Bài tập Unit 1 môn Tiếng Anh 8 - Phần 2

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UNIT 1 – MY FRIEND 
I. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: 
1. A. annoy B. enough C. lucky D. reserved 
2. A. humor B. orphan C. receive D. curly 
3. A. appearance B. annoyance C. outgoing D. character 
4. A. extremely B. generous C. orphanage D. humorous 
5. A. sociable B. volunteer C. photograph D. beautiful 
II. Choose the word that has underlined part pronounced differently from the others: 
1. A. planet B. character C. happy D. classmate 
2. A. letter B. twelve C. person D. sentence 
3. A. humor B. music C. cucumber D. sun 
4. A. enough B. young C. country D. mountain 
5. A. sociable B. ocean C. receive D. special 
6. A. dark B. father C. star D. principal 
7. A. old B. sociable C. outgoing D. volunteer 
8. A. my B. curly C. library D. lucky 
9. A. fair B. straight C. train D. wait 
10. A. spends B. laughs C. friends D. potatoes 
11. A. classmate B. character C. grade D. place 
12. A. enough B. extremely C. generous D. planet 
13. A. lucky B. volunteer C. sun D. public 
14. A. brown B. however C. know D. town 
15. A. reserved B. recived C.booked D. annoyed 
III. Choose the word or phrase that best completes cach unfinished sentence below or 
substitutes for the underlined word or phrase: 
1. The sun _______ in the east. 
A. rise B. rose C. rises D. rising 
2. “Which girl is Celis?‟ – „She‟s the one with _______.” 
A. long curly black hair B. curly long black hair 
C. long black curly hair D. curly black long hair 
3. Tom is very shy but his sister is outgoing. 
A. humorous B. reserved C. hard-working D. sociable 
4. She shouldn‟t get married yet; she _______. 
A. is not old enough B. was not old enough 
C. is not enough old D. was not enough old 
5. No, you can‟t go to holiday by yourself! You aren‟t _______! 
A. very old B. too old C. old enough D. enough old 
6. She was a very _______ child. 
A. health B. healthy C. healthily D. healthiness 
7. That man seems _______. 
A. happy B. happily C. happiness D. be happy 
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8. What does your brother _______? 
A. look like B. look as C. be like D. as 
9. Will she be annoyed that you forgot to phone? 
A. displeased B. pleased C. please D. pleasure 
10. Dave has a good _______ of humor. 
A. sense B. scene C. scent D. cent 
11. “_______ does Lien live?” – “In Hue.” 
A. What B. Which C. Who D. Where 
12. “_______ does Hoa look like?” – “She‟s beautiful.” 
A. Who B. What C. Which D. How 
13. My brother isn‟t old enough _______ to school aloner. 
A. going B. go C. to go D. went 
14. Ba enjoys _______ jokes. 
A. telling B. tell C. to tell D. told 
15. Bao spends his free time _______ volunteer work at a local orphanage. 
A. to do B. do C. to doing D. doing 
16. Lan is getting tired _______ doing the same thing every day. 
A. with B. of C. in D. by 
17. The sun _______ in the East and _______ in the West. 
A. goes / sets B. moves / goes C. rises / moves D. rises / sets 
18. Each of _______ has a different character. 
A. we B. us C. our D. ourselves 
19. Last year, Hoa and Lan _______ to the same school. 
A. went B. go C. goes D. going 
20. We are _______ to drive a car. 
A. old enough not B. not enough old C. not old enough D. enough not old 
21. The water in the lake seldom _______ in winter. 
A. freeze B. freezes C. froze D. freezing 
22. In Britain school always _______ in September. 
A. begin B. begins C. began D. beginning 
23. I don‟t have enough money _______. 
A. for a holiday B. to a holiday C. to go a holiday D. going on holiday 
24. He wasn‟t experienced enough _______. 
A. for doing the job B. to do the job C. to the job D. doing the job 
25. The wall was _______. 
A. ten meters height B. ten meter height C. ten meters high D. high ten meters 
26. Here are some books. Take the _______ you want. 
A. books B. things C. ones D. person 
27. He‟s the boy _______ invited me to his party. 
a. he B. who C. ones D. Ø 
28. Her new glasses change her _______. 
A. appear B. appears C. appearance D. appearances 
29. She is very generous. She often buys me presents. 
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A. sociable B. outgoing C. kind D. reserved 
30. _______ is something that you say or do to make people laugh. 
