English 8

UNIT 7: POLLUTION – PRACTICE TEST No. 1

Word Type Pronunciation Meaning
1 affect (v) /əˈfekt/ làm ảnh hưởng
2 algea (n) /ˈældʒiː/ tảo
3 aquatic (adj) /əˈkwætɪk/ dưới nước
4 billboard (n) /ˈbɪlbɔːd/ biển quảng cáo ngoài trờ
5 blood pressure (n) /blʌd ˈpreʃə/ huyết áp
6 cause (n,v) /kɔːz/ nguyên nhân, gây ra
7 cholera (n) /ˈkɒlərə/ bệnh tả
8 come up with (v) /kʌm ʌp wɪð/ nghĩ ra
9 contaminate (v) /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/ làm bẩn
10 contaminant (n) /kənˈtæmɪnənt/ chất gây bẩn
11 dump (v) /dʌmp/ vứt, bỏ
12 earplug (n) /ˈɪəplʌɡ/ cái nút tai
13 effect (n) /ɪˈfekt/ kết quả
14 fine (v) /faɪn/ phạt tiền
15 float (v) /f əʊt/ nổi
16 groundwater (n) /ˈɡraʊndwɔːtə/ nước ngầm
17 hearing loss (n) /ˈhɪərɪŋ lɒs/ mất thính lực
18 illustrate (v) /ˈɪləstreɪt/ minh họa
19 litter (n, v) /ˈlɪtə/ rác vụn (mẩu giấy, vỏ lon…), vứt rác
20 measure (v) /ˈmeʒə/ đo
non-point (n) /nɒn-pɔɪnt sɔːs pəˈluːʃn/ ô nhiễm không nguồn (nguồn phân
21 source pollution tán)
22 permanent (adj) /ˈpɜːmənənt/ vĩnh viễn
point source (n) /pɔɪnt sɔːs pəˈluːʃn/ ô nhiễm có nguồn
23 pollution
24 poison (n, v) /ˈpɔɪzn/ chất độc, làm nhiễm độc
25 pollutant (n) /pəˈluːtənt/ chất gây ô nhiễm
26 radioactive (adj) /ˌreɪdiəʊˈæktɪv/ thuộc về phóng xạ
27 radiation (n) /ˌreɪdiˈeɪʃn/ phóng xạ
28 thermal (adj) /ˈθɜːml/ thuộc về nhiệt
29 untreated (adj) /ˌʌnˈtriːtɪd/ không được xử lý
30 visual (adj) /ˈvɪʒuəl/ thuộc về thị giác

