Đề thi tiếng anh lớp 8 trường THCS Á Châu

Trường Quốc Tế Á Châu – Quận 3
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I/ Choose and circle the word/ phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the space or substitutes the underlined
part in each sentence. (2.5 pts)
1. He rarely shows his feelings. He’s rather_______.
A. reserved
B. sociable
C. humorous
D. helpful
2. You can see a lot of famous paintings in this _______.
A. invention
B. exhibition
C. demonstration
D. service

3. He fell ______ and broke his leg.
A. upstair
B. upstairs
C. downstair
D. downstairs
4. _______ is a thing that you use in a kitchen for cooking food.
A. Cooker
B. Cook
C. Refrigerator
D. Counter
5. It’ll take me an hour to do the household _______.
A. work
B. chores
C. job
D. exercises
6. The sun suddenly _______ behind a cloud.
A. appear
B. appeared
C. disappear
D. disappeared
7. Our product is sold_______.
A. world
B. worldwide
C. worldly
D. worldliness
8. They are offering 10% _______ on all sofas this month.
A. reward
B. discount
C. reduce
D. cut

9. ______ is studying again something that you have learnt, before an exam.
A. Revision
B. Experiments
C. Practice
D. Semester
10. You need to register now.
A. help
B. enroll
C. list
D. name
II/ Read the following passage and do the task below. (1.5 pts)
We have just moved into a new house and I have been working hard all morning. I have been trying to
get my new house in order. This has not been easy because I own over a thousand books. To make matters
worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor. At the moment, they cover
every inch of floor space and I actually have to walk on them to get in or out my room. My sister helped me to
carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs. She went into my room and got a big surprise when she saw all
those books on the floor. “This is the prettiest carpet I have ever seen”, she looked at it for a while then added,
“You don’t need bookcases at all. You can sit here on your spare time and read the carpet!”
Decide if the statements from 11 to 16 are True or False
11. The writer is trying to arrange her new house neatly.
_________
12. The room isn’t big enough to hold all of her books.
_________
13. The writer usually puts the books on the floor.
_________
14. The writer has a beautiful carpet.
_________
15. Her sister didn’t seem at all surprised when she went into the room.
_________
16. The writer has more than one bookcase.

_________
17. Her sister didn’t seem at all surprised when she went into the room.
_________
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III/ Choose and circle the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the passage. (2.0 pts)
Hoa is excited about the (17) _____ activities she is going to do. The Y&Y is having a plan (18) _____
the community. She’ll (19) _____ in its recycling program. In joining this program, she’ll collect (20)
_____paper, glass and empty cans. Then she will send them for (21) _____.
She hopes that she could save natural resources and earn some money for her school Y&Y in these (22)
_____. She also thinks about participating in (23) _____ planting trees and flowers or (24) _____ the street
children.
17. A. interesting
B. interested
C. boring
D. bored
18. A. help
B. to help
C. helping
D. to helping
19. A. take part
B. participate
C. fill
D. A & B
20. A. use
B. used
C. using

D. to use
21. A. recyclable
B. recycle
C. recycled
D. recycling
22. A. organizations
B. members
C. activities
D. resources
23. A. and
B. either
C. so
D. neither
24. A. help
B. helped
C. helping
D. to help
IV/ Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence. (1.5 pts)
25. ___________________, I won’t be able to attend the meeting.
(fortunate)
26. The World Health ___________________ is an international one. (organize)
27. Last year we had an ___________________ summer holiday.
(enjoy)
28. All the dancers wore ___________________ costumes.
(tradition)
29. Don’t leave the light on. It wastes ___________________.
(electric)
30. Those cats look ___________________.
(love)
V/ Rearrange the groups of words in a correct order to make complete sentences. (0.5 pts)

31. mustn’t / you / 65 mph/ or/ than / to/ drive/ ticket/ a/ may/ get/ faster/ you/
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
32. we/ London/ live/ used to/ village/ a/ now/ in/ but/ move/ small/ we/ to/
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
VI/ Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the
sentence printed before it. (2.0 pts)
33. When did you start learning English?
 How long _____________________________________________________________________________?
34. Your backpack is not the same as mine.
 My backpack __________________________________________________________________________.
35. He actively participates in outdoor activities
He is _________________________________________________________________________________.
36. “Turn off the light and don’t leave the door open”, my mother said.
My mother asked ________________________________________________________________________.
THIS IS THE END OF THE TEST

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Ho Chi Minh City, November 02nd, 2017
Principal

NGUYEN LE THANH TRUC
Written by: BUI PHUONG ANH

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