Part 3: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. (15 points)
A POP STAR
John Lennon was (0)born in Liverpool in 1940. He was always (1).................................on music and played in a pop group (2) ........................................ school and Art college .
John (3).................................. married to Cynthia in 1962 and they had a son (4)............................... name was Julian. At that time, John was a member of a group (5)................................“ The Beatles” . Many beautiful songs (6) .................................. written by John and wherever the group went, crowds of fans gathered to see them . They (7).................................... scream and faint when “ The Beatles” played and lots of people have their hair cut in a Beatles style. Soon, everyone had heard (8)..................................... “The Beatles” and John was (9).............................. richer than he had ever thought.
Having achieved world-wide success, John started to make records (10)................................. his own after 1968 , and it was in the same year when (11).................................... marriage to Cynthia came to an end. He had met Yoko Ono (12).......................... he married the following year. John lost weight and grew his hair long , as can (13) ................................ seen on the covers of the records that he made with Yoko. He set up home in the United States and had a son called Sean.
Many people considered John Lennon to be (14) ............................... most talented of all “The Beatles”. He sang about peace and love and so when he was murdered by one of his fans, outside his New York apartment , the whole world (15).................................... shocked . More than 50,000 fans turned up to a ceremony in his memory. He was only forty when he died.
I. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Don't make noise now. My parents (take)......................... their usual afternoon nap .
2. While I (have)...................... a bath, the telephone (ring)..................... .
3. He prefers (play)................................ computer games to (read).......................... books.
4. If we (not save) .............................energy, there will be a shortage in the next century.
II. Read the passage and answer the following questions.
Alexander Fleming was bom in 1881 in Scotland. He to a small school in a village, and when he left school he didn't go to university. He worked for five years in an office. But his brother, Tom, was a doctor and helped Fleming to go to university and study medicine. So he went to London University and in 1906 he became a doctor. In 1915, Fleming mamied Sarah McElroy, an Irish woman. They had one son. During the First World War, many soldiers died in hospital because they didn't have the right medicines. So after the war, Fleming tried to find a drug that could help them. He worked for many years and in 192s he discovered a new drug and he called it "penicillin". He later worked with an Australian and a German scientist to develop a drug that doctors could use. In 1945, they won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on penicillin.
1. Where was Alexander Fleming bom?
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2. Did he work in an office before he went to university?
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3. What did he study at university?
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4. When did he win the Nobel Prize in medicine? Rewrite the sentences
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III. Rewrite the sentences.
1. Mary always went swimming after school last year.
->Mary used to.............................................................
2. My daughter has studied English for two years.
-> My daughter started .....................................................
3. She wants to buy that villa but it's too far expensive for her.
->She wishes..............................................................................
4. It took Nam two days to have a trip to the countryside last week.
->Nam spent......................................................................................
5. They have changed the date of the meeting.
-> The date .....................................................................................
In the first semester of grade 8, Ba had some difficulties in learning English. His pronunciation of English was really bad and his English grammar was worse. He didn't know how to improve. One day, his English teacher took him to the school library and showed him cassettes of pronunciation drills. His teacher also told him how to use an English - English dictionary to improve his English grammar. He made much progress and only short time later he got excellent grades in English. Now he likes learning English so much. 1. Which grade is Ba in? A. six B. seven C. eight D. nine 2. How was Ba’s pronunciation of English? A. good B. bad C.rather D. excellent 3. Who took him to the school library? A. his teacher B. his mother C.his friend D. his father 4. Does he like learning English so much now? A. No, thanks. B. No, he doesn’t C. Yes, let’s D. Yes, he does.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous nineteenth-century engineer. He (1) _________ born in 1806 in Portsmouth, a seaport in the South of England. In 1923, after studying (2) _________ two years in Paris, he started (3) _________ for his father, (4) _________ was an engineer and inventor. He had been born near Rouen in France but in 1792 had left France for the US and had later settled in England. Both father and son were responsible for the design (5) _________ construction of the first tunnel under the River Thames. The digging of this tunnel was (6) _________ in 1825 and completed twenty years later. Today, it (7) _________ part of the London Underground system.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel went (8) _________ to design the Great Britain (1845), (9) _________ was the first large ship to be built (10) _________ iron instead of wood. It was powered (11) _________ steam and made regular crossings of the Atlantic. Remarkably, this ship is (12) _________ in existence. It (13) _________ been restored and can be seen in Bristol (14) _________ it was originally built. (15) _________ of Brunel’s great engineering achievements was the construction of the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol. He designed all the stations, bridges, tunnel and viaducts along the line.
Brunel’s ideas were ahead of his time and had difficulties in convincing people that they were realistic, and, indeed, some of his projects were very ambitious, but he (16) _________ determined to find (17) _________ to the (18) _________ difficult problems. Overwork ruined his health and he (19) _________ at the age of fifty-two in 1859. The work of Brunel, and his father, has always been highly regarded and Brunel University, founded in 1966, is (20) _________ after both of them.
