Title ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 8 TP BẮC NINH 2021-2022.pdf ✅

4 4. The string snapped and the balloon floated _____________ into the air. 5. The shortest way to the swimming pool is to cut _____________ these blocks of flats. V. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets (5 pts). 1. This building (finish) _____________ by the end of 2018. 2. Once you (try) _____________ this cream, you (never use) _____________ anything else. 3. I remember (give) _____________ a toy drum on my fifth birthday. 4. The house is still very dirty. I don’t think it (clean) _____________. 5. It was our fault to keep you waiting so long. We (inform) _____________ you in advance. D. READING. (20pts) I. Read the passage and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space (10 pts). After more than fifty years of television, it might seem only obvious to conclude that it is here to (1) _____________. There have been many objections to it during this time, of course, and (2) _____________ a variety of grounds. Did it cause eye-strain? Was the (3) _____________ bombarding us with radioactivity? Did the advertisements contain subliminal messages, persuading us to buy more? Did children turn to violence through watching it, either because so (4) _____________ programmes taught them how to shoot, rob, and kill, or because they had to do something to counteract the hours they had spent glued to the tiny screen? Or did it simply create a vast passive (5) _____________ drugged by glamorous serials and inane situation (6) _____________? On the other hand did it increase anxiety by sensationalizing the news [or the news which was (7) _____________ by suitable pictures] and filling our living rooms with war, famine and political unrest? (8) _____________ in all, television proved to be the all-purpose scapegoat for the second half of the century, blamed for everything, but above all, eagerly watched. For no (9) _____________ how much we despised it, feared it, were bored by it, or felt that it took us away from the old paradise of family conversation and hobbies such as collecting stamps, we never turned it off. We kept staring at the screen, aware that our own tiny (10) _____________ was in if we looked carefully. 1. A. be B. stay C. exist D. prolong 2. A. with B. over C. by D. on 3. A. screen B. danger C. machine D. reason 4. A. that B. far C. many D. what 5. A. programme B. personality C. audience D. tense 6. A. comedies B. programmes C. perhaps D. consequently 7. A. taken B. presented C. capable D. accompanied 8. A. Taken B. All C. Somewhat D. Thus