Bài đọc Anh 8

1 Let me tell you something about my family. My father is sixty-four. He’s a lot older …(1)…. my mother. She is only fifty-one. Dad has his …….(2)……business (an export business). Mum helps him ……(3)…….the business. I have two brothers and two sisters, so ……(4)……are seven of us altogether in the family.
The oldest is my brother Thomas. He’s twenty-eight. He is …..(5)…..and has two children. The ……(6)……oldest is my sister Helen. She’s twenty-three. She’s …….(7)……accountant and she works in a bank.. Then there’s me. I’m twenty. I’m in my second year …….(8)…….university. The next youngest is Susan. She’s eighteen and is in ….(9)….. last year at high school. Then there’s Tony. He’s the youngest. He’s fifteen. He ….(10)…… to secondary school.

2.These days most people, especially young girls, like(39)…….slim. Our grandparent’s tastes were different (40)……ours but nowadays(41)……seems to enjoy(42)…….fat people. The only thing(43) ……is wrong with this is what a(44)…….said to me the other days: “I don’t mind (45)……..these foods if they will help me(46)………weight but why do they taste so awful ?” The reason (47)…….this is that the manufacturers have to include a lot of vitamins to satisfy the law, so the only sensible advice I could give my friend was “Eat normal food, but (48)………less.”

3.The country is (1) …………….. beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go there (2) …………….. the summer holiday though they can’t live (3) …………….. all the year round. Some have cottages built in a village (4) …………….. that they can go there whenever they (5) …………….. find the time.
English villages are not all alike, but (6) ………………….. some ways they are not very different from (7) …………….... Almost every village (8) …….……….. a church, the round or square tower of which can (9) ……………... seen from many miles around. Surrounding the church is the church yard (10) ……………….. dead people are buried.

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People in the country enjoys some advantages that people in the city cannot enjoy. The country has (1) for people to do things. They have space to plant flowers and space to (2) animals. It’s easy for them to get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk at low (3They are closed contact with (4) They (5) with trees and soil, cows and dogs . They (6) fresh air. They fight (7strong winds. They get a lot of (8) when they work on the land. They can (9) to the songs of birds while working. This contact with nature is (10) for strong health.

5. Complete the following passage,
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 Everyone is interested in education all (1).................the world in big countries and in small ones, in cities as well as in villages. People (2)...................building better (3)...............................
In one little village in the Philippines there was (4).............. school at all. A typhoon blew down the old school and many of the homes and a new school. When the storm was over, everyone set to work (5)..............homes and new schools. They cut bamboo poles to make the walls of the school and used palm leaves for the roof. To separate the rooms, they built screens of grass and palm leaves fastened to bamboo frames. On hot (6).................., they pushed all the screens back to let in as much air (7).............. possible. Even the children helped. They made paths of stone and sand, and (8)...................... flowers along the edges.
(9)....................., they finished a fine new village school. It didn’t (10) ........................any money to build this fine school, but it took a lot of hard work. No wonder, everyone was proud of it. And all were proving that everyone was interested in education.

6. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits space
I have several good friends but I suppose that my best (1)............. is Ellen. We have been friends with each other (2)............. we were very young because she used to live next door to me. We were in the (3)............. class at school. She has always been much more clever than me at all subjects. I don’t mind (4).............. she often help me with my homework! Anyway, I have always been better at sport than she is. I beat her at tennis