Giao lưu chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 8 môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2017-2018

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GIAO LƯU CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 8
 NĂM HỌC 2017-2018 
 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) 
Đề thi này gồm 06 trang
PART A: LISTENING
I. You are going to hear a conversation between a hotel receptionist and a customer who has come to make a booking. An example has been done for you.
Question 1-6
Hotel Information
Example answer
Name of accommodation:
(0) Carlton Hotel
Length of stay:
3 nights
Ages of children:
(1) _________________
Rooms available:
Two en-suites at £270
Price inclusive of:
(2) _________________
Payment method:
credit card
Name:
Michael (3) _________________
Date of birth:
(4) _________________1968
Address:
273, Stanton Court, London.
Post code:
(5) _________________
Telephone:
(6) _________________
Questions 7-10
Transport Options
Mode of Transport
Cost
Arrangements
Travel time to town
Taxi
Approximately
(7)  £ ________
Pick up from the hotel
10 minutes
Bus
£2 per person
Walk down Oak Tree 
(8) ________
15 minutes
Walking
Walk through
(9) ________
(10) ________
II. Listening: Questions 1–6: you will hear an interview with a student called Sarah Mercer, who is planning to become a weather forecaster. For each question, choose the correct answer A, B or C.
1. Why did Sarah first become interested in the weather?
A. She studied weather in school science lessons.	
B. She had experience of bad weather where she lived.
C. She saw programmes about weather on TV.
2. Who encouraged Sarah’s interest in the weather at home?
A. her mother	B. her father	C. her grandfather
3. Pupils at Sarah’s school club__________.
A. produced a book about the weather
B. provided information to the school for projects	
C. set up equipment for studying the weather
4. What mistake did Sarah’s family make during a sailing trip?	
A. They didn’t recognise signs of bad weather coming.
B. They hadn’t made preparations for bad weather.	
C. They failed to check weather forecasts regularly.
5. Sarah thinks in future she’d like to__________.
A. work in the area of sport	B. be on TV weather programmes	C. travel abroad for her job
6. What kind of weather does Sarah like best?
A. When the sun is shining	B. When it’s raining hard	C. When there’s fogBottom of Form
PART B: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR 
I. Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank.
1. When was Cuc Phuong forest _________Cuc Phuong National Park? 
	A. built 	B. named 	C. born 	D. developed
2. Without plants, water would run off and take away________ soil.
A. poisonous 	B. bad 	C. forest 	D. valuable
3. __________ of our poor condition, we tried to cure the injured dolphin.
	A. Despite 	B. Because 	C. In spite 	D. Although
4. There’s a _________ look on his face. I’m _________ of him indeed.
	A. frightening/scared	B. frightening/scaring
	C. frightened/ scaring	D. frightened/scared
5. My mother has a ________ for a bargain. 
	A. big nose 	B. fast foot 	C. good eye 	D. keen sense
6. Everyday my boss gets his car ________ , so it looks very beautiful.
	A. to be cleaned	B. cleaned	C. be cleaned	D. cleaning
7. My daughter isn’t ________ to go to school alone.
	A. enough old	B. old enough	C. young enough	D. enough young
8. Karate hurt my hands at first, but I finally ________ it.
	A. was used	B. got used to	C. used to	D. got use to
9. I’d rather you ________ smoke in here.
	A. do not	B. didn’t	C. won’t	D. doesn’t
II. Write the correct form of the words given in capital letters. 
1. Their children have quite________ characters. 	DIFFERENCE
2. Some guests arrived ________ and caused trouble to the hostess. 	EXPECT
3. Mr. Jane runs his business very________. 	SUCCESS
4. Ba reads short stories in English every day to ________ his vocabulary. 	RICH 
5. He takes ________ in his father. 	PROUND
6. Is there anything ________ on TV tonight? 	INTEREST
7. What is the correct ________ of this word? 	PRONOUNCE
8. My uncle often spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local ________ . ORPHAN
9. Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more ________ . 	 	COMFORT
10. In electronics, we learn to repair ________ appliances. 	HOUSE
III. You are going to read a newspaper article about a young boy’s disappearance. In most lines of the text there is one unnecessary word. Write the unnecessary word in the space provided after each line. Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick (¥). There are two examples at the beginning (0).
