UBND HUYỆN ĐOAN HÙNG ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NĂM HỌC 2023 - 2024

Môn: Tiếng Anh 8
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi có 09 trang
Ngày thi: 23/4/2024
SECTION I: LISTENING (2.0 POINTS)
I. You will hear a recorded message about an arts festival. Choose the correct answer by circling the
letters A, B or C for each question. (1.0 point)
1. The festival takes place from ___________.
A. 12 to 18 May. B. 12 to 20 May. C. 12 to 28 May.
2. What is on at the Theatre Royal on 19 May?
A. jazz B. opera C. classical music
3. During lunchtime jazz concerts at the Corn Exchange they sell ___________.
A. soft drinks and sandwiches. B. wine and sandwiches. C. soft drinks and light meals.
4. What is on at the cathedral?
A. music B. poetry C. films
5. What does the festival program offer at Ickworth?
A. a walk and a book reading B. a concert and a meal C. a walk and a concert

II. You will hear someone talking on the radio about a Language Study Fair. For each question, fill in
the missing information in the numbered space. (1.0 point)
THE LANGUAGE STUDY FAIR
Dates: 17th to 19th (6) ___________
Place: National Education Centre
Fair includes: stands with textbooks
(7) ___________ by educational speakers
exhibition of furniture
demonstrations of latest (8) ___________
Opening hours: 9.30 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Thursday and Friday
9.30 a.m.-4.00 p. m (9) ___________
Tickets: £5 or £3 for full time student
Tickets can be booked by ringing the hotline on (10) ___________

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SECTION II: PHONETICS (1.0 POINT)
III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Write your answers in the space
provided. (0.6 point)
1. A. satellite B. automobile C. facsimile D. versatile
2. A. attempt B. accepted C. concept D. receipt
3. A. wretched B. rugged C. wicked D. reached

IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three of the group. (0.4 point)
4. A. artificial B. inhabitant C. mausoleum D. integration
5. A. technology B. geography C. psychology D. sociology

SECTION III: LEXICO - GRAMMAR (7.0 POINTS)

V. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences. (6.0 points)
1. There was hardly ___________ money left in my bank account.
A. more B. no C. some D. any
2. ___________ how angry he was he would never resort to violence.
A. No matter B. No problem C. Although D. Because
3. On ___________ he had won, he jumped for joy.
A. he was told B. having told C. being told D. telling
4. It's silly of him to spend a lot of money buying ___________.
A. a thick wooden old table B. a thick old wooden table
C. an old wooden thick table D. a wooden old thick table
5. The competition attracted a large ___________ of carpenters from the whole country.
A. deal B. amount C. lot D. number
6. Billy was the youngest boy ___________.
A. joining the club B. that was joined the dub
C. to be admitted to the club D. was admitted to the club
7. The population of our city today is ___________ before 1975.
A. as 60% much as B. 60% as much as
C. more 60% than that D. 60% as much as that
8. What’s the point of ___________ by an engineer? I can do the repair myself.
A. removing the faults B. having the fault removed
C. being removed the fault D. having removed the fault
9. It is reported that emissions of pollutants in the air can ___________ to major health risks.

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 A. damage B. come close C. expose D. cause
10. Christine demanded that I ___________ to take part in the negotiations.
A. allow B. be allowed C. allowing D. allowed
11. Jim is a warm-hearted man, who always ___________ a helping hand to his neighbors
A. makes B. takes C. lends D. lifts
12. - Janet: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?”
- Susan: “___________”
A. Of course not, you bet B. Well, that’s very surpring
C. There is no doubt about it D. Yes, it’s an absorb idea
13. The pair of jeans I bought for my son didn’t fit him, so I went to the store and asked for ___________.
A. the other ones B. others ones C. another pair D. another jeans
14. Neither Tom nor his brothers__________willing to help their mother with the housework.
A. are B. was C. is D. has been
15. After seeing the film “Gone With The Wind”, ___________.
A. the book was read by many people B. the book made people want to read it
C. many people wanted to read the book D. the reading of the book interested people
16. About 20 percent of U.S electricity currently ___________ nuclear power plants.
A. come from B. coming to C. comes from D. came from
17. If Nam had passed the GCSE examination, he ___________ to take the entrance examination to the
university.
A. would have been allowed B. would have allowed
C. will have allowed D. would allow
18. ___________ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
A. That we refer to B. What we refer to
C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to
19. It seems that you are telling me a lie, ___________?
A. doesn’t it B. does it C. aren’t you D. are you
20. Only after Mike had become a father ___________ a strong sense of responsibility.
A. does he feel B. he felt C. did he feel D. that he felt
21. If I were in your ___________, I think I would write to her rather than try to explain over the phone.
A. sandals B. shoes C. high heels D. flip-flops
22. I caught the last bus by the skin of my ___________.
A. mouth B. teeth C. neck D. leg
23. Winning a place at university ___________ for most students.

