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They usually stay in a small house or a flat by the sea, but sometimes they stay in a hotel.. It was great *Passage 2: Mary came from a rich family and was very pretty?. In her family,

I READING COMPREHENSION:

1 Read and complete:

*Passage 1:

Bobbi Brown (1) _ in New Jersey She is thirty-four and works (2) SKY TV in New York City She (3) on weekends, she only works at weekends She (4) _ famous people for an early

morning news programme called “The world this weekend” (5) Saturdays and Sundays she (6) _ at 3.00 in the morning because she (7) _ work at 6.30 She loves her job (8) it is exciting

1 A lives B works C leaves D walks 2 A in B at C for D on

3 A works B doesn’t work C is working D isn’t working 4 A is B talks C talks to D meets to

5 A in B on C at D Between 6 A works B gets up C starts D goes

7 A starts B does C goes D doesn’t 8 A but B when C and D because

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KEEPING OUR TEETH HEALTHY

How can we keep our teeth healthy? First, 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 to(22) that they are growing in the right

way.Unfortunately, many people wait until they have toothache before they see a(23) Secondly, we should brush our teeth with a(24) and fluoride toothpaste at least twice a day- one after breakfast and(25) before we go to bed We can also use wooden toothpicks to clean between our teeth(26) a meal Thirdly, we should eat food that is (27) for our teeth and our body : milk, cheese, fish, brown bread, potatoes, red rice, raw vegetables and fresh fruit Chocolate, sweets, biscuits and cakes(28) bad, especially when we eat(29) between meals They are

harmful(30) they stick to our teeth and cause decay

*Passage 7:

We all know that too much animal fat is bad (1)……… our health For example, Americans eat a lot of meat and only a small (2)…………of grains, fruit and vegetables (3)………their diet, they have high rates of cancer and heart disease In Japan, people eat large amounts of grains and very (4)…………meat The Japanese also have very low rates of cancer and heart disease and they live (5)…………than anyone else in the world When Japanese move to the United States, the rates of heart disease and cancer increase when their (6)………changes So, we should eat more grains, fruit and vegetables and eat (7)………… meat and fewer (8)………products.

1 a to

2 a numbers

3 a Instead

4 a much

5 a longer

6 a health

7 a much

8 a cereal

b at

b amount

b Instead of

b many

b shorter

b diet

b more

b healthy

c of

c kind

c Because

c little

c older

c energy

c less

c grain

d for

d product

d Because of

d few

d worse

d products

d fewer

d diary

2 Read and check True (T) or False (F):

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The ‘common cold’ is caused by viruses that infect the nose, throat and sinuses It’s most common during the cold winter months and affects children and adults for all ages Most people will catch a cold two or four times a year A cold often starts with feeling tired, sneezing, coughing, and having a runny nose You may not have a fever, or you may run a low fever There is no cure for the common cold Antibiotics don’t work against viruses All you can do to feel better is treat your symptoms Colds usually last about one week but can continue for as long as two weeks They usually go away on their own

1 People catch cold more often in the winter

2 The common cold mostly affects on young children

3 You may have a slight fever when you catch a cold

4 Antibiotics can cure the common cold

5 Colds usually go away in one or two weeks

3 Read and choose the best answer:

*Passage 1:

In the summer holidays, Mr Nam, Mrs Nga and their children, Mai and Hung often go to the beach for two or three days They always go to Vung Tau in the South of Viet Nam They rarely go to the North They usually stay in a small house or

a flat by the sea, but sometimes they stay in a hotel Last summer, they went to Nha Trang They stayed at the Sunshine Hotel for four days In the morning, Hung played soccer with his father on the beach Mai and her mother walked along the beach and built sand castles They visited Tri Nguyen Aquarium and saw different kinds of fish there They felt very comfortable when they came home It was a great holiday They also bought a lot of souvenirs for friends

1 Where does Lan`s family often go to on their summer vacation?

A to the beach B to the South C to Nha Trang D to the North

2 How long do they often stay there?

3 Where did they go to last summer?

A to the beach B to Vung Tau C to Nha Trang D to the North

4 What did Mai and her mother do in the morning? Thay

A played soccer B walked along the beach C built sand castles D Both B and C are correct