Boy found ‘dinosaur-hunting’
A three-year-old boy who went missing at a remote beauty spot 	_________00
had spent the night was huddled under a bush, his rescuers said	__________0
last weekend. Cameron Munro was found as safe and well by a 	__________1
 rescue dog and his handler after about going missing for more than 	__________2
16 hours. He had disappeared at the Highland or beauty spot, the 	__________3
 Falls of Shin, near by Dornoch, Sutherland, at around 4.30pm last 	 __________4
Saturday, and was found the next few day about half a mile away. 	__________5
Flight Sergeant Al Sylvester, from among RAF Kinloss, one of 34 	 __________6
RAF rescuers who had spent the night searching for the boy, said: 	__________7
“He was perfectly fine. He wasn’t hurt or upset not at all. He was 	__________8
talking to himself about whole dinosaurs, and he had been looking 	__________9
for dinosaurs in the woods when he did went missing. 	__________10
Examples: 00. √	0. was
PART C: READING 
I. You are going to read a text taken from a magazine for youngsters. Some words are missing from it. Choose the most appropriate answer (A, B, C or D) for each gap (1-9) in the text. 
Hot-air ballooning Over 150 balloons will be floating over Bristol in August – it’s sure to be a breathtaking sight. The International Balloon Fiesta at Bristol is a unique (1) ______ and becoming more popular every year. Balloonists from all around the world will be (2) ______ here for three days. They’ll be (3) ______ two spectacular takeoffs at 6am and 6pm on (4) ______ day of the Fiesta. Some balloons take only a single pilot while others can carry up (5) ______ eight passengers. You can also see an original, old-fashioned balloon being (6) ______ and raised by gas – a process which costs £4,000. Also on site will be clowns and stalls, as well as a funfair and helicopter rides. A preview is being (7) ______ at Durham Downs, Bristol, on July 28, when the balloons are laid out for inspection. At (8) ______ they will take off together with the flames from the burners lighting up the balloons and (9) ______ them glow in the night as they rise into the air. 
1. A. occasion 	B. event 	C. celebration 	D. eventual 
2. A. collecting 	B. grouping 	C. gathering 	D. organising 
3. A. staging 	B. producing 	C. preparing 	D. supplying 
4. A. the 	B. each 	C. first 	D. all 
5. A. over 	B. along 	C. from 	D. to 
6. A. illuminated 	B. inflated 	C. infected 	D. installed 
7. A. seen 	B. taken 	C. held 	D. advised 
8. A. dusk 	B. noon 	C. once 	D. last 
9. A. causing 	B. trying 	C. expecting 	D. making
II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the questions.
Aging is the process of growing old. It occurs eventually in every living thing provided, of course, that an illness or accident does not kill it prematurely. The most familiar outward signs of aging may be seen in old people, such as the graying of the hair and the wrinkling of the skin. Signs of aging in a pet dog or cat include lass of playfulness and energy, a decline in hearing and eyesight, or even a slight graying of the coat. Plants age too, but the signs are much harder to detect.
Most body parts grow bigger and stronger, and function more efficiently during childhood. They reach their peak at the time of maturity, or early adulthood. After that, they begin to decline. Bones, for example, gradually become lighter and more brittle. In the aged, the joints between the bones also become rigid and more inflexible. This can make moving very painful.
All the major organs of the body show signs of aging. The brain , for example, works less efficiently, and even gets smaller in size. Thinking processes of all sorts are slowed down. Old people often have trouble in remembering recent events.
One of the most serious changes of old age occurs in the arteries, the blood vessels that lead from the heart. They become thickened and constricted, allowing less blood to flow the rest of body. This condition accounts, directly or indirectly, for many of the diseases of the aged. It may, for example, result in heart attack.
Aging is not a uniform process. Different parts of the body wear out at different rates. There are great differences among people in their rate of aging. Even the cells of the body differ in the way they age. The majority of cells are capable of reproducing themselves may times during the course of a lifetime. Nerve cells and muscle fibers can never be replace once they wear out.
Gerontologists- scientists who study the process of aging- believe this wearing out of the body is controlled by a built- in biological time clock. They are trying to discover how this clock works so that they can slow down the process. This could give man a longer life and a great number of productive years.
