Đề thi HSG vòng 2 năm học 2011-2012

ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN DỰ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2011-2012
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không tính thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 03 trang)
I. Which underlined part is pronounced differently?
1. A. drop B. joke C. top D. confidence
2. A. ground B. found C. though D. sound
3. A. normal B. order C. oven D. origin
4. A. honesty B. hair C. honor D. hour
5. A. sugar B. steam C. press D. waste
II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences:
1. Hurry up, there’s …… time left.
A. a little B. a few C. little D. few
2. It is no use ................... to her about that mistake.
A. to talk B. talk C. talking D. to talking
3. The clerk said she was tired …… hearing complaints day after day.
A. with B. of C. about D. for
4. You and I are busy right now, ……?
A. aren’t I B. aren’t we C. we aren’t D. aren’t you
5. We arrived …… to have some coffee before class.
A. enough early B. early enough C. too early D. early too
6. “What are you doing?”
“I …… the flowers. They …… wonderful!”
A. am smelling / smell B. smell / smell
C. am smelling / are smelling D. smell / are smelling
7. We watch the cat ________ the tree.
A. climbed B. climb C. had climbed D. was climbing
8. He was _________ he could not wake up.
A. very tired that B. such tired that C. too tired that D . so tired that
9. I want to have my suit …… . I’m going to a wedding on Saturday.
A. cleaned B. cleaning C. clean D. to clean
10. My father tells me to give …… smoking.
A. up B. off C. of D. out
III. Give the correct form of the words in the brackets.
1.There are a lot of ___________ in our school . ( compete )
2.She received a lot of __________ from her mother . ( encourage )
3.He was very __________ of the work he had done . ( pride )
4.My new car is more _______than the one I had before. (economy)
5.He didn`t feel happy because he worked _________ (success)
6.We must make a _________about where to go. (decide)
7. The wood pulp is chemically _____________ . (white)
8._________,the weather was so bad that we couldn’t go out. (fortune)
9.I hope there won’t be too much___in getting a work permit. (difficult)
10.That __________has composed a lot of beautiful songs. (music)

IV. Supply the correct form of the verbs in the passage.
Dear Mom and Dad,
How are you? I (1-miss) you a lot. I (2-be) away from home for a week.
I (3-arrive) Heathrow Airport at 9 am this morning. I (4-leave) Paris for London after a week visiting my friend and Auntie Lan. I (5-stay) with Nathalie for two days. I (6-visit) Eiffel Tower. It (7-be) the most beautiful tower I (8-ever see) before. It (9-take) us nearly two hours to get in and go up to the top of the tower. From high above we (10-see) a vast paranoma of Paris...
V. Rewrite the following sentences using the words given:
1. His parents made him study hard for his exam.(to)
2. We spent two hours getting to London.(took)
3. It was unnecessary for them to leave home yesterday.(have)
4. Mr. Long saved my mother in that surgeon. (saving)