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ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ II

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NĂM HỌC 2014-2015
MÔN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 8
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút

(không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề kiểm tra có 03 trang. Học sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi.)
Mã phách:

Tổng điểm

I. Listening (1.5ms)
Part 1: People are comparing two cities. Listen and circle the city each person prefers.
(0.4m)

1. A. Washington D.C

2. A. Los Angeles

B. New York

B. San Francisco

3. A. Singapore

4. The weather wasn’t good
5. She went to France.
6. They had a comfortable trip.
II. Pronunciation (1m)
Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from
that of the rest.
1.

A. reduce

B. conserve

C. enjoy

D. explore

2.

A. collapsed

B. occured

C. controlled

D. received

Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern
3.

A. typhoon

- .............................
A. It’s my pleasure B. You’re welcome C. Not at all

D. It’s nice of you to say so

3. It............................. for months, so farmers can’t start their crops.
A. didn’t rain

B. doesn’t rain

C. hasn’t rained

D. won’t rain

4. By ............................. used paper, plastic and metal you can minimize the amount of waste
produced at home.
A. reducing

B. recycling

C. preventing

D. producing

5. I suggest............................. lessons to the poor children in the neiborhood.


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A. give


C. hurricane

D. tornado

9. Let me congratulate you ............................. winning the first prize in the English Speaking
Contest.
A. on

B. in

C. for

D. about

10. Lan has to stay home to ............................. her sick mother.
A.play with

B. look after

C. look

D. talk

11. The house in............................. she was born and grew up was destroyed in an earthquake
ten years ago.
A. which

B. that


Many buildings are using solar energy to heat their water now. Solar units on the
(1)....................... of buildings collect the energy and use it to heat water. (2).......................
these units are still very expensive, more and more people are buying solar hot water heaters.
Universities and colleges give solar energy couses where students learn to build their own
solar collectors. There are also many books (3)....................... explain the construction of solar
collectors. (4)....................... the future, there will be more and more solar collectors,
especially in the sunny desert areas of the world.


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1.

A. ceilings

B. yards

C. roofs

D. dorways

2.

A. Because

B. Although

C. If

D. But

hunt for foxes was a popular sport among the upper classes. Pictures of hunters on horseback
dressed in red coats and surrounded by hunting dogs are often seen as symbolic of Boxing
Day. Nowadays, fox hunting is not allowed. Horse racing and football (soccer) are now
popular sports.
Answer the questions:
1. When is Boxing Day celebrated?
................................................................................................................................................
2. What was Boxing Day by traditional?
................................................................................................................................................
3. Who do people usually spend time with?
................................................................................................................................................
4. Is fox hunting a popular sport nowadays?
................................................................................................................................................
VII. Writing
A. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first (1m)
1. Do not eat all the ice-cream or you will be sick.
If you.......................................................................................................................................
2. The children receive a good education. They attend that school.
The children who....................................................................................................................
3. People cut down many trees in the forests, so there are often big floods every year.
There are................................................................................................................................


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4. Why don’t we use public buses instead of motorbikes to reduce exhaust fume?
He suggested..........................................................................................................................
B. Use the suggested words or phrases to write meaningful sentences (0.5m)
1. teacher / pleased / students / passed / final test.
................................................................................................................................................

II. Pronunciation: 1.0m (0.25 x 4 = 1m)
1. B. conserve

2. A. collapsed

3. D. garbage

4. B. convenient

III. Choose the best option (A,B,C,or D) to complete each of the following sentences: 3ms
(0,25m x 12 = 3ms)
1. B. would be

5. B. giving

9.

A. on

2. D. It’s nice of you to say so.

6. C. account

10. B. look after

3. C. hasn’t rained

7. B. Although

11. A. which

2. By tradition, it was a day when employers gave money, food, cloth (material) or other
valuable goods to their employees.


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3. People usually spend time with their family, friends and neighbors.
4. No, it isn’t.
VI. Writing
A. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first: 1.0m (0.25m
x 4 = 1m)
1. Do not eat all the ice-cream or you will be sick.
If you eat all the ice-cream, you will be sick.
2. The children receive a good education. They attend that school.
The children who attend that school receive a good education.
3. People cut down many trees in the forests, so there are often big floods every year.
There are often big floods every year because people cut down many trees in the forests.
4. Why don’t we use public buses instead of motorbikes to reduce exhaust fume?
He suggested using public buses instead of motorbikes to reduce exhaust fume.
B. Use the suggested words or phrases to write meaningful sentences: 0.5m (0.25m x 2 =
0.5m)
1. teacher / pleased / students / passed / final test.
The / My / Our teacher is pleased that his/ her students have passed the final test.
The / My / Our teacher was pleased that his/ her students passed the final test.
2. Tet / festival / occurs / late January / early February.
Tet is the festival which occurs in late January or early February.
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