Tuyển tập 353 đề thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh lớp 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 (có đáp án)

Question 4: Give the correct form the word provided to fill each gap. (5 pts)
1. The people possess ______ rights. VIOLATE
2. Various ______ by police officers were brought to light by the enquiry. PRACTICE
3. Jim is one of the most ______ members of the committee. SPEAK
4. This is an original, but it’s a good ______. PRODUCE
5. The successful candidate will have superb ______ skills. LEAD
6. Kapo, the gorilla was born and bred in ______. CAPTIVE
7. She may look fierce but the lioness has ______ instincts like any other female animal.
MOTHER
8. The fish in the river provide an ______ supply of fish for the young bears. ABOUND
9. Nowadays only a ______of wild crocodiles remain here. HAND
10. Patricia's skill in playing the piano is quite ______. No other child in this group can play the
difficult pieces with similar mastery.
COMPARE
Your answers:
1 …………………………... 6 …………………………...
2 …………………………... 7 …………………………...
3 …………………………... 8 …………………………...
4 …………………………... 9 …………………………...
5 …………………………... 10 …………………………...
Question 5: Choose the best word(s) to fill in each blank in the following passage. (10pts)
Traffic lights
The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed outside the
House of Parliament in 1868. It (1)___ like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by
gas. (2)___, it explored and killed a policeman, and the accident (3)___ further development until
cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland in
1914. Three-colour signals, operated (4)___ hand from a tower in the (5)___ of the street, were
installed in New York in 1918. The (6)___ lights of this type to appear in Britain were in London,
on the junction between St. Jam’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed
(7)___ year later.
In the past, traffic lights were special. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los
Angeles the lights did not just (8)___ silently, but would ring bells to (9)___ the sleeping
motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10)___ by standard models which are
universally adopted.
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