I. Therere ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them. Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little can speak it by the time they graduate. If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they have to do a conscientious effort by themselves as going abroad or taking English conversation classes in their private country. In Japan, grammar is emphasized too much at Japanese high school, and there is no balance with the speaking language. People study English mainly for passing exams. Theyre so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken English naturally very difficult. They should consider English more as a means of communication than of a science. I. Therere ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them. Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little can speak it by the time they graduate. If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they have to do a conscientious effort by themselves as going abroad or taking English conversation classes in their private country. In Japan, grammar is emphasized too much at Japanese high school, and there is no balance with the speaking language. People study English mainly for passing exams. Theyre so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken English naturally very difficult. They should consider English more as a means of communication than of a science. Mistakes Correction Mistakes Correction 1. young 2. little 3. practice 4. do5. as 1.youngsters youths 2. few 3. practical 4. make 5. likesuch as 6. private 7. speaking language 8. teaching 9. spoken English 10. than of 6. own 7. spoken language 8. taught 9. speaking English 10. than as
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Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little can speak it by the time they graduate If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they have to do a conscientious effort
by themselves as going abroad or taking English conversation classes in their private country In Japan, grammar
is emphasized too much at Japanese high school, and there is no balance with the speaking language People study English mainly for passing exams They're so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken English naturally very difficult They should consider English more as a means of communication than of
a science.
II There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Scientists have established that influenza viruses took from man can cause the disease in animals On addition, man can catch the disease from animals In fact, a great number in wild birds seem to carry the virus without show any evidences of illness Some scientists conclude that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom, a group that has been in the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease There is even convincing evidence showing that virus strains are transmitted from place on place and from continent to continent by migrating birds It is known which two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time The result of such recombination is a great vary of strains containing different H and N spikes This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus from a lower animal to produce an entirely new spike Research is underway
to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being Other possibility is that two animals influenza strains may recombine in a pig, for example, to produce a new strains which is transmitted to man.
III There're eighteen mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
English - The International Language
There are more than 3.000 languages on the world today, but only six are major languages of the world thirds of the world’s population speak those six languages More than 300.000.000 people speak English as their first and native language Another 300.000.000 speak it like a second language No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language Chinese is the only language with more speakers that English This is because of the huge population of China, more than one billion people English is the native or official language on one-five
Two-of the land area Two-of the world It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand In South Africa and India it is one of the office languages.
More people study English than any other language In many countries, textbooks in universities are of English Many universities classes are taught in English even thought the native languages is not English.
English is the language of international communication It is the language in international business, research, and science More than three-fourths of the world’s radio station use English More than half of the scientific and research journals are in English Most other language have borrowed many English words Why did English become the international language ? In the middle of the nineteenth century, French is the international language Then Britain became very powerful in the world England started colonies in North America and India in the nineteen century By 1990 England also had colonies in other parts of Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific The people in the colonies had to use English Slowly it become more important than French internationally After the Second world War, the United States became very powerful, and even more people began to learn English Is English a good international language ? It has more word than any other language The grammar is simpler than
in the other major languages However, English spelling is difficulty Foreigners all have trouble spelling English So do native speakers ! Since 1880, people have intented over fifty artifical language No one speaks them as a native language However, none of them has ever become popular Some people don’t want to study English, but it is the international language There is no way changing that now.
