De thi mau hk2 01

Đề thi HK2 - Môn: Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Chương trình Hệ 10 năm (Số 01)
Họ và tên: ______________________________________________________________
Question I: Listen to and write one word.
Reporter: Dr Minh Vu, what exactly is ‘netiquette’?
Dr Minh Vu: The word is a (1) _______________ of ‘net’ and ‘etiquette’. It’s a set of
rules for behaving properly online.
Reporter: Could you tell us the main rule of netiquette?
Dr Minh Vu: Remember that the people we’re communicating with online are real
people. Don’t say and do unpleasant things online. Just like in real life.
Reporter: But sometimes perhaps it’s not what we (2) _______________, but how
communicate...?
Dr Minh Vu: Absolutely. For example, if you write emails, or post comments using
CAPS LOCK, this means you are shouting at people!
Reporter: Of course it’s not polite at all. What else should we do when sending emails?
Dr Minh Vu: Check your message for spelling mistakes before you send it. It shows (3)
_______________ towards the other person. Don't use too much shorthand. This may
confuse your reader.
Reporter: How about behaviour in chat rooms and on (4) _______________?
Dr Minh Vu: Follow (5) _______________ rules. Use polite language. People may not
know who you are but you are judged by the quality of your writing.
Question II: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer (A, B or C).
Nick: Hey, Duong and Chau, do you remember Dr. Nelson’s talk science and
technology?
Chau: Yes. He said that science and technology would help us (1) _______________
the world’s problems in the future. 
Nick: Right. I think world hunger is a problem now, and develops ways to get high
yieds in farming will help feed the growing population on earth.
Duong: Good point. Also we may be able to live on other planets, and (2) ___________
won’t be a problem any more...
Nick: And I like the idea of having lessons at home with a robot, and the Internet.
Duong: And no more paper books. We’ll have e-books, and tablets for everything.

Chau: That doesn’t sound like a (3) _______________ to me. I’d still want to go to
school. I’d like to communicate face-to-face with teachers and friends. In my opinion,
science and technology will bring new problems to people.
Duong: Like what?


Chau: Well, robots will bring unemployment, and (4) _______________ in farming
may destroy the environment and sending people to Mars may cause pollution...
Nick: You’re right: so many new (5) _______________
Question III: Circle the best answer A, B, C or D.
1. The river water is severely polluted, mostly________ the dumping of raw sewage.
A. due to
B. lead to
C. because
D. so
2. The waves of the_________ were so huge that it destroyed everything on the beach.
A. tornado
B. hurricane
C. tsunami
D. earthquake
3. The Braille_________ enables blind and visually impaired people to read and write.
A. email
B. note
C. code
D. report
4. I__________ my friends for dinner after work tomorrow.
A. meet
B. will meet
C. am meeting
D. will be meeting

5. ___________ is the name of a planet that matches the Roman God of the sea.
A. Mars
B. Sun
C. Venus
D. Neptune
Question II: Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Our English teacher made us ___________________ (learn) fifty new words every week.
2. The Computer mouse ___________________ (invent) by Douglas Engelbart in 1964.
3. Neptune ___________________ (discover) on September 23, 1846.
Question III: Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete these sentences.
1. Diseases are primarily due to ___________________ food and air. (contaminate)
2. Some ___________________ eruptions are explosive and others are not. (volcano)
Question IV: Fill each blank with a suitable word in the box to complete the passage.
storm
globally
simple
of
industry
speak
read
The very first, (1) ___________________ text message was sent on December 3rd, 1992. It
was sent by software engineer Neil Papworth to his boss at the British mobile phone operator
Vodafone. It (2) ___________________ simply, “Merry Christmas”. Little did they know
that their simple mode of communication would take the world by (3) _________________
SMS (Short Message Service) is today a multi-billion-dollar (4) ___________________
covering every corner of the globe. An estimated nine trillion text messages are sent (5)
___________________ each year. Everyone from presidents to schoolchildren to villagers in
remote parts of developing countries relies on it to communicate.
Question V: Read the passage and answer the questions.
How many planets are there in our galaxy? That’s a tricky question to answer. Are there

other planets that support life? That’s exactly what the Kepler mission hopes to
discover.
NASA launched the Kepler space telescope, designed to find habitable planets, in 2009.


So far it has discovered five new Earth-sized planets beyond our solar System. These
planets are hotter than the Earth - much too hot for life as we know it. The Kepler team
predict that they will need at least three years to find an Earth-like planet.
The simplest requirement for a planet to have life is for there to be liquid water so the
distance from the planet’s sun and therefore temperature are important. There also needs
to be the correct amount of air. If a planet is as small as Mars (half the size of Earth) its
weak gravity means that it can’t hold on to air molecules. If a planet is Neptune sized
(four times bigger than Earth) it has very strong gravity and too much air. So size
matters too.
The cost of the mission is approximately six hundred million dollars. It is scheduled to
observe until 2013 but this could be extended. Will we be sad if we discover we are
alone in our galaxy or happy if we find that we share it with other life forms?
1. Did Kepler discover any planets that support life?
- _____________________________________________________________________.
2. How many Earth-sized planets has the Kepler space telescope discover so far?
- _____________________________________________________________________.
3. What is the simplest requirement for a planet to have life?
- _____________________________________________________________________.
4. How much does the mission cost?
- _____________________________________________________________________.
5. Will you be sad or happy if there are planets with other life forms?
- _____________________________________________________________________.
Question VI: Rewrite each sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one.
1. My mother does her shopping at about this time every week.
This time next week my mother ____________________________________________.

2. We arrived at the cinema, but the film had finished. (TIME)
By____________________________________________________________________.
3. “We are meeting Tony at 8 o’clock tonight.”
She said that ___________________________________________________________.
Question VII: Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences.
1. would/ bad/air pollution/ What/ got/ you/ really/ do/ if?
 ____________________________________________________________________
2. the/ dangerous/ flood/ disasters/ in/ most/ world/ of/ the/ is/ one.
 ____________________________________________________________________