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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI KSCL ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI
ĐÔNG
ĐỀ CHÍNH SƠN
THỨC LỚP 8 - NĂM HỌC 2021- 2022
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
(Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: Thứ 7, ngày 19/3/2022

PART A: LISTENING (15 pts)

Question I. You will hear a conversation at the customs in Gatwick Airport . As you listen,
fill in the form below. (5 pts)

Last name: (1)_______________________________________

Sex: (2 )_____________________________________________
Date of birth: (3)______________________________________
Reason for travel in the UK: (4)_________________________
Address in the UK: 35 Halefield (5)_______, Tottenham, London

Question II. Tim and Mrs. Brady are making small talk. Are these statements True or False?
(5 pts)

STT Statements True False

6 They are meeting for the first time
7 Tim was a student in Mrs. Brady’s class
8 Tim is a college student now
9 Mrs. Brady ends the conversation
10 They make plans to meet again

Question III: Listening to the second newspaper article about Halloween and choose the best
answer A or B, C, D. (5 pts)

11. What animals are associated with Halloween?

A. black cats, frogs, mine and spiders
B. black cats, frogs, mice and spiders
C. cats, frogs, mice and spiders
D. All are correct
12. What did poor people go around houses asking for in the past?
A. sweets B. pumpkins C. milk D. food
13. Halloween game has been for children in ___________.
A. Asia B. America C. Europe D. Australia
14. How many witches does Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" open with?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four
15. When did the "witchcraft trials" take place in the state of Massachusetts?
A. in 1692 B. In 1962 C. In 1269 D. In 1629
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PART B: PHONETICS (5 pts)

Question I: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word
whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following
questions.
16. A. rugged B. landed C. wicked D. coughed
17. A. precious B. preparation C. pretty D. repetition
18. A. chimpanzee B. referee C. refugee D. committee

Question II: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that
differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
19. A. dormitory B. category C. priority D. ordinary
20. A. influential B. accessible C. rudimentary D. incidental

PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 pts)

21. We bought some ___________________.

A. German lovely old glasses
B. lovely German old glasses
C. lovely old German glasses
D. old lovely German glasses
22. No sooner _________to marry Jack ____________to have serious doubts.
A. had Carol agreed / than she began
B. Carol has agreed / than she began
C. had Carol agreed / than she begins
D. had Carol agreed / than she had begun
23. She insisted that the reporter____________her as his source of information.
A. not mention B. doesn’t mention C. hadn’t mentioned D. didn’t mention
24. ____________an emergency arise, call 911.
A. Should B. Can C. Does D. Will
25. To the best of my ___________ that doctor’s name was Jane.
A. thinking B. recollection C. mind D. remembrance
26. I was ________ in the book I was reading and didn’t hear the phone.
A. submerged B. distracted C. gripped D. engrossed
27. Robert and his wife ________ to my house for tea yesterday evening.
A. came round B. came about C. came down D. came away
28. Boy: “What is your greatest phobia?” Girl: “____________________”
A. I'm afraid not.
B. Worms, definitely!
C. Probably people who smoke.
D. I haven't made up my mind
29. Let me _____________ you a nice warm bath and you’ll feel a lot better
A. make B. run C. get D. build
30. I don’t think you have been watering the plants near the gate. The soil is _________.
A. as dry as rice B. as dry as a tile
C. as dry as a bone D. as dry as wood
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Question II: The passage below contains 5 mistakes. Recognise the mistakes and write their
correct forms in your answer sheet. (5 pts)

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1 It is often said that books are always good friends and reading is an active
2 mental process. unlike TV, books make you to use your brain. By reading, you
3 think more and become smarter. Reading improves concentration and focus.
4 Reading books takes brain power. It requires you to focus for what you are
5 reading for long periods. Unlike magazines, Internet posts or e-Mails that might
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contain small amount of information. Books tell the whole story". Since you must
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concentrate in order to read, you will get better at concentration. Many studies
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9 show if you do not use your memory; you lose them. Reading helps you stretch
10 your memory muscles. Reading requires remembering details, facts and figures
11 and in literature, plot lines, themes and characters.
12 Books give you knowledge of the other cultures and places. The more
13 information you have got, the richer your knowledge is. Books can expand your
14 horizons by letting you see what other cities and countries have to offer before
you visit them.

