
TRƯỜNG THCS VÕ THỊ SÁU
Họ và tên: ..............................
Lớp:8/ ………………………
KIỂM TRA GIỮA HỌC KỲ I, NĂM HỌC 2022-2023
Môn: TIẾNG ANH –LỚP 8
Ngày kiểm tra: / 10 / 2022
Điểm Nhận xét của giáo viên
I. Listening (2p)
A. Listen and decide which is True and which is False. (1p)
1. Lan is tall and has long black hair. …………..
2. She likes playing sports. ………….
3. Chi is very kind because she helps her friend with English. ………….
4. She always does her homework after class. …………
B. Listen and complete sentences below with the correct words. (1p)
1. A farmer lived a comfortable life with his…………….. .
2. He discovered one of the chickens ………………… a gold egg.
3. Her husband decided to ……………… open all the chickens.
4. His wife was……………... .
II. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others in each
group. (1p)
1. A. decide B. quite C. tiger D. prince
2. A. sound B. found C. brought D. proud
3. A. peaceful B. deaf C. bead D. steamer
4. A. lived B. brushed C. missed D. watched
III. Circle A, B, C or D before the word or phrase that fits each sentence below (1.5p)
1. The children are old enough to look after……………..
A. myself B. themselves C. yourself D. himself
2. Our house is not very large. We sleep upstairs, and we eat and receive guests………. .
A. upstairs B. downstairs C. outside D. inside
3. Tim is old enough……….with machines.
A. work B. working C. to work D. worked
4. Little Pea ………… the house work all day after her father got married again.
A. had to do B. must take C. ought to have D. would do
5. …… helped Nam with his homework? - No one helped him. He did it himself.
A. What B. How C. When D. Who
6. What does your friend look like? - She is……
A. a subject B. humorous C. sports D. short and fat
IV. Reading (2.5p)
A. Read the text and then fill in the gaps with the given words in the box. (1.5 p)

One day, when a farmer was in his field and his buffalo was grazing nearby, a tiger (1)……………..
The tiger asked the farmer why the strong buffalo was the servant and the small man was its master.
The farmer said he had something called (2)……………….. The tiger wanted to see it. The farmer
told the tiger that he (3)………. the wisdom at home that day. Before the farmer went home to get the
wisdom, he tied the tiger to a tree with a rope (4)………………he didn’t want it to eat his buffalo.
When the farmer returned, he (5)…………………some straw with him and said it was his wisdom.
He lit the straw and the fire burned the tiger. The tiger escaped, but it (6)……….. has black stripes
from the burns today.
B. Read the story “The Starfruit Tree” and then answer the following questions. (1.0p)
Once there was a rich man living in a village. When he died, he left his two sons a fortune. But
the elder brother gave his younger brother only a starfruit tree. When the fruit was ripe, an eagle came
and ate the fruit. The younger brother asked the eagle not to. The eagle promised to repay him in gold
and told him to make a bag to carry it. The eagle took him on its back to a place of gold. There, he
filled the bag with gold. When he got home he was rich. The elder brother was surprised, so he asked
his brother to explain. After hearing the story, he offered to swap his fortune for the starfruit tree, and
his kind brother agreed. When the eagle came, the elder brother asked it to take him to the place of
gold. The greedy brother filled a very large bag and all his pockets with gold. On the way home,
because the load was too heavy, the eagle got tired and dropped him into the sea.
1. What did the elder brother give his younger brother?
→ ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. What did the elder do when he found out how his younger brother became rich?
→ ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. Is the younger brother greedy?
→ ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. What happened to the elder brother in the end?
→ ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
V. Use given words to make complete sentences (1.0p)
1. The test / be / easy / enough / me / do / in 15 minutes.
……………….……………………………………………………………………………………..
2. My grandmother/ used/ live/ a farm/ when/ she/ be/ young girl.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
VI. Make questions for the underlined words. (1.0p)
1. They bought new fishing rods yesterday.
→.......................................................................................................................................................
2. She spends her free time doing volunteer work at a local orphanage.
→........................................................................................................................................................
VII. Rewrite the sentences as directed (1.0p)
1. There wasn’t electricity in my neightborhood 10 years ago.
→ There didn’t… …………………………………………………………………………………
2. He is not tall, so he can not reach the shelf. (Use “enough”)
→ …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

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HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM
KIỂM TRA GIỮA HỌC KỲ I, NĂM HỌC 2022-2023
Môn: TIẾNG ANH –LỚP 8
I. Listening
A. 1 point ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1F 2T 3T 4F
B. 1 point ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1. family 2. laid 3. cut 4. greedy
II. 1point ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1D 2C 3B 4A
III. 1.5 points ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1B 2B 3C 4A 5D 6D
IV. Reading (2.5p)
A. 1.5 point ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1. appeared 2. wisdom 3. left 4. because 5. brought 6. still
B. 1.0 points ( 0.25 for the correct answer)
1. The elder brother gave his younger brother only a starfruit tree.
2. He offered to swap his fortune for the starfruit tree.
3. No, he isn’t.
4. The eagle dropped him into the sea. / He was dropped (by the eagle) into the sea.
V. 1 point ( 0.5 for the correct answer)
1. The test / be / easy / enough / me / do / in 15 minutes.
2. My grandmother/ used/ live/ a farm/ when/ she/ be/ young girl.
VI. 1 point ( 0.5 for the correct answer)
1. When did they buy new fishing rods?
2. Where does she spend her free time doing volunteer work?
VII. 1 point ( 0.5 for the correct answer)
1. There didn’t use to be electricity in my neightborhood 10 years ago.
2. He is not tall enough to reach the shelf.
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