ĐỀ 1 – GIỮA HK 2 -LỚP 7
I. Choose the word that has different sound in the underlined part.
1. A. ship | B. bicycle | C. dish | D. taxi |
2. A. hole | B. cold | C. motorbike | D. bowl |
3. A. hand | B. traffic | C. cancel | D. park |
II. Circle the word with a different stress pattern from the others. | |||
4. A. discuss | B. traffic | C. water | D. winter |
5. A. prepare | B. relax | C. produce | D. summer |
III. Choose the best answer.
- They often choose cars with bigger engines to get higher speed.
- slower B. faster C. smaller D. worse
- The underground in Japan is much than taxis or buses.
- slow B. quick C. quicker D. more quick
- What did you use to play when you were six years old?
- toy B. card C. ball D. game
- There should be a limit in the playground to prevent accidents.
- speed B. time C. engine D. cost
- Let’s a look at the film section of the paper.
- do B. use C. spend D. take
- The main character _ in love with a poor man in the countryside.
- has B. makes C. falls D. interests
- The film an exciting story about murder or crime.
- holds B. reports C. tells D. watches
- The festival is every year at the end of October.
- taken B. held C. made D. done
- Festival of lights is a festival in India.
- religion B. culture C. nation D. religious
- People the festival by throwing water to wish everyone happiness.
- celebrate B. have C. organize D. complete
- Write the correct form of the word given.
- A man in a silver sports car into a lady in a big blue truck in the middle of the intersection yesterday. (CRASH)
- Traffic accidents can be if people obey the rules. (PREVENT)
- He was still when I saw him at 11 o’clock yesterday evening. (WAKE)
- A crazy cat and a dog help him to find his parents. (FRIEND)
- How many _ are there in the program tonight? (PERFORM)
- Read the passage and choose the best answer to complete each blank.
Traffic jams in Viet Nam frequently (21) place in big cities, such as Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.
There is no fixed rule for the time a traffic jam to happen. But it is worst (22) the rush hour when everyone is in a hurry to get to work or come back home. Apart from peak hours, the time between 9 a.m. to 10a.m. and between3 p.m. to 4 p.m. also witnesseslong lines of vehicles, mainlymotorbikes. (23) it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible. Taxis are extremely hard to catch or wave during the downpour.
(24) , the most annoying thing about the traffic jam is the way people react to it. Most road users ride their motorbikes on the pavementrather than (25) calmly. Moreover, they constantly use their horns to hasten riders in the front, even shouting at them from time to time.
21. A. take | B. takes | C. took | D. are taking |
22. A. at | B. on | C. during | D. within |
23. A. That | B. When | C. After | D. Before |
24. A. Therefore | B. But | C. Though | D. However |
25. A. wait | B. to wait | C. waiting | D. waited |
- Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the following questions.
ANIMATION
The theoryof the animated cartoon was introduced beforethe invention of the cinemaby half a century. When working to create conversation pieces for Victorian shops, people discovered the principle of persistence of vision. If drawings of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession, the human eye would perceive them as a continuous movement.
One of the first commercially successful devices, invented by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a spinning cardboarddisk that createdthe illusion of movement when viewed in a mirror,in 1834, William Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures. The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876