Read the passage below and choose the best answer: You may use the telephone every day but how much do you know about it? The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Later he went to live in the USA. Bell was always interested in sound. He wanted to be able to send sound through a wire. He had a workshop in his house in America and did many experiments there. One day, he was doing an experiment in his workshop. He was careless and spilt some burning liquid onto his clothes. Talking into his telephone, Bell said, ‘Mr. Watson, I want you to come over here immediately, please.’ His assistant, Watson, was in another room far away from the workshop. However he heard Bell clearly on his own telephone. Quickly, he ran to Bell’s workshop. ‘Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said!’ Watson shouted excitedly. Bell had finally succeeded. He had invented the first telephone. Later other inventors made better one.

1. Which of the following is true?

Bell invented the telephone in Scotland.

Bell did only one experiment and he succeeded

Bell was the owner of a workshop in his house in America

Bell discovered the telephone in 1847

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2. Where did Bell settle down?

in Scotland

in the UK

in New Zealand

in the US

3. What did he have a great interest in?

music

sound

philosophy

physics

4. What did he do many experiments for?

To express feeling through musical instruments.

To hear his assistant's voice.

To give a request to his assistant

To send sound through a wire

5. What did other inventors do later?

Made telephones better.

Made telephones useless

Made telephones unpopular.

Made telephones disused.

Choose the words or phrases that best fit each of the blank spaces.

The Telephone

             You may use the telephone every day but how much do you know about it ? The telephone was (1) ____ by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847. Later he went (2)____ in the US. A.G. Bell was always interested (3)____ sound. He had a work shop in his house and did many (4) ____ there.

            One day, while he was doing an experiment in his workshop, he was careless and spilt some burning liquid onto his clothes. (5) _____ into his telephone. Bell said : ‘‘Mr. Watson, I want you to come over here immediately, please ’’. His (6) _____, Watson, was in another room far away (7) ____ the workshop. However, he heard Bell clearly on his own telephone. Quickly he ran to Bell’s workshop. “ Mr. Bell, I heard every (8) _____ you said ! ’’, Watson shouted (9) ____. Bell had finally succeed. He had invented the first telephone. Later other, (10) ______ made better ones.

1. A. invent               B. inventing             C. invented                D. to invent

2. A. to live               B. living                     C. live                       D. lived

3. A. into                   B. to                            C. in                            D. by

4. A. examples          B. samples                 C. work                      D. experiments

5. A. Talk                  B. Talking                  C. Talked                   D. To talk

6. A. worker              B. helper                    C. assistant                D. aider

7. A. from                  B. to                            C. by                           D. of

8. A. sound                B. word                      C. phrase                   D. sentence

9. A. excited B. exciting                 C. excitedly   D. excitingly

10. A. invent B. invention  C. inventing  D. inventors

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You may use the telephone every day but how much do you know about it? The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Later he went to live in the US. Alexander Bell was always interested in sound. He wanted to be able to send sound through a wire. He had a workshop in his house in America and did many experiments there. One day, while he was doing an experiment in his workshop, he was careless and spilt some burning liquid onto his clothes. Talking into his telephone, Bell said: “Mr. Watson, I want you to come over here immediately, please.” His assistant, Watson, was in another room far away from the workshop. However, he heard Bell clearly on his own telephone. Quickly, he ran to Bell’s workshop. “Mr Bell, I heard every word you said!” Watson shouted excitedly. Bell finally succeeded. He had invented the first telephone. Later other inventors made better ones.

1. When was the telephone invented ?

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Read the passage carefully then decide if the statements true or false.

We may use the telephone every day but how much do you know about it? The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Later he went to live in the USA. Bell was always interested in sound. He wanted to be able to send sound through a wire. He had a workshop in his house in America and did many experiments.

I. Read the following passage then choose the best answers below: (2,5ms)

You may use the telephone everyday but how much do you know about it ? The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Later he went to live in the USA in the 1870s. Bell was always interested in sound. He wanted to be able to send sound through a wire. He had a workshop in his house in America and did many experiments there.

One day he was doing an experiment in his workshop. He was careless and split some burning liquid onto his clothes. Talking into his telephone, Bell said “ Mr. Watson, I want you to come over here, please ”. His assistant, Watson, was in another room far away from his workshop. However, he heard Bell clearly on his own telephone. Quickly, he ran to Bell’s workshop. “ Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said ! ” Watson shouted excitedly.

