I.                Fill in the blank with a suitable word                      The birth of YouTube

In 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two software designers from Silicon Valley in California, were invited to a dinner party. Several people had brought their camcorders to the party and these people were complaining about (1) ................................ difficult it was to share home videos online. That was when Chad and Steve came up (2) ................................ the idea for YouTube, the site which makes (3) ................................ easy to upload home videos onto the Internet. They formed a company, borrowed some money (4) ................................ set themselves up in business.

It turned (5) ................................ that millions of people already had short home video clips that they thought it (6) ................................be fun to share with other enthusiasts around the world.

Launched in December 2005, YouTube soon contained more (7) ................................ a million short video clips. People were uploading 8000 clips a day, and watching three million a day. They had mostly heard about the site through word (8) ................................ mouth, email and hyperlink, and eighty percent of the clips had (9) ................................made by amateurs.

So why was YouTube such an immediate success? Researchers found that, (10) ................................average, people were spending fifteen minutes on the site during each visit, which was (11)................................. time to view several short funny clips. In (12) ................................words, they were using YouTube to give them a little break from their work or study.

Long ago in Britain, people ........ go to wise old women .......... " witches" to learn about the future. They believed that these witches had the .......... to tell the future and to use magic words to protect people or change them. There were many beliefs about these witches, ............ are now a symbol of Halloween. For example, people belived witches flew on broomsticks to big, secret meetings ............. they ate, sang and ....... The Christians tried to stop people ......... believing in witches, but many uneducated people, especially in the countryside, hold on to their beliefs.

When people went to North America from the British Isles, they brought their Halloween customs with them. Today, Halloween is a night......... children dress up like ghosts, witches, devils and so on. They go from house to house in their..........., ring doorbells, and shout "Trick or Treat!". People give them candy, apples, gum and nuts and the children have a good time. But most children have ......... that their holiday has such a long history.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word to each of the blanks from 36 to 40.

Spelbound - A gymnastics group

      Two years ago a group of young gymnasts (36)_________ the small town of Ashford in Surrey travelled to London to take part in a competition that world change their lives forever. The competition was (37)_________Britam’s Got Talent, a show which encourages people from all over Britain to come and perform in front f a live audience if they think they have a talent people would like to see.

      The show attracts thousands of entrants each year. (38)_________of the few good performers get awarded with a place in the quarter finals, (39)_________are shown on live television.

      To compete in the final, Spelbound, as this group of young gymnasts is known, had to get through the qualifying round and two live knockout rounds in front of a TV audience of several million people. Even though they were just teenagers, Spelbound gave the performance of their lives and made it through.

      Most people thought a single would win the final of Britam’s Got talent but the public voted (40)_________Spelbound in their hundreds of thousands, and, much to the disbelief of its members, the group won. And so started an amazing journey for these young teens who got top perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Show and on a live tour of Brain with some of their fellow contestants.

Điền vào ô số 38

A. all

B. most

C. few

D. a little

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word to each of the blanks from 36 to 40.

Spelbound - A gymnastics group

      Two years ago a group of young gymnasts (36)_________ the small town of Ashford in Surrey travelled to London to take part in a competition that world change their lives forever. The competition was (37)_________Britam’s Got Talent, a show which encourages people from all over Britain to come and perform in front f a live audience if they think they have a talent people would like to see.

      The show attracts thousands of entrants each year. (38)_________of the few good performers get awarded with a place in the quarter finals, (39)_________are shown on live television.

      To compete in the final, Spelbound, as this group of young gymnasts is known, had to get through the qualifying round and two live knockout rounds in front of a TV audience of several million people. Even though they were just teenagers, Spelbound gave the performance of their lives and made it through.

      Most people thought a single would win the final of Britam’s Got talent but the public voted (40)_________Spelbound in their hundreds of thousands, and, much to the disbelief of its members, the group won. And so started an amazing journey for these young teens who got top perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Show and on a live tour of Brain with some of their fellow contestants.

Điền vào ô số 40

A. for

B. from

C. at

D. in

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word to each of the blanks from 36 to 40.

Spelbound - A gymnastics group

      Two years ago a group of young gymnasts (36)_________ the small town of Ashford in Surrey travelled to London to take part in a competition that world change their lives forever. The competition was (37)_________Britam’s Got Talent, a show which encourages people from all over Britain to come and perform in front f a live audience if they think they have a talent people would like to see.

