Đề 2 – Đề kiểm tra học kì 1 môn Anh 8: The garden is …beautifully

A. Listening

I. Listen and fill 1 word in each blank

1. The garden is ______ beautifully.

2. I enjoy picking ______ in the woods.

3. The sky looks so clear and blue in the ______.

4. After the survey, we have to ______ our findings to the class.

5. ______ the mouse twice to open this file.

II. Listen and decide if the following statements are True (T) or False (F)

6. We children hate running around the fields.

7. The nomadic have a very easy life.

8. The hills are colorful in spring when the wild flowers bloom.

9. Everybody has to work hard for world peace.

10. Riding a bicycle is one of the skills every nomadic child in Mongolia has to learn.

B. Grammar

III. Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

vast                    peaceful             nomadic

inconvenient         hospitable          quiet

safe          slow

11. I love the people in my village. They are so friendly and ______

12. I sometimes lie and watch the ______ movement of the clouds.

13. Some people in the mountains of north Viet Nam used to have a ______ life.

14. Don’t worry. It’s ______ to travel here, even at night.

15. It’s so ______ to send a letter from my village. The nearest post office is miles away.

16. Would you please be ______? There is an exam going on.

17. I love the ______ sky on starry nights. It looks fantastic.

18. The Tasadays are a ______ tribe. They never fight and never hit their children.

IV. Choose the correct answer.

19. Does she fancy ______ a book to younger children?

A. reads                      B. reading

C. to read                    D. read

20. My 6-year old brother really enjoys ___________ in the rain, which is sometimes dangerous.

A. play                        B. played

C. playing                   D. plays

21. Have you ever been in such a situation _____________?

A. before                     B. yet

C. already                   D. lately

22. I know she has worked  much_____________ this semester than she did last semester.

A. more hardly            B. hardlier

C. more harder            D. harder

23. They love _____________ with their friends.

A. eat out                    B. ate out

C. having eaten           D. to eat out

24. This is one of the most ridiculous things that I_____________ in my life.

A. heard                      B. have heard

C. hear                        D. will hear

V. Open the brackets

25. I love (listen) _______ to music with good earphones.

26. My brother likes ( cook) _______ , but he detests (do) _______  the washing.

27. She prefers( communicate) _______ with real people to ( meet) _______ someone virtual on the Internet.

28. I need ( solve) _______ this problem with the customers at once.

VI. Read and answer the following s.

Yoga originates in India and it is good for both your body and mind. Anyone can do Yoga- women or men, adults or children. Special children’s classes are devised to help them cope with pressures they feel from school work. By learning how to co-ordinate breathing and movement, yoga helps them to develop body awareness, self-control and flexibility. Taking up yoga also helps them to focus and become better with daily routines. An ideal time to do yoga is before breakfast.

29. Where does yoga come from?

⟹ _____________________

30. Who can do yoga?

⟹ ______________________

31. Why should children do yoga too?

⟹ ______________________

32. What is the best time for yoga?

⟹ ______________________

33. Does yoga help children concentrate on their work?

⟹ ______________________

VII. Rewrite the sentences without changing the meanings.

34. The Eagle team performed more successfully than the Lion team.

⟹ The Lion team didn’t___________

35. In the countryside, the children play more freely than in the city.

⟹ In the city, children____________

36. Our gers are now better equipped than in the past .

⟹ In the past, our gers weren’t _________

37. A sports car goes faster than an ordinary car.

⟹ An ordinary car goes ____________

VIII. Complete the following sentences.

38. The/ paddy /field/ /mountain/ usually/ not/ as /large/ those/ in/low /lands.

⟹ ______________________

39. The/ path/ through/ Dead Valley/ most/dangerous/in/ my/ country.

⟹ ______________________

40. A city /more /interesting/ activities/ the countryside.

⟹ ______________________

1. blossoming

2. blackberries

3. countryside

4. report

5. Click

6. F

7. F

8. T

9. T

10. F 

11. hospitable

12. peaceful

13. slow

14. safe

15. inconvenient

16. quiet

17. vast

18. nomadic

19. B

20. C

21. B

22. D

23. D

24. B

25. listening

26. cooking – doing

27. communicating-meeting

28. to solve 

29. Yoga comes from India

30. Anyone can do yoga – women or men, adults or children.

31. Because yoga helps them cope with pressures they feel from school work.

32. The best time for yoga is before breakfast.

33. Yes, it does.

34. The Lion team didn’t perform as successfully as the Eagle team did.

35. In the city, the children play less freely than in the countryside.

36. In the past, our gers weren’t equipped as well as now.

37. An ordinary car goes more slowly than a sports car.

38. The paddy fields in the mountains are usually not as large as those in the lowlands.

39. The path through Dead Valley is the most dangerous in my country.

40. A city has more interesting activities than the countryside.