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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI HUYỆN LỚP 8

NĂM HỌC 2022 - 2023
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 8 – (Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút)

ĐIỂM HỌ TÊN, CHỮ KÍ GIÁM KHẢO SỐ PHÁCH

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SECTION A. LISTENING
Part 1. Questions 1-14. You will hear a woman called Kelly Robinson talking about her work as
a maker of cartoon films. Write one word in the gap.
My name’s Kelly Robinson and I make cartoons for a (1)_________. I do this on computers and I’ve
been doing the job since I left university. Although I now know almost as much about (2)_________
as I do about cartoon design, I actually studied (3)_________ for my degree. I got a job with a major
film studio soon after leaving university. It’s a great company to work for. The (4)_________ programs
we use for making cartoons are really good, but it’s the people there that make it such a fantastic place
to work.
Each department has its own (5)________ job to do when we’re making a cartoon film. For example,
the one I’m in works on (6)_________ in the story, while others focus on the human (7)__________on
the buildings. It’s then the director’s job to bring together.
I’m always learning new skills to help improve my work. I did a writing (8)_________ last year and
learnt a lot about different types of stories. And I’ve just started doing (9)_________ classes, which
are surprisingly useful for understanding (10)__________, even though I don’t plan to appear in any
films.
Some companies make cartoons the old-fashioned way using thousands of (11)___________ drawings
but this take a long time. Using this technique, it can take about two years to create a full-length film.
Compare that to the eight (12)___________it takes my company to do the same and you see the
(13)_________ of using computers.
My next cartoon project will be the first thing I’ve done that isn’t a film for children. It’s actually
something for a (14) _________. After working on so many kids’ comedies, it’ll be an interesting
challenge.
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.
Part 2. Questions 15-20. You will hear an interview with a man called James Sweeney who
works as a tree-climbing instructor.
15. How did James become interested in trees?
A. He worked for someone who looked after trees.
B. He enjoyed playing in trees when he was a child.
C. He learnt about trees from his mother.
16. What surprised James when he first learnt to climb trees?
A. The time it took to become good at it.
B. the wide range of people in the class
C. the amount of equipment needed
17. What does James enjoy most about his teaching work?
A. helping people who need the skill for their work
B. giving people an interesting new experience
C. showing people how to climb in different kinds of weather
18. James travels around the USA a lot because
A. interest in tree climbing is increasing there.
B. there isn’t much work in his own area in winter.
C. he’d like to visit as many parts of the country as possible.
19. What does James like about sleeping in trees?
A. He wakes up to the sound of birds.
B. He thinks it’s comfortable.
C. He can look at the stars.
20. When James climbs in the rainforests, he moves more slowly because
A. he wants to study the insects
B. he finds the trees difficult to climb.
C. he has to protect the trees
Your answer:

15. 16. 17. 18. 19 20.

Part 3: Questions 21-25. You will hear two neighbors, a woman, Natasha, and a man, Colin,
talking about running. Decide which is True(T) and which is False (F)