Exercise 1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

1. A. fence B. hedge C. pesticide D. resources
2. A. group B. ground C. should D. would
3. A. dump B. truck C. reduce D. rubbish
4. A. ocean B. beach C. clean D. reason
5. A. dynamite B. provide C. kind D. spill
Exercise 2. Choose a word in each line that has different stress patterns.
1. A. garbage B. junkyard C. persuade D. sewage
2. A. disappointment B. environment C. pollute D. refreshment
3. A. prevent. B. deforest C. recycle D. plastic
4. A. minimize B. energy C. politeness D. poisonous
5. A. prohibit B. creature C. exhaust D. respiratory
Exercise 3. Find the mistake and correct it in each of the following sentence.
1. Nam studies(A) very hardly(B), so he always(C) gets good marks(D).
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2. My(A) brother broke(B) the teacup as(C) of his carelessness(D).
3. We are(A) worried about(B) the chemicals(C) will pollute(D) the lake.
4. If we will go(A) on littering(B), the environment will become(C) seriously polluted(D).
5. She spoke(A) so quick(B) that I didn’t(C) understand what she meant(D).
Exercise 4. Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences.
1. We’re disappointed that people have ______ this area.
A. spoiled B. bored C. disturbed D. broken
2. We should find heavily anyone using ______to catch fish.
A. electric B. electrical C. electricity D. electrify
3. If we ______trash, it will pollute the air.
A. collect B. burn C. reuse D. pump
4. We shouldn’t use too many plastic bags because they are very hard to ______.
A. soften B. heat C. melt D. dissolve
5. If we recycle bottles and cans, we will ______a lot of natural resources.
A. spend B. waste C. save D. throw
6. Polluted water can directly do ______to people’s health and kill fish.
A. harm B. bad C. terror D. damage
7. If more and more trees ______, the climate ______.
A. die/changes B. die/will change C. will die/change D. will die/will change
8. I am ______that you got the highest mark.
A. happiness B. interesting C. surprise D. proud
9. Nga wants to go home ______ she feels sick.
A. as if B. since C. until D. because of
10. Tom looks very ______. Do you know what happened to him?
A. sad B. sadly C. good D. goodly
11. The tour around the country was ______cheap.
A. surprise B. surprised C. surprising D. surprisingly
12. You will lose your job ______you go to work late again.
A. unless B. if C. but D. for
13. My brother speaks ______English.
A. good B. well C. fluently D. fastly
14. Lam is tired ______he stayed up too late last night.
A. such B. or C. if D. because
15. There ______big floods every year of people ______trees in the forests.
A. are/cut down B. are/will cut down C. will be/cut down D. will be/will cut down
Exercise 5. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
Wild animals (and wild plants) and the wild (1.)_____ where they live are seriously threatened (2.)
_____everywhere. One species has become (3.) _____in each year of this century, but many hundreds are
(4.) _____in danger. Lack of (5.) _____would lead to the rapid advance of the (6.) _____of extinction.
Already many kinds of wild have been (7.) _____reduced in number that (8.) _____role in the ecosystem is
forgotten.
Animals (9.) _____the great apes, the whales, seals, etc. are (10.) _____to be in danger of extinction.
1. A. flats B. houses C. places D. countries
2. A. most B. almost C. lots D. much
3. A. extinct B. dead C. destroy D. missing
4. A. coming B. living C. staying D. being
5. A. attention B. attendance C. look D. observation
6. A. period B. process C. distance D. journey
7. A. very B. too C. so D. such
8. A. its B. his C. your D. their
9. A. like B. as C. same D. similar
10. A. regarded B. thought C. hoped D. studied

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Exercise 6. Read the passage and choose the correct answer for each question.
In biology and ecology the environment is all of the natural materials and living things on the Earth.
This is also called the natural environment. Some people call themselves environmentalists. These people
think that harmony with the environment is important. They think we must protect the environment. They
think people should not put so much pollution into the natural environment. The important things is the
environment that we value are called natural resources. For example fish, sunlight, and forests. These are
renewable natural resources because they grow naturally when we use them. Non-renewable natural
resources are important things in the environment that do not come back naturally. For example coal and
natural gas.
1. What does the word “environmentalists” mean?
A. living things B. people who protect the environment
C. people who destroy the environment D. people who pollute the environment
2. One example of renewable natural resource is _____.
A. sunlight B. coal C. oil D. natural gas
3. One example of non-renewable natural resource is _____.
A. fish B. tree C. water D. coal
4. All of the following things are renewable resources except _____.
A. air B. grass C. silver D. animal
5. What does the word “them” refer to?
A. materials B. environmentalists
C. renewable natural resources D. non-renewable natural resources
Exercise 7. Choose one correct sentence from four options provided.
1. Go on/environment/lives/badly/if/polluting/our/will/affected/we/the/be/./
A. If we will go on polluting our lives, the environment be badly affected.
B. Our lives will be polluting badly if we go on affected the environment.
C. Our lives will go on badly affected if we be polluting the environment.
D. If we go on polluting the environment, our lives will be badly affected.
2. Hungry/as/haven’t/day/I’m/now/eaten/I/very/all/./
A. I’m very hungry now as I haven’t eaten all day.
B. I haven’t eaten all day as I very hungry now.
C. I now very hungry as I’m haven’t eaten all day.
D. I haven’t very hungry as I’m eaten all day now.
3. Confident/people/work/keep/clean/we/that/will/together/environment/are/to/the/./
A. We confident that people will are work together to keep clean the environment.
B. We are confident that people will work together to keep the environment clean.
C. People will are together to work the environment keep that clean we confident.
D. People work together to keep the environment clean we are confident that will.
4. Doesn’t/I/never/him/if/apologize/will/talk/he/to/again/./
A. If he doesn’t talk apologize again, I will never to him.
B. If he never apologize, I doesn’t will talk to him again.
C. If he doesn’t apologize, I will never talk to him again.
D. If he will doesn’t apologize, I never to him talk again.
5. Using/instead/bags/food/what/banana/of/wrap/about/leaves/plastic/to/?/
A. What about using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to wrap food?
B. What of using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to about wrap food?
C. What to using plastic bags instead of banana leaves about food wrap?
D. What wrap food about plastic leaves of instead banana bags to using?
Exercise 8. Complete each of the following sentences with one of the words given in the list.
waste emission pollution pesticides endangered factory extinct deforestation ecology damage
s
1. The sperm whale is one of many ____________ species.
2. A lot of household ____________ like bottles and newspapers can be recycled and used again.

