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16/11/2019
ĐỀ KHẢO SÁT HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 8 THCS NĂM HỌC 2019-2020

Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

 Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề, đề thi gồm 4 trang.

Họ và tên:………………………………….…………………………………………….
Trường :………………………………………………Số báo danh:………………………. Phòng thi:…………………..
PART I: LISTENING
A-I. Listen and choose the best ansers.
1. Gilda thinks dealing with homesickness is _________.
A. fun B. interesting C. difficult D. cheap
2. They feel more homesick _______.
A. on special seasons B. everyday C. when they go to the market D. all are correct
3. The good thing about living Japan is ________.
A. the food B. the scenery C. the people D. the climate
4. Aimee likes to buy _______ from home.
A. toiletries B. biscuits C. newspapers D. vegetables
5. They get _______ visits from their families.
A. regular B. a lot of C. rare D. hardly
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A-II. Listen and fill in the gaps with suitable words .
Bill Gates is an American inventor, computer programmer, philanthropist, and____6____, who was born in Seattle, Washington. He is reportedly worth nearly $_____7______, making him one of the wealthiest people in the country. He _____8______, and was head of Microsoft Corporation for years, and is still on the board for the computer software giant.
Gates was born to an ____9____ class family. His father was an attorney; his mother was a banker, who worked for the United Way for many years. He is credited for being the father of the modern computer, and for almost single-handedly starting the personal computer ____10____. He studied at Harvard University, but did not ____11____ because of his desire to develop new software.
As a 13-year-old student at the Lakeside School, which was an exclusive college preparatory school, Gates was _____12____ to computer programming. That year he developed a program that allowed _____13____ to play tic-tac-toe against the computer. Gates was reportedly ____14_____ by the computer`s ability to reproduce software code. In ____15____, Gates approached a company called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). He convinced the owner that he had written a program that would work with his platform. The owner of the company bought into Gates ____16______, and the two men reached an agreement to develop software for MITS. The Microsoft Company was born.
Gates went on to _____17____ the Windows operating system with then partner IBM Corporation. The two companies had ______18_____ though, and their partnership ended quickly. Gates left _____19_____ in 2000, but remains on its board of directors. He remained active with the company for several years before stepping down in ____20______ 2014, becoming Technical Advisor for the firm.
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PART 2: PRONUNCIATION
Question I: Choose the word in each group which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others
21. A. annoy B. agree C. wardrobe D. assistant
22. A. festival B. participate C. directory D. patient
23. A. live B. lively C. wine D. likely
24. A. stronger B. singer C. finger D. longer
25. A. advised B. amazed C. practiced D. changed
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Question II: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
26. A. behavior B. habit C. festival D. object
27. A. application B. convenient C. academic D. decompose
28. A. pancake B. resident C. facility D. treatment
29. A. departure B. magnificent C. participate D. accommdation
30. A. sightseeing B. council C. teammate D. include
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PART 3: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Question I: Choose the best answer from the four options to complete each sentence below.
31. Why don`t you _______ a go? It`s not difficult. (make, have , do