Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 năm học 2015-2016 - Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp Tỉnh - Sở GD & ĐT Bắc Giang

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
BẮC GIANG
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
NĂM HỌC 2015 - 2016
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 8
Ngày thi: 20/3/2016
Thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
Số phách
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ĐIỂM BÀI THI
Bằng số:
Bằng chữ: ................................
Chữ ký giám khảo 1: ..............................................................
Chữ ký giám khảo 2: ...............................................................
LƯU Ý:
- Đề thi gồm 06 trang, thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển.
I. 9 Listening (20 pts)
Part 1. Listen to the recording and choose the best answer A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording twice. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (4 pts)
1. What is the main topic of the conversation?
A. Traditional days in Thailand	B. Thai culture
C. New Year’s Day in America	D. Thai New Year’s Day
2. When is traditional Thai New Year’s Day celebrated?
A. January 1st 	B. April 13th to 15th	C. April 1st 	D. December 31st 
3. Which is NOT true about Songkran?
A. People wear traditional clothes.	B. People have water fights.
B. It’s celebrated in Thailand.	D. It is in April.
4. What can be inferred from the conversation?
A. Jessie went to Thailand last year.	B. Jessie has never been to Thailand.
C. Jessie will go to Thailand next April.	D. Jessie went to Thailand last April. 	
Your answers:	1. _______ 	2. _______ 	3. _______ 	4. _______ 	
Part 2: Listen to the recording and decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F). You will hear the recording twice. Put a tick (þ) into the correct answer (4 pts).
True
False
1. San’s most unforgettable moment was last month in New Zealand. 
He did a really high bungee jump.
2. Carla’s most unforgettable moment was two years ago in China.
He met her birth parents.
3. Jun’s most unforgettable moment happened last May in Korea.
His basket team won the national championship.
4. Crystal’s most unforgettable moment was last month at school.
She won the math competition.
Part 3: Listen to the World News Report and fill in the blanks with the missing information. You will hear the recording twice. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (12 pts)
World News Report
Location: 	(1) _________________________ Los Angeles, California.
Natural Disaster: 	a deadly (2) _________________________.
Time:	 	at exactly (3) _________________________ this morning
Disaster duration: 	(4) _________________________.
Magnitude (Richter scale rating): (5) _________________________.
Reported dead:	(6) _________________________.
Earthquake hotline: 	(7) _________________________.	
 (8) _________________________ number: 5551130.
II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (10 pts)
1. My friends usually enjoy my ______ of humor.
A. sense
B. kind 	
C. means
D. form 
2. The boy ______ long hair was talking to the girl who was ______red.
A. of/at
B. in/with	
C. with/in
D. at/of
3. How much exercise do doctors ______ you should take to avoid a heart attack?
A. ask	
B. force	
C. mention
D. suggest
4. Nam could not speak English and ______ could Ha.
A. either
B. also	
C. so
D. neither 
5. Practising ______ English anywhere you can is a way to better your speaking skill.
A. speak
B. speaking	
C. to speak
D. for speaking
6. - Mother: “Could you do me a favor?”	- Kate: “______.”
A. No, thanks. I’m fine 
B. Yes, thank you
C. Yes, sure
D. Yes, that’s kind of you
7. I would rather you ______me the story.
A. tell
B. told	
C. to tell
D. telling
8. A: “Thank you so much for helping me overcome that difficult time”. - B: “______”
A. Don’t worry
B. My pleasure
C. Yes, of course
D. Thank you
9. There’s a strange man behind us. I think ______. 
A. we are followed
 B. we are being followed
C. we are following
D. we are being following
10. Of the two subjects I am learning in English at school, physics is the ______. 
A. difficult
B. more difficult	
C. most difficult
D. more difficult than
Your answers:	
1. _______ 	2. _______ 	3. _______ 	4. _______ 	5. ________ 
	6. _______ 	7. _______ 	8. _______ 	9. _______ 	10. _______ 
III. Complete the dialogue with the sentences or phrases in the box. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (5pts)
A. Do you often go out with Ben?	
B. I think so	
C. The film is great.	
D. Have you got any hobbies?
E. Nice to meet you
F. How do you know Ben? .
G. I’d better get back to my friends
H. See you around
I. Are you really into sports?	
K. Not really	
M. What kind of films do you like?
N. I like films, too
Connor: 	Excuse me. You’re Ben Wilson’s sister, aren’t you?
Tanya: 	Yes, I am. My name’s Tanya.
Connor: 	(1) ______, Tanya. I’m Connor.
Tanya:	Hi Connor. (2) ______.
Connor: 	We sometimes play volleyball together.
Tanya: 	Oh, right. (3) ______.
Connor:	Yes, I am. What about you? (4) ______.
