Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 năm học 2015-2016 - Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 6; 7; 8 cấp Huyện - Phòng GD & ĐT Sông Lô

PHÒNG GD&ĐT SÔNG LÔ
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 6; 7; 8
 CẤP HUYỆN - NĂM HỌC 2015 - 2016
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 8
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút 
(không kể thời gian giao đề)
 	(Đề thi gồm 04 trang) 
PART I. LISTENING 
I. You will hear a conversation at the custom in Gatwick airport. As you listen, fill in the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer: 
Surname: 
______________________________________
First name:
______________________________________
Sex:
______________________________________
Date of birth:
______________________________________
Nationality: 
______________________________________
Occupation: 
______________________________________
Reasons for travel in the UK:
______________________________________
Address in the UK:
__________________Totenham, London
II. Listen to the talk and complete the notes. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer: 
In Britain, people start to decorate their house a (9) __________ before 25th December.
In Christmas time, the most important activity is the (10) _________________.
The British people put their gifts (11) __________________ of the Christmas tree.
The British open their Christmas presents on (12) ___________________.
Children leave a long sock or stocking at the end of their bed on Christmas Eve, hoping that Father Christmas will bring small presents from (13) ______________.
The British family have a (14) _________________and Christmas pudding for the dinner on Christmas Day.
The Queen (15) _________________her traditional Christmas message to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth later in the afternoon. On Boxing Day, people usually visit friends and relatives or watch football.
PART II. PHONETICS
Choose one word that has a different stress position from the others. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding word or phrase on your answer paper.
A. cartoon
B. open
C. paper
D. answer
A. computer
B. shortage
C. village
D. teacher
A. important
B. community
C. organize
D. diseases
A. education
B. geography
C. occupation
D. information
A. relative
B. cinema
C. continue
D. suddenly
PART III. LEXICAL – GRAMMAR
I. Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C and D) one best answer to complete each sentence. 
