I Fill in the gaps with is , am , are was or were

Dear Diary .

My family and i ...................................Just back from a amazing holiday in the Bahamas . We had a great time ! The weather ......................fantastic , it ..............................really hot and sunny .My family and i .............................. so happy ther . I know it ............ not that long ago but i .......................already missing the sun and the sea , especially today because the weather .................cold here . On the other hand os course , it ......................nice to be back home with all my friends

read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct but some have a word which should not be there.

A THANK- YOU LETTER

Dear Angie,

I am writing to say how much I enjoyed staying with you and your

family, and to thank you for your hospitality. I have had a good flight

home, and my parents and sisters were waiting at the airport to meet

me. There was so much news to tell to them that we stayed up talking

until long after the midnight! They were extremely interested to see

through all my photographs, especially the ones of you and yourr family.

I have been trying to persuade them to visit England in next year so that

they can meet you. I know you would all get on with very well together.

I must say that it's nice to be home again and speaking my own

language, but I'm afraid I may forget all the English I had learnt while

I was staying with you . So I'm planning to write to you regularly

as a way of practicing. I'm sure of I'll make lots of mistakes and it

would be helpful if you could correct the worst ones.

Please write soon. I'm looking forward to your news.

Write a second sentences so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use the word in the brackets.

VD : There were lights on the spacecraft. (had)

The spacecraft had lights on it.

1. I had my old coat on. (wearing)

2. I was on holiday, and you were on holiday, too. (we)

3. It isn't true that I made a mistake.

4. The boys were in the middle of a game of cards. (playng)

5. No one told me about the change of plan. (know)

6. My friend was the winter of the competition. (won)

7. Is it a fact that the Romans built this wall ? (did) 

Dear Grandma and Grandpa,

               Thank you both for the wonderful wedding present. Both Jill and I have always wanted to go to France and visit the many museums. We were so shocked when we first saw the airplane tickets that we almost fainted! It was more than we could have hoped to receive airplane tickets to France as a wedding present! Paris is wonderful! The only trouble is trying to decide where to go. I want to go to the museums, but Jill wants to see more of the beautiful traditional churches. In the end, we decided to see the churches in the morning (when the weather is cool), and the museums in the afternoon (because they’re air-conditioned). This allows us to get the most sight-seeing done during our two-week stay. There are many coffee shops, too. Jill likes sitting outsite and watching people, but I like sitting inside where I can enjoy the smell of the coffee. French coffees are so much more aromantic and stronger than the coffee we are used to back home. Thanks again for the lovely trip! We sent you a postcard, but I think we will arrive back home before you get it. It is a picture of the Eiffel Tower.

Love,

Freddy and Jill

1. What did Freddy’s grandparents give him and Jill for a wedding present?

        A. Tickets to a museum  B. A cake              C.Some coffee               D. A trip to France

2. Based on this letter, which of the following could be inferred?

        A.   Freddy and Jill hate to travel.

        B. Freddy is an indoor person, and Jill is an outdoor person.

        C.   Freddy is an outdoor person, and Jill is an indoor person.

        D. Both Freddy and Jill are indoor people.

3. Why did they decided to visit the museum in the afternoon?

        A. The art is better in the afternoon.

        B. They could get a discounted price in the afternoon.

        C. The museums are closed in the mornings.

        D. The weather is hot and the museums have air conditioning.

4. How long was their trip?

        A. The reading does not say      B. One week         C.Two weeks                           D. One month

5. Freddy likes sitting inside the coffee shops………………………….

        A. because he enjoys the smell of French coffee.B. because it often rains outside.

        C. because it’s too cold to sit outside.                    D. because he likes to enjoy the music

Điền từ vào đoạn hội thoại sau (news, letter, moon, people,nothing, experience,wood noise, picnic, silence,wekkend,birthday )

thank you very much for your ..(1)..which arrived this morning.it was really my turn to write as you say but i seems to have so little ..(2).these days i mean life goes on as always and nothing special seems to happen .Last(3) ...was fun,though .As you nay remember it was daisy's..(4).last saturday and she wanted to do something different.Instead of the usual party at home,she decided to have a midnight..(5). in glover wood.We all met at a cafeteria had a few drinks and then went on down to the(6)...fortunately there was a bright (7)....so we were able to make our way there without much trouble.As you can imagine there was a great deal of messing about when we got there ..(8)..shouting and chasing each other around.But when we started eating,the...(9). died down.It was then that we suddenly became aware of the stillness of the night and although it sounds odd to say so the...(10) seemed even louder than the noise we had been making before.All in all it was an unforgettable.(11).. im sure daisy's picnic will be talked about for some time.Well...(12) more to tell you just now hope to see you at christmas

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.

