I did not know that only one year later I would win the first prize in the English speaking contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.. Read the text and do tasks :.[r]
Trang 1BAÀÀI TẬP E GRADE 8 – HK1
I Choose the best answer to complete these sentences
1 I a letter from my old friend last week (sent / gave / received / took)
2 We must be there 7.30 and 10.30 (at / before / between / after)
3 I find Peter is not communicative He’s rather in public (kind / reserved /sociable / humorous)
4 She has over 30 pages since yesterday (written / wrote / write / writing)
5 I find Peter is not communicative He’s rather in public (kind / reserved /sociable / humorous)
6 My farther used us to the park three years ago (took / taking / to take / take)
8 Can you fill this form for me? (out / on / at / to)
9 “Would you to go to the movies with me?” “I’d love to” (like / want / love / mind)
10 Deaf-mute can speak hear (both and/not only … but also/neither … nor/either … or)
11 When I was a child, I follow my mum to the market (used to / liked / hated / loved)
12 His parents are always proud him (about / of / on / with)
13 have you lived in this town? – For nearly 20 years (When / Where / How far /How long)
14 The new shopping mall is quite the present shopping area (different from / the same / like to / similar)
15 They have studied six o’clock (for / at / since / to)
16 “ ?” – “It’s 20.000 dong” (How much is this parcel cost / How much does this parcel take / How much does this parcel / How much does this parcel cost)
17 I the country life the city life (like – than / prefer – to / like – to / prefer – than)
18 They have studied six o’clock (for / at / since / to)
19 He does morning exercises regularly in order to his health (have / improve / get / take)
Trang 220 Don’t let your child with matches (playing / to play / plays / play)
21 They from Canada to America to find work (started / demonstrated / delivered / migrated)
22 Last night I watched the movie Romeo and Juliet At last they killed (together / each
other / themselves / one another)
23 My mother is tired cook tonight (enough – to / too – to / so – that / very – to)
24 He went to school late because he was stuck in the this morning.(rush-hour / traffic-light / traffic-jam / cross-road)
25 Airmail is expensive than surface mail (the most / most / much / more)
27 She is studying hard pass the final exams.(for / in order to / so to / so that)
28 John came an old school friend in the street this morning (with / along / across / off)
29 She asked her children (to stop playing / stop to play / stop playing / stopping to play)
30 He is not ride a motorbike (enough old to / enough old for / old enough to / old enough for)
31 I don’t talk much in public I am rather (kind / sociable / reserved / humorous)
32 (Novel / Fiction / Folktale / Legend) is a story passed on in spoken form from one generation to the next
33 You must look in the (advertisement / recreation / diversion / participation) section of the newspaper to find out what films are showing
34 During rush-hours, (traffic lights / crossroads / traffic-jams) often happen
35 (Would / Could / Do / Will) you like to go to the movies? – I’d love to
36 Deaf-mutes can (both speak and hear / not only speak but also hear / neither speak nor hear / either speak or hear)
37 They have waited for her (for / since / at / from) 6 o’clock
38 This neighborhood is (different / the same / as / like) from that one
39 What does she look like? (She look beautiful / She is beautiful / She looks like beautiful)
40 The calendar is (on / under / behind / in) the clock
41 Minh and I didn’t enjoy (myself / ourselves / himself / themselves) at the party
Trang 342 When my father was young, he used to (singing / sang / sings / sing) very well.