Tanya	:	(5) ______. I like watching TV- and DVDs.
Connor:	(6) ______.
Tanya:	Anything, really. Comedies, thrillers and horror films.
Connor:	(7) ______. There are some good films on at the cinema now, aren’t there?
Tanya:	Yes, (8) ______.
Connor:	Maybe we could go to the cinema some time.
Tanya:	Yes, good idea.
Connor:	Anyway, (9) ______. Nice talking to you.
Tanya:	Me, too. (10) ______. 
Your answers:	
1. _______ 	2. _______ 	3. _______ 	4. _______ 	5. ________ 	
6. _______ 	7._______ 	8. _______ 	9. _______ 10. ________ 	
IV. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. Write your answer in the numbered space given (5 pts)
	1. In summer, in Sapa, it is very cold at night, but it’s warm (1) ______ the day.
2-3. Voght-Roberts and some crew members (2) ______ the new King Kong film spent nearly two months in Vietnam (3) ______ the end of last year surveying and selecting the locations.
	4-5. I've just rewarded her (4) ______ a book (5) ______ her good study.
6-7. The police came just (6) ______ time to bring the riot (7) ______ control.
8-9. He said he broke the window (8) ______ accident, but I knew that he did it (9) ______ purpose.
10. When I traveled to Korea, I came (10) ______ Lee Young Ae, a famous Korean actress, at a restaurant. 
Your answers:	
1. _______ 	2. _______ 	3. _______ 	4. _______ 	5. ________ 	
6. _______ 	7._______ 	8. _______ 	9. _______ 10. ________ 	
V. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in the brackets. Number 0 is an example. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (10 pts)
Kids watch more TV
	 A study into children's television (0. view) ______ habits reveals that children whose parents have a high level of education tend to watch less television than children from less (1. educate) ______ family backgrounds. The report also suggests that a high rate of TV (2. watch ) ______ among children in poorer (3. suburb) ______ areas and in the provinces, compared to those (4. live) ______ in large urban centre, is often due to (5. poor) ______ and a lack of other kinds of (6. entertain) ______ in the area. Disco, cinema, theatre and sports (7. active) ______ offer children in urban centre a wider range of pastimes, which leads to far (8. few) ______ hours being spent in front of the box. (9. Commerce) ______, comedies and adventure films are children's (10. favour) ______ programs, while twenty per cent of children said they preferred violent films and thrillers.
 Your answers:	Example: 0. viewing
 1. __________________ 
 6. __________________ 
 2. ___________________ 	
 7. ___________________ 	
 3. ___________________ 	
 8. ___________________ 	
 4. ___________________ 	
 9. ___________________ 	
 5. ___________________ 	
 10. ___________________ 	
VI. Read the text below and look carefully at each numbered line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If the line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number. If the line has a word which should not be there, write that word by the number. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00). (5pts)
A load of rubbish
Line
 In the UK, people are finally starting to listen to the message about recycling. British families now recycle about 22% of their waste. Only for five years ago, the figure was 10%. That’s good news for the environment- but there’s a lot more than to do. Some other European countries, like Germany and Holland, already recycle about 60% of their waste and that’s the goal for the UK.
 Households in England which produce 25 million tons of waste a year. More than half of this is garden waste, paper, cardboard and kitchen waste – with which people could recycle. They could also recycle plastic, wood, glass and aluminum cans. In fact, if everybody in the UK was recycled all of their drink cans, there would be 14 million fewer rubbish bins of waste each year. 
 Recycling isn’t the only way to reduce the amount of rubbish what we throw away. More than 40% of the waste in our bins is packaging from shopping. If we changed the way to we shop, we could easily reduce the amount of waste. For example, street markets and small shops often use less packaging than supermarkets. And being of course, if we grow our own vegetables, there wouldn’t be any packaging at all. 
0. √
00. for
1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. _____
6. _____
7. _____
8. _____
9. _____
10. ____
VII. Fill in each numbered space with ONE appropriate word. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (10 pts) 
“I love you”
 On 3rd May 2000, millions of people around the world were (1) ______ an e-mail called “I love you”. The e-mail included a document called “Love letter for you”. When people opened this document, a (2) ______ destroyed hundreds of vital documents on their computer. The virus then sent a (3) ______ of itself to everybody in the e-mail address book. The virus infected millions of computer systems across the world. Even computers in the White House in the USA were affected by the crash. The virus eventually caused about 10 billion dollars of (4) ______ . 
 The person (5) ______ created the virus was probably a brilliant 23-year-old computer student from the Philippines (6) ______ Onel de Guzman. He has never admitted his guilt, but detectives know that the virus came from his computer. Onel de Guzman was not charged with any crime because in May 2000 the Philippines did not have any laws (7) ______ computer crime. 
