Ask and answer the questions. Give a reasons for answer.
How often do you...?
a) send a message to your boss or teacher to say you are sick
b) share important news on facebook
c) send an e-card instead of a real card
d) buy presents people online
e) start conversations with new people
f) write emails in English
g) call friends and relatives on Skype
h) send video by instant message
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Going to party can be fun and enjoyable. If you are invited to a party, do call your host up early to inform him or her of whether you are going. If you want to bring someone who has not been invited along with you, you should ask for permission first. Remember to dress appropriately for the party. You will stick out like a sore thumb if you are dressed formally whereas everyone else is in T-shirt and jeans. If you are not sure what to wear, do ask your host.
During the party you may perhaps like to help your host by offering to serve drinks or wash the dishes. Your host would certainly appreciate these efforts. If you happen to be in a party you do not know anyone, do not try to monopolize the host's attention. This is inconsiderate since your host has many people to attend to and can not spend all his or her time with you. Instead, learn to mingle with others at the party. You could try breaking the ice by introducing yourself to someone who is friendly-looking.
Before you leave the party, remember to thank your host first. If you have the time, you could even offer to help your host clean up the place
1. What will you do if you are invited to a party?
2. What should you do during the party to help your host?
3. What could you do if you don't know anyone at the party?
4. Should guests leave the party without saying thank to their host?
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III. Choose the option (A, B, C or D) corresponding to the best sentence that is made up from the sets of words and phrases given.
31. our I post office / well-trained staff / always / thoughtful / courteous / customers.
A. A well-trained staff in our post office, who are always thoughtful and courteous to customers.
B. Our post office has a well-trained staff, who are always thoughtful and courteous to customers.
C. Our post office has a well-trained staff, that are always thoughtful and courteous to customers.
D. Our post office has a well-trained staff, they are always thoughtful and courteous to customers.
32. if /you/ want I send / document I original shape / our facsimile service / help.
A. If you want to send a document for original shape our facsimile will help you.
B. If you want to send a document to original shape our facsimile will help you.
C. If you want to send a document with original shape our facsimile will help you.
D. If you want to send a document with original shape our facsimile would help you.
33. equipped / our school library / advanced technology,
A. Our school library is equipped with advanced technology.
B. Advanced technology is equipped for our school library.
C. Our school library is equipped in advanced technology.
D. Advanced technology equipped our school library.
34. you/ help /me / send / document I office /fax?
A. Could you help me sending this document to my office by fax?
B. Could you help me send this document into my office by fax?
C. Could you help me to send this document to my office in fax?
D. Could you help me to send this document to my office by fax?
35. fax transmission / convenient way / transmit / texts / graphic / distances.
A. Fax transmission is a convenient way to transmit texts and graphic with distances.
B. Fax transmission is a convenient way transmitting texts and graphic over distances.
C. Fax transmission is a convenient way to transmit texts and graphic over distances.
D. Fax transmission is convenient way to transmit texts and graphic over distances.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank
Thanksgiving is a traditional American (1).......... Americans (2)........... Thanksgiving on the third Thursday in November . On this day , Americans (3) .............. the first harvest of the first group of Europeans in America . Americans eat a (4)....... dinner on Thanksgiving . They eat turkey , cranberries , sweet potatoes , and pumpkin pie . These are the (5)........ people ate at the first harvest . People don't exchange presents , but some people send Thanksgiving cards to their friends .
1. A. weekday B. holiday C. birthday D. national day
2. A. celebrate B. put C. get D. open
3. A. remember B. run C. pass D. find
4. A. traditional B. traditons C. tradition D. traditionally
5. A. foods B. kinds C. grains D. groceries
Read the passage carefully , then choose the correct answers .
