Đề kiểm tra số 1 môn Tiếng anh lớp 8 - Trường PTDT Nội trú Đăk R'lấp - Mã đề 326

II. Read the passage, then choose the correct answers (1.5 points)

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847, but when he was a young man of twenty-three he moved with his parents to Canada. Before the year was over, young Graham had left his family and gone to Boston, the USA. Although 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 far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of the telephone in 1876.

1. Alexander Graham Bell was ……………………………………….

A. born in the USA                              B. a Scotsman                         C. born in Canada

2. How old was he when he moved to Canada?                     A. 23                B. 24                C. 25

3. When did he emigrate to the United States?                      A. in 1874        B. in 1867        C. in 1870

4. In Boston, he taught people who ………………….…...? 

A. couldn’t learn         B. couldn’t hear          C. couldn’t see

5. When did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?  A. in 1847        B. in 1870        C. in 1876