1period test (08-09)

Name:________________________ ENGLISH TEST (I)
Class: 8A Period: 45 minutes
Date: _________, September __________, 2008

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I. LISTENING
Nga invites Hoa to see a movie. Listen the conversation three times and then complete the form (2ms)





II. READING
A. Read the passage carefully, then decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F). Number (0) is done for you: (1.5ms)
Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was a young man of twenty- three he moved with his parents to Canada. The late year, young Graham left his family and went to Boston. Though Bell was a dreamer, He was also a practical thinker and a man of action. In Boston, where he worked by day as a teacher of the deaf, he worked far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of telephone.
0. Alexander G. Bell was born in England. __T__
1. He immigrated to Canada in 1865. _____
2. Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston. _____
3. He experimented with the electrical transmission of
The sound by night _____
B. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank: (1.5ms)
MY OLDEST FRIEND
My oldest friend is called Hong Loan. We met twenty years (0) ago when we were both six years old. It was my first (1) _________at school and I was very unhappy because I wanted my mother. Hong Loan gave me a sweet and we (2) _________ friends immediately. We were together nearly everyday. Then I (3) _________ to university, but Loan didn’t. She stayed (4) _________ home and helped her parents do the business. I studied for six years because I (5) _________ to be a doctor. I had a lot of new friends, (6) _________ I didn’t see Loan very often. However; we often talked on the phone.
0. A. early B. ago C. Later D. Before
1. A. year B. week C. day D. Month
2. A. became B. become C. becomes D. is becoming
3. A. came B. went C. travelled D. visited
4. A. on B. in C. up D. at
5. A. enjoyed B. wanted C. thought D. liked
6. A. because B. however C. but D. so


III. LANGUAGE FOCUS
A. Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern ( circle A, B, C, or D). Number (0) is done for you: (1m)
0. A. different B. principal C. favorite D. fourteen
1. A. character B. generous C. sociable D. volunteer
2. A. humorous B. message C. assistant D.cupboard
3. A. object B. precaution C. orphanage D.
4. A. reserved B. stationary C. medicine D. opposite

B. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete each following sentences: (2ms)
1. She isn’t old ______________ to be in my class.
A. many B. much C. enough D. too
2. Every day She _____________ up at 6.00 and has breakfast with her parents.
A. gets B. got C. is getting D. will get
3. It is safe to keep this medicine out of children____________.
A. B. place C. hand D. reach
4. In Vietnam, all students at high school _____________ wear uniform when they go to school.
A. ought to B. must C. can D. may
5. She wants to get up early so she ____________buy an alarm clock.
A. ought to