Grade 7 THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-1 I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. 1. A. leave B. read C. ready D. pleased 2. A. hungry B. June C. month D. mother 3. A. stay B. vacation C. last D. late 4. A. great B. beach C. teacher D. meat II. Choose the option that best fits each of the blanks. 5. __________ visiting Halong Bay? –That’s a good idea! A. How about B. Let’s C. What about D. A&C are correct 6. Does Nam often play marbles __________recess? A. on B. at C. in D. between 7. Students have two __________each day. A. 20-minutes breaks B. 20-minute breaks C. 20-minute break D. 20-minutes break 8. __________do you go to bed? - At nine. A. What B. When C. What time D. Where 9. Hanoi is the capital city, but it is __________than HCM City. A. the smaller B. smaller C. smallest D. small 10. The summer vacation usually __________for almost three months. A. is lasting B. lasts C. is D. will last 11. My homework __________about two hours each day. A. takes B. costs C. uses D. spends 12. She learns __________to use a computer in Computer Science classes. A. how B. what C. which D. when 13. Which is the eighth month of the year? A. September B. February C. November D. August 14. -Where ____________________ from? –England. A. is she B. does she come C. will she be D. A&B are correct 15. Farmers work mainly __________. A. in their farms B. at their farms C. on their farms D. from their farms 16. How __________is it from your house to school? – It’s about 2 kilometers. A. old B. much C. far D. often 17. Nam likes bananas and apples, and I do, __________. A. so B. too C. either D. neither 18. In the future, robots and machines __________all the work for us. A. are doing B. will do C. does D. do 19. Nam is __________fixing household appliances. A. good at B. good for C. good in D. bad for III. Choose the best option to fill in the missing information. Schools in the USA (20)________ a little different from schools (21)________ Vietnam, there is no school uniform. Classes start (22)________ 8.30 each morning and the school day ends at 3.30 or 4 o ’ clock. There are no lessons on Saturdays. Students have one hour for lunch and two 20-minute breaks each day. One break is (23)________ the morning, the other is in the afternoon. Students often go to the school cafeteria and buy snacks and drinks at a break or at lunchtime. The most popular after school activities (24)________ baseball, football and basketball. 20. A. are B. is C. be D. will be 21. A. on B. at C. in D. to 22. A. in B. between C. on D. at 23. A. on B. at C. in D. from 24. A. are B. is C. will be D. be IV. Reorder the given words to make sentences. 25. week / days / a / six / Lan / to / goes / school. _______________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 THE FIRST SEMESTER Grade 7 THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-1 26. show / the / Could / me / post office / the / to / you / way ? _______________________________________________________________________________ 27. How / is / from / house / the / market / it / far / your / to? _______________________________________________________________________________ 28. sometimes / play / marbles / recess / We / at /. _______________________________________________________________________________ V. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. 29. We ____________________in grade 8 next year. (be) 30. Our friends ____________________in the school library at the moment. (read) 31. Listen! Mai ____________________very well. (sing) 32. Minh and I ____________________TV every night. (watch) VI. Read the passage and answer the questions below. Mai is a seven-grade school girl at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Junior High School. Her father is a teacher. He teaches English six days a week in a junior high school nearby. Her mother is a nurse. She looks after sick people in a local hospital. Her elder sister is a journalist. She writes for a local newspaper in her hometown. Questions: 33. What does Mai do? _______________________________________________________________________________ 34. What does Mai’s father do? _______________________________________________________________________________ 35. What does Mai’s mother do? _______________________________________________________________________________ 36. What does Mai’s sister do? _______________________________________________________________________________ 37. Where does her mother work? _______________________________________________________________________________ VII. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. 38. Our classes always start ________7 o’clock ________the morning. 39. She lives ________her parents ________a big house. 40. They work ________the farm from 7.00 AM________5.00 PM. 41. ________Geography, I learn ________present and past events. VIII. Rewrite the following sentences as directed. 42. Would you like to go to the movie theater? What about____________________________________________________________________ 43. When is your birthday? What _________________________________________________________________________ 44. There are forty students in my class. My class _______________________________________________________________________ 45. Nam walks to school every day. Nam goes______________________________________________________________________ IX. Match a sentence in column A with a suitable answer in column B. A B ANSWERS 46. How often you clean the room? 47. Let’s go somewhere for a swim. 48. What do you often do after lunch? 49. What is Mai doing? 50. Do they often go fishing? A. It’s a good idea! B. She is playing the guitar. C. Once a week D. No, they don’t. E. I usually listen to music. 46- 47- 48- 49- 50- THE END Page 2 THE FIRST SEMESTER Grade 7 THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-1 ANSWER KEYS I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. 