The environment is everything around us, both natural and made by man. A major problem in the world today is the destruction of the natural environment.

This is a complicated problem. We burn fuel, and this causes air pollution. We throw away plastic bags, containing toys and other objects. These stay in the environment, they are not like paper or wood that slowly disappear. We made thousands of new chemicals. Factories that make or use chemicals always have chemical wastes. These are often poisonous, and they also stay in the environment.

Air pollution is by far the most harmful form of pollution in our environment. Air pollution is caused by the exhaust fume emitted by cars, buses and trucks, trains, and factories. Even smoke from burning leaves and cigarettes is harmful to the environment and causes a lot of damage to man and the atmosphere. Evidence of increasing air pollution is seen in lung cancer, asthma, allergies, and various breathing problems. Even the birds have been affected,with severe air pollution preventing from reaching their seasonal metropolitan destinations of centuries

1. What is a big problem in the world today?

A. The development of the population.

B. The destruction of the natural environment.

C. Birds dying.

D. Air pollution.

2. Facories that make or use chemicals ………………..

A. always clean up their wastes

B. produce chemical wastes

C. keep the air clean

D. throw away toys and other objects

3. According to the passage, what is the cause of the air pollution

A. Smoke from vehicles

B. Burning leaves and cigarettes

C. Chemical wastes

D. A & B are correct

4. What does increasing pollution cause?

A. lung cancer and asthma

B. allergies

C. other respiratory problem

D. All the correct

5. What is third paragraph about?

A. Air pollution and exhaust fume

B. Air pollution and burning cigarettes

C. Air pollution and its effects

D. Air pollution and the resolutions

The environment is everything around us, both natural and made by man. A major problem in the world today is the destruction of the natural environment.

This is a complicated problem. We burn fuel, and this causes air pollution. We throw away lastic bags, containing toys and other objects. These stay in the environment, they are not like paper or wood that slowly disappear. We have made thousands of new chemicals. Factories that make or use chemicals always have chemical wastes. These are often poisonous, and they also stay in the environment.

Since 1945 several countries have been testing nuclear bombs in the air and underground. The explosions in the air cause nuclear fallout. The fallout causes cancer and kills animals and people. Nuclear power plants that make electricity also produce dangerous wastes and have accidents that can be very disastrous.

* Choose the correct answer

3. The nuclear fallout causes 

A. smoke from vehicles

B. Burning fuel, plastic bags and wastes from factories

C. A and B

Read the text, then decide True or False:

The environment is everything around us, both natural and made by man. A major problem in the world today is the destruction of the natural envirinment. This is a complicated problem. We burn fuel, and this causes air pollution. We throw away plastc bags, containing toys and other subjects. These stay in the environment; they are not like paper or wood that slowly disappear. We have made thousands of new chemicals. Factories that make or use chemicals always have chemical wastes. These are often poisonous and thay also stay in the environment. Since 1945 several countries have been testing nuclear bombs in the air and underground. The explosions in the air cause nuclear fallout. The fallout causes cancer and kills animals and people. Nuclear power plants that make electricity also produce dangerous wastes and have accidents that can be very dissstrous.

a. Many big cities are facing serious air polltuion……………..

b. This is a simple problem ………………

c. Nuclear bombs were first tested in 1945………………….

d. A nuclear bomb causes a terrible destruction………………………….

III. Read the following passage and then answer the questions below it.

      In the world today there are 5,000 to 6,000 living languages, of which English is the most widely used. As a mother tongue, it ranks second only to Chinese, which is little used outside China.

      English is the most international of languages. It is used as the language of aviation, international sport and pop music. Sixty percent of the world’s radio stations broadcast in English, and more than half of the world’s scientific papers are printed in English.

      It is true that a great number of people are involved in the use of English. To people in Africa, Asia, and South America, English is an important foreign language to master. In most countries in the world, the English language is used as the language of business, commerce, and technology. English is now an effective medium of international communication. However, it is the written English which is not systematically phonetic, that causes difficulties to non-native speakers.

1.   Which language is used as the language of aviation, international sport and pop music?

      ___________________________

2.   Why is English an important foreign language used in many countries?

      ________________________________________

3.   What difficulties may learners of English be confronted with? Why?

      ___________________________________________

4.   Name three countries in which English is spoken as a first language.

      ______________________________________

5.   As a mother tongue, why does English rank second only to Chinese?

      ______________________________________ 

IV. Read the passage, and then answer the questions.              

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

1.   Where was Ernest Hemingway from?

.........................................................................................................................