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 A. has become as difficult B. becomes the most difficulty
C. is becoming more and more difficult D. will become more difficult
24. ___________ residents of the village are living a happy life although they lack ___________ modern
facilities.
A. Ø/ Ø B. Ø/the C. the/the D. the/Ø
25. Hoa asked Nam ___________.
A. where he had gone the night before B. where had he gone the night before
C. where he went the night before D. where he went last night
26.You’ll probably come ___________ the problems of culture shocks when you study abroad.
A. up with B. up to C. down with D. up against
27. ___________, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Difficult as the homework was B. As though the homework was difficult
C. Thanks to the difficult homework D. Despite the homework was difficult
28. I ___________ the garden. No sooner had I finished watering it than it came down in torrents.
A. shouldn’t have watered B. mustn’t have watered
C. can’t have watered D. needn’t have watered

Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following
question.
29. I think we should tell Nam that the location of the picnic has been changed. Let’s keep him in the picture.
A. show him B. take his photo C. explain to him D. inform him

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
30. To his dismay, his name was not on the list.
A. disappointment B. depression C. happiness D. pessimism

VI. Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting. (1.0 point)
1. Even on the most careful prepared trip, problems will sometimes develop.
A. on B. the C. careful D. develope
2. Although rats are destructive and may carry disease, many cities try to exterminate them.
A. Although B. carry C. many D. to exterminate
3. Having leisure activities are truly important to the elderly.
A. Having B. are C. to D. elderly

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4. The rescue team was having great efforts to free people trapped in the flooded homes.
A. having B. efforts C. trapped D. homes
5. There are many benefits that we may be gained by actually taking the time to read books.
A. are B. may be gained C. taking D. to read

SECTION IV: READING (6.0 POINTS)

VII. Choose one suitable word/ phrase A, B, C or D to complete the following passage. (2.0 points)
Clean freshwater resources are essential for drinking, bathing, cooking, irrigation, industry, and for
plant and animal (1) ___________. Unfortunately, the global supply of freshwater is (2) ___________
unevenly. Chronic water shortages (3) ___________ in most of Africa and drought is common over much of
the globe.
The (4) ___________ of most freshwater supplies - groundwater (water located below the soil surface),
reservoirs, and rivers - are under severe and (5) ___________ environmental stress because of overuse, water
pollution, and ecosystem degradation. Over 95 percent of urban sewage in (6) ___________ countries is (7)
___________ untreated into surface waters such as rivers and harbors.
About 65 percent of the global freshwater supply is used in (8) ___________ and 25 percent is used in
industry. Freshwater (9) ___________ therefore requires a reduction in wasteful practices like (10)
___________ irrigation, reforms in agriculture and. industry, and strict pollution controls worldwide.
1. A. survive B. survived C. surviving D. survival
2. A. delivered B. distributed C. provided D. given
3. A. exist B. lie C. show D. lay
4. A. resources B. springs C. sources D. starting
5. A. increasing B. growing C. climbing D. ascending
6. A. growing B. miserable C. poverty D. developing
7. A. recharged B. discharged C. charged D. discharging
8. A. farming B. planting C. agriculture D. growing
9. A. reservation B. conservation C. preservation D. retention
10. A. ineffective B. illogical C. irrational D. inefficient

VIII. Read the following passage and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. (2.0 points)
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an
empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something
in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are children who
look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.

