PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG HỌC KỲ I Đề thi HK2 Môn Tiếng Anh lớp 8 Chương trình Hệ 10 năm (Số 01) Họ và tên Question I Listen to and write one word Reporter Dr Minh Vu, what exactly[.]
Đề thi HK2 - Môn: Tiếng Anh lớp - Chương trình Hệ 10 năm (Số 01) Họ tên: Question I: Listen to and write one word Reporter: Dr Minh Vu, what exactly is ‘netiquette’? Dr Minh Vu: The word is a (1) _ of ‘net’ and ‘etiquette’ It’s a set of rules for behaving properly online Reporter: Could you tell us the main rule of netiquette? Dr Minh Vu: Remember that the people we’re communicating with online are real people Don’t say and unpleasant things online Just like in real life Reporter: But sometimes perhaps it’s not what we (2) _, but how communicate ? Dr Minh Vu: Absolutely For example, if you write emails, or post comments using CAPS LOCK, this means you are shouting at people! Reporter: Of course it’s not polite at all What else should we when sending emails? Dr Minh Vu: Check your message for spelling mistakes before you send it It shows (3) _ towards the other person Don't use too much shorthand This may confuse your reader Reporter: How about behaviour in chat rooms and on (4) _? Dr Minh Vu: Follow (5) _ rules Use polite language People may not know who you are but you are judged by the quality of your writing Question II: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer (A, B or C) Nick: Hey, Duong and Chau, you remember Dr Nelson’s talk science and technology? Chau: Yes He said that science and technology would help us (1) _ the world’s problems in the future. Nick: Right I think world hunger is a problem now, and develops ways to get high yieds in farming will help feed the growing population on earth Duong: Good point Also we may be able to live on other planets, and (2) _ won’t be a problem any more Nick: And I like the idea of having lessons at home with a robot, and the Internet Duong: And no more paper books We’ll have e-books, and tablets for everything Chau: That doesn’t sound like a (3) _ to me I’d still want to go to school I’d like to communicate face-to-face with teachers and friends In my opinion, science and technology will bring new problems to people Duong: Like what? Chau: Well, robots will bring unemployment, and (4) _ in farming may destroy the environment and sending people to Mars may cause pollution Nick: You’re right: so many new (5) _ Question III: Circle the best answer A, B, C or D The river water is severely polluted, mostly the dumping of raw sewage A due to B lead to C because D so The waves of the _ were so huge that it destroyed everything on the beach A tornado B hurricane C tsunami D earthquake The Braille _ enables blind and visually impaired people to read and write A email B note C code D report I my friends for dinner after work tomorrow A meet B will meet C am meeting D will be meeting _ is the name of a planet that matches the Roman God of the sea A Mars B Sun C Venus D Neptune Question II: Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets Our English teacher made us _ (learn) fifty new words every week The Computer mouse _ (invent) by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 Neptune _ (discover) on September 23, 1846 Question III: Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete these sentences Diseases are primarily due to _ food and air (contaminate) Some _ eruptions are explosive and others are not (volcano) Question IV: Fill each blank with a suitable word in the box to complete the passage storm globally simple of industry speak read The very first, (1) _ text message was sent on December 3rd, 1992 It was sent by software engineer Neil Papworth to his boss at the British mobile phone operator Vodafone It (2) _ simply, “Merry Christmas” Little did they know that their simple mode of communication would take the world by (3) _ SMS (Short Message Service) is today a multi-billion-dollar (4) _ covering every corner of the globe An estimated nine trillion text messages are sent (5) _ each year Everyone from presidents to schoolchildren to villagers in remote parts of developing countries relies on it to communicate Question V: Read the passage and answer the questions How many planets are there in our galaxy? That’s a tricky question to answer Are there other planets that support life? That’s exactly what the Kepler mission hopes to discover NASA launched the Kepler space telescope, designed to find habitable planets, in 2009 So far it has discovered five new Earth-sized planets beyond our solar System These planets are hotter than the Earth - much too hot for life as we know it The Kepler team predict that they will need at least three years to find an Earth-like planet The simplest requirement for a planet to have life is for there to be liquid water so the distance from the planet’s sun and therefore temperature are important There also needs to be the correct amount of air If a planet is as small as Mars (half the size of Earth) its weak gravity means that it can’t hold on to air molecules If a planet is Neptune sized (four times bigger than Earth) it has very strong gravity and too much air So size matters too The cost of the mission is approximately six hundred million dollars It is scheduled to observe until 2013 but this could be extended Will we be sad if we discover we are alone in our galaxy or happy if we find that we share it with other life forms? Did Kepler discover any planets that support life? - _ How many Earth-sized planets has the Kepler space telescope discover so far? - _ What is the simplest requirement for a planet to have life? - _ How much does the mission cost? - _ Will you be sad or happy if there are planets with other life forms? - _ Question VI: Rewrite each sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one My mother does her shopping at about this time every week This time next week my mother We arrived at the cinema, but the film had finished (TIME) By “We are meeting Tony at o’clock tonight.” She said that _ Question VII: Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences would/ bad/air pollution/ What/ got/ you/ really/ do/ if? the/ dangerous/ flood/ disasters/ in/ most/ world/ of/ the/ is/ one