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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC – ĐÀO TẠO

ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI MÔN TIẾNG ANH 8

HUYỆN TRỰC NINH

Năm học: 2008 – 2009

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Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

(Đề thi gồm 4 trang)

Họ và tên : ……………………………….. Số báo danh: …………….

Số phách

Ngày, tháng, năm sinh: ………………………………………………...
Trường THCS: .……………………………………….………………..
Thí sinh làm bài vào đề thi này
Điểm bài thi

Họ, tên và chữ ký giám khảo:

Bằng số: ………………………


C. micro

D. stone

4. A. place

B. plate

C. trace

D. travel

5. A. above

B. glove

C. love

D. prove

II. Circle the best answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the following sentences.
1. What are you going to do? - I don’t know. I haven’t made________my mind yet.
A. on

B. at

C. in

D. up


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5. Deaf-mutes can __________ speak __________ hear.
A. both ... and B. neither ...nor

C. not only ... but also

D. either ... or

C. in solving

D. solving

6. Did you succeed __________ the problem?
A. to solve

B. on solving

7. He failed his exam __________he was lazy.
A. although

B. because

C. so

D. but

C. stand

D. stood


CHILD

3. Mr. Minh has made an ……………………to see us at 3 o’clock.

ARRANGE

4. Bell…………………….. demonstrated his invention.

SUCCESS

5. …………..…….., dark clouds appeared and it began to rain.

SUDDEN

6. Every day, there are two …………………. from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. FLY
7. I like the city life because there are many kinds of ………………….. .

ENTERTAIN

8. It is ………………… to eat too much sugar and fatty food.

HEALTH

9. Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more…………..…..

COMFORT

10. There are many cultural ……………….. between his country and mine.



could bought food”, said Nam. “It was also very cold and wet

6. ......................

in the mountains. It is one of the wetter places in the country”.

7. .....................

Nam stayed in the mountains since six weeks. It was hard

8. .....................

work, but he says it was the best thing he has ever did. He is

9. .....................

hoping to return next year to do any more work there.

10. ...................

V. Fill in each gap with one suitable word. Write your answers in the boxes.
The Christmas season in Italy goes for three weeks, starting 8 days before Christmas known (1)
________________ the Novena. During this period, children go (2) _______________ house to house reciting
Christmas poems and singing. In some parts, shepherds bring musical instruments into villages, play and sing
Christmas (3) _________________ .
In the week before Christmas children go from house to house dressed as shepherds, playing pipes, singing
and reciting Christmas (4) _____________ . They are (5) ____________ money to buy presents.
In Italy children wait until Epiphany, January 6, for their presents. (6)_______________ to tradition, presents are
delivered (7) _______________ a kind ugly witch called Befana on a broomstick. It is said (8)______________


B. during

C. for

D. through

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4- A. leader’s

B. chief ’s

C. driver’s

D. pilot’s

5- A. whose

B. which

C. their

D. that

6- A. for


10- A. way

B. kind

C. sort

D. part

VII. Read the following passage and choose the correct answers:
In the early years of television, educational specialists believed that it would be very useful in teaching
and learning. Many schools have brought television sets, intending to use them effectively to improve the quality
of education; but actually they are rarely used properly in classrooms. Meanwhile, children spend the majority of
their out-of-school hours watching TV and their typical school days proceed as if television did not exist.
There are some explanations for the failure of television to get the interest of the teachers. Firstly, the
schools that purchased television sets have not set aside money for equipment repairs and maintenance so these
television sets are sooner and later out of work. Secondly these schools have not found an effective way to train
teachers to integrate television into their ongoing instructional programs. Lastly, most teachers do not regard the
quality of television and its usefulness in the classroom.
Teachers at the schools work hard for at least twelve years to train their students to become good readers.
However, according a recent statistics, teenagers seldom spend their free time reading books and newspapers but
watching television instead.
1. The text is about:
A. the use of television at schools.

B. teaching and learning television

C. educational specialists.

D. watching TV outside school.


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5. Children spend their free time ________ .
A. reading books

B. reading newspapers.

C. learning foreign languages

D. watching TV.

VIII. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the first one.
1. Thinking of making toys from used paper was his interesting idea.
It’s interesting that...................................................................................................................
2. He hasn’t come back to his home village for over 20 years now.
It’s............................................................................................................................................
3. That’s the strangest film I’ve ever seen.
I have never..............................................................................................................................
4. The last time we met each other was ten years ago.
We haven’t...............................................................................................................................
5. Mai said “It is raining heavily outside .”
Mai said……………………………………………………………………………………………
6. Have you ever played a computer game before?
Is this........................................................................................................................................
7. France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876.
The Statue ...............................................................................................................................
8. The water was so cold that the children couldn’t swim in it.
The water wasn’t......................................................................................................................
9. People should stop experiments on animals.
Experiments.............................................................................................................................

and additions.
Dear Peter and Julia,
1. we / having / wonderful time / here / Majorca/.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. weather / lovely / so / we / go / beach / most / time / sunbathe/.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. yesterday / hot / sunny / we / got / very red/.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. tomorrow / we / not / going / sit / sun / we / going / buy / some / souvenirs/.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. we / come back / Monday./
…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
See you soon.
Love,
Loren and Sophia
-The end-

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