De trhi khao sat anh 8- 2010

Phòng GD& ĐT Quỳnh Lưu KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG HSG KHỐI 8
Năm học 2009-2010 (Thi ngày 29/4/2010)
Môn: Tiếng Anh - Thời gian: 150 phút
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Người ra đề đề xuất: Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Thúy – THCS Hồ Xuân Hương
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PART 1: PHONETICS
I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest (5 points)
1. A. hear B. clear C. bear D. ear
2. A. university B. unique C. unit D. undo
3. A. characteristic B. chapter C. school D. architect
4. A. zoo B. food C. soon D. good
5. A. pleased B. cooked C. missed D. helped

Key: 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. A

II. Identify the word whose stressed pattern is different from that of the others
(5 points)
1. A. concert B. collect C. comic D. music
2. A. geographic B. biology C. experiment D. librarian
3. A. remove B. begin C. copy D. become
4. A. friendly B. generous C. unhappy D. pretty
5. A. engineer B. artist C. doctor D. worker

Key: 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. A

PART 2: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
I. Choose the best answer (10 points)
1. I’m not going to bed until I ______ my homework.
A. had finished B. will finish C. finish D. am finishing
2. “How ______ is it to the nearest station?” ~ “Four blocks”
A. near B. far C. long D. much
3. Mai found the movie ______ so she went to bed early.
A. interest B. interesting C. uninteresting D. interested
4. If your brother ______ harder, he will easily pass the exams.
A. work B. works C. working D. will work
5. She was tired ______ she took a rest before continuing her work.
A. because B. though C. so D. but
6. I can see a boy ______ a water buffalo at the moment. A. riding B. ride C. rides D. is ring
7. My father usually has noodles and hot green tea ______ breakfast.
A. in B. at C. for D. of
8. According to some writers, there are about 6,000 languages ______ in the world today.
A. speak B. are speaking C. spoke D. spoken
9. When we were small, our grandmother used to ______ us folktales.
A. told B. said C. spoke D. talked
10. I really think Math is _____ Physics.
A. more easy than B. much easier than
C. easiest than D. very easy more than

1. C 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. B

II. Supply the correct forms of the words in brackets (5 points)
1. She is one of the ______ students in my class. (GOOD)
2. Vietnam is trying to ______ more tourists. (ATTRACTION)
3. China has a great number of places of ______. (INTERESTING)
4. In the USA, there are ______ newspaper articles about the film and how it
is made. (DAY)
5. In my opinion, this lesson can be ______ understood. (EASY)

1. best 2. attract 3. interest 4. daily 5. easily

PART 3: READING COMPREHENSION
I. Read the following passage and answer the questions below (5 points)
The English language is the most