Use the correct form of the words in parentheses:

15. Loan is not satisfied with her...............for Christmas. (prepare)

16. How can we reduce water...............? (pollute)

17. We often go.................on the weekends (picnic)

18. I had a most...................experience this morning. (please)

19. What would be the most effecive means of............... our products? (advertise)

20. TV............ children to see how people around the word live and think (able)

We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with people all across the Earth. Profound and _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and _____ (MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already _____ (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who are able to _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to _____ (BANK) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

Q: We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with people all across the Earth. Profound and _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and _____ (MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already _____ (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who are able to _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to _____ (BANK) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

IX. Mỗi câu sau có một lỗi sai, gạch chân và sửa các lỗi sai đấy .

1. Ba and Song plays football every afternoon with Khai and me

2. We buy two new rackets yesterday. We are going to play tennis this afternoon

3. I’m not going to do the homework for you . you should do it itself

4. Our neighbors invited my friend and I to dinner with them

5. You should try your best learning hard to pass the exam

6. Bob lived in Rome for three years and he doesn’t want to move to other city

7. They write the meaning of new words by their mother tongue.

8 . How many countries will participate on the Olympic Games?

9. This job is a lot different with what I’m used to .

10. Not only the bathroom was flooded, and also the rest of the house

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 28

How the Internet Is Changing Our Language

There are words that we say today that 70 years ago weren’t even in (25) ____. If a person were to remark to a 1950s businessman, “Go and check this website out on the Internet and get back to me via Facebook,” the businessman would have no clue as to what had just been said. We know exactly what the words mean, though, so they (26) _____ perfect sense to us.

The problem that people are encountering today is the same as the 1950s businessman would have encountered - he would have come (27)____a word that would mean nothing because he lived in a world where Internet technology is changing and progressing today at an even faster (28)_____, and this is creating changes in the way we communicate. Our words are different, and even our means of (29) _______ those words across are different as well. Forget about a 60-plus year difference; we speak much differently than we did even 10 or 20 years ago.

A. step

B. pace

C. move

D. movement

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 26

How the Internet Is Changing Our Language

There are words that we say today that 70 years ago weren’t even in (25) ____. If a person were to remark to a 1950s businessman, “Go and check this website out on the Internet and get back to me via Facebook,” the businessman would have no clue as to what had just been said. We know exactly what the words mean, though, so they (26) _____ perfect sense to us.

The problem that people are encountering today is the same as the 1950s businessman would have encountered - he would have come (27)____a word that would mean nothing because he lived in a world where Internet technology is changing and progressing today at an even faster (28)_____, and this is creating changes in the way we communicate. Our words are different, and even our means of (29) _______ those words across are different as well. Forget about a 60-plus year difference; we speak much differently than we did even 10 or 20 years ago.

A. have

B. get

C. bring

D. make