II. Choose the best answer: ( 2pts: 0,25/1)

1. Students have two                        breaks each day.

            A. twenty – minute  B. twenty  minutes   C. a twenty - minuteD. twentieth - minute

2. A housewife often does                .

A. homework              B. housework              C. hard work               D. exercises

3. We study about different countries in the                                       class.

A. History                   B. Geography              C. Math                      D. Literature

4. Most of the students enjoy …………..books in their free time.

A. read                        B. reading                   C. to read                    D.  to reading

5. In the USA students don’t wear …………………………

A. hats                         B. shoes                       C. school uniform       D.  scarves

6. Students can borrow books from the ………….

A. library                     B. canteen                   C. bookstore                D.  readers

7. She works ………… from morning till night.

A. hard                                    B. difficult                  C. easy                                    D.  good.

 8. If you want to find the meanings of new words, you can  use a …………….

A. picture book           B. story                       C. cartoon                   D. dictionary

Each of the following sentences contains one error. Underline and correct it.

46. Students often have one hour for lunch and two 20-minutes breaks each day.

                                 A                   B                                 C                         D

47. Tom’s family had an interested adventure in Sa Pa last summer.

        A                                B                             C                  D

48. Unfortunate, we caught the last bus and we returned home late at night.

              A                   B                                          C                            D

49.  My mother is always complaining about the heavy of my suitcase.   

             A                         B                                   C                  D

50. My brother hardly goes fishing in the winter and so do I

           A                         B               C                          D

SECTION  D. READING(30 pts)

Question I. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (10 points).

Americans like sport very much. One of the most popular (51)  …………….. of sports in Autumn is football. All the high schools and universities ( 52)…….…..…their own teams. In winter the most popular kind of sports (53)............... basketball. There is usually a match every evening  in one school gymnasium or another. In some parts of the United States there is a lot of (54)................. and ice. Many people like skiing and skating. In the other two (55)..............., millions of Americans enjoy baseball. The schools have their games in (56)................, but the most important professional games are played during summer. Many people listen to the games (57) ............. the radio, watch them on television or read about them on the (58) ……….…... Some also play tennis or golf and (59) ………….go fishing.They like  to stay outdoors  (60)...................it is warm during the months of June, July and August.

Question II. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank space in the following passage. (10pts)

TRAFFIC IN OUR CITIES

The volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continues to expand. This causes many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risk of accidents. Clearly, something must be done, but it is often difficult to (61)______ people to change their habits and leave their cars at home.

One possible approach is to make it more expensive for people to use their cars by (62) ______ charges of parking and bringing in tougher fines for anyone who (63)______ the law. In addition, drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes at different times of the day. This system, (64) ______ as “road pricing”, is already being introduced in a (65) _____ of cities, using a special electronic card fixed to the windscreen of the car.

Another way of (66) ______ with the problem is to provide cheap parking on the (67) ______ of the city, and strictly control the number of vehicles allowed into the centre. Drivers and their passengers then use a special bus service for the (68) ______ stage of their journey.

Of course, the most important thing is to provide good public transport. However, to get people to (69) ______ the comfort of their cars, public transport must be felt to be reliable, convenient and comfortable, with fares taken (70) ______ an acceptable level.

61.   A. make             B. arrange               C. suggest               D. persuade

62.   A. to increase     B. increasing            C. decreasing            D. to decrease

63.   A. crosses            B. refuses                C. breaks                D. cracks

64.   A. named           B. seen                    C. called                 D. known

65.   A. quantity         B. number               C. total                    D. sum

66.   A. doing             B. handling              C. dealing               D. solving

67.   A. outskirts        B. border                 C. outside                D. limit

68. A. late                 B. end                      C. complete             D. final

69. A. pass on             B. throw away         C. give up               D. leave out

70. A. at                    B. in                        C. on                       D. after

Question III. Read the following passage and choose the best answer. (10pts)

For more than six million American children, coming home after school means com-ing back to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called ''latchkey children''. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.

Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, ''We had a school rule against wearing jewalry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with key attached. I was constantly telling them to put the key inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.'' Slowly, she learned that they were house keys.

