PHÒNG GD&ĐT SÔNG LÔ ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG 3 CẤP TRƯỜNG

TRƯỜNG THCS SÔNG LÔ NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 8
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

(Đề thi có 08 trang)

SECTION A: LISTENING
Part 1. Listen to an interview with Mick Davidson, an animal rights activist, and
complete the sentences. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A
NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
* Animal rights protesters destroyed expensive__equipment___ (1) at a research
laboratory.
* Davidson believes that using animals in experiments is a __crime_____(2).
* Firms need a lot of money to set up ___research expirements _____ (3).
* Davidson hasn’t got any shoes that are made of ________(4).
* Newspapers publish ___articles____ (5) that Mick Davidson has written.
* Davidson damaged a fur coat in a shop in __London_____ (6).
* In one illegal action, Davidson removed video ____record___ (7) from a laboratory,
which halted the research.
* In the attack on a laboratory, Davidson and his ADG colleagues took thirty _____(8)
away with them.
* Davidson doesn’t support the use of ____violence____ (9), except against property.
* The ADG has apologized to people that they have harmed without ____ _____ (10).

Part 2. You are going to listen to a conversation with a woman who wants to join
an international social club. Listen and complete the form. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer. Write your
answers on the answer sheet.
International Social Club
APPLICATION FORM
Name: Jenny Foo
Age: 21
Nationality: (1) _______malaysian________
Address: (2) ____13 angle sea______ Road, Bondi
Mobile phone: (3) _____0404229160_______
Occupation: (4) _____economist_____
Free time interests: (5) _______dancing_____

1
Part 3. You will hear a radio with a road safety expert on the topic of road rage
then choose the best answer. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. James says that drivers become angry if _____________.
A. they think they will be delayed. B. other drivers threaten them.
C. other people don’t drive as well as they do. D. they lose control of their
car.
2. Revenge rage can lead motorists to ________________.
A. chase after dangerous drivers. B. become distracted whilst
driving.
C. deliberately damage another car. D. take unnecessary risks.
3. Most ‘revenge raggers’ are ______________.
A. young male drivers. B. drivers of large vehicles.
C. inexperienced drivers. D. people who drive little.
4. What, according to James, does the experiment with grass show?
A. people living in country areas are better drivers.
B. strong smells help us drive more safely.
C. our surroundings can affect the way we drive.
D. regular breaks on a journey keep drivers calm.
5. James thinks the hi-tech car _________________.
A. sounds less irritating than a passenger. B. is not very reliable.
C. could cause further anger. D. would be difficult to
control.

SECTION B: LEXICO – GRAMMAR:

Part 1. Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following
sentences.
1. They _________ me believe that they had left the district.
A. led B. made C. assured D. confirmed
2. This work needs _________ by ten today.
A. finish B. finishing C. to finish D. to have
finished
3. You must lend me the money for the trip. _________, I won’t be able to go.
A. Consequently B. Nevertheless C. Otherwise D. Although
4. _________ of going to the beach, we went up to the mountains.
A. On behalf B. In place C. Instead D. On
account
5. The Wilsons were lucky when they_________ to sale their house so quickly.
A. managed B. succeeded C. could D. risked
6. She wondered _________ her father looked like now, after so many years away.
A. how B. what C. whose D. that

2
7. The fire _________ to have started in the furnace under the house.
A. is believed B. that is believed C. they believed D. that they
believed
8. Someone comes to visit us soon, _________?
A. doesn’t he B. hasn’t he C. haven’t they D. don’t they
9. He talks so much as if he _________the owner of the party.
A. is B. being C. was D. were
10. Mrs Karen went to a lot of_________ and expense to choose and send that present.
A. anxiety B. trouble C. difficulty D. car
11. There are over 2,000 varieties of snakes, ________are harmless to humans.
A. mostly they B. most of them C. most of which D. which
most
12. There is no __________ explanation for what happened.
A. scientifically B. scientist C. science D. scientific
13. –“I’ve passed my driving test.” –“_____________.”
A. It’s nice of you to say so. B. Do you?
C. Congratulations! D. That’s a good idea.
14. I could not _____ the lecture at all. It was too difficult for me.
A. make off B. take in C. get along D. hold on
15. To buy this type of product, you must pay half of the money ________, and pay
the rest on the day of delivery.
A. in advance B. in cheque C. in cash D. in charge
16. John lost the __________ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very
angry with him because of his carelessness.
A. blue beautiful new Germany B. beautiful new blue German
C. new beautiful blue Germany D. beautiful blue new German
17. Her father is a _______ drinker. He is always drinking.
A. strong B. heavy C. addictive D. capable
18. It’s high time we _______ something about the pollution.
A. did B. had done C. made D. had made
19. You’d better drive. I’m too ______ for such traffic.
A. experienced B. experiencing C. inexperienced D.
inexperiencing
20. Older people rarely approve ________ habits of the young generation.
A. for B. to C. of D. with

