VI. Fill in each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each
space. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
At the present time, gas and oil are expensive. Developing countries cannot export__(1)__
agricultural products and other raw materials to __(2)__ the fuel that they need to produce energy. At
the same time, petroleum supplies are limited, and in a __(3)__ decades they will run out. However,
the supply of sunlight is limitless, and most of the poor countries of the world are in the tropics
__(4)__ there is plenty of sunlight.
The photovoltaic cell__(5)__ a very important advantage. It is a clean source of energy. The
fossil fuels that we use today__(6)__ the main source of the pollution in our atmosphere.
It took only a decade __(7)___ scientists to know that solar energy from photovoltaic cell was
not just a dream. They have already __(8)___ that it can become an important source of energy. By the
end of the century, it will be cheaper to produce electricity with solar cells__(9)__ from petroleum.
The photovoltaic cell can be the solution to one of the __(10)___ serious problems in the world today.

VII. There us ONE mistake in each of the followings sentences. Find and underline the mistake and then write the correct one on the lines

Example: My cat are sleeping on the new mat                                     IS

1. My friend’s mother have long blone hair                                         __________

2. We do no go to the museum last weekend.                                      __________

3. There is four seasons in my country                                                __________

4. My sister will takes a boat trip around this island tomorrow             __________

5. Nam and Tom is going to fly kites after school today                      __________

READING AND WRITING

VIII. Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the correct word next to numbers 1 to 5. There is one example.

          It was Robet’s birthday yesterday. He wanted a toy which could take him through (0) Space but that’s very hard to find! He got up very early and ran downstairs to the chicken. No one was there and the house was very (1)____. “ This is strange” he thought. Then he saw an old mat on the table. He put it on the floor and stood on it carefully. Suddenly, it (2) ____ up into the air and took Robert through the clouds to a (3) ____ with lots of flags on top. It had a big door. Robert opened it and saw a lovely garden which was full of flowers. There was a lake there, too. A beautiful (4)____ swan on the water. There was a picnic with a birthday cake on the grass, too. He looked at it and saw his name on it! The mat stopped and Robert got off. He (5)_____ to eat the cake when, suddenly, he woke up! It was all a dream.

IX. Read the text. Choose the right word for each blank and circle the letter A,B,C or D. There is one example.

Many people visit zoos ......(0)........year. They go to zoos because they enjoy seeing animals and learning more about them. Animals from many different parts..........(1)................the world live there. You can usually see lions, tigers, elephants, camels and monkeys, and also fish, frogs and snakes. You can draw the animals or take photos of .............(2).............., and in some zoos you can watch videos, too. Sometimes you can ride elephants or camels. The people ..............(3)............. give the animals food have to work very hard .Every day they give them good and water and clean their homes. Some animals eat leaves, fruit and vegetables, ...........(4).......... others eat meat or fish. At London Zoo, there are also pets, like mice and rabbits, and farm animals, like sheep and goats. Children can play with these animals. Most animals are beautiful, but some of them can.............(5)...................dangerous.

1.A.on        B.of            C.to            D.at

2.A.him      B.us            C.it             D.them

3.A.who      B.which      C.whose      D.whom

4.A.and       B.or            C.but          D.if

5.A.being    B.be            C.is             D.are

VI. Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Write down the mistake and your corrections in the       spaces provided on the right. The first one has been done for you as an example. (10 pts)

Language is considered a significant means for communication in                                                                                                                  (0) ____ for_____  _____of _____

international relations. People in modern world have not longer been kept                                                                                                                  (1) ____________  ____________

to their own countries. Moreover, in older to keep pace with rapid scientific                                                                                                                  (2) ____________  ____________

developments nowadays, they must widen them cooperative relations with                                                                                                                  (3) ____________  ____________

those highly developing nations in other parts of the world. Due to the fact                                                                                                                  (4) ____________  ____________

that no one is unable to communicate with any natives in the world, it is                                                                                                                  (5) ____________  ____________

necessary for people to choose to learn a foreign language like a worldwide  (6)____________  ____________

common means of communication. That is why English has being chosen                                                                                                                  (7) ____________  ____________

by almost people to be a foreign language to master. More and more people                                                                                                                  (8) ____________  ___________

use English and the number of those who learns English as a foreign                                                                                                                  (9) ____________  ____________

language has been increasing so fast and that it is the highest nowadays.     (10) ____________  ____

Read the text carefully, then choose the most suitable answers (A, B, C or D).

Every day on radio, on TV, and in the newspaper, we hear, see or read about many problems in the world, for example, pollution problems.

Air pollution is the first kind. It mostly comes from fumes released from motorbikes, cars, airplanes, trains and poisonous gases emitted from factories. Also, waste is dumped anywhere, even in the city where many people are living. The second pollution problem is sea pollution. Many people earn their living from fishing in the sea, and the fish they catch feed many people. But the sea has become so polluted from oil spills and factory wastes that the fish are dying. This is not only killing the fish, but is also affecting those people who eat fish.

Seldom do you find a place nowadays that is not polluted. This problem is growing more difficult every day. We must find a good solution that makes the world a better place to live.