A. Joke B. Novel C. Poem D. Fairy tale 
31. It seems you often _______ up very early. 
A. get B. got C. getting D. getted 
32. Water _______ at 100°C. 
A. boil B. boils C. boiled D. is boiling 
33. In the kitchen, there was a _______ table. 
A. beautiful large wooden round B. beautiful large round wooden 
C. large wooden beautiful round D. round wooden beautiful large 
34. He wasn‟t _______ the job. 
A. experienced enough to B. enough experienced to 
C. experienced enough for D. enough experienced for 
35. Is there enough room _______ in the car? 
A. for me B. to me C. for I D. to I 
36. That was one of the _______ days of my life. 
A. gladdest B. most glad C. happiest D. most happy 
37. Jane wants to go to the cinema but I would prefer _______ at home. 
A. stay B. to stay C. to staying D. for staying 
38. I live _______ 20 Oxford Street. 
A. in B. at C. on D. from 
39. It was generous _______ you to share your food with me. 
A. of B. to C. for D. about 
40. I was late, but _______ they waited for me. 
A. lovely B. luckily C. extremely D. silly 
41. The River Amazon _______ into the Atlantic Ocean. 
A. flow B. flows C. flew D. is flowing 
42. My sister and I _______ the cartoons on TV every Saturday last summer. 
A. watch B. watched C. watches D. watching 
43. I don‟t have enough money _______ for a taxi. 
A. to pay B. for paying C. for pay D. paying 
44. Surely 15 minutes is enough time _______. 
A. for you to have a bath B. to you for having a bath 
c. to you to have a bath D. for you for having a bath 
45. This is my _______ ear. I‟m rather deaf in the other one. 
a. best B. well C. perfectly D. good 
46. He prefers _______. 
A. go for a swim to study B. going for a swim to study 
C. going for a swim to studying D. go for a swim to studying 
47. Each of the rooms _______ a different color. 
A. has B. have C. have had D. are having 
48. He rarely shows his feelings. He‟s rather _______. 
A. reserved B. sociable C. humorous D. helpful 
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49. The audience didn‟t laugh _______ his joke. 
A. at B. on C. to D. for 
50. He worked as a volunteer _______ Oxfarm. 
A. at B. for C. to D. with 
IV. Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in standard English: 
1. She threw the bag of potato chips to James and he catches it with one hand. 
 A B C D 
2. Old Mr. MacGill had thick red hair when he is young but now he is completely bald. 
 A B C D 
3. He didn‟t get job because he wasn‟t enough experienced. 
 A B C D 
4. It is annoyed when people don‟t listen to you. 
 A B C D 
5. Generous is part of the American character. 
 A B C D 
6. He always eats eggs for breakfast and drink some milk. 
 A B C D 
7. When he is four, Michael came to London with his parents. 
 A B C D 
8. You won‟t pass the examination if you don‟t work hardly enough. 
 A B C D 
9. The instructions were‟t clear enough for me understand. 
 A B C D 
10. Last year, Tim comes to the school for the first time. 
 A B C D 
11. Harry went to Disneyland and has a good time. 
 A B C D 
12. Her grandmother has a big beautiful old brown table. 
 A B C D 
13. Some of us had to sit on the floor because there weren‟t enough chair. 
 A B C D 
14. I washed my hands, although they still looked dirty. 
 A B C D 
15. Each of the rooms have a color television. 
 A B C D 
16. Once when I was ten, I used to get sick and went to the hospital. 
 A B C D 
17. Mike doesn‟t go to the cinema with us last Saturday. 
 A B C D 
18. I would like to go away on holiday but I don‟t have money enough. 
 A B C D 
19. He lives on 26 Tran Phu Street in Ha Noi with his family. 
 A B C D 
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20. Every morning I spend about an hour to read the newspaper. 
 A B C D 
V. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits each of the blank spaces: 
Exercise 1 
My (1) _______ friend is Natalie. She (2) _______ intelligent, (3) _______ fun to be with, 
and honest. She‟s short and slim and she has (4) _______ and brown eyes. I think she is (5) 
_______. 
1. A. best B. most C. closest D. nearest 
2. A. was B. were C. is D. are 
3. A. humor B. annoy C. kind D. peace 
4. A. short curly brown hair B. short brown curly hair 
 C. curly short brown hair D. curly brown short hair 
5. A. beautiful B. lovely C. pretty D. all are correct 
Exercise 2 
Dear Juan, 
Hello! I‟m your new pen friend. My name is Halen. That‟s my first name. My (1) _______ is 
Jones. I‟m from Cardiff, in Wales. I‟m fifteen years (2) _______. The name of my school is the 
Central Cardiff Comprehensive. I am in Year 8. There (3) _______ twenty-seven students (4) 
_______ my class. My (5) _______ singer is Justin Timberlake. Who is your favorite? 
Best wishes, 
Helen 
This is a (6) _______ of me! 
