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ĐỀ GIAO LƯU HỌC SINH GIỎI HUYỆN
Năm học: 2016-2017
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 8 THCS
Ngày thi: 15 tháng 03 năm 2017
Thời gian : 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề này có 05 trang

PART A: PHONETICS (5 pts)
Question I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line. (2 pts)
1. A. stretcher B. headache C. character D. chemistry
2. A. nature B. tradition C. native D. nation
Question II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question. (3 pts)
3. A. orphanage B. delivery C. experiment D. directory
4. A. sociable B. volunteer C. photograph D. beautiful
5. A. convenient B. injection C. selection D. migrant
PART B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 pts)
6. My friend …………………. the answer to the question now.
A. is known B. know C. is knowing D. knows
7. Several people were hurt in the accident but only one ..................to the hospital.
A. has taken B. was taken C. was taking D. are taking
8. I’ve got my key. I found it when I …………………. for something else.
A. looked B. was looking C. looking D. have looked
9. Where ………………….?
A. do you often have your hair cut B. do you often cut your hair
C. do you often have cut your hair D. are you often cut your hair
10. I ........................to see you at the meeting. Why didn’t you come?
A. waited B. expected C. thought D. looked
11. All of us were ......................that he came first. He hasn’t been working hard so far.
A. surprising B. to surprise C. to be surprised D. surprised
12. Where is Janet? – She’s out. She said she ......................... back soon.
A. is B. will be C. would be D. came
13. I telephoned the station to make ......................of the time of the train.
A. true B. real C. right D. sure
14. At first I found ......................to get used to .....................on the other side of the road.
A. it difficult - drive B. difficult - drive
C. it difficult - driving D. difficult- driving
15. What a………………car!
A. new small nice B. new nice small C. nice new small D. nice small new
Question II: Supply the correct form of the word in capital letters. (10 pts)
16. Phuong Linh arranged flowers the most ......................in the contest. (ATTRACT)
17. It is a contest in which ……………….............have to read two poems in English. (PARTICIPATE)
18. Years later, she passed me in the street without even a small sign of ...................... (RECOGNIZE).
19. After many years of ......................, Edison finally succeeded in inventing the light bulb. (FAIL)
20. We use first-aid in order to ease the victim’s pain and .................. (ANXIOUS).
21. She felt....................after she passed the exam. (RELIEF)
22. It’s now high time you knew how to dress and ....................yourself.(DRESS)
23. I wrote .............letters of application but I got no reply. (END)
24. A lot of toys encourage children’s………………………. (IMAGINE)
25. During the festival,…………….were hanging from every tree. (DECORATE)

Question III: Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form. (10 pts)
26. Why you (not work) …………………? It’s 8.30 now.
27. Nobody would listen to the stories ( tell )…. by him so many times.
28. He ( see) ............. to go swimming three times a day
29.I am sorry about the noise last night. We (have) a party.
30. I can`t help (feel) ……………….. sorry for the hungry children.
31. I was just about (leave) ………….…. the office when the phone rang.
32. Our little children enjoy (take) .................. to the water park every Sunday.
33. They’d rather you (