44 You should work (hardly / hard / good / badly) in order to pass the exams
45 It is too dark (to take / take / taking / took) photographs here
46 Jim is not old enough (read / reading / to read) this book
47 Could you do me a favor? (What can I do for you / Thanks a lot / It’s very kind of you / No, thank you I’m fine)
48 I (haven’t met / don’t meet / didn’t meet / won’t) him yet
49 The doctor advised him (go / to go / going / goes) to bed earlier
50 They got married and lived (happy / happily / happiness)
II Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets
1 Mary and John (be) _ neighbors They (know) _ each other for a long time Mary (move) _ into her house in 1990, and John (live) _ next door since he (come) _
to the area in 1988
2 Today (be) _ Sunday Nga (not go) _ to school She (stay) _ at home She (do) _ her homework now She (do) _ it for two hours
3 I (be) _ in New York I (come) _ here two years ago My friend, Nancy (live) _ here since 1982 So she (know) _ the area very well
4 Trung usually (go) _ to the library three times a week
5 Yesterday I (be) _ busy, so I (not have) _ time to phone you
6 Mrs Trang (not go) _ to work last week She (not be) _ feeling well
7 I (do ) _ all the housework The flat is really clean now
8 How long you (live) _ here? – Since 1997
9 Mr Quang (teach) _ in this school since he (graduate) _ from the university in 1989
10 My brother (leave) _ home 10 years ago I (never meet) _ him since then
11 Where you (spend) _ your summer holiday last year, Tam?
12 When we (be) _ small, our family (live) _ in the countryside
13 I (read) _ an interesting book at the moment
14 How long you (know) _ Mrs Chi? – I (know) _ here for five years
15 W (not see) _ her since we (be) _ on holiday in Ha Long bay
16 Phuong (not finish) _ her homework yet
17 It’s three years since I last (see) _ Nam
18 You (be) _ away? – Yes I (go) _ to the country last Sunday
19 I (not eat) _ anything for two days
20 They (move) _ to Ho Chi Minh City in 1990 and (live) _ there since then
READING COMPREHENSION
I Complete the following passage with the words given in the box.
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is - feed - people - lot - work - lived - so - it
Trang 4Many (1) _ believe that life on the farm is very quiet and easy, but (2) is very hard I myself have (3) on a farm for nearly twenty years and I know what farm work (4) _ You must get up early, (5) _ the chickens and the cows, water the flowers, vegetables, do (6) _ of gardening and then (7) in the fields But my aunt likes this way of life and (8) do all her children
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enjoy - like - walk - beautiful - friendly - in - facilities - summer
Dear Mai,
I’m having a lovely time here in Kim Lien It’s a (1) _ village I’m staying at my uncle’s house I have a nice view of the paddy field from my bedroom Things are changing (2) _ the countryside People can now have things (3) refrigerators and televisions Medical (4) _ are more accessible Today I’m going for a long (5) by the lake The air is clean and people are very (6) Would you like to come here next (7) holiday? I hope you’ll (8) it
3
reach - in - telephoned - message - service - stationary - name
- speak
A customer (1) the Thang Loi Delivery (2) _ on June 16 just after midday The customer’s (3) _was Mr Nam, and he wanted to (4) to Mrs Van Mrs Van was (5) meeting and could not come to the phone So Mr Toan took a (6) Mr Nam called about his (7) _ order He said Mrs Van could (8) _ him at 8 634 082
II Read the following texts Then answer the True / False sentences
1/ Hello! My name’s Ba I’m 13 years old I have a close friend, Lan She is 15, but she isn’t as tall
as I am Every day I go to school in the morning, my sister has classes in the afternoon Like Lan, I love pop music, reading my novels in my free time We both like playing chess and going swimming
in the summer Unlike Lan, I don’t like cooking, doing the shopping on Sundays Instead, I like watching films, especially war films on T.V I also love playing soccer in my spare time
1 Both Ba and Lan go to school in the morning
3 They don’t like playing chess and going swimming in Summer
4 Lan doesn’t like cooking, doing the shopping on Sundays
6 Lan also loves playing soccer in her free time
2/ Lily comes from China She’s a university student She’s eighteen years old She is studying
English as a foreign language English is important to her because she will need it for her job in the future She began learning English when she was very young – at the age of eight She thinks that her biggest problem is listening People speak very quickly, so she can’t understand them English is really hard for her to learn, but she likes it She wants to be an English teacher; or hopes to become a singer one day because she loves English songs very much
1 English is important to Lily as she will need it for her future job
2 She started learning English when she was eighteen
3 She has a problem with listening
