UNIT 2 MAKING ARRAGEMENT

bài tập tiếng anh lớp 8, không đáp án của Mai Lan Hương chỉnh lý và bổ sung năm 2012. bài tập unit 2 making arrangement. đây là một tài liệu bổ ích cho các em trung học cơ sở và ngay cả trung học phổ thông cần để rèn luyện kiến thức cơ bản môn Tiếng Anh cho mình.

UNIT 2 MAKING ARRAGEMENT

I Match the name of things in column A with their

description in column B.

1 answering machine a a book in which you can write people’s

names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc.

receiving copies of documents.

numbers, and addresses of people and businesses.

in general to use.

and records messages.

7 telephone directory g a telephone you can carry around with

you.

1 ……; 2 ……; 3 ……; 4 ……; 5 ……; 6 … ; 7 ……

II Write sentences Say what the people are going to do.

E.x: I feel very tired (take a day off)

I am going to take a day off.

………

2. They received a wedding present from their pen pal friend, Nick (write a letter to thank him)

………

3. I’ll have an annual holiday next month (visit Ha Long Bay)

………

………

5. Linh is studying medicine (be a doctor)

……….

7. The windows are dirty and Mai’ll be free this afternoon (clean the windows)

……….

8. Jane and Lan have decided to have a party (invite lots of

people)

……….

9. Now it’s starting to rain, and you haven’t got an umbrella (het wet)

……….

10 I feel awful There’s a terrible feeling in my stomach (be sick) ……….

III Write a question with going to for each situation Use the

words in brackets.

E.x: I’m going to play soccer this afternoon (What/ you/ do) What are you going to do this afternoon?

………

2. I have just bought a poster (Where/ you/ put it?)

………

travel?)

………

invite?)

………

………

6. My sister has invited some friends home for lunch (What/ she/ cook?)

7. I’m too busy to paint the door today (you/ paint it/

tomorrow?)

………

8. Minh isn’t going to visit his parents on Sunday (he/ visit

them/ Sunday?)

………

IV What is going to happen in these situations? Use the words

in brackets to complete the sentences.

E.x: There are a lot of black clouds in the sky (rain)

It is going to rain.

1. How pale that girl is! (faint)

She ………

2. The man can’t see where he’s walking There is a hole in front

of him (fall)

He ………

3. Look out! There’s a car coming (crash)

We ……….

4. There is a hole in the bottom of the boat A lot of water is

coming in through the hole (sink)

The boat ………

5. It’s 7.30 now I have to be at work at 8 o’clock but the journey from home to the office takes 45 minutes (be late)

I ………

6. The traffic light is red The women and her son are at the

zebra crossing (cross)

They ……… when the traffic lights are green.

7. Snow is falling very heavy and the wind is blowing hard (be a snow storm)

There ……….

8. You can see a plane coming down It’s out of control and

falling to the ground (crash)

It ………

V Complete the sentences using will (ll’) or going to.

(like)

him back (call)

(not/ pass)

room (tidy)

10 ……… television this evening? (you/ watch)

VI Complete the sentences, using the appropriate adverbs in the box.

in on there outside inside upstairs here downstairs out over

1. The children love Disneyland They want to go there again.

4. I’m afraid I can’t drink coffee with milk ………

5. Let’s go ……… and sit in the sun.

6. Wait ……… I’ll be back in a minute.

10 Dr Hammond is ……… right now Can I take a message?

VII Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form or tense.

2. Nga and Hoa ……… (see) a movie tonight.

……… (teach) me.’

but last week we ……… (go) twice.

1876.

time to phone you.

10 Would you like ……… (come) to dinner tomorrow?

VIII Fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition.

Trang.

8. The secretary took a message her boss.

10 We all agreed ……… their request for a full investigation.

IX Complete the passage with the words in the box.

who carry coins might need to located no travels less

Nowadays, you don’t (1) ……… to be at home or at the office

to use the telephone anymore Mobile phones (also known as

cellular phones) have (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 don’t have to look for a phone booth or

use (9) ……… to make a call So remember, next time you are at

the beach or driving your bicycle, there (10) ……… be a call for

you!

X Put the sentences below in the correct order to make a

complete conversation.

…… Fine I’m seeing Mai later this evening Shall I ask her to come too?

…… The film begins at 8.45, so let’s meet at about 8.30 outside the

theater OK?

TEST FOR UNIT 2

I Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same

as that of the others.

II Choose the most suitable words or phrases to fill in the

blanks.

1. Deaf-mutes can ……… speak ……… hear.

out.

10 you can see a lot of famous paintings in this ………

III Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets.

Isaac Newton (1) ……… (be) one of the greatest men in the history of scientists He (2) ……… (bear) in a small village of Wootsphore in England His father (3) ……… (be) a poor

farmer When the boy was fourteen, his father (4) ……… (die) Newton left school and (5) ……… (help) his mother on the farm But the boy (6) ……… (not like) farming, he was fond of the poetry and mathematics So Newton was sent to school After (7)

……… (leave) school, Newton studied at Cambridge University

He lectured on mathematics at Cambridge University after (8)

……… (graduate) His greatest discovery (9) ……… (be) the law of gravitation.

IV Supply the correct word form.

(commerce)

electricity (invent)

6. There was an ……… of paintings at Art Gallery.

10 He was ……… in demonstrating his invention

(success)

V Make question for the underlined words.

1. The film “Harry Potter” is on at 8.30.

………

2. I’m going to play table tennis this evening.

………

3. She lives downstairs.

………

………

………

………

………

………

VI Read the passage, then choose the correct answers.

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when

he was a young man of twenty-three he move with his parents to Canada Before the year 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 ………

a was born in England b was born in the eighteenth century

c was a Scotsman d lived far from his family when he was a child

2 When did he emigrate to the United States?

3 In Boston, he taught people who ……… .

4 Which of the following is not used to describe A G Bell?

sociable

5 Which of the following statements is not true about Alexander G Bell?

a He lives with his parents until he was twenty-three.

b He worked with the deaf in Boston.

c He experimented with ways of transmitting sound by day.

d He invented the telephone.

VIII Complete the second sentences so that it has a similar

meaning to 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.

→ Don’t ……….

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 ………

7. The theater is near Hoa’s house.

→ The theater isn’t ………

→ Alexander G Bell was ……….

9. I’ll telephone you tomorrow evening.

→ I’ll make ………

10 How about going to the movie tonight?

→ Let’s ……….