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ĐỀ THI ANH VĂN NGÀNH THÔNG DỊCH VIÊN ANH-PHÁP 2009 –

2010 THỜI GIAN: 90 PHÚT

Discussion

1 Americans believe strongly in self-reliance and the freedom of individual At what age do young people become financially and emotionally independent from their parents in your country? At what age do they leave home?

2 Is it a good thing for 18-year-olds to leave their parents’ home to lead an independent life? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What

is your choice? As a parent would you like your children to leave home at 18?

3 Is it healthy for a young person to want to compete? Which is more important, competing or cooperating? Which does your culture value more? Why?

4 Choose one basic American value you find most influential in contemporary

Vietnamese society and analyze its effects on your life

5 Americans believe strongly in self-reliance and the freedom of individual At what age do young people become financially and emotionally independent from their parents in your country? At what age do they leave home?

6 Is it a good thing for 18-year-olds to leave their parents’ home to lead an independent life? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What

is your choice? As a parent would you like your children to leave home at 18?

7 Is it healthy for a young person to want to compete? Which is more important,

competing or cooperating? Which does your culture value more? Why?

8 Which American value are you most impressed?

Comprehension Check

True or False?

1 The United States has diversity just in its climate and geography

2 The United States has 48 states lying in the central of the North American continent

3 The two states were added to the United States in 1959 are not situated

in North

America

4 The American population is not only one of the world’s largest but also various in its origins

5 The largest minority group in the United States is the white

6 All the Americans speak English with the same accent

7 The Californians are not as conservative as the Mid-Westerners

8 Modern transportation and communication help erase all regional differences

9 It is impossible to make generalizations about the United States because

it is the land of diversity

10 The typical American is third- generation, Hispanic, urban, and rich

11 “No one should have to see America for the first time” means visitors need several visits to America to understand this very big and different land

Discussion

1 What different ethnic groups are there in your country? Where do they live? How are they different from the majority of people in your country: Language? Clothing? Food? Music? Customs? Tell about an

interesting custom or tradition of theirs

2 Would you like to live and work in multi-cultural environment? Discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of living in a country of great ethnic diversity like the USA

3 Would you like to work in a company of all-Vietnamese staff or one

of international staff?

Overview of U.S History Ten Periods of US History

1 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered North America

1500s - European settlers came to the new land for gold,

adventures, and freedom

1600s - The colonists lived under British laws

2 1775 - Americans in the thirteen colonies wanted to be free of

British rule General

George Washington led the colonists in the Revolutionary War

1776 - Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence,

and the colonies approved it

3 1783 - The American colonists won the war, and the colonies

became the United

States of America

1789 - The Constitution became the highest law of the land

1789 - George Washington became the first President

4 1840s - Millions of Europeans came to America as workers during

the Industrial

Revolution The new nation grew and added more states

1853 - The USA expanded to the Pacific Ocean

5 1861 - Americans fought against one another in the Civil War

between the North and the South

1863 - President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the

Emancipation

Proclamation

1865 - The northern states won the war, and the period of

Reconstruction began

6 1917 - The US grew to be one of the great powers in the world

The nation fought in the First World War

1920 - After the war women got the right to vote for the first time

7 1929 - The Great Depression began with the stock market crash

Banks, factories, and farms shut down, and many Americans were unemployed

1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt helped end the Depression with

the New Deal government

8 1941 - The United States entered the Second World War when

Japans attacked the

Hawaiian Islands

1945 - The war ended when the US dropped the first atomic bomb,

and the world entered the Nuclear Age

9 1950s - The US entered a time of Cold War America fought in the

Korean War

The Civil Right Movement began, and black and white Americans fought against segregation

10 1960s - The Space Age began Americans fought in the Vietnam

War The United

States put the first men onto the moon in the Apollo Program

1970s - The Women’s Liberation Movement became strong

1980s - Computers began to change the nation faster than ever before

Comprehension

Check

I/ Read the section “Overview of US History” and write the dates from the box

1853 1955 1969 1492 1776 1919 1789 1929 1863 1941

1 Columbus discovered North America

2 The colonies approved the Declaration of Independence

3 The Constitution became the law of the land

4 The United States expanded to the Pacific Ocean

5 President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves _

6 The First World War ended

7 The Great Depression began

8 The US entered the Second World War

9 The Civil Right Movement began

10 The US put the first man on the moon

II/ Read the section “Exploration and Colonization” True or False?