TEACHING IN INDIA

by Elise Cooper

  ‘Elise in India’. That was the name of my blog last year when I took a year out between school and university. I was lucky enough to get a teaching job abroad through an international organization. I was going to work in a school attached to a children’s home in north-west India. There were eight of us on the week-long introduction course in the capital, Delhi. As well as advice and ideas for teaching we were given information about health and local customs, and learned a few essential phrases in the local language.

  Another course member, Lucy, was coming to the same school as me and we were both nervous when we set off on the 15-hour bus ride to the children’s home. I had worked as a classroom assistant before, but here I wouldn’t be much older than some of my pupils. How would I manage? My worries disappeared once we reached the home. Our rooms were on the top floor above the girls’ bedrooms and from the window we looked out across flat fields full of fruit trees and could just see the snow-covered mountain tops in the distance.

  There were 90 children in the home, aged between five and 20. In addition there were a small number of pupils who came in each day from the area around. Although they were a little shy to start with, they were so keen to ask us questions that we quickly became friends.

  Lucy and I taught four lessons a day, mainly spelling, reading and general knowledge. We had a textbook but since it wasn’t very exciting, we tried to make the lessons more interesting with activities and games. This wasn’t always easy: there was a mixture of ages in each class because pupils had begun their education at different times. Like schoolchildren everywhere, they didn’t always behave perfectly in class. However, they used to send us notes apologizing afterwards, or thanking us for an interesting lesson, so we didn’t really mind.

  The best fun came after school, though. We spent many happy hours playing games or football or just chatting with the children. On Friday afternoons, Lucy and I were in charge of sport, which had just been introduced at the school. Trying to organize fifty children into cricket teams is something I’ll never forget. Another of my memories is playing in goal for a boys’ football game. Even though Lucy and a group of little girls joined in as extra goalkeepers, we still managed to let the other side score!

  I was terribly sad to leave. I felt I had learned as much as - if not more than - my pupils from the experience.

According to the text, the pupils in each class that Elise taught were _____________.

A. at the same age

B. at different ages

C. all older than her

D. all adolescents

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.

TEACHING IN INDIA

by Elise Cooper

  ‘Elise in India’. That was the name of my blog last year when I took a year out between school and university. I was lucky enough to get a teaching job abroad through an international organization. I was going to work in a school attached to a children’s home in north-west India. There were eight of us on the week-long introduction course in the capital, Delhi. As well as advice and ideas for teaching we were given information about health and local customs, and learned a few essential phrases in the local language.

  Another course member, Lucy, was coming to the same school as me and we were both nervous when we set off on the 15-hour bus ride to the children’s home. I had worked as a classroom assistant before, but here I wouldn’t be much older than some of my pupils. How would I manage? My worries disappeared once we reached the home. Our rooms were on the top floor above the girls’ bedrooms and from the window we looked out across flat fields full of fruit trees and could just see the snow-covered mountain tops in the distance.

  There were 90 children in the home, aged between five and 20. In addition there were a small number of pupils who came in each day from the area around. Although they were a little shy to start with, they were so keen to ask us questions that we quickly became friends.

  Lucy and I taught four lessons a day, mainly spelling, reading and general knowledge. We had a textbook but since it wasn’t very exciting, we tried to make the lessons more interesting with activities and games. This wasn’t always easy: there was a mixture of ages in each class because pupils had begun their education at different times. Like schoolchildren everywhere, they didn’t always behave perfectly in class. However, they used to send us notes apologizing afterwards, or thanking us for an interesting lesson, so we didn’t really mind.

  The best fun came after school, though. We spent many happy hours playing games or football or just chatting with the children. On Friday afternoons, Lucy and I were in charge of sport, which had just been introduced at the school. Trying to organize fifty children into cricket teams is something I’ll never forget. Another of my memories is playing in goal for a boys’ football game. Even though Lucy and a group of little girls joined in as extra goalkeepers, we still managed to let the other side score!