Statements True False

21. Colin found running to work was bad for his health.

22. Natasha would prefer to go running outside the city.

23. Natasha would like to wear her sports clothes at work.

24. Natasha will run in the big race because she hopes to win it.

25. Colin and Natasha will prepare for the big race together.
Your answer

21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR

Part 1. Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences.
1. The car burst into____________ but the driver managed to escape.
A. flames B. fine C. burning D. such
2. Your house has _________ nice furniture.
A. too B. such a C. so D. such
3. Clothes _______ in shops in the town are much more expensive than those in markets.
A. selling B. are sold C. sold D. are being sold
4. My younger sister spends __________ time shopping.
A. a great number of B. a lot C. a great deal of D. a large sum of
5. He is an extremely _______ child. He cries very easily.
A. unsensitive B. sensible C. sensitive D. senseless
6. She won the award for _______ her whole life to looking after the poor.
A. spending B. paying C. using D. devoting
7.Yuri Gagarin was the first person _________into space.
A. flew B. to fly C. flown D. fly
8. The cost of a hotel room doesn’t usually _______ the price of breakfast.
A. hold B. contain C. share D. include
9. The _____ of the outbreak of the disease is still unknown.
A. aim B. cause C. reason D. motive
10. When his parents are away, his oldest brother __________.
A. is in the same boat B. calls the shots C. knocks it off D. draw the line
11. My car is getting unreliable; I think I’ll trade it _________ for a new one.
A. off B. away C. in D. up
12. During adolescence many young people begin to question _______ held by their families.
A. the values B. of the values C. the values are D. are the values
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following
exchanges.
13. Linh is going to hold her birthday party at home this Sunday, so she wants to invite some of her
friends to attend the party.
Linh: "I would like to invite you to my party this Sunday evening." Huy: "______"
A. Thank you for your offer, but I think it is unnecessary.
B. I am sorry. Can you come to my place?
C. How about going to the cinema?
D. I would love to come but I have prior commitments. I'm sorry.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
14. A US man with a large online following in Vietnam has caused widespread anger, and faces
possible criminal charges, over a Facebook post thought to have insulted a military hero.
A. embarrassed B. offended C. confused D. depressed
15. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE
in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions
Today students are under a lot of pressure due to the high expectations from their parents and teachers.
A. Stress B. nervousness C. emotion D. relaxation
Your answer
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 2. Each of the following sentences contains a mistake. Find and correct it.
1.The number of students who knew the answer to the last question were very low.
2. I find Jenny an extreme interesting person to be with.
3. In the past few years, this area has become heavily industrial.
4. After questioning for a while, he finally admitted having stolen the camera.
5. Another 100 million people, chiefly living in Bangladesh and in many African countries, speak
English in additional to their own language.
6. Unfortunately, in spite of their succeed in 1975, the Chinese failed to predict the Tangshan
earthquake the following year.
7. I’m absolutely convinced that life is pleasure and easy.
8. Unlike other architects of the early modern movement, Alvar Aalto stressed informality, personal
expression, romantic, and regionality in his work.
9. One of the biggest problems faces us today is how to reduce pollution.
10. If you miss several days of classes, for any reason, you can’t keep up with another students.
Your answer
Mistake Correction Mistake Correction
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SECTION C. READING
Part 1. Read the passage below and decide which answer (from A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.
0. A. got B. picked C. came D. brought
Adriano was (0) ____ in a small town in northern Italy. Although his family worked in the clothing
industry, he had no (1) ___ in this and even when very young, he considered (2) ___ to be better than
sewing. The aroma of freshly roasted garlic and homemade tomato sauce (3) ___ more to him than the
finest fabrics. His passion for food (4)____, so after leaving school, Adriano (5)_____ on to study
cookery in a nearby city. Later he became apprentice to a celebrated cook in Paris, staying there for
two years before moving to London. There he got a good (6)_____in a top hotel, cooking
for such famous guests as the Queen of England and the President of Italy.
In 1991, he moved to San Francisco to (7)_____over the kitchens of a famous restaurant, and two years
later, fulfilled his life-long dream of opening his own restaurant. It (8)____ very well and when a small
building next to his restaurant became (9)____, he also opened a lunch-time pasta bar.
For Adriano, running a restaurant is about hospitality, and, of course, eating. He still works in the
kitchen to ensure that the customer gets good food(10)________with the best ingredients.
1. A. ambition B. interest C. desire D. aim
2. A. cooking B. cooked C. to be cooked D. to cook
3. A. meant B. stated C. expressed D. indicated
4. A. raised B. extended C. enlarged D. grew
5. A. put B. took C. went D. hold
6. A. work B. position C. employment D. role
7. A. carry B. turn C. come D. take
8. A. had B. made C. did D. gave
9. A. achievable B. spare C. available D. extra
10. A. prepared B. to prepare C. preparing D. to be repaired
Your answer:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2. Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’.
Victor Lustig was a man who made his living by making people believe things that were not true in
order to get money from them. He (1)_________ his name twenty four times in his career to avoid
identification and was arrested for forty-seven times. He did many amazing but perhaps the
(2)_________incredible was when he tried to sell the Eiffel Tower. He pretended to be a senior civil
servant and invited offers for the Tower, based on the (3)________ of the metal when it had been
pulled down. The man (4)_________offer was accepted was too embarrassed to make a fuss and
Lustig, who had made a lot of money (5)_________ the deal, walked free.
Next he went on to try (6) ________luck in America. In Oklahoma, he met a sheriff and sold him a
machine supposed to be (7) _______ of making thousand dollar bills. The unfortunate sheriff was (8)
________ for using illegal bills, but once again, Lustig managed to get away. Then he went to Chicago,
where he tried to trick the gangster Al Capone in to giving him fifty thousand dollars. However, he