Bell had finally succeeded. He had invented the first telephone. Later other inventors made better ones.

30. Alexander Bell invented the telephone in ...............

A. 1847 B. 1876 C. 1877 D. 1870

31. According to the first paragraph, Bell was ………..

A. Scotsman B. American C. Canadian D. Japanese

32. In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the word “ there ” refers to ………..

A. Bell’s house B. Bell’s living room C. Bell’s workshop D. Bell’s company

1. ………….was Bell’s assistant.

A. Watson B. Thomas Edison C. Christan Andersen D. Carl Goldmark

2. What of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. When he was born.

B. When he emigrated to the USA.

C. When he invented the telephone.

D. When he died.

Exercise 1 : Đọc kỹ đoạn văn rồi điền từ còn thiếu vào chỗ trống mỗi câu.

You may use the telephone every day but how much you know about it. Alexander Bell invented the first telephone in 1876. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847 but later he decided to emigrate to America and taught in a school for the deaf-mutes . Bell was interested in sound , so he wanted to be able to send sound through a wire . He did many experiments with his assistant , Thomas Watson . Bell finally succeeded . He invented the first telephone . Later other inventions made better ones but the way the telephone works is still the same

1. In 1976 Alexander.................................................................................................

2. Bell was born in...........................................................1947

3. Bell wanted to be able to sen through a wire because he was...............................

4........................................was Bell’s assistant

Exercise 2 : Đọc kỹ đoạn văn rồi điền từ còn thiếu vào chỗ trống mỗi câu.

The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident . Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersy in 1876, where he established an industrial research laboratory . There, Edison was working on a carbon telephone transmitter to improve the exosting Bell telephone system

In that laboratory a year later, Edison invented the phonograph while he was trying to improve a telegraph repeater . He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in thetelegraph repeater ; in this way , he was able to reproduce a recording that could be played back. After he made some improvements to the machine, he tested it . He recited ‘‘Mary had a little lamb’’ into the machine and played his voice back to a very surprised audience

1. Thomas Edison moved to............................................................................1976

2. Thomas Edisom established an industrial research laboratory in....................................1976

3. He invented.............................while he was trying to improve a telephone repeater

4. The invention of the....................................................................by accident

Alexander Graham Bell, the American ⁽¹⁾ ……………… and teacher of the deaf, was most famous ⁽²⁾ ……………… his invention of the telephone. He was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He ⁽³⁾ ……………… to Canada in 1870 and to the United states in 1871. In the United States he began teaching deaf mutes, publicizing the system called visible ⁽⁴⁾ ………………. The system, which was developed by his father, the Scottish educator Alexander Melville Bell, shows ⁽⁵⁾ ……………… the lips, tongue and throat are used in the articulation of sound. In 1872 Bell founded a school for deaf – mutes in Boston, Massachusetts. The school subsequently became part of Boston University, ⁽⁶⁾ ……………… Bell was appointed professor of vocal physiology. He became a naturalized U.S citizen in 1882.

1. A. scientist                         B. doctor                           C. architect                        D. inventor

2. A. with                               B. of                                  C. for                                 D. about

3. A. departed                        B. emigrated                      C. sent                               D. left

4. A. message                         B. demonstration               C. information                   D. speech

5. A. how                               B. why                               C. which                            D. that

6. A. when                              B. what                              C. where                            D. All are correct

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. 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 far into the night experimenting with the electrical transmission of the sound. This led to the invention of the telephone.

TRUE/ FALSE

25. Alexander Graham Bell was a Scotsman.                                              ____________

            26. In Boston, he taught people who were not able to hear.                          ____________                       

27. He experimented with ways of transmitting sound by day.                    ____________

28. He moved with his parents to Canada in 1871.                               ____________                    

            29. When did he emigrate to the United States?

A. 1874                       B. 1867                       C. 1870                       D. 1871

30. Which of the followings is not used to describe Alexander Graham Bell?

A. dreamy                   B. practical                  C. active                      D. social

Read the following passage, and answer the questions.

Alexander Graham Bell is widely known as inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3^rd, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. With his colleague Thomas Watson, Bell worked very hard on the experimentation to invent devices such as the harmonic telegraph(used to send multiple messages over a single wire) andphonautograph (used to draw the shape of the sound waves). The first telephone communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telephone in other room. The first transmitted words were, ‘Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you’.

When was Alexander Graham Bell born?

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