  I was terribly sad to leave. I felt I had learned as much as - if not more than - my pupils from the experience.

Elise and Lucy were responsible for teaching the following lessons EXCEPT _________.

A. general knowledge

B. spelling

C. reading

D. history

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

They call Jamaica the "Island in the sun" and that is my memory of it. Of sunshine, warmth and abundant fruit that was growing everywhere, and of love. There were two sisters ahead of me in the family, and though of course I didn't know it, there was an exciting talk of emigration, possibly to Canada but more usually to England, the land of opportunity. I guess that plans were already being made when I was born, for a year or so later my Dad left for London. Two years after that my mum went as well and my sisters and I were left in the care of my grandmother.

Emigrating to better yourself was a dream for most Jamaicans, a dream many were determined to fulfill. Families were close and grandmothers were an important part of the family. So, when the mass emigrations began, it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of families left behind.

Grandmothers are often strict, but usually also spoil you. She ran the family like a military operation: each of us, no matter how young, had our tasks. Every morning, before we went to school, we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they are full. My sisters had to sweep the yard before they went to school. My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these were passed down- as I got older I found this particularly annoying! But I can tell you, no one avoided their duties.

My Dad came over from England to see how we were getting on . He talked to us about the new country, about snow, about the huge city, and we all wanted to know more, to see what it was like. I didn't know it at that time., but he had come to prepare us for the move to England. Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she, too, was emigrating.

London was strange and disappointing. There was no gold on the pavements, as the stories in Jaimaica had indicated. The roads were busy, the buildings were grey and dull, with many tall, high-rise blocks. It was totally unlike Jamaica, the houses all small and packed close together. In my grandmother's house I had a big bedroom, here I had to share.

Then came the biggest shock: snow. While flakes came out of the sky and Dad smiled, pointed and said: "That's snow!" I rushed outside, looked up and opened my mouth to let the flakes drop in. The snow settled on my tongue and it was so cold that I cried. My toes lost all feeling. As my shoes and socks got wet and frozen, there came an excruciating pain and I cried with the intensity of it. I didn't know what was happening to me.

According to the writer, many people from Jamaica at that time ________.

A. wanted to be free from responsibility 

B. wanted to improve their standard of living 

C. had ambitions that were unrealistic 

D. dislike the country they came from

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

They call Jamaica the "Island in the sun" and that is my memory of it. Of sunshine, warmth and abundant fruit that was growing everywhere, and of love. There were two sisters ahead of me in the family, and though of course I didn't know it, there was an exciting talk of emigration, possibly to Canada but more usually to England, the land of opportunity. I guess that plans were already being made when I was born, for a year or so later my Dad left for London. Two years after that my mum went as well and my sisters and I were left in the care of my grandmother.

Emigrating to better yourself was a dream for most Jamaicans, a dream many were determined to fulfill. Families were close and grandmothers were an important part of the family. So, when the mass emigrations began, it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of families left behind.

Grandmothers are often strict, but usually also spoil you. She ran the family like a military operation: each of us, no matter how young, had our tasks. Every morning, before we went to school, we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they are full. My sisters had to sweep the yard before they went to school. My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these were passed down- as I got older I found this particularly annoying! But I can tell you, no one avoided their duties.

My Dad came over from England to see how we were getting on . He talked to us about the new country, about snow, about the huge city, and we all wanted to know more, to see what it was like. I didn't know it at that time., but he had come to prepare us for the move to England. Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she, too, was emigrating.

London was strange and disappointing. There was no gold on the pavements, as the stories in Jaimaica had indicated. The roads were busy, the buildings were grey and dull, with many tall, high-rise blocks. It was totally unlike Jamaica, the houses all small and packed close together. In my grandmother's house I had a big bedroom, here I had to share.

Then came the biggest shock: snow. While flakes came out of the sky and Dad smiled, pointed and said: "That's snow!" I rushed outside, looked up and opened my mouth to let the flakes drop in. The snow settled on my tongue and it was so cold that I cried. My toes lost all feeling. As my shoes and socks got wet and frozen, there came an excruciating pain and I cried with the intensity of it. I didn't know what was happening to me.

When the writer first went to London, he was disappointed because ________.

A. it was smaller than he expected

B. he had been given a false impression of it 

C. he had to spend a lot of time on his own

D. his new surroundings frightened him