 Onel de Guzman did not finish his studies at computer school. He now lives with his sister and (8) ______ his time watching TV programs he likes, reading books about computers and playing video games. (9) ______ the future, he wants to write more software- but this time, only games for mobile phones and hand-held (10) ______. Governments and companies around the world will surely be delighted!
Your answers:
1. _____________
2. _____________
3. _____________
4. _____________
5. _____________
6. _____________
7. _____________
8. _____________
9. _____________
10. ____________
VIII. Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. Write your answer in the numbered space given. (10 pts)
Be happy – Live longer
	Do happy people live longer? New evidence supports the idea that if you think positively, you are (1) _____ likely to live to a good age than a pessimist coming from a similar social background. (2) _____ is still not clear how happiness actually causes longevity. One possible explanation is that people probably (3) _____ better care of themselves if they see life as a positive experience, and of course, (4) _____ people feel healthy, they are more likely to be happy. Scientists tracked a group of people who had been interviewed in 1975 about their attitudes to ageing. They found that if people viewed getting older as a positive experience, they lived, (5) _____ average, seven and a half years longer than those who were more pessimistic. Ways of (6) _____ risk factors are well known: if you smoke or don’t exercise, you cut your life (7) _____ by one to three years, and doctors can advise their patients to change their lifestyles accordingly. But what, if (8) _____, can unhappy people do about improving their attitude? Personality may not be something (9) _____ we can change even if we want to, and scientists have (10) ______ to answer the question of how we can make ourselves happy.
1. A. much	B. better	C. more	D. well
2. A. It	B. There	C. What	D. Which
3. A. get	B. bring	C. spend	D. take
4. A. when 	B. unless	C. even	D. although
5. A. in	B. on	C. at	D. about
6. A. increasing	B. lessening	C. reducing	D. accelerating
7. A. expectancy 	B. expectation	C. expecting	D. unexpected
8. A. something	B. everything	C. nothing	D. anything
9. A. what	B. that	C. while	D. whereas
10. A. even	B. likely	C. yet	D. therefore
 Your answers:	
1. _______ 	2. _______ 	3. _______ 	4. _______ 	5. ________ 
	6. _______ 	7. _______ 	8. _______ 	9. _______ 	10. _______ 
IX. Read the text about Internet security. Some parts of the text have been removed. Complete the text by deciding which part of the text (A-I) fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra letter you do not need. (5pts)
A. print out other information you may need
B. check that it starts with “http”
C. a well selected password
D. a store online in minutes
E. know what to expect
F. there have been any complaints
Tips to Protect Yourself While Shopping Online
Tip 1
Make sure you are using a secure server and browser with industry security standards before you enter credit card information online. First, look at the address in the address bar and (1) ______. Then look at the bottom of the internet window and make sure there is a closed padlock.
Tip 2
Use companies you know. Anyone can open (2) ______ and be gone tomorrow. Here are some things to research before doing business with an unknown company.
Make sure there is contact information for the company and compare this with information from the domain register.
Check for a return policy.
Check to see if (3) ______. 
Tip 3
When shopping we all hope that we (4) ______ but sometimes there are problems that arise with what we ordered. Check the company’s return policy online before you order, so you will get what we ask for.
Tip 4
Keep information about your order. Also, (5) ______ such as return policies, company information, specific product information and warranty information.
Trust your instincts- if it sounds too good to be true  it probably is!
Your answers:	 	1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 	4. _______ 5. ________ 
	X. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words. (5 pts)
1. His parents made him study hard for his exams. 
ð He ___________________________________________________________________________.
2. “Please put this bag on the shelf,” David said to Mary
ð David asked ____________________________________________________________________.
3. I’ve never read a more romantic story. 
ð It is___________________________________________________________________________ .
4. They believe that the man escaped in a stolen car.
ð The man_______________________________________________________________________.
5. Patience is a key to success in life.
ð As long as you are_______________________________________________________________. 
XI. Use the given word to write the second sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word. (5 pts)
1. They left early because they didn’t want to get caught in the traffic. (avoid)
ð They left _______________________________________________________________________.
2. "You damaged my bicycle, John," said Jane. 	(accused)
ð Jane___________________________________________________________________________.
3. Helen plays the piano better than Elizabeth? 	(so)
ð Elizabeth doesn’t _________________________________________________________________.
4. I wasn’t interested in the film, so I turned the TV off. 	(find)
ð I didn’t _________________________________________________________________________.
5. I haven’t decided yet whether to move or not.	(mind)
ð I haven’t ________________________________________________________________________.
XII. Write a paragraph (80-100 words) about the importance of joining outdoor activities to students (10 pts)
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