Hỏi đáp Unit 16 Tiếng Anh lớp 8 phần Language Focus

One disadvantage of robots is its high cost of the _____________________. (produce)

Due to the _____________________ in the science and technology, impossible things
have become possible. (develop)

Life is become easy and _____________________ through science and technology. (comfort)

Smartphones can vary from day to day due to new _____________________ by different
companies in the world. (invent)

I. Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined .(0,6p)

1. A. allow B. follow C. yellow D. fellow

2. A. exhaust B. hour C. honest D. house

3. A. mood B. moon C. soon D. good

* Circle the words with a different stress pattern from the others (0,4p)

4. A. unkind B. kindness C. impure D. machine

5. A. impolite B. authority C. unhealthy D.. repetative

II. Choose the best answer A, B , C or D (1,5pts)

1.I intended……………. to New York next month.

A. flew b . to fly C. fly D. flying

2. She said she ………. to the Moon when she had enough money.

A. travel B. to travel C. would travel D. travelling

3. The sight of too many advertising billboards, overhead poles and shop signs causes........... polution

A. air B. light C. noise D. visual

4.Lien told me that……………. a biology teacher.

A. she wantes to become B. she wanted to become

C. she wanted becoming D. she wants becoming

5. The teacher ……….. me that I had better devote more time to science sujects such as physics, chemisrty and biology

A. told B. said C. spoke D. tell

6. At 10 a.m tomorrow, she will be in. She ............. with her colleagues in Viet nam

A. video conferenced B. video conference

C. will be video conferencing D. will video conferencing

III.Give the correct form of the verb in brackets (1,0pts)

1.I (watch) …………… a science fiction film on TV at 9 .00 tonight.

2.Look at those clouds – I think it (rain)…………..

3. If you use robots to do the housework, you (become)…….. lazy and you (not get)…………….. enough exercise.

4. we’ll need (call)……….. him more often

Section C. Reading(2,5pts)

Part 1. Read the text about Alexander Grahabell and write T or F (1,25pts)

Alexander Grahabell is widely known as inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. With his colleague Thomas Watson , Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent devices such as the harmonic telegraph ( used to send multiple messages over a single wire) and phonautograph ( used to draw the shape of the sound waves. The first telephone communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telepone in other room. The first transmistted words were, ‘ Mr watson, come here . I want to see you’

1.Alexander Graham Bell is Scotish.

2.He spent all his life in Canada

3.He worked with the deaf when he moved to the USA

4.He wanted to create a device that can transmist human voice

5.He worked on his inventions all by himself

Part 2: Read this passage and answer the questions (1,25pts)

Thomas Editon was one of the greatest inventors of the world. He was responsible for more than one thousand inventions including the electric light bulb and the record player. He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory.

Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, USA. When he was 10 years old, he set up asmall baloratory after he had read a science book his mother showed him. I. 1869, he borrowed some money and began to make inventions. In 1876 he built a new laboratory so that he could spend

_________it was so cold, he went out without an overcoat.

A. If

B. Since

C. Although

D. Because

The ships had their days of ____________ in the 1840s and 1850s.

A. glorious

B. glory

C. glorify

D. gloriously

His teacher regrets _______ him that his application for the job has been turned down.

A. tell

B. to tell

C. telling

D. tells

Do you know who _________ the ball point pen?

A. invent

B. invented

C. inventing

D. invents

The meat has to _________ when taking out of the fridge.

A. frost

B. defrost

C. be defrosted

D. be defrosting

The cellphone/ be/ portable/ so/ I/ can/ bring/ everywhere.

The telephone/ be/ invented/ Alexander Graham Bell.

The aeroplane/ be/ considered/ one/ greatest/ inventions/ in our history.

The inventions/ imitate/ animals/ the aeroplane/ and/ the submarine.

A dolphin/ can/ swim/ stay/ underwater/ a long time.

What do you think this button is ____?

a. so that

b. for

c. to

d. in oder to

All her letters _____ by her secretary.

a. is typed

b. were typed

c. is typped

d. was typped

Each fiber in the bundle ___________ only a tiny fraction of the total image.

A. transmit

B. transmitted

C. transmits

D. to transmit

In 1778, he ……………… to London to study with Benjamin West for four years.

A. has gone

B. had gone

C. would go

D. went

Indicate the word whose main stress position is placed differently.

1. A. competitiveB. infinitiveC. repetitiveD. positive

2.A. congratulateB. national C. abilityD. unfriendly

Indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

3. A. telepathy B. television C. telephoneD. telegraph

4. A. machine  B. techniqueC. mechanicD. christmas

Indicate the correct word or phrase to complete each of the sentences.

5. He ___ this time tomorrow.

A. will sleep   B. sleeps   C. will be sleeping   D. will sleeping

6. If you don’t understand body language, communication ___ may happen.

A. shrug   B. barrier   C. channel  D. breakdown

7. “Face to face” is written “___”  in shorthand form.

A. F2F  B. FTF  C. 2F    D. F2

8. When you shrug your shoulders, it means “___”.

A. I’m angry  B. I’m happy  C. I don’t know   D. I’m sorry

9. Lan enjoys ___ on the phone with her friends.

A. to chat  B. chat  C. chatted   D. chatting

10. A person whose job is to invent things.

A. inventer  B. inventor  C. invention

1. Was / Sydney / in / Opera / completed / House / 1973  ......   

2. Is / John / interested / Viet Nam / history / in / the / of .........   

3. Japanese / is / difficult / it / very / learn / to

1. Breathing/pollute/air every day/ lead/respiratory problem

2. She/ tell/ me that i/ can try it/ if i/ like

3. They/ say/ that they/ won't send people/ the moon/ following year

production of these chemicals causes serious ____________ pollution

         A. environmental                    B. environment                          C. environmentaly

Supply the correct form of the words in the brackets