1. A. leave B. read C. ready D. pleased 2. A. hungry B. June C. month D. mother 3. A. stay B. vacation C. last D. late 4. A. great B. beach C. teacher D. meat II. Choose the option that best fits each of the blanks. 5. __________ visiting Halong Bay? –That’s a good idea! A. How about B. Let’s C. What about D. A&C are correct 6. Does Nam often play marbles __________recess? A. on B. at C. in D. between 7. Students have two __________each day. A. 20-minutes breaks B. 20-minute breaks C. 20-minute break D. 20-minutes break 8. __________do you go to bed? - At nine. A. What B. When C. What time D. Where 9. Hanoi is the capital city, but it is __________than HCM City. A. the smaller B. smaller C. smallest D. small 10. The summer vacation usually __________for almost three months. A. is lasting B. lasts C. is D. will last 11. My homework __________about two hours each day. A. takes B. costs C. uses D. spends 12. She learns __________to use a computer in Computer Science classes. A. how B. what C. which D. when 13. Which is the eighth month of the year? A. September B. February C. November D. August 14. -Where ____________________ from? –England. A. is she B. does she come C. will she be D. A&B are correct 15. Farmers work mainly __________. A. in their farms B. at their farms C. on their farms D. from their farms 16. How __________is it from your house to school? – It’s about 2 kilometers. A. old B. much C. far D. often 17. Nam likes bananas and apples, and I do, __________. A. so B. too C. either D. neither 18. In the future, robots and machines __________all the work for us. A. are doing B. will do C. does D. do 19. Nam is __________fixing household appliances. A. good at B. good for C. good in D. bad for III. Choose the best option to fill in the missing information. Schools in the USA (20)________ a little different from schools (21)________ Vietnam, there is no school uniform. Classes start (22)________ 8.30 each morning and the school day ends at 3.30 or 4 o ’ clock. There are no lessons on Saturdays. Students have one hour for lunch and two 20-minute breaks each day. One break is (23)________ the morning, the other is in the afternoon. Students often go to the school cafeteria and buy snacks and drinks at a break or at lunchtime. The most popular after school activities (24)________ baseball, football and basketball. 20. A. are B. is C. be D. will be 21. A. on B. at C. in D. to 22. A. in B. between C. on D. at 23. A. on B. at C. in D. from 24. A. are B. is C. will be D. be IV. Reorder the given words to make sentences. 25. week / days / a / six / Lan / to / goes / school. Lan goes to school six days a week.________________________________________________ Page 3 THE FIRST SEMESTER Grade 7 THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-1 26. show / the / Could / me / post office / the / to / you / way ? Could you show me the way to the post office?_______________________________________ 27. How / is / from / house / the / market / it / far / your / to? How far is it from your house to the market?________________________________________ 28. sometimes / play / marbles / recess / We / at /. We sometimes play marbles at recess.______________________________________________ V. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. 29. We _____will be_________in grade 8 next year. (be) 30. Our friends ____are reading______in the school library at the moment. (read) 31. Listen! Mai _____is singing______very well. (sing) 32. Minh and I ____watch______________TV every night. (watch) VI. Read the passage and answer the questions below. Mai is a seven-grade school girl at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Junior High School. Her father is a teacher. He teaches English six days a week in a junior high school nearby. Her mother is a nurse. She looks after sick people in a local hospital. Her elder sister is a journalist. She writes for a local newspaper in her hometown. 33. What does Mai do? She is a student.________________________________________________________________ 34. What does Mai’s father do? She is a teacher.________________________________________________________________ 35. What does Mai’s mother do? She is a nurse.__________________________________________________________________ 36. What does Mai’s sister do? She is a journalist.______________________________________________________________ 37. Where does her mother work? She works in a local hospital._____________________________________________________ VII. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition. 38. Our classes always start ___at___7 o’clock ____in____the morning. 39. She lives ___with_____her parents____in____a big house. 40. They work ___on_____the farm from 7.00 AM___to_____5.00 PM. 41. __In____Geography, I learn __about____ present and past events. VIII. Rewrite the following sentences as directed. 42. Would you like to go to the movie theater? What about going to the movie theater?_____________________________________________ 43. When is your birthday? What is your date of birth?_______________________________________________________ 44. There are forty students in my class. My class has forty students._______________________________________________________ 45. Nam walks to school every day. Nam goes to school on foot every day.______________________________________________ IX. Match a sentence in column A with a suitable answer in column B. A B ANSWERS 46. How often you clean the room? 47. Let’s go somewhere for a swim. 48. What do you often do after lunch? 49. What is Mai doing? 50. Do they often go fishing? A. It’s a good idea! B. She is playing the guitar. C. Once a week D. No, they don’t. E. I usually listen to music. 46-C 47-A 48-E 49-B 50-D THE END Page 4 THE FIRST SEMESTER