4 She can understand people when they speak fast
5 She doesn’t find English difficult to learn
6 She loves English songs but she doesn’t want to become a singer
3/ Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1478, but when he was a young man of twenty-three he
moved with his parents to Canada Before the year was over, young Graham left his family and went to Boston Though Bell was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker and a man of action
In Boston, where he worked by day as a teacher of the deaf, he worked far into night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound This led to the invention of the telephone
Trang 51 Alexandra Graham Bell was born in England
Trang 63 He went to Boston when he was twenty-three
4 Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston
5 He experimented with the electrical transmission of the sound by day
III Read the following passages Then answer the questions
1/ Do you have any close friends? I think everybody at least has one close friend in their life And so
do I I have two close friends, Hanh and Mai We are in the same class at the primary school, and then secondary school We are also neighbors so we spend most of our time learning and playing together Hanh is a beautiful girl with big black eyes and an oval rosy face She is an intelligent student who is always at the top of the class She likes reading, and she often goes to the library whenever she has free time Mai isn’t as beautiful as Hanh, but she has a lovely smile and looks very healthy Mai is very sporty She spends most of her time playing sports Mai is a volleyball star of our school She is also very sociable and has a good sense of humor Her jokes always make us laugh I love both of my friends and I always hope our friendship will never die
Questions
a What does Hanh look like?
b What does she like?
c What does she often do in her free time?
d Is Mai more beautiful than Hanh?
e What is Mai’s hobby?
f Which sports does Mai play in the school team?
2/ How Nam has improved his English.
“… In the first year of lower secondary school I had some difficult in learning English My pronunciation of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse I did not how to improve them One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase She also told me how to use an English–English dictionary to improve my English grammar “Now I think you know what you should do”, said she I made much progress and only one year later I won the first prize in the English Speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.”
Questions
a What difficulties did Nam have in learning English in the first year?
b Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?
c Where did they go after that?
d What did the teacher show him then?
e What did she tell him to improve his English grammar?
Trang 7f What did he win one year later?
3/
Lan is excited about the interesting activities she is going to do
The Y & Y is having a plan to help the community She will participate in its recycling program In joining this program, she will collect glass, used paper and empty cans Then she will send them for recycling
She hopes she can save natural resources and raise some money for the school Y & Y in these activities She also thinks about participating in either planting trees and flowers or helping the street children It is really interesting, isn’t it?
Questions
1 Is Lan going to have interesting activities?
2 What is the Y & Y planning to do?
3 What will she do?
4 Will she send them for recycling?
5 What does she hope in these activities?
6 Does she think about helping the street children?
4/
Peter is my pen pal He is fifteen years old He lives in a house in London He has lived there for ten years He is an excellent student He always works hard at school and gets good marks He loves learning Vietnamese in his free time He often practices writing letters in Vietnamese Sometimes he helps me to correct my writing, and I help
him to correct his spelling mistakes Next summer, he is going to visit Ho Chi Minh City with his family I’m expecting to see him
Questions
1 Where does he live?
2 How long has he lived in London?
3 Why does he get good marks?
4 What does he like doing in his free time?
5 Does he often practice Vietnamese by speaking and reading?
Trang 86 What is he going to do next summer?
WRITING
A Rewrite these sentences
1 “Could you help me with my English speaking, Ba?”
Minh told
2 “You shouldn’t make noise in class, Trung”
The teacher said
3 “Can you wait for me here, Jerry?”
Tom told
4 “Could you buy me an English exercise book, Ha?”
Nam asked
5 “ Get up early to learn your lesson, Toan”
Toan’s father told him _
6 “ You should improve your English pronunciation, Nga”
Nga’s teacher said
7 “ You should stay in bed for a few days, Mr Hoang”
The doctor said
8 Hung is strong He can carry that heavy box
Hung is
9 The fire isn’t very hot It won’t boil the kettle
The fire
Trang 910 The weather wasn’t warm We couldn’t go swimming.