Having a best friend to confide in can bring a positive effect on our emotional heath . An evening out with the closest friend may be the best guarantee of a good time . In fact , our best friend can prevent us from developing serious psychological problems such as depression and anxiety . Best friendship evolves with time - we cannot go out and pick our best friend . We become friends with people who share common interests - at school or through hobbies , for example . Best friends have usually known each other for years and stuck together through good and bad times . If you haven't got one , perhaps you are being too distant from people , or focusing too much on your work .
1/ A best friend can ...........................................
a. give us a healthy life
b. go out with us in the evening
c. spend much time finding
d. share joy and sadness with us
2/ Close friends need to ...................................
a. study at the same school
b. have the same interests
c. pursue the same hobbies
d. spend time together
3/ According to the passage , .............................................................................
a. it takes a lot of time to make close friendships
b. we can go out and choose a good friend easily
c. best friends have good and bad times
d. It's very difficult to make lasting friendships
4/ The word " one " in the last paragraph refers to .....................................
a. good time
b. bad time
c. a friendship
d. a close friend
5/ Which of the following sentences is not mentioned ?
a. We often have satisfaction being with a close friend
b. the ties of close friendship will never be broken
c. An unsociable person may not have a close friend
d. Friendships need time to develop .
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1. Do you prefer to write by hand or type? Why?
2. What is the difference between writing with a pen and typing on a computer?
3. Do you think computes might replace handwriting one day? Why?
4. How important is handwriting in your country?
It might not have looked very impressive, but the Penny Black, now 170 years old, was the first stamp to be created and it launched the modem postal system in Britain.
Before 1840 and the arrival of the Penny Black, you had to be rich and patient to use the Royal Mail. Delivery was charged according to the miles travelled and the number of sheets of paper used; a 2-page letter sent from Edinburgh to London, for example, would have cost 2 shillings, or more than £7 in today’s money. And when the top-hatted letter carrier came to deliver it, it was the recipient who had to pay for the postage. Letter writers employed various ruses to reduce the cost, doing everything possible to cram more words onto a page. Nobody bothered with heavy envelopes; instead, letters would be folded and sealed with wax. You then had to find a post office - there were no pillar boxes - and hope your addressee didn't live in one of the several rural areas which were not served by the system. If you were lucky, your letter would arrive (it could take days) without being read or censored.
The state of mail had been causing concern throughout the 1830s, but it was Rowland Hill, an inventor, teacher and social reformer from Kidderminster, who proposed a workable plan for change. Worried that a dysfunctional, costly service would stifle communication just as Britain was in the swing of its second industrial revolution, he believed reform would ease the distribution of ideas and stimulate trade and business, delivering the same promise as the new railways.
Hill’s proposal for the penny post, which meant any letter weighing less than half an ounce (14 grams) could be sent anywhere in Britain for about 30p in today’s money, was so radical that the Postmaster General, Lord Lichfield, said, 'Of all the wild and visionary schemes which I ever heard of, it is the most extravagant.’ Lord Lichfield spoke for an establishment not convinced of the need for poor people to post anything. But merchants and reformers backed Hill. Soon the government told him to make his scheme work. And that meant inventing a new type of currency.
Hill quickly settled on 'a bit of paper covered at the back with a glutinous wash which the user might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of a letter’. Stamps would be printed in sheets of 240 that could be cut using scissors or a knife. Perforations would not arrive until 1854. The idea stuck, and in August 1839 the Treasury launched a design competition open to ‘all artists, men of science and the public in general’. The new stamp would need to be resistant to forgery, and so it was a submission by one Mr Cheverton that Hill used as the basis for one of the most striking designs in history. Cheverton, who worked as a sculptor and an engineer, determined that a portrait of Queen Victoria, engraved for a commemorative coin when she was a 15-year-old princess, was detailed enough to make copying difficult, and recognisable enough to make fakes easy to spot. The words ‘Postage’ and ‘One Penny’ were added alongside flourishes and ornamental stars. Nobody thought to add the word ‘Britain’, as it was assumed that the stamps would solely be put to domestic use.
