Phonetics: Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.. I started working for this company in 2004.. At the moment my company is prod
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THE FIRST SEMESTER TEST Subject: English 8 (2010 – 2011)
Time: 45 minutes – N1
I Phonetics: Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest (1m)
II Grammar & Vocabulary: Choose the best option a, b, c or d to complete the following sentences (2m)
1 I’m not very good repairing things
2 Living in the country is not expensive And it isn’t complex
3 Where were you born? – I was born
4 Mai has been a doctor three years
5 Ba loves watching football, he doesn’t like playing it
6 She a shower, but she her hair yet
a has already had – hasn’t washed c has already had – doesn’t wash
b has had already – hasn’t washed d already had – hasn’t washed
7 No one else in the class plays the guitar John
a as well b as well than c as good as d so well as
8 You’re always at home You go out more often
Trang 2III Supply the correct tense of the verbs in the brackets.(3m)
1 Mrs Nga (write) a novel for ten months, but she (not
finish) it yet
2 What time your train (leave) tomorrow?
- Nine o’clock in the morning It (get) into Paris at eleven
3 Mai (not visit) her grandparents since she
(go) to university
IV Read the passage and answer the questions that follow (2m)
Hello! My name is David I work for a construction company I started working for this company in 2004 We build roads, dams, bridges and things like that At the moment my company is producing a plan for a new motorway I
usually work in the road department, but this month I am working in the
department that builds bridges So my whole working day is different just now I normally spend a lot of time outdoors because I have to go to the construction sites But with new project I spend a lot of time in the workshop Now I am testing
a model of one of the new bridges I enjoy it a lot because I have learned a lot of new things
1 When did David begin working for his construction company?
2 What is his company doing at the moment?
3 Where does he usually work?
4 Does he love his work?
V Writing: Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first (2m)
1 “Turn off all the lights when you go out,” Ba said to Nam
Ba
2 No one in the group is younger than Tom
Tom
3 We began to study English 5 years ago
We have
4 We were too late to see the film
We weren’t early
Trang 3Answer key for 1 st term (E 8)
N1
I
II
1 a 2 a 3 b 4 c 5 c 6 a 7 d 8 d
III
1 has written – hasn’t finished
2 hasn’t visited – went
3 does – leave, gets
IV
1 He began working for his construction company in 2004
2 It/His company is producing a plan for a new motorway
3 He usually works in the road department
4 Yes, he does
V
1 Ba asked Nam to turn off all the lights when he went out
2 Tom is the youngest person in the group
3 We have studied English for 5 years
4 We weren’t early enough to see the first film