Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lớp 8 - Môn: Tiếng anh

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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 8 
NĂM HỌC: 2022-2023
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 
Ngày thi: 30/3//2023
Thời gian làm bài:150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 04 phần, 08 trang



Điểm bài thi
Họ và tên, chữ ký của giám khảo
Số phách
Bằng số: ................./18,0
Bằng chữ: ......................
Giám khảo 1: ..........................................
Giám khảo 2: ..........................................

(Thí sinh làm bài tr...point)
1. What has the girl forgotten to bring?
A. Her pen	B. Her keys	C. Her essay	D. Her coffee
2. What is the man’s job now?
A. A painter	B. A businessman	C. A photographer	D. A teacher
3. What time will the writer arrive at the bookshop?
A. 1:45	B. 2:15	C. 2:45	D. 3:30
4. What did the children see at the zoo?
A. Horses, monkeys and lions	B. Monkeys, lions, and tigers
C. Horses, birds and monkeys	D. Birds, monkeys, and tigers
5. What has the woman lost?
A. Her mobile phone	B. Her p...ns	B. erasers, sharpeners and books
C. a pencil case and pens	D. books, papers and pens
4: The girl ________.
A. exercises for thirty minutes.	B. studies for thirty minutes.
C. drink water every five minutes.	D. has a break for thirty minutes.
5: When the boy studies, ________.
A. he has a break for two or three hours.	B. he has two or three breaks each hour.
C. he doesn’t take breaks.	D. he never studies for two or three hours.
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Part III. Listen and fi...5) ________ when a gorilla escaped from its cage. 
Lucas particularly likes talking to the (6) ________ who come to the zoo.
Lucas says that giving the monkey food such as (7) ________ is unsuitable.
Lucas once took a box of baby monkeys home by (8) ________.
Lucas is now taking a course in (9) ________ so that he can further his career.
Lucas’s ambition is to visit a (10) ________ for wild animals in Africa to see the work done there.
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10...ng.
	A. alternative 	B. enviable 	C. commercial 	D. essential
4. Older people rarely approve ________ habits of the younger generation.
	A. for 	B. to 	C. of 	D. with
5. I suppose that he’d better look for a different job, ________?
	A. shouldn’t he	B. hadn’t he	C. should he	D. don’t I
6. ________ traveling is educational, it can also be stressful and expensive.
	A. Since	B. Providing	C. While	D. Even
7. You should pay ________ to what the instructor is saying.
	A. attendance	B. inventi... each of the following questions. 
9. Her courage not only inspired her followers but also moved her rivals as well. 
	A. depressed 	B. motivated 	C. overlooked 	D. rejected 
10. I only applied for this business with a view to accumulating first-hand experience. 
	A. attaining 	B. gaining 	C. penetrating 	D. accomplishing 
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II. Read the passage and use the correct forms of the words given. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (... gestures or says: "mm", a man will say such things as "right" or "okay", which settles the stage for an (6) ________ (INTERRUPT). Conversation of this kind, then, hardly has (7) ________ (MEAN) communication. Male talk is often (8) ________ (ARGUE) while women are more tentative, asking more questions and tending to build up their replies on what the other person had said. The research would indicate that women are better (9)________(LISTEN) than men. Yet, listening secretly to conversation bet...millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President (3) ________a speech or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being fought and watch statesmen try to (4)________about peace. (5)________television, home viewers can see and learn about people, places, and things in faraway lands. TV even takes its viewers out of this world. It brings them (6) ________of America’s astronauts as the astronauts explore out of space. In (7) ________to all these things...ot	C. information	D. amount
7.	A. order	B. spite	C. addition	D. exchange
8.	A. used	B. designed	C. made	D. going
9.	A. entertainment	B. music	C. film	D. news
10.	A. games	B. plays	C. happens	D. events
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II. Read the following passage and choose the best option to answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2.0 points) 
	Today we take electricity for granted and perhaps we do not realize just how useful this discovery has been...a simple calculator, and from the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a doorbell, all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to heat a huge mass of molten metal in a furnace, or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee.
	Other than atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the greatest power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It