PABLO PICASSO

everyone knows the artist picasso. his ideas changed the world od art forever. during his lifetime, he became famous and very rich. now his paintings are some of the most expensive pictures in the world. one painting sold for $ 106.5 million in new york.

picasso was born in spain in 1881. his first word was 'pencil' , and he could draw beautifully from an early age. first, he had drawing lessons from his father . then, he went to art college when he was only 13 years old. three years later, he was bored and stopped going to classe. finally, at the age of 19, he moved to paris - the art capital of the world . he got married twice and had four chirlden.

picasso often changed his style od paniting . fo example, after his best friend died, the sad artist pained only in blue . then he began to use a lot of pinks and oranges . later, he started to paint using shapes - a style later called ' cubism', in his life, he produced over 50,000 works of art, he never retired, but pained nearly every day until his death at the age of 91.

VINCENT CAN GOGH

vincent can gogh is a very famous painter. everyone in the world knows his work, and his paintings sell for millions of dollars. but he wasn't famos when he was alive. and he only sold one painting before he died.

van gogh was born in the netherlands in 1853. he has a difficult life because he suffered from mental illness. he never got married. he didn't begin to draw and paint seriously until he was 27, and he died just ten years later. but in that time, he produced more than 2,000 paintings and drwaings.

at first, van gogh painted poor people and used only dark colours. later he moved to the south of france. he loved the sunlight there, and his style of painting became colourful and exciting. but van gogh was often depressed and his mental illness became worse, first , he cut off part of his own ear, and then in 1890, he shot himselt.

look at the reading strategy. then read the texts again. answer the questions for both van gogh and picasso

1. when was he born ?

2. where was he born ?

3. which countries did he live in ?

4. was he famous when he lived ?

5. was he rich or poor ?

6. how much do his paintings cost now?

7. when did he start to draw or paint ?

8. did he get married and have chirlden?

9. how many works of art did he produce?

10. how old was he when he died?

                                                          MAHATMA GANDHI

Mohandas Gandhi (known as Mahatma - or “Great Soul’ - Gandhi) was one of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Gandhi was the man who (33) ……….. India on the path to independence from British rule. He (34) ……….. freedom for his country through actions which were always based on the ideas of non-violence and peace.

Gandhi was born in India on 2 October 1869. He (35) ……….. his childhood in India and at he went to study law in England. At the age of 23, Gandhi got a one-year contract to do legal (36) ……….. in South Africa. In South Africa, Gandhi was shocked to see how badly Indian people were treated. Gandhi believed that the best (37) ………..to achieve political and social change was peaceful protest. He always remained true to the ideas of non-violence, even in the most extreme situations.

Gandhi eventually returned to India after 21 years in South Africa. When he got back home, Gandhi saw how bad life was for people in India so he began to fight for improved  rights there too. He was especially (38) ……….. with improving the life of India’s lower classes. Gandhi soon became the leader in the movement to free India from the rule of the British, and he (39) ……….. . In 1947. the British granted India its independence. Tragically, six months after India gained independence, Gandhi was assassinated. He was 78 years old.

Today, Gandhi is loved and admired by millions of people (40) ……….. the world. The people of India (41) ……….. him as the father of their nation and his birthday is a(n) (42) ……….. holiday.

33. A. led                         B. managed              C. ran                        D. directed

34. A. won                       B. gained                  C. earned                  D. found

35. A. took                       B. held                      C. spent                    D. finished

36. A. vocation                B. employment       C. job                        D. work

37. A. way                        B. manner                 C. direction              D. aspect

38. A. interested             B. worried                C. concerned            D. eager

39. A. gained                   B. achieved              C. managed             D. succeeded

40. A. throughout           B. through                C. during                  D. cross

41. A. observe                 B. look                      C. regard                  D. think

42.       A. international        B. national     C. local           D. internal

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1. When was Jacques Cousteau born ? When did he die ?

2. Where did he come from ?

3 What was his job ?

4. What did he spend most of his life doing ? 5. What did he do in 1943 ?

6.

Isaac Newton was one of the greatest men in the history of scientists. He was born in a small village of Wootsphore in England. His father was a poor farmer. When the boy was fourteen, his father died. Newton left school and helped his mother on the farm. But the boy did not like farming; he was fond of the poetry and mathematics. So Newton was sent to school. After he left school, Newton studied at Cambridge University. He taught mathematics at Cambridge University after graduating. His greatest discovery was the law of gravitation.oing ?

