1. Listen and circle the letter A (True) or B ( False) to indicate the corect answer.
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| True | False |
NB | Question 1: Miss Sweetie likes her work as an advice columnist. | A | B |
TH | Question 2: She finds it easy to give advice. | A | B |
NB | Question 3: It’s most important that advisers put themselves in other people’s shoes. | A | B |
TH | Question 4: It doesn’t take time for her to come up with a piece of advice. | A | B |
VI. LISTENING (2pts)
1/ Listen to an interview with Miss Luu Ha (the advice columnist of 4Teen magazine) and choose the correct answer.
1. Miss Lu Ha _______( doesn’t mind/ doesn’t like/ likes) working as an advice columnist.
2. She is ________(still in / no longer in/ is getting) her adolescence.
3. She thinks giving advice to other people is _________( funny /not easy/ interesting ).
4. She thinks to give good advice we need to ( concentrate /empathize /cooperate ) with people.
2/ Listen again and fill in the blank with ONE word.
1. She feels like she’s living her____________ year.
2. It ___________ her time to think of the best possible advice.
3. It’s very necessary for her to be ___________ and careful when giving advice.
4. Because it’s important to give the best_________helping others get over the negative feelings.
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 numbered blanks.
In the UK there are currently about 300 Feng Shui consultants. They will come to your house or office and give you advice (1) ________ on your lifestyle and date of birth. According to one such expert, I (2) ________ install an aquarium with six black and one red goldfish in my living room in order to absorb bad vibes. He also told me to pay attention to one of my windows. He advised me to put plants on the window still to (3) ________ the loss of positive energy. The real “weak spot” in my house, however, was the cooker. He reassured me that hanging some dried vegetable above it would solve the problem. Whether you (4) ________ in the power of Feng Shui or not, it is certainly having a major impact on the (5)________ thousands of people organize their home.
Question 1
A. based
B. put
C. held
D. carried
II. Give the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets. (10 pts)
It's tea time. (stop) (work) now.
When we (come) to visit her yesterday, she (cook) in the kitchen.
He’d like (choose) (take) part in this race.
While Linda and Margaret (prepare) the food, we (lay) the tables for the party.
When I (enter) the room, I felt that someone (break) in while I was out.
It's boring (listen) to music. I suggest (go) to the cinema for a change.
My father (try) to give up (smoke) four times without success.
By the time she (get) her degree next month, she (live) in Hanoi for over 4 years.
It’s time we (decide) where (hold) the next meeting.
I (never forget) what you (just tell) me, Tim.
Read the passage and complete the tasks that follow.
Black Friday is the Friday which follows Thanksgiving Day. Black Friday is celebrated in the United States as an official beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On the day, most shops open extremely early and offer promotional sales to boost the consumption, which is similar to Boxing Day after Christmas Day in Britain and many Commonwealth nations. For years, it was quite usual for retailers to open their shops at 6:00 a.m., but in the late 2000s many opened at 5:00 a.m. or even 4:00 a.m. The year 2011 witnessed a new extreme when several retailers opened at midnight. For non-retailer employees, they may have a day off work or choose to take a day from their annual leave on Black Friday. Some use this to make trips to see family members or friends who live in other areas or to go on vacation. Others use it to start shopping for the Christmas season. Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but is a public holiday in California and some other states in the United States.
Black Friday, to the police, is not a term of endearment. The name of the day originated in Philadelphia where it was first used by the Police Department to describe massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores were mobbed from opening to closing. Nowadays, Black Friday crowds that are hunting for bargains still give the police headaches. However, retailers do not appreciate the negative connotation associated with Black Friday. Therefore, there exists another explanation as to why it is called Black Friday. As they might put it, the term Black Friday came from an old way of recording business accounts: losses were recorded in red ink and profits in black ink. Therefore, an alternative explanation was made that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss, or "in the red", from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point where retailers begin to turn a profit, or get "in the black". It goes without saying that Black Friday positively means a profitable Friday to the retail industry.
Decide whether the following statements are True or False.
Black Friday and Boxing Day are celebrated on the same day.
A. True
B. False
Read the text and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.
