Đề thi Tháng 4 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 Sách Thí điểm - Trường THCS Thanh Khương (Có đáp án)

Trường THCS Thanh Khương
Họ và tên: .......................................
Lớp : 8 ...
ĐỀ THI THÁNG 4
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 8
(Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút)
 I. Find the word which has different sound in the part underlined.(0.5pt)
1. A. television	B. elephant	C. section	D. Swedish
2.A.destroy	B. result 	C.equipment	D. technology
II. Find the word with a different stress pattern from the others in each line. (0.5pt)
1. A. generosity	B. interactive	C. attractive	D. opportunity
 2. A.	politic	B. typhoon	C. earthquake	D. chemical
III. Choose the best answer by circling A, B, C or D: (2pts)
1. If you were the president, what  you do to help the environment?
A. will 	B. did 	 C. would	D. do
2. When the policeman came to the scene, the driver of the car  
A. have left	B. had left	C. leaves 	D. was left
3. All people who were without homes in the flood were provided with  ........ accommodation.
A. short 	B. temporary 	C. present	D. instant
4. Lien told me that ___________ a biology teacher.
A. she wants to become 	C. she wanted to become 	B. she will become 	D. she wanted becoming
5. We _____________ with each other by mobile phone in 2050.
A. won’t be communicating	C . aren’t communicating 	
B. haven’t communicated	D. aren’t going to communicate 
6. If the factory  dumping poison into the lake, all the fish and other aquatic animals will die.
A. continues	B. continued 	C. will continue 	D. continue
7. I tried ____________ you lots of times but couldn’t get through.
A.called	B.call	C.to call
8. What __________ in the year 2020?
A.am I doing	B.will I be doing	C.do I do
IV. Rewrite these sentences, so that their meaning stays the same, using the beginning given for each.(1 pt)
1. The earthquake struck the city last week.
→ The city ..
2. I don’t have enough time, so I can’t go on holiday this summer.
→ If ....
3. “We don’t open the laboratory today,” Mr.Minh said. 
→ Mr. Minh said 
4.“ The film will begin at seven o’clock,” they told me.
→ They told me..
V. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. (2pts)
1. If you study harder, you (pass) ________________ the exam.
2. Two houses (build) _________________ in the city every years.
3. Before she (listen) _____________ to music, she (do) __________ homework.
VI. Read the passage then answer the questions. ( 2 pts)
Alexander Graham Bell is widely known as the inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. He took great interest in transmitting the human voice. With his colleague Thomas Watson, Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent devices such as the harmonic telegraph (used to send multiple messages over a single wire) and phonautograph (used to draw the shape of the sound waves). The first telephone communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telephone in another room. The first transmitted words were, ʻMr Watson, come here. I want to see you.ʼ
1. Who is the inventor of the first telephone?
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2.What were the first transmitted words?
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3. When did he emigrate to Canada?
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4. Who is his colleague?
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VII. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find out and correct it.(1 pt)
1. We’ve decided staying in Ho Chi Minh city for three more days. 
 A B C D
 2. Which TV programme will you watch at 9p.m tomorrow?
 A B C D
3. They didn’t mind work late to complete the task
 A B C D
4. If I were you , I buy that car .
 A B C D
VIII. Put the word in the corect form. (1 pt)
1.Communication breakdown may happen due to cultural..........	 DIFFERENT
2. Everyone needs to learn netiquette when we .............. online. COMMUNICATION 
3. Lena enjoyed ............on the phone with her friends. 	CHAT
4. We’ll be ......... video conferencing in every meeting.	USE
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MATRIX
Sections & Skills
Level
Topic
Recognition
Comprehensi-on
Application
T.M
Low High
MCQ
E.Q
MCQ
E.Q
MCQ
E.Q
MCQ
E.Q
Phonetics
1 items
2
items
1
item
1.0
Vocab &Gram
Unit 7-10
2 items
2 items
2 items
1 item
2 items
1 tem
2.5
Reading
Telepathy: Mind to Mind Communication
2 items
2 items
3 items
3
items
2.5
Listening
Visual pollution
2 item
2
items
2
items
2
items
2.0
Writing
- Rewrite 
sentences using : passive voice, the conditional sentence type 2, make efforts, make acquaintance, result in 
- The future continuous and the past perfect tense.
4 items
1
item
2 items 
1 item
2,0
Total level
 11 = 2,75
 9 = 2,25
 11 = 2,75
 9 = 2,25
10,0
ANSWER KEYS:
THE 2nd MID-TERM TEST (001)
GRADE 8 ( NEW)
PART ONE: LISTENING: Listen to a conversation between Chau and her father. Fill in the table with the information you hear (2pts)
When?
What happened?
7th or 8th century
The first printed (1) newspaper appeared in China.
(2) in the late 19th century
The telegraph was invented.
early 20th century
Two new forms of new media appeared: Radio and newsreels
(3) in the 1950s
Television became popular.
mid-and- late 1990s
(4) the Internet became a major force in journalism.
Tape Transcript:
Chau: 	Dad, I’m doing an assignment. Can You help me with the information?
Chau’s father: 	What is the assignment about? 
Chau: 	IT about the important dates of the media. Where and when did the first printed newspaper appear, Dad? 
Chau’s father. 	 It first appeared in the 7th or 8th century AD, in China. 