Part 2. Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each sentence.
1. Don’t worry about the volcano. It’s been …….inactive……….. for years. (act)
2. When you travel into space, you can eat and drink in ……weightloss…... (weight)
3. Your life will change ………….. when you have a baby. (drama)

3
4. Meditation is great as a means of ……………….……….. (relax)
5. The teacher asked us to ……………….……….. the main ideas in the chapter
(summary)
we had read in class.
6. Everybody listens to David Guetta's music. It's so ……………….………..
(commerce)
7. Butterflies are thoroughly ……………….……….. by scientists. (class)
8. Many people don't understand the ……………….……….. of life. (simple)
9. Nowadays there are lots of ……………….……….. species of animals in the (danger)
world, for example, the panda.
10. The music in the festival was so loud. It was ……………….………..! (deaf)

Part III. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find the mistakes and
correct them.
Line 1 The main sources of energy in the world are fossil fuels - coal, oil and
2 natural gas. Fossil fuels are non-renewable - this mean=> means that nature cannot
3 recreate them as fast as people using=>are using them up today. Sometimes in the
4 future, all of them will run out and we will need other renewable sources of energy.
5 Some renewable energy sources are being=>are available now. One of them is
6 water, what=>which has been used to create energy for thousands of years. Today,
7 hydro-or water power, generate=>generated by huge dams, is a major source of
8 electric=>electricity in many parts of the world. But hydropower has its own costs.
9 When dams are built, the area above them is flooded, even for miles. In some
10 places, people lose their homes as well as the rich soil river in which they
11 once growed=>grew their crops. In other places, wonderful wild landscapes
12 buried=>are buried forever under new, artificial lakes. Below the dams, the natural
habitats of fish and wildlife in the river valley are destroyed as the course of the
river is changed.

SECTION C: READING
Part 1. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
What’s your dream? Touring castles in Scotland? Walking on the Great Wall of
China? Working to improve the lives of women in rural Uganda? If you’re thinking of
studying (1) ________, there’s no end to the places you can go, things you can see,
and subjects you can study. At many top schools, such as Duke, Tufts, or Brown, over
a third of the junior class take the opportunity to complete part of their (2) ________
outside of the United States. Even if your school doesn’t have an extensive study
abroad program, you can often get credit from a different school.
Multiple benefits accrue to those who spend significant (3) ________ in
another country, and a significant proportion of students see the experience as an

4
important (4) ________ of their college years. You’re likely to have fun. But if you’re
also thinking about study abroad as a way to gain a critical career advantage, read on.
You’ll find that all foreign experiences are not created equal in the minds of
employers.
Employers are looking for graduates who can (5) ________ well with others,
both in person and in writing. They know the (6) ________ of cross-cultural
understanding and an appreciation for different points of view. They gravitate toward
students who demonstrate maturity, initiative, and (7) ________. All of these assets
can be demonstrated through study abroad, but it’s going to be much (8) ________ to
set yourself apart if you’ve taken the easy route.
It’s not hard to find the “easy route”: that’s the one where you go with your
friends to another country; all the arrangements are made for you by the school—
including the American-style apartment where you live with your classmates. In this
scenario, it doesn’t (9) ________ which country you go to because all your classes
will be in English, and possibly even taught by your American professors. You’ll
undoubtedly have a somewhat different experience, but to do the “easy route” is to
forego some of the major (10) ________ of your time away.
1. A. away B. outdoor C. outside D. abroad
2. A. educator B. educating C. education D. educations
3. A. time B. lifetime C. moment D. period
4. A. way B. thing C. part D. terminal
5. A. communicate B. work C. talk D. do
6. A. relation B. link C. reason D.
importance
7. A. creating B. creation C. creativity D. creative
8. A. faster B. shorter C. harder D. quicker
9. A. matter B. show C. problem D. trouble
10. A. waste B. advantages C. experience D. giving
- Take opportunity to V: tận dụng cơ hội
- extensive study abroad program
- accrue(v): + to st: đổ dồn về
+ from st: sinh ra từ, do st mà ra
- cross-cultural understanding
- gravitate(v) to/towards : hướng về
- set oneself apart: làm nổi bật bản thân

Part 2. Read the following passage and choose the best option marked A, B, C or
D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all
living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive (c1) in a world

5
where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to
absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that
many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those
forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water-loving
animals can exist there. Few large animals are found (Câu 2). The giants of the
North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is
open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled
forest (câu 3). Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and
ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere
environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word.
The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and
physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in
the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the
burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt
only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but
18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
…………………………………………………………………………………
……….
1. The title for this passage could be _____ .
A. Desert Plants

