He worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University and did experiments with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance.. In 1876, he and his assistant – Thomas Watson introduced the te[r]
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PHÒNG GD & ĐT HUYỆN BÌNH CHÁNH
KIỂM TRA 1 TIẾT MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 8 Thời gian: 45 phút
Điểm
I Listen to the passage carefully Check the correct answer – True or False: (1m)
II Choose the most suitable words to fill in the blanks of the following sentences: (2ms)
1 She was born……… October 20, 1969
2 You should go to the……….to buy some fish and vegetables
3 I spend most of my free time………… volunteer work
4 He is………….to ride his bike to school
A not enough old B enough not old C not old enough D enough old
5 She came………… with a new idea for increasing sale
6 Let’s paint the house……… It will be much cheaper
7 Would you like to go to the movies?
A Yes, I do B Yes, I like C No, I don’t D Of course
8 Do you and your friends have the same or different characters?
C We have different characters D Yes, we have
III Supply the correct form or tense of the verb in bracket: (1m)
1 Ba is young enough………in Hoa’s class (be)
2 Next year we……….to Hanoi by plane (travel)
3 We……….this house five years ago (build)
4 Tom called about……….chess yesterday (play)
IV Supply the correct form of the word in bracket: (1m)
1 Alexander Graham Bell……… the telephone in the 1870s (invention)
2 ………., he has just met his old friend at the station (lucky)
3 In 1877 the first telephone was in……….use (commerce)
4 I will make an……… for the meeting tonight (arrange)
V Reading comprehension:
1 Read the passage carefully Check the correct answer – True or False: (1m)
Trang 2Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Scotland He went to live in Canada and then to the USA in 1870s He worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University and did experiments with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance In 1876, he and his assistant – Thomas Watson introduced the telephone successfully and in 1877 the first telephone was in commercial use
True False
3 Thomas Watson was the teacher of Alexander Graham Bell …… ……
2 Read the passage and choose the best answer among A, B, C or D to complete each gap: (2ms)
Hoa lived in Hue when she (1)…………young but now she (2)………… in Hanoi with her uncle and (3)
………Yesterday Hoa received a letter (4)…………Nien She felt happy In Hanoi Lan and Hoa are classmates and they are both (5)…………friends Lan and Hoa are talking (6)…………Lan knows Nien is not (7)…………enough to be in her class but she (8)…………Hoa next Christmas
VI Rewrite the following sentences with the words provided without changing their meaning: (2ms)
1 She will visit her grandma next weekend
→ She is
2 Don’t forget to turn off the lights when going out
→ Remember
3 Nien isn’t strong so she can’t lift that chair
→ Nien isn’t
4 It is dangerous to leave medicine around the house
→ You mustn’t
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