Đề kiểm tra chất lượng học kỳ I môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 (Thí điểm)

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG HỌC KỲ I
 THÀNH PHỐ NĂM HỌC 2016-2017
 Môn thi : Tiếng Anh 8 ( Chương trình Thí điểm )
	Thời gian : 45 phút 
 PART 1 : LISTENING 
Question 1 : Listen to a boy talking about changes in his village and say if the sentences are True (T) or False (F) .( 5 points)
( Em hãy nghe và viết T ( đúng ) hoặc F (sai ) vào ô trống )
Statements
T / F
1.Nobody lives in an earthen house now
2.The village has electricity now
3.Horses are still the only means of transport in the village
4.The children used to go a long way to school
5.More visitors are coming to see them
Question 2 : Listen and complete the passage. (5 points)
 (Em hãy nghe và điền từ vào chỗ trống )
 I live in a (1). village. My parents often tell me stories about their life in the past. It’s not much like the village I can see nowadays.
 Some villagers now live in brick houses instead of (2). ones. Our houses are better equipped with electric fans and TVs. Thanks to the TV, we now know more about life outside our village. We don’t use oil lamps any more. We have (3). lights which are much brighter. More villagers are using (4). for transport instead of riding a horse or walking. We – village children - no longer have to walk a long way and cross a stream to get to school, which is dangerous in the rainy season. Now there’s a new school nearby. We also have more (5). from the city. They come to experience our way of life.
 PART 2 : PHONETICS
Find the word which is pronounced differently in the part underlined. 
(5 points)
 ( Em hãy tìm từ có phần gạch chân được phát âm khác với các từ còn lại ).
1. 	A. mention	B. question	C. action	D. education
2.	A. populated	B. loaded	C. harvested	D. lived
3. 	A. community	B. computer	C. museum	D. customs
4. 	A. minority	B. ethnic	C. tradition	D. religion
5. A. fields	B. flowers	C. lemons	D. parks
 PART C : READING
Question 1 : Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each gap. (10 points)
 I go on the Internet every day, but I’ve never (1) _______ more than an hour at a time online. I’ve got laptop and also a smart phone, so I can (2)________the Internet anywhere. Today, for instance, I’ve been (3) ___three times.
 Mainly I just (4) ____ my friends. I read online magazines and I look (5) __________ information, too. I also compare prices of things, (6) ______ I’ve never bought anything online because I don’t think it’s safe.
 I’m not an Internet addict, but some of my friends (7) _______. One friend of mine always looks (8) _______ because he spends all night online. Although he’s got a lot of bad marks for the exams, he hasn’t (9) _____ his habits.
 In my experience, it’s very useful for people who use the Internet (10) _____.
A. spend
B. spending
C. spent
A. have
B. use
C. play
A. online
B. Internet
C. computer
A. write
B. email
C. send
A. at
B. in
C. for
A. because
B. but
C. although
A. is
B. were
C. are
A. tired
B. hard
C. happily
A. change
B. to change
C. changed
 A. sensible
B. sensibly
C. sensibleness
Question 2 : Read the passage carefully. (5 points)
MY VILLAGE
I live in a village by Mekong River. Every day, like most of my friends, I walk to school. It is three kilometres away. After class, I often help my mother to collect water from the river and feed the chickens. At the weekend, the villagers often gather at the community hall where there is a TV. The adults watch TV, but more often they talk about their farm work and exchange news. The children run around, playing games and shouting merrily. Laughter is heard everywhere.
 My father sometimes takes me to the market town nearby where he sells our home products like vegetables, fruits, eggs He then buys me an ice cream and lets me take a ride on the electric train in the town square. I love those trips.
 On starry nights, Children lie on the grass, looking at the sky and daring each other to find the Milky Way. We dream of faraway places.
1. Read the passage and tick (P) True or False ) T F 
1/ The boys helps his parents to collect water from the village well.
2/The villagers gather at the community hall at the weekend.
2. Answer the following questions.
 1/ Does the boy like riding on the electric train in the town square?
à
2/ What do the children do on starry nights?
à
3/ Do you like to live in the countryside or in the city ? Why?
 à
 PART 4 : WRITING
Question 1. Rewrite the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one . ( 2 points )
( Viết lại câu sao cho nghĩa không thay đổi )
1. I love listening to music. 
 I like ........
2. Son Tung M-TP performs the song “Chung ta khong thuoc ve nhau” very beautifully.
The song “Chung ta khong thuoc ve nhau”. 
Question 2 . Combine each pair of sentences to make one sentence, using the words given in brackets. ( 3 points ).
1.Lang Lieu couldn’t buy any special food . He was very poor. (BECAUSE)
2.The Hung King Temple Festival was a local festival. It has become a public holiday in Viet Nam since 2007.(HOWEVER)
3.The buffalo-fighting Festival sounds frightening. Many people come to enjoy it. (ALTHOUGH)
Question 3 : Write a paragraph (70-80 words) giving your opinion about life in the countryside, depending on the suggestions on below. ( 5 points )
( Em hãy viết một đoạn văn đưa ra quan điểm về cuộc sống ở làng quê, dựa vào gợi ý bên dưới đây )
What is your opinion about the life in the countryside?
How are the people, landscape, weather or air?
How is the life there?
How is the food..?
What activities can you do there?
I think that life in the countryside is 
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