Đề thi thử học sinh giỏi huyện môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Năm học 2018-2019 - Phòng giáo dục và đào tạo Quảng Nam

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1. Phòng GD&ĐT Quảng Nam Đề thi thử học sinh giỏi THCS huyện ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC Môn: Tiếng Anh 8 Đề thi gồm 6 trang Thời gian: 150 phút (Kể thời gian phát đề) Năm học: 2018 – 2019 A. LISTENING (Do ko có bài nghe nên tự cộng điểm) Question 1: Complete the following notes with NO MORE 2 WORDS OR A NUMBER CHILDREN'S ART AND CRAFT WORKSHOPS Example Answer Workshops organised every: Saturday • Adults must accompany children under 1 • Cost: £2.50 • Workshops held in: Winter House, 2 Street • Security device: must push the 3 to open door • Should leave car behind the 4 • Book workshops by phoning the 5 (on 200765) Question 2: Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Next two workshops Children advised to Please bring (if Date Workshop title wear: possible): 16/11 Building 6 7 8 23/11 9 (Nothing special) 10 B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR I. Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentence. 1. I’d like to make ___ for crashing your car. Let me pay for the repairs. A. improments B. correctione C. amends D. adjustments 2. Thanks for lending me your umbrella; it really came in ___. A. used B. handy C. handful D. needy 3. James never shows his emotions; no matter what happens, he always keeps a stiff upper ___. A. mounth B. eye C. head D. lip 4. I got a new baseball ___ yesterday. A. stick B. racket C. club D. bat
2. 5. Eat your vegetables. They’ll ___ you good. A. do B. make C. get D. help 6. Don’t drop your sweet wrapper on the floor, ___? A. do you B. aren’t you C. will you D. won’t you 7. She may have missed the train, ___ she won’t arrive for another hour. A. at the case B. all the case C. just in case D. in which case 8. I should like to rent a house, modern, comfortable, and ___ in a quiet position. A. most of all B. above all C. first of all D. after all 9. I was disappointed that the restaurant had ___ flowers on the table. A. false B. untrue C. artificial D. forged 10. ___ write with your left hand when you broke your arm? A. Did you have to B. Had you have to C. Needed you to D. Must you Your answers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II. Supply the correct form of word to complete the sentence. 1. All the judges gave her ten out of ten for her (FLAW) performance. 2. His collection of plants contains many (RARE). 3. He was in such a haste to return home that he left (DAY) by the first bus. 4. For many people, social networking offers them a feeling of (ESCAPE) from the real world. 5. If you can afford it, and still have lots of money left, buy it (RIGHT). Your answers: 1 2 3 4 5 III. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. Follow the example. Example: Line 1: 0. which when FAMILY HISTORY In an age which technology is developed faster than ever before, many people are being attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can make this is by investigating their own family history. They can try to find out more about what their families came from and what they did. This is now a fast-growing hobby, especially in countries with a fairly short history, alike Australia and the United States.
3. It is one thing to spend some time going through a book on family history and to take the decision to investigate your own family’s past. It is quite another to carry out the research work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a disorganizing way and cause yourself many problems that could have avoided with a little forward planning. If your own family stories say you that you are connected with a famous character, whether hero or criminal, not to let this idea take over your research. Just treat it as an interesting possibility. A simple system for collecting and storing your information will be adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get in your way. The most important thing, though, is to get starting. Who knows what you might find? Your answers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C. READING I. Choose the correct the letter A, B, C or D to fill in the passage. Stressful situations that (1)___ almost everyday in life seem to be unavoidable. However, we can do little sometimes to avoid a misfortune or an unpleasant occurrence which may (2)___ us unexpectedly as only it can. At such a moment, one may hit the (3)___, give in to the helplessness of the situation or, ideally, put a brave face on it trying to (4)___ the burden. Can you (5)___ in your mind an hour spent in a traffic jam, say, this morning? Do you light one cigarette after another? Do you sound the horn every few seconds like the other neurotics? Or do you take a different (6)___ and make good use of the time drawing up a schedule for the days to come? To withstand the stressful moment you can also do a crossword puzzle, listen to your favorite music or even compose a menu for your Sunday dinner. In fact, whatever way you (7)___ to the annoying situation, you can exert no impact on it as the traffic jam will only reduce in due (8)___. Nevertheless, your reaction might considerably influence your mood for the rest of the day. The inability to confront a stressful occurrence like that with a deal of composure and sensibility adds much more strain to your life and in this way puts your well – being in (9)___. Surprisingly, it is seemingly negligible hardships we stumble on daily that run double the risk of developing serious health disorders rather than our isolated tragedies however painful they may be. (10)___that so many of those wretched stresses and inducing troubles affect us in a day, we should, at best, try to avoid them or possibly make radical alterations in the way we lead our daily lifestyles. 1. A. devise B. create C. originate D. emerge 2. A. arise B. happen C. befall D. occur 3. A. post B. roof C. bottom D. wall