1. What does the word “it” in line 2 refer to?
A. aging 	B. a living thing	C. an illness 	D. an accident
2. All the followings may be the outward signs of aging EXCEPT ________.
A. the graying of the hair	B. the wrinkling of the skin
C. the decline in hearing and eyesight.	D. the loss of appetite
3. When does the human body begin to lose vigor and the ability to function efficiency?
A. Soon after reaching adulthood	B. During childhood
C. Early adulthood 	D. Past middle age
4. What happens to memorization when the brain begins to age?
A. It works less 	B. It becomes forgetful
C. It declines 	D. It slows down
5. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. All living things grow old.	
B. Aging is unavoidable in any livings things.
C. Plants show less signs of aging than any other living things.
D. Most body parts wear out during the courses of a lifetime.
III. You are going to read the first part of a newspaper article about gorillas in Uganda. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A - H for each part (1 - 6) of the article. There is one extra heading that you do not need to use. There is one example at the beginning (0). 
Gorillas in Uganda’s mist
(0) BLACK furry face stared out through the branches. Wide-eyed innocence tinged with mischief. After an hour and a half of hacking through forest, I was face to face with the mountain gorillas of Uganda. For 25 minutes I gazed, transfixed, hardly daring to breathe as two youngsters played out their daily lives, seemingly oblivious to the wonder-struck intruder.
 (1) Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, in the south-west, hides a remarkable secret. Designated a National Park in 1991, this magical, mist-shrouded area is home to roughly 300 mountain gorillas – half the world’s population. 
(2) They are split into 23 groups, two of which are now habituated to human presence. The Mbare troop consists of 13 animals. The group was named after the hill – the word means rock in the local dialect – on which they were first spotted. 
(3) Six females and six young are led by the silverback male Ruhondezh – literally one who sleeps a lot. Ruhondezh, his back seemingly as wide as a bus, was magnificent. And it was clear that food, rather than sleep, was on his mind as we watched. 
(4) One minute, he munched contentedly on the vegetation while members of his family played in the branches above. The next, displaying his 8ft reach, he brought a huge branch crashing down to provide more sustenance. 
(5) Being so close to such impressive wild animals brings all your senses to life. In our passive, modern world, it is all too easy to lose touch with these primeval feelings. But in the heart of Africa, crouching just 15ft away, basic instincts rule. I felt a tremendous privilege at being allowed to share, even for a brief time, the lives of these gentle animals, which are on the edge of extinction. 
(6) To ensure their survival, the local people must feel there is some worth in keeping the gorillas. To such an end, the park authorities are currently engaged in revenue sharing. A percentage of the money raised from allowing tourists to view the gorillas is ploughed back into the community. In this way, it is hoped the gorillas will be seen as a source of income to be protected. But even so, the long-term survival of one of man’s closest relatives hangs by a thread. Poaching is still one of the biggest dangers.
A. How the gorilla population is organised 
B. Meeting the gorillas 
C. The leader of the group 
D. The location
E. Appreciation of a unique experience 
F. The gorillas’ reaction to seeing the author 
G. What is done to protect the gorillas 
H. What the leader of the group did
Example: 0: B	
IV. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. 
People have always dreamed of living forever, and although we all know this will (1) __________ happen, we still want to live as long as possible. Naturally, there are advantages and disadvantages to a long (2) __________.
 	In the first place, people (3) __________ live longer can spend more time with their family and friends. Secondly, people who have busy working lives look forward to a long, relaxing time when they can do the things they have never had time for.
(4) __________ the other hand, there are some serious disadvantages. Firstly, many people become ill and consequently have to (5) __________ time in hospital or become dependent (6) __________ their children and friends. Many of them (7) __________ this dependence annoying or embarrassing. In addition to this, the (8) __________ people get, the fewer friends they seem to have because old friends die or become ill and it's often difficult to make new (9) __________
 	To sum up, it seems that living to a very old age is worthwhile for people who stay healthy (10) ________ to remain independent and enjoy life.
PART 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. My father’s parents gave my father his first boat. 
à My father 
2. Some people like working outdoors more than working inside.
à Some people prefer..
3. John suggested taking a taxi to the hotel.
à John said, “If I were.”
4. I don’t really like her, even though I admire her achievement. 
à Much ........................................................................................................................
5. It was only when I left home that I realized how much my parents meant to me.
à Not until ...
II. Within 150-200 words, write a composition about the advantages and disadvantages of social network. Give your point of view.
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