1: ______, we couldn't have continued with the project.

A. If you hadn't contributed positively

B. Even if you didn't like to contribute

C. Provided your contribution wouldn't come

D. Unless we had your contribution

2. : Alex did not do very well in class ______.

A. because he failed to study properly B. therefore he was a good student

C. as long as he had studied badly D. although he was not hard-working

3: The more you talk about the situation, ______.

A. the worse it seems B. it seems worse

C. it seems the worse D. the worse does it seem

4: Those boys took a long ladder ______.

A. so they will get the ball from the roof B. so that the ball from the roof can be gotten

C. in order to get the ball from the roof D. and then get the ball from the roof

5: She regretted to tell him that ______.

A. she was leaving the tickets at home B. she would have left the tickets at home

C. she had left the tickets at home D. the tickets at home would be left

Read the passage carefully then fill in the blank a suitable word.

As swimming became a popular recreation in England during the 1860s and 1870s, several ___ sports developed, roughly patterned after land sports. ___ them were water footbal (or soccer), water rugby, water handball, and water polo, in which player rode on floating barrels, painted to look ___ horses, and struck the ball with a stick.

Water rugby became most popular of these sports, but somehow the water polo name became attached to it, and it's been attached ___ since.

As played in England, the object of the sport was for a player to touch the ball, with both ___, at the goal end of the pool. The goaltender stood on the pool deck, ready to dive on any opponent who was about to score.

Water polo quickly became a very rough sport, filled ___ underwater fights away from the ball, and it wasn't unusual for players to pass out for lack of air.

In 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addiction of goalposts. The Scots also replace ___ original small, hard rubber ball with soccer ball and adopted ___ that prohibited taking the ball under the surface or, "tackling" a player unless he had the ball.

The Scottish game, which emphasized swimming speed, passing and ___ work, spread to England during the early 1880s, to Hungary in 1889, to Austria and Germany in 1894, to France in 1895, and ___ Belgium in 1900.

Water polo was the first team sport added to the Olympic program, in 1900.

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Ballpoint pen is a pen that has, as its name says, ball at its point which rotates when dragged across the writing surface and leaves behind ink that comes from the reservoir of the pen. Ball at the point can be of different diameter and can be made of brass, steel, or tungsten carbide. It is today the most widespread writing instrument and has literally changed the way we write.

   Trying to invent a pen which can write on leather, a tanner John J. Loud invented the first ballpoint pen and patented it in 1888 in America. This pen had a small steel ball which was placed so it could not fall out nor fall in but it still could rotate freely. This invention was not commercially viable and could not be used for writing. Because of that patent lapsed in time.

What can ball at the point be made of?

Read the following passage carefully and complete the sentences that follow by circling letter A, B, C or D as the correct answers I then mark your choice on the answer sheet.

     Most fairy tales in the world begin with "Once upon a time" and end with "They lived happily ever after," so we will begin in the same way. Once upon a time, there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the kitchen while her lazy sister did nothing. One night, her sister went to a ball at the palace. Cinderella was left home, very sad. After a time, her fairy godmother appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball — but to return home by midnight.

     So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress in a wonderful coach. She danced with the prince but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on her dancing floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he found that the shoe was the right size for Cinderella. She and the prince were married and lived happily ever after.

The word "ball" in the first sentence of paragraph 3 means _______ .

A. a sport equipment     

B. a dancing hall  

C. a balloon 

D. sphere

Ex1 :Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời các câu hỏi sau

CRICKET

Cricket is an English game . People from most other countries think it is very , very slow but the English think it is exciting

There are two teams with eleven players on each team in a cricket match . They play outdoors in the field . They play around two wickets . A wicket is there sticks in the ground with two sticks across them at the top . The wickets are twenty meters apart.

One player is a bowler. He stands by one wicket and throws a ball at the other wicket.He tries to hit one of the top sticks and make it fall to the ground.Another player is a batsman. He holds a stick called a bat. He stands behind thesecond wicket. He tries to hot the ball before it hits the sticks. If he hits the ball, he runs tothe other wicket. Sometimes he can run from one wicket to the other several times until aplayer in the field catches the ball and throws it back to the wickets. An important match can continue for 4 or 5 days.The players make hundreds of runs.Cricket began in England in the 1300s. It became a major sport in the 1700s.Englishmen taught the game to people in their colonies. Today cricket is still popular in mostof those countries

Questions :

1 : How many people play cricket at one time ?

2 : What does a player try to hit the ball with ?

3 : What does the bowler try to do ?

4 : What does the batsman do if he hits the ball ?

5 : Who did English men teach the game to ?

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