didn’t (9) _______and Capone’s men soon showed him the door.
The American Secret Service were the people who finally brought him to justice. They investigated
Lustig and his affairs after he had tried to cheat the US government. Lustig was sent to (10) ______
and it was there that he died in 1947. On his death certificate, his occupation was described as
“Apprentice Salesman.
Your answer:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question.
There was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk’s House. The
floors in the house were very thin. The bathroom was directly above the kitchen, and when Mrs. Woolf
was having her bath before breakfast, I could hear her talking to herself. On and on she went, talk, talk,
talk, asking questions and giving herself the answers. I thought there must be two or three people up
there with her. When Mr. Woolf saw that I looked surprised, he told me that Mrs. Woolf always said
the sentences out loud that she had written during the night. She needed to know if they sounded right
and the bath was a good place for trying them out.
I was not allowed to make coffee at Monk’s House. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf were very particular about
coffee and always made it themselves, so Mr. Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o’clock every
morning to make it. When we carried the breakfast trays to Mrs. Woolf’s room I noticed that she had
always been working during the night. There were pencils and paper beside her bed so that when she
woke up she could work, and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep.
Mrs. Woolf’s bedroom was outside the house in the garden; I used to think how inconvenient it must
be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed. Her bedroom had been added on to the back of the house;
the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field. Because the writing room
was small, she had had a larger one built for her at the end of the garden against the church wall.
I can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing room; when I rang the bell
for lunch at one o’clock she used to walk down through the garden smoking one of her favorite
cigarettes in a long holder. She was tall and thin and very graceful. She had large, deep-set eyes and a
curving mouth. I think perhaps it was this that made her face seem particularly beautiful. She wore
long skirts-usually blue or brown-in the fashion of the day, and silk jackets of the same color.
Her cigarettes were made from special tobacco called My Mixture. Mr. Woolf bought it for her in
London, and, in the evenings, they used to sit by the fire and make these cigarettes themselves.
Mrs. Woolf wore clothes that suited her well. I pressed them for her and did any sewing that was
necessary she was not able to sew, although sometimes she liked to try. There was one thing in the
kitchen that Mrs. Woolf was very good at doing; she could make beautiful bread.
1. What was particularly unusual about Monk’s house?
A. The bathroom was next door to the kitchen
B. Mrs. Woolf’s bedroom door opened on to the garden
C. The kitchen window looked out over the field
D. The breakfast room was upstairs.
2. What did the writer observe about Mrs. Woolf’s writing habits?
A. She did a great deal of writing at night
B. She worked in the garden whenever she could
C. She preferred to write in the house
D. She sometimes wrote in the bath
3. Mrs. Woolf wore clothes which were
A. in matching colors
B. designed for her individually
C. suitable for country life
D. rather dull and unattractive
4. Mr. Woolf’s attitude towards his wife seemed to be that
A. he found her strange ways difficult to accept
B. he led a very separate life
C. he did what he could for her
D. he watched over her all the time
5. As far as housework was concerned, Mrs. Woolf
A. was too busy to do any
B. disliked doing any
C. was very bad at it
D. liked one or two particular tasks
Your answer
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 4. Five sentences have been removed from the text. For each question, choose the correct
answer. There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.
Football stars at school
Can you imagine being a famous football star but still attending school? That’s what some students
at Ashton-on-Mersey School in England do!
The school is about 7 km from Old Trafford, the famous sports stadium that is home to Manchester
United Football Club. The club takes talented teenagers from all over the world. (1) _______ But even
though they are following their dreams of becoming sports stars, football clubs recognize that
education should still be an important part of their lives. (2) _______ Although footballers can play
professionally from the age of 16, most don’t join professional teams until they are older.
All football clubs have to make sure that players under 18 are getting an education, but many choose
to do this by organizing classes at the club. At Manchester United, however, young players go to a
normal school. (3) _______ That’s why at Ashton-on-Mersey School you can see people who played
against Arsenal or Liverpool on Saturday sitting down to classes with all the other students on Monday
morning.
The Manchester United students have classes two days a week and study a range of different subjects.
While attending, they are encouraged to feel like they are part of the school. They still follow the rules
like all the other pupils there. (4) _______
There are many benefits to the school from their arrangement with Manchester United. The football
club has given money to the school. (5) _______ Perhaps more importantly, seeing successful young
players in the school can encourage younger students to try hard to do well and achieve their own
dreams. Successful players often return to visit the school. When one French-speaking player came
back, students were all keen to ask him questions in French! Chatting to an international football star
really helped the students improve their language skills!
A. So at least they can enjoy some parts of typical teenage life there.
B. That means the school has become a tourist attraction too!
C. These young players come here to train, of course.
D. During the school day, therefore, they don’t go to some of these sessions.
E. This has helped it to provide a better education for all its students.
F. They are also expected to set a good example to younger students.
G. Which is why there are far more of these students than ever before.
H. After all, only the best ones go on to join the main team.
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 5: Match the headings given in the box below with their appropriate numbers (1- 5) that
lead the five paragraphs and write the letters A-H in the corresponding numbered boxes. (The
headings outnumber the paragraphs, so you will not use all of them).

