FIRST SEMESTER EXAM & KEYS 08-09-E8

School: Ngo Gia Tu THE FIRST SEMETER EXAMINATION
Class: 8… Subject: English 8 Time allowed: 45mis
Name: …………………….
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I/ PHONETICS
-Chọn từ được gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với các từ còn lại:
1. a. love b. home c. come d. some
2. a. stay b. tale c. dad d. great
-Chọn từ có trọng âm được nhấn khác với các từ còn lại:
3. a. appear b. January c. neighbor d. housework
4. a. station b. order c. customer d. commercial
II/ LEXICO-GRAMMAR
-Chọn từ hoặc cụm từ đúng nhất để hoàn thành các câu sau:
5. We must be there …………7:30 and 8:15.
a. at b. before c. between d. after
6. Vietnamese Language is different …………English language.
a. as b. like c. with d. from
7. How long have you been there?-I have been here………three months.
a. on b. in c. for d. since
8. Tim’s Spanish pronunciation is not good so he should …………it.
a. believe b. make c. improve d. need
9. …………helps to sell a new product.
a. An exhibition b. An advertisement c. A contest d. A performance
10. You can shop …………in the new shopping mall in town.
a. with comfortable b. in comfortable c. with comfort d. in comfort
11. She phoned Tim and told him that …………
a. worked really hard. b. worked real hard. c. worked really hardly. d. worked real hardly
12. Next month, we are going to have an …………month.
a. environmental b. environment c. environ d. environmentalist
13. Last night I watched the movie Romeo and Juliet. At last they killed ……….
a. himself b. herself c. themselves d. together
14. The weather ……….nice yesterday.
a. is b. was c. will be d. has been
15. Bell started ……….with rays of transmitting speech.
a. experiment b. to experimenting c. experimenting d. experimented
16. As a student, you ……….hard to please your parents.
a. ought to working b. ought working c. ought to work d. ought work
17. My father was good at swimming. He used to ……….swimming in summer.
a. go b. goes c. went d. going
18. She told me ……….you this present.
a. giving b. to give c. gave d. given
III/ READING
-Đọc đoạn văn sau rồi chọn True (đúng) hay False (sai) cho các câu sau:
I’m Hai Ninh. I really feel like leaving home but I’m only fifteen. My mum and Dad are so strict (nghiêm khắc) they won’t let me do any of the things my friends do. For example, on a Saturday evening everyone goes to the disco but my parents says I have to be home by nine o’clock and the disco doesn’t finish until twelve. It’s really unfair and everyone laughs at me and calls me a baby.
Also my mum goes into my bedroom when I’m at school and I’m sure she looks through my things. When I ask her not to she says it’s not my house and I’m too young to have a private (riêng tư) life.
19. …….Hai Ninh is old enough to leave home.
20……...He can do anything his friends do.
21……...His friends call him a baby and laugh at him.
22………His mum doesn’t allow him a private life.
-Đọc đoạn văn sau rồi trả lời các câu hỏi bên dưới:
We moved into our new house on a warm September day. It was not really a new house; it was a hundred and four years old, but it was new to us. The house had running water, gas and electricity, but for some reason there was no electric light in the kitchen. It was something quite unexpected: a house with electricity but without a kitchen light. It