      The show attracts thousands of entrants each year. (38)_________of the few good performers get awarded with a place in the quarter finals, (39)_________are shown on live television.

      To compete in the final, Spelbound, as this group of young gymnasts is known, had to get through the qualifying round and two live knockout rounds in front of a TV audience of several million people. Even though they were just teenagers, Spelbound gave the performance of their lives and made it through.

      Most people thought a single would win the final of Britam’s Got talent but the public voted (40)_________Spelbound in their hundreds of thousands, and, much to the disbelief of its members, the group won. And so started an amazing journey for these young teens who got top perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Show and on a live tour of Brain with some of their fellow contestants.

Điền vào ô số 37

A.call

 B. called

C. calling

D. to call

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word to each of the blanks from 36 to 40.

Spelbound - A gymnastics group

      Two years ago a group of young gymnasts (36)_________ the small town of Ashford in Surrey travelled to London to take part in a competition that world change their lives forever. The competition was (37)_________Britam’s Got Talent, a show which encourages people from all over Britain to come and perform in front f a live audience if they think they have a talent people would like to see.

      The show attracts thousands of entrants each year. (38)_________of the few good performers get awarded with a place in the quarter finals, (39)_________are shown on live television.

      To compete in the final, Spelbound, as this group of young gymnasts is known, had to get through the qualifying round and two live knockout rounds in front of a TV audience of several million people. Even though they were just teenagers, Spelbound gave the performance of their lives and made it through.

      Most people thought a single would win the final of Britam’s Got talent but the public voted (40)_________Spelbound in their hundreds of thousands, and, much to the disbelief of its members, the group won. And so started an amazing journey for these young teens who got top perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Show and on a live tour of Brain with some of their fellow contestants.

Điền vào ô số 39

A. which 

B. where 

C. when

D. that

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word to each of the blanks from 36 to 40.

Spelbound - A gymnastics group

      Two years ago a group of young gymnasts (36)_________ the small town of Ashford in Surrey travelled to London to take part in a competition that world change their lives forever. The competition was (37)_________Britam’s Got Talent, a show which encourages people from all over Britain to come and perform in front f a live audience if they think they have a talent people would like to see.

      The show attracts thousands of entrants each year. (38)_________of the few good performers get awarded with a place in the quarter finals, (39)_________are shown on live television.

      To compete in the final, Spelbound, as this group of young gymnasts is known, had to get through the qualifying round and two live knockout rounds in front of a TV audience of several million people. Even though they were just teenagers, Spelbound gave the performance of their lives and made it through.

      Most people thought a single would win the final of Britam’s Got talent but the public voted (40)_________Spelbound in their hundreds of thousands, and, much to the disbelief of its members, the group won. And so started an amazing journey for these young teens who got top perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Show and on a live tour of Brain with some of their fellow contestants.

Điền vào ô số 36

A. to 

B. from 

C. at

D. on

Read the following passage, and decide if these statements are true (T) or false (F).

Once upon a time there was a young girl called Cinderella. Cinderella was living happily with her family when her mother died. Her father married an evil widow with two daughters. Cinderella’s stepmother and two stepsisters mistreated her. She had to wear old clothes and work hard while the sisters wore fancy clothes and had fun. A good witch helped Cinderella. She turned Cinderella’s old dress into a beautiful gown. Cinderella went to a party and a handsome prince politely invited her to dance with him. He fell in love with her and wanted to find out who she was. Cinderella left the party in a hurry and didn’t tell the prince her name. but she left a glass slipper, and the prince used that to find her. They got married and lived happily ever after.

Question: Her stepmother and two stepsisters were very kind to her.

A. True

B. False

Some people never give up

My sister is a stunt woman in films where there are dangerous scenes. One day, however, she had a bad accident, and we didn’t know if she was going to pull (18)out or not. She jumped from a plane and was lost in a thick jungle. The rescue party had given (19)__________ their search for the night, but a group of local people came (20)__________ her completely by chance as they were picking bananas. She had landed in a tree and suddenly the branch she was on fell (21)__________ and she crashed to the ground exactly where the people were standing. She is OK now and as soon as she feels better, she will keep (22)__________ doing stunts like this one. She’s certainly not going to pull (23)__________ of doing stunts for a living!