6
 B. Life Underground
C. Animal Life in a Desert Environment
D. Man’s Life in a Desert Environment
2. The phrase those forms in the passage refers to all of the following EXCEPT
_____.
A. water-loving animals
B. the coyote and the bobcat
C. moist-skinned animals
D. many large animals
3. According to the passage, creatures in the desert _____.
A. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals
B. live in an accommodating environment
C. are more active during the day than those in the tangled forest
D. are not as healthy as those anywhere else in the world
4. The word emaciated in the passage mostly means _____.
A. wild B. cunning C. unmanageable D. unhealthy
5. The word them means _____.
A. animals B. people C. water D. minutes

Part 3. Read the following passage and think of a word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word for each space.
Many thousands of children have accidents in their homes. As a (1) ……………….
……….. , some children died. The most common accidents are with (2) ……………….……….. and

hot water. Small children often touch pots of (3) ……………….……….. water on the stove. The
pots fall over and the hot water falls on the children and (4) ……………….……….. them. Some
children like to (5) ……………….……….. with fire. They enjoy striking matches or throwing
things on a fire to make it burn brightly. If the fire gets too big, it gets out of (6)
……………….………... Then the house (7) ……………….……….. fire. It is very (8) ……………….……….. to

play with matches. When a child strikes a (9) ……………….……….., the flame soon burns
near his fingers. Then he (10) ……………….……….. the match on the floor. Many houses
catch fire in this way.

Part 4. Read the passage carefully and choose the best heading from i to ix for
each paragraph from A to F.
THE LITTLE ICE AGE
A  This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other
climatic shifts, but, before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context.
We tend to think of climate - as opposed to weather - as something unchanging,
yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its entire existence,
with at least eight glacial episodes in the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors
adapted to the universal but irregular global warming since the end of the last

7
 great Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, with dazzling opportunism. They
developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles, decades of heavy
rainfall or unaccustomed cold; adopted agriculture and stock-raising, which
revolutionized human life; and founded the world's first pre-industrial
civilisations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden
climate change, in famine, disease and suffering, was often high.
B  The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth
century. Only two centuries ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold
winters; mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps were the lowest in recorded
memory, and pack ice surrounded Iceland for much of the year. The climatic
events of the Little Ice Age did more than help shape the modern world. They
are the deeply important context for the current unprecedented global warming.
The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze, however; rather an irregular
seesaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a quarter-century, driven
by complex and still little understood interactions between the atmosphere and
the ocean. The seesaw brought cycles of intensely cold winters and easterly
winds, then switched abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer rains,
mild winters, and frequent Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light
northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves.

C  Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because

systematic weather observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and
North America. Records from India and tropical Africa are even more recent.
For the time before records began, we have only 'proxy records' reconstructed
largely from tree rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete
written accounts. We now have hundreds of tree-ring records from throughout
the northern hemisphere, and many from south of the equator, too, amplified
with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica,
Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other locations. We are close to a
knowledge of annual summer and winter temperature variations over much of
the northern hemisphere going back 600 years.
D  This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries,
and some of the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part One
describes the Medieval Warm Period, roughly 900 to 1200. During these three
centuries, Norse voyagers from Northern Europe explored northern seas,
settled Greenland, and visited North America. It was not a time of uniform
warmth, for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts
in rainfall and temperature. Mean European temperatures were about the same
as today, perhaps slightly cooler.

8
E  It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in
about 1200. As the Arctic ice pack spread southward, Norse voyages to the
west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then ended altogether. Storminess
increased in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Colder, much wetter weather
descended on Europe between 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a
continent-wide famine. By 1400, the weather had become decidedly more
unpredictable and stormier, with sudden shifts and lower temperatures that
culminated in the cold decades of the late sixteenth century. Fish were a vital
commodity in growing towns and cities, where food supplies were a constant
concern. Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the European fish
trade, but changes in water temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further
offshore. The Basques, Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing
boats adapted to a colder and stormier Atlantic. A gradual agricultural
revolution in northern Europe stemmed from concerns over food supplies at a
time of rising populations. The revolution involved intensive commercial
farming and the growing of animal fodder on land not previously used for
crops. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries self-
sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective protection against famine.
F  Global temperatures began to rise slowly after 1850, with the beginning of the
Modern Warm Period. There was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry
farmers and others, to which the famine caused by the Irish potato blight
contributed, to North America, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa.
Millions of hectares of forest and woodland fell before the newcomers' axes
between 1850 and 1890, as intensive European farming methods expanded
across the world. The unprecedented land clearance released vast quantities of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time humanly
caused global warming. Temperatures climbed more rapidly in the twentieth
century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels
continued to soar. The rise has been even steeper since the early 1980s. The
Little Ice Age has given way to a new climatic regime, marked by prolonged
and steady warming. At the same time, extreme weather events like Category 5
hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
…………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….

