TRUNG TÂM
LUYỆN THI LÊ VŨ
ĐỀ SỐ …
KỲ THI KHẢO SÁT NĂNG LỰC GIỮA HỌC KÌ II
NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh - Lớp 8
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút không kể thời gian phát đề
(Đề thi có 05 trang)
ĐIỂM
Họ và tên thí sinh: ……………………………………………
Học sinh trường: ……………………………………………..
Số điện thoại mẹ (bố): ……………………………………….
Lớp (tên lớp học tại trung tâm): ……………………………..
A. LISTENING
Listen to a conversation between two friends. Choose the best for each question.
1. The girl wants a new laptop ______________.
A. to watch movies
B. to play video
games
C. to talk to friends
and family
D. to go on the web
for school projects
2. The shop assistant suggests ______________.
A. the X19
B. the X20
C. the X21
D. the X22
3. The shop assistant says the best computer for the customer has a battery life of
______________.
A. five hours
B. six hours
C. 12 hours
D. 14 hours
C. Keyboard
D. Speakers
4. What else should the girl think about?
A. Storage
B. Weight
5. What does the assistant say about the laptop which she chooses?
A. It works very
well.
B. It’s very quiet.
C. It has lots of
features.
D. The screen is very
bright.
Listen to a radio show about UFO and alien sightings. Choose True or False.
Answers
True
6. In the radio talk, Andrew was a guest.
X
7. Andrew’s parents saw the aliens in 1980.
X
8. There were only Andrew’s parents at the campsite.
X
9. The strangers had big eyes and green skin.
X
10. Andrew’s parents are still scared when thinking about it.
X
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False
B. PRONUNCIATION
Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each
of the following questions.
11. A. great
B. waste
C. surface
D. chase
Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
12. A. Venus
B. station
C. believe
D. planet
C. LANGUAGE IN USE
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
13. Robots can’t get lost. They can ______________ through any environment.
A. complete
B. rescue
C. navigate
D. charge
14. My mom cleans the floor ______________ than a vacuum cleaner.
A. more fastly
B. more slowly
C. slowlier
D. more faster
15. The firemen arrived just in time to ______________ the child stuck in the fire.
A. assist
B. help
C. rescue
D. provide
16. Anna saw a humanlike object last night, and she thought it was a(n) _______
A. sighting
B. alien
C. weight
D. model
17. “Rescue workers saved a girl trapped in a collapsed school building.” – “ ________”
A. Oh dear!
B. Good luck
C. That’s great.
D. How convenient!
18. They ___________ on the lake when it started to rain so they ___________ home.
A. fish/went
B. fished/go
C. fishing/going
D. were fishing/went
19. The farmer ___________ in the field when he saw a UFO.
A. is working
B. was working
C. worked
D. works
20. Humans can’t live unless they have enough ___________ to breathe.
A. water
B. planets
C. food
D. oxygen
21. Without modern science and ___________ humans cannot travel to the moon.
A. technological
B. technician
C. technology
D. technologically
22. When you are in orbit, you'll be out of the earth's ______________ and you're weightless.
A. outside
B. gravity
C. atsmosphere
D. outskirt
23. If we check our tests ______________ carefully, we can get higher scores.
A. much
B. more
C. a lot
D. well
24. Linda ______________ be twelve next year
A. will
B. is going to
B. shall
D. may
25. I can’t understand. Would you ask him to speak ______________?
A. more clearly
B. clearly
C. clearlier
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D. clear
26. A ______________ has a great view of the stars, so many scientists want to work on it.
A. gravity
B. cloud
C. temperature
D. space station
27. Jane’s mom: In 2100, there will be many space stations near Earth.
Jane: ______________
A. Really? Why will B. What a good C. I don’t know when they D. Oh, it will be much
you go there?
journey!
will come.
easier to explore space.
28. My father prefers this robot because its battery can ______________.
A. run fast
B. last longer
C. move slowly
D. keep it hotter
29. The greenhouse effect is the slow rise of the earth’s ______________because of the
increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A. climate
B. energy
C. power
D. temperature
30. The VX9 completed the task more ______________than the X150. The X150 was very
noisy.
