Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.. Day was a teacher at a big
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My Thanh Junior High School THE SECOND 45-MINUTE WRITTEN TEST
Class: 8
Name: _
I Phonetics: (2.5 pts)
A Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others
B Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
II Reading:
Read the text and decide if the statements below are true or false (2.5 pts)
Mr Day was a teacher at a big school in a big city in the North of England He usually went to
France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke German and French
quite well
But one year, Mr Day said to one of his friends, ‘I’m going to have a holiday in Athens But I don’t
speak Greek, so I’ll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go.’
He studied very hard for a month, and then his holiday began and he went to Greece
When he came back a few weeks later, his friend said to him, ‘Did you have any trouble with your
Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?’
‘No, I didn’t have any trouble with it,’ answered Mr Day ‘But the Greeks did!’
1 Mr Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the South of England
2 Mr Day couldn’t speak French
3 Mr Day didn’t have any trouble with his Greek when he was in Athens
4 Mr Day learnt Greek for a month
5 The Greeks didn’t understand him
III Language focus:
Circle the best option (A, B, C, or D) to complete each of the following sentences (2.5 pts)
1 When the bomb , we dinner
2 He questions! I am tired of answering him
3 Mount Rushmore can be from more than 100 kilometers away
4 Are you free Monday evening?
5 How the fire ?
6 Let’s to the festival together
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7 The fire is made by pieces of bamboo together
8 She asked me if I coffee
9 Angkor Wat is in
10 The Sydney Opera House was in 1973
IV Writing:
Do as directed (2.5 pts)
1 ‘Do you know him?’
She asked me………
2 ‘I can swim.’
He said (that)………
3 Clement Clarke Moore wrote that poem
That poem ………
4 We / listen / music / 8 / last night (Make a complete sentence)
………
5 The children / be / always / talk / class (Make a complete sentence)
………
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