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3. There’s a large chemical ____________ in our town which has seriously polluted the river twice in
the last year.
4. ____________has changed the habitat of thousands of species.
5. ____________are poison that also have long term effects on people’s health.
6. If we continue to destroy the forests many more animals will become ____________.
7. The ____________of smoke, lava and ash from a volcano is called eruption.
8. Everybody is very worried about the ____________of our beaches with oil.
9. Chemicals in the factory’s sewage system have changed the ____________of the whole area.
10. During the last hundred years we have done great ____________to the environment.
Exercise 9. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
1. Her parents were very worried _______ she was out so late that night.
A. so that B. so C. because D. however
2. I knew him _______ I was a child.
A. until B. during C. as D. when
3. She _______me to go out with her though at first I didn’t want to.
A. persuaded B. insisted C. advised D. let
4. He drives _______than his brother.
A. more careful B. carefully C. more carefully D. very carefully
5. They became _______after eating the contaminated food.
A. sick B. sickly C. sickness D. all are correct
6. They can’t go on honeymoon _______they have no money.
A. unless B. until C. without D. if
7. She tried to prevent the dog _______running into the road.
A. of B. from C. with D. against
8. It surprises me _______John would do such a thing.
A. what B. which C. that D. how
9. The food in this restaurant always taste _______.
A. well B. best C. good D. badly
10. This English center _______their students with text books.
A. gave B. provided C. sold D. presented
Exercise 10. Fill each blank with a suitable adjective or adverb to complete the following sentences.
late highly hard lately near tight hardly quickly well friendly
1. Please don’t go too ________ the edge of the platform.
2. We found the people very ________.
3. I’m sure the teachers think very ________of you.
4. Pull the rope ________.
5. My students have to study very ________to pass the exam.
6. The doctor soon made the patient ________.
7. The sun burnt the grass ________.
8. He’s always coming ________.
9. I haven’t seen her ________.
10. Farmers ________earn enough money to pay their bills.
Exercise 11. Choose the most suitable word for each space to complete the following passage.
THE ENVIRONMEN: OUR RESPONSIBILITY
These days it is (1.)_____ to open a newspaper without reading about the damage we are doing to the
environment. The earth is being (2.) _____and the future looks bad. What can each of us do?
We can’t clean up our (3.) _____rivers and seas overnight. Nor can we stop the (4.) _____of plants and
animals. But we can stop adding to the problems while scientists search for answers, and laws are passed in
nature’s (5.) _____. It may not be easy to change your lifestyle (6.) _____, but some steps are easy to take:
cut down the amount of (7.) _____you do, or use as little plastic as possible. It is also easy to save energy,
which also reduces (8.) _____bills. We must all make a personal (9.) _____to work for the future of our
planet if we want to(10.) _____a better world for our grandchildren.

