Đề thi học sinh giỏi cấp huyện Năm học 2000 – 2010 Thời gian : 90 phút

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Trường THCS Hai Thai
Đề thi học sinh giỏi cấp huyện 
Năm học 2000 – 2010
Thời gian : 90 phút
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Question 1: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1.	A. rough	B. cough	C. tough	D. though
2. 	A. cost	B. ghost	C. host	D. post
3. 	A. laughed	B. raised	C. walked	D. stopped
Question 2 : Choose the word that has the different stress from the others.
4.	A. subject	B. passion	C. routine	D. district
5.	A. atmosphere	B. consider	C. important	D. mechanic
Question 3: Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence :
1. ....... blind can see nothing.
	A. The	B. All	C. A	D. Every
2. We have been informed that .......... animals at the zoo are starving to death.
	A. most of	B almost the	C. most all	D. most of the
3. She wants to know if we have	........ extra copies.
	A. the few	B. a little	C. a few	D. not many
4. The chemistry book ..........was a little expensive.
	A. that I bought it	B. what I bought	C. I bought that	D. I bought
5. ........... has been no news of him.
	A. It	B. It’s	C. There	D. Which
6. ...........for agricultural purposes, soil must have in it the minerals plants require.
	A. To be good	B. Being good	C. Be good	D. Has been good
7. A large number of students in this school.........English quite fluently.
	A. speak	B. speaks	C. is speaking	D. has spoken
8. He seldom goes fishing, ..........?
	A. does he	B. is he	C. doesn’t he	D. isn’t he
9. Last year, Matt earned .......his brother, who has a better position.
	A. twice as many 	B. twice as much as	C. twice more than	D. twice more
10. ......... a doctor, I must advised you to give up smoking.
	A. like	B. else	C. as 	D. I
11. By the time you receive this letter, I .............. for Japan.
	A. will leave	B. will have left	C. would have left	D. have left
12. That’s a nice coat, and the color ......... you well
	A. fits	B. matches	C. shows	D. suits
13. She applied for training as a pilot, but they turned her..........because of her poor eyesight.
	A. back	B. up	C. over	D. down
14. After a three hour search, the missing .........girl was found alive and well at a friend’s house.
	A. ten-year	B. ten-year’s old	C. ten-year-old	D. ten-years-old
15. He wasn’t allowed to ....... the exam.
	A. sit	B. make	C. offer	D. go
16. I’m sorry to ...... you but could I make a phone call?
	A. trouble	B. upset	C. worry	D. mind
17. I’m interested in this old car. Is it .....?
	A. selling	B. a sale	C. to sell	D. for sell
18. Stop making that noise. You are getting on my ..........
	A. muscles	B. brains	C. nerves	D. blood
19. ....... University of Chicago has an excellent law school.
	A. A	B. An	C. The	D. ỉ
20. The two boys are twins. I can’t ........ the difference between them.
	A. say	B. tell	C. know	D. realize
Question 4: Supply the correct from of the word in bracket in each of the following sentences.
1. I lost my key so I couldn’t ..........the door when I got home 	(LOCK)
2. She must one of the .......people I know. That’s the forth time
 her flat has been burgled this month	(LUCK)
3. What a lovely painting! Your daughter must be very ...........	(ART)
4. Librarians spend a lot of their time ..............books.	(CLASS)
5. “A Taste for Death” is about two famous men who are found
 ........ in a church	(DIE)
6. There are very few .........places left on Earth. Man has been 
 nearly everywhere.	(EXPLORE)
7. What a very ....... old man he is.	(LEARN)
8. I was so angry. I was absolutely ..........	(SPEAK)
9. Jackie suffered as a child from a very strict ..........	(BRING)
10. It was very ......... of him to steal that money.	(HONEST)
Question 5: Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A,B,C,D.
Containing 72% of the Earth fresh water, 90% of the world’s ice, with wind blowing as far as 185 miles per hour, and with temperatures plunging to 100 degrees below zero, Antarctica’s landscape is breathtaking, its climate life-taking. For centuries, Antarctica was almost unknown. In 1938, the United State Navy commissioned Lieutenant Charles Wilkies to explore the South Pole near the centre of Antarctica. He saw enough of Antarctica to prove it a continent. In 1911, a British team and a Norwegian team had a race to the South Pole. Five Norwegians reached the South Pole first and returned home. The British party froze to death.
	Antarctica remains full of mysteries and contradictions. Scientists have uncovered plant, tree, and animal fossils of species originally found only in warm climates. Today there are only lichens, mosses, three flowering plants, one herb, and two grasses that grow where the ice recedes in the December summer. What triggered the metamorphosis? No one knows.
