De khao sat lan 2 hay L8

Vinh Tuong
lower secondary school
ĐỀ KHẢO SÁT THÁNG 12
(Thời gian 45 phút)

Full name: …………………
Class: 8 …….. …………….
Date: 11/12/2008
I./.Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
1.A. recycled B. applied C. tied D. marked
2.A. flour B. pour C. four D. rescource
3.A. sideboard B. cupboard C. blackboard D. keyboard
4.A. keen B. kite C. knife D. keep
5.A. sink B. wise C. unite D. excited
II./. Choose the right word or phrase to fill in each blank. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A,B,C or D.
6. Their mother told them ……………… so much noise.
A. not make B. not being making C. not made D. not to make
7. Parents have to try hard to understand the younger ……………
A. generation B. teenagers C. adolescent D. people
8. ………….. you show me the way to the nearest bank, please?
A. Can B. could C. Do D. Both A&B
9. Which sentence is correct?
A. My mother is very tired to cook tonight.
B. My mother is enough tired to cook tonight.
C. My mother is too tired to cook tonight.
D. My mother is too tired not to cook tonight.
10. I don’t like reading comic books. - ……………..
A. I don’t either B. I don’t neither C. Neither do I D. Both A & C
11. You can’t tell what some one is like just from their ……….. .
A. character B. appearance C. personality D. looking
12. ……………. off the computer when you have finished.
A. Turn B. Turning C. Turned D. Turns
13. After a month, Hoa got used to …………. in her new school.
A. study B. studying C. studied D. is studying
14. We are going to the English club. Would you like to ………….. us?
A. join B. come C. see D. meet
15. He does morning exercise …………… improve his health.
A. so as to B. in order to C. to D. All are correct
III./. Read the passage and answer the following questions.
How Nam has improved his English
- “…. In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English. My pronounciation of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not know how to improve them. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronounciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English – English dictionary to improve my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do”, said she. I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first prize in the English speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.”
16. What difficulties did Nam have in learning English in the first year?
17. Who wanted to meet Nam one afternoon after the lesson?
18. Where did they go after that?
19. What did the teacher show him then?
20. What did she tell him to improve his English grammar?
21. What did he win one year later?
V./. Rewrite these sentences, unchange the meaning.
22. My brother is the best student at English in his class.
Nobody in my brother ……………………………………………………..
23. “How long has it been since you left this city, Bob?” He said.
He wanted to know ………………………………………………………….
24. I’m very pleased that we shall meet again soon.
I’m looking ………………………………………………………………….
25. This is a too hard questiion for her to answer.
The question is so ..………………………………………………………….
26. We started learning English four years ago.
We have …………………………………………………………………….


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Answer key
I./.Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. Identify