Đề thi giữa kì 2 Tiếng Anh 7 THCS Hoàng Lê Kha năm học 2023-2024 có đáp án

V. Read the passage and choose the best answer to complete each blank.

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 is worst (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 10 a.m. and between 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. also witnesses long lines of vehicles, mainly motorbikes. (23) _________ it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible. Taxis are extremely hard to catch or wave during the downpour.

(24) _________, the most annoying thing about the traffic jam is the way people react to it. Most road users ride their motorbikes on the pavement rather than (25) _________ calmly. Moreover, they constantly use their horns to hasten riders in the front, even shouting at them from time to time.

Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the following questions.

ANIMATION

The theory of the animated cartoon was introduced before the invention of the cinema by half a century. 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 continuous movement.

One of the first commercially successful devices, invented by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a spinning cardboard disk that created the illusion of movement when viewed in a mirror, in 1834, William Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures. The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876 adapted the principle into a form that could be projected before a theatrical audience. Reynaud became not only animation’s first entrepreneur but also the first artist to give personality and warmth to his animated characters.

VII. Listen and complete the text with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

A great number of people consider Halloween to be an (31) _______ holiday. In reality, it originates from the Celts of Ireland. These days, people do not do what the old Celts did in the past. They do not have a (32) _______ before the winter starts and do not leave their houses cold, without lighting during the night,hoping to stop spirits wanting to live there. It was believed that the souls of (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 Celtic tradition.Today, people and especially (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 the house.The classic (35) _______ of Halloween are horror characters: black cats, spiders, witches, and ghosts and big orange pumpkins. Great Britain and the USA celebrate Halloween every year on the last day of October.