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Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little can speak it by the time they graduate If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they have to do a conscientious effort by themselves
as going abroad or taking English conversation classes in their private country In Japan, grammar is emphasized too much at Japanese high school, and there is no balance with the speaking language People study English mainly for passing exams They're so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken English naturally very difficult They should consider English more as a means of communication than of a science
II There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Scientists have established that influenza viruses took from man can cause the disease in animals On addition, man can catch the disease from animals In fact, a great number in wild birds seem to carry the virus without show any evidences
of illness Some scientists conclude that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom, a group that has been in the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease There is even convincing evidence showing that virus strains are transmitted from place on place and from continent to continent by migrating birds It is known which two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time The result of such recombination is a great vary of strains containing different H and N spikes This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus from a lower animal to produce an entirely new spike Research is underway to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being Other possibility
is that two animals influenza strains may recombine in a pig, for example, to produce a new strains which is transmitted to man
III There're eighteen mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
English - The International Language
There are more than 3.000 languages on the world today, but only six are major languages of the world Two-thirds of the world’s population speak those six languages More than 300.000.000 people speak English as their first and native language Another 300.000.000 speak it like a second language No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language Chinese is the only language with more speakers that English This is because of the huge population of China, more than one billion people English is the native or official language on one-five of the land area of the world It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand In South Africa and India it is one of the office
become more important than French internationally After the Second world War, the United States became very powerful, and even more people began to learn English Is English a good international language ? It has more word than any other language The grammar is simpler than in the other major languages However, English spelling is difficulty Foreigners all have trouble spelling English So do native speakers ! Since 1880, people have intented over fifty artifical
language No one speaks them as a native language However, none of them has ever become popular Some people don’t want to study English, but it is the international language There is no way changing that now
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IV There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
The word laser was coined as an acronym to Light Amplification by the stimulated Emission of Radiation Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy by themselves, without any outside intervention Stimulated emission is difference because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper published in 1917 However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus always would be much weak It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to make stimulated emission dominate They sought ways by which one atom or molecule could stimulate many other to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H Townes, then at Columbia University in New York Instead of working with light, however, he works with microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device he called a
“maser”, for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not completed until a couple of years laterly Before long, many other physicists were building masers and trying to discover to produce stimulated emission at even shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957 Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves At about a same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a series of notebooks Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application Three decade later, people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser.
V There're twenty mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Six year ago when I was a student, I was short for money So once a week I had to go home to see my parents and get a decent meal Although I had a good relationship to my mother, I never got in well with my father I could never live up to him high expectations of me One day I did a very terrible thing I stole some money of him I asked him if he could lend me ten pounds He refused to say he had already give me enough and it was time I became more responsible to money You know what it is as being a student I'd run out of money and wanted to take a girl away When he refused I accused him off being mean And we have had a terrible row
He left the house and I was so angrily that I stolen ten pounds from his wallet When he found in that the money was gone, he knew who had done it and banned me from the house Since then I have returned but he has never really forgiven me and still looked down on me for that I did My mother is very upset and I really try
to work towards creat a happy relationship with my father for our own sakes Half of me want to say: " Sorry, Dad" while the others half still thinks he is ridiculous in having kept this attitude up for so long
VI There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
At the age of sixty-five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a sery of novels for young people based in her early experiences on the American frontier Born in the state of Wiscosin in 1867, she or her family were rugged pioneers Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon to Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, return to Wisconsin in 1871, and travelling on to Minnesota and Lowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879 Because off this continuing moving, Wilder's early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room schools From age thirteen to sixteen she attended a school more regularly although she never graduated.
At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder They bought the small farm in the Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their live Their only daughter, Rose, who had become a nationally known journalist, encouraged her mother to write Serving like agent and editor, Rose negotiated with Harper's to
publish her mother's first book, Little House on the Big Woods Seven more books followed, each chronicling her
early life on the plains Written from the perspective of a child, they have remained popular to young readers from many nations Twenty years after her death in 1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they
had been translated into fourteen languages In 1974, a weekly television series, "Little House on the Prairie ",
was produced based on the stories from the Wilder books.
VII There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Trang 4MTV stands on Music Television It's a television channel dedicated into pop music It was born on 1st August
1981 in the United States Because of MTV's instant success on the US, the company expanded into other areas MTV Europe started operating on 1st August 1987 MTV Europe broadcast 24 hours a day from its London studios It can be seen in 33 countries and reach an estimated audience of 110 million viewers.
People of 19 different nationalities work at London headquarters, and they try to offer a mixture of music from all ever Europe The channel broadcasts in English but Germany provides the biggest number of viewers Currently, one five of the music is by German artists.
Most of TV output is video and concerts, but there is also a programme called Unplugged, where major artists play live and acoustic on front of a small studio audience.
In addition for music, the channel's programmes deal with new, movie information and comedy MTV has also broadcast special report on racism, immigration and unemployed teenager.
VIII There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
In the other hand, we sometimes do too much for someone else because we want to please them and then feel we have damaged our own interests in doing so When friends are involved we may find it difficulty to say
"no" when they ask us to do them a favour, but true friend should mean that we can say "no" without risk to relationship.
IX There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Our classes take place in three hours every morning from Monday to Friday The maximum class size is twelve or the average is ten We use modern methods of teaching then learning, and the school has a language laboratory, a video camera and recorders You will only be successful on improving your English, however, if you work hard and practise speak English as much as you can You will take a short test in English as soon as you arrive In this way, we can put you in a class at the most suitable level.