9
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………

List of Headings
i.  Predicting climatic changes
ii. The relevance of the Little Ice Age today
iii. How cities contribute to climate change
iv. Human impact on the climate
v. How past climatic conditions can be determined
vi. A growing need for weather records
vii. A study covering a thousand years
viii. People have always responded to climate change
ix. Enough food at last
Example                                 Answer
0. Paragraph A                                 viii
1. Paragraph B ______
2. Paragraph C ______
3. Paragraph D ______
4. Paragraph E ______
5. Paragraph F ______
SECTION D. WRITING

10
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the
same as the sentence printed before it.
1. He got down to writing the letter as soon as he returned from his walk.
 No sooner …had he returned from his walk than he got down to writing the
letter….
2. The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately.
 So ………great was the demand that……………………….…..
3. The garage is going to repair the car for him next week.
@ He is going ………to have his car repaired next week…………………..
4. Success depends on hard work.
 The harder ……you work, the more successful you are………………………..
5. It’s impossible for us not to laugh when he starts singing.
 We can’t …………help laughing when he starts singing………..……..

Part 2. Write an essay within 200- 250 words on the following topic:
In some countries the average weight of people is increasing and their levels of
health and fitness are decreasing.
What do you think are the causes of these problems and what measures could be
taken to solve them?
_____THE END_____
Họ và tên thí sinh:………………………….………………. Số báo danh………………….

11
TRƯỜNG THCS SÔNG LÔ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM
ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG LỚP 8 VÒNG 3
NĂM HỌC 2022-2023
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

(HDC gồm 03 trang)

SECTION A: LISTENING (4 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)

Part 1. (2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)
3. research
1.equipment 2. crime 4. leather 5. articles
experiments

6. London 7. recordings 8. animals 9. violence 10. intention

Part 2. (1,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)

1. Malaysian 2. 13 Angle sea 3. 040 422 9160 4. Economist 5. dancing

Part 3. (1,0 point: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)

1.A 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.C

SECTION B: LEXICO – GRAMMAR: (6 points)

Part 1: Choose the correct option marked A, B, C, or D to complete the following
sentences.
(2,0 points: 0,1 pts/each correct answer)
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. A
6. B 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. B
11. C 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. B 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. C

Part 2. Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each sentence.
(2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)
1. inactive 6. commercial
2. weightlessness 7. classified
3. dramatically 8. simplicity
4. relaxation 9. endangered
5. summarize 10. deafening

Part III. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find the mistakes and correct
them. (2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)
1. Line 2: mean => means 6. Line 6: generate => generated
2. Line 3: using => are using 7. Line 7: electric => electricity

12
 3. Line 3: Sometimes => Sometime 8. Line 9: soil river => river soil
4. Line 5: are being => are 9. Line 10: growed => grew
5. Line 5: what => which 10. Line 11: buried => are buried

SECTION C: READING (6 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer
sheet to indicate the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
(2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)

1. D 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. A
6. D 7. C 8.C 9. A 10. B

Part 2. Read the following passage and choose the best option marked A, B, C or D to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. (1,0 point: 0,2 pts/each correct
answer)

1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. A

Part 3. Read the following passage and think of a word which best fits each space. Use
only ONE word for each space. (2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)

1. result 6. control
2. fire 7. catches
3. hot/ boiling 8. dangerous
4. burns 9. match
5. play 10. drops

Part 4. Read the passage carefully and choose the best heading from i to ix for each
paragraph from A to F. (2,0 points: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)
1. Paragraph B i
2. Paragraph C v
3. Paragraph D vii
4. Paragraph E ix
5. Paragraph F iv

SECTION D. WRITING (4 points)

Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it. (1,0 point: 0,2 pts/each correct answer)
1. He got down to writing the letter as soon as he returned from his walk.
 No sooner had he returned from his walk than he got down to writing the letter.
2. The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately.
 So great was the demand that they had to reprint the book immediately.
3. The garage is going to repair the car for him next week.
@ He is going to have his car/ the car repaired next week.
4. Success depends on hard work.
 The harder you work, the more successful you are/ will be.
 The harder you work, the more successful you will become.
13
 The harder you work, the more you succeed.
5. It’s impossible for us not to laugh when he starts singing.
 We can’t help laughing when he starts singing.
Part 2: Essay writing. (3 points)
Candidates’ essays are evaluated based on the following criteria:

Content: 40% (1.2 pts):

Arguments are adequately supported (with main ideas, supporting ideas and relevant
examples etc.).

Language: 30% (0.9 pts):

Demonstrate a diverse range of lexical items and grammatical structures.

Presentation: 30% (0.9 pts):

Write with suitable style, cohesion, coherence. Appropriate word count.

_____THE END_____

14