	 Antarctica has the coldest temperature (- 126,9 degrees Fahrenheit) ever recorded. It contains enough ice to cover the United States layers two miles thick. In this, the coldest place on the earth is Mt. Erebus, an active volcano with a steaming 1.000 degree centigrade, bubbling lake of lava in the middle.
1. Why did the British and the Norwegians have a contest?
	A. to explore an unknown continent.
	B. to prove that the South Pole exists.
	C. to measure their ability to resist cold.
	D. to determine which group would reach the South Pole first.
2. What is the main idea of paragraph 1?
	A. A visit to South Pole is risky and expensive
	B. Few plants and animals survive in the bitter cold of Antarctica.
	C. Antarctica is a continent filled with beauty and peril.
	D. Cold, snow and ice are always present in Antarctica.
3. If Antarctica’s climate would become warm, what would most likely to happen?
	A. Many places would be colder than they are now.
	B. Some places would be colder and others warmer than they are now.
	C. Antarctica would have more tropical climate.
	D. Coastal areas would become flooded.
4. Warm-weather species no longer live in Antarctica because
	A. of an unsolved mystery.
	B. the summer are too short.
	C. the glaciers changed the climate.
	D. research discovered plant fossils.
5. Where is Mt. Erebus located?
	A. in the earth	
B. at the South Pole	
C. near the sea	
D. in Antarctica
Question 6: Choose one word or phrase which best completes each gap of the passage
	What is money? The pound, the dollar or the franc are actually just like a gram or a kilometer. The difference is that you can exchange money for something ...(1). A five pound note may buy a book, a huge bag of sweets, or a ...(2) of cinema tickets. But the note itself is only a printed...(3) of paper which costs almost nothing to make.
	Thousands of years...(4), people didn’t have money as we know ...(5). There were no banks...(6)even shops. In those days, Mr. Green the farmer exchanged the corn he ...(7) grown for Mr. Hive’s honey. This was an exchange arranged between the two ...(8), each of whom had something that the other wanted. But in time, most societies invented their own “currencies” ...(9) that people could exchange more. The different currencies began to join together, which is why ...(10) everyone uses a national currency.
1.	A. other	B. else	 C. another	D. apart
2.	A. couple	B. double	C. few	D. several
3. 	A. slice	B. part	C. side	D. piece
4.	A. since	B. past	C. before	D. ago
5.	A. them	B. it	C. some	D. that
6.	A. or	B. neither	C. and	D. but
7. 	A. did	B. was	C. had	D. has
8.	A. jobs	B. people	C. things	D. goods
9. 	A. for	B. by	C. before	D. so
10. 	A. tomorrow	B. today	C. recently	D. soon
Question 7 : Rewrite these following sentences so that the meanings stay the same as the one given:
1.Someone has just stole John’s car.
a John.............................................................................................
2. Everyone say that the accident was Carol’s fault.
a Carol ............................................................................................
3. Although it rained heavily, most of the guests came
a In spite........................................................................................
4. She thinks it is easy to learn English.
a She finds........................................................................................
5. They didn’t invite Mary to the party.
a Mary wishes she..............................................................................
6. I haven’t been to a football match for 5 months.
a The last time...................................................................................
7. Let’s go home at the end the second act.
a As soon as ....................................................................................
8. I used to work with that girl’s mother.
a That’s .......................................................................................
9. It was so late that nothing could be done.
a It was too........................................................................................
10. I cannot ski as well as you can.
a You’re...........................................................................................
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Answer Keys
Question 1: 
	1. D	2. A	3. D
Question 2: 
	1. C	2. A
Question 3: 
	1. A	2. D	3. C	4. D	5. C	6. A	7. A	8. C	9. B	10. C	11. B	12. D	13. D	14. C	15. A	16. A	17. D	18. C	19. A	20. B
Question 4: 
	1. unlock	2. unluckiest	3. artful	4. classifying	5. dead	6. unexplored	7. learned	8. speechless
	9. upbringing	10. dishonest
Question 5: 
	1. D	2. C	3. D	4. A	5. D
Question 6:
	1. B	2. A	3. D	4. D	5. B	6. A	7. C	8. B	9. D	10. B
Question 7: 
John has just had his car stolen.
Carol is said to cause/have caused the accident.
In spite of the heavy rain, most of the guests came.
She finds English easy to learn
Mary wishes she had been invited to the party.
The last time I went to a football match was 5 months ago.
As soon as the second act ends/finishes, we will go home.
That’s the girl whose mother I used to work with.
It was too late to do anything.
 You’re better at skiing than I am.