There are two classes at the Elementary level; one is for complete beginners and the others is for students who know only a little English, in both classes you will practise simple conversation In the class beginners the intermediate level you will have a lot of practice in communication in real-life situation because of we help you
to use the English you have previously learnt in your own country, You will also have the chance to improve your knowledge of English grammar and to build on your vocabulary.
X There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Advertising has come into existence for the beginning of period when people did not use the barter system, but bought and sold Before the inventions of newspapers, radio and television, merchant and salesmen used to shout or singing about things that they were selling Those who were hired to advertise things as that were called criers They even used musical instruments when crying about their wares Today, some vendors still
do so.
Nowadays, newspaper and magazines are full off advertisements which look attraction and sound interesting There is no channel on T.V or on the radio without advertisement Along the streets posters are installed for advertising with many eye-catching pictures In the store windows, goods at all kinds are displayed and available for every taste Computers have become the most modern device for advertising Customers even can buy things on using the internet.
XI There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
It is very importance to have healthy teeth Good teeth helps us to chew our food They also help us to look nice How does a teeth go bad? The decay begins in little crack in the enamel covering of the tooth This happens after germs and bits of food have collected there then the decay slowly spreads onside the tooth Eventually, poison goes into the blood, and we may feel quite ill
How can we keep our teeth healthy? Firstly, we ought to visit our dentist twice a year He can fill the small holes in our teeth before they destroy the teeth He can examine our teeth checking that they are growing in
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we should brush our teeth with a toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste at least twice a day - once after breakfast and once before we go to bed We can also use wooden toothpicks to clean between our teeth after a meal Third, we should eat food that is good for our teeth and our body: milk, cheese, fish, brown bread, potatoes, red rice, raw vegetables and fresh fruit Chocolate, sweets, biscuits and cakes are bad, especial when we eat them between meals They are harmful because they stick to our teeth and caused decay
XII There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
THE OLYMPICS
The word 'Olympics' comes from the name of a town Olympia in Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games
were always hold The first recorded Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C.; the Games took place every four year after that date until they were abolished by a Roman Emperor on A.D 394 It was not until 1875, when archeologists discovered the ruins of the Olympic Stadium in Greece, that interest in the Games were renewed Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French scholar and educator, proposed that the Games should be revived like an international competition to encourage both sport and world peace The first modern Olympic Games were held
in Athens in 1896 As their classical predecessors, the athletes were men only; women were admitted to the Games in 1900 For that time, the Games have been held at four-year in intervals as in ancient Greece How ever, Pierre de Coubertin's dream of world peace has not been realized The Two World Wars prevented those of 1916,
1940, and 1944 from being held.
The Olympic Games have been confined to amateur athletes despite few recent exceptions There are pressures
on the Olympic authorities to admit other professionals to the Games Such a step would damage the entire concept to the Olympics The following words appear on the Scoreboard in every Olympic opening: "The most important thing is not to win but to take part." In contrast, the aim of every professional is to win
XIII There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
A greatest impediment to free intercourse between nations is neither distance or the difference of mental habits, nor the opposition of national interests; it is simply the imperfect manner in that languages are usually acquired, and the lazy contentment of mankind to a low degree of attainment in a foreign tongue, when a much higher degree of attainment would be necessary with any efficient interchange of ideas It seems probable that much of the future happiness of humanity will depend upon a determination to learn foreign languages more thoroughly Foreigners do not open their mind to one who blunders about theirs meanings - their confidence is only to be won by a demonstration of something like equality in intelligent, and nobody can give proof of this unless he has the means of doing his thoughts intelligible, and even of assuming, when the occasion presents themselve, some what bold and authoritative tone
XIV There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Ever since humans have inhabited a earth, they have made use of various forms of communicate Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings have been in the form of oral speech When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign language in that motions stand for letters, words, and ideas Tourists, the deaf, and the mutes have had to resort to this form of expression Many of these symbol of the whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally, spelling, however, cannot.
Body language transmit ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally nor unintentionally A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking A nod signifies approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.
Others forms of nonlinguistic language can be found in Braille (a system of raised dots read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals Road maps and picture signs also guide, warm, and instruct people.
While verbalization is most common form of language, other systems and technique also express human thoughts and feelings.
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The loss of the jobs and persistent unemployment in the industrial countries are due mainly to changes in technology It is thought to be misleading to blame job losses on the shift of corporations from the industrial country to the third World.