4. 4. A. subsist B. remain C. cow D. bear 5. A. envision B. observe C. picture D. image 6. A. manner B. stance C. practice D. mode 7. A. strike B. deal C. respond D. challege 8. A. term B. course C. timing D. period 9. A. risk B. weakness C. insecurity D. jeopardy 10. A. Providing B. Given C. Hence D. As Your answers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer. Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod shaped bacteria are usually from two to tour microns long, while rounded ones are generally one micron in diameter Thus if you enlarged a founded bacterium a thousand times, it would be just about the size of a pinhead. An adult human magnified by the same amount would be over a mile(1.6 kilometers) tall. Even with an ordinary microscope, you must look closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of 100 times, one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny rods or dots One cannot make out anything of their structure. Using special stains, one can see that some bacteria have attached to them wavy - looking "hairs" called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The flagella rotate, pushing the bacteria though the water. Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by their own power while others can glide along over surfaces by some little understood mechanism. From the bacterial point of view, the world is a very different place from what it is to humans To a bacterium water is as thick as molasses is to us. Bacteria are so small that they are influenced by the movements of the chemical molecules around them. Bacteria under the microscope, even those with no flagella, often bounce about in the water. This is because they collide with the water molecules and are pushed this way and that. Molecules move so rapidly that within a tenth of a second the molecules around a bacterium have all been replaced by new ones even bacteria without flagella are thus constantly exposed to a changing environment. 1. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? (A) The characteristics of bacteria (B) How bacteria reproduce
5. (C) The various functions of bacteria (A) How bacteria contribute to disease 2. Bacteria are measured in (A) inches (B) centimeters (C) microns (D) millimeters 3. Which of the following is the smallest? (A) A pinhead (B) A rounded bacterium (C) A microscope (D) A rod-shaped bacterium 4. According to the passage, someone who examines bacteria using only a microscope that magnifies 100 times would see (A) tiny dots (B) small "hairs" (C) large rods (D) detailed structures 5. The relationship between a bacterium and its flagella is most nearly analogous to which of the following? (A) A rider jumping on a horse's back (B) A ball being hit by a bat (C) A boat powered by a motor (D) A door closed by a gust of wind Your answers: 1 2 3 4 5 III. Insert ONE word to complete the passage. Enjoy the benefits of stress! Are you looking forward to another busy week? You should be according to some experts. They argue that the stress encountered in our daily lives is not only good for us, but essential to survival. They say that the response to (1) ___, which creates a chemical called adrenal in, helps the mind and body to act quickly (2) ___ emergencies. Animals and human beings use it to meet the hostile conditions which exist on the planet. Whilst nobody denies the pressures of everyday life, what is surprising is that we are yet to develop successful ways of dealing with them. (3) ___ the experts consider the current strategies to be inadequate and often dangerous. They believe that (4) ___ of trying to manage our response to stress with drugs or relaxation techniques, we must exploit it. Apparently, research shows that people (5) ___ create conditions of stress for (6) ___ by doing exciting and risky sports or looking for challenges, cope much better with life's problems. Activities of this type have been shown to create a lot of emotion; people may actually cry or feel extremely uncomfortable. But there is a point (7) ___ which they realise they have succeeded and know that it was a positive experience. This is because we learn through challenge and difficulty. That's (8) ___ we get our wisdom. Few of us, unfortunately, understand this fact. For example, many
6. people believe they (9) ___ from stress at work, and take time off as a result. Yet it has been found in some companies that by far (10) ___ healthiest people are those with the most responsibility. So next time you're in a stressful situation, just remember that it will be a positive learning experience and could also benefit your health! Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. IV. You are going to read an article about literature and the Internet. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fi ts each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. A. excellent sites vary in what they do well B. if you seek a literary text on the web, you may want to investigate the integrity of the text itself C. reviews of websites will become a reliable way of identifying good sites D. site maps and menus may indicate what will be there in the future and not what is there now E. both should be current and trouble free
7. F. the first thing to know is whether the information a site gives you is accurate or not G. a site with little or no documentation should be used with caution H. two problems are common: incomplete information and incomplete sites Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. D. WRITING I. Rewrite the following sentences in such a way that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one. 1. Something must be done quickly to solve the problem of homelessness. > Urgent 2. Scientists have tried very hard to find a cure for this disease. > Enormous 3. Just thinking about his face at the moment makes me laugh. > The very 4. The teachers agreed to introduce the new methods. > There was an 5. The boy does whatever his father wants in an obedient way. > The boy dances II. Make all the changes and additions necessary to produce, from the cues given below, a complete letter. Dear Rob and Randy, 1. all these weeks/ hospital/ I just/ receive two pieces/ good news. 2. The doctor/ say/I / can / home / few days. 3. My wife tell/ me / how you two/ been clearing/ snow / from our driveway and sidewalk. 4. Have/ such/ good neighbours/ make / very happy. 5. My wife/ tell/ you/ refuse / take / money /for your efforts. 6. But I/ think/ I find / way round that. 7. Please accept / enclosed check. 8. I/ would/ never think/ as payment/ the snow shoveling. 9. but as a sincere token/ appreciation/ your thoughtfulness.
8. 10. Thank/ again / see/ soon. Best regards, III. “By punishing murderers with the death penalty, society is also guilty of committing murder. Therefore, life in prison is a better punishment for murderers.” To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? You should write at least 250 words. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. THE END GOOD LUCK