I. READING:

Read the passage carefully and then answer the question:

Nam had a wonderful holiday last summer. He was in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. He stayed at his uncle house for three weeks. He visited a lot of interesting places such as Uncle Ho's Mausolium, Ba Dinh Spuare, West Lake, Lenin Park. He bougth some postcards forhiss friends and a cap with a natonal flag on it. Nam liked the cap much. He wore it all day. When he returned to Ho Chi Minh City, he spoke to his friends about his vacation.

Answer the questions:

1/ where was Nam on his last summer holiday?

2/ How long did he stay in Hanoi?

3/ Where did he visit there?

Write true (T) or false (F):

1/ Nam visited many interesting places in Hanoi.

2/ Nam didn't stay at his uncle house.

III) WRITING:

Do as dorected in parentheses

1/ Hoa was absent from class yesterday because he had a bad cold

(Write question for the underlined words)

2/ They arrived home ..... the evening ( Fill in the blank with correct preposition )

3/ They were happy with their life. ( Change into Interrogative from )

4/ You must brush your teeth ( regular ) ( Complete the sentence with correct from )

26 - 35. Choose the word or phrase among a, b, c or d that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

Last summer Paul went (26) _____ holiday for two weeks to the island of Sardinia. He (27) _____ in a hotel which had a wonderful swimming (28) _____ and beautiful views of the sea. It was in a village where the local people went (29) _____ in the winter, and foreign visitors came in the summer.

Paul spent his (30) _____ day on the beach, but on the second day he felt very ill. First he was too hot, then he was too cold. He couldn’t understand why he felt (31) _____ that. So he went to see the local doctor, who was a very nice man, and (32) _____ English was excellent.

“Summer is a time when people often feel ill,” the doctor said. “It’s too hot for most of us! (33) _____ this medicine, and stay out of the sun.”

Paul took the doctor’s (34) _____ and stayed in his room for the rest of his holiday. He soon felt better. “(35) _____ a cheap holiday!” he thought happily.

26. a. to                               b. for                                c. on                               d. in

27. a. lived                          b. rented                          c. hired                           d. stayed

28. a. pool                           b. suit                               c. place                           d. pot

29. a. fish                            b. fishing                          c. to fish                         d. catch fish

30. a. one                            b. early                             c. first                             d. next

31. a. like                            b. as                                 c. so                                d. X

32. a. spoke                         b. an                                 c. who                            d. whose

33. a. Eat                            b. Drink                           c. Take                            d. Have

34. a. advices                      b. advice                          c. advise                         d. advises

35. a. How                          b. It                                  c. What                           d. That

Trả lời các câu hỏi.

Nam had a wonderful holiday last summer. He was in Ha Noi, the capital of Viet Nam. He stayed at his uncle house for three weeks. He visited a lot of interesting places such as Uncle Ho's Mausoleum, Ba Dinh Square, West Lake, Lenin Park, etc. He bought some postcards for his friends and a cap with a national flag on it. Nam liked the cap much. He wore it all day. When he returned to Ho Chi Minh City, he spoke to his friend about his exciting vacation.
1. Where was Nam on his last summer holiday ?
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2. How long did he stay in Ha Noi ?
​_________________________________________
3. Which places did he visit ?
​_________________________________________
4. What did he buy ?
​_________________________________________
5. Did he like the cap ?
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6. What did he do when he came back to Ho Chi Minh City.
​_________________________________________

Question VIII: Read the passage; Then choose the best answers.

... Smith did not explain the large ...1... he had shown in Magnan but sat thinking ...2... some minutes and then began to talk ...3... something else. About ten that evening I met Smith and he asked me up to his room ...4... coffee.  ...5... room looked nice with comfortable chairs. We talked a little and then he ...6... me his story.

" A long time ...7... I was young artist and came to France where I was traveling from place to place making sketches. One day, I met two French artists ...8... were also moving from place to place making sketches and I joined them. We were as happy ...9... we were or as poor as we were happy, as you like it."

"Claude and Carl-these are the names of those boys-were always in good spirits and laughed at poverty. We were very poor. We lived ...10... the money which we got from time to time for our sketches...."

