Exercise 1: Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part
1. A. museum | B. windsurfing | C. surround | D. diverse |
2. A. big | B. wish | C. fish | D. high |
3. A. thrilling | B. then | C. through | D. thread |
4. A. historic | B. exciting | C. island | D. firework |
5. A. calendar | B. celebrate | C. decorate | D. school |
Exercise 2: Choose the correct answer
1. People often clean and decorate their houses ________ Tet.
A. during
B. after
C. before
D. on
2. You ________ speak during the exam - it’s forbidden.
A. should
B. shouldn’t
C. must
D. mustn’t
3. Ha Noi is ____________ exciting than Viet Tri City.
A. much
B. much more
C. more much
D. only more
4. Tet is ___________ for family gatherings.
A. time
B. the time
C. a time
D. times
5. Many foreign visitors come to Ha Long Bay because of its natural ___________.
A. beauty
B. beautiful
C. pretty
D. wonder
6. Is it true that Ha Noi is __________ city in Viet Nam?
A. the large
B. largest
C. larger
D. the largest
Exercise 3: Put the verbs In brackets into the correct tense or form.
1.Vietnamese people ____________ (celebrate) the Lunar New Year every year.
2.This Tet, my family __________(not buy) Chung cakes. We will make them.
3.Look! Mr. Quang ___________ (repaint) his house to welcome Tet.
4.You shouldn’t ____________(wear) white clothes on the first day of Tet.
5.People spend a few days _______________(clean) their houses before Tet.
Exercise 4: Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D for each of the gaps to complete the following test
There are many Chinese festivals in Hong Kong. The Western New Year starts on the first day of January but the Chinese begin New Year on the first day of the first moon of the Chinese calendar. Before New Year's Day comes, people clean and decorate their houses, (1)_________a lot of traditional food and go shopping for presents and new clothes. New Year's Eve is the time (2) ________every family gathers its members together for dinner.
People (3) ___________ the New Year with a music performance and a firework display to light up the sky.
On New Year's Day, they visit their friends and relatives. The children get lucky money in red envelopes. Many people go to the (4) ___________ to wish for good health and good luck. Chinese people in Hong Kong celebrate the New Year with (5)________and happiness.
1. A. take | B. bring | C. cook | D. sell |
2. A. when | B. after | C. before | D. during |
3. A. meet | B. see | C. end | D. celebrate |
4. A. houses | B. pagodas | C. family | D. camps |
5. A. hopeful | B. hopeless | C. hope | D. hoping |
Exercise 5: Read the following passage, and decide the statements below are True (T) or False (F).
On Christmas Eve, everything is hurried and busy. Offices and public buildings close at one o'clock, but the shops stay open later. Most big cites, especially London, are decorated with colored lights across the streets and enormous Christmas trees. The trains, and buses are crowded with people traveling from all parts of the country to be at home for Christmas.
In the homes, there is a great air of expectation. The children are also decorating the house with colored lights. Christmas cards - with the words "Merry Christmas to You" or "Wishing You a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year", or "With the Compliments of the Season", etc. - are arranged on shelves, tables, and sometimes hung around the walls.
Meanwhile, the housewife is probably busy in the kitchen getting things ready for the next day's dinner. The Christmas turkey is being prepared, the pudding is inspected and the cake is got out of its tin.
In small towns and villages, one may still see carol-singers who come and stand in front of the house and sing or play Christmas carols. They collect money in a Christmas box. The money collected is to help old people.
l. The shops close at one o'clock on Christmas Eve.
2. Colored lights are decorated across streets in big cities.
3. People expect to be at home on Christmas Eve.
4. Trains and buses are almost empty on Christmas Eve.
5. Colored lights are also decorated at homes.
Exercise 6: You the following set of words and phrases to write complete sentences.
1. People/ decorate/ homes/ plants/ flowers.
__________________________________________________
2. They/ visit/ relatives/ friends/ they/ exchange/ New Year's wishes.
__________________________________________________
3. Many people/ go/ pagoda/ have/ happy year/ their family.
__________________________________________________
Exercise 7: Write the following sentences, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same.
1. Antarctica is colder than any other places in the world.
Antarctica is __________________________________________.
2. My father has a plan to repaint our house before Tet.
My father ____________________________________________.
