Giải bài tập Tiếng Anh 8, unit 1: My friends.

I. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
 
Generous -  orphanage -  sociable -  planet - next-door -  humor – joke -  reserved
 
1. The Earth is the. name of the ………. we live on.
2. He has a good sense of ……….., He always makes people laugh.
3. After the death of his parents, he was sent to an …………….
4. Don’t do it as a…………. It’s a serious thing.
5. She lives next to my house. She is my ………….. neighbor.
6. It was …………  of you to share your food with me.
7. Mai has a lot of friends. She is very ………………..
8. She never talks about her feeling. She seems quite …………….
 
II. Arrange the adjectives in brackets in the correct order.
 
Ex: Mrs. Thanh has a (black/ long/ straight) hair.
Mrs. Thanh, has a long straight black hair.
 
1. It is a (wooden/ round) table.
………………………………………………………………………..
2. She is wearing a (green/ new/ beautiful) dress.
………………………………………………………………………..
3. What a (sunny/ lovely) day!
………………………………………………………………………..
4. My uncle lives in a (old/ lovely/ small) house.
………………………………………………………………………..
5. That girl has (blue/ nice/ big) eyes.
………………………………………………………………………..
6. He gave me (black/ leather) gloves.
………………………………………………………………………..
7. My teacher has a (round/ pink/ small) face.
………………………………………………………………………..
8. It’s a (small/ metal/ black) box.
………………………………………………………………………..
 
III. Combine each of the following pairs of sentences into one sentence, Using (not) adjective + enough + to-infinitive.
 
Ex: He is tall. He can play volleyball.
He is tall enough to play volleyball.
 
1. My sister is old. She can drive a car.
………………………………………………………………………..
2. The radio isn’t small. You can’t put it in your pocket.
………………………………………………………………………..
3. This coat isn’t warm. I don’t wear it in winter.
………………………………………………………………………..
4. She is beautiful and intelligent. She can become Miss World.
………………………………………………………………………..
5. The weather was fine. We could go camping.
………………………………………………………………………..
6. Those apples aren’t ripe. We can’t eat them.
………………………………………………………………………..
7. Mr. Robinson isn’t rich. He can’t buy a house.
………………………………………………………………………..
8. The worker is clever. He can make fine things from wood.
………………………………………………………………………..
 
IV. Complete the dialogues, using enough as an adjective (before nouns) or adverb (after adjectives) with the word in brackets.
 
Ex: Is she going to get married?
No, she’s not old enough to set married. (old)
 
1. Did he pass the examination?
Yes, he worked …………….. the examination, (hard)
 
2. Do you want to play tennis today?
No, I don’t feel …………… tennis today, (well)
 
3. Why don’t we go swimming?
Well, it’s ……………… (warm)
 
4. Are they going to buy that house?
You must be'-joking. They aren’t  ……………. such an expensive house, (rich)
 
5. Would you like to go away on holiday?
I’m sorry I can’t. I haven’t got ……………. on holiday, (money).
 
6. Hurry along, children! We must get to the airport on time
Don’t worry, Mom. We have ………………. to the airport, (time).
 
7. Could you move the piano?
I’m afraid I’m not ………………  it. (strong)
 
8. Can she read a newspaper in French?
No, she doesn’t know ……………… a newspaper. (French).
 
9. Let’s get a taxi.
No, I think it’s not ………………   a taxi, (far).
 
10. How many people will be there for the meeting tonight?
There’ll be twenty. Have we got ……………for everyone, (chairs).
 
V. Change the following sentences into exclamatory sentences, using “What (+ a/ an) + adj + noun!”
 
Ex: The room is very dirty. -» What a dirty room!
 
1. The boys are naughty. -»  …………………………………….
2. The weather is awful. -»  …………………………………….
3. The girl is very beautiful. -»  …………………………………….
4. The dresses are very lovely. -»  …………………………………….
5. The story is very interesting. -»  …………………………………….
6. The milk is very sour. -»  …………………………………….
 
