Tiêu đề ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 8 THẠCH THÀNH - THANH HOÁ 2023-2024.pdf ✅

2 Length of course: (14) _____________ weeks Examples of activities we will do: • Learn how to climb • Cut up wood • Make a (15) _____________ • Design a bird house to take home. PART B: PHONETICS (5 pts) Question I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. (3 pts) 16. A. written B. addicted C. beehive D. skipping 17. A. laughed B. watched C. weighed D. finished 18. A. afternoon B. blood C. book D. cook Question II: Choose the word whose main stress pattern is placed differently from the others. (2 pts) 19. A. happiness B. important C. employment D. relation 20. A. behave B. relax C. enter D. allow PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts) Question I: Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence. (10 pts) 21. _____________ at his lessons, he couldn’t catch up with his classmates. A. Hard as he worked B. Hardly as he worked C. Hard as he does D. Hard as he was 22. We are destroying our environment by adding more _____________ to it. A. pollutes B. pollutants C. pollutives D. pollutions 23. Everyone has to follow this way to get into the fair, _____________? A. do they B. don’t they C. has they D. hasn’t they 24. The Historical Museum is becoming _____________ crowded. A. much and more B. much and much C. more and more D. more and much 25. _____________ he failed in the entrance exam caused his family much sadness. A. Which B. That C. The thing D. What 26. This book is _____________ that I try to read it from beginning to end at one time. A. so interesting B. so interested C. such interesting D. too interesting

4 A B C D 48. Each of the students have answered the first three questions. A B C D 49. Having leisure activities are truly important to the elderly. A B C D 50. Is she accustomed to doing her homework by her? A B C D 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) LEARNING HOW TO LEARN There is usually one important (51) _____________ missing from most school timetables. Very few students are (52) _____________ how to organize their learning and how to (53) _____________ the best use of their time. Let’s take some simple examples. Do you know how to (54) _____________ up words in the dictionary?, and do you understand all the information the dictionary contains? Can you (55) _____________ notes quickly, and can you understand them (56) _____________? For some reason, many schools give learners no help with these matters. Teachers ask students to (57) _____________ pages from books, or tell them to write ten pages, but don’t explain (58_____________ to do it. Learning by heart can be useful, but it is important to have a genuine (59) _____________ of a subject. You can (60) _____________ a lot of time memorizing books, without understanding anything about the subject! 51. A. theme B. book C. subject D. mark 52. A. taught B. learnt C. educated D. graduated 53. A. take B. give C. get D. make 54. A. find B. look C. research D. get 55. A. do B. send C. take D. revise 56. A. after B. afterwards C. lastly D. at last 57. A. concentrate B. remind C. forget D. memorize 58. A. how B. what C. why D. it 59. A. information B. success C. understanding D. attention 60. A. pass B. waste C. tell D. use Question II: Fill in each blank of the following passage with only one suitable word. (10 pts) Fish live almost (61) _____________. They are found in the near freezing waters of the Artic and in