VII. 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.

THE HOPI OF ARIZONA

The Hopi live in the northwestern part of Arizona in the United States. With modern things all around them, the Hopi keep their traditions.

There are about ten thousand Hopi and they live in twelve villages in the desert. The weather is very hot in the summer, but in winter it freezes. The wind blows hard. Farming is difficult. Corn is the Hopi’s main food, but they plant vegetables, too. They raise sheep, goats, and cattle. They also eat hamburgers, ice cream and drink soft drinks. They live in traditional stone houses, but many of them have telephones, radios, and television. They have horses, but they have trucks too.

Kachinas are an important part of the Hopi religion. Kachinas are spirits of dead people, of rocks, plants, and animals, and of the stars. Men dress as kachinas and do religious dances. People also make wooden kachinas. No two wooden kachinas are ever alike.

The children attend school, and they also learn the Hopi language, dances and stories. The Hopi want a comfortable, modern life, but they don’t want to lose their traditions.

Question 21. The word “They” in paragraph 2 refers to __________.

 A:the Hopi           B:Women             C:Men                  D:Children

Question 17. The Hopi _____________.

A:want traditional things instead of modern ones

B:want modern things instead of traditional ones

C:don’t want to remember their traditions

D:want both modern and traditional things

Question 20. The main idea of the passage is ______________.

A:the Hopi raise crops and animals in the Arizona desert

B:the Hopi want a comfortable, modern life

C:the Hopi keep their traditions even with modern life around them

D:kachinas are spirits of the things round the Hopi

Question 18. Winters in this part of Arizona are ____________.

A:cold                   B:hot                    C:warm                D:cool

Question 19. The main Hopi food is _______________.

A:corn                  B:vegetables         C:hamburger         D:beef

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 following questions from 1 to 5.

     Most Americans look forward to their vacations. Most American employees receive an annual vacation with pay. It is traditional to use this time off for travel.

    Travelling within the United States is very popular because foreign travel generally takes more time and money. However, those who want to travel outside the USA are free to go almost everywhere. Obtaining a passport is not difficult. Every year about thirteen million people travel abroad. The most popular periods are during the Summer and the two-week retool break on Christmas and New Year holidays. These periods are so the most crowded and the most expensive time to travel, so people who can adjust their schedules sometimes choose to travel in the autumn.

    American tourists often travel by car. Most families own a car, and those who do not have a car can rent one. Cars are usually the most economical way to travel, especially for families. It is also fairly fast and convenient. Excellent highways with motels and restaurants nearby connect the nation's major cities. They enable tourists to travel at a speed of 55 to 66 miles an hour. Tourists that want to travel faster often fly to their destination and then rent a car when they get there.

Câu 1: According to the writer, most American employees traditionally use their annual vacations for

     A. jogging                       B. shopping                    C. travelling                  D. cycling

Câu 2: In the USA, to obtain a passport is ______.                           

     A. easy                             B. difficult                     C. expensive                 D. time consuming

Câu 3: There are many American people travelling ______.

     A. in the autumn                                                     B. on Thanksgiving

     C. on Christmas and New Year holidays               D. on Women's Day

Câu 4: How do American tourists often travel?                                

     A. By car                         B. By bicycle                 C. By bicycle                D. By plane

Câu 5: The word “They" in paragraph 3 refers to ______.

     A. restaurants                  B. highways                   C. motels                       D. major cities

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D  to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Native Americans of northern California were very good at basketry, using the reeds, grasses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes - not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.

Of all these experts, none excelled the Pomo - a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800's, and whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of their baskets were completely covered with shell pendants; others with feathers that made the baskets' surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their neighbors. Most groups made all their basketwork by twining - the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp, others depended primarily on coiling - a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape with tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article.

Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color, the Pomo people used the bark of redbud for their twined work and dyed bulrush root for black in coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest basketry.

If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every Pomo basketmaker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a number of different ways.

Question 1. The word "fashion" in line 2 is closest in meaning to____________.

A. maintain                          B. organize                        C. trade                             D. create

Question 2. The Pomo people used each of the following materials to decorate baskets EXCEPT_________.

A. shells                               B. feathers                         C. leaves                           D. bark

Question 3. What is the author's main point in the second paragraph?

A. The neighbors of the Pomo people tried to improve on the Pomo basket weaving techniques.

B. The Pomo people were the most skilled basket weavers in their region.

C. The Pomo people learned their basket weaving techniques from other Native Americans.

D. The Pomo baskets have been handed down for generations.

Question 4. According to the passage, a weft is a____________.

A. tool for separating sedge root                                   B. process used for coloring baskets

C. pliable material woven around the warp                   D. pattern used to decorate baskets

Question 5. According to the passage, what did the Pomo people use as the warp in their baskets?

A. bulrush                            B. willow                          C. sedge                            D. redbud

Question 6. The word "staples" in line 21 is closest in meaning to____________.

A. combinations                   B. limitations                     C. accessories                    D. basic elements

Question 7. Which of the following statements about Pomo baskets can be best inferred from the passage?

A. Baskets produced by other Native Americans were less varied in design than those of the Pomo people.

B. Baskets produced by Pomo weavers were primarily for ceremonial purposes.

C. There were a very limited number of basket-making materials available to the Pomo people.

D. The basket-making production of the Pomo people has increased over the years.

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.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. Animal and plant species which pose threats to humans will die out soon.

B. Saving popular animal and plant species should be given a high priority.

C. Humans will make changes in their lifestyles to save other species.

D. The dilemma humans face between maintaining their lives and saving other species remains

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.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Humans have difficult choices to make about saving endangered species.

B. The existence of humans is at the expense of some other species.

C. No other species can threaten the survival of humans on Earth.

D. Some animals and plants cannot survive without human help.

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.

Which type of music is often involved with piano accompaniment?

A. spirituals

B. ragtime

C. blues

D. jaz

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.

Which type of music is often involved with piano accompaniment?

A. spirituals

B. ragtime

C. blues

D. jazz

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.

Which of the following is true of standard usage?

A. It can be used in formal or informal settings.

B. It is only understood be the upper classes.

C. It limited to written language.

D. It is constantly changing.