Đề thi học sinh giỏi huyện môn Anh lớp 8 phòng GD và ĐT huyện Cẩm Xuyên, Hà Tĩnh có đáp án

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered boxes

Supply the correct form of the word to complete the sentence. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

Find a mistake in each line, then correct it.
Nam is a student. This year he had a very interested summer
holiday. He traveled with him classmates to a mountainous area
in Hoa Binh province. They gone there to help make a road
through a forest among two villages. " It was very difficult
because there had no water to drink and no shops where we
could bought food,"said Nam. " It was very cold and wet
in the mountains. It is one of the wetter places in the country."
Nam stayed in the mountains since six weeks. It was hard work,
But he says it was the best thing he has ever did. He is hoping
to return next year to do any more work there

Read the passage and fill in each blank with one suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

I arrived in London at (1) __________ the railway station was big, black and dark. I didn't know the way to my hotel, (2) __________ I asked a porter. I not (3) _________ spoke English very carefully, but very clearly as (4) __________ the porter, however, could not (5) ________ me. I repeated (6) __________ question several times and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke (7) _________ slowly nor clearly. "I am a foreigner", I said. Then he spoke (8) __________, but I could not understand him. My teacher (9) _______ spoke English like that! The porter and I looked at (10) _________ other and smiled.

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

Most people agree that computers are the most important (1)_____ of the 20th century. The 1st business computers (2) ________ introduced just about 30 years ago, and now they are being (3) _______ a wide variety of fields; from banking to space travel (4) _______, until just few years ago, computers were wery large expensive (5) _______ owned by large corporations and governments. (6) _______ everyone knew that computers existed, very few people had ever seen one and even fewer had used one. Then in the 19705 the silicon chip was invented. Because this electronic device could store a large (7) _________ of information in a very small spare, computers could be much smaller and less (8) ______ than the huge mainframe computers used by corporation. Some computer manufacturers believed that people might like (9) ________ computers in their homes, offices and schools so the (10) ______ computers were born.