Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng anh Lớp 8

A. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the rest by writing your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box. 
A. excursion
B. fur
C. hurt
D. bury
A. seizure
B. measure
C. confusion
D. tension
A. food
B. mood
C. foot
D. shoot 
A. thus
B. thick
C. thing
D. thin
A. off
B. of
C. safe
D. knife
A. daughter
B. laughter
C. taught
D. caught
A. promise
B. devise
C. surprise
D. realise
II. Choose the word that has different stress pattern in each line.
A. suggest
B. report
C. profit
D. career
A. volcano
B. jungle
C. marine
D. surround
A. attend
B. public
C. damage
D. practice
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box. 
1. “ Who sings best in your school?” – “Mai ..”
 A. sings
B. is
C. has
D. does
2. “ Will you come to the party tomorrow?” – “ I will if I .. no visitors.”
 A. have
B. will have
C. had
D. am having
3. Please, ask them .. in this area.
 A. don’t smoke
B. not smoke
C. to not smoke
D. not to smoke
4. I think he .. better not encourage the students to take extra lessons.
 A. will
B. should
C. could
D. had
5. Every body in both cars .. injured in the accident last night.
 A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
6. .. to have lunch with us today?
 A. Do you like
B. Would you like
C. Will you like
D. Have you like
7. Let’s go out for a walk, .. ?
 A. do we
B. don’t we
C. won’t we
D. shall we
8. Drinking and smoking will do great harm .. people’s health.
 A. to
B. for
C. with
D. in
9. He always ..
 A. avoids to meet me
B. avoiding to meet me
C. avoids meeting me
D. to avoid meeting me
10. My parents are going to take three days .. next month to help my brother move his house.
 A. at	
B. over 
 C. off
D. out
11. In my class, Trung was responsible .. the teacher .. keeping the class in order while she went out. 
A. to/ for
B. to/ in
 C. with/ for
D. for/ for
12. The scheme allows students from many countries to communicate ..
A. with other
B. themselves
 C. each other
D. with one another
13. Have you ever read anything .. Earnest Hemmingway?
A. by
B. of
 C. from
D. for
14. Not a good movie, .. ?
A. did it
B. didn’t it
 C. was it
D. wasn’t it
15. Hurry up! They have only got .. seats left.
A. a lot of
B. a few
 C. a little
D. plenty of 
II. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find and write your answers in the numbered box. (10 p)
1. Would you mind if I help her solve these mathematics problems?
 A B C D
2. Christmas songs are performed for people in towns and villages eight hundred years ago. A B C D
3. Do you remember to try this kind of food somewhere else before?
 A B C D
4. The police have not found the stealing jewels since last Monday. 
 A B C D
5. There was no explaination for his absence from class yesterday.
 A B C D
III. Supply the correct tense or form of the verb given in brackets. (10 p)
1. When Mary (arrive) .... here, you (show) .... her to her room?	
2. The last time she (see) .... in public she (wear) .... a white blouse.
3. I (search) .... everywhere for the pen I (lose) .... yesterday.
4. He (have) .... a bad fall while he (repair) .... his roof.
5. Nam (sit) .... in a corner with a book. I told him that he (read) .... in very bad light.
IV. Complete the sentences by filling in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets. (10 p) 
1. The evening was .... spent playing cards and talking.	 enjoy
2. These shoes look quite smart but they’re terribly .... 	 comfort
3. I doesn’t want my money back. He wants a .... 	 place
4. Sorry about the mistakes, I the instructions you gave me. understand
5. Ba and I played for our school team. We were ....	 team
C. READING
I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Many people continue to skip breakfast despite its being most important meal of the day.
Busy people often rush out the door in the mornings with out giving their bodies the fuel they need to handle a long day at work. They end up feeling tired by the afternoon and resort to the office snack machine or biscuit tin.
Loysa Hourigan, from Nutrition Australia, said that catching up on food at lunch time did not provide the body with enough sustenance to keep it going for the rest of the day. “Even if you have had lunch, you won’t have as much food as you need. Your brain gets depleted of glucose and you feel tires.” Ms Hourigan said. According to Ms Hourigan, wholegrain bread and cereals provide endurance. Milk, eggs and baked beans provide protein, which helps people to alert. Rolled oats are also an excellent endurance food.
