English test 4

ENGLISH TEST 4
Full name: ................................ Time: 45 minutes
Class : 8......
I. Listen and fill in the missing information. (2,5ms)
Here is today’s (1) …….. for the international traveler. Let’s start with Sydney. It will be a dry day in Sydney today, and (2) ……... For the temperature, the low will be twenty and the high will be twenty six degrees. Tokyo will be (3)………and windy , with a low of fifteen and a high of twenty two. London is going to have a (4)…….day. It will be very (5) ……. with a low of minus three and a high of seven.
II. Circle a suitable word or pharse to fill in the blanks (2,5ms)
The lava …………... out when we flew overhead.
a. pour
b. was pour
c. was pouring
d. poured

 2. The head of four American presidents …………... into the rock in Mount Rushmore
a. is carved
b. are carved
c. is carving
d. are carving

3. He is always complaining about the …………... of my suitcase.
a. heavy
b. heaviness
c. haeviliness
d. heavinessly

4. Ba was taking a shower at eight o’clock …………....
a. today
b. at the moment
c. last night
d. tomorrow

There are three ……… : water – fetching, fire – making and rice – cooking in the festival.
a. participants
b. competitions
c. festivals
d. teammates

A Visit From Saint Nicholas was written by …………....
a. Mr Robinson
b. Huckerberry
c. Antipater of Sidon
d. Clement Clack Moore

Viet Nam is a ………….... country.
a. rice–exporting
b. rice-exported
c. ricing-exporting
d. riced-exporting

8. Jane saw her old friend while she ………………. the street .
a. crossed
b. is crossing
c. was crossing
d. crosses

9. They are good friends. They ………………. each other for a long time.
a.know
c. will know
b. knew
d. have known

10. The pyramid of Cheops is one of the seven ………….of the world .
a. temples
b. wonders
c. landmarks


III. Read the passage. (2,5ms)
Centuries ago in Ancient Greece, a man by the name of Antipater of Sidon compile a list of what he thought were the seven wonders of the world. The seven included the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in present – day Iraq, the Statue of the Zues in Greece, and the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. The Pyramid is the only wonder you can still see today. Many people claim that there were other wonders, which the ancient Greeks knew nothing about. The include the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal in India and Angkor Wat in Combodia.
Angkor Wat should really be known as a wonder because it is the largest temple in the world. The temple was around the year 1100 to honor a Hindu God, but over the next three centuries it became a Buddhist religious center. The area surrounding the temple, Angkor Thom, used be the royal capital city. In the early 15th century, the Khmer rulers moved to Phnom Penh and Angkor was quite. It now is a famous tourist attraction.
* .Write true (T) or false (F) for each of the sentences below. (1m)
1. There are seven wonders of the world


2. Angkor Wat is the largest temple in the world


*. Circle the correct word or pharse to complete sentences below. (1,5ms)
3. The ……………. is only surviving wonder we can see today
a. The Great Wall of China
b. The Pyramid of Cheops

c. Angkor Wat
d. The Statue of Zues.

 4. The Great Wall of China …………………………………………….
a. was a temple.
b. is the longest structure in the world

c. is a pyramid.
d. is the highest mountain in the world

 5 In the 1400s, the Khmer King ………………………………………
a. built Angkor Wat
b. choose Phnom Penh as the new capital

c. moved the temple to Phnom Penh
d. turned Angkor Wat into Buddhist center

IV. Rewrite the sentences (2,5ms
1. “I’m a student” ( Use reported speech)
=> ………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Yesterday when Minh (arrive) home , his mother (cook) dinner. (Supply the correct tense)
=> ………………………………………………………………………………………
3. France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876 . (Use passive form)
=> ………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Viet Nam is a