John was involved in a road (2)..........recently. It happened at a road (2)..........John's car had (3)..........down, and as he couldn't (4)..........to start it again, he had left it in the middle of the road. He wanted to find someone to help him (5)..........it to the garage. Just then, a car came round the corner. John (6)..........at the driver but the car was going too (7)..........to stop. It (8)..........and (9)..........John's car. Luckily nobody was (10).........., but the police decided that John was to (11)........... They said that he shouldn't have (12)..........the car in the middle of the road. He told them that he had (13)..........on his warning lights and he thought that other cars would be (14)...........to stop in (15)........... Even so, he had to appear in (16)........... He (17)..........that it was his (18)..........because he had (19)..........to the other driver. But he had to pay a (20)..........of $150.
Rewrite sent:
1. He is no longer comes late for class
--> He used................................
2. It took him an hour to solve that exercise
--> He solve .........................................
3. Kate took 2 aspirins and then she felt a lot better
--> After talking..............................................................
4. We had a lot of friends when we lived in the countryside
--> We used .......................................................
5. "Please buy me a newpaper on the way home" her father said
--> He father reminded.................................................
As a child, Phong always dreamt of going........... to study................. he graduated from high school, his parents sent him over to New Zealand to attend college. Phong was very happy that his dream finally....true.When he first arrived in the country, Phong's English wasn't very good and st he did not....... what orther people said.He also had difficulties in class because he wasn't familiar with the new teaching and learning method.He felt .......... in this new place, and missed all his bubbies in Vn.The food there was so different..............what his mum used to cook for him.And for the first time in his life, Phong had to think about his finances, and to plan his spending.............. But Phong was young and enthusiastic.He learnt to.......... to this new environment. After 2 years, Phong is now very...... in English and has achieved the top academic award at his school . He has a lot of friends from different countries, He is even good ....... being able to earn money for his daily needs from his part-time job at a restaurant
I charlie chaplin was born in a very poor part of London......................father was a comedian and his mother worked.............a dancer and a singer.Neither of them ...............sucessfull so the family ...............very little money .The first tim he himself earned....by dancing and singing he was only five years old .He did many kinds of jobs but what he loved best was working.......... the theatre
When he.........about fifteen he joined a traveling theatre company and went on trips to Amerian .On one such tour,.............was offered a part in a film director
He died in Switzerland in 1977 at the ...........of 88 there is now a statue of him in Leisester Square ,London , the city of his birth and early up-bringing
I/ Choose the words that have the underlined part pronounced differently from the others. 1. A sound B. cloud C. found D. favourite
2. A. tool B. noon C. door D. school
3. A. know B. show C. now D. low
4. A. crafts B. comics C. streets D. stamps
5. A. mention B. question C. action D. education
6. A. leisure B. pleasure C. ensure D. measure
7. A. minority B. ethnic C. tradition D. religion
8. A. recognised B. designed C. displayed D. entered
9. A. country B. cloud C. loudly D. mouse
10. A. camel B. cattle C. paddy D. buffalo
11. A. populated B. loaded C. harvested D. lived
12. A. normal B. visitor C. transport D. chore
13. A. nomad B. badly C. adore D. language
14. A. behaved B. bored C. hoped D. tried
15. A. looked B. cooked C. naked D. booked
II. Choose A, B, C, D for each gap in the following sentences.
1. My mother enjoys_________ traditional food for our family, especially at Tet holiday.
A. cook B. to cook C. cooking D. cooked
2. My father sometimes goes_________ in the forests. He‟d like to find some more food for our family.
A. hunt B. hunting C. to hunt D. hunted
3. Look! Some children are_________ the buffaloes.
A. picking B. herding C. driving D. playing
4. The sky is_________ here in the countryside because there are no buildings to block the view.
A. tidy B. close C. dense D. vast
5. Is living in the city_________ than living in the country?
A. more convenient B. as convenient C. most convenient D. so convenient
6. He is surprised_________ that there are 54 ethnic groups in our country.
A. to understand B. to study C. to know D. find
7. The Viet (or Kinh) have_________ number of people, account for about 86% of the population.
A. large B. the large C. larger D. the largest
8. _________ethnic group has a larger population, the Tay or the Ede?
A. What B. Which C. Why D. Who
III. Read the passages and write True for (T) of False for (F).
His early life
George Washington was born in Virginia. His family owned a big farm and had George didn‟t have much education. During his life he had three jobs: he was a farmer, a soldier, and a politician. He loved the life of a farmer. He grew tobacco and owned horses. He worked hard but he also liked dancing and going to the theatre. In 1759 he married a widow called Martha Custis. They were happy together, but didn‟t have any children.
His later life
He was Commander-in-Chief of the army and fought the British in the War of Independence. When the war ended in 1781 he was happy to go back to the farm, but his country wanted him to be President. Finally, in 1789, he became President, and gave his name to the new capital city. He started the building of the White House, but he never lived in it. By 1797 he was tired of politics. He went back to his farm and died there two years later.
1. ____________He came from a rich family.
2. ____________He loved being a politician.
3. ____________He worked hard.
4. ____________He had a lot of other interests.
5. ____________He had a good education.
6. ____________He married, but didn‟t have any children.
7. ____________He was in office for eight years.
8. ____________He was happy to live and work on the farm.
9. ____________Finally he was tired of politics and resigned.
10. ____________Americans loved him very much.