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 Lynette Long was once the principle of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against
wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them
to put the keys inside the shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly,
she learned that they were house keys.
She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working
couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at
home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had
nightmares and were worried about their own safety.
The most common was latchkey children deal with their fears is by hidding. They may hide in a shower
stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get statistics on
latchkey children, the Long have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone.
1. The phrase “an empty house” in the passage mostly means ___________.
A. a house with nothing inside B. a house with no people inside
C. a house with too much space D. a house with no furniture
2. One thing that the children in the passage share is that ___________.
A. they all watch TV. B. They all wear jewelry
C. they spend part of each day alone D. they are from single- parent families.
3. The phrase “latchkey children” in the passage means children who ___________.
A. look after themselves while their parents are not at home
B. close doors with keys and watch TV by themselves
C. are locked inside houses with latches and keys.
D. like to carry latches and keys with them everywhere
4. The main problem of latchkey children is that they ___________.
A. watch too much television during the day B. are growing in numbers.
C. suffer a lot from being left alone. D. are also found in middle- class families
5. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. Bad condition of latchkey children. B. Children’s activities at home
C. How kids spend free time D. Why kids hate going home
6. Why did a lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached?
A. Schools didn’t allow them wear jewelry, so they wore keys instead.
B. They would use the keys to enter their houses when they came home
C. The were fully grown and had become independent.
D. They had to use the keys to open school doors.
7. What do latchkey children suffer most from when they are at home alone?

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 A. Fear B. Tidedness C. Loneliness D. Boredom
8. Lynette Long learned to latchkey children’s problems by ___________.
A. talking to them B. visiting their homes
C. interviewing their parents D. delivering naires
9. What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?
A. Talking to the Longs B. Hiding somewhere
C. Lying under a TV D. Having a shower
10. It’s difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because ___________.
A. they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
B. they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons
C. there are too many of them in the whole country
D. most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone

IX. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space. (2.0 points)
It never ceases to amaze me how litle notice some people now take of rules in public places. When I
was a child, it would never have occurred to me not to comply (1) ___________ the rules. If someone smoked
in defiance of a “No Smoking” sign on a train, they (2) ___________ rapidly be reminded of their transgression
by several irate passengers, who would refer the errant smoker (3) ___________ the sign in no uncertain
terms. What’s more, the person accused would normally (4) ___________ for his indiscretion, and would
certainly refrain (5) ___________ repeating his anti-social behaviour. These days reminding someone of their
public duty not to (6) ___________ litter or swear on the streets is likely to succeed only in unleashing a torrent
of verbal abuse from the wrongdoer. Many people seem blithely unaware that, for example, the ‘silence in the
library’ rule applies to them, as much as to anyone (7) ___________. Asking them is not enough, pleading
with them might still not deter them from their noisy chat, resorting to physical violence, an undesirable option,
seems the only one likely to (8) ___________ results. But in all seriousness, what really annoys me is that one
(9) ___________ made to feel churlish or old-fashioned just to insist on basic respect of everyday manners.
Truly, it seems polite (10) ___________ and good manners count for nothing in today’s society.

SECTION V: WRITING (4.0 POINTS)

X. Sentence transformation
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it. (1.0 point)
1. Though Tim’s father was very busy, he still spent time playing with him.

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→ No matter how ............................................................................................................................................
2. The fund-raisers haven’t officially decided where to send the proceeds of the concert.
→ No ...............................................................................................................................................................
3. He delayed writing the book until he had a lot of research.
→ Only ............................................................................................................................................................
4. “I am sorry I didn’t buy you the gift you liked on your last birthday, Jenny”, said the boy.
→ The boy apologized ....................................................................................................................................
5. We couldn’t have managed without my father’s money.
→ If it ..............................................................................................................................................................

XI. Using the word given and other words, complete the second sentence to that it has similar meaning
to the first. Do not change the word give. (1.0 point)
1. It is difficult for my friends to understand Australian’s accent. (DIFFICULTY)
→ My friends ................................................................................................................... Australian’s accent.
2. I was not a bit surprised to hear that they had broken up. (SURPRISE)
→ It ....................................................................................................... to me to hear that they had broken up.
3. Don't complain about it to me because it won't make any difference. (GOOD)
→ It's ............................................................................ about it to me because it won't make any difference.
4. I really think you ought to take part in that club. (TIME)
→ It’s high .................................................................................................................................... in that club.
5. My new boss has difficulty in getting up early in London. (ACCUSTOMED)
→ My new boss is ...........................................................................................................................................

XII. Stress is a natural and normal experience for everyone, especially for teenagers. Write a paragraph
(120 – 150 words) about the causes of your stress and offer solutions. (2.0 points)
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