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1. A. possible B. unable C. able D. impossible
2. A. threat B. threaten C. threatened D. threatening
3. A. polluted B. unpolluted C. pollution D. pollutant
4. A. appearance B. appear C. vanishing D. disappearance
5. A. defensive B. defense C. defend D. defenselessness
6. A. completely B. absolutely C. totally D. wholly
7. A. energy B. energetic C. energize D. energetically
8. A. house B. housing C. household D. houses
9. A. decisive B. decision C. decide D. decidedly
10. A. surely B. sure C. surely D. ensure
Exercise 12. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. If we (pollute)____________ the water, we will have to have no fresh water to use.
2. If we cut down trees in the forest, there (be) ____________big flood every year.
3. I look forward to (hear) ____________from you and (see) ____________good response from your
company.
4. We (burn) ____________trash to reduce the amount of garbage we produce to protect our
environment.
5. It’s a good idea. Let’s (do) ____________that.
6. They (collect) ____________all the plastic bags and (take) ____________them to the garbage dump
now.
7. I’d like you (make) ____________our environment clean.
8. What (happen) ____________if the pollution goes on?
9. Dad! I (get) ____________mark 10 on my test yesterday.
10. That’s wonderful. They (be) ____________pleased that you are working hard.
11. Mike (have) ____________trouble with his car, so he (have) ____________to take the bus to work
these days.
12. Can I borrow your ruler or you (use) ____________it at the moment?
13. The children (be) ____________very quiet. Go and see what they (do) ____________
14. The train is never late. It always (leave) ____________on time.
15. You (like) __________this necklace? I (give) ___________it to my sister on her birthday next week.
Exercise 13. Give the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. He is a very good (work)_______________.
2. Do you know the (write) _______________of this book?
3. They are (strange) _______________ in this town.
4. Maria’s uncle is a very famous (science) _______________.
5. On most buses you must pay the (drive) _______________.
6. That (music) _______________can play a lot of different instruments.
7. She’s talking with an (art) _______________.
8. They are (environment) _______________.
Exercise 14. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition to complete the sentence.
1. Our parents lived ________ their pension.
2. He was accused ________stealing money.
3. I’m looking forward ________seeing you.
4. They are interested ________ protecting the environment.
5. Paper is made ________wood.
6. It’s no good ________her.
7. She smiled ________me.
8. The streets are crowded ________the students now.
9. Peter never does any work in the garden. He always works ________his car.
10. How much is the shirt ________stripes?
11. Does Mary really enjoy working ________night?
12. I swim ________the sea every day ________summer.

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13. Mark works hard ________Monday ________Friday, so he sleeps ________the weekend.
Exercise 15. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
1. Our environment is becoming polluted more and more. We have to protect our ________.
A. deforestation B. air pollution C. environment D. water pollution
2. Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer ________.
A. conserve B. conservationists C. conservation D. conversationists
3. I don’t want anyone to listen ________.
A. carelessly B. care C. careless D. careful
4. If we ________hard, we will make this beach a clean and ________place again.
A. work/beautifully B. works/beautifully C. worked/beautiful D. work/beautiful
5. She didn’t go to school ________she was sick.
A. when B. and C. since D. therefore
6. I am ________that people have spoiled this area.
A. disappointed B. disappoint C. disappointedly D. disappointing
7. If the ________continues what might happen?
A. pollute B. pollution C. polluted D. pollutes
8. ________can we reduce the amount of garbage?
A. What B. Why C. How D. Which
9. These plastic bags and milk bottles can be ________.
A. reuse B. reused C. spoil D. recycle
10. I think we should use public buses instead of motorbikes to ________.
A. avoid traffic jams B. minimize garbage C. prohibit deforestation D. pump up the tyre
11. She smiled in a ________way.
A. friends B. friendly C. friendlily D. friend
12. You look very ________.
A. attraction B. attractive C. attractively D. attract
13. I feel very ________ when I get good news.
A. happy B. happily C. happiness D. happyly
14. He didn’t hear the doorbell ________the children were making noise.
A. therefore B. but C. because D. All are correct
15. What will they achieve ________they work hard today?
A. when B. what C. if D. because
16. ________his illness, he didn’t go to class.
A. Because B. Because of C. Since D. As
17. We are ________ that he passes the final exam.
A. surprised B. surprising C. surprisingly D. surprise
18. If we don’t keep our environment ________, we won’t live a happier and healthier life.
A. cleaning B. clean C. cleanly D. cleaner
19. Please go on _______.
A. to write B. write C. writing D. written
20. She told me _______through her correspondence.
A. look B. to look C. looking D. looked
21. It’s too cold for us _______out.
A. go B. going C. gone D. to go
22. He is thinking of _______his job and going to America.
A. leave B. to leave C. leaving D. left
23. Will you help me _______ the bookcase?
A. is moving B. to move C. moving D. moved
24. My younger sister dislikes _______tea.
A. drinking B. to drink C. drank D. drunk
25. Could you _______me the time?
A. to tell B. tell C. told D. telling