Question III: Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form. (8 pts)
36. Don’t worry. We ( finish) _________the report by 11 o’clock.
37. Fred was pleased (admit) __________to the college.
38. So fast the thief (run) ________ that the police couldn’t catch him.
39. Trade has gone from bad to worse and staff ( lay) ________ off now.
40. Peter: I realize I (not say)__________ that.
Mary: That all right I have forgiven.
41- 42. He (follow)______ my advice before, he (not be) __________in dangerous for the time
being.
43. The small room was filled with boxes of different sizes (deliver) __________the day before.

Question IV: Put each word in brackets into an appropriate form. (7 pts)
44. Not ___________ on such a hot day, the beach was crowded. SURPRISE
45. Street noise is one of the __________ of living in a big city. ADVANTAGE
46. Tim is one of the _______ on the boat trip on lake Michigan. PARTICIPATE
47. This word is very difficult to say. I always __________ it. PRONUNCIATION
48. The________of the agriculture in our country is very necessary. ELECTRIFY
49. _________, there are black holes in space . THEORY
50. Vietnamese people are happy to talk about their past and FORGIVE
show an amazing resilience and ________.

PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

Question I: Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for
each space. (10 pts)
It is now extremely popular to take a gap year between school and university or university and
work and to spend it traveling. There are plenty of reasons to recommend it - travel broadens the
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mind, you’re (51)_____young once, life isn’t a rehearsal and so on. And if you don’t do it, you may
always regret that you didn’t take the (52) _____. In the end, there’s only one response: well, why
not?
The idea may have its roots in the 18th century Grand tour once (53) _____by the young, rich
and noble, but it is the middle classes who have turned it (54) ___ something that 200,000 British
youngsters do every year. (55) ___ has never been so easy and cheap, with more places open to
tourists than ever. Also, the gap year is now (56) ___ by many employers and universities.
The States, the Far East and Australia were among the original (57)_____and although these
remain in the top five, young explorers are now going even further. The most far-flung corners of the
world are (58) ___ in popularity year by year. About $700 will buy a student ticket (59) ___ for six
months that will take you from London to Calcutta, Singapore, Bangkok, Perth, Sydney, Auckland,
Fiji, Tahiti, Los Angeles and (60)…………..again.

51. A. merely B. only C. slightly D. simply

52. A. occasion B. moment C. chance D. luck
53. A. undertaken B. gone C. done D. given
54. A. up B. out C. over D. into
55. A. Voyage B. Travel C. Excursion D. Tour
56. A. received B. stood C. accepted D. admitted
57. A. destinations B. endings C. landings D. terminals
58. A. spreading B. expanding C. enlarging D. growing
59. A. genuine B. valid C. effective D. legal
60. A. now B. here C. back D. then

Question II: Supply the most suitable word for each blank. (10 pts)

English has for more than a century and a half been (61)_____ a world language. The number
of people who (62) _____ it as their mother tongue has been (63) _____at between three hundred
million. and four hundred million. It is (64) _____ as an official language in countries where 1.5
billion people live. In China, the importance attached (65)____ learning English is such that a
televised teaching (66)____drew audiences of up to 100 million.
However, this spread of English throughout the world is relatively recent. In the late
sixteenth century English was spoken by just under five million people. (67)____ arrival of English
in North America- was the key step in its world-wide expansion. The United States is a huge
commercial market and this has tended to promote the English language in many (68)____nations.
About eighty percent of the data (69) ____on the world's computers(70) ____believed to be in
English and nowadays insufficient knowledge of English can be a problem in business.

