Kiểm tra học kì I (năm học 2014 – 2015) môn Tiếng Anh lớp 8

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TRƯỜNG THCS & THPT VIỆT ANH 
KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ I(NH 2014 – 2015)
THE FIRST SEMESTER WRITING ENGLISH TEST – Grade 8
Duration : 35 minutes
Full name: ..
Class: .. 
Date of testing: ..
Marks
Teacher’s comment
A. PHONETICS, VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (5m)
I. Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part (0,5m)
1. A. list	 	 B. underline	 C. highlight D. night
2. A. vacation 	 	 B. festival	 C. grade 	 D. celebrate
II. Choose the word with the different stress pattern (0,5m)
1. A. excellent 	B. memory 	C. festival 	D. semester
2. A. appear	B. escape	C. excited 	D. cupboard 
III. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, D. (3.5m) 
1. She enjoys .................books.
A. read	 B. reads	 C. to read	D. reading
2 . She works very
A. hard	 B. hardly	 C. studious 	D. careful
3. Bao is sociable but Khai is .................... in public.
A. kind	 B. good	 C. generous	D. reserved
4. I like  activities such as walking and camping.
A. outside	 B. inside	 C. outdoor	D. indoor
5. I was born in Vietnam so my -------- is Vietnamese.
A. language 	 B. tongue 	 C. mother 	D. mother tongue
6. She ...................... over 30 pages since yesterday.
A. has written B. wrote C .writes 	D. is writing
7. An oil burned in the darkness.
A. lamp	 B. lamb	 C. lam	 D. lame
8. Tim is a good student. Tim’s mother is proud ______ him
A. with	 B. about	 C. of	D. on
9. His mother asked him ..................... harder so as to pass the exam.
A. study	 B. to study	 C. studying	D. studied
10. It’s better for language learners to learn by ________ all the dialogues .
A. heart 	 B. word 	 C. memory	 D. soul
11. She is ...................... enough to have a lot of friends.
A. a luck	 B. lucky	 C. luckily	D. luckier
12. I ....................tennis a lot but now I’m too lazy.
A. used to	 B. used to play	 C. used to playing D. use playing
13. The farmer was a master because he had something called _____.
A. straw	 B. buffalo	 C. wisdom	D. stripe
14. Halloween is one of the most famous in the world.
A. festival	 B. festivals	 C. celebration	 D. celebrations
IV. Choose the words or phrase that are not correct in Standard English:(0,5m)
1. The course begins in May 12th and ends sometimes in August
	 A B	 C	 	 D
2. The students are enough tall to play volleyball and badminton. 
 A B C D	
B. READING: (2m)
I. Fill in the blank with the words given. (1m).
music 	 	chess	close	fishing	Sundays
Hello! My name’s Ba. I’m 13 years old. I have a (1).................. friend, Lan. She is 15, but she isn’t as tall as I am. Every day I go to school in the morning, my close friend has classes in the afternoon. Like Lan, I love pop (2)........................, reading my novels in my free time. We both like playing (3)...................... and going swimming in the summer. Unlike Lan, I don’t like cooking, doing the shopping on the (4)............................... Instead, I like watching film.
II. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each questions below .(1m)
	Viet is a student and he lives in a bed-sit in a suburb of Ha Noi. It’s a part of an old house. He has one room and a kitchen and share bathroom with three other people. In his room, there is a bed on the left hand side. There is an armchair beside the bed. The desk is opposite the bed and there is a closet on the right side of the room. Above the desk, there is a bookshelf and above the bed there is a clock. He has a television and a hi-fi, too. In the kitchen, there is a cooker on the right hand side. The sink is near the cooker. There’s a small table and two chairs in the center. The kitchen is small, but it’s OK. Viet likes his room very much.
 Questions
 1. Where does Viet live?
A. in a bed-sit in a suburb of Ha Noi	 	 B. in a suburb of Ha Noi 	
C. in an old house D. in a flat
 2. How many people share the bathroom with Viet?
 	A. 3 	 	 B. 4	 C. 5 	 D. 6
 3. Where is the bookshelf?
 	A. above the bed B. above the desk C. on a small table D. beside the bed. 
 4. How is the kitchen?
A. large	 B. big	 C. OK	 D. comfortable
C. WRITING: (1m)
 1. He said: “I should work harder on my Spanish pronunciation”
à He said............................................................................................................................
