REVISION OF ENGLISH 8 I. READING COMPREHENSION 1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer the questions According to Dr. Lee, here are the most important things a student should do to be a good language learner. First, you should always go to class and get to it early. Second, you should sit straight and pay attention. And you ought to ask and answer questions in class. Third, you should do all homework and try to use your new language outside of class at least once every week. Finally, you mustn’t give up 1. These are Dr. Lee’s advises to _________. A. language learners B. teachers C. workers D. neighbors 2. First, a student should ________. A. go to class early B. pay attention C. ask answer questions in class D. helps everyone 3. Dr. Lee said a student should ________. A. learn more new words B. ask and answer questions in class C. have a new way of language learning D. write sentences 4. Language learners should _______. A. do all the exercises in class B. ask their partners to help C. watch TV regularly D. do all homework 5. Language learners should ________. A. learn from their relatives B. travel to another country C. be absent from school D. use the new language outside of class 2. Read the passage and write T/F Alexander 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 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. ____ Alexander G. Bell was born in England. ____ He emigrated to Canada in 1865. ____ He went to Boston when he was twenty-three. ____ Graham Bell worked with the deaf in Boston. ____ He invented the telephone. 3. Read the passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word from the table contest improve pronunciation outside in In the first year of secondary school I had some difficulties in learning English. My (1) ________ of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I didn’t know how to (2) _______ them. One afternoon, after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her (3) _________ the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept (4) _______ a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English-English dictionary to improve my English grammar. I didn’t know that only one year later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking (5) _________ held for secondary school students in my hometown. 4. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions Viet is a student and he lives in a suburb of Ha Noi. It’s a part of an old house. He has one room and a kitchen and shares a bathroom with three other people. In his room, there is a bed on the left hand side. There is an armchair beside the bed. The desk is opposite the bed and there is a closet on the right side of the room. Above the desk, there is a bookshelf and above the bed there is a clock. He has a TV and a hi-fi , too. In the kitchen, there is a cooker on the right hand side. The sink is near the cooker. There’s a small table and two chairs in the center. The kitchen is small, but it’s ok. Viet likes his room very much. Questions: 1. Where does Viet live? ( 2. How many people share the bathroom with Viet? ( 3. What is there on the right side of the room? ( 4. Where is the cooker in the kitchen? ( 5. Does Viet like his room? ( II. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER A. Vocabulary: 1. A person who cannot speak or hear is called a ____. A. character B. deaf - mute. C. deaf D. blind 2. Nga needs_____ her writing. A. to read B. to have C. to improve D. to talk 3. His_______ always makes people laugh. A. quiet character B. sense of humor C. smiles D. humorous 4. She always gets excellent grades because she studies________. A. quickly B. badly C Thanks