The present technological developments has been compared to a Third Industrial Revolution The first coming in the 19th century, was characterized by the steam engine and the use of coal In the 1920 the second
emerged with the use of oil and the electro dynamo The third, the present one, is driven by computers,
biotechnology and informations technology.
However, there can be seen weaknesses in a newest of industrial revolutions The technology is advancing
so fast and productivity is rising so fast which we are left with a big problem Because of the loss in jobs, caused
largely by this new, technology, there will not be enough people with money to buy all these product.
Technology as definitely enhanced our standard for living, even our quality of life But as the capacity to
produce expands and the lack of purchasing power and consequent demand diminish, there can be overproduction and recession, and what happens to our standard of living?
XVI There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Deaf people can not sounds How do they “hear” words and talk ? Deaf people use American Sign Language (A.S.L) They talk with their hand Sometimes two deaf people talk to each others They both use A.S.L
Sometimes a person whose can hear interprets for deaf people The person listens to someone talk, and then he or she makes hand signs There are two kind of sign language One kind has a sign for every letter in the alphabet The person who spells every words This is a finger spell The other kind has a sign for every word There are about 5000 of these signs They are signs for verbs, things and ideas Some of these signs are very easily, for example, eat, milk, and house You can see what you mean Others are more difficult, for example, star, egg, or week People ffrom any country can learn A.S.L They use signs, not words, so they can understand people from other country A.S.L is almost like a dance The whole body talk American Sign Language is a beautiful
language.
XVII There're fifteen mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
It is not true which the British talk about the weather more than some other nations In many parts of the world the weather holds just as much fascination Part of fascination arises because of the weather in many parts
of the world is very difficult to forecast Because Britian is an island sandwiched among a large continient and a large ocean, slight changes in direction of winds in the Atlantic or movements in areas of high or low pressure can make a major different to our weather.
Most of the time our weather is remarkable But the last few years weather patterns have been causing so much trouble that it raises the question is the weather changing to such an extent that it amounts to a change on the climate ?
It is a question that it is very difficulty to answer The daily and weekly variations in weather is so great that it takes years of careful measurement to detect changes in the average weather for year to year, and to detect changes in the climate involves the worldwide application of a whole number of scientific investigation.
Howere, looking up the distant past and estimating what may happen in the future based on theoretical possibilities, it seems there are second possibilities The world could be slipping back towards another ice age But in the shorter term what man is doing may well lead for a heating up the planet which could delay, if not prevent, any forthcoming ice age.
It is suddenly and unexpected weather which made people wonder what is happening to our climate-like the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the vicious storm which swept southern England in Autumn 1987 The southern states of the USA are used to such storms, the southern part of Britain isn’t And when literally millions
of trees were uprooted and millions of pounds worth of damage was done to houses, farms and business, people wondered just what was going on It was probably the worst storm in south-East Britain for some 300 years.
I The passage below contains 11 mistakes (0) has been done for you as an example IDENTIFY and
CORRECT the other ten (1 p) 0 all complete > completely
Things started to go wrong as soon as we got to the hotel We were all complete exhausted after our long journey and looking forward to shower and a rest However, we found that our room has not ready, which was very annoy, although the manager was extremely apologetic While we were waiting, we asked about the excursions
to places of an interest which we had read about in brochure Imagine how we felt when we were told they had all cancelled! Apparently, the person responsible for organise them had left suddenly and had not been replaced
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Trang 7Then Sally saw a notice pinning to the door of the restaurant, saying it has closed for redecoration, and Peter discovered that the swimming pool was empty When we eventually got to our room we were horrified find that
it was at the back of the hotel, and we had a view of a car park, which seemed to be used as a rubbish dump We seriously began to wonder whether or not to stay.