 2. My father usually drank much wine, he doesn’t drink any more.
à My father used to............
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THE FIRST SEMESTER WRITING ENGLISH TEST – Grade 8
Duration : 35 minutes
Full name: ..
Class: .. 
Date of testing: ..
Marks
Teacher’s comment
A. PHONETICS, VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (5m)
I. Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part (0,5m)
1. A. list	 	 B. underline	 C. highlight D. night
2. A. vacation 	 	 B. festival	 C. grade 	 D. celebrate
II. Choose the word with the different stress pattern (0,5m)
1. A. excellent 	B. memory 	C. festival 	D. semester
2. A. appear	B. escape	C. excited 	D. cupboard 
III. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, D. (3.5m) 
1. She enjoys .................books.
A. read	 B. reads	 C. to read	D. reading
2 . She works very
A. hard	 B. hardly	 C. studious 	D. careful
3. Bao is sociable but Khai is .................... in public.
A. kind	 B. good	 C. generous	D. reserved
4. I like  activities such as walking and camping.
A. outside	 B. inside	 C. outdoor	D. indoor
5. I was born in Vietnam so my -------- is Vietnamese.
A. language 	 B. tongue 	 C. mother 	D. mother tongue
6. She ...................... over 30 pages since yesterday.
A. has written B. wrote C .writes 	D. is writing
7. An oil burned in the darkness.
A. lamp	 B. lamb	 C. lam	 D. lame
8. Tim is a good student. Tim’s mother is proud ______ him
A. with	 B. about	 C. of	D. on
9. His mother asked him ..................... harder so as to pass the exam.
A. study	 B. to study	 C. studying	D. studied
10. It’s better for language learners to learn by ________ all the dialogues .
A. heart 	 B. word 	 C. memory	 D. soul
11. She is ...................... enough to have a lot of friends.
A. a luck	 B. lucky	 C. luckily	D. luckier
12. I ....................tennis a lot but now I’m too lazy.
A. used to	 B. used to play	 C. used to playing D. use playing
13. The farmer was a master because he had something called _____.
A. straw	 B. buffalo	 C. wisdom	D. stripe
14. Halloween is one of the most famous in the world.
A. festival	 B. festivals	 C. celebration	 D. celebrations
IV. Choose the words or phrase that are not correct in Standard English:(0,5m)
1. The course begins in May 12th and ends sometimes in August
	 A B	 C	 	 D
2. The students are enough tall to play volleyball and badminton. 
 A B C D	
B. READING: (2m)
I. Fill in the blank with the words given. (1m).
music 	 	chess	close	fishing	Sundays
Hello! My name’s Ba. I’m 13 years old. I have a (1)..........close........ friend, Lan. She is 15, but she isn’t as tall as I am. Every day I go to school in the morning, my close friend has classes in the afternoon. Like Lan, I love pop (2).........music....., reading my novels in my free time. We both like playing (3)...chess....... and going swimming in the summer. Unlike Lan, I don’t like cooking, doing the shopping on the (4)...........Sundays..... Instead, I like watching film.
II. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each questions below .(1m)
	Viet is a student and he lives in a bed-sit in a suburb of Ha Noi. It’s a part of an old house. He has one room and a kitchen and share bathroom with three other people. In his room, there is a bed on the left hand side. There is an armchair beside the bed. The desk is opposite the bed and there is a closet on the right side of the room. Above the desk, there is a bookshelf and above the bed there is a clock. He has a television and a hi-fi, too. In the kitchen, there is a cooker on the right hand side. The sink is near the cooker. There’s a small table and two chairs in the center. The kitchen is small, but it’s OK. Viet likes his room very much.
 Questions
 1. Where does Viet live?
A. in a bed-sit in a suburb of Ha Noi	 B. in a suburb of Ha Noi 	
C. in an old house D. in a flat
 2. How many people share the bathroom with Viet?
 	A. 3 	 	 B. 4	 C. 5 	 D. 6
 3. Where is the bookshelf?
 	A. above the bed B. above the desk C. on a small table D. beside the bed. 
 4. How is the kitchen?
A. large	 B. big	 C. OK	 D. comfortable
C. WRITING: (1m)
 1. He said: “I should work harder on my Spanish pronunciation”
à He said.......he should work harder on his Spanish pronunciation.............
 2. My father usually drank much wine, he doesn’t drink any more.
à My father used todrink much wine........
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