THE MIDDLE TEST – ENGLISH 8.

Name : __________________ Class : 8 __

Part 1. Listening : Listen and write. There is an example.

Day: …( 0)….Saturday……………………
Place: The (1) …………………….…..……Café
Number of children: (2) ………………………..……………
Where they sat: Table (3) ………………………………
Food: Cake, (4) ……………..……and ice cream.
Drinks: Lemonade and ( 5)……………….....juice
Part 2: Pronunciation :
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. vehicle B. behaviour C. hour D. homeless
2. A. untidy B. visual C. surprise D. environment
3. A. bury B. butter C. bus D. woodcutter
II. Choose the word with different stress from the others in each question.
4. A. geography B. apology C. employee D. artistic
6. A. historical B. interviewee C. biography D. psychology
Part 3: Vocabulary and grammar :
III. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences
7. Last night’s storm caused a lot of __________ to people in that area.
A. droughts B. forests C. damages D. volcanoes
8. If you spoke English well, you _________ go to Canada.
A. will be B. will C. would D. can
9. The road in front of my office is always __________ when it rains heavily.
A. to flood B. flooding C. flood D. flooded
10. After I __________ in the room, she left.
A. come B. had come C. came D. will come
12. This is one of the worst volcanic __________ in this year.
A. eruption B. erupt C. erupting D. eruptive
13. The roof of the building __________ in a storm a few days ago.
A. damaged B. was damaged C. has damaged D. has been damaged
14. If the factory _________ dumping poison into the lake, all the aquatic animals will die.
A. continues B. continued C. will continue D. continue
15. When the policeman came to the scene, the driver of the car __________.
A. have left B. had left C. leaves D. was left
Part 4: Reading :
IV. Complete the passage with the given words:
population on official Many began
English is the (16)_________ language of the Philippines. English-medium education
(17)_________ in the Philippines in 1901 after the arrival of some 540 US teachers. English
was also chosen for newspapers and magazines, the media, and literary writing.
The latest results from a recent survey suggest that about 65% of the (18)_________ of the
Philippines has the ability to understand spoken and written English with 48 person stating that
they can write standard English. The economy is based (19)_________ English, and successful
workers and managers are fluent in English. (20)_________ schools know that their students
must be fluent in English to be successful.

Part 5: Writing :
V. Choose the most suitable sentences:
21. Stop talking or you won’t understand the lesson.
A. If you don’t understand the lesson, you will stop talking
B. If you stop talking, you won’t understand the lesson.
C. If you stop talking, you will understand the lesson
D. You won’t stop talking if you don’t understand the lesson.
22. I don’t know her number, so I don’t ring her up.
A. I will ring her up If I know her number
B. If I don’t know her number, I will ring her up
C. I won’t ring her up if I know her number
D. If I know her number, I won’t ring her up.
23. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone .
A. The telephone were invented by Alexander Graham Bell
B. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell
C. The telephone invented Alexander Graham Bell
D. The telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell
24. Before He watched TV last night, He had done a lot of homework.
A. After He watched TV last night, He had done a lot of homework.
B. After He had watched TV last night, He had done a lot of homework.
C. After He did a lot of homework last night, He had watched TV
D. After He had done a lot of homework last night, He watched TV
25. Mrs Brown started to work in this company twenty years ago
A. Mrs Brown have worked in this company for twenty years
B. Mrs Brown has worked in this company for twenty years
C. Mrs Brown has worked in this company since twenty years
D. Mrs Brown have worked in this company since twenty years ago