Một số đề ôn thi HSG Tiếng Anh 8

PHÒNG GD&ĐT TAM DƯƠNG
Trường THCS Hợp Hòa
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19/4/2011

ÔN THI HỌC SINH GIỎI
NĂM HỌC 2010 - 2011
MÔN : Tiếng Anh 8
Thời gian làm bài : 120 phút (không tính thời gian giao đề)


I-Choose the words that has the underline pronounced differently from the others. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding word or phrase on your answer paper.
1.A. though B. enough C. cough D. rough
2.A. chair B. cheap C. chorus D. child
3.A. missed B. closed C. called D. planned
4.A. fat B. any C. gas D. hat
5.A physics B. basic C. sailor D. subject
II- Choose from the four options given (marked A,B,C or D) one best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding word or phrase on your answer paper.
1. David’s school ………….. is very bad this term.
A. report B. period C. day D. semester
2. People go to a …………….. to look at the famous works of art.
A. stadium B. gallery C. theater D. fair
3. I’d like to go ……………. very much.
A. camp B. to camp C. a camp D. camping
4. Hoa is reading short stories …………. Jack London.
A. of B. from C. by D. with
5. John ………….. Susan to go out with him but her parents didn’t let her out.
A. insisted B. suggested C. invited D. helped
6. This book is ……………. that I try to read it from beginning to end at one time.
A. so interesting B. so interested C. such interesting D. too interesting
7. “Let it be” is a famous song ……………. . It is one of the best works by this band.
A. singing by the Beatles B. was sung by the Beatles
C. sung by the Beatles D. sang by the Beatles
8. He ………… the train ticket at home.
A. took B. put C. brought D. left
9. She was ………….. of watching television.
A. interested B. tired C. tiring D. pleased
10. My mother ………….. me that I should wake up earlier.
A. told to B. said C. was told D. said to
III/Each line of the paragrap has a mistake, underline the mistake and correct at the end of each line .The first is as an example

Example: 0. I haven’t saw you for two month 0/ seen
Nam is a student. This year he had a very interested summer
1/ ___________

Holiday. He traveled, with him classmates, to a mountainous area
2/ ___________

in Hoa Binh province. They gone there to help make a road
3/ ___________

through a forest among two villages. “ It was very difficult
4/ ___________

Because there had no water to drink and no shops where we
5/ ___________

could bought food,”said Nam. “ It was very cold and wet
6/ ___________

in the mountains. It is one of the wetter places in the country.”
7/ ___________

Nam stayed in the mountains since six weeks. It was hard work.
8/ ___________

He said that “ I liked all the things I did ”
9/ ___________

and next summer he would do the same things like that.
10/ __________


IV. Read the passage and choose the best answer.
After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty-seven years after the first awards ceremony. Nobel`s original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used for the awards which vary from $30,000 to $125,000.
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