Đề thi Olympic Tiếng Anh lớp 8 vòng 1 năm 2013 - 2014

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Đề thi Tiếng Anh qua mạng (IOE) lớp 8

Chỉ còn vài ngày nữa là các bạn học sinh lớp 8 bước vào kì thi Olympic Tiếng Anh, đây là thời điểm quan trọng để các bạn ôn tập và củng cố lại kiến thức, kỹ năng. Hiểu được điều đó chúng tôi đã sưu tầm và xin được gửi tới bạn: Đề thi Olympic Tiếng Anh lớp 8 vòng 1 năm học 2013 - 2014.

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This text is in rough-draft form. Read it and then answer the questions that follow about composing, revising, and editing the rough draft.
The Pony Express
(1) When the California Gold Rush began in 1848, miners on the West Coast had no fast communication with the rest of the United States. (2) Ships that sailed around South America took months to bring mail to the gold fields. (3) The first mail to go overland to California arrived in May 1848. (4) Carried by train and stagecoach, mail took a month to cross the continent.
(5) A California senator and a Missouri businessman decided California needed faster mail service. (6) They bought 400 horses, and hired a team of eighty riders. (7) They also set up 190 stations that stretched almost 2,000 miles along a route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. (8) They called there new mail service the Pony Express.
(9) On April 3, 1860 a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph. (10) At four o'clock that afternoon, the first rider galloped west with it. (11) At the same time, another rider was traveling east from Sacramento with mail. (12) The average speed of the ponies was 8 miles per hour. (13) So the mail traveled about 200 miles a day. (14) A letter from Missouri usually reached California in ten days or less. (15) The fastest run ever was 7 days and 17 hours. (16) At first, mail was delivered only once a week in California. (17) That was upped to two weekly deliveries in June of 1860.
(18) Pony Express riders were young and lightweight. (19) Many were teenagers. (20) Each rider rode about 75 miles a day, changing horses five times. (21) They worked in all kinds of weather, day and night. (22) When a rider reached his home station, he handed his mailbag to another rider. (23) In a year and a half of operations, only one mail pouch was lost.
(24) The Pony Express was put out of business by new technology—the telegraph. (25) The first telegraph had been set up in the East in 1844. (26) It wasn't until 1860, however, that workers began to string telegraph wires across the West. (27) On October 24, 1861, the transcontinental telegraph was completed, and telegrams could be sent to and from California. (28) Two days later. (29) The Pony Express went out of business.
Câu 1.
(8) They called there new mail service the Pony Express.
Which is the correct way to write sentence 8?
- A. They called they're new mail service the Pony Express.
- B. They called there new mail service the Pony Express.
- C. They called the'yre new mail service the Pony Express.
- D. They called their new mail service the Pony Express.
Câu 2.
(9) On April 3, 1860 a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph.
Which is the correct way to write sentence 9?
- A. On April 3 1860 a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph.
- B. On April 3 1860, a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph.
- C. On April 3, 1860, a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph.
- D. On April 3, 1860 a train from the East brought mail into St. Joseph.
Câu 3.
(28) Two days later. (29) The Pony Express went out of business.
How should sentences 28 and 29 be rewritten?
- A. Two days later – the Pony Express went out of business.
- B. Two days later, the Pony Express went out of business.
- C. Two days later; the Pony Express went out of business.
- D. Two days later. The Pony Express went out of business.
Câu 4.
Which book would be most useful as a source of information for this text?
- A. A History of the California Forty-Niners
- B. Folklore of the American West
- C. The Old West's First Mail Service
- D. The Basics of Horsemanship
Câu 5.
What would be another suitable title for this text?
- A. "The Rise and Fall of the Pony Express."
- B. "The California Gold Rush."
- C. "Mail Delivery to California."
- D. "The Riders of the Pony Express."
Câu 6.
What is the main purpose of this text?
- A. To inform
- B. To persuade
- C. To raise questions
- D. To make comparisons
Câu 7.
Jackie Robinson, ____ to play baseball in the major leagues, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Which of the following choices best fills in the blank in the sentence above?
- A. The Black American who first
- B. The first Black American
- C. Was the first Black American
- D. The first and a Black American who
Câu 8.
In bacteria and in other organisms, ______is the nucleic acid DNA that provides the genetic information.
Which of the following choices best fills in the blank in the sentence above?
- A. Both
- B. Which
- C. And
- D. It
Câu 9.
On December 7, 1787, Delaware became a first state to ratify the Constitution.
Which of the following changes corrects an error in the sentence above?
- A. Change On to In.
- B. Change became to become.
- C. Change a to the.
- D. Change to ratify to to be ratified.
Câu 10.
Nutritionists believe what diet affects how one feels physically and emotionally.
Which of the following changes corrects an error in the sentence above?
- A. Change Nutritionists to Nutritionist.
- B. Change what to that.
- C. Change how to what.
- D. Change physically to physical.