PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO DIỄN CHÂU

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN

NĂM HỌC 2020-2021
Môn: TIẾNG ANH Lớp: 8
(Thời gian làm bài 120 phút)

Họ và tên thí sinh: ……………… …….………………………………………..

Ngày sinh: ………………………………………….………………..

Học sinh trường: …………………………………….………......................

Số báo danh: …………………………………….………..……………

Phòng thi: …………………………………….……..………………

Họ tên, chữ ký giám thị số 1: SỐ PHÁCH

Họ tên, chữ ký giám thị số 2: …………………………

CHỈ DẪN:

1. Bài thi gồm 06 tờ. Thí sinh đọc kỹ yêu cầu làm bài.

2. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp lên đề thi.

3. Thí sinh giữ gìn cẩn thận bài thi.

4. Thí sinh chỉ được dùng một màu mực, xanh hoặc đen để làm bài.

5. Khi viết sai, dùng thước gạch. Không dùng bút tẩy trắng.

6. Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất kỳ tài liệu nào, kể cả từ điển.

7. Thí sinh làm trái với chỉ dẫn, quy chế thi, bài thi sẽ bị loại.
PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO DIỄN CHÂU

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN NĂM HỌC 2020-2021
Môn: TIẾNG ANH Lớp: 8– PHẦN THI VIẾT
(Thời gian làm bài 120 phút)
Điểm Họ tên, chữ ký giám khảo Số phách

Bằng số: Giám khảo 1:

……………………….…. …………………………….……………………….
Bằng chữ: Giám khảo 2:
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SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the following
sentences. (15 points)
1. Most of the clothes_________ in this shop are imported from China.
A. selling B. sell C. sold D. to sell
2. Your hair is long. You need _________ it immediately
A. cut B. cutting C. to cut D. have cut
3. He was ________ that we turned off the T.V set immediately.
A. so bad singer B. such a bad singer
C. such bad singer D. so a bad singer
4. I never wear yellow because it doesn’t ______ me.
A. fit B. match C. like D. suit
5. My close friend - Minh gave me a very __________wallet for my last birthday.
A. leather blue beautiful B. beautiful leather blue
C. blue leather beautiful D. beautiful blue leather
6. Mr. John: Would you mind lending me your laptop? Mr. Jack: ~ “_____”.
A. Yes, here you are B. Yes, let’s
C. Not at all D. That sounds great
7. Find the word which has different stress pattern from the others.
A. Maltese B. festival C. degree D. unique
8. Although the coach had not thought her a good tennis player at first, she ____to be a
champion.
A. came round B. came out C. turned up D. turned out
9. The ___________ in technology allow astronomers to know more about outer space.
A. developments B. science C. exploration D. discovery
10. I didn't know your parents were asleep. Otherwise, I ______ so much noise when I arrived.
A. don't make B. wouldn't make C. won't make D. wouldn't have made
11. “No one was killed in the forest fire two days ago.” – “ ________ ”
A. Oh dear B. That’s shocking
C. That’s relief D. Oh, No. That’s terrible
12. My brother is very kind so many people take__________ of him.
A. advantage B. profit C. benefit D. inheritance
13. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to indicate the word OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined part in the following sentence.
I’d like to pay some money into my bank account.
A. put some money into. B. withdraw some money from.
C. give some money out. D. leave some money aside.
14. From my point of view, parental divorce can cause lasting negative consequences for
children.
A. beginning of a marriage. B. the situation of not marrying.
C. single person. D. ending of a marriage.
15. John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our
environment?”
Laura: “___________”
A. Of course not. You bet! B. Well, that very surprising.
C. There’s no doubt about it. D. Yes, it’s an absurd idea.
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
IV. There is ONE mistake in each of the following sentence. Find and correct it. (10
points)
1. The actress was very expense dressed in an outfit.
2. Every student studying at agriculture found different types of farming in England are very
interesting.
3. Three years are too long for us to build a new house in the countryside.
4. There are more than seventy thousands songs in various Indian languages recorded.
5. I find it very usefully to use the Internet in learning English as it has a lot of websites.
6. The bank manager offered us some financial assist just when we needed it.
7. This beautiful table was made by wood about 30 years ago.
8. She is extremely knowledge about the history of art.
9. One of the biggest problems faces us today is how to deal with environmental issues.
10. I’m absolutely convinced that life is pleasure and easy.
Your answer
Mistake Correction Mistake Correction
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

