Đề kiểm tra chất lượng giữa học kì I môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Năm học 2015-2016 - Trường THCS Ngô Đồng

Nội dung text: Đề kiểm tra chất lượng giữa học kì I môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Năm học 2015-2016 - Trường THCS Ngô Đồng

1. 10) Many children in Britain ___ wear uniform when they go to school A. have to B. has to C. must D. had to II. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets (1.0 point) 1) we know it’s that the sun always (rise) in the East -> 2) His little sister (not go) to bed early last night -> 3) I used (learn) English well when I was young -> 4) It isn’t easy (answer) these questions -> 5) Would you mind (play) football with us? Part C: READING (3.0 points) I. Fill in the blanks with proper words (1.0 point) Break - study - at - learning - English Peter is going to spend a year in China soon, he’ll ___(1) __ Chinese language and History at the university, he’ll live in the university, he’ll share the room with a chinese student. Days start very early, so he’ll have to get up at about six o’clock, he’ll have ___(2) __ at about six thirty. His classes will be in both ___(3) __ and Chinese, and they’ll begin at seven thirty. Lunch is ___(4) __ twelve and then there’s a rest until three. He’ll continue ___(5) __ until six. After that he’ll come back his room in the university. He thinks it’ll be difficult for him but he likes the course. 1. ___ 4. ___ 2. ___ 5. ___ 3. ___ II. Read the passage and answer the questions (2.0 points) To us, the moon appears to be very large. Actually, the moon is much smaller than the sun and the stars. However, because the moon is closer the earth than any other star or planet, it seems larger. The moon is really quite far from us. Even if we could go to the moon in a rocket travelling five thousand miles an hour, it would take us about forty-eight hours to get there! Once we arrived on the moon, we would find that it grows extremely hot in the daytime and extremely cold at night. This is because the moon has no air to protect it. The air around our planet protects it from the sun’s rays and also keeps it from losing too much heat. In 1969, two men set foot on the moon and saw exactly what things are like there. We now know that on the moon we can’t find free water in lakes and streams. Because of the lack of air and