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Chau Van Liem Junior High School
Full name: ___________________
Class: 8A___

ENGLISH TEST
Time: 45 minutes
Date: Sept. ____, 2012
Marks

I/ LISTENING (1m)
Listen to the passage and check the “True” or “False” statements.
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1. The principal, Mr. Kelvin will be available on Tuesday.
2. The principal will have an appointment with the woman at
10.30.
3. The woman’s name is Mary Nguyen.
4. Her telephone number is 65683720942.
II/ VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. (3ms)
Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences
1. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
a. machine b. character c. chemical d. school
2. Bao spends his free time ______ volunteer work at a local orphanage.
a. doing b. do c. to do d. did
3. A: Is she going to drive a car?
B: No, she’s __________________.
a. not enough old to drive a car b. enough not old to drive a car
c. not old enough to drive a car d. enough old to drive a car
4. Washing clothes, cooking, sweeping the yard are called .......……
a. chores b. homework c. home d. house
5. Alexander Graham Bell was born ______ March 3, 1847.
a. in b. on c. at d. during
6. Minh will have to cook dinner ____________.
a. yourself b. herself c. themselves d. himself
7. Nga has a movie ticket. She ___________ see a movie.
a. is going to b. will c. is d. are going to
8. Choose the word whose main stress pattern is placed differently from the others.
a. generous b. reserved c. humorous d. sociable
9. You ought _______ harder.
a. study b. studying c. studies d. to study
10. Would you like ______________ a message?
a. leave b. to leave c. leaving d. left
11. I _________ a letter from my old friend last week.
a. gave b. sent c. received d. took
12. It is dangerous to let children _________ in the kitchen.
a. to play b. playing c. play d. to playing




III/ READING (3.5ms)
A. Complete the dialogue with suitable words in the box (1.5ms)
deaf-mutes on transmitting demonstrated experiments in exhibitions commercial

 Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 (1) __________Edinburgh. He later emigrated, first to Canada and then to the USA in the 1870s. In America, he worked with (2) ________________at Boston University. Bell started experimenting with ways of (3) _______________speech over a long distance. This led to the invention of the telephone. Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, conducted many (4) ___________________and finally came up with a device which they first introduced in 1876. Travelling around America, Bell (5)________________ his invention to the public at countless exhibitions and by 1877 the first telephone was in (6) ___________________ use.
B. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions. (2ms)
I am lucky enough to have a lot of friends. However, each of us has a different character. Nam is the most sociable; he also very kind and generous. Binh and Thanh are quite reserved in public. Both of them enjoy school work and sports. Binh is very good at football and he is a member of the school team. Thanh likes swimming and reading books in the school library. I am not as outgoing as Nam, but I enjoy telling jokes when we have free time. My friends usually enjoy my sense of humor. Although we have different characters, all of us are very close friends.
1. How many friends does the writer have?

2. Who is the most sociable?

3. What are Binh and Thanh like in public?

4. Do they have the same character?

IV/ WRITING (2, 5 ms)
1. My sister is old. She can drive a car. (Combine each pair of sentences into one sentence