DE THI 8 Tuan E 6

Nhan Dao Secondary School
Name : ……………………….
Class : 8/…… No : …………
THE FIRST MID-TERM TEST
Grade : 8 (2011-2012) - Time allowed : 45 minutes





I. Choose the best answer for each sentence bellow: (2.0 ms)

Mrs Hoa has _____________. A. curly short hair B. short curly hair C. hair curly short D. hair short curly
Alexander Graham Bell was born _____________ March 3, 1847. A. in B. on C. at D. to
The bag is not_____________ to carry everything. A. big enough B. enough big C. big enough for D. to big enough
Nobody helped us. We did the test_____________. A. myself B. ourselves C. themselves D. yourselves
Do you know that the earth _____________ around the sun in 365 days? A. move B. moving C. moves D. moved
People who can not hear or speak are called_____________. A. deaf B. mute C. deaf-mute D. deaf-mutes
When I was a child, I _____________ to cry at night. A. use B. use to C. like D. used to
Our friends_____________ watch an action movie on TV tonight. A. are B. are going to C. go to D. is going to

II. Use the correct word form : (1mark)
Saving ……………..…………… is saving money. (electric)
Who was the ………………………….. of the television. (invent)
The river is very ………………………………… for swimmers. ( danger)
Mai is very…………………………………………… ( beauty )

III. Use the correct verb forms : (2marks)
We oughtn’t …………………. Lazily and carelessly. (work)
Water …………………….. (boil) at 100oC.
I don’t think I ………………………… out tonight. I’m too tired. (go)
I ………………………..born in Vinh Long in 1985. (be)
Peter isn’t old enough………………………. ( play ) in our group
He used to …………………………………….( make ) water at night
The shirt is too expensive for my mother ……………………….( buy ).
She ( not, practice) …………………………..the lesson yesterday.

IV.Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the passage: (1,5 marks)

Hang is my best friend. I love her ………(1)……… very much. She is charming, kind-heart and sociable. She always helps the poor and the orphans. She spent most of her free time doing the ……(2)…….. work in the orphanage. She also joins the dance club of city center. My classmates enjoy her ……(3)……… of humor. I often ask her to tell some ……(4)…….When I’m not happy, I think that I’m …(5)………… to have a friend like her. She is a hard-working student, she always gets good ………(6)…… She usually helps me do my homework. What a lovely friend!
1. A. use B. family C. friend D. character
2. A. house B. chore C. volunteer D. duty
3. A. character B. sense C. sent D. mood
4. A. jokes B. story C. films D. things
5. A. luckily B. pretty C. kind D. lucky
6. A. exercise B. grades C. work D. games

V. Read the passage, then decide if the statements that follow are True or False(1 ms)
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was 23, he emigrated to Canada with his parents. Before the year was over, Alexander Graham Bell left his family and went to Boston. Although he was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker and a man of action. In Boston, where he worked as a teacher of the deaf mutes. He worked far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of the telephone.

1. A. G. Bell was born in England. ……………
2. He emigrated to Canada in 1865. ……………
3. He went to Boston when he was 23. ……………
4. He worked with the deaf mutes in Boston. ……………

VI. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning, beginning with the words given. (2.5marks)
Mark is too young to ride his bike to school. ( Mark isn’t
I’ll telephone you tomorrow evening. ( I’ll make