Đề kiểm tra giữa học kỳ 1 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 (Sách thí điểm)

THE 1ST MID-TERM 45-MINUTE TEST-ENGLISH 8
Name: 
Class: 
Find the word which has different sound in the underlined part in each line.
1.	A. sound	B. cloud	C. found	D.favourite
2.	A. what 	B. where	C. who	D. when
3.	A. crafts	B. stops	C. opens	D. months
4.	A. wanted	B. washed	C. watched	D. stopped
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.	
5.	A. admire 	B. honour 	C. title 	D. difficult
6.	A. describe 	B. struggle 	C. political 	D. society
7.	A. independence 	B. politicial 	C. immortality	D. different
8.	A. comfort	B. nation	C. apply	D. moment
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D.
9. Mai enjoys  to music, especially pop music in her free time
	A. hearing	B. playing	C. listening	D. talking
10. My dad doesn’t mind my mom from work every day.
	A. pick up	B. picked up	C. picking up	D. picks up
11. You should avoid _________ too much TV. It’s not good for your eyes.
 A. seeing B. looking C. watching D. to watch
12. Do you fancy  around the West Lake with me this Sunday morning?
	A. going	B. having	C. to go	D. have
13. My parents enjoy  on Sundays.
	A. garden	B. gardening	C. gardened	D. gardens
14. Lan used to love __________ in front of the computer for two hours but now she doesn’t
	A. using	B. sitting	C. doing	D. having
15. Why don’t we ________ our parents with some DIY projects? I think it is useful.
	A. help	B. do	C. make	D. give
16. My father detests . play soccer in the morning
A. playing	B. played	C. to play	 D. plays
Put the verbs/words in brackets into the correct form.
17. People in my country are very open and ________. I like to go there when I have free time.(friend)
18. He usually goes __________ the buffaloes with other boys in his village. (herd)
19. Harvest time is the __________ time of the year in the countryside. (busy)
20. Our garden is _________ in spring when almost flowers bloom. (colour)
21. My uncle lives in the city. He says it’s __________ than my village. (noisy)
22. They adore (make) ..and (eat) .. good food.
Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank.
My parents are farmers. They work very _(23)_________ on the paddy fields. They usually get (24)_______ very early in the morning. After (25)_________ breakfast, they feed the buffaloes, pigs, chicken, ducks and they (26)________ the eggs. From about eight, they work on the fields.
Fill the gaps with the words in the box. More than one word can be suitable for some gaps.
	Moreover	thirdly 	firstly	for these reasons	secondly
(27)__________, playing game on mobile phone can cause eye’s problems. (28) __________ mobile phone can change their way to some unwanted things. (29)__________, using many functions on mobile phone can make students to be addicted. They don’t care about time for study and family. (30) ____________, radiation from mobile phones can lead brain damage and cause bad health effects. (31)_________, parents should be considered before buying a mobile phone for your school children. 
Read the following passage, and answer the questions below:
Duong Lam: An ancient Vietnamese village
Duong Lam Village is located in Duong Lam Commune at a 45km distance from Hanoi. It is the birthplace of two kings in the history of Vietnam, Phung Hung and Ngo Quyen, who opened up the long-term self-control and independence period of Vietnam after Bach Dang Victory in the year 938.
All houses, gates, village gates and wells are built of laterite creating an architectural complex, a unique village that is typical for villages in the midlands in the North of Vietnam.
At present, there are still nearly old 200 houses and many other historical monuments such as Phung Hung Temple, Ngo Quyen Royal Tomb, Mong Phu Communal House, Ho Gam Hill at which Phung Hung liked tigers to rescue villagers and the temple at which the diplomat Giang Van Minh is worshiped.
32.Where is Duong Lam village?
____________________________________________________________
33.Who were the two kings whose birthplace is Duong Lam Village?
____________________________________________________________
34.What is Duong Lam typical for?
____________________________________________________________
35.How many old houses are there in Duong Lam?
____________________________________________________________
36.What are the famous historical monuments there?
____________________________________________________________
Writing
37.I really like to getting involved in team sports. (find a mistake)
________________________________________________________________________
38.Hung drives more carefully than his brother. (rewrite the sentence)
Hung’s brother __________________________________________________________
39.Vinh is really hooked on hanging out with friends. (rewrite the sentence)
Vinh really enjoys __________________________________________________________
40.Playing beach games is very interesting.
It is ______________________________________________________________________
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