§Ò thi chän ®éi tuyÓn HSG n¨m häc 2009 2010–
M«n: TiÕng Anh Líp 8–
(Thêi gian lµm bµi 60 phót, kh«ng kÓ thêi gian giao ®Ò)
Part 1: Choose the word whose underlined and bold part is pronounced differently
from that of the other words.
1. A. teenager
2. A. liked
3. A. size
4. A. know
5. A. selection
6. A. hold
B. together
B. helped
B. sure
B. show
B. Exhibition
B. house
C. guess
C. lived
C. upset
C. plow
C. precaution
C. help
D. regular
D. washed
D. sound
D. flow
D. question
D. hour
Part 2: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence
1. The meeting was (held / revised / develop / joined) in the garden last week.

5. “Please take me this bag to the bank.” => She aked me ...………
6. You are very kind to invite me to the party. => It’s ......………………
7. Don’t stop her doing what she wants. => Let ......………………
8. You don’t need to set off early. => It isn’t ........................
Part6: Fill in the each gap with a suitable word or phrase from the box below.
others - their - learn - themselves - world - question - for - or
- one
read - school - in - work - on - because - with - where.
Every year many people in the (1) learn English. Some of them are young… …
children.
… (2) are teenagers. Many are dults. Some learn at school, others learn in the…
evening class.
A few learn English by (3) or just by hearing the languages (4) television … … … … …
(5) among (6) friends. Most people must (7) hard to learn English. Why… … … … …
do all these people want to learn English? It is difficult to answer that. The young
children learn English at (8) because it is (9) of their subjects. Many adults … … … …
(10) English (11) . it’s useful (12) their work. Teenagers often learn… … … … …
English (13) their higher studies, because some of their books are (14) … … … …
English at college or university. Other people learn English because they want to (15)…
newspapers and magazines in English.…
The end!