing
D. plays

 4. They _________________________ him since last year.

A. don’t meet
B. didn’t meet
C. haven’t meet
D. haven’t met

 5. TV is bringing ___________ information __________ entertainment.

A. so……that
B. neither……nor
C.not only……but also
D. more….than

 6. She asked her children ________________________ video games.

A. to stop playing
B. stop to play
C. stop playing
D. stopping to play

 7. Could you ______________ me a favor? - How can I help you?

A. make
B. give
C. do
D. bring

 8. Going camping is really _____________________.

A. interest
B. interests
C. interested
D. interesting

 9. Let me get an application form and we can ____________________ .

A. fill it into
B. fill it out
C. fill into it
D. fill out it

 10. Do you collect stamps or other things?- Yes, I am a stamp………….

A. collecting
B. collector
C. collect
D. collection

 11. Do you ……………………… turning the TV on now?

A. mind
B. want
C. object
D. disapprove

 12. I remember …………….the letter a few days before on holiday.

A. to receive
B. receive
C. receiving
D. receives

 13. Yesterday I came across your brother while I ……………..to school.

A. go
B. went
C. am going
D. was going

14. Keep all dangerous things out of children’s …………. .

A. hands
B. place
C. reach
D. head

15 . Students should work …………. to make their parents happy.

A. hard
B. hardly
C. hard way
D. more hardly

VI- Read the following passage, then answer questions 1-5. Choose the correct answer by circle letter A, B, C or D. (1m)
It is five o’clock in the evening when Rene Wagner comes 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