SECTION C. READING COMPREHENSION

I. Read the article below and choose the best answer that best fit each space. (10 points)
Example: Could you _______________me some money, please
A. borrow B. help C. manage D. lend
Ever since human have inhabited the earth, they have made (1) __________ of various forms
of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form
of oral (2) ______. When there is a language (3) __________, communication
is accomplished through sign language in which motions (4) ________ for letters, words,
and ideas. Tourists, the deaf, and the mute have had to (5) _________to this form of
expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be
used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.
Body language (6) _______ ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally or
unintentionally. A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking. A
nod (7) _______ approval, while sharking the head (8) _______ a negative reaction.
Other forms of nonlinguistic language can be (9) _______ in Braille (a system of raised dots
read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals. Road maps and picture
signs also guide, warn, and instruct people.
(10) ______ verbalization is the most common form of language, other systems and
techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.
1. A. usage B. employment C. use D. utility
2. A. address B. speech C. utterances D. claims
3. A. barrier B. obstacles C. divisions D. separation
4. A. point B. signify C. Imply D. stand
5. A. refer B. rotate C. resort D. revolve
6. A. progresses B. transmits C. remits D. emits
7. A. presents B. signs C. registers D. signifies
8. A. predicates B. indicates C. abdicates D. implicates
9.A. traced B. trailed C. found D. exploded
10. A. While B. As C. Because D. Until
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

