Luyện chuyên sâu ngữ pháp và từ vựng Unit 2 môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 (Sách thí điểm)

UNIT 2. LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
IV. PRACTICE
Exercise 1. Look at the photo and complete the word with bl or cl.
1. clothes
2. blender
3. cloud
4. blanket
5. blossom
6. clock
7. clown
8. blind
Exercise 2. Underline the duster /bl/ and double underline the duster /kl/ in the following sentence then read aloud the sentences.
1. I went for a walk around the block.
2. Cats are very clean animals.
3. The teacher blamed me for the accident.
4. My father usually has a cup of black coffee for breakfast.
5. He was climbing up the wall.
6. Today she is wearing a white silk blouse.
7. Is our hotel close to the beach?
8. If you can't answer the question, leave a blank.
9. His eyes were bright blue.
10. I went to the table tennis club yesterday.
11. Mai and Phong are in the same class.
12. Do you like classical music?
13. The apple tree is covered in blossom.
14. He became completely blind after the car accident.
15. She works as a clerk in an office.
16. She's so clever with her hands.
Exercise 3. Put the nouns into the correct column.
grapes, food, buffaloes, a camel, data, dolls, a tent, water, cattle, a flag, strawberry, a bike, a fence, tea buds, a car, goats, information, an ostrich, blackberry, sheep, a motorbike, a notice, postcards, a memorial, a donkey
Ride
Collect
Pick
Herd
Put up
a camel, a bike, a motorbike, 
a donkey, a car, an ostrich
food, water, data, information, dolls, postcards
grapes, blackberry, strawberry, 
tea buds
buffaloes, cattle, goats, sheep
a flag, a fence, a memorial, 
a notice, a tent
Exercise 4. Complete the sentence with the words in the box.
inconvenient
vast
boring
nomadic
friendly
peaceful
brave
slow
colorful
hard
1. Life in the city is fast but life in the countryside is slow.
2. The old city around the cathedral is the most part colorful of town.
3. Our neighbors have always been very friendly.
4. The people in my village are hard and kind.
5. My father is a brave soldier.
6. The film was so boring that I fell asleep.
7. It will be very inconvenient for me to have no car.
8. The vast majority of pupils attend state-funded schools here.
9. She hoped the different ethnic groups in the area could live together in peaceful co-existence.
10. A nomadic life is hard but interesting.
Exercise 5. Fill in each blank with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.
1. Iceland is considered the most peaceful country in the word. (peace)
2. A nomadic lifestyle has its advantages and disadvantages. (nomad)
3. My brother has been a stamp collector for several years. (collect)
4. It is an inconvenient place to hold a picnic because it is too far from the road. (convenience)
5. Drinking water in some areas may be unsafe. (safe)
6. During my stay in the village, I was friendly with several local farmers. (friend)
7. Encouraging children to eat and drink healthily is very important. (health)
8. Local people in the village often wear their traditional costumes during the festivals. (tradition)
9. Please give generously to that charity to help the homeless after the flood. (generous)
10. The baby slept very soundly because the bed was really comfortable. (sound)
Exercise 6. Fill each blank with a word/phrase in the box.
busiest time
buffalo-drawn carts
noisier
buffalo
herding
colorful
harvest time
fantastic
countryside
rice
1. At the harvest time my brother always helps my parents load the rice onto the truck and drives it home.
2. I often help my parents dry the rice in the yard in front of my house.
3. Some farmers in my village still use buffalo-drawn carts to transport rice home.
4. He usually goes herding the buffaloes with other boys in his village.
5. My pen pal friend says he would like to visit my countryside at harvest time to see what farmers do.
6. My friend has never ridden a buffalo so he would like to try once.
7. Harvest time is the busiest time of the year in the countryside.
8. Our garden is colorful in spring when almost flowers bloom.
9. I like looking at the stars on starry nights. It's fantastic.
10. My uncle lives in the city. He says it's noisier than my village.
Exercise 7. Write the comparative form of the adjective or adverb in brackets. Use "than" where necessary.
1. A cellphone would be a more useful present. (useful)
2. It's a long way from here to the station farther than/further than I thought. (far)
3. Can't you think of anything more intelligent to say? (intelligent)
4. It was busier than usual in town today. (busy)
5. Unfortunately her illness was more serious than we thought at first. (serious)
6. Health and happiness are more important than money. (important)
7. You need to draw it more carefully. (carefully)
8. I like living in the country. It's more peaceful than living in the town. (peaceful)
9. We can't hear. Could you speak a little more slowly? (slowly)
10. I can't stay longer than half an hour. (long)
Exercise 8. Use the adjectives or adverbs in brackets in their correct forms of comparison to complete the sentences.