5 Did they enjoy their last year holiday?

A No, they didn`t B Yes, they did C It was terrible D It was great

*Passage 2:

Mary came from a rich family and was very pretty In her family, young girls usually spend their time going to parties until they married rich young men But Mary found parties boring; she wanted to be a nurse Finally, in 1850, when she was 30, her parents accepted her decision So she went to study in a hospital in Germany Soon she was asked to

go to the Japan to take care of the wounded soldiers Then she was in charge of a nursing-home for women in London

1 When was Mary born?

2 What was Mary like?

A She likes parties B She likes nurses C She was pretty D She was boring

3 How did girls in her family spend their free time?

A They often went to parties B They looked after the patients

C They went to study in hospitals D They took care of the sodiers

4 Did Mary like parties?

A Yes, she did B No, she didn`t C She found parties very expensive D She found parties boring

5 What did she do in Crimea?

A She got married there B She was in charge of a nursing-home

C She took care of the wounded sodiers D She became a nurse there

*Passage 3:

Thomas Edison was a famous scientist He was born in 1874 and died in 1931 He invented the electric bulb He also made the world’s first gramophone

When he was a boy at school, Edison asked a lot of questions The teacher thought he was stupid and sent him home Edison’s mother taught him at home and he began to carry out a lot of experiments He earns money for his experiments

by gardening Later, he worked on a train and continued to experiment there Unfortunately, in one of his experiments,

he set fire to the train

1 Thomas Edison was a famous………

2 How old was he when he died ?

A He was 81 years old when he died B He was 84 years old when he died

C He was 82 years old when he died D He was 83 years old when he died

3 He invented………

A the electric light bulbB the telephoneC the sewing machine D the television

4 His teacher thought he was………

5 Who taught him at home /

A His brother taught him at home B His father taught him at home

C His mother taught him at home D His sister taught him at home

4 Read and answer the questions:

*Passage 1:

On the summer vacation, Mr Hung, Mrs Lan and their children, Lan and Ba often go to the beach for two or three days They always go to Vung Tau in the south of Viet Nam They usually stay in a small house or a flat by the sea,

but sometimes they stay in a hotel Last summer they went to Nha Trang They stayed at the Sunshine Hotel for three days In the morning, Ba played soccer with his father on the beach Lan and her mother walked along the beach and built sand castles They visited Tri Nguyen Aquarium and saw different kinds of fish there They also bought a lot of souvenirs for friends

1 Where does Lan's family often go for their summer vacation?

2 How long do they often stay there?

3 Where do they usually stay ?

4 Where did they go last summer ?

5 What did Lan and her mother do in the morning ?

6 Did they visit Tri Nguyen Aquarium ?

*Passage 2: Today, there is a TV set in nearly every home People watch TV every day, and some people watch it from morning until night Americans watch TV about 35 hours a week But is TV good or bad for you? People have different answers Some say that there is a lot of violence on TV today, the programs are terrible and people don’t get any exercise because they only sit and watch TV Others think that TV programs bring news from around the world, help you learn many useful things, especial children Thanks to TV, people learn about life in other countries, and it helps people relax after a long day of hard work 1 Is TV very popular nowadays? Why? ………

2 How many hours do Americans watch TV a day? ………

3 Why don’t some people like watch tv? ………

4 What does TV bring to you? ………

5 What do you learn from TV? ………

*Passage 3: My name is John and this is my story Last year just before Christmas my family and our cousins and uncle and aunt decided to go to Perth for holiday We went in two cars but when we were about halfway there my uncle wanted to turn round and come back He said it was too far, and it was terrible hot too One day it was 480C Even at night, it was really hot Anyway, what we decided to do was to drive back about 160km to a place where the train went through Then we put both cars on the train and we all went to Perth by train That was fun It was a good train We had a good time in Perth but we had to cut our holiday short You see, while we were there my grandmother in Melbourne died Most of us flew back but my Dad and my uncle came on the train with the cars and then had to drive back to Melbourne from Port Pirie 1 When did John’s family go for holiday?

