DE KIEM TRA HK II ( 2010-2011 )

PHÒNG GD-ĐT PHÙ CÁT . ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ II ( 2010-2011 )
MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH 8 .
Ngày thi : 9 - 5 - 2011
Thời gian làm bài : 45 phút ( Không tính thời gian phát đề )
I/ VOCABULARY & STRUCTURE .( 1 - 12 )( 3 ms )
Choose the word or phrase of words that best fits the gap in the following sentences .
01. Millions of Christmas cards _____ every year .
A. is sent B. are sent C. send D. will be sent
02. Could you show me how _____ this game ?
A. play B. played C. to play D. playing
03. Would you mind if I ______ a photo ?
A. take B. took C. taken D. to take
04. Do you mind _____ the door ?
A. close B. to close C. closed D. closing
05. _____ you ever _____to America yet ?
A. Have / been B. Has / gone C. Were / been D. Are / been
06. The Le family ____ when the mailman came .
A. sleep B. slept C. sleeping D. was sleeping
07. The poem _____by Clement Clarke Moore , an American professor , became popular in the USA.
A. write B. wrote C. written D. was written
08. I can see a boy _____ a water buffalo .
A. ride B. riding C. rode D. ridden
09. The Pyramid of Cheops is one of the seven _____ of the world .
A. wonders B. temples C. pyramids D. pagodas
10. A contest in which participants have to make a fire is called ______ contest .
A. fire-making B. water-fetching C. rice-cooking D. flower-arranging
11. The flight to Vientiane has _____ departed .
A. yet B. before C. already D. since
12. Five thousands years ago , the Egyptians wrote on _____ called papyrus .
A. a plant B. an animal C. a paper D. a plan
II/ READING COMPREHENSION . ( 13 - 28 ) ( 4 ms )
Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B , C or D .
45 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City ( 13 )_____ the town of Cu Chi , one of the most ( 14 ) ____ battlegrounds of the Vietnam war . It is here ( 15 ) _____ the early 1940’s and mid 60’s that the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong ( 16 ) _____ the main sections of tunnels that became a vital catalyst in their victory over the Americans and South Vietnamese . It is also ( 17 ) ____ to be the most bombed and devastated area in the history of warfare after the Americans used all their firepower ( 18 ) ____ them .
13.A. be B. is C. was D. are
14.A. beautiful B. wonderful C. dangerous D. famous
15.A. between B. in C. on D. among
16.A. build B. to build C. built D. building
17.A. claimed B. urged C. awarded D. invented
18.A. destroy B. destroyed C. destroying D. to destroy
Read the passage below and write T ( for True ) or F ( for False ) .
Today , television plays an important role in our modern life . We watch TV every day but not many people know John Logie Baird . He invented TV and he was called “ the amateur inventor ”.
John Logie Baird was born in 1888 in Scotland and educated in Glasgow . He earned a living by a razor blade salesman . In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could be sent by radio waves and Baird was convinced by the similar system for transmitting a picture . He worked all day and night in his tiny workshop without any support . In 1924 , he succeeded in transmitting a figure over more than three meters . He continued to experiment and on 25th October 1925 he transmitted the first television picture . The first thing on TV was a boy who worked in the office next to Baird’s workroom in London . In 1927 he sent pictures from London to Glasgow