Ten per cent of the population is left-handed. There is a lot of social

(1)..............discrimination........... against left-handed people. How difficult is it for                      DISCRIMINATE

them to live in a right-handed world?

A number of (2) ................practical......... items such as scissors have been                 PRACTICE

designed for right-handed people. It can be very (3) .........inconvenient................                     CONVENIENT

for lefties” to be sitting next to “righties” during dinner.                                               

(4) ..................Commonly....... used computer keys are on the right of the keyboard.          COMMON

Lefties have to use their own sports (5) ............equipment............. .                                            EQUIP

Less (6) ............frequency............... used car controls such as headlight switches FREQUENT

are on the right.                                              

Forcing children to use their right hand can cause (7) .................hatefulness.......                      HATE

Of school, which can then impact their academic (8) ...........development.............                       DEVELOP

It can also result in disastrous learning (9) ...........disability..............like dyslexia. ABILITY

Trying to make “lefties” use their right hand can explain their often

rebellious (10) ............behaviour............. at school, their clumsiness and                  BEHAVE

frustration.

1. regularly

2. modern

3. competition

4. preparation

5. challenging

6. different

7. friendship

8. dedicated

9. ambitious

10. achievement

1. regularly

2. modern

3. competition

4. in preparation for

5. challenging

6. different

7. friendship

8. dedicated

9. ambitious

10. achievement

Chúc em học tốt

1. regularly

2. modern

3. competition

4. preparation

5. challenging

6. different

7. friendship

8. dedicated

9. ambitious

10. achievement

Part 3. Use the words given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. (5 pts)

1. To be honest, I was _____ disappointed _____ at the result of the game. DISAPPOINT

2. The spread of fatal diseases has caused ______disastrous____ consequences for the country. DISASTER

3. Their _______marriage___ took place in the church 30 years ago. MARRY

4. She won the first prize for her ______amazement ____ performance in the competition. AMAZE

5. He became ______extremely____ interested in business, so he changed his course. EXTREME

6. Yesterday George was ______absent____ from class because he had a cold. ABSENCE

7. You should not give your _____personal_____ information to strangers. PERSON

8. Unfortunately, the new software has failed to meet our_______expectation___. EXPECT

9. The ______treatment____ seems to be effective and his health is better now. TREAT

10. The number of _____visitors_____ to my town has increased considerably so far. VISIT

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We all know stories about people with exceptional memories who have the ability to remember hundreds of numbers after hearing them only once .Now experts are saying that such feats can be taught.
For example, most people can repeat about nine numbers if they are read out one a second. In one experiment, ten hours' training produced only a small improvement, but the results after practising for a thousand hours were amazing: some people remembered 80 ar even 100 numbers. Similarly, most adults can identify only about five out of a set of 21 colours that are only slightly different. But after 80 training hours one person could recognise 18 of them. Studies of 76 major composers show that it took at least ten years of musical training before any of them wrote a major work. Psychologists are therefore raising the possibility that genius is the product of teaching

Exercise 28                   HEALTHY EATING

In the past, any mother would be (0).........proud..........if                            PRIDE

her children were round and slightly fat. Those

days are gone. (1)........Researchers.............have now reached the              RESEARCH

(2)........conclusion........that too much fat and sugar in her children's      CONCLUDE

diets are a major factor in the (3)..........development..........of heart                DEVELOP

diseases and other(4)............illnesses.............when they are older.                     ILL

However, (5)................growing ......children need to eat  a wide                   GROW

range of foods, and their general health could                             

be(6).......... endangered..........by cutting out particular ones. Psychologists   DANGER

say that the (7).......... solution ............is not to change                                   SOLVE

eating habits too fast, but to do it (8)........... carefully..........., so                      CARE        

that children do not lose muscle in addition to                                 

fat. Parents should present food a little (9)........... differently........        DIFFERENCE

, spread butter thinly and avoid putting sugar

on the table. Children should also be(10)....... encouraged ......                     COURAGE

to take part in sports: this way they will be using

the calories that they have eaten.

Exercise 29        COLLECTING EGGCUPS

People collect a large (0)..........................of objects:                         VARY

stamps, postcards, dolls. Some people collect

objects which are connected with (1).................                          HISTORY

events or with (2)..................people. But one of                                FAME

the strangest(3).............is that of eggcups.                                 COLLECT

Kenvin Murphy of Bradford in Yorkshire has

10.000 of them. Not (4)..................., his favorite                       SUPPRISE

eggcup is one in the shape of a (5)...................  Yorkshire man          TYPE

. Kenvin's hobby began seven years ago                         

,  after he (6)..................an elephant eggcup to                                  LOAN

a granddaughter who took such a (7)............................                       LIKE

to it she insisted on keeping it. Kenvin saw a few

eggcups he liked at a (8)......................at a local shop,                        SELL

and started collecting them.

Others like Kenvin's eggcup too. " I have just

bought a ( 9)................for one of my favorites,                           REPLACE

which (10)................disappeared last week, " he said               MYSTERY

1. Variety         2. historical         3. famous          4. collection          5. surprisingly

6. Strangest     7. sale                   8. Others            9. replacement    10. Mysteriously

III. Read the text below. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

       Example: (0) impossible

   These days it is(o)………….......................to open a newspaper without                 POSSIBLE

reading about the damage we are doing to the environment.

The earth is being(1)…………...threatened ..................and the future looks bad.                         THREAT

What can each of us do?

