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

I. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES? USE THE WORDS IN BRACKETS TO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES.
1. How pail that girl í! (faint)
She..............................
2. The man can't see where he's walking. There is a hole in front of him (fall)
He..........................
3. There is a hole in the bottom of the boat. A lot of water is coming in through the hole .(sink)
The boat..............................
4. Emma is driving . There is very little petrol left in the tank. The nearest petrol station is a long way away.(run out)
She.............................................
5. I feel terrible .(be sick).
I think I .........................

II. Change the sentences from active into the passive voice.

 1. Rubbish is damaging communications satellites.

 2. They are opening a new hotel in my street.

3. Scientists were investigating the “black hole” over the South Pole at that time.

4. My sister is making a dress for my mom’s birthday.

5. When we came, the little boy was painting a picture of the tiger that he saw in the zoo.

6. He is taking his children to the zoo this Sunday.

 7. In the conference room, people were using a lot of different languages.

8. Someone left this purse in a classroom yesterday.

9. Where did you buy this dictionary?

 10. How often does your mother take you to the cinema?

II. Change the sentences from active into the passive voice.
1. Rubbish is damaging communications satellites.
2. They are opening a new hotel in my street.
3. Scientists were investigating the “black hole” over the South Pole at that time.
4. My sister is making a dress for my mom’s birthday.
5. When we came, the little boy was painting a picture of the tiger that he saw in the zoo.
6. He is taking his children to the zoo this Sunday.
7. In the conference room, people were using a lot of different languages.
8. Someone left this purse in a classroom yesterday.
9. Where did you buy this dictionary?
10. How often does your mother take you to the cinema

TRUE or FALSE?

It’s Monday today. We are in the Vietnamese class. Now all the pupils are looking at the board and writing a dictation. But some students are talking about the coming football match. We are listening to the teacher, Mr. Steve. He is writing a poem on the black board. The birds are singing and the sun is shining. Some women are riding their bike to the nearby market. It’s so relaxing here.

Mr. Steve is writing a poem on the black board. _________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 29 to 36.

What is commonly called pepper in reality comes from two very different families of plants. Black and white pepper both come from the fruit of the Piper nigrum, a vine with fruits called peppercorns. The peppercorns turn from green to red as they ripen and finally blacken as they dry out. The dried-out peppercorns are ground to obtain black pepper. White pepper, which has a more subtle flavour than black pepper, comes from the same peppercorns as black pepper. To obtain white pepper, the outer hull of the peppercorn, the pericarp, is removed before the peppercorn is ground. Red and green pepper, on the other hand, come from a completely different family from black and white pepper. Red and green peppers are from the genus Capsicum. Plants of this type generally have tiny white flowers and fruit which can be any of a number of colours, shapes and sizes. These peppers range in flavour from very mild and sweet to the most incredibly burning taste imaginable. Bell peppers are the most mild, while habanros are the most burning.

Christopher Columbus is responsible for the present-day confusion over what pepper is. The Piper nigrum variety of pepper was highly valued for centuries, and high demand for pepper by Europeans was a major cause of the fifteen-century push to locate ocean routes to the spice-growing regions of Asia. When Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, he was particularly interested in finding black pepper because of the high price it would command in Europe. Columbus came across plants from the Capsicum family in use among people of the New World, and he incorrectly identified them as relatives of black pepper. Columbus introduced the spicy Capsicum chili peppers to Europeans on his return from the 1492 voyage, and traders later spread them to Asia and Africa. These Capsicum peppers have continued to be called peppers in spite of the fact that they are not related to the black and white pepper of the Piper nigrum family

The pronoun them refers to ______. 

A. Europeans 

B. plants 

C. people 

D. relatives 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Ms. Black and Ms. White are talking about Mr. Brown’s upcoming retirement.

Ms. Black: Mr. Brown is going to retire next month.”

Ms, White: “__________”

A. Oh, I have no idea

B. You don't say!

C. Right, you'd probably be the next

D. Congratulations!

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Ms. Black and Ms. White are talking about Mr. Brown’s upcoming retirement.

Ms. Black: “Mr. Brown is going to retire next month.”

Ms. White: “_______”.

A. Oh, I have no idea

B. You don't say!

C. Right, you'd probably be the next

D. Congratulations!