II There is one mistake in each of the following sentences Find and correct it (10 pts)
1 Because the torrential rains that had devastated the area, the governor sent the National Guard to assist in the
clean-up operation
2 One of the most important things in life is a good health
3 The city has spent a big amount of money on crime prevention
4 Comparing with other countries, Libya spends a high percentage of income on education
5 People are now enjoying a higher level of living
6 In the United Kingdom women see their doctor on the average five times a year
7 Although Mark has been cooking for many years, he still doesn’t know to prepare French foods in the
traditional manner
8 When we arrived at the store to purchase the dishwasher advertise in the newspaper, we learned that all the dishwashers had been sold
9 After rising the flag to commemorate the holiday, the mayor gave a long speech
10 This time tomorrow I will lie on the beach, enjoying the sunshine
III In the following passage, some numbered lines contain a word that shouldn’t be there Tick (√) the sentences that are correct and write the words that shouldn’t be there in the numbered space (10 pts)
KEEPING YOUR DISTANCE
Personal space is a term that refers to the distance we like to
keep between ourselves and other people When someone we do not
know well gets too close that we usually begin to feel uncomfortable
If such a business colleague comes closer than 1.2 meters, the most
common response is to move away Some interesting studies have been
done in libraries If strangers will come too close, many people get up
and leave the building, others use to different methods such as turning
their back on the intruder Living in cities has made people to develop
new skills for dealing with situations where they are very close to
strangers Most people on so crowded trains try not to look at
strangers; they avoid skin contract, and apologize if hands touch by a
mistake People use newspapers as a barrier between themselves and
other people, and if they do not have one, they stare into the distance,
making sure they are not looking into anyone’s eyes.
Traditional, mental tests have been divided into two types Achievement
tests are designed to measure acquiring skills and knowledge, particularly
those that have been explicitness taught The proficiency exams required by
few states for high school graduation are achievement tests Aptitude tests
are designed and measure a person’s ability to acquire new skills but
knowledge For example, vocation aptitude tests can help you decide
whether you would do better like a mechanic or musician However, all
mental tests are in some sense achievement tests because they assumption
some sort of past learning or experience with certainly objects, words, or
situations The difference between achievement and aptitude tests is the
degree and intention use.
VI The passage below contains TEN mistakes Underline them and write the correct forms in the
numbered boxes (2, 5 points)
Trang 8Large animals inhabit the desert have evolved adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme hot One adaptation is to be light in color, and to reflect the Sun's rays Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a constantly body temperature Instead of try to keep down the body temperature inside the body, what would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degree Celsius have been measured in Grant's gazelles The overheated body cools down during the cold desert night, and indeed the temperature may fall unusual low by dawn, as low as 34 degrees Celsius in the camel This is a advantage since the heat of the first few hours of daylight absorb in warming up the body.
VII Find out and correct the mistake in each sentence Write your answer in the box (2,0 points)
Example: Thirty hours a week are a heavy work schedule Answer: B → is
3 The pituitary gland is a small endocrine gland at the base of the brain that releases many hormones and
regulates another endocrine glands A B
9 The viceroy butterfly, an insect that birds like to eat, has a color pattern similar to that of the monarch
IX From four underlined parts, choose the one that needs correction then correct it
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discussing → to discuss
1 A Geiger counter is an electronic instrument is used to measure the presence and intensity of radiation.
2 A dolphin locates underwater objects in their path by making a series of clicking and whistling sounds.
3 In spite of its small size, Europe had a great impact on world history than other continents.
4 Before she moved here , Alene has been president of the organization for four years.
5 That Marta's been chosen as the most outstanding student on her campus make her parents very happy.
6 My cousin composes not only the music, but also sings the songs for the major Broadway musicals.
7 Our civilization is so commonplace to us that rarely we stop to think about its complexity.
8 Ever since the world began, nations have difficulty in keeping peace with their neighbors.
9 Those of us who have a family history of heart disease should do yearly appointments with our doctors.
10 If one had thought about the alternatives, he would not have chosen such difficult a topic for a term paper.
X: The passage below contains 10 mistakes UNDERLINE the mistake and WRITE THEIR CORECT
FORMS in the space provided in the column on the right (0) has been done as an example.
The horse and carriage is a thing of the past, but love and marriage are still with us and still
closely interrelating Most American marriages, particular first marriages uniting young people,
are the result of mutual attraction and affection rather with practical considerations.
In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children Teenagers begin date in
high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social contacts Though young
people feel free to choose their friends from different groups, almost choose a mate of similar
background This is due partly to parental guidance Parents cannot select spouses for their
children, but they can usually influence choices by voicing disapproval for someone they consider
suitable.
However, marriages of members of different groups (interclass, interfaith, and interracial
marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater mobile of today's youth and the fact that
they are restricted by fewer prejudices as their parents Many young people leave their hometowns
to attend college, serve in armed forces, or pursue a career in a bigger city One away from home
and family, they are more likely to date and marry outside their own social group.
XI Read the text below and look carefully at each line Some of the lines are correct, and some have a
word which should not be there If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number If a line has a word
which should not be there, write the word by the number.
