Bài tập từ vựng và ngữ pháp Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 Global Success - Unit 5: Global warming

27. Biodiversity /ˌbaɪəʊdaɪˈvɜːsəti/ (n): đa dạng sinh học
28. Vulnerable /ˈvʌlnərəbl/ (a): dễ bị tổn thương, dễ gặp nguy hiểm
29. Habitat /ˈhổbɪtổt/ (n): mụi trường sống
30. Extinct /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ (a): tuyệt chủng 
 Extinction /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃn/ (n): sự tuyệt chủng
31. Conservation /ˌkɒnsəˈveɪʃn/ (n): sự bảo tồn 
32. Survive /səˈvaɪv/ (v): sống sút 
 Survival /səˈvaɪvl/ (n): sự sống sút
Lí THUYẾT VỀ HIỆN TẠI PHÂN TỪ VÀ QUÁ KHỨ PHÂN TỪ
1. Phõn từ
Phõn từ (Participle) - hay cũn gọi là phõn động từ là từ do động từ tạo ra và cú đặc điểm như một tớnh từ
Cỏc loại phõn từ:
A. PHÂN TỪ HIỆN TẠI
Phõn từ hiện tại hay cũn gọi là hiện tại phõn từ được tạo ra bằng cỏch thờm đuụi –ing vào phớa sau động từ 
nguyờn mẫu.
Vớ dụ: write ⇒ writing
Cỏch dựng:
- Đi sau động từ “tobe” để tạo thành thỡ hiện tại tiếp diễn:
Vớ dụ: She is listening to radio. (Cụ ấy đang nghe đài).
- Sử dụng như một tớnh từ để bổ nghĩa cho danh từ:
Vớ dụ: She told me an amusing story. (Cụ ấy đó kể cho tụi nghe một cõu chuyện vui)
- Thay thế, rỳt gọn mệnh đề:
 + Khi hai hành động cú cựng chủ ngữ, xảy ra đồng thời hoặc hành động thứ 2 là một phần hoặc kết quả 
của hành động thứ nhất, ta cú thể rỳt gọn như sau:
 Vớ dụ: Before I left, I sent an email for her. ⇒ Before leaving, I sent an email for her.
 + Rỳt gọn mệnh đề trạng ngữ chỉ thời gian:
 Vớ dụ: Because I fail the exam, I don’t want to come back home.
⇒ Failing the exam, I don’t want to come back home.
 + Rỳt gọn mệnh đề quan hệ:
 Vớ dụ: The boy who stands opposite us is a millionaire.
⇒ The boy standing opposite us is a millionaire.
- Sử dụng sau cỏc động từ chỉ giỏc quan: smell, hear, taste, feel,
Vớ dụ: I feel uncomfortable seeing him. (Tụi cảm thấy khú chịu khi thấy anh ta)
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Vớ dụ: After she had bought a new book, she came back home.
⇒ Having bought a new book, she came back home. (Sau khi mua quyển sỏch mới, cụ ấy trở về nhà).
EXERICSE
Task 1. Choose the correct word
1. Are you interesting/interested in football?
2. The football match was very exciting/excited. I enjoyed it.
3. It's sometimes embarrassing/embarrassed when you have to ask people for money.
4. Do you easily get embarrassing/embarrassed?
5 I had never expected to get the job. I was really amazing/amazed when I was offered ot.
6. She has really learnt very fast. She has made astonishing/astonished progress.
7. I didn't find the situation funny. I was not amusing/amused.
8. It was a really terrifying/terrified experience. Afterwards everybody was very shocking/shocked.
9. Why do you always look so boring/bored? Is your life really so boring/bored?
10. He's one of the most boring/bored people I've ever met. He never stops talking and he never says 
anything interesting/interested.
