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Năm học 2022 - 2023

Bài thi môn: Tiếng Anh lớp 8

Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút

I. Choose the letter A, B, C or D the word that has the underlined part different from others.

1. A. benefit              B. explore                  C. rescue                    D. legend 

2. A. official               B. cultural                  C. collapse                  D. cure

II. Choose the letter A, B, C or D the word that has the different stress pattern from others.

3. A. improve            B. invent                    C. language               D. typhoon

4. A. volcanic           B. eruption                C. tsunami                 D. kangaroo

III. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences

5. Water pollution may result __________ the dead of marine life.

A. in                           B. on                           C. for                          D. at

6. At this time tomorrow, Bing __________ an examination.

A. will have               B. is having               C. has had                  D. will be having

7. If the storm __________ our areas, the damage will be huge.

A. strike                     B. strikes                   C. is striking              D. stroke

8. My teacher __________ me to open my bag.

A. said                        B. said that                C. told                        D. tell that

9. Robots save workers from __________ dangerous tasks.

A. making                  B. having                   C. performing           D. carrying

10. Many people believe that robots have made workers jobless __________ that is not
necessarily true.
A. but                         B. and                         C. so                           D. or

11. Recent __________. developments have made robots more user-friendly and intelligent.

A. science                  B. scientist                C. scientific               D. scientifically

12. Teenagers spend most of their time playing computer games, __________ they lost their
interests in daily activities. 

 A. moreover             B. so                           C. however                D. as a result

13. Science and technology have __________ the life safe, secure and comfortable.

A. transformed         B. made                      C. done                      D. changed

14. What is the ___________language of France?

A. office                    B. officially               C. official                  D. offices

15. Science is used in all corners of the world for the __________ of people.

A. interest                  B. need                       C. profits                   D. benefit

16. At the moment, my mother __________ in the kitchen.

A. is cooking             B. cook                      C. cooks                     D. has cooked

17. We couldn’t organize a video conference __________ the network signal is weak.

A. although               B. therefore               C. because                 D. despite

18. This plant should __________ as soon as possible.

A. is planted              B. plants                    C. be planted             D. planting

19. I __________ in this company for 5 years.

A. have worked        B. work                      C. am working          D. worked

20. Some examples _________ nonverbal communication are gestures, body language and
facial expression.

A. in                           B. of                           C. with                       D. for

IV. Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow
Alexander Graham Bell is widely known as inventor of the first telephone. He was born on
March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with
his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. With
his colleague Thomas Watson, Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent
devices such as the harmonic telegraph (used to send multiple messages over a single
wire) and phonautograph (used to draw the shape of the sound waves). The first telephone
communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell
was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telephone in other room. The first
transmitted words were, ‘Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you’.

a. Decide if the statements are T or F

21. _________ Alexander Graham Bell is Scottish.

22. _________ He spent all his life in Canada.

23. _________ He worked with the deaf when he moved to the USA.

24. _________ He wanted to create a device that can transmit human voice.

25. _________ He was able to succeed right from the first experiment.

26. _________ He worked on his inventions all by himself.

b. Answer the questions

27. When was Alexander Graham Bell born?

28. Who did he move to Canada with?

29. What is Bell’s ‘phonautograph’ used to do?

30. When did the first communication over happened?

VI. Give the correct tense or form of the words in the blanket.

31. Air ____________ is not good for our health. (POLLUTE)

32. Many houses were ______________ in the hurricane last night. (DESTRUCTION)

33. If we save _____________, we won’t pay much money. (ELECTRIC)

34. Edison is known as the ___________ of the light bulb. (INVENTION)