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ENGLISH 8 – THE FIRST SEMESTER TEST.
Time allowed: 45 minutes.

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Teacher’s comments.


I.Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
A. late B. half C. after D. hard
A. close B. no C. one D. so
A. reach B. teacher C. meat D. weather

II.Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
A. improve B. children C. shopping D. mountain
A. expensive B. geography C. assistant D. national

III.Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentence.
What do you have_____________lunch ?
A. to B. for C. in D. of
I’ll try my best_____________my English.
A improving B. improve C. improved D. to improve
He is not tall enough_____________the top of the shelf.
A. reach B. reaching C. reached D to. reach
They are going_____________their homework tonight.
A. to do B. doing C. do D. does
They bought new fishing rods to go_____________.
A. swimming B. shopping C. sailing D. fishing
She has to_____________the room twice a week.
A. cleaning B. clean C cleaned D. cleans
I can ride to school by_____________.
A. myself B. himself C. herself D. themselves
This book is_____________expensive than that one.
A. the most B. the same C. more D. as
The children are old enough to look after_____________.
A. ourselves B. themselves C. herself D. himself
_____________ is the study of the earth and its countries, mountains, rivers, weather, etc.
A. Geography B. Physics C. Chemistry D. Math

IV.Which underlined part is incorrect?
In many ways, I always prefer country life than city life.
A B C D
T.V is bringing not only informations but also entertainment.
A B C D
The countryside is too quite for me to live and work in.
A B C D
We are going to held a summer camp this July.
A B C D
How long do you and your classmates known each other?
A B C D

V.Read and choose the best option.
Great Britain is not a large country, It is much smaller (21)________ French. It (22)________ four parts: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England is the largest part of the country and has always been the strongest. English is the national (23)________ in all parts of Britain. All the people (24)________ live in Briatin can speak (25)________, but not all the people are English in that country.
A. to B. more C. than D. less
A. have B. having C. to have D. has
A. tounge B. words C. language D. writing
A. what B. who C. he D. which
A. Vietnamese B. English C. Chinese D. French

VI.Arrange these words to make sentences.
homework/ the / to / students / ought / their / carefully /do/. /
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has / the chores / to / today / Mai / do / himself /. /
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clean/ the/ teacher/ me/ told/ to/ blackboard/the/./
( ___________________________________________________________________________
She / my class / is / enough / old / in/ not/ to be/./
( ___________________________________________________________________________
how/ English/ to/ me/ tell/ study/ you/ Could/?/
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VII.Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Canada and then to the USA in the 1870s. In America, he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University. Soon, Bell started experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance. This led to the invention of the telephone. Thomas Watson was Bell`s assistant. Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1876. Bell demonstrated his invention at a lot of exhibitions. He died in 1922.
When and where was Alexander Graham Bell born?
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What did he do when he