2 Why did John’s uncle want to come back?

3 In the end, how did John’s family go to Perth?

4 How did most of John’s family come back?

5 Who in John’s family had to go by train and car to Melbourne?

*Passage 4:

In British schools, there are lessons in the morning and in the afternoon Many children eat lunch at school

In this school, there are two kinds of soup and three main courses today There are also two desserts and a selection

of drinks

The food on this menu is very healthy There is salad and there are vegetables There aren’t any chips or crisps.

And there isn’t any ice-cream or chocolate!

Some children in British schools do not eat pork, and some children do not eat any meat These children choose a vegetarian meal Today, there is vegetarian pie or salad for these children

1 Where do British students have lunch?

2 What is the food in this school like?

3 What does the word “healthy” in line 5 mean?

4 How many main dishes are there today?

5 Why do some children choose vegetarian meal?

II WRITING:

1 Order the words to make meaningful sentences:

1 pineapples / ripe / the / either / bananas / aren’t / and /

aren’t / The

2 hear / latest / Teenagers / like / the / to / pop music

3 should / with / of / Children / be / age / their / people /

own

4 TV sets / ago / people / in / thirty / few / had / years /

very / Viet Nam

5 you / for / the / Why / teenagers / don’t / programs?

6 watching / prefers / to / brother / books / TV / My /

reading

7 can’t / the piano / Nhung / sister / play / and / her /

either / can’t

8 show / to / post office / can / me / the / you / the way /

nearest?

9 buy / stamps / mail / Hanh / some / overseas / need /

for / to

10 she / not go / yesterday / tired / Nga / school /

because / be / to

11 dentist / had / Minh / a / went / yesterday / because /

toothache / to / the / bad / he

12 at / his / looked / told / the / him / worry / to / not /

teeth / and / dentist

13 filled / cavity / in / dentist / week / his / a / tooth / last

/ the

14 they / scared / children / come / the / see / feel / when

/ to / most / dentist

15 have / you / would / What / for / dinner / like / to /

tonight?

16 either / can’t / Hoa / smell / can’t / her / durians /

aunt / the / and

17 must / it / good / you / spinach / very / but / wash /

for / is / you / carefully

18 ate / last / I / spinach / Mom / night / didn’t / but /

and / some / Dad

19 gave / the / Ba / some / doctor / make / him / to /

medicine / feel / better

20 in / busy / life / city / is / the / always

21 too / don’t / spend / time / much / your / of / video / playing / games

22 players / so / addictive / be / video / can / games / must / careful / be

23 should / take / children / in / outdoors / friends / part / activities / with

24 go / amusement / Children / to / shouldn’t / often / center / the

25 was / in / Uncle Ho / born / 1890 / Kim Lien / in / village / in

26 flowers / My father / for / beautiful / bought / me / some

27 lunch / Did / a food / for / stall / to / go / they?

