Đề ôn kiểm tra học kỳ 2 môn Tiếng Anh 8

Name: _________________
I. Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others:
1. A. unaffected	B. undrinkable 	 	C. uncountable	 	D. unsuitable
2. A. unpopular	B. unorganized	C. unfortunate	 	D. unambitious
3. A. imperfect 	B. immature	 	C. immobile (bất động)	D. immoral (trái đạo đức)
4. A. translator	B. director	C. editor/edit/	 	D. spectator
5. A. consumer	B. performer	C. shopkeeper 	D. believe
II. Find the word which has different stress pattern from the others.
1.A. person	 B. father	C. teacher	D. enjoy
2. A. prefer	B. enjoy	C. mother	D. agree
3.A. doctor B. father 	C. picture 	D. fancy
4.A. pollution	B. visit	C. listen	D. open
5.A. depend	 B. advise	C. affect	D. listen
III. Choose A, B, C, D for each gap in the following sentences. 
1. By the time we  to the cinema, the film had started.
A. gets	 B. had got	 C. has got	 D. got
2. When the policeman came there, the robber  
A. had left	B. has left	 C. left 	 D. was left
3. All people who were without homes in the flood were provided with  accommodation.
A. short 	B. temporary C. present	D. instant
4. Seven of ten people prefer face-to-face  when having a date.
A. language	 B. contact C. code D. sign
5. When thermal pollution happens, the water temperature in streams, rivers, lakes and oceans ... .
A. changes	B. keeps	 C. remains 	 D. stays
6. Australia is home to  animals like kangaroos and koalas. 
A. only	B. rare	 C. unique	D. precious
7. If you were the president, what  you do to help the environment?
A. will 	B. did 	 C. would	D. do
8.The Maori in New Zealand greet each other by .. their noses.
A. touching	B. punching	C. blowing	D. rubbing
9. The village’s drinking water  with poisonous chemicals since the factory came into operation.
A. contaminates	B. is contaminated	C. has contaminated	D. has been contaminated
10. When the policeman came to the scene, the driver of the car . 
A. have left	B. had left	C. leaves 	D. was left
IV. Rewrite the following sentences so that the second sentence means the same as the first one.
1. Scientists have invented new devices to help people live a longer life.
 New devices 
2. I don’t have enough time , so I can’t go on holiday this summer.
 If ..
3.The man had a broken leg. He tried to save his wife.
àIn spie of....
4. I can’t tell you because I don’t know the answer.
àIf 
5. They will do the test well. They will review them all hard.
àIf.
6. The rescue workers evacuated the villagers in the raged flood to the safe place last night.
àThe villagers in the raged flood..
7. The students will provide aids for the homeless people tomorrow.
àAids
8. The people will protect the environment now. The environment will be nice
àIf
9. They don’t have a map, so they get lost 
àIf
10. The storm destroyed many houses in this village last week.
àMany houses.
V/Give the correct tense or form of the following verbs.
1. I (watch)  a science fiction film on TV at 9 .00 tonight.
2. Our teacher says that new technology (make). Many workers jobless in the future.
3. Look at those clouds – I think it (rain)..
4. If you use robots to do the housework, you (become)... lazy and you (not get).. enough exercise.
5. People say that technology (change) .. up entire rooms are small enough to put on destops and into wristwatches.
6. We’ll need (call)... him more often
7. This time next week , I (lie) on the beach on Phu quoc Island
8. Thomas Edison said that none of his inventions ( come) by accident. They (be). all the result of hard work
9. By the time I( arrive)the airport, my husband( wait)..for me for an hour.
10. If the trees(be not).watered daily, they will die.
VI/Read the text about Alexander Graham Bell and do the tasks
 Alexander Graham Bell is widely known as inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. With his colleague Thomas Watson , Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent devices such as the harmonic telegraph ( used to send multiple messages over a single wire) and phonautograph ( used to draw the shape of the sound waves. The first telephone communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telephone in other room. The first transmitted words were, ‘ Mr Watson, come here . I want to see you’
a. Decide if the statements are T or F
1.He spent all his life in Canada
2.He worked with the deaf when he moved to the USA
3.He wanted to create a device that can transmit human voice
4.He was able to succeed right from the first experiment
5.He worked on his inventions all by himself
b. Answer the questions
1.What is Bell ‘s ‘harmonic telegraph’ ?
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2.What is Bell ‘s ‘phonautograph’
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3.When did the first communication over happened and how did it happen?
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VII/ Read the following text carefully and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the gap.
Ewan McGregor was (29)_____ in Scotland in 1971. He decided to be an (30)______ when he was only nine and he (31)_____his first film in 1992. So far in his career he has appeared (32)_____ a lot of different types of films, including comedies, musical, dramas and the Star Wars movies. In his career Ewan has worked with (33)_____ like Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman, and his films have won (34)_____ of awards. He loves acting and when he finished (35)_______ the musical, Moulin Rouge, he said, “I have never been happier to do anything in my life”.
29. A. bear	B. born	C. bearing	D. beared
30. A. acting	B. actress	C. actor	D. action
31. A. made	B. played	C. worked	D. starred
32. A. at	B. on	C. with	D. in
33. A. directors	B. actors	C. actresses	D. writers
34. A. a lots	B. lots	C. much	D. some
35. A. to film	B. filmed	C. film	D. filming