1. Minh says life in the countryside is (interesting) more interesting than he expected. He'll go there whenever he has free time.
2. My brother is studying at a university in Ha Noi. He often says he loves living in our village because people here are (friendly) more friendly than people in Ha Noi.
3. Last week we went to Sa pa. It's (wonderful) more wonderful to look at the paddy fields on mountain slops than the paddy fields on the lowlands.
4. My grandparents often tell us that they used to live in a (hard) harder life than it is now.
5. Living in the countryside is (peaceful) more peaceful and (quiet) quieter than living in big cities.
6. The cost of living in my town is (expensive) more expensive than in your town.
7. Living in modern flocks of flats is (convenient) more convenient than other places. You can buy everything you want just on the ground floor.
8. City children have (exciting) more exciting life than the country children.
9. He is a famous athlete so of course he runs (fast) faster than me.
10. My grandfather says that farmers in the past worked (hard) harder than farmers nowadays.
Exercise 9. Use the superlative form (-est or most) and a preposition (if necessary).
1. This room is nice. It's the nicest room in the hotel.
2. Susan is very beautiful. She's the most beautiful girl I've ever met.
3. It was a very happy day. It was the happiest day in my life.
4. She's a very intelligent student. She's the most intelligent student in the class.
5. The speech was very boring. It was the most boring speech I've ever heard.
6. It's a very large company. It's the largest company in the town.
7. August is very wet. It's the wettest month of the year.
8. The meal was delicious. That was the most delicious meal I've had for a long time.
9. Matthew always drives carefully. He drives the most carefully of all the drivers.
10. She is a very good player. She is one of the best players in the team.
11. Manchester United is a very famous football team. They're one of the most famous teams in the world.
12. Melanie is a quick child. She reacts the most quickly of the three sisters.
13. It was a very bad experience. It is one of the worst experiences in my life.
14. It's a very valuable painting. It's the most valuable painting in the gallery.
15. Spring is a very busy time for me. It's the busiest time of the year.
Exercise 10. Complete the sentences, using the comparative form of the adjectives in the box.
small
bad
cheap
important
expensive
big
intelligent
hard
good
hot
1. An elephant is a bigger than mouse.
2. The weather today is hotter than it was yesterday.
3. A diamond costs a lot of money. A diamond is more expensive than a ruby.
4. A lake is smaller than an ocean.
5. A person can think logically. A person is more intelligent than an animal.
6. Good health is more important than money.
7. I can buy a bicycle, but not a motorbike. A bicycle is cheaper than a motorbike.
8. The last question is harder than the others.
9. I think my second essay is better than the first. There were many mistakes in the first essay.
10. The food in a street market is worse than in a supermarket.
Exercise 11. Complete the sentences with the correct form of words in brackets.
1. Some people think that health is more important than money. (important)
2. The pollution in our city is much worse than it used to be. (bad)
3. My new teacher explained the lessons more clearly than my old teacher. (clear)
4. He doesn't play volleyball as well as his brother. (good)
5. Get rid of the sorrow! You will do it better next time. (good)
6. Communication is a lot easier than it was 50 years ago. (easy)
7. People in rural areas wear more simply than those in cities. (simple)
8. Robert arrived at the meeting later than Francis. (late)
9. These trousers are too wide. Do you have any that are narrower? (narrow)
10. My mother always gets up earlier than everybody else in the house. (early)
11. Trang speaks more fluently than the other ESL students in the class. (fluent)
12. Can't you think of anything more intelligent to say? (intelligent)
13. I think his new book is much more boring than his old one. (boring)
14. Max finished his homework faster than anyone else in the class. (fast)
15. He doesn't look as happy as he used to. (happy)
Exercise 12. Fill in the blank, using the structure "...er and ...er" or "more and more".
1. This subject gets harder and harder all the time. (hard)
2. I'm just getting more and more confused. (confused)
3. It's becoming more and more difficult for me to keep up. (difficult)
4. The text book just gets more and more complicated. (complicated)
5. I spend more and more time on my work. (much).
6. My list of things to do gets longer and longer. (long)
7. As I waited for my interview, I became more and more nervous. (nervous)
8. My problem is just getting worse and worse. (bad)
9. Since she has been in Britain, her English has got better and better. (good)
10. My bags seemed to get heavier and heavier as I carried them. (heavy)
11. Travelling is becoming more and more expensive. (expensive)
12. That hole in your pullover is getting bigger and bigger. (big)
Exercise 13. Read the passage and choose the best option to fill In the blank.