With the introduction of the new postal system, the Penny Black was an instant hit, and printers struggled to meet demand. By the end of 1840, more than 160 million letters had been sent - more than double the previous year. It created more work for the post office, whose reform continued with the introduction of red letter boxes, new branches and more frequent deliveries, even to the remotest address, but its lasting impact on society was more remarkable.
Hill and his supporters rightly predicted that cheaper post would improve the ‘diffusion of knowledge’. Suddenly, someone in Scotland could be reached by someone in London within a day or two. And as literacy improved, sections of society that had been disenfranchised found a voice.
Tristram Hunt, an historian, values the ‘flourishing of correspondence’ that followed the arrival of stamps. ‘While I was writing my biography of Friedrich Engels I could read the letters he and Marx sent between Manchester and London,’ he says. ‘They wrote to each other three times a day, pinging ideas back and forth so that you can almost follow a real-time correspondence.’
The penny post also changed the nature of the letter. Weight-saving tricks such as cross-writing began to die out, while the arrival of envelopes built confidence among correspondents that mail would not be stolen or read. And so people wrote more private things - politically or commercially sensitive information or love letters. ‘In the early days of the penny post, there was still concern about theft,’ Hunt says. ‘Engels would still send Marx money by ripping up five-pound notes and sending the pieces in different letters.’ But the probity of the postal system became a great thing and it came to be expected that your mail would not be tampered with.
For all its brilliance, the Penny Black was technically a failure. At first, post offices used red ink to cancel stamps so that they could not be used again. But the ink could be removed. When in 1842, it was determined that black ink would be more robust, the colour of the Penny Black became a sort of browny red, but Hill’s brainchild had made its mark.
1. One of the characteristics of the postal service before the 1840s was that
A. postmen were employed by various organisations.
B. letters were restricted to a certain length.
C. distance affected the price of postage.
D. the price of delivery kept going up.
2. Letter writers in the 1830s
A. were not responsible for the cost of delivery.
B. tried to fit more than one letter into an envelope.
C. could only send letters to people living in cities.
D. knew all letters were automatically read by postal staff.
3. What does the text say about Hill in the 1830s?
A. He was the first person to express concern about the postal system.
B. He considered it would be more efficient for mail to be delivered by rail.
C. He felt that postal service reform was necessary for commercial development.
D. His plan received support from all the important figures of the day.
PASSIVE INFINITIVE and GERUND
1 the rest of the money wnanted .... (send) to his parents.
2 he was always insisted on .....(call) Dr.tuner instead of Mr.turne.
3 the bird was lucky that it just missed ....(catch).
4 please excuse me coming in without .....( invite).
5 no one can prevent the plan from ( carry out).
6 this page needs ......( check) agian.
7 when he heard the bag news , he stood there .....( surpise).
8 the hotel .....( build) now beside the park was designed by a groud of young men.
9 anne hopes ..... ( invite ) to join the private club . she could make important business contact there.
10 people like .... ( congratulated) when they have worked hard.
Read the passage carefully , then decide whether the following statements are true ( T ) or false ( F ) .
The proverb " A friend in need is a friend indeed " means that we shall know who our real friends are when we are in need . Those who desert us when we are in difficulty are just unfaithful friends .
A true friend would remain with us whether we are rich or poor . Some people be friend the rich , simply for the sake of getting benefits from them .
It is useless to have insincere friends because these friends remain with us as long as we are rich or powerful . It is better to have one or two good friends rather than having hundreds of insincere ones .
A true friend will stand by us in our trials and tribulations . He will be a great source of consolation and comfort in our troubles . So we must be careful in choosing our friends . It is difficult to choose a sincere friend overnight ; it takes years for us to find a sincere friend .
1. Real friends share everything we need
2. Unfaithful friends stop being our friends when we are in trouble
3. A rich friend is always a true friend
4. A true friend is always loyal to us and supports us through our difficulties
5. It's not worth having a lot of friends
6. It may take a lot of time to find a real friend .
