Đề thi giữa học kỳ I môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 (Chương trình thí điểm)

MID-TERM TEST No.3 
Name:..
Mark:./50
I. LISTENING (15p)
Part 1:
Part 2:
II. VOCABULARY – GRAMMAR – READING (35p)
Stress:
1. A. celebrate 	B. experience	C. ancestor	D. socialise
2. A. design	B.ethnic	C. collect	D. adore
3. A. community	B. convenient	C. nomadic	D. recognise
4. A. nomad	B. badly	C. adore	D. language
5. A. behaved	B. bored	C. hoped	D. tried
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence:
1. The Tay have their___________language.
A. own	B. self	C. owe	D. speak
2. Although he is not very rich, he donates____________.
A. generous	B. generously	C. not much	D. conveniently
3. I don’t mind______________you with this assignment.
A. help	B. to help	C. helping	D. to helping
4. I had the chance to____________the camel on my vacation in Egypt lasy year.
A. ride	B. drive	C. walk	D. dive
5. The wall is_______________painted with blue, red and white.
A. colourful	B. colourfully	C. colour	D. coloured
6. The Thai____________their ancestors - the people who has blood relationship with them and already died.
A. reward	B. worry	C. expect	D. worship
Word form:
1. The villagers are gather at the____________________house to watch a performance.	
COMMUNE
2. Telephone is an important means of____________________.	COMMUNICATE 
3. Vietnam has 53 ethnic_________________peoples.	MINOR
4. It is___________________to share the same room with him because he is lazy and dirty.	CONVENIENCE
5. The blue colour_________________peace.	SYMBOL
Complete passage:
environment	according	safe	communities	in addition	escape
 Life in the English countryside
(1)______________to a recent survey by Country Life magazine, about 80 percent of Britain’s have dream of living in the countryside. In fact the countryside of England today shows the wealth of landowners and those who can afford to (2)_____________the busy and noisy city life.
English village (3)_______________are often small and close. They are warm and usually welcoming. Maggie, who lives in North Yorkshire, says: “ Village life is (4)_____________for the kids. There is a great sense of community here. It is more relaxing and you can’t tell who has money and who doesn’t”. People in the countryside use private transport more, and the (5)_____________hasn’t been spoilt much.
Complete/ rewrite sentences or put questions:
1. He/ spend/ thirty/ minute/ clean/ his room/ last night.
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2. Jane/ run/ slow/ Eva.
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3. She enjoys arranging flowers.	ADDICTED
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4. Team A didn’t perform as well as team B.	
Team B______________________________________________________________________________
5. It took me ten hours to decorate this wall.	 
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6. Yes, the Tay grow the rice and raise cattles for food.
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7. They have the meeting twice a months.
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Read the passage and answer the questions:
The Ede have long lived in the Tay Nguyen or high plateau region of central Vietnam. The Ede’s food crop is rice. The most numerous animals and poultry raised on the family farm are pigs, buffaloes, and chickens.
Ede group is well-known for making perfect “Ruou can” -  fermented alcohol drunk in a bamboo tube. Ruou can is made from steamed sticky rice.
Festivals are celebrated in the last month of the lunar year, after the harvest time. It is held to give thanks and pray for an abundant crop. On these occasions, wealthy people kill a buffalo or an ox as an offering, and others offer a pig or poultry.
True or false?
1. The Ede mainly raise pigs, buffaloes and chickens.	_________
2. The Ede drink Ruou can in a bamboo bowl.	_________
3. Ede people don’t offer ox to pray for an abundant crop.	_________
Answer the questions:
4. When are festivals of the Ede celebrated?
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5. Where do the Ede live?
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Find the word suitable with each explanation:
6. rich, having a lot of money	_________
7. excellent, without mistake	_________