Cars became popular as a quick and comfortable way of getting around This is still true
when you will drive along a quiet country road or a modern motorway As far as getting
from one place to another in the city is concerned, it is a different story Whenever I
want to get up anywhere in a hurry, I leave the car at home and go on foot It often turns
out to be much more quicker I still make the mistake now and again of thinking the car
is an efficient means of a transport The other day my wife was feeling a bit under the
weather She had been having terrible headaches for some long time and she decided she
couldn’t take it any more and asked from me to give her a lift to the doctor, whose
surgery is in the center part of a town We live in a suburb in the old quarter of the city
and it is twenty minutes away on foot On the way back, however, it is all up hill and I
must to admit it can be exhausting, especially on a hot day Reluctantly I got the car out
of the garage and we set it off, muttering about the wonders of taxis My heart sank as
we hit the first traffic jam - I knew we were beginning a long journey.
XII There is one mistake in each of the following sentences Find and correct it.
1 I was the last person hearing about that accident
2 He objected for his secretary’s coming to work late.
3 This is the old furniture that isn’t worth kept.
4 For such an experience and able teacher, discipline was not a problem.
5 He looks remarkable like his father
6 Only by studying hard you can pass the final exam.
Trang 107 It was so bad weather that we couldn’t go out.
8 They are having the walls painting by the painters
9 Many people think that reading newspapers are very interesting
10 There is too many pollution in large cities
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Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little can speak it by the time they graduate If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they have to do a conscientious effort by themselves
as going abroad or taking English conversation classes in their private country In Japan, grammar is emphasized too much at Japanese high school, and there is no balance with the speaking language People study English mainly for passing exams They're so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken English naturally very difficult They should consider English more as a means of communication than of a science
II There're ten mistakes in this passage Find them and correct them.
Scientists have established that influenza viruses took from man can cause the disease in animals On addition, man can catch the disease from animals In fact, a great number in wild birds seem to carry the virus without show any evidences
of illness Some scientists conclude that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom, a group that has been in the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease There is even convincing evidence showing that virus strains are transmitted from place on place and from continent to continent by migrating birds It is known which two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time The result of such recombination is a great vary of strains containing different H and N spikes This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus from a lower animal to produce an entirely new spike Research is underway to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being Other possibility
is that two animals influenza strains may recombine in a pig, for example, to produce a new strains which is transmitted to man
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English - The International Language
There are more than 3.000 languages on the world today, but only six are major languages of the world Two-thirds of the world’s population speak those six languages More than 300.000.000 people speak English as their first and native language Another 300.000.000 speak it like a second language No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language Chinese is the only language with more speakers that English This is because of the huge population of China, more than one billion people English is the native or official language on one-five of the land area of the world It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand In South Africa and India it is one of the office
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become more important than French internationally After the Second world War, the United States became very powerful, and even more people began to learn English Is English a good international language ? It has more word than any other language The grammar is simpler than in the other major languages However, English spelling is difficulty Foreigners all have trouble spelling English So do native speakers ! Since 1880, people have intented over fifty artifical
language No one speaks them as a native language However, none of them has ever become popular Some people don’t want to study English, but it is the international language There is no way changing that now
Có hơn 3.000 ngôn ngữ trên thế giới hiện nay, nhưng chỉ có sáu ngôn ngữ chính của thế giới Hai phần ba dân số thế giới nói sáu ngôn ngữ Nhiều hơn 300.000.000 người nói tiếng Anh như ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ và mẹ đẻ của họ Một 300.000.000 nói nó giống như một ngôn ngữ thứ hai Không ai biết có bao nhiêu người nói nó là một ngôn ngữ nước ngoài Trung Quốc là ngôn ngữ duy nhất với những người nói rằng tiếng Anh Điều này là bởi vì dân số rất lớn của các Trung Quốc, hơn một tỷ người Tiếng Anh
là ngôn ngữ bản địa hoặc chính thức ngày 1-5 của diện tích đất của thế giới Đó là nói ở Bắc Mỹ, Anh, Australia, và New Zealand Ở Nam Phi và Ấn Độ là một trong các ngôn ngữ văn phòng
Ngày càng có nhiều người học tiếng Anh hơn bất kỳ ngôn ngữ khác Ở nhiều nước, sách giáo khoa trong các trường đại học có tiếng Anh Nhiều trường đại học các lớp học được dạy bằng tiếng Anh thậm chí còn nghĩ rằng các ngôn ngữ bản địa không phải là tiếng Anh.