Chau: 	And when was the telegraph invented?
Chau’s father: Perhaps it was in the late 19th century. Do you know what two forms of news media appeared in the early 20th century?
Chau: 	Radio and newsreels?
Chau’s father:	 Excellent! And when did television become commercially viable, can you guess?
Chau: 	In the 1940s?
Chau’s father: 	No, it was in the 1950s.
Chau: 	When did the Internet become a major force in journalism?
Chau’s Father: 	In the mid- and late 1990s.
Chau: 	Thank you. Dad. Now I can answer all the questions for my assignment.
PART TWO: PHONETICS: (1pt)
Question I. Find the word which has different sound in the part underlined.(0.5pt)
1. A. television	B. elephant	C. section	D. Swedish
2. A. threaten 	B. seat	C. thread	D. bread
Question 2. Find the word with a different stress pattern from the others in each line. (0.5pt)
1. A. poisonous	B. natural	 C. dramatic	 D. logical
2. A. tornado	B. typhoon	C. earthquake	D. tsunami
PART THREE: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (2.5pts)
Question I. Choose the best answer by circling A, B, C or D: (2pts)
1. If you were the president, what  you do to help the environment?
A. will 	B. did 	 C. would	D. do
2.The Maori in New Zealand greet each other by  their noses.
A. touching	B. punching	C. blowing	D. rubbing
3. The village’s drinking water  with poisonous chemicals since the factory came into operation.
A. contaminates	B. is contaminated	C. has contaminated	D. has been contaminated
4. When the policeman came to the scene, the driver of the car  
A. have left	B. had left	C. leaves 	D. was left
5. All people who were without homes in the flood were provided with  accommodation.
A. short 	B. temporary 	C. present	D. instant
6. I believe that our new manager has the  to work well in this business environment.
A. inflexible	B. flexibly C. flexibility D. flexible
7. If the factory  dumping poison into the lake, all the fish and other aquatic animals will die.
A. continues	B. continued 	C. will continue 	D. continue
8. You will recognize Jenny when you see her. She  a red hat.
A. wears	B. is wearing	C. will wear	D. will be wearing
Question II. Give the correct form of the words given to complete the sentences. ( 0.5 pt)
1.NSW is the abbreviation of New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. (abbreviate)
2. Do you know that the telephone, the television, and penicillin are Scottish inventions? (invent)
PART FOUR: READING (2.5 pts)
 I. Read the passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word. (1.25 pts)
Telepathy: Mind to Mind Communication
The (1) word “telepathy” has been derived from the words “tele” meaning “distance” and “pathy” meaning “feeling”. So telepathy actually means getting feelings through a distance. Telepathy is the communication (2) between two minds, separated over a distance, without the (3) use of the five known senses. At some point of time or the other, we all have experienced telepathy. Maybe you were thinking of someone you haven’t talked to for months and you suddenly get a call from them. Or (4) when two people are together, they might say the same thing at the same time. These are spontaneous mind-to-mind (5) communication that tend to occur frequently between closely related individuals.
II. Read the passage then answer the questions: ( 1.25 pts)
Visual pollution has a greater effect on people than you may think. I remember when I went to a big city, I was really scared because so much graffiti on the buildings' walls. Then I looked up, and I saw a lot of power lines over my head. Although they were not dangerous, I still felt unsafe since I thought they might fall down. These things prevented me from enjoying the beautiful sights of the city. I also remember the time when I was a student at a university. Once I was so busy with my assignments that I did not tidy my room for two weeks. Looking at the messy room caused me so much stress that I did not want to study. Then I decided to clean the room and put my thing in their proper places. I also bought a small plants and placed it in a corner of the room. These simple actions increased my motivation and helped me to focus on my learning.
1.How did the author feel when she saw the power lines? 
She felt insecure.
2.Why did she have that feeling? 
Because she thought they might fall down.
3. What was she busy with? 
She was busy with her assignments.
4. What happened when she looked the messy room? 
She had so much stress that she did not want to study.
5. What did she do for her room? 
She cleaned the room and put her things in their proper places. She also bought a small plant and placed it in a corner.
PART FIVE: WRITING (2pts)
I. Rewrite these sentences, so that their meaning stays the same, using the beginning given for each.(1 pt)
1. Barbara isn’t trying to solve her financial problems.
Barbara is making no efforts to solve her financial problems.
2. The earthquake struck the city and destroyed completely thousands of buildings and houses.
The city was struck and thousands of buildings and houses were destroyed completely by the earthquake.
3. Scientists have invented new devices to help people live a longer life.
New devices have been invented by scientists to help people live a longer life.
4. I don’t have enough time, so I can’t go on holiday this summer.
If I had enough time, I could go on holiday this summer.
II. Combine each pair of the following sentences into one, using the suggested words or phrases in the brackets. (1 pt )
1. This factory doesn’t treat its waste well, so there is a lot of water pollution.	( If)
à If this factory treated its waste well, there wouldn’t be a lot of water pollution.
2. Have you made any friends from English speaking countries?.	 ( acquaintance)
à Have you made acquaintance with any friends from English speaking countries?.
3. The environment is polluted. Birds leave their habitats and plants die. (make)
à The polluted environment makes birds leave their habitats and plants die.
4. The food is contaminated. People’s health is poor. (result in)
à The contaminated food results in people’s poor health.