23. We hear, see and read about problems in the world _________

A. once a week             B. every day                

C. every week   D. every year

24. What causes the air pollution?

A. fumes from vehicles.                        

B. poisonous gases from factories.

C. waste from everywhere                                

D. All are correct

25. The sea has become polluted because of _________

A. oil spills                                                         B. factories wastes

C. smoke from factories                       

D. A and B are correct

26. In order to make the world a better place to live, we _________

A. should not prevent pollution              

B. must find a good solution.

C. should kill the fish.                                        

D. None is correct.

27. The word “This” in the passage refers to _________

A. pollution                                B. oil               

  C. factory                      D. sea

Each sentence has One mistake. Find the mistakes and correct them 1. Take the one turning on the left and the market is on your right 2. Travelling by tram is most c onvenient than travelling by car in this city 3. You must taking off your shoes before entering this room 4. She wants togo to HO CHI MINH city to begin her career as an singer 5. Playing football is one of the mo comon way of relaxing 6. Million of foreign visitors come to Viet Nam every year 7. Nam grandparents live in an old, house with his uncle and aunt 8. My best friend usually play che with her father 9. There are a big table and four chairs in the dining room 10. I ate noodles for breakfast but I wasn't eat anything for lunch. - Các cậu có thể làm giúp mình được không ? Mai mình nộp rồi !

VII. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with only ONE suitable word in each space. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

My wife and I have always enjoyed travelling ...................(1) sea, and last year we decided to go ....................(2) a Mediterranean cruise.  .................(3) our holiday was rather expensive we thought that the high standard of accommodation, the first-class food and the many interesting places we saw were well .....................(4) the price we paid.

We found that most of ......................(5) other passengers were friendly and interesting, but there was one man, a Mr James, who irritated and annoyed us, and not .......................(6) us but all the others who shared our table at dinner. Whatever subject we talked about, it seemed that he was an expert .......................(7) it. He ....................(8), apparently, read more books, visited more countries and studied more languages, than anyone ..........................(9). After a few days, we ate our meals in ..........................(10), because nobody wanted to begin a conversation that would soon be taken over by this man

VI. Read the passage. Circle A, B or C to answer each question or complete each sentence

       Everyday on radio, on TV, and in the newspaper, we hear, see or read about many problems in the world, for example, pollution problems. Air pollution is the first kind. It mostly comes from fumes released from motorbikes, cars, airplanes, trains and poisonous gases emitted from factories. Also, waste is dumped any where, even in the city where many people are living. The second pollution problem is sea pollution. Many people earn their living from fishing in the sea, and the fish they catch feed many people. But the sea has become so polluted from oil spills and factory wastes that the fish are dying. This pollution is not only killing the fish, but is also affecting those people who eat fish. Seldom do you find a place nowadays that is not polluted. This problem is growing more difficult everyday. We must find a good solution that makes the world a better place to live.

26. We hear, see and read about problems in the world ...............

A. every week                B. daily                 C. once a week      D. every year

27. What doesn’t cause the air pollution?

A. fumes from vehicles                 B. poisonous gases from factories

C. waste from everywhere                           D. oil spills          

28. The sea has become polluted because of ..........................

A. oil spills                                        B. factories wastes

C. A and B are correct                                 D. A and B are not correct

29. In order to make the world a better place to live, we ................................

A. should not prevent pollution                   B. should kill the fish.   

C. should find a good solution.                             D. None is correct.

30. We can learn from the passage that pollution problems are caused by…………?

           A.  people         B. Airplanes               C. wastes                   D. Newspapers

Fill in the numbered blanks in the passage with ONE suitable word from the box. Write your answers on the answer sheet. There is one extra word.

THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTERS

            Many of the things we do, depend (21) _______ receiving information from other people. Catching a train, (22) _______ a phone call or going to the cinema all involve information that is stored, processed and communicated. In the past, this information used to be kept on paper in the form of, for example, books, (23) _________ and timetables. Now (24)_________ and more information is put on  computers.

            Computers (25) _______ an important role in our every day lives. Consider the (26)________ of computers in both shops and offices. Big shops, especially chain stores with branches all over the country, have to deal with very large amounts of information. They have to make sure there are enough goods on the shelves for (27) ______ to buy. They need to be able to re-order before stocks run out, to decide which things are selling well  and so on. All these processes are (28) __________quickly and efficiently by computers.

IX. Read the passage below and choose the correct word to complete each numbered blank. Write your answers A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. (5 pts)

                               A POWERFUL INFLUENCE

There can be no (1) at all that the Internet has made a huge difference to our lives. Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet, hardly (2)   doing anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents are (3)   to find out why the Internet is so attractive, and they want to know if it can be harmful for their children. Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time (4)  their computers?

Obviously, if children are bent over their computers for hours, (5) in some game, instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong. Parents and children could decide how much use the child should (6) of the Internet, and the child should give his or her (7)    that it won’t interfere with homework. If the child is not (8)    to this arrangement, the parents can take more drastic (9)   . Dealing with a child’s use of the Internet is not much different from (10)   any other sort of bargain about behavior.