ENGLISH 8 TEST 15

<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span>TEST 15 - Hoc Ky I - English 8. I. Choose and underline the best answer 1. This summer holiday we [will climbing. Go climbing, are going to climb, going climb] the mountain. 2. The lower floor of a house is called the [upstairs, downstairs, outside, inside] 3. You like the movie " The Kids in Town", [ you do, do you, you don't, don't you] ? 4. Let's [meet, meeting, to meet, to meeting] outside the theatre. 5. Alexander Graham Bell was a Scotsman [despite, in spite, although, even] he later emigrated to the USA. II. Put the following words in the correct order to make meaningful sentences. 6. stamps / a child / Minh / since / collected / was / has / he. ________________________________________________________________ 7. tomorrow / can / not / we / somewhere / I / so / working / go / am. ________________________________________________________________ 8. back / in / months / England / going / two / are / to / They. ________________________________________________________________ 9. information / entertainment / but also/ TV / not only / brings . ________________________________________________________________ 10. a struggle / always / nature /life / is / At home on the farm / with . ________________________________________________________________ III. Fill in each blank with a suitable word Learning a language is, in some way, like (11) ………………..……… how to fly or play the piano. There (12) ……………………… important differences, but there is a very important similarity. It is this: learning how to do such things needs lots (13) …………….….. practice. It is never simply to “know” something. You must be able to “do” things with what (14) ……………….…… know. For example, it is not enough simply to read a book.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span> on (15) ………………….… to fly an airplane. A (16) ……………….……. can give you lots of information about how to fly, but if only read a book and then try to (17) ……………….….. without a great deal of practice first, you will crash and kill (18) ……………….….. . The same is true of (19) ……………... the piano. So you think it is enough simply to read about it? Can you play the piano without having lots of (20) ……………... first? IV. Fill a suitable article (a/ an/ the) or not in the gap 21. It's ........................bit far from my house to ...................cinema. 22. Viet likes .............comedies very much and there is ............interesting comedy on TV tonight. 23. ....................deaf are the people who can't hear. 24. It is ...................large lab, but there is only ...................assistant. 25. Trang isn't in ...............kitchen, she's ...............upstairs. 26. They are going to build (25) ……..............university in this town. V. Change these sentences into passive voice 26. Our parents often take us to the zoo at weekends. _______________________________________________________________ 27. How can we keep our fields in good condition? _______________________________________________________________? 28. The smell of fresh paint greeted hundreds of pupils. _______________________________________________________________ 29. They have just seen the new teacher in the school yard. _______________________________________________________________ 30. Did she do her homework last night? ___________________________________________? 31. We should stop experiments on animals as soon as possible. ____________________________________________________________.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(3)</span> VI. Put the correct form of the words in brackets. 32. The museum is the (far).................................way of the two buildings. 33. We must take (act).................................before things gets worse. 34. Conan Doyle was famous for the (create)...................of the great detective, Sherlock Homes. 35. My new car is more (economy).....................than the old one I had before. 36. Working on the car made his hands (grease).......................... VII. Rewrite these sentences. Use the cues given 37. Although his team played well, they lost.  Despite ________________________________________________________________ 38. We had better get back to work  It's ________________________________________________________________ 39. "I'd take a taxi if I were you" said Peter  Peter suggested ________________________________________________ 40. In spite of the forecast, it stayed fine..

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