A. A disadvantage of fast communication

B. High speed of communication and its benefits
C. Our shrinking world
D. Communication devices
E. A brief history of communication development
F. Modem communication and a change in thinking pattern
G. The changing world resulting from fast communication
H. Modem communication and expected responsibility
1.

Telephone, television, radio, and the telegraph all help people communicate with each other. Because
of these devices, ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within
seconds, people can know the results of an election in Japan or Argentina. An international soccer
match comes into the home of everyone with a television set. News of a disaster such as an earthquake
or a flood can bring help from distant countries. Within hours, help is on the way.
2.

How has speed of communication changed the world? To many people, the world has become smaller.
Of course, this does not mean that the world is physically smaller. Two hundred years ago,
communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks
or even months to cross the oceans. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for
news from Europe to reach the Americas. This time difference influenced people's actions. For
example, one battle in the war of 1812 between the English and the United States armies could have
been avoided if the warring sides had known that a peace agreement had already been signed. Peace
was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During those six weeks,
the large and serious Battle of New Orleans was fought and many lives were lost.
3.
An important part of the history of the world is the history of communication. In prehistoric times,
people had limited knowledge of the world. They had little information about geography, the study of
the Earth. People knew very little beyond their small groups except what was happening near their
homes. Later, people were organized into villages, and verbal communication between small towns
was possible. Still, the people’s knowledge was limited because they had no outside information.
Kingdoms and small countries then developed, with a king directing the people. Cities developed, too,
but still communication was limited to the small geographical area of the country. Much later in
history, after the invention of the printing press, many more people learned to read, and communication
was improved.
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In this modern age, communication is so fast that it is almost instant People's lives have been changed
because of the immediate spread of news. Sometimes the speed is so great that it does not allow people
time to think. For example, leaders of countries have only minutes, or, at most, hours to consider all
the parts of a problem. They are expected to answer immediately. Once they had days and weeks to
think before making decisions.
5.
The speed of communication demands a new responsibility from all people of the world. People in
different countries must try harder to understand each other. An example is that people with different
religions must try to understand each other's beliefs and values, even if they do not accept them.
Sometimes their cultures are quite different What one group considers a normal part of life is strange
to another culture. In some cases, a normal part of one culture might be bad or impolite to people of
another culture. That kind of difference is a possible basis for misunderstanding. People must learn not
to judge others, but to accept them as they are. As the world grows smaller, people must learn to talk
to each other more effectively as well as communicate more rapidly.
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
SECTION D. WRITING
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as
the sentence printed before it.
1. “Do you know the name of the person who first climbed Mount Everest?” he said to me
=> He asked_________________________________________________________________
2. The water was so cold that the children could not swim in it.
=> The water was not _________________________________________________________
3. I’d rather you didn’t play the drums right now.
=> Would you_______________________________________________________________?
4. If Cathy didn’t help me, I wouldn’t finish my work on time.
=> If it___ __________________________________________________________________
5.He speaks more persuasively than her brother.
=> He is a __________________________________________________________________
Use the word in brackets, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first one. DO NOT change the word given.
6. Lan has a good relationship with her colleagues. GETS
=> Lan __________________________________________________her colleagues.
7. Although she is rich, she is extremely mean. HER
=> Despite _______________________________________, she is extremely mean.
8. Could you guard my handbag while I go to the shop? EYE
=> Could you _________________________________________my handbag while I go to the shop?
9. He finds driving on the left difficult. USED
=> He ________________________________________________________on the left.
10. She prefers watching TV to listening to music. RATHER
=> She'd _____________________________________________________to music.
Part 2. Imagine that you are John and your friend Tony is returning home next Monday after a 3-
day visit to your home village. You can’t see him off at the airport. Write a letter (about 80-100
words) to Tony. In your letter, you should:
• Apologize for not going to the airport
• Explain why you can’t go to the airport
• Request him to call you when he come home
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Choose ONE of the following options:
Option 1: Your English teacher has asked you to write a story (100-120 words) for your school story
writing competition. Your story can either BEGIN or END with the following sentence.
What a nice day! We did a lot of things to help our community after the flood.

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Option 2: Write an essay about 200 words on the following topic:
Some people think that video game is fun and harmless; moreover, they think it is a useful
educational tool. However, other believe that video games have a negative effect. What is your
opinion?
In about 180-200 words, write an essay to express your opinion. Use reasons and examples to support
your ideas.
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