REVISION FOR THE 2^nd SEMESTER MIDTERM TEST

Trường THCS Lương Thế Vinh, TP Đà Nẵng, 2025 - 2026

VOCABULARY: UNIT 7,8,9 + REVIEW 3 

> GRAMMAR:

• Present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, future simple. 

• First conditional

• Adverbs of frequency

• Complex sentences with adverb clauses of time

> EXERCISES:

A. Listening: review: unit 7,8,9 + review 3 (tick True/ False, complete the sentences with ONE word.) 

B. Language

I. Choose the word which has a different stress pattern:

1. A. footprint     B. coral     C. complaint      D. item

2. A. prefer     B. display    C. release     D. bargain

3. A. musical       B. poisonous    C. volcanic    D. natural

II. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:

1. A. family      B. accident     C. visitor       D. tradition

2. A. damage     B. access       C. landslide     D. tornado

3. A. harvest      B. market     C. message    D. carbon

III. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence or do as directed.

1. The sea turtle is an endangered ________ (extinction/ habitat/ species/ product)

2. Pollution can have serious effects on the balanced _______ (resident/ species/ ecosystem/ item)

3. She studies mountain gorillas in their natural _________ (living/ habitat/ place/ house)

4. Acid rain that contains harmful chemicals can _________ crops and trees. (reduce/ use/ release/ damage)

5. When there is a _______, a lot of water covers an area where there usually isn't water. (rain/ flood/ storm/ wind) 

6. A ________ is a storm in which the air moves very quickly in a circle. (earthquake/ storm/ tornado/ drought)

7. The earthquake ________ are collecting their personal property. (farmers/ rescue workers/ victims/ doctors) 

8. We cannot prevent natural disasters, but can ________ some of them. (damage/ destroy/ predict/ erupt) 

9. Duong bought a new pair of shoes during ________ and he could save a lot of money (sales/ prices/ shops/ products)

10. We often go to an _______ swimming pool to enjoy sunlight. (open day/ open-ended/ open air/ open-air)

11. A _________ can save you in life-threatening situations because its sound can attract people's attention. (kit/ whistle/ warning/ tool)

12. Shopping online saves you the ________ of travelling. (joy/ pleasure/ need/ trouble)

13. Some people may get _______ to online shopping. They cannot stop buying things, even things they don't really need. (interested/ excited/ addicted/ amused)

14. My province has a _______ system to tell people when there is a danger of a landslide. (victim/ warning/ kit/ whistle)

IV. Supply the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each sentence. 

1. Scientists say that the smoke is ___________ to our health. (harm)

2. We bought some snacks at the _____________ store at midnight. (convenient)

3. A volcano in the South Pacific erupted ___________ last Sunday. (violence)

4. I saw a big funnel of wind moving toward us very ____________ (quick)

5. Shopping centres ___________ a lot of customers. (attraction)

6. One _________ of shopping online is that you do not know exactly what you will get. (advantage) 

V. Supply the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete each sentence.

1. Look! The women (dance) ___________ in the stadium.

2. The swimming pool (open) ___________ at 9.00 am and closes at 18.30 pm every day.

3. We (not/ meet) ___________ our old teachers last summer.

4. At 8 p.m last night, my family (watch) ___________ a football match on TV.

5. While she (work) _____________ the field, the tornado came.

6. They (have) __________ a discussion about natural disasters at 9 a.m. yesterday.

7. ________ you (talk) _________ with your classmates when the teacher came in?

8. When the earthquake (happen) ___________, they (do) _________ their homework.

9. I just (fall) ___________ asleep last night when I heard a knock at the door.

10. Don't worry. I (make) __________ a shopping list and you just give it to the shop owner.

C. Reading

1. Read the passage and fill each gap with ONE suitable word from the list.

using  -   heat   -   like   -   crops   -   shines

A greenhouse is a building made of glass, where you can grow flowers and vegetables that need a lot of warmth. Sunlight (1) ___________ through the glass and warms the greenhouse while the glass keeps the heat from escaping. The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of gases that acts just (2) _________ a greenhouse. Factories, electric power plants and cars make a lot of new gases. These gases are trapping more and more of the sun's (3) _________. This is called "the greenhouse effect". If the Earth's temperature increases by just a few degrees, it will change the weather all over the planet. Some places will become too hot to live in or to grow (4) ________ any more. This will cause a lot of people to starve. That is why people must do their best to stop the greenhouse effect by (5) _________ fewer energy-consuming products and planting trees.

II. Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Super Typhoon Haiyan is one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever observed. It ripped through the Philippines, and the destruction across the islands was disastrous and widespread. Houses and buildings were leveled by the storm's powerful winds. Trees fell down and neighborhoods were under flood water. One CNN reporter, upon seeing the hard-hit city of Tacloban, said: "It is like a tsunami has hit here." About 9.5 million people were affected by the typhoon. Typhoon Haiyan weakened to a tropical storm, but at least five people died in Vietnam when Haiyan hit the country.

a. What is Super Typhoon Haiyan considered?

____________________________

b. How was the destruction in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan?

____________________________

c. How many people were affected by the typhoon?

____________________________

d. Did Haiyan hit Viet Nam?

____________________________

D. Writing - Write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, using the word(s) given or do as directed.

1. They heard the cracking sound. They ran out of the house. (as soon as)

______________________________

2. The flood waters drained. We returned home. (after)

______________________________

3. My mother was reading books. My father was watching TV. (while)

______________________________

4. Unless you bring an umbrella, you won't get wet. (If....)

______________________________

5. Phone your parents or you have a trouble. (If....)

______________________________

6. Turn off all the lights and you won't pay more money. (If...)

______________________________

7. I left my wallet on the bus yesterday. (Make a question for the underlined part)

______________________________

8. My mother was reading books at 9 a.m yesterday. (Make a question for the underlined part)

______________________________

9. Con Dao national park/ play/ key role/ save/ endangered species/ and/ protect/ the environment. (Complete the sentence)

______________________________

10. Bat Trang Village/ famous/ traditional craft/ pottery making. (Complete the sentence)

______________________________

11. It/ snow/ when/ we / leave/ home/ yesterday. (Complete the sentence)

______________________________

12. property/ were/ collecting/ personal/ The/ flood victims/ when/ came/ rescue workers/./ (Rearrange)

______________________________

13. in/ lab/ the/ an/ We/ doing/ experiment/ were/ happened/ earthquake/ when/ the/. (Rearrange)

______________________________

14. She spends two hours putting on her makeup.

It ______________________________

15. It took Jane three days to prepare for this party. (Rewrite, using "spend") 

______________________________

16. It takes him about 30 minutes to repair his car. (Rewrite, using "spend") 

______________________________

17. When I saw her, she was wearing a white dress. (Rewrite, using "on") 

______________________________

18. John likes playing games all the time. (Rewrite, using "addicted") 

______________________________

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