IV. Read the passage
A. Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word from the list
education - grades - reponsibilities
competition - decision - confident
Dealing with pressures and stress in middle school can be difficult. The pressure may be to make friends, earm good (1)____, excel in Middle school students face  pressure to keep their grades up every day. Theu are in a(n) (2)____with their peers to be the best and the brightestin everything
During the teenage years, children will feel the pressure to grow up. No longer will they be able to act like a child and not worry about (3)_____. Their parents should help them make this transition from a child to an adult easy and teach them to make wise (4)____
Prepare the for the word ahead of them and don't let go completety at once. Gradually let the growing up occur

Read the following passage and put a word in the box in each of the numbered blanks:

Up     Recycling             from            take             and

(1) ___________ is using rubbish to remake new goods that can be sold again. For example, when you put bottles and cans in the recycling bin, people (2) ___________ them to a factory. In this factory, people reprocess these bottles (3) ___________cans into many new things.

Recycling starts when you or your parents drop recyclable materials, such as bottles and cans in the recycling bin. Next, collectors come to pick (4)___________ the materials and take them to a processing factory where they are sorted and processed into raw materials. After that, factories sell these materials to manufacturers who make the things you buy. These manufacturers make new items from them. Finally, you or your parents buy items made (5) ___________ recycled materials.

Fill in the blank in the passage with ONE suitable word :Soon it’s morning in the big city. By eight o’clock the streets are filled again (6) ____________ people. Millions of people live in the big city, and millions of people who (7) _____________ in the big city live in the suburbs, the (8) ____________, are hurrying out of railroad station, subways, buses and apartment houses. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Everyone is in a (9) ___________. Some stop only to drink a quick (10) ____________ of coffee. There is no time (11) ______________ breakfast. Others stop to but the morning paper. They read the headlines before they hurry on to the tall office buildings. (12) ____________ they work.   

IV: Read the passage again and complete the sentences.

1.      People in ---------------------------------------------------------areas have to gather wood to use as fuel.

2.      Biogas is mainly used for -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.

3.      Biogas helps solve the problem of indoor ------------------------------------------------------------------

4.      The use of renewable energy sources in developing countries is ----------------------------------------

5.      In the future, the --------------------will be used as the main environmentally friendly energy sources.

Read the passage again and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D for each question.

Passage 1:

In Viet Nam, Tet is the biggest festival that occurs in late January or early February. To celebrate Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty traditional foods such as Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; therefore, this cake needs a lot of preparation. The significant foods that cannot be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. There are many customs during Tet: visiting a person’s house on the first day of the new year, giving lucky money to children, opening a shop….

People forget the past year’s troubles and hope for a better upcoming year.

When does Tet occur?

A.    In late January or early February        B. In late February or early March           

C.  In late February or early April              D. In early January or late February

 Which food don’t Vietnamese people make at Tet?

A.    Boiled chicken    B. Sticky rice            C.  Chung cakes       D. Beef noodles

What do Vietnamese people do to worship their ancestors?

A.    Open a shop                                B. Go to the Night market              

C.  Receive lucky money                D. Make many tasty traditional foods

Passage 2:

The Yen Tu Festival is organized since the 10th lunar month and lasted for three spring months. After ceremonies are held at the base of the mountain, there are thousands of people to Dong pagoda built on the peak of Yen Tu. The way to Yen Tu peak is tortuous curling under the ancient trees, through the forest of bamboo, etc.

With the average time of 3 hours climbing, people will come to Dong pagoda. Coming to the Dong pagoda, people would feel relief like coming to the magical land.

There are many pagodas, towers, etc... on the way to the Yen Tu peak. In the cloud-like fairy tale, they are hidden under the ancient trees, or right in the clear part of the space. Moreover, visitors feel like coming to Heaven’s gate to raise the cloud when coming to Yen Tu

 How long does the Yen Tu festival often last?

            A. It often lasts for two spring months

            B. It often lasts for three spring months

            C. It often lasts for four spring months

            D. It often lasts for five spring months

Where do people go after participating in ceremonies held at the base of the mountain?

            A. People go to Dong pagoda built near the peak of Yen Tu.

            B. People go to Dong pagoda built in ate peak of Yen Tu.

            C. People go to Dong pagoda built on the peak of Yen Tu.

            D. People go to Dong temple built on the peak of Yen Tu.

 What are there on the way to the Yen Tu peak?

            A. There are many pagodas, towers, etc

            B. There are many pagodas, temples, etc

            C. There are many towers, hotels, etc

            D. There are many pagodas, schools, etc