A forty-five minute Test (the second term)

Name WRITTEN TEST 4
Class grade :8 (45 minutes )
Mark Teacher’s comment
I. Read the following passage and answer the questions
The Vietnamese people celebrate the New Year (Tet) on the first three days of
January according to the lunar calendar. On these days, they often paint and
decorate their houses. They buy a lot of fruit, flowers and they also make many
delicious dishes. People who work far away try to get home on these days. On the
first day of tet, people often offer these good fruit and food to their ancestors and
after that the whole families enjoy the food. They also visit pagodas, temples, and
their relatives or friends. Children are given lucky money which represents the
adult’s good wishes to them. There are a lot of traditional, games and contests at tet,
such as rice-cooking, fire-making, water – fetching and buffalo- fighting. These are
really interesting. People are playing and enjoy themselves very much on these
occasion.
1. When do Vietnamese people celebrate their New Year?
A. On the first three days of January according to the solar calendar.
B. On the first three days of January according to the lunar calendar.
C. On the first days of January
D. Every day of January according to the lunar calendar
2. They make a lot of sticky rice cakes at Tet because …………………
A. they make from sticky rice
B. they are easily made
C. they are traditional ones
D. they look nice.
3. People try to get home at Tet because they …………….
A. would like to get together with every member of their family.
B. Earn a lot of money.
C. Would like to go to the pagodas.
D. Would like to go to the festivals with their family.
4. children are often given lucky money because lucky money represents……

A. good health B. good wishes C. good results D. good time
5. There are ………traditional games at Tet.
A. any B. no C. many D. much
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of
the
0. A. live B. nice C. write D. alive
1. A. children B. chicken C. chair D. character
2. A. love B. home C. come D. some
3. A. dad B. stay C. tale D. great
4. A. shy B. fly C. curly D. sky
5. A. learned B. played C. ruled D. cooked
III. Choose the correct answer to complete the sentences.
1. _____ he likes watching films, he can go to the cinema with me .
A. if B. and C. but D. then
2. ______ if the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was a World Heritage Site.
A. she asked B. She ask C. We don't know D. We knew
3. The foreigner wanted to know ______ we were from Viet Nam.
a. A. who B. where C. whether D. how
4. Could you please tell me how ______ a sticky rice cake?
A. make B. to making C. to be made D. to make
5. Hoa promised ______ with us in London.
A. to contacting B. to see C. to keep in touch D. to meet
6. My teacher advised me ______ harder.
A. work B. to work C. working D. to working
7. Loudspeaker ______ in 1924 by C.W. Rice.
A. was inventing B. invented C. has been invented D. was invented
8. He is always……TV and forgetting to do his homework.
A. watch B. watching C. watches D. watched
9. He hopes ______ to university next year.
A. go B. goes C. to go D. to be gone

10. 4. The family ……… when the mailman came
A. is sleeping B. Were sleeping C. was sleeping D.sleep
IV. Find and correct the mistakes in these sentences below.
1. They wanted to know if I have a lot of brothers and sisters………………
A B C D
2. My teacher asked me help her do homework………………………
A B C D
3. I enjoy reading books on my free time ………………….
A B C D
4. It is said that Viet Nam is a rice-export country ………………………….
A B c D
5. While Mai watch TV , a strange man came in……………………………
A B C D
V. Rewrite these sentences so that it has the same meaning to the first ones.
1. Linda asked Nga "What is your name?"
Linda asked me
2. It is such an expensive house that we can’t buy it.
We ………………………………………………………
3. Christopher Columbus discovered America over 500 years ago.
America
4. It is a contest in which participants have to make a fire.
It is a
5. People thought that more than 30 million people were killed in the earthquake in
Japan last week.
It …………………………………………………