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ĐỀ MÔN TIẾNG ANH – LỚP 8 Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút
I. Choose the best answer. (3.5 pts) 1. I _______ a letter from my old friend last week. a. sent b. gave c. received d. took 2. He is not _______ get married a. enough old to b. enough old for c. old enough to d. old enough for 3. City life is different _______ country life. a. from b. to c. of d. apart 4. My bag is more _______ than hers. a. cheaper b. expensive c. cheap d. expensively 5. They _______ Daisy since February. a. know b. knew c. has known d. have known 6. Tom is going to participate _______ the game. a. in b. at c. on d. over 7. My sister often looks at _______ in the mirror. a. yourself b. herself c. myself d. himself 8. We’ve seen this film _______ 8 o’clock. a. on b. in c. for d. since 9. You can reach her _______ 852317. a. on b. at c. in d. by 10. Jane is studying _______ for her exam. a. hard b. hardly c. good d. difficult 11. “May I help you?” – “_______” a. What can I do for you b. I’m afraid I’m very busy now c. Yes, that’s very kind of you d. How can I help? 12. _______ have you lived in this town? – For nearly 20 years. a. When b. Where c. How d. How long 13. The new shopping mall is quite _______ the present shopping area. a. different from b. the same c. like to d. similar 14. English learners learn new words _______ different ways. a. on b. at c. in d. for II. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. (1pt) hard fast for of themselves 1. I’ve got good grades _________ English and History. 2. If you want to pass the exam, you must study _________. 3. The children did everything __________ without any help. 4. The boy ran very _________ to catch the robber. III. Rewrite the following sentences as directed in parentheses. (3pts) 1. Lan is very tall. She can play volleyball. (Use “enough”) ( 2. Nam said to the driver, “Please turn left at the first traffic light.” (Use “reported speech”) ( 3. Minh studies hard. Nam studies hard, too. (Use “as…as”) ( 4. My sister is ten years old, and her sister is ten years old, too. (Use “the same …as”) ( 5. They intend to ski this Sunday. (Use “be going to”) ( 6. Customers / will / shop / comfort / not notice / weather / shopping mall. (Complete the sentence) ( ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7. They have waited for him since two hours. (Find and correct the mistakes in the sentence) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………( IV. Read the passage then decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F). (1pt) 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. Before the year was over, young Graham had left his family and gone 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 the telephone. _____ 1. Alexander G. Bell was born in England _____ 2. He emigrated to Canada in 1865 _____ 3. He went to Boston when he was twenty-three. _____ 4. Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston. V. Read the passage and then answer the questions below it. (1.5pts) A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and some children like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school, it isn’t so easy to learn a second language because the pupils have little time for it; and they are busy with other subjects as well. The best way for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind with something which we know already or which we easily remember because we have a picture of it