TAM THANH SECONDARY SCHOOL
Name: ……………….................................
Class: 8….

45 - MINUTE TEST
SUBJECT: ENGLISH 8
WEEK: 13 – PERIOD 38

MARKS:

REMARK


Test1.
I. LISTENING (2ms)
A. Listen to the story and write true (T) or false (F)? (1m)
1. The farmer had a comfortable life. ( )
2. His chickens laid some eggs. ( )
3. He discovered one of the chicken laid two gold eggs. ( )
4. His wife cut open all chickens to find more gold eggs. ( )
B. Listen again then fill in the missing words (1m).
1. A farmer lived a ……………………..life with his family.
2. The farmer sold eggs to buy ……………………and clothing.
II. LANGUAGE FOCUS (3.5ms).
A. Which underlined part is pronounced differently? (1m)
1. A. life B. like C. light D. live
2. A. home B. hour C. half D. highlight
3. A. cruel B. upset C. conduct D. fund
4. A. stopped B. closed C. opened D. appeared
B. Choose the best answer (1.5ms).
1. My grandma……………………us when my parents were away from home.
A. looked at B. looked for C. looked after D. looked in
2. I can’t understand people who are cruel……………....animals.
A. with B. to C. about D. towards
3. Different language……………..…….learn words in different ways.
A. learners B. learner C. people D. person and
4. Some people try to learn new words and phrase by ………….
A. hand B. heart C. head D. arm
5. After the teacher signs the form, please …………..the form back to me.
A. take B. get C. hold D. bring
6. The police are looking for two prisoners who………….from the prison last night.
A. escaped B. survived C. run D. returned
C. Circle the mistake in each sentence (1m).
1. Nga’s grandmom use to live on the farm when she was young.
A B C D
2. Peter was born at June 15th in America.
A B C D
3. My teacher asked us write the new words on pieces of paper.
A B C D
4. I use a dictionary so that to learn new words, pronunciation and examples.
A B C D

III. READING (2.5ms).
A. Complete the passage, using words in the box (1m).
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 British humor is often (1)………………….to understand. A lot of humor depends on the use of words which sound the same but have different(2)……………. . For example, when someone said he was (3) ………….... the seafood diet, everyone thought that the person (4) …………. fish. When he was asked what kind of seafood he ate, however, the person replied, “It’s very simple indeed. When I see food, I eat it. That’s a seafood diet.”
B. Read the passage then answer the questions (1.5ms).
The Youth and Young Pioneers Organization was founded in Vietnam on March 26th, 1931. It builds character, and encourages good citizenship and personal fitness.
The Y & Y has many plans to help the community. It encourages all members to take part in different programs.
The recycling program can help people save natural resources. The “Rosy Smile” program helps raise fund for the poor children. The “Green Sunday” program makes the city more beautiful with cleaning streets, planting plenty of trees and flowers. It gives more green color to the city and it is done on Sunday so it has the name “Green Sunday”.
There are some more helpful programs such as “helping the elderly and street children”, “supporting cultural-sport”, “young scientists”, etc......
*Questions.
1. When was the Y & Y founded?
→ ………………………………………………………………………
2. What does the recycling program help?
→ ………………………………………………………………………
3. What does the “Green Sunday” program do?
→ ………………………………………………………………………
IV. WRITING (2ms).
A. Write the sentences, using the cue words (1m).
1. We / use / to live / on a farm / 1980s.
› ………………………………………………………………………
2. Lan / like / play / soccer.
› ………………………………………………………………………
B. Rewrite the sentences into reported speech (1m).
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