Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 năm học 2011-2012 - Kỳ thi chọn học sinh năng khiếu cấp Huyện - Đề số 5 - Đỗ Bình

KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH NĂNG KHIẾU LỚP 8 CẤP HUYỆN 
NĂM HỌC : 2011 - 2012
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút ( Không kể thời gian giao đề ).
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. 
A. late	B. half	C. after	D. hard
A. close	B. no	C. one	D. so
A. reach	B. teacher	C. meat	D. weather
Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
A. improve	B. children	C. shopping	D. mountain
A. expensive	B. geography	C. assistant	D. national
Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentence.
What do you have _____________lunch?
	A. to	B. for	C. in 	D. of
I’ll try my best _____________my English. 
	A improving	B. improve	C. improved	D. to improve
He is not tall enough _____________the top of the shelf. 
	A. reach 	B. reaching 	C. reached	D to reach 
They are going _____________their homework tonight. 
	A. to do	B. doing	C. do 	D. does
They bought new fishing rods to go_____________.
	A. swimming 	B. shopping	C. sailing 	D. fishing
She has to _____________the room twice a week. 
	A. cleaning 	B. clean 	C cleaned 	D. cleans
I can ride to school by_____________.
	A. myself	B. himself	C. herself	D. themselves
This book is _____________expensive than that one.
	A. the most 	B. the same 	C. more 	D. as
The children are old enough to look after_____________.
 	A. ourselves 	B. themselves 	C. herself 	D. himself
_____________ is the study of the earth and its countries, mountains, rivers, weather, etc.
	A. Geography	B. Physics	C. Chemistry	D. Math
Which underlined part is incorrect?
In many ways, I always prefer country life than city life.
 	A 	B 	C 	D
T.V is bringing not only informations but also entertainment.
 	A	B	C	D
The countryside is too quite for me to live and work in.
 	A 	B 	 C 	D
We are going to held a summer camp this July.
 	A 	B 	C 	 D
How long do you and your classmates known each other?
 	 A 	 B 	C 	D
Arrange these words to make sentences. 
homework/ the / to / students / ought / their / carefully /do/. /
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has / the chores / to / today / Mai / do / himself /. /
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 clean/ the/ teacher/ me/ told/ to/ blackboard/the/./
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She / my class / is / enough / old / in/ not/ to be/./
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 how/ English/ to/ me/ tell/ study/ you/ Could/?/
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Read and choose the best option.
Great Britain is not a large country, It is much smaller (26)________ French. It (27)________ four parts: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England is the largest part of the country and has always been the strongest. English is the national (28)________ in all parts of Britain. All the people (29)________ live in Britain can speak (30)________, but not all the people are English in that country.
A. to 	B. more 	C. than 	D. less
A. have 	B. having 	C. to have 	D. has
A. tongue 	B. words 	C. language 	D. writing
A. what 	B. who 	C. he 	D. which
A. French 	B. English 	C. Chinese 	D. Vietnamese
Read the following passage and answer the questions. 
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Canada and then to the USA in the 1870s. In America, he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University. Soon, Bell started experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance. This led to the invention of the telephone. Thomas Watson was Bell's assistant. Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1876. Bell demonstrated his invention at a lot of exhibitions. He died in 1922. 
When and where was Alexander Graham Bell born?
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What did he do when he was at Boston University?
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Who was Thomas Watson?
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What did Bell and Watson do in 1876?
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How old was Bell when he died?
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Give the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
We __________________________ in grade 8 this year. (be)	
Our class __________________________ to the zoo next week. (go)	
Their grandmother __________________________ them a lot of stories last year. (tell)	
Last year, we (live) __________________________ in Nha Trang with our grandparents but now we (live) __________________________ in Hue with our parents.
I __________________________ to Nha Trang since I was ten years old. (be)
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