Tiếng Anh là ngôn ngữ giao tiếp quốc tế Đó là ngôn ngữ trong kinh doanh quốc tế, nghiên cứu và khoa học Hơn ba phần tư sử dụng trạm phát thanh của thế giới Tiếng Việt English Hơn một nửa số các tạp chí khoa học và nghiên cứu bằng tiếng Anh Hầu hết các ngôn ngữ đã vay mượn nhiều từ tiếng Anh Tại sao Tiếng Anh trở thành ngôn ngữ quốc tế? Vào giữa thế kỷ XIX, tiếng Pháp là ngôn ngữ quốc tế Sau đó, Anh đã trở nên rất mạnh mẽ trên thế giới Anh bắt đầu thuộc địa ở Bắc Mỹ và Ấn Độ trong thế kỷ mười chín Đến 1990, nước Anh cũng đều có thuộc địa ở các vùng khác của châu Á, châu Phi và Nam Thái Bình Dương Những người dân ở các thuộc địa
đã phải sử dụng tiếng Anh Dần dần nó trở thành quan trọng hơn tiếng Pháp quốc tế Sau khi Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai, Hoa Kỳ đã trở thành rất mạnh mẽ, và có thêm nhiều người bắt đầu học tiếng Anh Là tiếng Anh một ngôn ngữ quốc tế? Nó có từ hơn bất kỳ ngôn ngữ khác Ngữ pháp đơn giản hơn trong các ngôn ngữ chính khác Tuy nhiên, chính tả tiếng Anh là khó khăn Người nước ngoài gặp khó khăn trong chính tả tiếng Anh Vì vậy, người bản xứ! Từ năm 1880, người ta có intented hơn năm mươi ngôn ngữ nhân tạo Không ai nói họ như một ngôn ngữ bản địa Tuy nhiên, không ai trong số họ đã từng trở thành phổ biến Một số người không muốn học tiếng Anh, nhưng nó là ngôn ngữ quốc tế Không có cách nào thay đổi đó tại.
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The word laser was coined as an acronym to Light Amplification by the stimulated Emission of Radiation Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy by themselves, without any outside intervention Stimulated emission is difference because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light
Albert Einstein was the first suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper published in 1917 However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus always would be much weak It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to make stimulated emission dominate They sought ways by which one atom or molecule could stimulate many other to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers
The first to succeed was Charles H Townes, then at Columbia University in New York Instead of working with light, however, he works with microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device he called a “maser”, for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not completed until a couple of years laterly Before long, many other physicists were building masers and trying to discover to produce stimulated emission at even shorter wavelengths
The key concepts emerged about 1957 Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote
a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves At about a same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a series of notebooks Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application Three decade later, people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept
of the laser
Các tia laser từ được đặt ra như là một từ viết tắt để khuếch đại ánh sáng bằng phát xạ kích thích của bức xạ Ánh sáng bình thường, từ mặt trời hoặc bóng đèn ánh sáng, được phát ra một cách tự nhiên, khi các nguyên tử hay phân tử có được loại bỏ năng lượng dư thừa tự, mà không có bất kỳ sự can thiệp của bên ngoài Cưỡng bức có sự khác biệt bởi vì nó xảy ra khi một nguyên tử hay phân tử nắm giữ năng lượng dư thừa đã được kích thích để phát ra như ánh sáng
Albert Einstein là người đầu tiên cho thấy sự tồn tại của phát xạ kích thích trong một bài báo được xuất bản vào năm 1917 Tuy nhiên, trong nhiều năm, các nhà vật lý nghĩ rằng các nguyên tử và phân tử luôn luôn có khả năng phát ra ánh sáng một cách tự nhiên và sự phát xạ kích thích do đó sẽ luôn luôn được nhiều yếu Đó không phải
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Người đầu tiên thành công là Charles H Townes, sau đó tại Đại học Columbia ở New York Thay vì làm việc với ánh sáng, tuy nhiên, ông làm việc với lò vi sóng, có một bước sóng dài hơn nhiều, và xây dựng một thiết bị mà ông gọi là một "maser", lò vi sóng khuếch đại bằng phát xạ kích thích của bức xạ Mặc dù ông nghĩ ý tưởng quan trọng vào năm 1951, maser đầu tiên đã không hoàn thành cho đến khi một vài năm laterly Chẳng bao lâu, nhiều nhà vật lý khác được xây dựng maser và cố gắng để khám phá ra bức xạ kích thích ở các bước sóng ngắn hơn nữa
Các khái niệm chính được xuất hiện khoảng năm 1957 Townes và Arthur Schawlow, sau đó tại Phòng thí nghiệm Bell Telephone, đã viết một bài báo phác thảo các điều kiện cần thiết để khuếch đại phát xạ kích thích của sóng ánh sáng nhìn thấy Tại cùng một thời gian, tương tự như ý tưởng kết tinh trong tâm trí của Gordon Gould, sau đó một nghiên cứu sinh 37 tuổi ở Columbia, người đã viết trong một loạt các máy tính xách tay Townes và Schawlow đã công bố ý tưởng của họ trên tạp chí khoa học, Physical Review Letters, nhưng Gould nộp đơn xin cấp bằng sáng chế Ba thập kỷ sau đó, người ta vẫn tranh luận về những người xứng đáng với tín dụng đối với các khái niệm của laser.
