Đề kiểm tra học kì 1 Anh lớp 8 đề 8: Listen. Fill in the blanks with the missing words.

I. Listen: Listen. Fill in the blanks with the missing words.

1. The Mid-Autum Festival started ___________ years ago.

2. The Festival usually occurs on the ___________ day in September or October.

3. Mooncake, which is made from flavor, meat, egg, dried fruit, ___________’s seed, peanut, is so sweet and good ___________.

4. The Mid-Autumn celebration is an ___________ for members of the family to visit together and share together everything in their year.

Listen again. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

5. People often spend the whole day to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. ___________

6. People can eat Moon cake in the different time of a year. ___________

7. Mid – Autumn festival symbolizesthree main things. ___________

8. At this festival, the adults give the children some lucky money. ___________

II. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

9.

A. command                       B. carnival

C. archway                         D. anniversary

10.

A. instruments                    B. others

C. basic                              D. groups

11.

A. showed                          B. learned

C. lived                               D. discriminated

12.

A. rice                               B. carnival

C. companion                     D. invade

13.

A. emperor                       B. commemorate

C. incense                        D. procession

III. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.

14.

A. companion                   B. procession

C. commemoration           D. magician

15.

A. congratulation              B. celebration

C. vegetarian                    D. preservation

16.

A. performance                 B. decoration

C. attraction                      D. reunion

IV. Choose the correct answer to complete each of the sentences.

17. I ___________ Thailand this summer. There must be many interesting festivals.

A. visit                               B. am visiting

C. visited                           D. have visited

18. ___________ come for Tet holiday?

A. Why don’t you                B. How about

C. What about                    D. Do you like

19. I recommend you ___________ go to Hue and see the festivals there.

A. with                              B. by

C. to                                 D. on

20. Sam regrets ___________ that film in the cinema.

A. to watch                        B. watches

C. watch                            D. watching

21. We go to Huong pagoda every year to ___________ the tradition alive.

A. do                                  B. take

C. keep                               D. preserve

22. This is a statue in ___________ of a national hero.

A. commemoration              B. procession

C. competition                     D. companion

23. I’m looking ___________ to the Food Festival.

A. by                                  B. forward

C. with                               D. in

24. Christmas is an occasion for family ___________ in Western countries.

A. participation                   B. childhood

C. reunion                          D. blossom

25. Buffaloes are good ___________ of Vietnamese farmers.

A. humans                         B. companions

C. fairies                            D. offspring

26. The story is part of the ancient ___________ of Hung King.

A. legendary                       B. legend

C. court                              D.heritage

V. Read the passage and choose A, B, C or D to complete each blank.

Hue Festival

Hue Festival is a big cultural event of Hue City that is held every two years. It is the (27) _______ to honor cultural and historical values of that Vietnam’s former capital city. The first Hue Festival (28) _______place in 2000.

At the beginning of Hue Festival, visitors can enjoy (29) _______ colorful and grand opening ceremony with unique (30) _______ of several art groups from Vietnam and other countries. During the festival, there is a variety (31) _______ cultural events such as Hue Poetry Festival, Massive Street Arts Performances, Art Exhibitions, the Week of Vietnam’s historical films. (32) _______, visitors can come and explore some traditional values of Vietnam at Gastronomy Quarters, Traditional  Kite Flying Festival (33) _______ watch “Ao dai” Grand Show, “Oriental night” Show, and sporting activities (34) _______ boat race, human chess, etc. Especially, many ancient scenery of Nguyen Dynasty are also reproduced (35) _______ provide tourists an insight into Vietnam’s feudal era.

Hue Festival is well-known as an (36) _______ festival where cultures of many countries converge together as well as where Vietnamese traditional and cultural values are widely presented to the world.

27.

A. procession                     B. performance

C. worship                          D. occasion

28.

A. lasted                           B. occurred

C. took                              D. happened

29.

A. every                            B. a

C. any                               D. both

30.

A. performances                 B. reunions

C. worships                        D. offerings

31.

A. from                              B. of

C. at                                  D. to

32.

A. Nevertheless                  B. However

C. Otherwise                      D. Therefore

33.

A. nor                                B. so

C. but                                D. or

34.

A. like                                B. love

C. hate                               D. enjoy

35.

A. therefore                        B. so

C. and                                D. but

36.

A. uninteresting                  B. international

C. unsuccessful                  D. undecided

VI. Combine each pair of sentences into a compound or complex sentence, using the words in brackets.

37. It was raining outside. The ritual still took place. (ALTHOUGH)

⟹ ____________________

38. Jenny needs to ask me. I will show her how to make chung cakes. (IF)

⟹ ____________________

39. Ha was young. She loved chung cakes very much. (WHEN)

⟹ ____________________

40. Franklin wants to join the Hue Festival. He is preparing for his trip. (BECAUSE)

⟹ ___________________

1. 4000

2 . 15th

3. pumpkin – tasting

4. opportunity

5. True

6. False

7. False

8. False

9. D

10. B

11. D

12. A

13. A

14. D

15. A

16. B

17. B

18. A

19. C

20. D

21. C

22. A

23. B

24. C

25. B

26.B

27. D

28. C

29. B

30. A

31. B

32. C

33. D

34. A

35. C

36. B

37. Althouh it was raining outside, the ritual still took place.

38. If Jenny asks, I will show her how to make chung cakes.

39. When Ha was young, she loved chung cakes very much.

40. Because Franklin wants to join the Hue Festival, he is preparing for his trip.