II. Read the passage then answer the questions
Traditionally, rural villages in VN produced handicrafts when they were not busy with planting or harvesting crops. Over time, many villages developed the expertise to make specialised products and so particular villages became famous for such things as weaving, woodwork, lacquer work and metal products
With industrialisation, many villagers moved to the cities but maintained their craft skills and networks to produce products for the city market, for example craft villages make furniture, grow flowers or make utensils for the urban population. Other villages changed from making traditional crafts to producing different products desired by an industrialised society. For example, the villagers of Trieu Khuc changed from traditional paper making to recycling plastic. There are now many craft villages in VN based on recycling plastic, paper or metal
1 When do rural villages in VN produced handicrafts traditionally?
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2 What did villagers maintain to produce products for the city market?
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3 Did many craft villages base on farming?
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II. Read the passage then answer the questions
Traditionally, rural villages in VN produced handicrafts when they were not busy with planting or harvesting crops. Over time, many villages developed the expertise to make specialised products and so particular villages became famous for such things as weaving, woodwork, lacquer work and metal products
With industrialisation, many villagers moved to the cities but maintained their craft skills and networks to produce products for the city market, for example craft villages make furniture, grow flowers or make utensils for the urban population. Other villages changed from making traditional crafts to producing different products desired by an industrialised society. For example, the villagers of Trieu Khuc changed from traditional paper making to recycling plastic. There are now many craft villages in VN based on recycling plastic, paper or metal
1 When do rural villages in VN produced handicrafts traditionally?
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2 What did villagers maintain to produce products for the city market?
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3 Did many craft villages base on farming?
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II. Read the passage then answer the questions
Traditionally, rural villages in VN produced handicrafts when they were not busy with planting or harvesting crops. Over time, many villages developed the expertise to make specialised products and so particular villages became famous for such things as weaving, woodwork, lacquer work and metal products
With industrialisation, many villagers moved to the cities but maintained their craft skills and networks to produce products for the city market, for example craft villages make furniture, grow flowers or make utensils for the urban population. Other villages changed from making traditional crafts to producing different products desired by an industrialised society. For example, the villagers of Trieu Khuc changed from traditional paper making to recycling plastic. There are now many craft villages in VN based on recycling plastic, paper or metal
1 When do rural villages in VN produced handicrafts traditionally?
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2 What did villagers maintain to produce products for the city market?
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3 Did many craft villages base on farming?
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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 word "They" in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A. human-related effects

B. some species

C. low birthrates

D. natural obstacles

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 word “they” in the last paragraph refers to _______.

A. today’s musicians

B. Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith

C. the musicians’ music

D. the names of the earliest African-American singers

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 word “they” in the last paragraph refers to _______

A. today’s musicians

B. Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith

C. the musicians’ music

D. the names of the earliest African-American singers

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 word “they” in the last paragraph refers to _______.

A. today’s musicians

B. Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith

C. the musicians’ music

D. the names of the earliest African-American singers

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbers blanks.

1.In England,when the school children come to school,they first(27)________to the classroom.They take off their coats and raincoats,their caps and hats,and then go to (28)________classrooms.Some of the students go to the laboratories and workshops where they(29)________physics,chemistry and art.When a student is on duty, he comes to(30)__________very early.He has to open all the windows,water the flowers and clean the blackboard so everything is ready for the first lesson.At seven thirty the(31)_________comes into the room and the lesson begins.

Question 27: A. go                  B. to go                C. going                D. to going

Question 28: A. his                 B. her                   C. their                 D. my

Question 29: A. to learn          B. learning           C. learn                D. to learning

Question 30: A. school           B. park                 C. museum           D. supermarket

Question 31: A. teacher          B. doctor              C. singer               D. worker

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.

Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith were _______.

A. famous ragtime musicians

B. people who really began the American musical traditions

C. artists who inspired many musicians today

D. songwriters who wrote blues songs