De Thi HKI grade 8

Multiple choice: Choose the correct answer for each sentence 4 ms 5.. Ba and Bao ……… chess tomorrow.. we ought to study English ………... Rewrite the following sentences in reported speech

Phan Van Hung High School

FIRST TERM EXMINATION (2009-2010)

Grade 8 Time allowed: 45’

I Pronunciation (1m)

II Multiple choice: Choose the correct answer for each sentence (4 ms)

5 Hoa……… in Hue last year

6 Ba and Bao ……… chess tomorrow

7 Lan is not ………to go to school

a old enough b enough c enough old d to enough

8 Every day she ……… up at six and has breakfast with her parents

9 we ought to study English ………

a myself b themselves c ourselves d herself

10 Do you ………any help?

11 We’ll organize a party……….27th May

12 I’ll try my ……….to improve my French

13 Nga and Ba enjoy……….the piano

14 It’s now 10 o’clock We’ll have a meeting ………10 a.m today

15 My father hates ……….to music

16 He has lived in Da Lat ……….1997

18 The red bicycle is not as expensive ……… the blue one

19 The children ……… TV for 2 hours

a are watchingb has watched c have watched d is watching

20 Would you like …………a message?

a to leave b leave c leaving d to leaving

III Rewrite the following sentences in reported speech (1.5ms)

1 “ Can you help me with my English grammar?”

Nga asked me ………

2 “ Please give this letter to my parents.”

Ba asked Lan………

3 “ Could you move this table into the classroom?”

Mr Nam asked me………

1 she / be / born / 1990 / Soc Trang

………

2 Lan / often / stay / at home / Sunday

………

V Read the passage and answer the questions: (2,5 marks)

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland on March 3, 1847 He later emigrated first to Canada and to the USA in 1870s In America, he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University Soon Bell started experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over along distance Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, conducted many experiments and finally came up with the first telephone in

1876 Traveling all over America, Bell demonstrated his invention at a lot of exhibitions He died in 1922

Questions:

1/ Where did he emigrate later?

……… 2/ When did he invent the first telephone?

……… 3/ How did he demonstrate his invention?

………

Decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F)

1 .He went to Boston when he was 23

2 .Graham Bell worked with the deaf in a hospital in Boston

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