Task 2. Complete each sentence using a word from the box
amusing/amused annoying/annoyed boring/bored
confusing/confused disgusting/disgusted exciting/excited
exhausting/exhausted interesting/interested surprising/surprised
1. He works very hard. It's not ___________ that he's always tired.
2. I've got nothing to do. I'm ___________
3. The teacher's explanation was ___________. Most of the students didn't understand it.
4. The kitchen hadn't been cleaned for ages. It was really ___________.
5. I seldom visit are galleries. I'm not particularly ___________ in art.
6. There's no need to get ___________ just because I'm a few minutes late.
7. The lecture was ___________ I fell asleep.
8. I've been working very hard all day and now I'm ___________.
9. I'm starting a new job next week. I'm very ___________ about it.
10. Steve is very good at telling funny stories. He can be very ___________
EXTRA PRACTICE
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 A. well-protected B. immune C. susceptible D. shielded 
5. Some people predict the extinction of family life as we know it today.
 A. reservation B. protection C. threat D. disappearance 
6. Monarch butterflies are now an endangered species idue to declining numbers.
 A. resistant B. dangerous C. threatened D. preserved 
7. Many investment management companies have evolved from small entrepreneurial organizations.
 A. resolved B. involved C. revolted D. developed 
8. Secondly, the wildlife has to compete with the surrounding agriculture for the habitat.
 A. place of cooking B. place of traveling C. place of living D. place of working 
9. It's very rare to find someone who combines such qualities.
 A. in small numbers B. real C. authetic D. fake 
10. He looks after the land as a private reserve for wildlife habitat, running marsupials and their predators 
instead of cows. 
 A. money reserve B. booking reservation C. a protected area D. an emergency fund 
11. This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.
 A. dirt B. contamination C. protection D. damage 
12. I don't know how it's possible for a person to disappear without trace. 
 A. vanish B. damage C. pollute D. destroye
13. Does television adequately reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the country?
 A. destruction B. contamination C. fertilizer D. variety 
14. Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war.
 A. changed B. increased C. installed D. damaged
15. New particles are formed in the polluted air of major cities.
 A. contaminated B. disappeared C. purified D. endangered
16. An accident involving over ten vehicles has occurred in the east-bound lane.
 A. dealt with B. hidden C. taken place D. checked in
17. When resources become depleted the base camp is moved to a new location, enabling the group to 
exploit a new foraging territory.
 A. enlarged B. exhausted C. increased D. expanded
18. Our communication environment has changed drastically in the last 10 years.
 A. extremely B. slightly C. moderately D. completely
19. In cold climates, houses need to have walls that will absorb heat.
 A. come up B. take in C. drop by D. take up
20. They pulled down the warehouse to build a new supermarket.
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 A. penalized B. levied C. compensated D. punished
16. The cancer treatment has some unfortunate side effects.
 A. deadly B. disastrous C. lucky D. bad
17. These virus infections display obvious visual symptoms.
 A. clear B. visible C. ambiguous D. apparent
18. The typhoon devastated a large section of the east coast.
 A. built B. demolish C. destroy D. wreck
19. Climate change will severely affect many countries in coming decades.
 A. heavily B. dangerously C. badly D. mildly
20 They have made maximum use of the natural resources available.
 A. high B. minimum C. average D. top
Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences. 
1. _______ is a branch of Natural Science, and is the study of living organisms and how they interact with 
their environment 
 A. Biology B. Biological C. Biologist D. Biologically 
2. A/ an ________ species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct. 
 A. dangerous B. endanger C. endangered D. endangerment 
3. Besides, several programmes should be ______ that spreads the world of the conservation of the 
elephants in the public. 
 A. told B. used C. operated D. introduced 
4. Cheetah's tail is _______ during fast running, because it balances the animal and allows fast and sudden 
turns which happen often when the prey tries to escape. 
 A. essential B. basic C. adequate D. sufficient 
5. People should be told about the things that threaten the safety of ______ so that they can avoid doing 
them. 
 A. the wild B. wildness C. wild life D. wildlife 
6. We need to preserve the ________ of wildlife because each species has an important role to play. 
 A. diversity B. atmosphere C. population D. nuclear 
7. The energy __________ by the windmill drives all the drainage pumps.
 A. that is producing B. which produces C. producing D. produced
8. Coal burning ________ a large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
 A. decreases B. reduces C. relaxes D. releases
9. Methane is a far more active ________ than carbon dioxide, but also one which is much less abundant in 
the atmosphere. 
 A. greenhouse damage B. danger area C. greenhouse gas D. greenhouse effect 
10. The local authorities were blamed ______ignored the pollution issues in the area
 A. About having B. on having C. for having D. before having
11. Toxic waste is an example of a ___________.
 A. pollutant B. polluted C. pollution D. unpolluted
12. The saola is also indirectly threatened by insufficient ____ to and investment in its conservation. 
 A. interest B. attention C. care D. treatment 
13. Loss of habitat and increased commercial hunt ________ the number of chimpanzees from 2 million to 
300,000 individuals. 
 A. reduced B. lessened C. weakened D. limited 
14. The world's biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, which makes wildlife _______.
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36. Global warming is among many factors that drive many species of animals to the _______ of 
extinction. 
