THE SECOND TERM ENGLISH TEST
School year:2008-2009
Time: 45 minutes.
I.Listen and fill in the gaps. (1,5pts)
Almost a hundred thousand…….1……. were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a
result of an earthquake in Tokyo in ……2……..The earthquake began a minute before …3…..
when the inhabitants of Tokyo were …4…… their midday meals.Thousands of stoves were
overturned as soon as the earth began to shake.As a result,small fires broke out everywhere and
quickly spread.Consequently,over …5…. percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than
by the collapse of the buildings.If the earthquake had occurred at …6….. while people were
sleeping,far fewer would have died.
1……………….. 2…………… 3…………… 4……………… 5…………. 6…………
II.Choose the best answer(2pts)
1.He told me that he ………... me the following year.
a.will visit b.would visit c.visited d.visiting.
2.Jim never gets used to …… 8 hours a day.
a.work b.to work c.working d.worked
3.The car……………he has just bought is very expensive.
A.whom B.whose C.who D.which
4.The men and animals…………..you saw on TV were from China.
A.who B.which C.that D.whom
5.He ………. to here in 1998 and …… here since then.
a.move/lived b.moved / has lived c.move/ has live d.has move/ has lived...
6.You don’t like coffee, …………..?
a.don’t you b.do you c.did you d.didn’t you.
7.She wasn’t here but I wish she ……………..here now.
a.are b.was c.were d. been
8.I usually ……………jeans and T-shirt at the weekend.
a.put b.take c.wear d.get
III.Read and answer(2.5pts)
Halloween is a holiday.It is on the night of October 31.It is…1……. in many English

V.Find the word has the part that is pronunciated different from the others.(1point )
1.A weather B.thunderstorm C.although D.think
2.A.enhance B.special C.receive D.nice
3.Aloved B.missed C.helped D.watched
4.A.Volcano B.tornado C.earthquake D.shake
Keys:
I.Listen:( 1,5pts)
1. thousand 2. 1923. 3. noon 4. cooking 5. ninety 6. night
II.grammar and vocabulary.(0,25pt/a sentence)
1B 2C 3D 4C 5B 6B 7C 8C
III.Read.(2,5pts).(0,25pt/a sentence)
1.C 2A 3B 4D 5A 6B 7B 8A 9D 10C
IV.WRITE (3pts)*Combine each pair of sentences, using relative clause
1. Despite the weather was bad, they still went camping as they planned
2.Although he was sick, he still went to school.
3. Rice is geown intropical countries.
4. Because he was late, he couldn’t see the whole film.
5.Ba wishes he had a lot of money to buy a new computer.
6 Ms Hoa said that I had to pay him then.
V.Find the word has the part that is pronunciated different from the others.(1point)
1.B.thunderstorm
2. B.special
3.Aloved
4.A.Volcano
Words in the tape.
Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a
result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923.The earthquake began a minute before noon when the
inhabitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals.Thousands of stoves were overturned as
soon as the earth began to shake.As a result,small fires broke out everywhere and quickly
spread.Consequently,over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the

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THE SECOND TERM ENGLISH TEST
School year:2008-2009
Time: 45 minutes.
I.Listen and fill in the gaps. (1,5pts)
Almost a hundred thousand…….1……. were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a
result of an earthquake in Tokyo in ……2……..The earthquake began a minute before …3…..
when the inhabitants of Tokyo were …4…… their midday meals.Thousands of stoves were
overturned as soon as the earth began to shake.As a result,small fires broke out everywhere and
quickly spread.Consequently,over …5…. percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than
by the collapse of the buildings.If the earthquake had occurred at …6….. while people were
sleeping,far fewer would have died.
1……………….. 2…………… 3…………… 4………………… 5…………. 6…………
II.Choose the best answer(2pts)
1..I usually ……………jeans and T-shirt at the weekend.

17. A.problem B.mischief C.incident D.destruction
18. A.have Bcreate C.make D.do
19. A.that B.this C.their D.these
20. another B.anothers C.other D.others
IV.WRITE (3pts)
*Rewrite sentences ,beginning with the cues given.