1. According to the passage, people should ....
A. have breakfast B. skip lunch C. not eat snacks D. not have breakfast
2. The word “fuel” in line 2 means ....
A. food B. meal C. nutrition D. energy
3. Ms Hourigan said that if we did not have breakfast, we would feel tired because ....
A. our brain ran out of glucose 	
B. our brain was full of glucose
C. there was no oxygen in our brain 	
D. we did not have lunch
4. According to Ms Hourigan, which of the following is NOT mentioned as endurance foods?
A. rolled oats B. cereals C. wholegrain bread D. bananas
5. Loysa Hourigan might work as .
A. teacher B. nutritionist C. writer D. business woman
II. Read the passage and choose the correct answer in A, B, C or D. (20 p)
	 Have you ever been to Britain? I’ve dreamed of going there (1) ______ I was a little girl and finally, (2) ______ the spring of 2012, it happened. I was there three weeks and (3) ______ much of that time soaking up the culture, history, and scenery of this incredible island. I visited several districts in England, Wales and Scotland and even (4) ______ a site trip to Ireland. Every place I went to seemed to be more interesting and more beautiful (5) ______ the last.
	 The tour I was with began in London. Of all the sights I saw there, the Tower of London was the most (6) ______. The Tower is a building complex of incredibly rich history.
	 Also on the Thames are the Houses of Parliament and, of course, the clock tower housing “Big Ben”. I saw so many landmarks I can hardly remember them all. Although it was just a glimpse of London I did, (7) ______, get a chance to see all the (8)______ famous places. 
	 After (9) ______ of days in London we traveled to the south of England stopping to visit Stonehenge. If you don’t know about Stonehenge there are a couple of links on my links page that will (10) ______ you to sites that can fill you in.
1. A. for	B. while 	C. since	D. because
2. A. on 	B. in 	C. at 	D. to
3. A. spent	B. took	C. did	D. used 
4. A. did	B. got	C. spent	D. made
5. A. then	B. as	C. with	D. than
6. A. interesting 	B. interested	C. interest 	D. interestingly
7. A. at first	B. at all 	C. at least	D. at that
8. A. more	B. much	C. most	D. many
9. A. few	B. some 	C. a couple	D. little
10. A. reach 	B. take	C. make	D. send
III. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. 
 In the first year of lower secondary (1) _________, I had some difficulties in learning English. My English pronunciation was really bad and my English grammar was (2) _________ . I did not know how to improve (3) _________. I didn’t want my father and mother to know about (4) _________. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher (5) _________ English told me to wait (6) _________ her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me tapes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English- English dictionary to (7) _________ my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” she said. I made (8) _________ progress and only one year later, I won the first (9) _________ in the English Speaking Contest (10) _________ for secondary school students in my home town.
D. WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. 
1. “ Do you remember what you have to do ? ” the teacher asked her class.	
à The teacher asked her class 
2. Couldn’t you find a better restaurant ?
àIs this ...
3. John began playing chess half an hour ago.
àJohn’s ...
4. They won’t be able to come on Sunday.
à It will ...
5. I only paid a few hundred pounds for the car.
à The car 
6. My mother made these curtains, didn’t she ?
à These 
7. Most people can understand him when he speaks English.
à He can make 
8. We arrived too late to see the first film.
à We did ..
9. Leave now or we will miss the train. 	
à Unless ...
10. This is his first visit to England.
à He’s ...
II. Make complete sentences from the following sets of words and phrases provided. 
1. Our teachers/ always/ ask/ not/ make/ noise/ during/ lessons.
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2. We/ not think/ play/ write/ Shakespeare.
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3. You / tell/ how/ do it/ as soon/ you/ get there.
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4. Nam/ say/ me/ if it/ rain/ that night/ he/ not go/ anywhere.
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5. it/ be/ necessary/ book tickets/ soccer match/ in advance?	
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6. When/ Peter/ be/ child/ Australia/ he/ go swimming/ almost every day.	
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7. Mai/ find/ hard/ concentrate/ her book/ because/ noise.	
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8. My brother/ want/ buy/ laptop/ advertise/ television/ early this morning.
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9. She/ not say/ thing/ order/ not make/ him/ angry.
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10. boy/ talk/ your mother/ there/ be/ my classmate.
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