1 A. interest B. to interest C. interested D. interesting

2 A. at B. of C. for D. up

3 A. in B. about C. for D. as

4 A. drink B. to drink C. drinking D. drank

5 A. Þ B. ¢ C. An D.  The

6 A. told B. said C. spoke D. asked

7 A. next B. up C. ago D. before

8 A. why B. whom C. whose D. who

9 A. as B. more C. than D. less

10 A. about B. in C. against D. on

. Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

  My husband and I had a problem about our holiday last year. I wanted to have a lazy seaside holiday because I was tired and needed to relax. I loved lying in the sun, drinking iced beer and reading a good book. But Robert liked  busy cultural holidays. He liked visiting art galleries. He hated sunbathing because he always went red, not brown. The travel agent tried to help us and suggested Greece. I said I love to sail to a quiet island, but of course Robert said he’d like to stay in Athens. It was easy to decide what to do,  we flew to Athens together, Robert stayed there and I traveled to the island of Kos!

27. Why did the author want to have a lazy seaside holiday?

A. She liked a busy holiday        

B. She was tired and needed to relax          

C. She always went red, not brown                               

28. The author liked  _____ .                                           

A.  sunbathing                             B. visiting museum’s                                  C. art galleries

29. What does the word ‘island’ in line 5 mean?

A. a piece of land with water all around it          

B. a high piece of land that is not as high as a mountain                  

C. a big area of salty water

30. Which of the following is not true?

A. Robert liked lazy seaside holidays

B. Robert wanted to stay in Athens    

C. Robert’s wife loved to sail to a quiet island             

31. Kos is _____ .

A. a city in Greece                      B. an island                        C. a place which has many island

32. What is the passage written about?

A. a problem about the holiday  B. a trip to Greece              C. a busy cultural holiday 

. Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

  My husband and I had a problem about our holiday last year. I wanted to have a lazy seaside holiday because I was tired and needed to relax. I loved lying in the sun, drinking iced beer and reading a good book. But Robert liked  busy cultural holidays. He liked visiting art galleries. He hated sunbathing because he always went red, not brown. The travel agent tried to help us and suggested Greece. I said I love to sail to a quiet island, but of course Robert said he’d like to stay in Athens. It was easy to decide what to do,  we flew to Athens together, Robert stayed there and I traveled to the island of Kos!

27. Why did the author want to have a lazy seaside holiday?

A. She liked a busy holiday        

B. She was tired and needed to relax          

C. She always went red, not brown                               

28. The author liked  _____ .                                           

A.  sunbathing                             B. visiting museum’s                                  C. art galleries

29. What does the word ‘island’ in line 5 mean?

A. a piece of land with water all around it          

B. a high piece of land that is not as high as a mountain                  

C. a big area of salty water

30. Which of the following is not true?

A. Robert liked lazy seaside holidays

B. Robert wanted to stay in Athens    

C. Robert’s wife loved to sail to a quiet island             

31. Kos is _____ .

A. a city in Greece                      B. an island                        C. a place which has many island

32. What is the passage written about?

A. a problem about the holiday  B. a trip to Greece              C. a busy cultural holiday 

III. Read the passage and do the exercise below

When Mr. Finch retired, he bought a small cottage in a seaside village. The cottage was built in 1588, but was in good condition. Mr. Finch was looking forward to a quiet life, but in the summer holiday, he got a shock.
Hundreds of tourists came to the seaside village and many of the tourists came to see it. From the morning till night, there were tourists outside the cottage. They kept looking through windows and many of them even went into Mr. Finch’s garden. This was too much for Mr Finch

A. Write True or False

1. .......... Mr Finch had bought the cottage before he tired.

2. .......... Mr Finch wanted a noisy life.

3. .......... A lot of tourists wanted to see the cottage.

B. Answer the questions

1. When did Mr Finch by the cottage?

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2. Was Mr Finch's cottage interesting?

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3. Did Mr Fich like the tourists to see his cottage?