VI. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple tense.
 
Ex: The sun (rise) ……….. in the east.
The sun rises in the east.
 
1. She …………..  (not drink) coffee. She ………..(drink) Coca Cola.
2. It …………..(be) often hot in the summer.
3. What ………….you ………… (do) every evening?
4.  The earth …………….(circle) the sun once every 365 days.
5. I …………. (see) her very often.
6. Most rivers …………….. (flow) into the sea.
7.  Vegetarians  …………(not eat) meat.
8.  Bees …………… (make) honey.
9.  Rice  …………..  (not grow) in cold climates.
10. Where ………. Martin ……….. (come) from? - He (be) ……… Scottish.
 
VII. Make questions in column A to which the answers in column B.
 

A	B
1. ………………………………..? 2. ………………………………..? 3. ………………………………..? 4. ………………………………..? 5. ………………………………..? 6. ………………………………..? 7. ………………………………..? 8. ………………………………..?	Nguyen Bao Quoc. fifteen. tall, thin, short curly hair. humorous, kind and helpful. at 2/ 16A Tran Hung Dao Street. his parents and elder sister. swimming, reading, and fishing Phong and Nam.

 
VIII. Fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition.
 
1.  There are lots of parties ……….. Christmas.
2.  I received a letter ………… my friend yesterday.
3. She usually goes swimming ……….. Sunday mornings.
4.  Khoi is my close friend. I spend most of my free time …….. him.
5.  He does volunteer work ……..  a local hospital.
6. His friends didn’t laugh ……… his jokes.
7. My friends usually enjoy my sense……… humor.
8. He lives ………  26 Tran Phu Street …….. Ha Noi.
 
IX. Complete the passage with the words from the box.
 
Days -  lot – time -  younger -  free -  with -  large -  some – ones -  listening
 
Hang is fourteen years old. She is a pretty girl (1)……… long black hair. She goes to school five (2) ……….. a week and usually goes swimming with (3)……….. friends on Saturday mornings. She lives in a (4) ………… house with her mother, father and (5) brother at 2/34 Nguyen Trai Street.
 
Hang has a (6)……….. of friends. Of all her friends, Nga and Thuy are the (7) ……….. she spends most of her (8) …………. with. They all like (9) ……. to music and playing sports in their (10) ………. time.
 
X. Complete the dialogue.
 
Hung: Hi, Ba.
Ba: Hi. Hung. (1) …………. weekends?
Hung: I went to Vung Tau.
Ba: Lucky you! (2) …………………..?
Hung: I went with some, of my friends and my cousin, Lien.
Ba: Lien? (3) …………… her?
Hung: I don’t think so. Lien is one of my first cousins. She lives in Hue.
Ba: (4) ……………. ?
Hung: She’s very beautiful. She’s slim and tall. She has long black hair and big, brown eyes.
Ba: (5) …………….. ?
Hung: Fifteen. (6) ………….. to meet her?
Ba: I’d love to.
 
TEST FOR  UNIT 1
 
I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently.
 
1. a. happy            b. character                    c. fat           d. classmate
2. a. teacher          b. pleasure            c. please      d. meet
3. a. character        b. Christmas          c. children   d. school
4. a. tomorrow     b. brown               c. now         d. how
5. a. slim              b. thin                   c. smile       d. visit
 
II. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks.
 