II. Fill in the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word. (10
points)
Many people believe that watching television has (1) ______ in lower reading standards in
schools. However, the link between television and printed books is not as simple as that. In
many cases, television actually encourages people to read: for example, when a book is
turned into a TV series, (2) _______sales often go up. One study of this link examined six-
year-old children (3) ______were viewing a special series of 15-minute programs at school.
The series was designed to encourage love of books, as (4) ________ as to develop the basic
mechanical skills of reading. Each program is an animated film of a children’s book. The
story is read aloud (5) ______ certain key phrases from the book appear on the screen,
beneath the picture. Whenever a word is read, it is also highlighted on the TV screen. One
finding was (6) _______ watching these programs was very important to the children. If
anything (7) _________ them from seeing a program, they were very disappointed. What’s
more, they wanted to read the books which the different parts of the series were based on.
The programs also gave the children more confidence when looking at these books. As a
result of (8) _______ familiarity with the stories, they would sit in pairs and read the stories
aloud to each other. (9) ______ each occasion, the children showed great sympathy when
discussing a (10) _____ in a book because they themselves had been moved when watching
the character on television.
Your answer
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
III. Read the passage and choose the best answer. (5points)
You would like to take good photographs of real-life situations but you have few ideas for
pictures. I suggest that you look around you. The everyday world is full of scenes being
played by an ever-changing group of actors. You probably passed a dozen picture situations
without noticing on your way to work this morning.
The realistic approach to photograph has been perfected in the past by such masters as Henri
Cartier-Bresson and Bill Brandt. But while you can learn a great deal from looking at the
work of others, any success you can hope to achieve in this field has to come from
developing an individual approach.
The main requirement for any photographer has little to do with technical matters. You must
develop an awareness of the world around you and the people who live in it, and you should
learn to notice when a situation may develop to a point where you will be able to take a good
picture. Those who have reached this happy state will be prepared when that moment comes,
and will simply raise their camera quickly and shoot. Others who are not so aware will be
struggling with camera cases and lens caps.
Film manufacturers must be delighted at the thought of the inexperienced photographer
setting out in search of the right situation and the right moment. Many miles of costly
material have passed through thousands of cameras as this endless search continues. But
although a lot of this waste must be put down to inexperience, you’ll find that even the
professionals have to use a lot of film when they are out shooting.
Not every shot is going to be a winner. If you look at the work of even the best
photographers, you’ll notice dozens of pictures have had to be taken only because they lead
up to the successful shot of a situation that the photographer has obviously been observing
through the lens. You may find that you have taken one or two pictures after the right
moment has passed as well. There is seldom more than one shot which stands out. There is
just one point where it all comes together, and you often have to waste film to catch that
precious moment.
1. How can you become a better real-life photographer?
A. by watching other photographers at work.                  
B. by learning about famous photographers.
C. by just taking a great many photographers.          
D. by developing skills and ideas for yourself.
2. The best real-life photography depends on
A. going out and searching for unusual situations. 
B. becoming highly skilled in camera techniques.
C. being able to tell when a good situation might arise.
D. having a camera which is easy and quick to use.
3. The waste of film in real-life photography is
A. expensive and unnecessary.           
B. essential to the production of good pictures.
C. limited to amateur photographers.             
D. the result of poor choices of subject.
4. What is likely to be the most successful?
A. taking picture without too much preparation.
B. taking a whole series of similar pictures.
C. taking great care to set up the situation.
D. taking one picture at the right moment.
5. The passage is taken from
A. a camera instruction booklet.           B. an advertisement for film.
C. a history of photography.                               D. an introduction to photography.
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
IV. Choose the most appropriate heading from the list i-vi for each part (1-5). There is
ONE extra heading which you do not need to use. (5 points)
List of Headings
i. A truly international environment.
ii  Once a port city, always a port city. v. Ports and harbours.
iii. Reasons for the decline of ports. vi.  Good ports make huge profits.
iv.  Relative significance of trade and service industry.
The port city provides a fascinating and rich understanding of the movement of people and
goods around the world. We understand a port as a centre of land-sea exchange, and as a
major source of livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing. But do ports all produce a
range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities together under a
single generic label? Do they have enough in common to warrant distinguishing them from
other kinds of cities?
 A. A port must be distinguished from a harbour. They are two very different things. Most
ports have poor harbours, and many fine harbours see few ships. Harbour is a physical
concept, a shelter for ships; port is an economic concept, a centre of land-sea exchange
which requires good access to a hinterland even more than a sea-linked foreland. It is
landward access, which is productive of goods for export and which demands imports, that
is critical. Poor harbours can be improved with breakwaters and dredging if there is a
demand for a port. Madras and Colombo are examples of harbours expensively improved
by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters.
B. Port cities become industrial, financial and service centres and political capitals because
of their water connections and the urban concentration which arises there and later draws
to it railways, highways and air routes. Water transport means cheap access, the chief basis
of all port cities. Many of the world's biggest cities, for example, London, New York,
Shanghai, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Jakarta, Calcutta, Philadelphia and San
Francisco began as ports - that is, with land-sea exchange as their major function - but they
have since grown disproportionately in other respects so that their port functions are no
longer dominant. They remain different kinds of places from non-port cities and their port
functions account for that difference.
C. Port functions, more than anything else, make a city cosmopolitan. A port city is open
to the world. In it races, cultures, and ideas, as well as goods from a variety of places,
jostle, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city. The smell of the sea and the
 harbour, the sound of boat whistles or the moving tides are symbols of their multiple
links with a wide world, samples of which are present in microcosm within their own
urban areas.
D. Sea ports have been transformed by the advent of powered vessels, whose size and
draught have increased. Many formerly important ports have become economically and
physically less accessible as a result. By-passed by most of their former enriching flow
of exchange, they have become cultural and economic backwaters or have acquired the
character of museums of the past. Examples of these are Charleston, Salem, Bristol,
Plymouth, Surat, Galle, Melaka, Soochow, and a long list of earlier prominent port cities
in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America.
E. Much domestic port trade has not been recorded. What evidence we have suggests that
domestic trade was greater at all periods than external trade. Shanghai, for example, did
most of its trade with other Chinese ports and inland cities. Calcutta traded mainly with
other parts of India and so on. Most of any city's population is engaged in providing goods
and services for the city itself. Trade outside the city is its basic function. But each basic
worker requires food, housing, clothing and other such services. Estimates of the ratio of
basic to service workers range from 1:4 to 1:8.
 Your answer:
1. Paragraph 2. Paragraph B 3. Paragraph C 4. Paragraph D 5. Paragraph E
A
Answer
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SECTION D: WRITING
I. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD and you must use BETWEEN
TWO AND FIVE words. (5 points)
1. How can you bear so much traffic noise? (PUT)
→ How can you ___________________________________________ traffic noise?
2. It was a mistake for you to buy that car. (BOUGHT)
→ You ____________________________________________________ that car.
3. John finally managed to get a good job. (IN)
→ John finally ________________________________________________a good job.
3. They are building a new road through the town. (IS)
→ A new road _______________________________________________through the town.
5. They won’t allow passengers to get off the train at the next station. (PREVENT)
→ They’re going __________________________________ off the train at the next station.
II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.(5 points)
6. The walls are really new. They are painted colorful
→ The walls _______________________________________________________.
7. Somebody repaired his car yesterday.
→ He had_________________________________________________________.
8. The news worried them, and they were unhappy.
→ It was such_____________________________________________________.
9. “Don’t swim out too far, boys”, I said.
→I warned_______________________________________________________.
10. Because she behaves well, everybody loves her.
→ Because of______________________________________________________.
III. (15 points) Imagine you are Andy. You have taken part in “Save The Earth”, an
environmental organization. Write an email (about 100-120 words) to Mary. In your
email, you should:
 Explain the reasons why you want to take part in this organization.
 Tell what you have done and your future plan.
 Recommend Mary to join this organization.
From: Andy.Nguyen@email.com
To: Mary.Tran @email.com
Love,

