Đề thi học kì 2 tiếng anh 8 thí điểm

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PART A. LISTENING:

Question I. Listen and complete the sentences. (1.0 point)

1.Science and technology would help us solve the world’s ____________ in the future.

2.______________ won’t be a problem anymore.

3.Robots will bring _______________.

4.High _________ in farming may destroy the environment.

Question II. Listen and write. There is one example.(1.0 pt)

PART B.USE OF LANGUAGE 

Question I. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined .( 0.5pts)

1. A. allow                         B. follow               C. yellow                  D. fellow

2. A. exhaust                      B. hour                  C. honest                  D. house

Question II.Circle the words  with  a different stress pattern from the others .( 0.5pts)

1. A. unkind                       B. kindness           C. impure                 D. machine

2. A. impolite                     B. authority          C. unhealthy             D. repetative

Question III. Choose the best answer A, B , C or D.(1.5 points) 

1.I intended……………. to New York next month.

  A. flew                          B . to fly                   C. fly                             D. flying

2. She said  she ………. to the Moon when she had enough money.

  A. travel                        B. to travel                C. would travel          D. travelling

3. The sight of too many advertising billboards, overhead poles and shop signs causes........... pollution

A. air                                B. light                      C. noise                         D. visual  

4.Lien told me that……………. a biology teacher.

   A. she wants to become                  B. she wanted to become                    

  C. she wanted becoming                     D. she wants becoming

5. The teacher ………..….. me that I had better devote more time to science subjects such as physics, chemistry and biology.

    A. told                       B. said             C. spoke                                   D. tell

6. At 10 a.m tomorrow, she will be in. She ............. with her colleagues in Viet Nam

 A. video conferenced                        B. video conference       

 C. will be video conferencing           D. will video conferencing   

Question IV. Give the correct form of the verb in brackets (1.0 point)

1.I (watch) …………… a science fiction film on TV at 9 .00 tonight.

2.Look at those clouds – I think it (rain)………………………….………..

3. If you use robots  to do the housework, you (become)………………………….. lazy and you (not get)…………….. enough exercise.

4. We’ll need (call)……………………………….. him more often

PART C.  READING (2,5pts)

 Question I. Read the text about Alexander Grahabell  and write T or F (1,25pts)

  Alexander Grahabell  is widely known  as inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3^rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. With his colleague Thomas Watson , Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent devices such as the  harmonic telegraph ( used to send multiple messages over a  single wire) and phonautograph ( used to draw the shape of the sound  waves. The first telephone communication was said to have happened between Bell  and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telepone in other room. The first transmisted words were, ‘ Mr Watson, come here . I want  to see you’

1.Alexander Graham Bell is Scotish.

2.He spent all his life in Canada

3.He worked with the deaf when he moved to the USA

4.He wanted to create  a device that can transmist human voice

5.He worked on his inventions all by himself

 Question II. Read this passage  and answer the questions (1,25pts)

 Thomas Editon was one of the greatest inventors of the world. He was responsible for more than  one thousand inventions including the electric light bulb and the record player. He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory. 

   Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, USA. When  he was 10 years old, he set up  asmall baloratory after he had read  a science book his mother showed him. I. 1869, he borrowed some money and began to make inventions. In 1876 he built a new laboratory so that he could spend all his time inventing . He planned to turn out minor inventions every ten  days and “big trick” every six months. He developed many devices that brought great benefits to people’s life. He once said that the value of an idea lay in the using of it. Edison died in 1931, after having are markably productive life.