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26. If you want _______there before dark, you should start at once.
A. get B. getting C. to get D. got
27. John gave up _______stamps.
A. collect B. to collect C. collected D. collecting
28. I wish _______the manager.
A. to see B. see C. seeing D. saw
Exercise 16. Find the mistake and correct it in each line.
1. Don’t eat(A) these vegetables(B). They(C) are poison(D).
2. You should(A) be carefully(B) when(C) you close that door(D).
3. He felt(A) tired because(B) he stayed up(C) late watch(D) TV.
4. I am(A) pleased(B) that you(C) sing wonderful(D).
5. I will not(A) eat what(B) the whole(C) area is clean(D).
6. The old house(A) were pulled(B) down to make room(C) for a block(D) of flats.
7. Most(A) babies will grow up(B) to be as cleverer(C) as their parents(D).
8. Environmental(A) protect(B) is everybody’s(C) responsibility(D).
9. I think the best(A) way to reduce garbage is(B) to recycle(C) and reused(D) things.
10. The(A) young man walked(B) quick(C) to the(D) park.
11. I am exciting(A) that I(B) can(C) go to Dalat this time(D).
12. I am sorry(A) that you(B) didn’t answered(C) that question(D).
Exercise 17. Choose the correct answer.
1. Mike couldn’t help _______ at the fat man.
A. to laugh B. laughed C. for laughing D. laughing
2. Although the family trusted her, she _______them down badly.
A. left B. set C. let D. pull
3. The road is blocked _______ some trees have fallen.
A. owing B. because C. because of D. as for
4. If you keep trying, you might _______to do it.
A. manage B. discover C. understand D. succeed
5. The President made a wonderful _______yesterday.
A. message B. talk C. lecture D. speech
6. In many parts of the world, crop failure means _______, which leads to the death of many people
each year.
A. drought B. desert C. famine D. shortcoming
7. Your windows needs _______; would you like me _______them for you?
A. cleaning/to do B. cleaning/do C. cleaned/to do D. cleaned/doing
8. Many people arrived late _______the heavy rain.
A. owing B. due C. since to D. due to
9. Bill asked _______played for my school football team.
A. I if B. if I C. me if D. if me
10. I love the ice cream _______they sell in that shop.
A. that B. what C. thing D. at that
11. He was playing _______when I got into the room.
A. happy B. happily C. happyly D. happiness
12. Which member of the team played _______and who played _______.
A. the best/the worst B. the best/ the worse C. the good/the worst D. the best/worst
13. It is high time you _______your idea.
A. change B. changed C. need to change D. are to change
14. Peter _______in three movies already. I am sure that he will be a star some day.
A. appeared B. had appeared C. has appeared D. appears
15. He has just finished _______the centre building.
A. designing B. designed C. to design D. for designing

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