1 Christopher Columbus wanted to sail to India but discovered America

2 The Spanish explored South America to find gold and freedom of worship

3 Priests came to teach the Indians about Europe

4 The Pilgrim Fathers came to the United States because they wanted to give freedom of religion to everyone in the new land

5 The Pilgrim Fathers celebrated the first Thanksgiving to show thanks to the Indians for helping them

6 The British established the first permanent settlement in North America at St

Augustine, Florida

7 Native Americans are known as the “Indians”

8 Thirteen European settlements on the east coast became colonies of France and

Spain

9 Some of the settlers were friendly to the Indians and taught them about the land

10 The colonists killed many Indians for self defense

11 The people from Holland lived in New York before the British won control

12 Pennsylvania was named after a person, and so was Virginia

III/ Match the sentence parts Write the letters on the lines

1 The American colonies

had a

a) they couldn’t get rights from the

large amount of self

government because

2 England got control over

North

America because

British

b) they wanted to punish the

colonies for the Boston Tea Party

c) the colonists couldn’t send

3 The “Boston Tea

Party”

representatives to England to vote

occurred

because

on taxes

4 The English passed

even

d) the Mother Country was busy with

stricter laws

because

wars at that time

5 The colonies stopped

buying

e) the English won the French and

British goods and prepared

for war because

IV/ Multiple-choice

question

1 How many British colonies were there before the Revolution?

a

13

b

30

c

33

2 What was the Stamp Act?

a A battle in the

Revolutionary War b A

rebellion

c A

tax

3 Why did the colonists refuse to pay British taxes?

a Because they

was poor

b Because they already had a

lot of taxes

c Because they didn’t have a vote in the British government

4 Where did the Continental Congress meet in 1774?

Philadelphia

b In Washington,

D C

c In New

York

5 Where did the Revolutionary War start?

Philadelphia

Massachusetts c

In Virginia

6 What did Thomas Jefferson write?

a The Constitution of the

U.S

b The Articles of the

Confederation c The

Declaration of Independence

7 Where did the Revolutionary War end?

a In

Philadelphia

Massachusetts c

In Virginia

8 When did George Washington become the first U.S president?

a in 1776

b in 1789

c in 1781

V/ Put these events in the War of Independence in the correct order

The Revolutionary War started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord

The Constitution of the U.S was written and accepted by the people The Colonists protested British taxes in the Boston Tea Party

George Washington became the first president

The Revolutionary War ended with the battle of Yorktown

The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia for the first time

The Declaration of Independence was written and signed

Britain charged the colonists the tax in the Stamp Act

The Articles of Confederation set up a weak federal government

Overview of the History of Immigration

1 (1500s) There were about twenty-five million “native Americans”

(Indians)

living in North and South America

2 (1600s-1776) The English were the largest immigrant group to settle

in North

America They were farmers, fishermen, and traders

3 (1700s) At the time of the American Revolution, there were also many immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, and Poland Most of these settlers were Protestants

4 (1700s) The Spanish settled mainly in the Southwest, especially California They were managers, priests, and soldiers

Comprehension Check

I/ Choose the correct answers

1 Which of the following was not a characteristic of the dominant American culture during the early decade of the nation’s history?

a Catholic

a western

Europe b

middle class

2 Which of the following was true about the political bosses in northeastern cities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

a They were more afraid of new immigrants than were other

Americans b They were more cruel to new immigrants than

were other Americans

c They were more helpful to new immigrants than were other Americans

3 Today, ethnic groups in the US

a have no feeling of belonging to an ethnic group

b are assimilated into the dominant culture in varying degrees, often depending on how similar their culture is to the majority

c all feel much more a part of their ethnic group than a part of the dominant culture

4 In 1954, the US Supreme Court declared that African-Americans in the US

a could not be denied their right to vote for racial reasons