1. Your hair is long. It needs .......................
A. cut
B. cutting
C. to cut
D. had cut
2. You .......................forget what I told you. It is very important.
A. must
B. have to
C. can't
D. mustn't
3. I think it's high time for the children .......................to bed .
A. go
B. went 
C. going
D. to go
4. You have never been to Ha Noi, .......................?
A. haven't you
B. did you
C. didn't you
D. have you
5. I have a .......................sister. 
A. seven years old
B. seven-years - old
C. seven- year - old
D. seven year olds
6. I'd rather you .......................that.
A. do 
B. don't do
C. won't do
D. didn't do
7. We are now wet. You .......................the raincoats with you.
A. should bring
B. should have brought
C. must bring
D. have to bring
8. They are looking forward .......................Tet holiday.
A. to have
B. having
C. to having
D. have
9. That was a .......................ceremony.
A. prepared-well
B. prepare-well
C. well-prepared
D. well-prepare
10. I object to .......................like this.
A. be treating
B. treating
C. being treated
 D. have been treated
11. My mother often gives me advice .......................water.
 A. to save
 B. how to save
C. on how to save
 D. with how to save
12. My dog as well as my cats .......................twice a day.
A. eat
B. eats
C. has eaten
D. have eaten
13. Do it right now, .......................?
A. do you
B. aren’t you
C. will you
D. don’t you
14. We’ll go out as soon as it .......................raining. 
A. has stopped
B. is stopping
C. stop
D. will stop
15. Take this cake and cut it into eight .......................pieces.
A. same
B. like
C. alike
D. equal
II. Fill in each gap in each sentence with the correct form of the word in capital letters.
1.	 After many years of failure, Edison finally......in inventing the light bulb.	SUCCESS
2. The accident happens because of driving......	CARE
3. He believed in his ......to jump down from the fourth storey without getting hurt.	ABLE
4. You must pass the ......exam to attend the course. 	WRITE
5. Many people like him because of his ......	GENEROUS
6. The media help increase the ......of sports and games. 	POPULAR
7. The ......of forests has brought about floods recently. 	DESTROY
8. An ......man has stolen all our money. 	KNOW
9. The ......of this factory are widely consumed in this country. 	PRODUCE
10. Viet Nam declared its ......on September 2nd 1945. 	DEPEND
III. There are ten mistakes in this paragraph. Find them out and correct them.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Summer in England is the better season of all. The sky is clear and blue. The sun shines brightly. But it is not pleasant to go out at noon because of the sun dazzles our eyes. The air is generally dry. It is very pleasant taking a walk in the morning when the country is cool, or again on the evening when the sunshine is not so heat, and the moon raises above the horizon. How beauty it is in summer in the countryside. There high in the sky, there has the moon which sheds it’s silver light together with thousand of little stars twinkling and twinkling.
PART IV. READING
I. Read the following passage then choose the best answer from the four options (marked A, B, C and D) to complete the numbered blanks in the passage. 
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
There is usually one important (1) .................. missing from most school timetables. Very few students are (2) ................ how to organize their learning and how to (3) ................... the best use of their time. Let’s take some simple examples. Do you know how to (4) .............. up words in the dictionary?, and do you understand all the information the dictionary contains? Can you (5) ..................... notes quickly, and can you understand them (6) ................... ? For some reason, many schools give learners no help with these matters. Teachers ask students to (7) ..................... pages from books, or tell them to write ten pages, but don’t explain (8)... to do it. Learning by heart can be useful, but it is important to have a genuine (9) .. of a subject. You can (10)  a lot of time memorizing books, without understanding anything about the subject!
1. A. theme	B. book	C. subject	D. mark
2. A. taught	B. learnt 	C. educated 	D. graduated
3. A. take 	B. give	C. get	D. make
4. A. find 	B. look 	C. research 	D. get
5. A. do	B. send	C. take	D. revise
6. A. after 	B. afterwards 	C. lastly 	D. at last
7. A. concentrate	B. remind	C. forget	D. memorize
8. A. how 	B. what 	C. why	D. it
9. A. information	B. success 	C. understanding	D. attention
10. A pass	B. waste	C. tell 	D. use
II. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space.
Computers play an important role in our everyday lives, sometimes without us even realizing it. Consider the use (1) _________computers in both shops and offices. Big shops especially chain stores with branches all over the country, have to deal with very large amounts of information. 
They have to make (2) ________that there are enough goods on the shelves for customers to buy; they need to be (3)__________to re-order before stocks (4) ________out, to decide which things are selling well and (5) ________on. All these processes (6) ________performed quickly and efficiently by computers.
A (7) _______ of office work in the past involved information on paper. (8) ____ it had been dealt with by people, the paper was put (9) ________for future reference. This way of working was (10) ________particularly easy or fast. A computerized system is much more efficient.
III. Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
	The culture of Vietnam is one of the oldest in the Southeast Asia region. Although Vietnam lies geographically in Southeast Asia, long periods of Chinese domination and influence has resulted in the emergence of many East Asian characteristics in Vietnamese culture, and generally Vietnam is said to be a part of the East Asian cultural sphere, known widely as Chinese cultural sphere.
	Despite considerable foreign influence, Vietnamese people have managed to retain many distinct customs. While Chinese culture has the largest influence on traditional Vietnamese culture, there is also a much smaller influence from the Cham and later Western cultures, most notably of France, Russia and the United States. In term of prehistory, most Vietnamese historians consider the ancient Dong Son Culture to be one of the defining aspects of early Vietnamese civilization.
	Vietnam’s population in 2006 was 84,402,966, with a population density of 253 people per km2. Most people live in or near the densely populous Red River or Mekong deltas. Due to the nation’s southward expansion throughout its history, along with the different climate and environment met by the settlers as they moved further south, slightly different regional cultures began to emerge, most notably between Northern and Southern Vietnam.