28 tried / on / but / Hoa / didn’t / the dress / her / on / it / fit

29 how / to / My sister / sew / decided / clothes / to learn

30 talked / with Lisa / about / I / my vacation / Ha Noi / in

31 to / wash / iron / Remember / your own / and / clothes

32 on / dirt / Vegetables / often / farm / have / the / from / them

33 energy / Sugar / hungry / and / less / gives / you / feel

34 most / school / Walking / activity / is / popular / my /

at / the

35 ought to / my / I / homework / table tennis / before / finish / playing

36 dislikes / Hoa / crossing / most / street / the

37 General Giap / leading / People’s Army / the / famous / is / for / Viet Nam / of

38 was / Thomas Edison / in / 1847 / the USA / born / in

39 surface / Most of / water / the / world’s / is

40 What / kinds / programs / of / he / like / does?

2 Complete the sentences using the words given:

1 Nga / prefer / watch TV / read books

2 Cong Vinh / play / soccer / good

3 Children / be / scared / see / dentist

4 Nam / ought / go / bed / early

5 My brother / not / go / movies / last weekend

6 Jim / forget / brush / teeth / yesterday

7 Hoa / be / 14 / next birthday

8 Children / should / spend / much time / video games

9 Nga / not like / durians / and / I / like / either

10 Mr Tuan / would like / listen / music / free time

11 Nam / not go / school / yesterday / because / he / have / headache

12 My parents / not like / listen / radio

13 Mr Tuan / be / safe / cycle

14 Nga’s mother / write / sick note / her?

15 Linh / not go / school / last Wednesday / because /

she / have / bad cold

16 Hoa / measure / height / weight / the scale / moment

17 What / you / eat / drink / yesterday?

18 Nga / be / late / school / yesterday

19 Uncle Ho / become / President / Viet Nam / 1945

20 Most people / not have / TV set / 1960s

3 Make questions for the underlined parts:

1 The party will start at seven o’clock in

the morning

2 I’m talking to Mrs Nga

3 It’s five kilometers from our house to the

mountain

4 Her family name is Tran

5 They live at 83 Son Tay Street

6 The souvenir shop is in front of the book store

7 It’s five kilometers from my house to the

supermarket

8 It takes Mr Lan fifteen minutes to walk to work

9 We go to Ho Chi Minh City by train

10 Trung will mail his letter to Bruce, his pen pal

11 The stamps for your letter cost 8,000 VND

12 Minh needs a phone card because she wants to give

he parents a call

13 There are over 1,000 stamps in Nam’s collection

14 I’d like to buy some local goods

15 Tam phones his uncle twice a month

16 Minh brushes his teeth twice a day

17 Simon is in a lot of pain now because he has a

toothache

18 I felt sick after eating that food

19 Nga went to see the dentist last week

20 Dr Lai will check your teeth

21 It took Dr Phong 10 minutes to fill Van’s tooth

22 My brother is going to the hospital

23 Mr Cuong did morning exercises at 5.30 yesterday

24 Hoa received her aunt’s letter five days ago

25 There are twelve students in Lien’s class having toothache

26 My brother plays video games twice a week

27 We rarely eat out because it is far too expensive

28 Minh usually spends one hour on the computer games

29 Her son is going to invent a new game

30 There are thousands of books in the new public library

31 Hoa played tennis with her friends last weekend

32 It is only five hundred meters from Viet’s house to the arcade

33 They were in the l ibrary last night

34 The new electronic game costs two hundred thousand dong

35 Nga was scared when she crossed the road

4 Rewrite the following sentences:

1/ I like English better than History I prefer 2/ How much does she weigh?

How

3/ His brother cycles safely His brother

is

4/ How heavy are you?

What

5/ My sister is a slow cyclist My

sister

6/ My brother and I go to that school I go to that school

and

7/ You should clean your room You

ought

8/ How much does this computer cost?

How

9/ What is your daughter’s age, Mai? 

How

10/ Lan’s sister is a marvelous dancer She

dances

11/ I prefer books to films I

12/ His tooth hurts He has

13/ Nam speaks English well Nam is

14/ My brother / safe / cycle 

15/ My brother is a good soccer player He

16/ You should go to bed early  You ought

17/ Hoa and Lan go to the library Hoa goes to the library and

18/ How tall is your brother? What

19/ What is your home address? Where

20/ What’s the matter with you? What’s

21/ Minh likes playing soccer Minh is

22/ My mother likes walking better than cycling My mother prefers

23/ Why don’t we go to the beach this weekend? What about

24/ They really like to go to Nha Trang on their vacation They enjoy

25/ You shouldn’t stay up late You ought

26/ We will make a Sapa tour that lasts four days  We will make a

27/ My father is a careful driver My father drives

28/ Long is a bad swimmer Long swims………

29/ My brother cycles slowly My brother is………

30/ Mr Cuong plays table tennis well Mr Cuong is………

31/ Mrs Chi is a quick typist Mrs Chi types………

32/ Thoa sings smoothly Thoa is………

33/ Miss Lan is a fast runner Miss Lan runs………

34/ Mr Hung is a safe driver Mr Hung drives………

35/ Minh’s sister dances marvelously Minh’s sister is………

36/ Mrs Oanh cooks well Mrs Oanh is………

37/ Khanh is a fluent English speaker Khanh speaks………

38/ Nam likes playing soccer in his free time Nam is

39/ You should go to bed early  (imperatives) 40/ You should eat too much candy  (imperatives)