PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO SÔNG LÔ ĐỀ HSG TIẾNG ANH 8

NĂM HỌC 2016-2017

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I. Listen to a dialogue ( TWICE ) and complete a form. Read the form carefully before
you listen.

A new business owner enquires about courses. Listen to the conversation and complete
each gap with no more than THREE words.

BUSINESS NATIONWIDE
Courses available:
Name of Course: (0) Getting Started
Time: Two hours from (1) ______EVENING__________
Cost: Free
Course Content: Is starting a business right for me?
Writing a (2) BUSINESS PLAN
Some legal issues
Nearest Location: Handbridge
Next Course Date: 20th March

Name of Course: (3) _BUSSINESS BASICS________________

Length of course: (4) __3 DAYS________________
Cost: (5) _______FREE__________ or £20 for recently unemployed
Course Content: Day One: Legal Issues
Day Two: Marketing and Pricing
Day Three: Accounting and (6) __BOOK KEEPING_______________
Nearest Location: Renton
Next Course Date: 5th March or (7) ______18 APRIL__________

CALLER’S DETAILS
Name: (8) __LILA PARK________________
Address: (9) _39 WHITE LANE _____________ , Eastleigh
Email: (10) _LILA.PARK@RAINBOW.COM_______________

II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others.
1. A. forget B. finish C. English D. summer
2. A. librarian B. necessary C. necessity D. ability
3. A. examiner B. remember C. language D. routine
4. A. relative B. however C. invention D. convenient
5. A. increasingly B. available C. appearance D. journalism
III. Choose the best answer from the four options marked A, B, C or D to complete each
sentence below.
1. Don’t forget _________home as soon as you arrive at your destination.
A. to call B. calling C. having called D. to be called
2. Tet is a festival _________occurs in late January or early February.
A. what B. who C. when D. which
3. She gave her children everything _________they want.
 A. that B. who C. whom D. what
4. He took it _________ granted that it was not his duty to do the housework.
A. for B. on C. in D. by
5. Don't speak so fast, please. I cannot keep _______ with you.
A. on B. away C. up D. out
6. So funny _________ that everybody burst out laughing.
A. she looked B. she did look C. did she look D. look she
7. She is one of the few people __________.
A. I look up to them B. to whom I look up
C. to that I look up D. to who I look up
8. The more he tried to help her, ________ she seemed to appreciate it.
A. less B. the less C. lesser D. the lesser
9. Because of the rain, many people have called to ask________ cancelled.
A. that the parade was B. whether the parade was
C. if or not the parade was D. that the parade would be
10. The prices at the garage I use are very________.
A. reasonable B. logical C. suitable D. rational
11. At the moment she’s considering __________a car.
A. buying B. to buy C. to buying D. buy
12. __________the salary meets my expectations, I will accept the job offer.
A. Even if B. Due to C. Unless D. Provided that
13. __________excellent art museums, Moscow has a world-famous ballet company.
A. In addition to B. Because of C. In case of D. In spite of
14. _________ I'd like to help you out, I'm afraid I just haven't got any spare money at the
moment.
A. Try as B. Much as C. Despite D. Even
15. Hardly ________ of the paintings at the gallery were for sale
A. none B. any C. some D. few
16. You look exhausted. You __________ in the garden all day.
A. must be working B. must have been working
C. must have worked D. can’t have worked
17. I don’t mind ______ waiting for a few minutes.
A. being kept B. being C. to be kept D. keeping
18. Peter: “I’ve been awarded a scholarship to study in America.”
Kate: “ Uh, really? __________! ”
A. You are always lucky B. Take care of yourself
C. Congratulations D. Lucky as you are
19. They did it with a view ______ promoting their new product.
A. for B on C. to D. of
20. She was ______ as anyone could have had.
A. as patient teacher B. a patient a teacher
C. as patient as teacher D. as patient a teacher

IV. Read the text below. Find and correct one mistake in each line
Example: 0. I haven’t saw you for two month 0/ seen
Nam is a student. This year he had a very interested summer 1/ interesting
Holiday. He traveled, with him classmates, to a mountainous area 2/HIS
in Hoa Binh province. They gone there to help make a road 3/ went
Through a forest among two villages. “ It was very difficult 4/ between
Because there had no water to drink and no shops where we 5/ was
could bought food,”said Nam. “ It was very cold and wet 6/ buy
in the mountains. It is one of the wetter places in the country.” 7/ wettest
Nam stayed in the mountains since six weeks. It was hard work, 8/ for
But he says it was the best thing he has ever did. He is hoping 9/ done
to return next year to do any more work there 10/ some