1. A. second name B. nick name C. middle name D. family name 
2. A. age B. ages C. old D. ago 
3. A. is B. are C. was D. were 
4. A. in B. at C. on D. of 
5. A. favorite B. interesting C. pleased D. best 
6. A. photo B. photograph C. book D. A & B are correct 
Exercise 3 
My sister and I like each other very much although we are very (1) _______. She‟s six years 
(2) _______ me and she works in a bank. I‟m still (3) _______ school, so I don‟t have a job. My 
sister (4) _______ her job, and she earns a lot of money, so she can go out and enjoy herself. She‟s 
very (5) _______ and often invites me to go with her, but I‟m studying very (6) _______ at the 
moment because I want to pass my exams. I usually say no when she asks me, (7) _______ last 
night I was tired (8) _______ work so I went with her to a dance. We had a great time! 
1. A. similar B. the same C. alike D. different 
2. A. old than B. older than C. oldest D. the oldest 
3. A. in B. at C. on D. of 
4. A. like B. likes C. is liking D. are liking 
5. A. kind B. reserved C. hard-working D. helpful 
6. A. hard B. hardly C. hard-working D. busy 
7. A. so B. because C. but D. and 
8. A. by B. with C. of D. to 
Exercise 4 
Dear Luis, 
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I‟m your new pen friend! My first name is Andy and my (1) _______ is Wong. I‟m from 
Cheadle, in the north of England, and I‟m sixteen (2) _______ old. I‟m fairly tall, with (3) _______. 
And I wear glasses. I enjoy (4) _______ jokes and my friends usually enjoy my sense of (5) 
_______. The name of my school is Cheadle Comprehensive School, and I‟m (6) _______ year 8. 
There (7) _______ thirty-one students in my class. My favorite subject is Geography and my (8) 
_______ sport is tennis. 
Best wishes, 
Andy 
1. A. second name B. middle name C. family name D. nickname 
2. A. year B. years C. 0 D. A & B are correct 
3. A. short curly black hair B. black short curly hair 
 C. short black curly hair D. black curly short hair 
4. A. tell B. to tell C. telling D. to telling 
5. A. humor B. humorous C. humorously D. humorousness 
6. A. in B. on C. at D. of 
7. A. is B. are C. has D. have 
8. A. favorite B. good C. most D. lucky 
VI. Read the following passage and choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best answers each of 
the questions about it: 
Exercise 1 
Nich Johnson live with his parents, and his sister. They live in Wembley, in north London. 
Nick‟s mum is called Sue. She works in a supermarket. His dad is called Jim and he works in a 
bank. Nick‟s sister is called Tracy. She is nine years old. There is also a dog in the family. His name 
is Fred. 
1. How many people are there in Nick Johnson‟s family? 
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 
2. Where does Nick‟s family live? 
A. America B. England C. Scotland D. Australia 
3. Which does the word “his” in line 3 refer to? 
A. Nick‟s mother B. Nick‟s sister C. Nick‟s dog D. Nick‟s cousin 
4. What‟s Nick‟s sister‟s name? 
A. Sue B. Jim C. Tracy D. Fred 
5. Which of the following is not true? 
A. Nick‟s family live in London. B. Nick‟s father works in a bank 
C. Nick‟s mother works in a supermarket. D. Nick‟s sister is five years old. 
Exercise 2 
My best friend‟s full name is Stuart Kenneth Young. His family, call him Ken, for short, but 
his nickname at school is „Sky‟! He was born in Manchester, but now he lives in Newcastle. Sky is 
fifteen years old. He is 1.65m tall and he weighs 50 kilos. He‟s got short brown hair and dark brown 
eyes. He is interested in all kinds of sport and music. His favorite group is U2, but his favorite 
singer is Bryan Adams. Sports View is his favorite TV program Sky‟s favorite food is pizza. He 
hates people who smoke all the time. I like Sky because he‟s got a good sense of humor. I also like 
him because he‟s a great dancer. 
1. Who is Stuart Kenneth Young? 
A. my best friend B. the author‟s best friend 
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C. Sky‟s classmate D. Sky‟s next-door neighbor 
2. Where does he live? 
A. In Newcastle B. In manchester C. In the United State D. A & B 
3. Stuart likes____________ 
A. all kinds of sport and music B. U2 
C. Bryan Adams D. all are correct 
4. Stuart is good at________ . 
A. music B. sport C. dancing D. all are correct 
5. Which of the following is not true? 
A. Stuart is fifteen years old. 
B. Stuart‟s eyes are dark brown. 
C. Stuart likes pizza and people who smoke all the time. 
D. Stuart has a good sense of humor. 
Exercise 3 
My name‟s Ellen and my husband‟s name is Peter. We‟ve got three children – two sons and a 
daughter. Our sons‟ names are Ian and Ben. They‟re twins, but they aren‟t identical. Ian‟s got dark 
hair, but Ben‟s hair is fair. Our daughter‟s name is Tracy. She‟s eight years old. The boys are four. 