Question III: Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below. (10 pts)
Animation traditionally is done by hand-drawing or painting successive frames of an object, each
slightly different than the preceding frame. In computer animation, although the computer may be
the one to draw the different frames, in most cases the artist will draw the beginning and ending
frames and the computer will produce the drawings between the first and the last drawing. This is
generally referred to as computer-assisted animation, because the computer is more of a helper than
an originator.
In full computer animation, complex mathematical formulas are used to produce the final
sequence of pictures. These formulas operate on extensive databases of numbers that define the
objects in the pictures as they exist in mathematical space. The database consists of endpoints, and
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color and intensity information. Highly trained professionals are needed to produce such effects
because animation that obtains high degrees of realism involves computer techniques for three-
dimensional transformation, shading, and curvatures.
High-tech computer animation for film involves very expensive computer systems along with
special color terminals or frame buffers. The frame buffer is nothing more than a giant image
memory for viewing a single frame. It temporarily holds the image for display on the screen.
A camera can be used to film directly from the computer's display screen, but for the highest
quality images possible, expensive film recorders are used. The computer computes the positions and
colors for the figures in the picture, and sends this information to the recorder, which captures it on
film. Sometimes, however, the images are stored on a large magnetic disk before being sent to the
recorder. Once this process is completed, it is repeated for the next frame. When the entire sequence
has been recorded on the film, the film must be developed before the animation can be viewed. If the
entire sequence does not seem right, the motions must be corrected, recomputed, redisplayed, and
rerecorded. This approach can be very expensive and time consuming. Often, computer-animation
companies first do motion tests with simple computer-generated line drawings before selling their
computers to the task of calculating the high-resolution, realistic-looking images.

71. What aspect of computer animation does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The production process
B. The equipment needed
C. The high cost
D. The role of the artist
72. According to the passage, in computer-assisted animation the role of the computer is to draw
the____________.
A. first frame B. middle frames C. last frame D. entire sequence of frames
73. The word "they" in the second paragraph refers to_______________.
A. formulas B. databases C. numbers D. objects
74. According to the passage, the frame buffers mentioned in the third paragraph are used
to_______________.
A. add color to the images
B. expose several frames at the same time
C. store individual images
D. create new frames
75. According to the passage, the positions and colours of the figures in high-tech animation are
determined by_______________.
A. drawing several versions
B. enlarging one frame at a lime
C. analyzing the sequence from different angles
D. using computer calculations
76. The word "captures" in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to________.
A. separates B. registers C. describes D. numbers
77. The word "Once" in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to___________.
A. before B. since C. after D. while
78. According to the passage, how do computer-animation companies often test motion?
A. They experiment with computer-generated line drawings.
B. They hand-draw successive frames.
C. They calculate high-resolution images.
D. They develop extensive mathematical formulas.
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79. The word "task" in the 4th paragraph is closest in meaning to___________.
A. possibility B. position C. time D. job
80. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
A. Computers have reduced the costs of animation.
B. In the future, traditional artists will no longer be needed.
C. Artists are unable to produce drawings as high in quality as computer drawings.
D. Animation involves a wide range of technical and artistic skills.

PART E: WRITING (20 pts)

Question I: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible
in meaning to the sentence printed before it. (5 pts)

81. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.

I’m not in _____________________________________________________.
82. Although Mary was exhausted, she agreed to join in the activity.
Exhausted _____________________________________________________.
83. It is rumoured that some children were kidnapped last week.
 Some children______________________________________________.
84. Peter failed to understand how serious his illness was until he spoke to the doctor.
Not until __________________________________________________.
85. Her success went beyond her expectation.
Never ________________________________________________________.

Question II: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible
in meaning to the sentence printed before it. Do not change the form of the given word (5 pts)

86. Although the weather changed, the picnic went ahead as planed. (CHANGE)
 In spite ________________________________________________________.
87. Those two makes of car are practically the same. (HARDLY)
 There__________________________________________________________.
88. I advise you to think carefully before accepting William’s offer. (BETTER)
 You ___________________________________________________________.
89. Jane was sure there was no mistake in her homework. (NOTHING)
 Jane___________________________________________________________.
90. When they broke the news, she stayed perfectly calm and controlled. (HAIR)
 When __________________________________________________________.

Question III. Facebook dominates the free-time for too many people especially the students. It
can have negative effect on their study and the physical development.

Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph (150 words) to express your opinion.

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