Tiếng Anh lớp 8 bài 2
Tiếng Anh lớp 8 bài 2
Tiếng Anh lớp 8 bài 2
I. Choose the most suitable words, phrases or sentences to fill the blanks. 1. Deaf-mute can speak hear. A. both and B. not only but also C. neithernor D. eitheror 2. Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3rd,1847. A. in B. on C. at D. during 3. They from Canada to America to find work. A. started B. demonstrated C. delivered D. left 4. Would you like a message? A. to leave B. leave C. leaving D. left 5. She came with a new idea for increasing sale. A. on B. up C. in D. over 6. Hell come to pick you A. on, in B. over, on C. in, up D. over, up 7. Dont come in. Please wait for your turn. A. inside B. downstairs C. outside D. upstairs 8. Our friends meet us at the airport tonight. A. are B. are going to C. go to D. will be to II. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. 1. The post office is not far my house. 2. Lets meet the City Theater tonight. 3. She was born May 16th, 2001 Nha Trang. 4. He worked deaf-mutes Boston University. 5. Mrs.Lien said you could reach her 8 603 423. 6. Snow is falling all the country. 7. Will you pick me after the party? 8. The secretary took a message her boss. III. Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets. Isaac Newton (be) one of the greatest men in the history of scientists. He (bear) in a small village of Wootphore in England. His father (be) a poor farmer. When the boy was fourteen, his father (die) Newton left school and (help) his mother on the farm. But the boy (not like) farming, he was fond of the poetry and mathematics. So Newton was sent to school. After he (leave) school, Newton studied at Cambridge University. He lectured on mathematics at Cambridge University after (graduate) . His greatest discovery (be) the law of gravitation. IV. Supply the correct word form. 1. Ill make .. for the meeting tonight. (ARRANGE) 2. There was still no .. on what to do next. (AGREE) 3. Ho Chi Minh City is an important .. center. (COMMERCE) 4. Michael Faraday made a lot of .. in the field of electricity. (INVENT) 5. Were thinking of .. to Autralia. (EMIGRATE) 6. There was an .. of painting at the Art Gallery. (EXHIBIT) 7. Your order is ready for .. (DELIVER) 8. This old man is .. in one ear. (DEAFEN) V. Make question for the underlined words. 1. The film Harry Potter is on at 8.30. 1
2. Im going to play table tennis this evening. 3. She lives downstairs. 4. They bought new fishing rods yesterday. 5. He worked with deaf-mutes. 6. They demonstrated the telephone to the public. 7. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 8. Marie Curie was born in Poland. VI. Complete the passage with the words in the box. who carry coins might need to located no travels less
Nowadays, you dont (1) to be at home or at the office to use the telephone anymore. Mobile phones (also known as cellular phones) hare (2) wires. You can (3) one in your pocket or keep one in your car. A call from a mobile phone (4) along radio waves to stations (5) in different places. From there, the radio signal is connected (6) the regular phone system. With a mobile phone, any one (7) can drive and talk can also drive and phone. This means (8) wasted time: You dont have to look for a phone booth or use (9) to make a call. So remember, next time you are at the beach or riding your bicycle, there (10) be a call for you! VII. Put the sentences below in the correct order to make a complete conversation. OK. Ill come with you. What time can we meet? Fine. Im seeing Mai later this evening. Shall I ask her to come too? 1 Are you doing anything tomorrow evening, Nga? Well, Im going to see a movie Hijackers. Would you like to come? The film begins at 8.45, so lets meet at about 8.30 outside the theater, OK? No. Why? Yes, do that. Ill see you tomorrow then. VIII. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning tto the first. 1. Peter is too young to see the horror film. Peter is not . 2. Remember to turn off the light before going out. Dont ... 3. That girl is very intelligent. What 4. I intend to come over to pick you up. I am . 5. Hoa is older than Nien. Nien is . 6. Her hair is long and black. She has IX. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form or tense. 2
1. Bad driving (cause) .. many accidents. 2. Nga and Hoa (see) .. a movie tonight. 3. Sue can (speak) .. Vietnamese very well. 4. Mozart (compose) .. more than 600 pieces of music. 5. How .. you (learn) .. to drive? My father (teach) .. me. 6. We usually (go) .. to the library three times a week, but last week we (go) . twice. 7. Alexander Graham Bell (introduce) .. the telephone in 1876. 8. Yesterday I (be) .. busy, so I (not have) .. time to phone you. 9. What ..you (do) .. next summer vacation? - I (visit) .. my grandparents in Nha Trang. 10. Would you like (come) .. to dinner tomorrow? X. Read the passage, then decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false sentences. Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was a young man of twenty-three he moved with his parents to Canada. Before the years was over, young Graham had left his family and gone to Boston. Though Bell was a dreamer, he was also a practical thinker and a man of action. In Boston, where he worked by day as a teacher of the deaf, he worked far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of the telephone. 1. Alexander G.Bell was born in England. .. 2. He emigrated to Canada in 1865. .. 3. He went to Boston when he was twenty-three. .. 4. Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston. .. 5. He experimented with the electrical tranmission of the sound by day. .. 6. Graham Bell invented the telephone. ..