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ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KÌ I MÔN TIẾNG ANH 8 (Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút)
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PART I. LISTENING:(1.5pts) A. Listen and fill in the gaps (1.5 pts) I live in a (1)………………. village. My parents often tell me stories about their life in the past. It’s not much like the village I can see nowadays. Some villagers now live in brick houses instead of earthen ones. Our houses are better equipped with (2)………………. fans and TVs. Thanks to the TV, we now know more about life outside our village. We don’t use oil (3)………………. any more. We have electric lights which are much brighter. More villagers are using (4)………………. for transport instead of riding a horse or walking. We – village children - no longer have to walk a long way and cross a stream to get to (5)………………, which is dangerous in the rainy season. Now there’s a new school nearby. We also have more (6)………………. from the city. They come to experience our way of life. 1 2 3 4 5 6
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B. Listen and decide statements T (True) or F (False) (1.0 pts) Statements
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1. Vietnam is a multiethnic country with 54 ethnic groups. 2. The Viet (Kinh) people account for 86% of the country’s population 3. The main economic activity of most ethnic peoples is wet rice cultivation 4. Beliefs and religions of the Vietnamese ethnic minority groups are the same as each other.
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PART II. Phonetics (1.0 pt) A. Choose the word which has a different sound in the part underlined. (0,5p) 1. A. camel B. buffalo C. cattle D. paddy 2. A. lived B. populated C. harvested D. loaded B. Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others. (0,5p) 3. A. ancestor B. curious C. heritage D. tradition 4. A. buffalo B. recognize C. permission D. cultural PART III: LANGUAGE FOCUS: (3,0 pts) I. Choose A, B, C, D for each gap in the following sentences. (2,0 pts) 1. In 2010, Ha Noi____________ its 1000th anniversary. A. celebrated B. commemorated C. worshipped D. remembered 2. My mother enjoys_________ traditional food for our family, especially at Tet holiday. A. cook B. to cook C. cooking D. cooked 3. Look! Some children are ____________the buffaloes. A. picking B. playing C. driving D. herding 4. The sky is _______here in the countryside because there are no buildings to block the view. A. tidy B. close C. dense D. vast 5. At the Mid-Autumn Festival, kids can sing, dance, and enjoy moon-cakes ; ____________, every child likes it very much. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. Because D. However 6. During the festival, they fly many _________ kites in different shapes and sizes A. color B. colorful C. colorless D. coloring II. Supply the correct form of the words in the blanket. (1,5 pt) 1. While I ______________ the performance, I met one of my old friends. (watch) 2. They ________________ English since last year. (learn) 3. Terraced rice fields in Sa Pa are slopes claimed for cultivation in hilly or _________ areas. (mountain)
