VII. Fill in each numbered gap with one suitable word to complete the following passage.

A long time ago, robots belonged to science fiction. But today, robots (1)______ real, and they are helping us. In the future, we will  all have robots. They (2)_____ clean the floor, wash the dishes, cook meals, take care (3)______ children, make drinks and do many other housework. I even think one day we’ll have robots friends. In Japan today, robot engineers are making robots to (4)______ old people. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years away from robots being everywhere in our lives. What will happen to us (5)______ the world is full of robots? Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and humans apart.

Part IV. Read the following passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word in the box. ONE word will not be used.

Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine that would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (26)________ by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too? For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors And they came up against a major difficulty. That is, housework is actually very (27) ________. It has never been one job it has always been many. A factory robot carried one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn‟t run the whole factory. A housework robot on the other hand, has to do several different (28) ________ of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (29) ________ all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (30) ________, there have been some developments recently. Sensors are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software- the programs that will operate the machine.

IV/ Put the word from the box in each gap to complete the following passage.

Everybody knows that the hamburger is a very (1) ............. America food. However, people in the United States learned to make hamburgers (2) ............. Germans. The Germans got the idea from Russia. In the thirteenth century the Tartar people from Central Asia (3)...... to Russia and parts of Europe. They (4)..........something like hamburger meat, but it was raw. This raw meat was beef, lamb, goat meat or horse meat. Soon the Russians started to eat raw meat, (5) ..........Germans from Hamburg and other northern cities learned to eat this food from the Russians (6) .............., they added salt, pepper, a raw egg, and then cooked it.

Between 1830 and 1900 thousands (7) ........... Germans went to live in the United States. They took the hamburger with (8)..................... People called it hamburger steak.

In 1940 at the World's Fair in St. Loui (a city on the Mississippi River) a man from Texas sold hamburger steak in roll. Then people could eat it (9)......... their hands, like a sandwich. This was the first real hamburger (10)........... the hamburger we eat today.

I. Choose a suitable word from the box to fill in each gap to complete the passage. (1.5pts)

On Saturday morning, a mudslide (1)………........down the Ngan Pho River near the small village of Huong Son District, Ha Tinh Province. Authorities have (2)………......eight dead, eight injured, and as many as 108 people (3)……….......... The two-square-kilometre path of the mudslide also (4)………...........about 50 homes. A local resident (5)………..........that the mudslide was caused by ground which has been made (6)………..............by heavy rainfall.

II. Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word from the box
translate                      matter                      meaning                    mistake
If you don’t know what a word means, try to guess the (1)..................., or look up the word in your dictionary. All foreign speakers have an accent, but that doesn’t (2).................. To make your pronunciation better, listen to English speakers and try to imitate. Don’t worry if you make mistakes or don’t try to correct a (3)........................ That’s normal! It’s often useful to (4)...................... words from one language to the others, but it’s best when you can start to think in the new language.

                                                 PART C: READING

I. Put a word from the box in each gap to complete the passage .

People need to breathe. If they don’t breathe, they __(1)__ die. But how clean is the air people breathe ? If they breathe dirty air, they will have breathing problems (2) ____ become ill. Plants and animals need clean air too. A lot of the things __(3)__ our lives create harmful gases and __(4)__  the air dirty, like cars, motorbikes and factories. Dirty air is called “__5__ air”. Air pollution can also make our Earth warmer. The problem of air pollution started with the burning of coal in homes and factories.

1____________2____________3____________4____________5__________

IV. Put a word from the box in each gap to complete the following passage. 

pick         artists’          crowd

are          along          draw

unless          get

Artists who (24) _________pictures on the pavement with chalk used to be very common sight in London, but there (25) _______only a few left now. Sometimes the pictures are very good. This is proved by the fact that one of the (26) ________favourite tricks is to draw a five pound note and see a lot of people trying to (27) ______it up. The police usually trick pavement artists kindly and there is nothing in the law against drawing on the pavement (28) _______the artist is so good that he gets a large (29) _______around him and this prevents other people from passing freely (30)_______ the street.

I. Choose a suitable word from the box to fill in each gap to complete the passage (1 point)

     There are two main kinds of sports: (1) …… sports and individual sports. Team sports (2) …… such sports as baseball, basketball and volleyball. Team sports require two separate teams. The teams play (3) …… each other. They compete against each other in order to get the best score. (4) …… example, in a football game, if team A gets 4 points and team B (5) …… 2 points, team A wins the game. Team sports are sometimes called competitive sports.

II. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word from the box to complete the passage.

1.

There are (1)__________ seasons in a year in our country. They are spring, summer, fall (2)__________ winter. In the spring, the weather is usually (3)__________. Sometimes it is cold, but not very cold. After spring, it is the summer. In the summer we (4)__________ play sports. In the fall, the weather is often cool. In the winter, it’s usually very cold. We always wear warm clothes.