 A. verge B. period C. corner D. bottom 
37. The loss of biodiversity has a serious ________ on the survival of wildlife and humans. 
 A. affect B. problem C. impact D. influential 
38. The success of wildlife preservation depends largely _________ people's awareness. 
 A. with B. of C. upon D. by 
39. Humans should try to maintain biodiversity as they _________ a lot from it. 
 A. achieve B. keep C. benefit D. attain 
40. Many of our medicines are derived _________ animals and plants. 
 A. of B. from C. by D. to 
41. Forests _________ humans with many valuable things. 
 A. give B. provide C. award D. bring 
42. Many measures have been taken to _________ people's awareness of conservation. 
 A. increase B. rise C. promote D. raise 
43. More wildlife _________ need to be built to save animals from extinction. 
 A. zoos B. parks C. reserves D. regions 
44. Global warming can _________ the ecological balance, bringing about terrible consequences. 
 A. destroy B. upset C. converse D. injure 
45. When can all animals be _________ from disappearance? 
 A. protected B. covered C. rescued D. poached 
46. In regions of volcanoes, houses should be built with _________ materials. 
 A. destroyed B. destructible C. indestructible D. destroying 
47. Toxic chemicals from factories are seriously _________
 A. contaminate B. contamination C. contaminated D. contaminating 
48. It has been proven that humans and animals are _________ and that one's existence must be closely 
linked with that of the other. 
 A. interdependent B. independent C. dependable cú thể tin cậy được D. dependent 
 (A) , (n) ng sống dựa vaof ng khỏc
49. _________ are trying to put a stop to the destruction of forests. 
 A. Conservation B. Conservationists C. Conserve D. Conservatives 
50. Conservation is a challenging job but we cannot _________
 A. give it on B. give it up C. put it on D. take it up 
51. _________ of his job as a forester is to take care of these trees. 
 A. Part B. Half C. Most D. All 
52. What needs to be done to save the animals that are _________ to extinction? 
 A. going B. nearly C. next D. close 
53. ____ is one of the causes of the extinction of the rhinos. 
 A. Losing habitat B. Habitat losing C. Lost of habitat D. Habitat loss 
54. Powdered rhino horn is said to be able to _________ people of their fever. 
 A. treat B. cure C. save D. rescue 
55. There is a decline _________ the number of all these endangered species. 
 A. on B. by C. in D. with 
56. A lot of _________ have been taken to reduce global warming and its consequences. 
 A. ways B. methods C. rules D. solutions
57. People think they can make a _________ with rhino horns. 
 A. fortune B. wealth C. property D. riches 
58. Jack has decided to _________ the time he spends watching television, thinking he can contribute to 
reducing global warming effects. 
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 A B C D
4. Global warming is a global emergency although it has caused abnormal climate change. 
 A B C D
5. In late October of 2012, the U.S. was struck by a devastated Atlantic storm in Hurricane Sandy, which 
was 
 A B
the deadliest and costliest to hit there that year. 
 C D
Fill in each blank with a suitable word or phrase from the box.
 cutting down energy sustainable eco-friendly household appliances
 greenhouse gases natural resources litter carbon footprint organic
1. People who drop __________ can be fined in some cities.
2. To conserve electricity, they are __________ on the central heating.
3. Ovens, irons, refrigerators, driers, etc. are __________ .
4. Hydrogenase airships offer an __________ means of transportation.
5. __________ tourism is environmentally responsible travel to natural areas.
6. Some __________ , such as natural gas and fossil fuel, cannot be replaced.
7. The ‘green’ housing community uses renewable __________ sources such as solar power.
8. __________ food is unadulterated food produced without artificial chemicals or pesticides.
9. __________ include chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide.
10. A __________ is the total amount of greenhouse gases that are generated by our actions.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, c, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase 
that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
 ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
We are probably all guilty at some point in our lives of not caring for the environment as much as we 
should. Perhaps we drop litter without thinking, or cause (1) ________ by using our cars when it’s not 
necessary. However, the real environmental (2)_________ are those big businesses which ignore the law. 
For many years now, (3) __________have attempted to protect the environment by making businesses 
responsible for making sure that the chemical they use don’t add to the (4) __________of the environment. 
The problem for businesses is that the (5) __________of the environment costs money, and businesses 
will always try to lower their costs if they can
1. A. damage B. pollution C. accidents D. trouble
2. A. agents B. crimes C. criminals D. doers
3. A. politicians B. politics C. parties D. residents
4. A. induction B. construction C. instruction D. destruction
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