III. Choose the answers that best fits the blank space in the following passage. (KHÔNG CHÉP ĐỀ) Making (1) _______ requires lots of wood pulp and the work of (2) _______ of workers. Many countries have had plans (3) ______ waste paper to save money and (4) _______ resources. In countries where there is the cooperation of the public, paper mills recycle as much as sixty percent of waste paper. Their simple work is to take away the ink, crush it up and make it into pulp again. For every ton of recycled newsprint, eight trees can (5) ______ saved. We can insist that the more paper people save, the more trees (6) ______ preserved.

1. A. paper B. books C. glass D. compost

2. A. one million B. million C. millions D. billion

3. A. recycles B. to recycle C. recycled D. recycling

4. A. natural B. nature C. naturally D. unnaturally

5. A. is B. are C. was D. be

6. A. am B. is C. are D. was 

Question 6: Read the following passage and choose the best answer. Write your answers in the numbered blanks provided below the passage. (20point)

In addition to the great ridges and volcanic chains, the oceans conceal another form of undersea mountains: the strange guyot, or flat-topped seamount. No marine geologist even suspected the  existence of these isolated mountains until they were discovered by geologist Harry H. Hess in 1946.   He was serving at the time as naval officer on a ship equipped with a fathometer. Hess named these truncated peaks for the nineteenth-century Swiss-born geologist Arnold Guyot, who had served on the faculty of Princeton University for thirty years. Since then, hundreds of guyots have been discovered in every ocean but the Arctic. Like offshore canyons, guyots present a challenge to oceanographic theory. They are believed to be extinct volcanoes. Their flat tops indicate that they once stood above or just below the surface, where the action of waves leveled off their peaks. Yet today, by definition, their summits are at least 600 feet below the surface, and some are as deep as 8,200 feet. Most lie between 3,200 feet and 6,500 feet. Their tops are not really flat but slope upward to a low pinnacle at the center. Dredging from the tops of guyots has recovered basalt and coral rubble, and that would be expected from the eroded tops of what were once islands. Some of this material is over 80 million years old. Geologists think the drowning of the guyots involved two processes: The great weight of the volcanic mountains depressed the sea floor beneath them, and the level of the sea rose a number of times, especially when the last Ice Age ended, some 8,000 to 11.000 years ago.

51. What is the author's main purpose in writing this passage?

A. To trace the career of Arnold Guyot.

B. To describe feature of the undersea world.

C. To present the results of recent geologic research.

D. To discuss underwater ridges and volcano chains

52. The word “conceal” is closest in meaning to which of the following?

A. Contain                 B. Erode                                C. Hide                       D. Create

53. The passage implies that guyots were first detected by means of________.

A. a fathometer                                                        B. computer analysic

C. a deep-sea diving expedition                            D. research submarines

54. The author indicates that Arnold Guyot________.

A. was Harry Hess's instructor                              B. invented the fathometer

C. named the guyed after himself                          D. taught at Princeton University

55. What does the passage say about the Arctic Ocean?

A. The first guyot was discovered there.

B. No guyots have ever been found there.

C. There are more guyots there than in any other ocean.

D. It is impossible that guyots were ever formed there.

56. The author states that offshore canyons and guyots have which of the following characteristics in common?

A. Both are found on the ocean floor near continental shelves.

B. Both present oceanographers with a mystery.

C. Both were formed by volcanic activity.

D. Both were, at one time, above the surface of the sea.

57. According to the passage, most guyots are found at a depth of________.

A. less than 600 feet.                                                           B. between 600 and 3,200 feet.

C. between 3,200 and 6,500 feet                            D. more than 8,200 feet

51. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “rubble”?

A. Fragments             B. Mixture                             C. Columns               D. Core

51. According to the passage, which of the following two processes were involved in the submersion of guyots?

A. Erosion and volcanic activity.

B. The sinking of the sea floor and the rising of sea level.

C. Mountain building and the action of ocean currents

D. High tides and earthquakes

60. According to the passage, when did sea level significantly rise?

A. In 1946                                                                 B. In the nineteenth century

C. From 8,000 to 11,000 years                              D. 80 million years ago