Read the text and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.

FOOD OF TYPICAL WET RICE COUNTRY

Vietnamese sometime wonder how westerners can eat bread days after days but the vice-versa also holds water. Most tourists coming to Vietnam are amazed at the omni-presence of rice and rice-related dishes.

Rice is an object for worshipping in many temples of Vietnam. It is said to originate from the Mother Godness Worshipping, the most long–standing belief in Vietnam. Yes rice is a big thing out here. The very first written characters constituting the word “Happiness” in ancient Vietnamese is the image of many rice plants and a square symbolizing a paddy field. Rice is not only happiness, it really forms Vietnamese.

Accordingly, many main dishes and snacks in Vietnam are made from rice: boiled rice in daily meal, rice porridge, steamed rice, glutinous rice cake, well-known Banh Chung (square cake) and uncountable made-from rice dishes from every region in Vietnam.

Even the universal Pho that you definitely hear about is made from rice as well. Rice is the center of everything, like a sun lying in the center of the whole solar planet.

Considering rice important, Vietnamese has been always developing their farming method and new rice genres. Many Vietnam rice varieties exported to all over the world are renowned for their distinctive flavor, yet only when coming to Vietnam and have boiled rice with soya sauce pickled egg-plants, your adventure to Vietnam is considered perfect.

Few tourists coming to Vietnam are amazed at the omni-presence of rice and rice-related dishes

A. True

B. False

Read the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) , or false (F)

Bau Truc pottery iems are made from clay from the Quao River mied with sand. Clay is collected from the river only once a year,each lasting for half a month. Clay is taken more or less depending on the ability of each person. In the clay collecting season,local people try to take as much clay as they can to store, for use in an entire year.

Currently,people in Bau Truc pottery village still make pottery items in the traditional way. They do not use the wheel but the craftsmen have to turn around the products.The potters shape their products by their skillful hands and feet around apole-round pillar, rather than on one wheel. From this step, silky clay block initially gradually forms a smooth rounded hollow block, then the formation of flower vases, or water pots.

Bau truc's craftsmen use wet cloths to make the products surface smooth. These items are decorated ith seashells, snails or hand-made paintings featuring the daily life of Bau Truc's people

1. Cay can be collected from the Quao River all the year round.

2. Bau Truc pottery is famous because people only use fine clay to make their products.

3. People still make the pottery in the traditional way.

4. Craftsmen shape thepottery items only with their hands and feet.

5. The pots nowadays are shaped on the pottery's wheel.

6. Craftsmen use simple ways to make the products surface smooth.

7. The craftsmen's skills can make the blocks of clay become lively and useful.

8. The desgins of Bau Truc pottery reflect the life of local people.

  Extra readings

Complete the article. Use the pharases below

A. burning fossil fuels for energy

B. leading to climate change

C. investing in renewable energy

D. beacaus it can't escape, it heats the planet

E. heating our homes, cooking our meals, etc

            THE CHANGING CLIMATE

  Problem

We use energy for almost everything we do: for (1)______. This use of energy is (2)_____ - the world is heating up. When (3)______, carbon dioxide is released. Carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat in the atmosphere and (4)______ Over the past thirty year, there has been a growing number of extreme weather events, such as floods. droughts and storms.

  Solution

We should protect our planet, by (5)_______. We should use sources of energy more wisely, for our future, and the future of the planet

Part I: Read the passage carefully and then decide if each of the statements is true (T) or false (F)  (1.0pt).

Bánh chưng is a traditional Vietnamese rice cake which is made from sticky rice, beans, pork and other ingredients. Its origin is told by the legend of Lang Liêu, a prince of the last king of the Sixth Hùng Dynasty, who became the success or thanks to his creation of bánh chưng and bánh giầy, which symbolized the Earth and the Sky. Vietnamese have the tradition of making bánh chưng for Tet Holiday. Bánh chưng is wrapped in banana leaves, which create the green colour outside it. It takes about 12 or 14 hours to boil bánh chưng in water.

Read the text again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

V. Read the passage and decide whether the following dtatements are true (T) or false (F).

Vietnamese people often have three meals a day – breakfast , lunch and dinner. People in the countryside usually have rice with meat or fish and vegetables for breakfast but people in the cities often have light breakfast with a bowl of Pho or instant noodles or sticky rice berofe going to work . For lunch , they often have rice, meat , fish and vegetables. People in the countryside often have lunch at home but people in the cities often have lunch at the canteens or at the food stalls. Most people prepare their dinner at home . They eat many kinds of meat , seafood,fish, fresh vegetables and rice. Many people say dinner is the main and the best meal of the day.