English 8

English 8 - 45 minutes

I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others:
1. A. classmate B. character C. grade D. place
2. A. brown B. however C. know D. town
3. A. person B. twelve C. letter D.sentence
4. A. lucky B. curly C. lirbrary D. try
5. A. deaf B. reach C. speak D. dream
6. A. conduct B. introduce C. upstairs D. customer
7. A. pan B. match C. lamp D. save
8. A. cover B. folder C. send D. answer

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II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences:
1. Dave has a good ....................... of humor.
A. sense B. scene C. scent D. cent
2. ......................... is a telephone you can carry aroundwith you.
A. Telephone directory B. Mobile phone C. Public telephone D. Answering machine
3. She came ....................... with a new idea for increasing sales.
A. in B. on C. up D. to
4. They found some electrical ............................. in the room.
A. advice B. device C. advices D. devices
5. My father likes fishing very much . ...................
A.My father is going to go fishing this Sunday. C. My father is going to going fishing this Sunday
B. My father going to go fishing this Sunday. D. My father is go to going fishing this Sunday.
6. .............................is something that you say or do to make people laugh.
A. Joke B. Novel C. Poem D. Fairy tale
7. You can see a lot of his paintings in the next ...........................
A. service B. exhibition C. demonstration D. invention
8. I don`t have enough money ....................... for a taxi.
A. paying B. for paying C. for pay D. to pay
9. We have to keep all dangerous objects ........................
A. outside of children` s touch C. out of children`s reach
B. out children can reach D. outside children ought to reach.
10. Bell demonstrated his ....................... at a lot of exhibitions.
A. inventing B. invent C. invented D. invention
11. It only takes one match to ......................... a fire.
A. happen B. destroy C. cause D. play
12. You ought to go to the ............................ yourself to buy some vegetables.
A. cooker B. market C. cupboard D.sink
13. We can easily find the ................................... under the sink in the kitchen.
A. armchair B. cushion C. bookself D. saucepan
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III. Read the passage bellow carefully:
Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was ayoung man of twenty-three, he moved with his parents to Canada. Before the year was over, young Graham had left his family and went 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 farinto the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the telephone.
True or false
1. Graham Bell is English 3. He taught children when he lived in Boston.
2. He moved to Canada when he was young. 4.Telephone is his invention.