A. carefully
B. quietly
C. beautifully
D. quickly
D. READING
Read part of a short story. Choose the best word or phrase for each space.
Zog checked all the information on the computer screens of his spaceship. He was making an
approach to Venus after traveling more than 70 million miles from Mars. That planet was too
cold, and he expected the (31)___________ on this one to be too high. However, his job was to
visit all the planets in the Sun’s system in the next 150 years.
Zog’s spaceship was not like the UFOs which often visited the Earth – the Earth people called
them flying saucers. Instead, it looked like an ice-cream cone - (32)___________, with lights all
around the bottom.
Zog was ready to land on Venus. He found a flat area and stopped the spaceship. For a few
minutes, he (33)___________ over one spot, then he went down and touched the ground.
His computer told him that there were aliens in the area, but it had no data on their size. Zog
looked out of one of the windows and saw them for the first time. At first, he thought they were
very small, but then he realized they were still a long way away. As they came closer, he saw
that they were actually (34)___________, and there were hundreds of them! He made a quick
decision, pushed some buttons and rose from the ground, high above the crowd. He pushed some
more buttons and set a course for his next planet, (35)___________.
(31)
A. temperature
B. gravity
C. oxygen
D. water
(32)
A. circular
B. disk-shaped
C. triangular
D. square
(33)
A. flew
B. hovered
C. drove
D. rode
(34)
A. huge
B. tiny
C. crowded
D. terrified
(35)
A. Mars
B. Venus
C. the Moon
D. the Earth
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Read the passage below. Write T (True), F (False), or NG (Not Given) if the information is
not in the text.
SMARTPHONE REVOLUTION
It was just over a decade ago when cell phones were primarily used for calling and
sending texts. Today, the uses of cell phones run the gamut. Phones do everything from taking
high-resolution pictures to watching pixel-perfect videos, browsing the Internet to playing
graphic-intensive games to monitoring your movements in addition to fulfilling basic
communication needs.
The advent of smartphones has greatly simplified our lives. People now connect with
their loved ones more frequently and easily through video calls and instant messaging Services.
Tasks, like creating slides, reading emails, and creating documents don’t require a PC anymore.
Briefly,̣ smartphone and apps have changed the way we work, communicate and play.
While the smartphone revolution has made our lives easy, it has also made us lazy. Today,
the whole world is at our fingertips, and thus we don’t have to work or move around like we
did previously to get things done. Our inactive lifestyle and lack of physical activities can be
partly attributed to the over-dependence on smartphones. This is especially true for the younger
generation, who are constantly glued to their cell phones. Cell phone addiction is having a
negative impact on our lives. Care needs to be taken to deal with this issue in an effective way.
36. In the past, mobile phones were used only for communication among people.
T
37. Smartphones make Communications with people quite easier.
T
38. Smartphone users, however, can make their life more convenient
F
39. Today we don’t have to go to work because we have the whole world at our
F
fingertips.
40. Only young people are now addicted to their mobile phones.
F
E. WRITING
Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meaning. Use the given word(s) if
any.
41. People are likely to travel to other planets in the future. (WILL)
People will travel to other planets in the future
=> ____________________________________________________________________
42. A normal storm moves more slowly than a typhoon. (SPEED)
A typhoon moves at higher speed than a normal storm
=> A typhoon __________________________________________________________
43. An alien appeared during the time people were searching the spacecraft.
When people were searching the spacecraft, an alien appeared.
=> When people _________________________________________________________
Put the words in the correct order to make a correct sentence.
44. the/ last/ at/ weather forecast/ Nam and his family/ night. / were/ 8 o’clock/ watching
Nam and his family were watching the weather forecast at 8 o’clock last night
=> ____________________________________________________________________
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45. miles from Earth/the red planet,/140 million/./is about/Mars, which/is known as
Mars, which is known as the red planet, is about 140 million miles from Earth.
=> ____________________________________________________________________
Write an email to your friend about a smartphone you want to have. Write 80 to 100 words.
- Write email address and email subject.
- To whom do you want to send this email?
- This email must be included Opening, Body, and Closing.
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