Andy

SECTION A: LISTENING
Part 1. Question 1-5 (5 points)
There are three questions in this part. Choose the correct answer (A, B or C).
1. Why can’t Lisa go shopping?
 A. She's taking care of her brother.
B. She’s studying for an exam.
C. She’s making lunch.
2. Which festival are John and Nadine going to?
A. B. C.

3. What technology does Leia not talk about?

A. B. C.

4. What natural disaster caused the damage in Deadfalls City?

A. B. C.

5. What was Amelia doing when she saw the UFO?

A. B. C.

Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2. Listen to Emily and John talking about activities they did last weekend. Which
activity did each person do? (5 points)
For example: 0 John _ C. fishing

PEOPLE ACTIVITIES
6. Peter A. basketball
7. Emily B. cycling
8. Jenny D. football
9. Joe E. skateboarding
10. Andy F. swimming
G. table-tennis
H. tenis
Your answer:
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3. You will hear some information about the new tablet. For each question, fill in
the missing information in the numbered space. (5 points)
SPEEDY 09 TABLET
Weight: (11) _________________________ grams.
Screen: (12) _________________________ inches.
Memory: (13) _________________________ GB.
Colors available: black, silver, and (14) ___________.
Gifts: for first (5)_____________ ______customers.
Your answer:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 4. Look at the six sentences for this part. (5 points)
You will hear a conversation between a girl, Ruby and a boy, Kelvin, about aliens.
Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, choose the letter (A) for YES. If it is not correct, choose the letter (B) for NO.

Statements True (A) False (B)

16. Ruby is watching a TV program about aliens.
17. Ruby says aliens would be tall if the gravity was low.
18. Kelvin thinks the aliens would be intelligent.
19. Ruby thinks alien would live underwater if it was too hot.
20. Kelvin thinks aliens would eat plants if it wasn’t too hot.
Your answer:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

The end.