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TRƯỜNG THCS ****** *** ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT ĐỘI CHỌN TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC |
NĂM HỌC: 2022 - 2023
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 8
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm: 06 trang
SECTION A: PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest.
1. | A. honey | B. rhythm | C. exhume | D. behold |
2. | A. danced | B. borrowed | C. arrived | D. destroyed |
3. | A. emergency | B. prefer | C. versatile | D. operate |
4. | A. punctual | B. fluent | C. marinate | D. drain |
5. | A. occur | B. conversation | C. solution | D. horizon |
II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.
1. | A. compulsory | B. convenient | C. correspond | D. communicate |
2. | A. comfortable | B. president | C. procedure | D. literature |
3. | A. dominated | B. architecture | C. parabolic | D. empathy |
4. | A. vocabulary | B. influential | C. engineering | D. biological |
5. | A. environment | B. mystery | C. contribute | D. terrific |
SECTION B: LEXICO & GRAMMAR
I. Circle your choice of the word, phrase or expression (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence.
1. There is a crowd of students _____ for the lecturer outside the lecture hall.
A. waiting B. to wait C. to be waiting D. are waiting
2. Thank you very much. I haven’t been to _____ party for ages.
A. a so enjoyable B. the so enjoyable C. so enjoyable a D. so enjoyable
3. George took _____ of the fine weather to work in his garden.
A. chance B. interest C. advantage D. charge
4. Most American people don’t object _____ them by their first names.
A. that I call B. that I am called C. for calling D. to my calling
5. Mr. Henry was given a medal in _____ of his service to his country.
A. gratitude B. knowledge C. recognition D. response
6. The new school complex cost _____ the city council had budgeted for.
A. twice more by far than B. twice much more than
C. almost twice as much as D. just twice as much as
7. By the time you finish your job, everyone _____ home.
A. has gone B. will have gone C. had gone D. was going
8. The Chief of police, _____ work is very important, takes care of the public safety.
A. who B. whom C. whose D. which
9. The _____ child is forever asking questions. He’s incredibly curious.
A. acquisitive B. acquitted C. inquisitive D. exquisite
10. Not until the end of the 19th century _____ become a scientific discipline.
A. plant breeding has B. did plant breeding