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(1)CHU VAN AN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Class: _
Name: _ Code: _ (B) Date: _
1ST ONE-PERIOD TEST (1ST SEMESTER/19-20)
SUBJECT: ENGLISH 8 DURATION: 45 minutes
MARKS
I Listen and circle A,B, or C before the answer that best completes each sentence below (1m) 1. The farmer lived a life with his family
A uncomfortable B comfortable C. suitable
2. He went to collect the eggs and a gold egg
A. finds B saw C discovered
3. His wife ran to the farmer and they looked at the egg in
A amazement B amusement C improvement
4. The farmer was and his wife was
A intelligent/foolish B greedy/foolish C. foolish/greedy
1. 2. 3. 4.
II Choose A, B, C or D before the answer that best completes each sentence below (2ms).
1. Susan is very shy but her sister is outgoing
A. kind B. reserved C. funny D. sociable
2. What does your brother _? – He is tall and thin
A. look like B. is like C. as D. look as
3. He became a / an _because his parents died
A. orphanage B. orphan C. baby D. actor
4. Sorry Mr Brown was out Can you _ a message for him?
A. take B. leave C. give D. put
5. We enjoy _ tennis
A. play B. to play C. playing D. plays
6. Both of them _ reading books in the library
A. likes B. to like C. liking D. like
7. If you don’t arrive _ 3pm, you’ll miss the film
A. in B. at C. on D. for
8. Her mother _ in the kitchen now
A. cooks B. to cook C. is cooking D. cooks
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
III What the following pictures mean? Choose the most correct answer (A, B, C or D) (0.5m) 1. What are the girls doing?
2. What is it?
IV Supply the correct form of the word in each bracket below (1m).
A Playing soccer C Playing basketball B Playing chess D Playing volleyball
(2)1. I’ll make an for the party tonight (arrange)
2. Alexander Graham Bell to the USA in the 1870s (emigration) 3. The kitchen is a _ place to play (danger)
4. She sings ( beauty)
V Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete each blank below (1.5m).
We don’t live (1) _ a house or a flat We live on a houseboat The boat (2) _ small, but it’s quite big inside Apart from the bathroom, it has only one room, so we (3) _ everything there: eat, cook, sleep and watch TV
We usually keep our houseboat at Little Venice (4) _London We’re almost in the center of the city there That’s great for clubs, pubs, the theatre, and so on But the (5) _ thing about a houseboat is that you can move and (6) _ your home with you
1 A. inside B. on C. in D. at
2. A. looked B. are C. looks D. was
3. A. have to B. should C. could D. need
4. A. of B. at C. in D. on
5. A. fastest B. best C. worse D. most
6. A. arrange B. drive C. migrate D. take
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
VI Read the following passage carefully, then the tasks A & B below.
Charlie Chaplin was born in a very part of London His father was a comedian and his mother worked as a dancer and a singer Neither of them were successful so the family had very little money The first time he himself earned money by dancing and singing, he was only five years old He did many kinds of jobs, but what he loved best was working at the theatre
When he was about fifteen, he joined a traveling theatre company and went on trips to America On one such tour, he was offered a part in a film, so he went to Hollywood where he eventually became both a famous actor and film director
He died in Switzerland in 1977 at the age of 88 There is now a statue of him in Leicester Square, London, the city of his birth and early up-bringing
A The following statements are TRUE or FALSE (1m).
1 Charlie Chaplin’s family was very rich He himself earned money when he was fifteen years old His father was a comedian He died in 1877
B Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) (0.5m) 1 Which sentence is not true about this passage?
A His parents were unsuccessful in life B The family had little money
C He earned money by dancing and singing
D His father became both a famous actor and film director
2 What is the passage mainly about?
A Charlie Chaplin’s success C Charlie Chaplin’s parents’ success B Charlie Chaplin’s biography D Charlie Chaplin’s mother’s biography
VII Use the given words or phrases to write into complete sentences (0.5m)
1 candy / Drugs / like / can / look
→………
2 assistant / Bell’s / was / Thomas Watson
→………
VIII Finish the second sentence so that it means the same as the first one(s) (2m). 1. Lan doesn’t intend to go out tomorrow
Lan is
2. Donna is too young She can’t go to school alone (using “ ENOUGH”)
Dona isn’t _
3. It’s not easy to find an empty apartment in HCM City
(3)4. She must clean the house every week
She has _