Find native English speakers In certain areas it’s the hardest thing to do, but it’s the best use of your time. Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills, speaking or otherwise. So whether you have to Skype them, call them, or beg them to speak to you, do so. Your progress will be faster this way than any other.
Listen to the music of English No, not English music, the music of English - its lilt, its prosody, the sing-songy-ness of it. The intonation. Even if you speak perfect English technically, if you speak it like a robot you’re not speaking it the way it’s meant to be spoken.
Slow down Above all, if you want to be understood, slow down. The more clearly you speak, the better chance your listener has of understanding you. It’s tempting to get nervous and want to speed up to get it all over with, but you can’t do that! Clarity is key - for some native English speakers, too!
Record yourself Though we hear ourselves all the time, we really don’t know quite what we sound like. So record yourself! What are the weak and strong points you hear in your speech? And then you can concentrate on what you need to work on.
Speak English at home This is the biggest, easiest mistake to make. You go about your day, you’re on the job working partly in English, you go to your English class, and then you go home and revert back to your native tongue. While you may be making slow improvements, you’ll never get past that dreaded lingual plateau. Make a point to speak it at home, too. Have only English at the dinner table. Stick to English TV at home. Make it as 24/7 as possible.
Talking to actual native speakers is the least effective way to improve your English skills
A. True
B. False
Read the following passage and answer the questions below and tick True (T) or False (F).
Everyone wants to reduce pollution. But the pollution problem is as complicated as it is serious. It is complicated because much pollution is caused by things that benefit people. For example, exhaust from automobile provides transportation to millions of people. Factories discharge much of the material that pollutes the air and water, but factories give employment to a large number of people.
Question: Most people want to reduce pollution.
A. True
B. False
Are you looking (1)………………………a cheap, clean, effective source of power that doesn’t (2)…………………………pollution or waste natural resource? Look no further than solar energy. While most fuels now in use are (3)………………………burned at a big rate, solar energy, a power from the (4)………………………, will last as long as the world (5)……………………….This energy has been (6)……………………..to heat and cool homes or to cook food. It has been used (7)…………………… radio batteries and provided power for telephone lines. The devices, (8)…………………….., are cheap to operate but very expensive to produce.
Viết T (true) hay F (false) sau mỗi câu dưới đây
Solar energy will provide for a very long time.
Experimental treatment helps 2 out of 3 peanut allergy sufferers, study finds
Sometimes, Ellis Glover would be forced to leave her friends and sit at a lunch table where no one was eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Mom Monica Glover said the family discovered Ellis' peanut allergy when she was about 3. The tipoff: a skin reaction around her mouth after she was given food with a small amount of peanuts in it. "We were lucky to have discovered it that way. That was a mild reaction," Glover said, and a doctor confirmed the allergy through tests.
The discovery was "distressing," Glover said. Accidental exposure to peanuts has happened, resulting in "severe stomach cramps and vomiting," she said. "Essentially, we have to live in fear all the time of Ellis being inadvertently exposed to peanuts and having a reaction that is potentially life-threatening."
Glover seized the opportunity to participate in a study on the safety and effectiveness of an experimental treatment that could give her daughter protection against accidental exposure to peanuts. Despite the risk, it was "a gift," she said, adding that her family hoped their efforts might help "lots of other children."
The risk paid off: Two-thirds of the kids in the study were able to eat the equivalent of two peanuts without any symptoms after following the months-long experimental treatment regimen, the researchers found. Ellis is one of the majority of children for whom the treatment works. "It's been a huge success," her mother said.
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Complete the passage with the words in the box, then answer the questions bellow.
| from - | as - | which - | them - | because - | of |
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Everyone wants to reduce pollution. But pollution problem is ________ (1) complicated as it is serious. It is complicated ________ (2) much pollution is caused by things that benefit people. For example, exhaust ________ (3) automobiles causes a large percentage of all air pollution. But automobiles provide transportation for millions of people. Factories discharge much of the material ________ (4) pollutes the air and water, but factories give employment to a large number ________ (5) people. Too much fertilizer or pesticide can ruin soil, but fertilizers and pesticide are important aids to the growing of crops. Thus, to end or reduce pollution immediately, people would have to stop using many things that benefit ________ (6). Most people do not want to do that, of course. But pollution can be gradually reduced in several ways.