She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.

The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It's hard to get statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone.

71. The phrase ''an empty house'' in the passage mostly means ________.

A. a house with nothing inside                       B. a house with no people inside

C. a house with too much space                     D. a house with no furniture

72. One thing that the children in the passage share is that ________.

A. they all watch TV                                      B. they all were jewelry

C. they spend part of each day alone              D. they are from single-parent families

73. The phrase ''latchkey children'' in the passage means children who ________.       

A.  look after themselves while their parents are not at home

B.  close doors with keys and watch TV by themselves

C.  are locked inside houses with latches and keys

D.  like to carry latches and keys with them everywhere

74. The main problem of latchkey children is that they________.

A. watch too much TV during the day            B. are growing in numbers

C. suffer a lot from being left alone                D. are also found in middle-class families

75. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. bad condition of latchkey children             B. children's activities at home

C. how kids spend free time                           D. why kids hate going home

76. Why did a lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached?

A.  schools didn't allow them to wear jewelry, so they wore keys instead.

B.  they would use the keys to enter their houses when they came home.

C.  they were fully grown and had become independent.

D.  they had to use the keys to open school doors.

77. What do latchkey children suffer most from when they are at home alone?

A. Fear                     B. Tiredness                  C. Loneliness                                D. Boredom

78. Lynette Long learned of latchkey children's problems by ________.

A. talking to them                                          B. visiting their homes

C. interviewing their parents                          D. delivering questionaires

79. What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?

A. talking to the Longs                               B. hiding somewhere

C. lying under a TV                                       D. having a shower

80. It's difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because ________.

A.  they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds.

B.  they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons.

C.  there are too many of them in the whole country.

D.  most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone.

SECTION E. WRITING (20 points)

Question I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (5 pts)

81 . If it doesn’t rain soon, they will lose the crop.

     àUnless _____________________________________________________

82. Collecting dolls from foreign countries is one of Jane's interests!

     à Jane is______________________________________________________.

Dear Tim,

Thanks for your letter. I am very glad to hear that you are fine. I am fine, too. It’s really interesting to know about vacations of America students.

You are right. We have fewer vacations than American students. Each year, we just have about four vacations. We have a day off for Independent Day on September 2nd, two days off on April 30th and May Day. Our most important vacations is Tet. Tet holiday often lasts for nine or ten days. Our longest vacation is summer vacation. It lasts for almost three months. We usually spend time with our families. We don’t have vacations for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we also celebrate them.

Please write and tell me your last summer vacation.

Your friend,

Hoa.

1. Do Vietnamese students have more or fewer vacations than American students?

_________________________________________________________________________

2. How many vacations do Vietnamese students have? What are they?

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

3. Which vacation is the longest?

_________________________________________________________________________

4. Which vacation is the most important?

_________________________________________________________________________

5. How long does Tet holiday last?

_________________________________________________________________________

6. What does Hoa do during her vacations?

_________________________________________________________________________

7. Do Vietnamese students have Christmas vacation?

____________________________________________________________________

Task 2: Read the passage carefully then do the task below.

December 22^nd,
Dear Tim,
Thanks for your letter. I am very grad to hear that you are fine. I am fine, too. It is really intersting to know about vacations of American students. You are right. We have fewer vacations tahn American students. Each year, we just have about four vacations. We have a day off for Independent Day on September 2^nd, two days off on April 30^th and May day. Our most important vacation is Tet. Tet holiday often lasts for nine or ten days. Our longest vacation is summer vacations for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas but we celebrate them. Please write and tell me your last summer vacation.
Your friend,
Hoa

*True (T) or false (F)

1. Vietnamese students have more vacations than American students.
2. Vietnamese students have four vacations in a year.
3. Independent Day is the longest vacation in Vietnam.
4. Summer vacation is the most important vacation.

Answer the questions

1. Who writes this letter?
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2. When is Independent Day in Vietnam?
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3. Do Vietnamese students have a day off on Easter?
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4. How long does the Tet holiday last?
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