đề tham khảo ôn thi hsg tiếng anh 8, test 52

TETS-52
I. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differrently
from the others.
1.A. score B. forward C. consider D. gold
2.A. seat B. meat C. heat D. head
3.A. luggage B. cage C. village D. cottage
4.A. ache B. cheese C. chemist D. character
5.A. liked B. changed C. stopped D. looked
6.A. seventh B. author C. though D. through
7.A. fire B. birth C. first D. skirt
8.A. energy B. stage C. general D. eager
II. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences
1. Those students always do things…………….
A. noise B. noisy C. noisily D.
noisier
2. My sister is ……………….from me.
A. different B. differ C. differing D.
difference
3. Those students worked……………….all day.
A. busy B. busier C. busily D. more
busy
4. What is the …………….of this lake?
A. long B. length C. short D.
lengthen
5. My sister is a very good ……………….
A. cook B. cooker C. cooking D.
cooked
6. Keep……………please! Our father is sleeping.
A. safe B. noisy C. quiet D. quite
7. I felt…………… after a hard working day.
A. tire B. tired C. tiring D.

happily
8. Kien can run the…………… in my class.
A. fastest B. faster C. more fastly D. fastly
III. Use the suggested words to make meaningful sentences.
1. My children/ like/ read/ picture books/ free time.
2. My brother/ fond/ listen/ pop music.
3. Some of us/ intrested/ collect/ stamps.
4. Most of my classmates/ enjoy/ play/ badminton
5. I/ myself/ interested/ visit/ museums.
6. It/ important/ do/ homework/ before/ go/ class.
7. I/ want/ reward/ her/ hard work
8. She/ seem/ easy/ talk/ with.
IV.Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
1. I felt very coldy when I went out of the room.
2. He learns English as well as his sister is.
3. When they came home yesterday, their children are preparing dinner.
4. I feel not as tired today as I felt yesterday.
5. We didn’t begin to study for the test yet.
6. He has forgotten to tell us when will she be back.
7. It’s pleasant of reading books in spare time.
8. Let’s paint the house weselves. It will be much cheaper.
V. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Be careful! A car (come).
2. If you feel tired, please (lie) down for a moment and you (feel) better.
3. Barbara (write) a lot of books for years. She (write) her first fifteen
years ago.
4. I never (be) to Russia. When you (go) there?
5. We (not catch) the train if we don’t hurry.
6. The play just (begin). You are a little late.
7. You (used) to play so much when you (live) in the country?

8. Yesterday Hoang (spend) two hours (repair) his computer set.
9. The concert (begin) at 7.30 tonight.
10.You (enjoy)(watch) the movie on TV last night?
VI. Complete the following passage.
I have two brothers, Tim and Tom. They (1)………….very similar
and a lot of people don’t know which is which. They (2)……………….have
blond hair and blue eyes, and they always wear jeans and T-shirts.
They like (3)……………the same things, too. For example, they both
like jazz and they’re crazy about football. They (4) ………… to a football
match once a week. Tim doesn’t like dancing or discos and Tom doesn’t like
them, (5)………… . Although they are twins, they are not exactly the (6)
…………… at everything. Tim works hard at school (7)……………….he
wants to go to university, but Tom is a bit lazy.
Our mother is often away (8)…………….home because of her job, so
we all work (9) …………….in the house. Most (10)…………the time is
fine, but sometimes we fight a bit.
VII. Rewrite the following sentences so that the meaning stays the same,
using the words given.
1. It started to snow at 5 o’clock.
 It has……………………………………………
2. When did you go to bed last night?
 What……………………………………… ?
3. This house is less comfortable than the one we saw last month.
 This house is not
as…………………………………………………………………
4. Sue began to be interested in healthy eating 3 years ago.
 Sue has
been……………………………………………………………………….
5. What time does Paul have to leave ?
 Do you know

what……………………………………………………………….
6. This book is very boring, and so is that one.
 This book is as
………………………………………………………………….
7. Will it be necessary for me to sleep under a mosquito net?
 Shall I have
to…………………………………………………………………….?
8. I last read a book on September 20.
 I
haven’t……………………………………………………………………
………