Read the following passage and answer the questions

In the country of China, there is a wall that is 1,500 miles long. It is called the Great Wall of China. It winds uphill and down, through valleys and mountains. Every inch of this 1,500- mile wall was made by hand. The Great Wall of China is made many, many years ago. The people of China made it to keep out their enemies. There are watch towers all along the way. The Wall is made of brick and earth. It is high and wide on top. People can walk along the top as if it were a road. It is said that it took ten years to build one part of this wall. No other defense line has ever been made as long as the Great Wall of China.

Was the Great Wall made by hand?

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

        These days, most people in Britain and the US do not (22) ______ very formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing.

         Many British people don't think (23) ______ clothes very much. They just like to be comfortable. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts you can put on (24) ______ you like from elegant suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you (25) _____ clean and tidy.

         But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties, and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors, lawyers and business people wear quite formal clothes. And in (26) ______ hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women wear smart dresses.

Điền vào số (23)

A. on

B. at

C. to   

D. about 

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

        These days, most people in Britain and the US do not (22) ______ very formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing.

         Many British people don't think (23) ______ clothes very much. They just like to be comfortable. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts you can put on (24) ______ you like from elegant suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you (25) _____ clean and tidy.

         But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties, and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors, lawyers and business people wear quite formal clothes. And in (26) ______ hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women wear smart dresses.

Điền vào số (25)

A. looks 

B. look 

C. is looking 

D. has looked

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

        These days, most people in Britain and the US do not (22) ______ very formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing.

         Many British people don't think (23) ______ clothes very much. They just like to be comfortable. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts you can put on (24) ______ you like from elegant suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you (25) _____ clean and tidy.

         But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties, and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors, lawyers and business people wear quite formal clothes. And in (26) ______ hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women wear smart dresses.

Điền vào số (26)

A. one 

B. little 

C. a

D. some 

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

        These days, most people in Britain and the US do not (22) ______ very formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing.

         Many British people don't think (23) ______ clothes very much. They just like to be comfortable. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts you can put on (24) ______ you like from elegant suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you (25) _____ clean and tidy.

         But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties, and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors, lawyers and business people wear quite formal clothes. And in (26) ______ hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women wear smart dresses.

Điền vào số (24)

A. what 

B. why  

C. who  

D. whom 

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

        These days, most people in Britain and the US do not (22) ______ very formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing.

        Many British people don't think (23) ______ clothes very much. They just like to be comfortable. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts you can put on (24) ______ you like from elegant suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you (25) _____ clean and tidy.

         But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties, and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors, lawyers and business people wear quite formal clothes. And in (26) ______ hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women wear smart dresses.

Điền vào số (22)

A. sell

B. buy

C. wear

D. know

II. Read the following passage anf fill in the blanks with suitable words.

Language is a (1) .......of communication so each nation has its own (2).......However some nation have the same language. According (3)......the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or (4).......language. Among the languages used by most people in the (5)......is English. This doesn't mean that English is (6).....by greater number of speakers (7)........any other languages, for it is easily outnumberes by Chinese in this respect. However it is (8)........most international of languae because it provides ready access to the world scholarship and world trade. That is the (9)........why millions (10)....men and women try to master it.






III. Read the passage below and write T next to the true sentence; write F next to the false one

A LANGUAGE EVERYONE KNOWS

There is one language we all speak, no matter what country we live in; the language of numbers.

The language of numbers is called MATHEMATICS. You are learning it in school now. The simplest kind is called ARITHMATIC. In high school and college you will learnnother kind of mathematics. To help all of us with mathematics, machine have been invented. They let us do problems faster and with fewer mistake. We know that the abacus or countingboard was first of these machines. It was invented many thousands of years ago, but it is still being used in China, Japan and other countries. Today, computers are used all over the world. These computers seem to think. Of courae, they reallydon't. They do only what people tell them to do. But they do it much better and faster than a person. Inside m acomputer may look very confusing to you. But the people who run it know just what to do. They can make a computer store up facts and give them to other people. They can make it slove hard problems and help us to live better. Like people all over theo world, these machines speak the same language : NUMBERS

1. ....... The simplest kind of mathemaitcs is Arithmetics

2. ....... In high school and college you will learn arithmetic.

3. .......Machines do problems faster than men.

4. .......The counting board is no longer being used in the world.

5. .......Computers were invented a thousand years ago.

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question below.

          By far the most important United States export product in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was cotton, favored by the European textile industry over flax or wool because it was easy to process and soft to tile touch. Mechanization of spinning and weaving allowed significant centralization and expansion in the textile industry during

this period, and at the same time the demand for cotton increased dramatically. American producers were able to meet this demand largely because of tile invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793. Cotton could be grown throughout the South, but separating the fiber – or lint – from the seed was a laborious process. Sea island cotton was relatively easy to process by hand, because its fibers were long and seeds were concentrated at the base of the flower, but it demanded a long growing season, available only along the nation's eastern seacoast. Short-staple cotton required a much shorter growing season, but the shortness of the fibers and their mixture with seeds meant that a worker could

hand-process only about one pound per day. Whitney's gin was a hand-powered machine with revolving drums and metal teeth to pull cotton fibers away from seeds. Using the gin, a worker could produce up to 50 pounds of lint a day.   The later development of larger gins, powered by horses, water, or steam, multiplied productivity further.

          The interaction of improved processing and high demand led to the rapid spread of the cultivation of cotton and to a surge in production. It became the main American export, dwarfing all others. In 1802, cotton composed 14 percent of total American exports by value. Cotton had a 36 percent share by 1810 and over a 50 percent share

in 1830. In 1860, 61 percent of the value of American exports was represented by cotton. In contrast, wheat and wheat flour composed only 6 percent of the value of American exports in that year. Clearly, cotton was king in the trade of the young republic. The growing market for cotton and other American agricultural products led to an unprecedented expansion of agricultural settlement, mostly in the eastern half of the United States---west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River.

The word "favored" in line 2 is closest in meaning to

A. preferred

B. recommended

C. imported

D. included