The weather
11 Jane is a skillful swimmer
Jane _
12 Lan learns English very well
Lan is
13 Tom is a good soccer player
Tom plays _
14 Loan is a good swimmer
Loan _
15 Hung run very fast
Hung is _
16 Plays are not as interesting as films
Films are
17 English isn’t as difficult as French
French is _
18 Jill is more intelligent than Bill
Bill isn’t
19 Nga doesn’t speak English as well as Trang
Trang speaks
20 Mrs Thanh drives more carefully than Mrs Hong
Mrs Hong doesn’t _
THE FIRST TERM TEST
I.Choose the correct answers: (2p)
1 It is really a difficult test but we will try to do it ……… (ourself/ ourselves/ itself/ itselves)
2 Tuan is 15 years old He is not………to drive a car (old enough/ enough old/ young enough / enough young).
3 Our teacher told us……… hard this semester (working / work/ to work/ worked).
4 Lan and Hoa have difference characters Lan is sociable but Hoa………(reserved/
beautiful/ slim/ lovely)
5 Our school Y & Y……… over 100 useful things for street children since last week (collect/ collecting/ collected/ have collected)
6 Could you help me fill……… this application form? (in/ of/ on/ with)
7 “May I help you?” -> ………
Trang 108 Your report is good I know you worked really ………this semester?(bad/ good/ hard/ hardly)
II.Complete the passage with words given: (2p)
Hair/ doing/ hair / in/ the same/ either/ because/ similar.
I have 2 brothers, Tim and Tom They are very (1)………and a lot of people don’ t know who Tim is and who Tom is They both have blond (2)………and blue eyes They always (3)
………jeans and T- shirts They like (4)……… the same things , too For examples, they like jazz and they are interested (5)……… soccer They go to a soccer match once a week Tim doesn’t like dancing and Tom doesn’t like it (6)………Although they are twins, they are not exactly the (7)
………at everything Tim woorks hard at school (8)……… he wants to go to university , but Tom is
a bit lazy
III Read the text below carefully:
Galileo was one of the first modern scientists He was born in Pisa , Italy, in 1564 At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studies math and astronomy He was very interested in the way the Earth and other planets moves around the sun He found out some important facts about our world He also started
a new way of working in science Before Galileo, scientists did not do experiments, they just guessed about how something happened He did not just make guess, he did experiments and watched to see what happened.
A T/F (1.5p )
1 Galileo was very interested in the earth ,the sun and other planets………
2 He had the same ways working in science with other sciencetists……….
3 He did not find out anything about our world……….
B Questions : (1p)
1 What did Galileo study?
2 Did he guess about how something happened?
I Read the conversation and help Nga to write a message for Tam: (1.5p)
Nga: Hello, this is Nga.
Nam: Hello, Nga I’m Nam Could I speak to Tam?
Nga: I’m sorry, my brother is out Would you like to leave him a message?
Nam: Could you tell him that I will come and pick him up at 4’00 at your house? We are going to play soccer in the school yard this afternoon
Nga: Ok I’ll tell him when he ‘s back Bye.
Nam: Bye.
Date: January 7th.
Time: 1’30 pm.
For:………
Message:………
Taken by:……….
VI Write 5 sentences about the changes in your hometown, use cues given: (2p)
Our town/ changing Few years ago/ it/ small/ quiet Now / it/ large/ noisy Traffic/ busy Streets/ clean/ beautiful Houses / modern People life/ easy.
Our town is changing ………
………
……….
THE FIRST TERM TEST Vocab and structures (2p)
1 My brother is out Would you like ……….a message? (to leave/ left/ leaving/ leaves)
2 Did your teacher help you do this math exercise? -> No, we did it……….(myself/ themselves/ ourselves/ yourselves)