Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted PRACTICE TEST 7

Name: KEY Class:... Grade 8 - Time allowance: 60 minutes MARK:.......................

PART A. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others (0.5pt.)
1. A. young B. discount C. drought D. sound 1. A
2. A. hire B. assistant C. blind D. itinerary 2. B
3. A. brochure B. character C. chemistry D. Christmas 3. A
4. A. behaviour B. nature C. separate D. arrange 4. C
5. A. competition B. promise C. conscious D. chore 5. D
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from that of the others (0.5pt.)
1. A. relative B. cinema C. continue D. suddenly 1. C
2. A. cartoon B. open C. paper D. music 2. A
3. A. important B. community C. organize D. diseases 3. C
4. A. education B. geography C. occupation D. information 4. B
5. A. dramatic B. tornado C. historic D. injury 5. D
PART B. USE OF ENGLISH
I. Choose the option that best completes each of the following sentences (1pt.)
1. Sydney Opera House……..in 1973. 1. D
A. completed B. complete C. is completed D. was completed
2. It was a …….. contest. 2. B
A. cooking-rice B. rice-cooking C. rice-cook D. ricing-cooked
3. He asked me if I ………. play tennis. 3. B
A. can B. could C. may D. must
4. The girl ……. next to me is a newcomer. 4. A
A. sitting B. sit C. sat D. sits
5. Nhi asked Nga …….she knew My Son or not. 5. C
A. how B. what C. whether D. where
6. A person who ……. the bagpipe is called a piper. 6. A
A. plays B. makes C. entertains D. does
7. Emergency teams are still removing the ......... in many parts of the country 7. B
A. dirt B. debris C. dust D. damage
8. The team’s success was greatly ......... to her efforts. 8. A
A. thanks B. with a view C. in order to D. so as
9. We don’t have many carnivals in Vietnam……. , we have many traditional festivals. 9. C
A. If so B. While C. Nevertheless D. Because
10. When I came, the whole family …….. dinner around a big dining table. 10. D
A. is having B. have C. had D. was having
II. Use the correct form and tense of the verb in brackets to complete each of the following sentences (1pt.)
1. When I arrived at school, the students (gather) in the school yard. 1. were gathering
2. he (have) any problems, he can contact this hotline, 911. 2. Should he have
3. Which TV programme you (watch) at 9 p.m. tomorrow evening? 3. will you be watching
4. Vegetable matter (decompose) and becomes a fertilizer for the fields. 4. is decomposed/
5. If (untreat), the illness can become severe. decomposes?
6. If I were you, I (not sunbathe) for so long. 5. untreated
7. You should avoid (use) too many abbreviations shorthand in formal essays.. 6. wouldn't sunbathe
8. It’s ages since I (start) working for this company. 7. using
9. Most people (leave) by the time the volcano erupted. 8. started
10. Jane always (complain) about other people's minor mistakes. 9. had left
10. is…
complaining/complains
III. Use the correct form of the given word to complete each of the following sentences (1pt.)
1. I’m (skepticism) about his chances of winning the lottery. 1. skeptical
2. In the interests of (hygienic), please wash your hands. 2. hygiene
3. She often goes to church. She is very (religion). 3. religious
4. Over 200 (compete) entered the race. 4. competitors
5. All (participate) finishing the race will receive a medal 5. participants
6. Most tourists like visiting some (tribe) villages. 6. tribal
7. Volcanic eruptions can be very (destroy) 7. destructive
8. These products are (environment) friendly. 8. environmentally
9. What's a (pollute)? It's a substance that contaminates something. 9. pollutant
10. People of this(legend) land have contributed many of the world’s inventions to humankind. 10. legendary
IV. Underline(0.1/each) word or phrase that needs correcting and provide correction(0.1/each) (2pts.)
1. The winners are the first ones making a fire. 1.to make
2. He won the race so he tried his best to run fast. 2.because
3. Jim wanted to know what time could he call me. 3. he could
4. It’s dangerous to drive fastly in busy streets. 4. fast
5. Many people claim there were other wonders that the ancient Greeks knew nothing. 5. nothing about
6. The table is in the living room, among the armchair and the sofa. 6. between
7. Liz told that she was interested in joining the beauty pageant. 7. said/told me
 8. The teacher told the students in class 8C don’t talk in class. 8.not to
9. A British man had someone designed a card to send Christmas greetings to his friends. 9. design
10. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is often called the “Red Planet” as the iron oxide 10. on
prevalent in its surface gives it a reddish appearance.
PART C. READING
I. Read the passage below and decide which option best fits each space (1pt.)
SPRING FESTIVAL
From (1) .......... times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most
important Christian festivals is Easter, (2) .......... Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter, however, is not the (3) .......... spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of the winter by making
(4) .......... bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of Holi. In some villages children are
(5) .......... round bonfires by their mothers to protect them (6) ______ danger in the coming year. Buddhists in
Thailand soak (7) .......... in water when celebrating their New Year, which (8) .......... in the middle of April. In Antigua
in Guatemala they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (9) .......... colourful, but (10) ..........
flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets.
1. A. earliest B. latest C. previous D. old 1. A
2. A. which B. when C. because D. by then 2. B
3. A. single B. one C. only D. lonely 3. C
4. A. giant B. tremendous C. extreme D. huge 4. D
5. A. gone B. carried C. brought D. run 5. B
6. A. in B. out of C. against D. of 6. C
7. A. through B. one other C. each other D. mutually 7. C
8. A. falls B. appears C. happens D. occurs 8. A
9. A. the same B. as C. not less D. equally 9. D
10. A. instead of B. on behalf of C. in spite of D. place of 10. A
II. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete the following passage (1pt.)
A tornado is a dark funnel-shaped cloud (1) m…..... up of violently rotating winds that can 1. made
(2) r…..... speeds of up to 300 m.p.h. The diameter of a tornado can vary (3) b…..... a few feet 2. reach
and a mile, and its track can extend from less than a mile to several hundred miles. 3. between
Tornadoes generally travel in a northeast (4) d…..... at speeds ranging from 20-60 m.p.h. 4. direction
Tornadoes are most often spawned by giant thunderstorms (5) k…..... as "supercells." These 5. known
powerful and highly organized storms form when warm, moist air along the ground rushes 6. cooler
upward, meeting (6) c…..... and drier air. (7) W…..... the rising warm air cools, the moisture it 7. When
carries condenses, forming a massive thundercloud, sometimes growing to as (8) m…..... as 8. much
50,000 ft. in height. The conditions that lead to the (9) f…..... of tornadoes are usually (10) 9. formation
m…..... in the central and southern U.S., where "tornado alley," spreads roughly from the Rocky 10. met
Mountains to the Appalachians.