1. I ………. a letter from my old friend last week. 
 
 a. sent        b. gave        c. received            d. took
 
2. She spends most of her free time ………..volunteer work.
 
 a. doing      b. to do       c. do            d. for doing
3. He is……….. to ride his bike to school. 
 
a. not enough old           b. enough not old          c         . not old enough       d. enough old
 
4. She is wearing a ……….. dress.  
 
a. red new pretty b. new pretty red c. pretty red new d. pretty new red
 
5. Her mother ………… this city two years ago. 
 
a. left                    b. leaves      c. is leaving                    d. will leave
 
6. I find Peter is not communicative. He’s rather ……… in public.
 
a. kind        b. reserved            c. sociable             d. humorous
 
7. He enjoys ……….. to music while he’s studying. 
 
a. to listen            b. listen       c. listening            d. to listening
 
8. Each of them ……….. a different character. 
 
a. have        b. has          c. to have              d. having
 
9. A child whose parents have died is called a(n)  ……………
 
a. cousin     b. neighbor           c. nephew             d. orphan
 
10. Lien is very shy but her sister is ………..
 
a. reserved            b. generous                    c. outgoing           d. kind
 
III. Complete the paragraph. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form or tense.
 
Nien (1) ………… (be) Hoa’s next-door neighbor in Hue. She (2)………  (be) very beautiful. She (3)………. (have), big brown eyes and a lovely smile. Last week, she (4) ………. (go) to Ha Noi (5) ………… (visit) Hoa. They (6)……… (travel) around the city and (7) ………. (see) a lot of interesting places. Nien (8)……… (think) Ha Noi (9) ………… (be) beautiful but so noisy and busy, so she (10) …………  (not like) (11) …………. (live) there.
 
IV. Supply the correct word form.
 
1. People in my country are very warm and ………….. (friend)
2. An ………. is a home for children whose parents are dead, (orphan)
3. L.A. Hill is a ……….writer, (humor)
4. I’m ……. I sorry for the delay, (extreme)
5. She looks more ………. than her sister, (beauty)
6. They were very ………… to survive a shipwreck, (luck)
7. I love the ………….. of summer evenings in the countryside, (peaceful)
8.  Those cats look ………… (love)
9. Bao is very ………….. kind and generous, (social)
10. Each of my friends has a ………… character, (differ).
 
V. Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting.
 
1. I strongly believe that friends plays an important role in our life.
          A                                      B           C                       D
2. Children nowadays spend more time to play video games than reading books.
                                            A              B                            C      D
3. This software isn’t good enough for children use.
     A                             B                C               D
4. Hoa is very happy when she received a letter from her friend this morning.
           A           B                         C                  D
5. We are very close friends although we have quite different character.
                 A                        B                 C                             D
 
VI. Read the passage carefully, then write true (T) or false (F) for the following sentences.
 
Do you have any close friends? I think everybody at least has one close friend in their life. And so do 1.1 have two close friends, Hanh and Mai. We are in the same class at primary school, and then secondary school. We are also neighbors so we spend most of our time in learning and playing together.
 
Hanh is a beautiful girl with big black eyes and an oval rosy face. She is an intelligent student who is always at the top of the class. She likes reading, and she often goes to the library whenever she has free time. Mai isn’t as beautiful as Hanh, but she has a lovely smile and looks very healthy. Mai is very sporty. She spends most of her free time playing sports. Mai is a volleyball star of our school. She is also very sociable and has a good sense of humor. Her jokes always make us laugh. I love both of my friends and I always hope our friendship will never die.
 
1. The writer formed her close friendship at primary school.
2. The writer lives far from her friends.
3. Hanh always spends her free time in the library.
4. Mai is good at sport.
5. Mai’s friends sometimes get tired of her jokes.
6. The writer hopes to have a lasting friendship.
 
VII. Put the words or phrases in correct order to make sentences.
 
1. enough/ Jane/ stay/ to/ alone/ old/ isn’t/ at home.
…………………………………………………………………..
2. you/ going/ to/ are/ what/ do/ next weekend?
…………………………………………………………………..
3. she/ hair/ black/ has/ long/ straight.
…………………………………………………………………..
4. in the east/ rises/ sun/ the/ in the west/ sets/ and.
…………………………………………………………………..
5. table/ large/ was/ in the kitchen/ there/ a/ wooden/ round.
…………………………………………………………………..
6. awful/ an/ what/ house!
…………………………………………………………………..
7. have/ money/ buy/ that/ we/ enough/ to/ didn’t/ car.
…………………………………………………………………..
8. free/ he/ most/ time/ sports/ spends/ of/ his/ playing.
…………………………………………………………………..
 