2.   When was The Old Man and the Sea published?

.........................................................................................................................

3. What genre does The Old Man and the Sea belong to?

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       4. What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?

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       5. When did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. The environment is everything around us, both natural and made by man. A major problem in the world today is the destruction of the natural environment.

This is a complicated problem. We burn fuel, and this causes air pollution. We throw away lastic bags, containing toys and other objects. These stay in the environment, they are not like paper or wood that slowly disappear. We have made thousands of new chemicals. Factories that make or use chemicals always have chemical wastes. These are often poisonous, and they also stay in the environment.

Since 1945 several countries have been testing nuclear bombs in the air and underground. The explosions in the air cause nuclear fallout. The fallout causes cancer and kills animals and people. Nuclear power plants that make electricity also produce dangerous wastes and have accidents that can be very disastrous.

1. What is a big problem in the world today?

A. The development of the population. B. The destruction of the natural environment.

C. Bomb testing. D. Throwing away plastic bags.

2. What is the cause of the air pollution?

A. Fuel burning. B. Smoke from vehicles. C. Toys and other objects. D. Paper or wood.

3. What does the word "these" in the second paragraph refer to?

A. New chemicals. B. Factories. C. Chemical wastes. D. Poisons.

4. The nuclear fallout causes __________.

A. chemical wastes. B. cancer and kills animals and people.

C. water pollution. D. dangerous wastes.

5. What is the benefit of nuclear power?

A. Causing nuclear fallout. B. Producing dangerous.

C. Having accidents. D. Making electricity.

B. Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the world. He was responsible for more than one thousand inventions including the electric light bulb and the record player. He also created the world's first industrial research laboratory.

Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, USA. When he was 10 years old, he set up asmall baloratory after he had read a science book his mother showed him. In 1869, he borrowed some money and began to make inventions. In 1876 he built a new laboratory so that he could spend all his time inventing. He planned to turn out minor inventions every ten days and "big trick" every six months. He developed many devices that brought great benefits to people's life. He once said that the value of an idea lay in the using of it. Edison died in 1931, after having aremarkably productive life.

1. Who was Thomas Edison?

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2. When and where was he born?

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3. What did he invent?

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4. Did he build a new laboratory in 1876?

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5. When did he die?

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Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.

          Global warming is the current increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface (both land and water) as well as its atmosphere. Average temperature around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) (1) ______ the last 100 years. About two thirds of this increase has occured since 1975 in the past, when the Earth experienced increases in temperature it was the result of natural causes, but today it is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human (2) ______.
          The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth’s temperature at a safe level making it (3) ______ for humans and many other life forms to exist. However, since The Industrial Revolution what benefits human has significantly enhanced the greenhouse effect (4) ______ the Earth’s average temperature to rise by almost 1°C. This is creating the global warming (5) ______we see today

Điền ô số 2

A. behaviors

B. relationships

C. actions

D. activities

Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.

          Global warming is the current increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface (both land and water) as well as its atmosphere. Average temperature around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) (1) ______ the last 100 years. About two thirds of this increase has occured since 1975 in the past, when the Earth experienced increases in temperature it was the result of natural causes, but today it is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human (2) ______.
          The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth’s temperature at a safe level making it (3) ______ for humans and many other life forms to exist. However, since The Industrial Revolution what benefits human has significantly enhanced the greenhouse effect (4) ______ the Earth’s average temperature to rise by almost 1°C. This is creating the global warming (5) ______we see today

Điền ô số 1

A. of

B. over

C. with

D. by

Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.

          Global warming is the current increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface (both land and water) as well as its atmosphere. Average temperature around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) (1) ______ the last 100 years. About two thirds of this increase has occured since 1975 in the past, when the Earth experienced increases in temperature it was the result of natural causes, but today it is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human (2) ______.
          The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth’s temperature at a safe level making it (3) ______ for humans and many other life forms to exist. However, since The Industrial Revolution what benefits human has significantly enhanced the greenhouse effect (4) ______ the Earth’s average temperature to rise by almost 1°C. This is creating the global warming (5) ______we see today

Điền ô số 4

A. causing

B. making

C. made

D. caused