PART D. WRITING
I. Complete the second sentence using the word given, so that it has a similar meaning to the first one (1pt.)
1. It is said that these burglars were caught red-handed while trying to break in his house yesterday.
-> These burglars are said to have been caught red-handed while trying to break in his house yesterday.
2. It’s noisy here so I cannot hear what you are saying.
 If it wasn’t/weren’t noisy here, I could hear what…
3. “I will go camping with my classmates tomorrow”, Lan said.
-> Lan said she would go camping with her classmates the day after / the following day / the next day.
4. “Did you do your homework yesterday”, the teacher said.
-> The teacher asked me if I had done my homework the day before / the previous day.
5. Is it all right if I take a photograph of you and your partner?
-> Would you mind if I took a photograph of you and your partner?
II. Rearrange the given words to make complete sentences (1pt.)
1. Angkor Wat should really be known as a wonder because it is the largest temple in the world.
2. Students can post messages on the bulletin board and find other students with the same interests to talk to.
3. Natural disasters can force people to leave their homes so you should also become familiar with the
guidelines for evacuation.
4. Natural disasters are devastating because they can wreak havoc across large areas and cause loss of life or
damage to property.
5. One Christmas Eve in the early 1500s, some people decorated a tree and put it in the market place in Latvia
and this custom spread through Europe quickly.

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