Bài tập Anh 8 Tuần 15

Week: 15
Period: 15
Unit 8: Country life and city life


Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Perfect Tense or Present Progressive.
I`m afraid I have no time to help you now. I (write) ______ a report. But I (promise) ______ I`ll give you some help later.
Look, it (rain) ______ outside. The rain (get) ______ heavier.
Remember that the sun (rise) ______ in the east. It`s behind us so we (travel) ______ west.
The students (celebrate) ______ Students` Day tomorrow.
Hoa (have) ______ a birthday party this evening.
She (get) ______ taller and taller this year.
They (prepare) ______ for their next performance.
The Greens (go) ______ to the movies once a week.
There (be) ______ a traffic jam in the city center almost every day.
Where is Mai? What (she / do) ______?

Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
Nam (study) ______ since last May.
Rice (not grow) ______ in England.
(you / ever be) ______ to Da Lat?
Hurry. The bus (come) ______ and I (not want) ______ to miss it.
(you / go) ______out last night, Hung? Yes, I (go) ______ to the cinema, but I (not enjoy) ______ the film much.
His farther (just / sell) ______ his old house.
Nurses (look) ______ after patients in hospitals.
What (you / do) ______ this evening?
They (live) ______ in that house for ten years.
This is the first time he (drive) ______ a car.

Exercise 3: Write the comparative or superlative form of the words in brackets.
The weather is getting ______. (bad)
Minh looks ______ than he did. (thin)
It is ______ than usual in my town today. (busy)
They`ll even be ______ if you do that again. (annoyed)
Mountains are ______ than hills. (big)
School days are the ______ days of my life. (happy)
The air in the city is much ______ than that in the country. (dirty)
She lives in the ______ house in the village. (large)
Who is ______, Tom or Tim? (good)
Going on a trip is ______ than staying at home. (interesting)
Tokyo is exciting, but, for a musician, London is ______ than Tokyo, and, of course, New York is the ______ of all. (exciting)
It is said that English is ______ than French. (easy)

Exercise 4: Complete the following sentences, using the verb "get" or "become" and one suitable adjective from the box in the comparative form.

good bad cold noisy difficult
strong busy polluted high hot


The boy was very short, now he is getting taller.
Streets are very quiet in the early morning, but they ______ when people start going to work.
The lessons in schools are easy at the beginning, but they ______ later.
The traffic is very bad now. If we don`t have positive measures with it, the traffic will ______.
the weather was awful yesterday, but today it is ______.
It is cold in fall, and it even ______ in winter.
I have ______ since I went to work. I was free in the past.
The earth is ______. The temperatures are increasingly growing up.
The environment is ______. We must protect it from pollution.
The cost of living is ______ even though it was very high last year.
He was very weak as a child but now he is ______.

Exercise 5: Complete the passage with the suitable words from the box.

education hospitals facilities libraries
villager streets galleries trains


The advantages of living in a big city are many and obvious. The city resident enjoys certain conveniences which the (1)______ doesn`t have. He has good and well-lighted (2)______, cheap public means of transportation, such as buses and (3)______, a house with modern (4)______ and well-equipped (5)______ to care for him when he is ill. Moreover, the resident can get the best (6)______ at schools and colleges. To enrich his mind, there are (7)______, museums, art (8)______, clubs and organizations.