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Six year ago when I was a student, I was short for money So once a week I had to go home to see my parents and get a decent meal Although I had a good relationship to my mother, I never got in well with my father I could never live up to him high expectations of me One day I did a very terrible thing I stole some money of him I asked him if he could lend me ten pounds He refused to say he had already give me enough and it was time I became more responsible to money You know what it is as being a student I'd run out of money and wanted to take a girl away When he refused I accused him off being mean And we have had a terrible row He left the house and I was so
angrily that I stolen ten pounds from his wallet
When he found in that the money was gone, he knew who had done it and banned me from the house Since then
I have returned but he has never really forgiven me and still looked down on me for that I did My mother is very upset and I really try to work towards creat a happy relationship with my father for our own sakes Half of me want to say: " Sorry, Dad" while the others half still thinks he is ridiculous in having kept this attitude up for so long
Sáu năm trước, khi tôi còn là sinh viên, tôi đã ngắn với tiền bỏ ra Vì vậy, mỗi tuần một lần tôi đã phải về nhà để thăm cha mẹ của tôi và nhận được một bữa ăn khá Mặc
dù tôi đã có một mối quan hệ tốt với mẹ tôi, tôi không bao giờ có trong tốt với cha tôi Tôi không bao giờ có thể sống với anh ta kỳ vọng cao của tôi Một ngày, tôi đã làm một điều rất khủng khiếp Tôi đã ăn cắp một số tiền của anh ta Tôi hỏi ông nếu ông có thể cho vay £ 10 Ông từ chối nói rằng ông đã cung cấp cho tôi đủ và đã đến lúc tôi trở nên có trách nhiệm hơn đến tiền Bạn biết những gì nó như là một sinh viên Tôi muốn hết tiền và muốn một cô gái đi Khi ông từ chối, tôi đã buộc tội anh ta ra được có nghĩa là Và chúng tôi đã có một hàng khủng khiếp Ông rời ngôi nhà và tôi đã rất giận dữ rằng tôi bị đánh cắp £ 10 từ ví của mình
Khi ông tìm thấy trong số tiền đó đã biến mất, ông biết những người đã làm được điều đó và cấm tôi từ nhà Kể từ đó tôi đã trở lại nhưng anh chưa bao giờ thực sự tha thứ cho tôi và vẫn nhìn xuống tôi cho rằng tôi đã làm Mẹ tôi là rất khó chịu và tôi thực sự cố gắng hướng tới việc tạo một mối quan hệ hạnh phúc với cha tôi cho sakes của chúng ta Một nửa của tôi muốn nói: "Xin lỗi, cha" trong khi một nửa những người khác vẫn nghĩ rằng ông là vô lý đã giữ thái độ này quá lâu
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At the age of sixty-five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a sery of novels for young people based in her early experiences on the American frontier Born in the state of Wiscosin in 1867, she or her family were rugged pioneers Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon to Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, return to Wisconsin in 1871, and travelling on to Minnesota and Lowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879 Because
off this continuing moving, Wilder's early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room schools From age thirteen to sixteen she attended a school more regularly although she never graduated
At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder They bought the small farm in the Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their live Their only daughter, Rose, who had become a nationally known journalist, encouraged her mother to write Serving like agent and editor, Rose negotiated with Harper's to publish her mother's first book, Little House on the Big Woods Seven more books followed, each chronicling her early life on the plains Written from the perspective of a child, they have remained popular to young readers from many nations Twenty years after her death in
1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they had been translated into fourteen languages In 1974, a weekly television series, "Little House on the Prairie ", was produced based on the stories from the Wilder books