Hobbies give people joy and there are lots of benefits to be had from developing one. They provide mental stimulation and can help people foster new aims. Greater fitness can be developed through active hobbies. When someone moves to a new town joining a club that is focused on a particular hobby is often suggested as a way to become part of the community.

A hobby offers the time and space to relax. Sporting hobbies such as golf, hiking or running allow people to get out into the fresh air. This has been shown to have real benefits for someone’s mental health. Exercise increases endorphins in the body which help people to feel good, but activities that make you sweat are not the only one that produce that feeling.

1. What is the benefits of hobbies?

A. People can have joy. B. People can join a club

C. People can have space D. People can have time

2. What is the suggestion for a newcomer to become part of the community?

A. Fostering new aims B. Joining a club that focuses on a particular hobby.

C. Offering the time and space to relax D. Providing mental stimulation

3. What is the benefits of sporting hobbies?

A. People can move to a new town B. People can join a club

C. People can enjoy fresh air D. People can run

4. What is the benefits of endorphins?

A. Endorphins help people to feel good B. Endorphins help people to feel sweat

C. Endorphins help people to feel run faster D. Endorphins help people to feel have avtive hobbies

5. What of following statements is "not" true?

A. Hobbies prodive mental stimulation B. Greater fitness can be developed through active hobbies.

C. Sporting hobbies have real benefits for someone's metal health D. Only sporting hobbies can make you fells good.

Hobbies give people joy and there are lots of benefits to be had from developing one. They provide mental stimulation and can help people foster new aims. Greater fitness can be developed through active hobbies. When someone moves to a new town joining a club that is focused on a particular hobby is often suggested as a way to become part of the community.

A hobby offers the time and space to relax. Sporting hobbies such as golf, hiking or running allow people to get out into the fresh air. This has been shown to have real benefits for someone’s mental health. Exercise increases endorphins in the body which help people to feel good, but activities that make you sweat are not the only one that produce that feeling.

1. What is the benefits of hobbies?

A. People can have joy.                 B. People can join a club

C. People can have space             D. People can have time

2. What is the suggestion for a newcomer to become part of the community?

A. Fostering new aims                   B. Joining a club that focuses on a particular hobby.

C. Offering the time and space to relax           D. Providing mental stimulation

3. What is the benefits of sporting hobbies?

A. People can move to a new town             B. People can join a club

C. People can enjoy fresh air                      D. People can run

4.  What is the benefits of endorphins?

A. Endorphins help people to feel good                   B. Endorphins help people to feel sweat 

C. Endorphins help people to feel run faster                 D. Endorphins help people to feel have avtive hobbies

5. What of following statements is "not" true?

A. Hobbies prodive mental stimulation                         B. Greater fitness can be developed through active hobbies.

C. Sporting hobbies have real benefits for someone's metal health                  D. Only sporting hobbies can make you fells good.

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Hobbies are activities in which one (31) …………strictly entertainment. They help one to maintain a mental and emotional balance. A hobby can be almost anything. Music is most popular. For example, many people all over the world play piano simply for (32) …………and fun in their free hours, and they do not play (33) …………

Sports provide other (34) …………hobbies. Bicycling, running, tennis, ping-pong, and countless other sports are (35) …………by millions of people during their leisure time.

Question 35:

A. enjoyed

B. participated

C. played

D. competed

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Hobbies are activities in which one (31) …………strictly entertainment. They help one to maintain a mental and emotional balance. A hobby can be almost anything. Music is most popular. For example, many people all over the world play piano simply for (32) …………and fun in their free hours, and they do not play (33) …………

Sports provide other (34) …………hobbies. Bicycling, running, tennis, ping-pong, and countless other sports are (35) …………by millions of people during their leisure time.

Question 32:

A. training

B. educating

C. earning

D. relaxing

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Hobbies are activities in which one (31) …………strictly entertainment. They help one to maintain a mental and emotional balance. A hobby can be almost anything. Music is most popular. For example, many people all over the world play piano simply for (32) …………and fun in their free hours, and they do not play (33) …………

Sports provide other (34) …………hobbies. Bicycling, running, tennis, ping-pong, and countless other sports are (35) …………by millions of people during their leisure time.

Question 34:

A. normal

B. strange

C. favorite

D. various

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Hobbies are activities in which one (31) …………strictly entertainment. They help one to maintain a mental and emotional balance. A hobby can be almost anything. Music is most popular. For example, many people all over the world play piano simply for (32) …………and fun in their free hours, and they do not play (33) …………

Sports provide other (34) …………hobbies. Bicycling, running, tennis, ping-pong, and countless other sports are (35) …………by millions of people during their leisure time.

Question 31:

A. play

B. knows

C. participates

D. enjoys

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Hobbies are activities in which one (31) …………strictly entertainment. They help one to maintain a mental and emotional balance. A hobby can be almost anything. Music is most popular. For example, many people all over the world play piano simply for (32) …………and fun in their free hours, and they do not play (33) …………

Sports provide other (34) …………hobbies. Bicycling, running, tennis, ping-pong, and countless other sports are (35) …………by millions of people during their leisure time

Question 33:

A. carefully

B. professionally

C. excellently

D. interestingly

Section III: Choose a suitable word below to fill in each blank in the following passage

activities / hard / ski / relaxation / valuable / spare / and / physical / anything /paint / for / Anyone / because / build / stamps / animals

A hobby can be almost .................... (1) a person likes to do in his .................... (2) time. People raise pets, .................... (3) model ships, weave baskets, or carve soap figures. They watch birds, hunt .................... (4), climb mountains, raise flowers, fish, .................... (5), skate and swim. Hobbyists also .................... (6) pictures, attend concerts and plays, and perform on musical instruments. They collect every thing from books to butterflies, and from shells to .................... (7).

People take up hobbies .................... (8) these activities offer enjoyment, friendship, knowledge and .................... (9). Sometimes they even yield financial profit. Hobbies help people relax after period of .................... (10) work. Hobbies also offer interesting .................... (11) for persons who have retired. .................... (12), rich or poor, old or young, sick or well, can follow a satisfying hobby, regardless his age, position, or income.

Hobbies can help a person’s mental and .................... (13) health. Doctors have found that hobbies are .................... (14) in helping patients recover from physical or mental illness. Hobbies give bedridden or wheel-chair patients something to do, .................... (15) provide interests that keep them from thinking about themselves.

Dịch

Everyone has a number of acquaintances, but no one has many friends, for true friendship is not common, and there are many people who seem to be incapable of it. For a friendship to be close and lasting, both the friends must have some very special qualities.

The first quality is unselfishness. A person who is concerned only with his own interests and feelings cannot be a true friend. Friendship is a two-sided affair; it lives by give-and-take, and no friendship can last lone which is all give on one side and all take on the other.

Constancy is the second quality. Some people do not seem to be constant. They take up an interest with enthusiasm, but they are soon tired of it and feel the attraction of some new object. Such changeable and uncertain people are incapable of a lifelong friendship.

Loyalty is the third quality. Two friends must be loyal to each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no suspicions between them. We do not think much of people who readily believe rumours and gossip about their friends. Those who are easily influenced by rumours can never be good friends.

Trust is perhaps the fourth quality. There must be mutual trust between friends, so that each can feel safe when telling the other his or her secrets. There are people who cannot keep a secret, either of their own or of others’. Such people will never keep a friend long.

Lastly, there must be a perfect sympathy between friends - sympathy with each other’s aims, likes, joys, sorrows, pursuits and pleasures. Where such mutual sympathy does not exist, friendship is impossible.