Read the paragraph and choose the most suitable answer A ,B ,C or D for each of the gaps.

I started (1)_______ English when I was 14 years old after five years of studying Russian. In the (2)_______ I encountered some difficulties learning the language, but I tried my (3)_______ to overcome them. Firstly, my English pronunciation was (4)_______ by the way I spoke Russian. To solve this problem, I practiced by listening to tapes in English every day. I played the tape, stopped after each sentence, and (5)_______ the sentence several times. At school, I joined an English speaking club (6)_______ was organised by a teacher from Britain. She understood my difficulty and helped me very much in improving my pronunciation. Secondly, I found it really hard to learn English vocabulary. In Russian, the way you write the word is the way you pronounce it. However, English spelling is often (7)_______ from its pronunciation. To get over this difficulty I started using the dictionary. Whenever I learnt a new word, I looked it (8) _______ carefully in the dictionary. Then I tried to remember the way to read and write the word. After that, I wrote the word down several (9)_______ in a notebook. Gradually, I got (10)_______ to the spelling system of the language. Now I’m confident that my English has become much better.

Question 1

A. getting

B.learning

C.writing

D.reading

1. My brother started playing football at the age of eight. (since)

- Mybrother  ...............................................................................

2. I began learning English when I was in grade 8. (since)

- I .....................................................................

3. They started working for this company five years ago. (for)

-They ........................................................................

4. We last played football two weeks ago. (for)

-We ..........................................................................................

5. They started building a supermarket near my house two months ago. (for)

-They ..............................................................................

6. The last time my sister bought me a gift was three months ago. (for)

-My sister .....................................................................

7. She began working for this French company when she left university. (since)

-She .............................................................................

8. My father last went abroad on business two months ago. (for) 

My father.......................................................................

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 Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space.
When Linh was younger, she liked to go to school (1) __________ than anything. She used to study every day and even tried harder when preparing for exams. In class, she listened attentively (2) __________ lectures and (3) ___________ her teachers’ questions perfectly. That was why she often performed well in exams and appeared in the list of “Top 10 Students” of the school. She was much (4) ___________ at learning languages than any (5) __________ subjects. At the age of fifteen, she could (6) ___________ two foreign languages, English and French, quite fluently. Her dream (7) __________ to become a successful diplomat. Unfortunately, her father died in a car accident when she was a first-year student at university. She had to quit school to help her mother (8) __________ care of her family. Nevertheless, she continued studying by (9) __________ and tried her best to graduate (10) ___________ the Institute of International Relations at the age of 30. She is now the director in the Department of Foreign Affairs. She says “the more I try, the more I see the meaning of life”.

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II. Read the text and answer the questions
I started learning English when I was only five years old at my parents' insistence. Back then, I thought it was a Waste of time but now in college being able to speak and understand English is helping me study better. Firstly, because of the supremacy of English - Speaking countries in science and technology, lots of science books and scientific study are published in English. Being a biology student, I’m glad to have English as my second language. Secondly, English is the “official” language of the Internet. More than half of the content on the Internet is written in English. If I didn’t understand English, I wouldn’t be able to use all these information for research and reference. Finally, researches show that learning a new language has improved problem solving skills and memory, Bilingual people like me tend to perform better academically.
1. What is the writer’s job?
…………
2. Why does the writer feel happy when he/ she was a bilingual person?
…………
3. Do you like living in the country where people speak English? Why?/ Why not ?
 …………

1. You shouldn’t go out now. It ________________heavily                            (rain)

2. My English teacher advises me to practice _________ every day.                (speak)

3. Binh and his friends become stamp___________ at the age of 12.               (collect)

4. Hoa has some _____________ in reading books in English.                        (difficult)

5. Minh doesn’t know how _____________ there in 15 minutes.                    (get)

6. Ba is good at repairing ___________appliances.                                (house)

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank.

I was very excited to know that I was going to Australia for a study tour (1)_______ four months. I didn't think (2)______ the problems of speaking English until I met my host family. At first, I couldn't communicate (3)_______ them because my English was so bad. All the eight years I had been learning English wasn't much used at all because we didn't have real practice at school. Even (4)_________ my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn't. My problem is pronouncing 'l' and 'n'. For (5) _______, I wanted to tell them that " I have lots of homework today ", but I said " I have note of homework today", so they misunderstood me. My host mum (6)_________ me a lot by correcting my bad pronunciation. I usually practised by talking to (7)____________ when I had a shower, so no one could hear me. After four months, my English was (8)_______ better. Apart from English, I learnt to make my (9)________ breakfast and lunch. I had to rice a bicycle to school every day. I went swimming and tired sailing. Sometimes I also tired skiing. It was wonderful. But (10)_____ most valuable thing was that I learnt to be by myself and to be independent.

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank.

I was very excited to know that I was going to Australia for a study tour (1)_______ four months. I didn't think (2)______ the problems of speaking English until I met my host family. At first, I couldn't communicate (3)_______ them because my English was so bad. All the eight years I had been learning English wasn't much used at all because we didn't have real practice at school. Even (4)_________ my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn't. My problem is pronouncing 'l' and 'n'. For (5) _______, I wanted to tell them that " I have lots of homework today ", but I said " I have note of homework today", so they misunderstood me. My host mum (6)_________ me a lot by correcting my bad pronunciation. I usually practised by talking to (7)____________ when I had a shower, so no one could hear me. After four months, my English was (8)_______ better. Apart from English, I learnt to make my (9)________ breakfast and lunch. I had to rice a bicycle to school every day. I went swimming and tired sailing. Sometimes I also tired skiing. It was wonderful. But (10)_____ most valuable thing was that I learnt to be by myself and to be independent.

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank.

I was very excited to know that I was going to Australia for a study tour (1)_______ four months. I didn't think (2)______ the problems of speaking English until I met my host family. At first, I couldn't communicate (3)_______ them because my English was so bad. All the eight years I had been learning English wasn't much used at all because we didn't have real practice at school. Even (4)_________ my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn't. My problem is pronouncing 'l' and 'n'. For (5) _______, I wanted to tell them that " I have lots of homework today ", but I said " I have note of homework today", so they misunderstood me. My host mum (6)_________ me a lot by correcting my bad pronunciation. I usually practised by talking to (7)____________ when I had a shower, so no one could hear me. After four months, my English was (8)_______ better. Apart from English, I learnt to make my (9)________ breakfast and lunch. I had to rice a bicycle to school every day. I went swimming and tired sailing. Sometimes I also tired skiing. It was wonderful. But (10)_____ most valuable thing was that I learnt to be by myself and to be independent.