1. The culture of Vietnam______ .
A. is the youngest in Asia	 B. does not get any Asian characteristics	
C. was influenced by that of China	 D. was greatly dominated by that of Western
2. Which culture has not affected the Vietnamese one?
A. Of the United States	B. Of the United Kingdom	
C. Of Russia	D. Of France
3. Vietnamese people ______ .
A. cannot keep their own culture in their daily life 	 
B. have many diverse nation customs
C. highly appreciate the Western influence on their culture 
D. failed to retain the native customs
4. Through history, Vietnam expended to the ______ .
A. south	B. north C. east	D. west
5. Which statement is true?
A. The North and the South of Vietnam have the same regional cultures.
B. The Mekong delta is more populous than the Red River one.
C. Red River delta is densely populous.
D. Vietnamese people do not like living in the deltas.
PART V. 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. If we can solve the problem soon, it will be better for all concerned.
 The sooner.................................................................................................................
2. I would prefer you to deliver the sofa on Friday.
 I would rather	
3. We've run out of tea.
 There	
4. Susan was too excited to sleep.
 Susan was 	
5. Robert has not had a job for two years.
 Robert has been 	
II. Write a passage of 150 – 200 words
It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.
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 PHÒNG GD-ĐT SÔNG LÔ
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI KS ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG LỚP 8 
NĂM HỌC: 2015 - 2016
 MÔN : TIẾNG ANH 
Thang điểm 100: mỗi câu đúng cho 1 điểm, bài viết 15 điểm
PART I. LISTENING 
	I. 
1. Butcher 2. Anthony
3. male 4. 14th April 1966
5. Italian 6. a student
7. to study English 8. 32 Halefield Road
	II. 
	9. week or two 	13. the chimney
	10. giving of presents	14. big Turkey dinner
	11. at the bottom	15. delivers 
	12. Christmas morning
PART II. PHONETICS
A 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C
PART III. LEXICAL – GRAMMAR
I. Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C and D) one best answer to complete each sentence. 
B
D
D
D
C
D
B
C
C
C
C
B
C
A
D
II. Fill in each gap in each sentence with the correct form of the word in capital letters.
1. succeeded 	6. popularity 	
2. carelessly	 	7.destruction 
3. ability 	8. unknown
4. written 	9. products 
5. generosity 	10. independence
III. There are ten mistakes in this paragraph. Find them out and correct them.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Summer in England is the better season of all. The sky is clear and blue. The sun shines brightly. But it is not pleasant to go out at noon because of the sun dazzles our eyes. The air is generally dry. It is very pleasant taking a walk in the morning when the country is cool, or again on the evening when the sunshine is not so heat, and the moon raises above the horizon. How beauty it is in summer in the countryside. There high in the sky, there has the moon which sheds it’s silver light together with thousand of little stars twinkling and twinkling.
Line
Mistakes
Corrections
Line
Mistakes
Corrections
1
better
best
5
raises
rises
2
because of
because
5
beauty
beautiful
3
taking
to take
6
has
is
4
on the evening
in the evening
7
it’s
its
5
heat
hot
8
thousand
thousands
PART IV. READING
Read the following passage then choose the best answer from the four options (marked A, B, C and D) to complete the numbered blanks in the passage. 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
C
A
D
B
C
B
D
A
C
B
II. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space.
1. of
2. sure/ certain
3. able
4. run/ sell
5. so
6. are/ get
7. lot
8. Once/When/After
9. aside/ away
10. not/ never
III. Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
1. C 	2. B 	3. B 	 4. A 	5. C 
PART V. 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. If we can solve the problem soon, it will be better for all concerned.
 The sooner we can solve the problem, the better it will be for all concerned 
2. I would prefer you to deliver the sofa on Friday.
 I would rather you delivered the sofa on Friday 
3. We've run out of tea.
 There isn't any tea left
4. Susan was too excited to sleep.
 Susan was so excited that she couldn't sleep 
5. Robert has not had a job for two years.
 Robert has been out of job/ jobless/ unemployed for two years
II. Write a passage of 150 – 200 words
It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.