Bộ 5 đề thi Giữa kì 2 Tiếng Anh 7 Global Success có đáp án - Đề 1

I. Choose the word that has different sound in the underlined part.

I. Choose the word that has different sound in the underlined part.

I. Choose the word that has different sound in the underlined part.

II. Circle the word with a different stress pattern from the others.

II. Circle the word with a different stress pattern from the others.

III. Choose the best answer.

They often choose cars with bigger engines to get higher speed. 

The underground in Japan is much than taxis or buses. 

What did you use to play when you were six years old? 

There should be a limit in the playground to prevent accidents. 

Let’s a look at the film section of the paper. 

The main character _ in love with a poor man in the countryside. 

The film an exciting story about murder or crime.

The festival is every year at the end of October. 

Festival of lights is a festival in India. 

People the festival by throwing water to wish everyone happiness. 

III.   Write the correct form of the wordgiven.

A man in a silver sports car ________ into a lady in a big blue truck in the middle of the intersection yesterday. (CRASH)

Traffic accidents can be__________if people obey the rules. (PREVENT)

when I saw him at 11 o’clock yesterday evening. (WAKE)

dog help him to find his parents. (FRIEND)

are there in the program tonight? (PERFORM)

IV.  Read the passage and choose the best answer to complete eachblank.

Traffic jams in Viet Nam  frequently(21)   place in big cities, such as Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.

There is no fixed rule for the time a traffic jam to happen. But it isworst(22)                                                                                 the rush hour when everyone is in a hurry to get to work or come back home. Apart from peak hours, the time between 9 a.m. to 10a.m.andbetween3p.m.to4p.m.alsowitnesseslonglinesofvehicles,mainlymotorbikes.(23)                                                                                       it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible. Taxis are extremely hard to catch or wave during thedownpour.

(24)             , the most annoying thing about the traffic jam is the way people react to it. Most road users ridetheirmotorbikesonthepavementratherthan(25)     calmly. Moreover, they constantly usetheir horns to hasten riders in the front, even shouting at them from time totime.

Traffic jams in Viet Nam frequently (21) place in big cities, such as Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.

But it isworst(22)      the rush hour when everyone is in a hurry to get to work or come back home.

(23)  it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible.

(24), the most annoying thing about the traffic jam is the way people react to it.

Most road users ridetheirmotorbikesonthepavementratherthan(25)calmly.

V.        Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the followingquestions.

ANIMATION

Thetheoryoftheanimatedcartoonwasintroducedbeforetheinventionofthecinemabyhalfacentury.When working to create conversation pieces for Victorian shops, people discovered the principle of persistence of vision. If drawings of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession, the human eye would perceive them as a continuousmovement.

One of the first commercially successful devices, invented by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope,aspinningcardboarddiskthatcreatedtheillusionofmovementwhenviewedinamirror,in 1834, William Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures. The Frenchman ÉmileReynaudin1876adaptedtheprincipleintoaform thatcouldbeprojectedbeforeatheatrical audience. Reynaudbecamenotonlyanimation’sfirstentrepreneurbutalsothefirstartisttogivepersonalityandwarmth to his animatedcharacters.

(Animation by Dave Kehr- extracted from Encyclopaedia Britannica)

What is the passage mainly about? 

When was the theory of animation developed? 

What happens to human eyes when pictures of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession? 

 What is a phenakistoscope? 

Who is NOT MENTIONED as an inventor of an animation-making device? 

VI.  Listen and complete the text with NO MORE THAN THREEWORDS.

HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

AgreatnumberofpeopleconsiderHalloweentobean(31)                                                                        holiday.Inreality,itoriginatesfromthe CeltsofIreland.Thesedays,peopledonotdowhattheoldCeltsdidinthepast.Theydonothavea(32)

           beforethewinterstartsanddonotleavetheirhousescold,withoutlightingduringthenight,hoping tostopspiritswantingtolivethere.Itwasbelievedthatthesoulsof(33)            could come back if they find a person to stay in. Therefore, wearing scary masks and costumes to make the spirits go away, is an old Celtictradition.

Today,  people andespecially(34)    enjoy Halloween costume parties. They dress up as witches, vampires and ghosts. Children in masks go from house to house and when the door opens, they say: “Trick or Treat”! If they do not get sweets, they do something bad like throwing eggs at thehouse.

Theclassic(35)      of Halloween are horror characters: black cats, spiders, witches, and ghosts and bigorangepumpkins.GreatBritainandtheUSAcelebrateHalloweeneveryyearonthelastdayofOctober.

AgreatnumberofpeopleconsiderHalloweentobean(31)holiday.

Theydonothavea(32)          beforethewinterstartsanddonotleavetheirhousescold,withoutlightingduringthenight,hoping tostopspiritswantingtolivethere.

Itwasbelievedthatthesoulsof(33)    could come back if they find a person to stay in.

Today, people andespecially(34)       enjoy Halloween costume parties.

Theclassic(35)of Halloween are horror characters: black cats, spiders, witches, and ghosts and bigorangepumpkins.

VII.     Complete each of the following sentences using the cuesgiven.

have/ trip/ hometown/ brother/ two daysago.

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15 kilometres/ my place/ myhometown.

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go/ there/ train/ and/ it/comfortable.

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there/ a lot of/ vehicles/road.

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 trip/ exciting/meaningful.

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