VIII. Write a paragraph about Trung, using the information in the box.
 
Name: Nguyen Manh Trung Age: 15
Appearance: tall, fat, short curly hair
Characters: sociable, generous, kind
Address: 24 Nguyen Du street, Ho Chi Minh City
Family: mother, father and two younger sisters
Hobbies: swimming, reading
Friends: Nam, Thanh, Phong
 
His name is ………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………
 
ANSWER KEY
I. 1. planet   2. humor    3. orphanage     4. joke    5. next-door   6. generous
7. sociable  8. reserved
 
II. 1. A round wooden table
2. a beautiful new green dress
3. a lovely sunny day
4. a lovely small old house
5. nice big blue eyes
6. black leather gloves
7. a small round pink face
8. a small black metal box
 
III. 1. My sister is old enough to drive a car.
2. The radio isn’t small enough to put in your pocket
3. This coat isn’t warm enough to wear in winter
4. She is beautiful and intelligent enough to become Miss world.
5. The weather was fine enough to go camping
6. Those apples aren’t ripe enough to eat
7. Mr. Robinson isn’t rich enough to buy a house
8. The worker is clever enough to make fine things from wood.
 
IV. 1. Hard enough to pass
2. well enough to play
3. warm enough to go swimming
4. rich enough to buy
5. enough money to go away
6. enough time to get
7. strong enough to move
8. enough French to read
9. far enough to get
10. enough chairs
 
V. 1. What naughty boys!
2. what awful weather!
3. what a beautiful girl!
4. what lovely dresses!
5. what an interesting story!
6. what sour milk!
 
VI. 1. doesn't drink – drinks
2. is
3. do….do
4. circles
5. see
6. flow
7. don’t eat
8. make
9. doesn’t grow
10. does.. come – is
 
VII. 1. what’s his name?
2. Hold old is he?
3. What does he look like?
4. What is he like?
5. where does he live?
6. Who does he live with?
7. What does he do in his free time?/ what are his hobbies?
8. Who are his (best) friends?
 
VIII. 1. at
2. from
3. on
4. with
5. at
6. at
7. of
8. at – in
 
IX. 1. with
2. days
3. some
4. large
5. younger
6. lot
7. ones
8. time
9. listening
10. free
 
X. 1. Where did you go on weekends?
2. Who did you go with?
3. Do I know her?
4. What does she look like?
5. How old is she?
6. Would you like to meet her?
 
TEST FOR UNIT 1
 
I. 1. d          2. b              3. c              4. a     5. c
 
II. 1. c   2. a    3. c   4. d    5. a    6. b    7. c    8. b    9. d    10. C
 
III. 1. was
2. is
3. has
4. went
5. to visit
6. travelled
7. saw
8. thinks
9. is
10. doesn’t like
11. to live/living
 
IV.  1. friendly     3. humorous   5. beautiful   7. peace    9. sociable
       2. orphanage  4. extremely   6. lucky        8. lovely   10. Different
 
V. 1. B (play)       2. B (playing)       3. D (to use)         4. A (was)
5. D (characters)
 
VI. 1. T       2. F   3. F   4. T   5. F   6. T
 
VII. 1. Jane isn’t old enough to stay alone at home.
2. What are you going to do next weekend?
3. She has long straight black hair.
4. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
5. There was a large round wooden table in the kitchen.
6. What an awful house!
7. We didn’t have enough money to buy that car.
8. He spends most of his free time playing sports..
 
VIII. His name is Nguyen Manh Trung and he’s fifteen years old. He lives at 24 Nguyen Du Street, Ho Chi Minh City with his mother, father and two younger sisters. He’s tall and fat and he has short curly hair. He is sociable, generous and very kind. He likes/enjoys swimming and reading. His best friends are Nam, Thanh and Phong.