Trường: Lớp: Họ, tên: KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ I NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012 MÔN: TIẾNG ANH- LỚP 8 Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút SBD: Mã phách " Đ i ểm Giáo viên chấm Mã phách I. Circle the best option a, b, c or d to complete each of the following sentences: (2ms) 1. The sun ______________ in the East. a. sets b. goes c. rises d. moves 2. Don’t come in. Please wait ______________ for a few minutes. a. inside b. insides c. outsides d. outside 3. My grandfather often wears______________ clothes on the Tet holiday. a. same b. traditional c. magical d. normal 4. A school year in our country has two______________ a. parts b. terms c. months d. weeks 5. Do you have a pen? I want to______________ in this application form. a. find b. write c. sign d. fill 6. She ______________ over 20 pages since yesterday. a. has written b. wrote c. writes d. is writing 7. Mary is beautiful. She has ______________ hair. a. fair long b. a long fair c. long fair d. the long fair 8. She hates ______________ to the market. a. goes b. to go c. go d. going II. Give the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets: (2.5ms) 1. Nam (see) …………………….… ……. a movie tonight. 2. Sue can (speak) …… ……………….…………. Vietnamese very well. 3. It’s quite easy (climb)……………… …… ……. this mountain. 4. Everyone stopped (laugh) ……… ………….when we (come)………… ………… III. Pick out the word that has the sound pronounced differently from the others: (1.5ms) 1. a. humor b. music c. cucumber d. sun 2. a. injure b. knife c. kill d. sink 3. a. object b. cupboard c. include d. place 4. a. candy b. match c. wardrobe d. rack 5. a. pens b. books c. tables d. rulers 6. a. cooked b. lived c. played d. carried IV. Read the passage then answer the questions: (2ms) Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847 but when he was a young man of twenty- three he moved to Canada and then to the USA. Though Bell was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker and a man of action. In America, he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University. Soon he started experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance. This led to the invention of the telephone. Traveling all over America, he demonstrated his invention to the public at countless exhibitions and in 1877 the first telephone was in commercial use. 1. Where and when was Graham Bell born? ………………………………………………………………………………… ………… 2. When did he move to Canada? ……………………………………………………………………………… …………… 3. Was he active? …………………………………………………………………………………… ……… 4. What happened in 1877? …………………………………………………………………………………… ……… V. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meanings: (2ms) 1. She speaks English very well and her sister does, too. She speaks………………………………………………………………………………… 2. When I was a child, I lived in Hanoi. I used…….………………………………………………………………………… …… 3. He’s too weak to carry this box. He isn’t………………………………………………………………………………… …. 4. “You should take a little hot milk before sleeping” said my mother. My mother told me…………………………………………………………………………. . Trường: Lớp: Họ, tên: KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ I NĂM HỌC 2 011 - 2 012 MÔN: TIẾNG ANH- LỚP 8 Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút SBD: Mã phách " Đ i ểm. verbs in brackets: (2.5ms) 1. Nam (see) …………………….… ……. a movie tonight. 2. Sue can (speak) …… ……………….…………. Vietnamese very well. 3. It’s quite easy (climb)……………… …… ……. this mountain. 4. Everyone. (come)………… ………… III. Pick out the word that has the sound pronounced differently from the others: (1. 5ms) 1. a. humor b. music c. cucumber d. sun 2. a. injure b. knife c. kill d. sink 3. a. object