V. Use the capital word given to form a word that fits in the space.
1. Don’t believe whatever he says. He is totally UNRELIABLE as a source of information.
RELY
2. His hard study has ….him to become a headmaster. ABILITY
3. We’ll have ENRICHED our English by next year if we read English books every day.
RICH
4. The service was not entirely INDEPENDENT and flights were often cancelled.
DEPEND
5. Don’t act so PATIENTLY We’ve been waiting only a few minutes.
PATIENCE
6. I MISUNDERSTOOD the instructions. I have answered three questions instead of four.
UNDERSTAND
7. I hope people will act ENCOURAGELY and speak out against this injustice.
COURAGE
8. I would recommend that you should be interested in reading EDUCATIONAL books and
magazines.
EDUCATE
9. The thing that I got zero mark is UNFORGETABLE .
FORGET
10. He accused her of having ENTERED the room without knocking.
ENTRY
VI. Fill in each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word to complete the
following passages.
A pioneer in the field of telecommunications, Alexander Graham Bell was (1) BORN
in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, setting
in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. Throughout his life, Bell had been
interested (2) IN the education of deaf people. This interest led him to (3) INVENT the
microphone and, in 1867, his “electrical speech machine”, which we now call a (4) PHONE.
News of his invention quickly (5) ______ throughout the country, even throughout Europe.
By 1878, Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. By 1884,
long distance connections were (6) ______ between Boston, Massachusetts and New York
City.
Bell imagined great uses for his telephone, like the model from (7) ______ 1920s, but
would he ever have (8)______ telephone lines being used to transmit video images? Since
his (9) DEATH in 1922, the telecommunication industry has undergone an amazing
revolution. Today, non-hearing people are able to use a special display telephone to
communicate. Bell’s “electrical speech machine” paved the way (10) ______ the
information superhighway.
VII. Choose the correct answer from the four options marked A, B, C or D to complete
each of the numbered blanks in the following passage.
Some years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast.
One evening, she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was................(1)
round the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She
had seen several ................(2) in the newspaper for student teachers of English abroad, and
she was interested in one in Italy, which she was desperate to visit. She decided that this
would be a good................(3) to achieve her ambition, so she was writing to...................(4)
for the job. The reply..................(5) a long time to arrive, but eventually she receive a letter
asking if she would go for an interview in London the following week. She was so excited
that she immediately..................(6) in touch with the school owner and agreed to attend the
interview. She was determined that nothing would prevent her....................(7) what she had
set out to do. A few days before the interview she had a very strange dream in which
she....................(8) birth a beautiful baby. She was a little nervous and...............(9)about the
dream and phoned to ask me what I thought it might mean. As I knew something about
dreams, I was able to assure her that it only symbolized her .................(10) to do well in her
interview.

1. A. journey B. travel C. voyage D. trip

2. A. announcements B. posters C. advertisements D. notice
3. A. path B. route C. manner D. way
4. A. claim B. inquire C. request D. apply
5. A. was B. took C. spent D. passed
6. A. got B. came C. went D. became
7. A. of B. from C. in D. about
8. A. made B. had C. gave D. produced
9. A. bored B. worried C. offended D. annoyed
10. A. desire B. request C. want D. demand
XIII. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct option marked A, B, C or D to answer
the questions.
Meetings can waste a great deal of time. But you can make your meeting run more
smoothly by following a few simple rules. First, have an agenda. This will help keep you
focused on what is important. Next, decide who needs to be involved. More people means
less efficient discussion. Finally, keep the discussion moving. Thank each speaker as he or
she finishes and move on to the next speaker. This encourages people to make their remarks
short. And don’t forget: what happens after a meeting is more important than what happens
during the meeting. The skills used then are more professional and less procedural. So no
matter how well you run a meeting, it is the work that gets done after the meeting that is
important.
1. What is one way to run a meeting well ?
A. Watch how your manager run meetings.
B. Minimize the number of participants.
C. Let the group make decisions.
D. Let everyone speak.
2. What is the purpose of a meeting agenda?
A. To keep the speakers organized. B. To allow free discussion
C. To send to others in advance D. To keep focused on improtant items
3. How should you receive other people’s comments at a meeting?
A. Try to keep others from talking. B. Thank them and move on.
 C. Give them as much time as they want. D. Respond in detai to all comments.
4. How should people state their ideas?
A. Succinctly B. Quietly C. Wordily D. Encouragingly
5. The author states that
A. meetings should be held more frequently.
B. all meetings should be in the morning.
C. no one should receive credit for their work.
D. the real work is accomplished after the meeting.
IX. Write the sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the original one.
1. Everyone heard about the accident before I did.
 I was the LAST PERSON THAT HEAR ABOUT THE ACCIDENT
2. The girl’s mother used to work with mine.
 That’s the girl HAVE MOTHER USED TO WORK WITH MINE
3. I’m sure you were proud of your son’s success.
 You must HAVE BEEN PROUD OF YOUR SON’S SUCCESS
4. Mackenzie wrote four best-sellers before he was twenty.
 By the age of twenty, MACKENZIE HAS BEEN WRITING 4 BEST-SELLERS
HAD WRITTEN 4 BEST-SELLERS
HAS WRITTEN 4 BEST-SELLERS
5. She’s a talented dancer and a good singer as well.
 Not ONLY A TALENTED DANCER SHE IS, BUT ALSO A GOOD SINGER AS WELL.
X. Paragraph writing.
What should you do to contribute to keeping the environment green and clean?
Write an paragraph of about 150 words, answering this question. You can refer to the
following prompts.
- reduce the amount of household waste
- reuse what is possible
- no littering
- persuade family and other people to drive less and cycle or walk instead
- plant trees if possible
- participate in cleaning streets/ schools
- participate in volunteer program to protect the environment …
 As we know, the environment plays a very important role in our life. We can’t live
without the environment. However, the environment is being destroyed day by day.
Therefore, we need to protect it by the following way. First of all, we should reduce
household trash by recycling something such as glass bottles, glass jars, plastic bottles,
old papers and newspapers, … Besides, we had better reuse what is possible. We
should also use fewer plastic bottles and bags because they are very harmful to the
environment and difficult to decompose. Second, we have to throw rubbish into the
proper place instead of the streets or parks. If we don’t throw waste properly, there
will be trash everywhere and the ecosystem will polluted seriously. Moreover,
nowadays, rubbish is increasing and it is everywhere, so we should pick up trash
everywhere that has trash so as to minimize the amount of trash in the environment. In
addition, we had better use public transport instead of private cars or motorbikes.
Third, trees are essential for the environment. Therefore, growing trees is very
important. We should plant as many trees as possible, simultaneously we mustn’t cut
down trees too much, burn and destroy forests. Last but not least, we participate in
volunteer organizations and programs to save the environment. In conclusion,