- Identical (adj) giống hệt 
1. How many people are there in Ellen‟s family? 
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 
2. What does the word “twins” in line 2 mean? 
A. one of two children who were born at the same time to the same mother 
B. the child of somebody‟s aunt or uncle 
C. a girl or woman who is somebody‟s child 
D. a boy or man who is somebody‟s child 
3. How old is Ben? 
A. He‟s four years old. B. He‟s eight years old. 
C. He‟s two years old. D. no information 
4. What‟s Ellen‟s daughter‟s name? 
A. Ian B. Ben C. Tracy D. Peter 
5. Which of the following is not true? 
A. Ellen‟s husband‟s name is Peter. B. Tracy is eight years old. 
C. Ian and Ben are twins. D. Ian‟s got black hair and Ben‟s hair is blond. 
Exercise 4 
I have twin brothers, Tim and Tom. They are very similar and a lot of people don‟t know 
which is which. They both have blond hair and blue eyes, and they always wear jeans and T-shirts. 
They like doing the same things, too. For example, they both like jazz and they‟re crazy about 
football. They go to a football match once a week. Tim doesn‟t like dancing or discos and Tom 
doesn‟t like them, either. Although they‟re twins, they‟re not exactly the same at everything. Tim 
works hard at school because he wants to go to university, but Tom is a bit lazy. Our mother is often 
away from home because of her job, so we all work together in the house. Most of the time it‟s fine, 
but sometimes we fight a bit! 
1. What does the word “similar” in line 1 mean? 
A. the same in some ways B. completely the same 
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C. completely different D. liked by many people 
2. Tim and Tom ____ . 
A. are the author‟s twin brothers B. have blond hair and blue eyes 
C. aiways wear jeans and T-shirts D. all are correct 
3. What does the word „them‟ in line 6 refer to? 
A. things B. jazz C. jeans and T-shirts D. dancing or discos 
4. Which of the following is not true? 
A. Tim is hard-working. 
B. Tom is a bit lazy. 
C. Their mother is often away from home. 
D. Tim doesn‟t like dancing or discos but Tom likes them. 
5. The passage is written about the author‟s _____ . 
A. brothers B. pen pals C. cousins D. A & C 
VII. Điền các từ trên vào chỗ trống cho thích hợp: 
1. ____________________ of having or showing a sense of humor, amusing. 
2. ____________________ giving or ready to give freely. 
3. ____________________ slow to show feelings or express opinions. 
4. ____________________ a child whose parents are dead. 
5. ____________________ to make somebody fairly angry. 
6. ____________________ a home for children who are orphans. 
VIII. Xếp các chữ cái thành từ: 
 Tiếng Anh Tiếng Việt 
1. rensouge _________________________ _________________________ 
2. murosouh _________________________ _________________________ 
3. yonan _________________________ _________________________ 
4. rapohagen _________________________ _________________________ 
5. noraph _________________________ _________________________ 
6. deversre _________________________ _________________________ 
IX. Tìm lỗi sai và sửa lại cho đúng: 
1. Water freezes at 100
0
C. 
2. The earth goes around the moon. 
3. It‟s a small metal black box. 
4. The sun rises in the North. 
5. Everything is faster than the speed of light. 
6. He isn‟t enough old to drive a car. 
X. Dùng cấu trúc (be enough to + V) để ghép các câu sau thành một: 
1. He is strong. He can carry that suitcase. 
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2. The fire isn‟t very hot. It won‟t boil a kettle. 
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3. Lan is intelligent. She can do that math. 
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4. The ladder wan‟t very long. It didn‟t reach the window. 
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5. He isn‟t tall. He cann‟t be a good basketball player. 
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XI. Xếp các tính từ theo đúng vị trí: 
1. It is a (wooden / round) table. 
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2. She is wearing a (green / new / beautiful) dress. 
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3. What a (sunny / lovely) day! 
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4. My uncle lives in a (old / lovely / small) house. 
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5. That girl has (blue / nice / big) eyes. 
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XII. Chia động từ ở thì hiện tại đơn: 
1. She (not drink) _______________ coffee. 
2. It (be) _______________ often hot in the summer. 
3. What _______________ you (do) _______________ every evening? 
4. Most rivers (flow) _______________ into the sea. 
5. Vegetarians (eat) _______________ meat. 
6. The earth (circle) _______________ the sun once every 365 days. 
XIII. Viết các câu cảm thán sau: 
1. The boys are naughty. 
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2. The weather is awful. 
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3. The girl is very beautiful. 
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4. The story is very interesting. 
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5. The milk is sour. 
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