Life is changing rapidly in the large cities of England. However, life in other areas remains much the (1) same as it has been for centuries. Factories have brought huge population increases to the cities, and city life boomed.
City residents have discovered a new (2) way of life, but in country villages the traditional lifestyle has remained nearly (3) unchanged. There have been a few changes, particularly the new steam-powered machinery. It made farm production more (4) efficient. But for the people who remain in the countryside, daily life continues much as it had before the (5) Industrial Revolution. Life in country villages continues to (6) move at a slow pace. The daily schedule depends on the times that the sun rose and set and on the weather. In a typical village, the (7) largest/biggest/highest number of workers is still employed in agriculture or in domestic service. A smaller number of people work in various trades. Even (8) fewer work in the professions.
1. A. similar	B. same	C. different	D. both A & B
2. A. method	B. walk	C. way	D. path
3. A. changeful 	B. changeable	C. unchanged	D. change
4. A. efficient 	B. efficiently	C. efficiency	D. inefficient
5. A. Industry 	B. Industrial	C. Industrialize	D. Industrialized
6. A. run 	B. walk	C. move	D. drive
7. A. largest 	B. biggest	C. highest	D. All are correct
8. A. more 	B. less	C. few	D. fewer
Exercise 14. Choose the best answers.
Living in the country is something that people from the city often dream about. However, in reality, it has both advantages and disadvantages.
There are certainly many advantages to living in the country. First, you can enjoy peace and quietness. Moreover, people tend to be friendlier. A further advantage is that there is less traffic, so it is safer for young children.
However, there are certain disadvantages or drawbacks to life outside the city. First, because there are fewer people, you are likely to have few friends. In addition, entertainment is difficult to find, particularly in the evening. Furthermore, the fact that there are fewer shops and services means that it is hard to find jobs.
In short, it can be seen that the country is more suitable for some people than others. On the whole, it is often the best for those who are retired or who have young children. In contrast, young people who have a career are better provided in the city.
1. According to the passage, living in the country has ____________.
A. only good points	B. only bad points
C. both good and bad points	D. no disadvantages
2. How many advantages does living in the country have?
A. Two	B. Three	C. Four	D. No
3. Living in the country is safer for young children because ___________.
A. there is less traffic	B. there are few shops
C. there are fewer people	D. there are few services
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. People in the country tend to be friendlier than people in the city.
B. It's hard to find entertainment in the country.
C. There are fewer shops and services in the country.
D. The country is only suitable for retired people.
5. Having few friends is _____________.
A. one of drawbacks to life in the country
B. the only disadvantage to living in the country
C. one of certain drawbacks to life outside the city
D. one of certain advantages to life outside the city
Exercise 15. Rewrite the following sentences that keep the same meaning.
1. Her old house is bigger than her new one.
à Her new house isn't so/ as big as her old one.
2. No one in my class is taller than Peter.
à Peter is the tallest in my class.
3. The black dress is more expensive than the white one.
à The white dress isn't so/ as expensive as the black one.
4. According to me, English is easier than Maths.
à According to me, Maths isn't so/ as easy as English.
5. No one in my group is more intelligent than Mary.
à Mary is the most intelligent in my group.
6. No river in the world is longer than the Nile.
à The Nile is the longest river in the world.
7. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
à No mountain in the world is higher than Mount Everest.
8. This is the first time I have ever met such a pretty girl.
à She is the prettiest girl I have ever met.
9. This computer works better than that one.
à That computer doesn't work so/ as well as that one.
10. This is the most delicious cake I've ever tasted.
à I've never tasted a more delicious cake than this one.
Exercise 16. Complete each sentence following the model.
1. (The rent is high.) 	The bigger a flat is, the higher the rent is.
2. (You learn quickly.)	The younger you are, the more quickly you learn.
3. (The roads are quiet.)	The earlier you leave, the quieter the roads are.
4. (The choice is wide.)	The bigger a supermarket is, the wider the choice is.
5. (I get confused.)	The more I try to work this out, the more confused I get.
6. (You can speak fluently.)	The more you practice, the more fluently you can speak.
7. (The beaches get crowded.)	The better the weather is, the more crowded the beaches get.
8. (She became impatient.)	The longer she waited, the more impatient she became.
9. (It's hard to concentrate.)	The more tired you are, the harder it is to concentrate.
10. (The product is reliable)	The higher the price is, the more reliable the product is.