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous nineteenth-century engineer. He (1) _________ born in 1806 in Portsmouth, a seaport in the South of England. In 1923, after studying (2) _________ two years in Paris, he started (3) _________ for his father, (4) _________ was an engineer and inventor. He had been born near Rouen in France but in 1792 had left France for the US and had later settled in England. Both father and son were responsible for the design (5) _________ construction of the first tunnel under the River Thames. The digging of this tunnel was (6) _________ in 1825 and completed twenty years later. Today, it (7) _________ part of the London Underground system.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel went (8) _________ to design the Great Britain (1845), (9) _________ was the first large ship to be built (10) _________ iron instead of wood. It was powered (11) _________ steam and made regular crossings of the Atlantic. Remarkably, this ship is (12) _________ in existence. It (13) _________ been restored and can be seen in Bristol (14) _________ it was originally built. (15) _________ of Brunel’s great engineering achievements was the construction of the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol. He designed all the stations, bridges, tunnel and viaducts along the line.

Brunel’s ideas were ahead of his time and had difficulties in convincing people that they were realistic, and, indeed, some of his projects were very ambitious, but he (16) _________ determined to find (17) _________ to the (18) _________ difficult problems. Overwork ruined his health and he (19) _________ at the age of fifty-two in 1859. The work of Brunel, and his father, has always been highly regarded and Brunel University, founded in 1966, is (20) _________ after both of them.

Kiping was the first writer...........expressed the faith and national pride. He was.............in Bombay India................1865 and was taken..............England to......educated at the.........of 6. But at the age of 17 he returned...............INdia and became a journalist............this time he...............a great amount of prose and potry. After wards he returned to England and travelled in Japan and America. He recived the 1907 Nobel..........for literature and died in 1936 while he woking on his autbiographical notes.

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.

William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father’s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank.

In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife’s continued ill-health, however she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite short Story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories have been translated all over the world.

According to the passage, Porter’s Father was ___________.

A. the person who gave him a life-long love of books

B. a medical doctor

C. a licensed pharmacist

D. responsible for his move to La Salle County in Texas

Give the correct form of the words in brackets:

1. At that time, colored people and white people were not treated ....................... and he fought for the right of colored people (equal)

2. Those ................ children have many problems and they really need our help. (advantage)

3. There are more and more youngsters who are ............... in doing volunteer work (interest)

4. I got some ........................................ advice from my teacher. It was really helpful (use)

5. He was very ...................... about this film because the main character motivated him to be more confident (excite)

6. This season is very ............. Millions of viewers have watched it since it first aired (excite )

7. People who volunteer in their community have a personal ................... to the area (attach)

8. He was a .................................................... man and against all forms of violent (peace)

9. In 1914, the British ruled India and Gandhi wanted the British to leave India so that the country could become .......................................(denpend)

10. Mother Teresa was said to be one of the most .........................personalities of the twentieth century (influence)

Give the correct form of the works in brackets:

1. At the time, colored people and white people were not treated ...... and he fought for the right of colored people (equal)

2. Those ...... children have many problem and they really need our help (advantage)

3. There are more and more youngsters who are ....... in doing volunteer work (interest)

4. I got some ...... advice from my teacher. It was really helpful (use)

5. He was very ..... about this film because the main character motivated him to be more confident (excite)

6. This season is very .

..... Millions of viewers have watched it since it first aired (excite)

7. People who volunteer im their community have a Personal ...... to the area (attach)

8. He was a ...... man and against all forms of violent (peace)

9. In 1914, the British ruled India and Gandhi wanted the British to leave India so that the country could become .... (denpend)

10. Mother Teresa was said to be one of the most ........ personalities of the twentieth century ( influence)

Translate into Vietnamese (para 1):

The election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1982 marked the political ascendancy of the "common man" in American politics. Whereas all privious presidents had been Easterners from well-to-do families, Jackson was a self-made man of modest wealth from the West. Born in 1767, Jackson fought in the American Revolution, in which many of his relatives died. Afterwards, he studied law and moved to the Western District of North California. When that territory became the state of Tennessee, Jackson was elected the state's first congressman. His nam became a household word during the war of 1812, when, as a U.S Army major general, he led troops against the Creek Indians in the Mississippi Territory and later defeated the British at New Orleans.