40 Đề thi học sinh giỏi
Đề số 1:
I. Choose the word whose part underlined is pronounced differently from the others in each group.
1. A.helped B. liked C.watched D.hated
2. A.but B.sun C.cut D.put
3. A.overhead B.team C.speak D.bean
4 A.eggs B.floors C. books D.pens
5. A.chicken B.coach C.headache D.change
II. Choose the words or phrase that best complete each sentence:
1. Mary is a good ( typer / type / typist / type writer ) .She can type 60 words a minute .
2. Nobody is ready to go ,( is he / isn’t he / are they / aren’t they ) ?
3. Mai wishes she ( don’t / doesn’t / wasn’t / didn’t ) have to clean all the windows.
4. Are you used ( to work / to working / at work / with working ) on your own?
5. Tim has ( many / less / most / fewer ) friends than Jack.
6. Listen to what I am saying , ( don’t / will you / do you / are you ) ?
7. Everyone in the world ( wants / want / is wanting / are wanting ) to have a good life .
8. The carpenter will repair the ( break / broken / breaking / has broken ) chair.
9. He can’t earn money ( unless / until / if / without ) he has no job .
10.(How well / how good / what good / how ) she plays the piano !.
III. Write the verbs in the brackets in to its correct tense and form .
1.There (be) ................... no guests at all since I ( leave ) ................ .
2.I (never forget) ............... what you (just say)....................... .
3.Someone (steal) ...................... my handbag on the bus .
4.Hurry up or you (be) ................ late for class .
5.I (start) ................. learning English when I (be) .....................in grade 6.
6.Would you mind (open) ....................... the window ?
7.Some animals (not eat) ................. during the winter .
IV .Put one suitable word in each space.
I'm a writer, and I work ............(1) home. It doesn't particularly matter where my house ……
(2), as long as it is ...........(3) nice house. But last year my wife .............(4) a new job in a different part
of the country. So, we had to move. This was our first experience of ...................(5)one house and
selling another at the same time. I wouldn't ……..(6) to do it again. We quickly saw the
house ....................(7)we wanted. It was then that our problems began: The people who wanted to buy
our house couldn't sell ...............(8)and the man whose house we wanted couldn't find a ……. (9)he
liked. It ...........(10) us nine months to buy the house. Now, I'm not sure if I like it.
V. Rewrite the sentences , beginning with the words given in such away that they remain the same
meaning as the old ones.
1.Linh is a better cook than Hoa.
Hoa can’t…………………
2.Nga is pleased to meet her aunt again soon.
Nga is looking ………….
3.Their teacher is making them study hard .
They are ………………..
4. It was so late that nothing could be done
It was too....
5.We started living here fifteen years ago.
We have ………………….
6.This is the first time I have eaten this kind of food .
I haven’t …………..
7.Trung’s parents gave him a mobile on his birthday.
Trung ………………
8.’’I am very busy . I will ring you tomorrow ” Susan said to me.
Susan……………….