Đề thi kiểm tra chất lượng học kì II năm học 2015 - 2016 môn: Tiếng Anh (lớp 8 nâng cao) thời gian: 60 phút

PHOỉNG GIAÙO DUẽC-ẹAỉO TAẽO VŨNG LIấM         ẹEÀ THI KIEÅM TRA CHAÁT LệễẽNG HOẽC Kè II 
TRệễỉNG THCS TRƯƠNG TẤN HỮU NAấM HOẽC 2015-2016
                                                                             MOÂN: TIEÁNG ANH (Lớp 8 Naõng cao)
                                                                                         Thụứi gian: 60 phuựt 
I/ Listening: (2 pts)
1. Listen the following passage then choose true or false:(1 pts)
 1.____ Hue is the ancient capital of Vietnam during the time of the Royal Nguyen (1802-1945).
 2.____ It takes up to 13 hours to get to Hue from Hanoi if you travel by bus.
 3.____ On the South bank of the famous Huong River, opposite the Ancient Citadel is where most of Hue ’s hotels, restaurants and tourist services are located.
 4.____ It’s easy for you to find everything in Hue .
2 .Listen the passage and choose the best answer:(1 pts)
 1. How many paper bags and newspapers are thrown away everyday?
 a. 20.000	b. 200.000	c. 2.000.000	d. 20.000.000
2. What material do paper mills need to make paper?
 a. wood pulp	b. plans	c. labor	d. money
3. For every ton of recycled newsprint, how many trees can be saved ?
 	 a .20	b. 12	 c. 21	d. 2 
4. What have many countries done to save money and labor in making paper?
 a. plant many trees	b. make more paper	
 	 c. built paper mills	d. recycle waste paper
II/ Reading : (3 pts)
1. Read the passage and choose the best answer (2pts)
Tet is a national and family festival. It is an occasion for every Vietnamese to have while thinking about the last year and the next year. At Tet, spring fair are (1) ; streets and public buildings are brightly decorated and almost all shops are (2) . with people shopping for Tet. At home, everything is tidied; special food (3) ..; offerings of food, fresh water, flowers are made on the family altar with burning joss - sticks scenting the air. First – footing is made when the one visitor comes, and the children are (4) . to be given money wrapped in a red tiny envelop. Tet is also a time for peace and lovely. During Tet, children often behave well and friends, relatives and neighbors give each other their best ( 5). for the new year.
1 a. organized 	b. organize	c. organizing 	d. organizes 
2 a. crowd 	b. crowding 	c. crowed 	d. crowded 
3 a. is cooking 	b. cook 	c. is cooked 	d. cooking 
4 a. luckily 	b. lucky 	c. unluckily 	d. unlucky 
5. a. flowers	b. pens	c. tables	d. wishes
 2. Read the passage and answer the questions.(1 pts)
 "Where is the university?" is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city.
You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges.
Cambridge was an already developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.
 In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became the city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100,000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.
Questions:
1. When did the university begin to appear? ,
 2. Why did people name Cambridge the "city of Cambridge"? 
 3. When did the town really begin to develop quickly?
 4.Why do many visitors to Cambridge ask the question "Where is the university"?
III/ Writing: (3pts)
1. Write a letter (2,5pts)
Write a letter to a friend, Tell him/her about a place you have visited recently . Use the following questions to help you. 
Beginning with:
	 Dear Hoa , How are you?
I have just returned from a trip to the .
Questions:
1. Which place did you visit ?
2. How did you get there?
3. How are the sights? 
4.What's the weather like?
5. How do you feel? 
2. Use the cues given to complete the sentences.(0,5pts)
 1. “I am going to the cinema tomorrow ”
 à He said ..
 2. People don't use this road very often.
 à This road ..
KEY
Listen:
1. Hue is the ancient capital of Vietnam during the time of the Royal Nguyen (1802-1945). It is comfortably reached by plane or train from Hanoi . But it takes up to 14 hours to get to Hue from Hanoi if you travel by bus.
On the South bank of the famous Huong River , opposite the Ancient Citadel and around the Le Loi and Hung Vuong Streets is where most of Hue ’s hotels, restaurants and tourist services are located and this makes it easy for you to find everything you will need to maximize the enjoyment of your stay in the Imperial City .
Many people hire motorcycles or bicycles to visit the historical sights and monuments there but it is possible to walk, or to take a taxi or cycle, too.
2. Everyday of the year throughout the world about twenty millions paper bags and newspapers are thrown away. Making paper requires a lot of wood pulp and the work of millions of workers. Many counties have had plans to recycle waste paper to save money and labor. In countries where there is the cooperation of the public paper mills recycle as much as 60% of waste paper. Their simple work is to take away the ink, crush it up and make it into pulp again. For every ton of recycled newsprint, twelve trees can be saved. The more paper people save, the more trees are preserved.
ANSWER :
I/ Listen: 0,25 x 8 = 2 pts
1. Listen the following passage then choose true or false:
1T	2F	3T	4T	
2 .Listen the passage and choose the best answer:
	1d	2a	3b	4d
II/Read: ( 3 pts )
 1. Read the passage and choose the best answer( 0.4 x 5 = 2pts)
1a	2c	3c	4b	5d
 2. Read the passage and answer the questions. (0.25 x 4= 1pt)
1: It began to appear 800 years ago.
2: Because there is a bridge built over the Cam.
3: It really began to develop quickly after 1845.
4: Because there is no wall to be found around the university.
III/Write: ( 3 pts)
Write a letter (2,5pts)
Use the cues given to complete the sentences.(0,5pts)
 à He said he was going to the cinema the following day
 à This road isn’t used very often