   We cannot clean up our(2)…………....polluted ..................rivers and seas overnight.         POLLUTION

Nor can we stop the(3)…………….........disappearance..........of plants and animals. But                  APPEAR

we can stop adding to the problem while(4)…………scientists …….................        ..........           SCIENCE

search for answers, and laws are passed in nature’s(5)………dependence ……...............                       DEFEND

   It may not be easy to change your lifestyle(6)…………completely….................., but               COMPLETE

some steps are easy to take: cut down the amount of(7)………driving…..................           DRIVE

you do or use as little plastic as possible. It is also easy to save energy,

which also reduces(8)……………household.................bills. We must all make                           HOUSE

a personal (9)…………decision…................... to work for the future of our planet if             DECIDE

we want to (10)………ensure…....................a better world for our grand- children

III. Read the text below. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

       Example: (0) impossible

   These days it is(o)………….....impossible..................to open a newspaper without                 POSSIBLE

reading about the damage we are doing to the environment.

The earth is being(1)…………..threatened...................and the future looks bad.                         THREAT

What can each of us do?

   We cannot clean up our(2)…………......polluted................rivers and seas overnight.         POLLUTION

Nor can we stop the(3)……………disappearance...................of plants and animals. But                  APPEAR

we can stop adding to the problem while(4)……………scientists….................        ..........           SCIENCE

search for answers, and laws are passed in nature’s(5)…………….dependence ..............                       DEFEND

   It may not be easy to change your lifestyle(6)……………..completely................, but               COMPLETE

some steps are easy to take: cut down the amount of(7)…………drving..................           DRIVE

you do or use as little plastic as possible. It is also easy to save energy,

which also reduces(8)……………household.................bills. We must all make                           HOUSE

a personal (9)……………....decision............... to work for the future of our planet if             DECIDE

we want to (10)…………....ensure................a better world for our grand- children.           SURE

1It (1)is estimated that about 200 million people who use the Internet computer network around the world. Most people use the Internet to (2)get information or (3)for entertainment. A new study, however, says that almost 6 % of internet users are using it so often (4)that it is seriously harming (5)their lives. The study says these people may find it difficult to stop using the Internet (6)because they have become addicted. Someone (7)who is addicted finds it extremely difficult to stop an activity. According to Mr. Greenfield a psychologist , 30 % internet users say that they use the internet to escape (8)from problems or emotions. The study (9)also shows that having discussions (10)with strangers in internet areas called 'chat room is one of the most addictive activities

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2 get

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Part 4. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. (5 pts)

Have you ever had a really boring job? When I 1. _____ was _____ a student, I did lots of different jobs during the summer vacation, ranging 2. ____ and______ picking fruit to working for a furniture removal company. Fruit picking is hard work, but 3. ___at_______ least you are outside and have the company of other pickers. Probably the least pleasant job 4. _____?_____ I had was working in the fridge of a butcher's shop where I had to sort pieces of chickens. But 5. _______ without___ a doubt, the prize for the 6. _____ most_____ boring job has to go to the one I had working for a sports equipment company.

My task was to put six table tennis balls into boxes. They left me in a room with a huge container of thousands of balls. I was stuck out 7. _____of_____ sight at the back of the storeroom without even a radio for company. A day in the room felt 8. _____as_____ a month. There is one funny thing I remember: there were supposed 9. _____to_____ be two speeds of ball: one fast and one that was slower for 10. _____the_____ experienced players. The thing was, they were actually the same ball, they just went into different boxes!

V. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).Example: 0. successful

COMPUTER SKILLS IN THE OFFICE

To be (0) .............. (success) in the business market, it is vital for a company to keep up with all the latest technological (41) ........development......... (develop).

Nowadays it is (42) ......widely........ (wide) accepted that running a company without computers, in particular, is virtually (43) .......impossible....... (possible) This is why businesses are so keen to hire the best people available for their technology departments.

Apart from the needs of the technology department, it is important that almost all employees have some degree of (44) ........familiarity....... (familiar) with personal or desktop computers, even if this involves no more than the (45) .......completion....... (complete) of a basic computer course. Like all new things, however, most people will only become (46) ........comfortable...... (comfort) with using computers after practical experience.

Thanks to computers, today's businesses are run and managed with far less (47) .......difficulty....... (difficult) than companies could hope to achieve in the past. For example, computers enable the (48) .........organisation......... (organise) of huge amounts of information and greatly speed up the (49) .......preparation....... (prepare) of documents and reports.

In short, although the average businessperson has no need to be a technology expert, they are unlikely to get very far without at least a basic (50) ........knowledge...... (know) of computers. 

VI. Choose the correct option for each numbered blank to finish the passage.

Did you ever have someone's name on the tip of your tongue and yet you were unable to recall it? When this happens again, do not (51) _______ to recall it. Do something (52) _____ for a couple of minutes, and the name may come into your head. The name is there since you have met (53) ______ person and learned his name. It only has to be dug out. The initial effort to recall (54) ______ the mind for operation, but it is the subconscious activities that go to work to dig up a (55) ______ memory. Forcing yourself to recall (56) ______ never helps because it doesn't (57) _______ your memory; it only tightens it. Students find the preparatory method helpful (58) __________ examinations. They read over the questions {59) ______ trying to answer any of them. Then they answer first the ones (60) ______ which they are mostconfident. Meanwhile, deeper mental activities in the subconscious mind are taking (61) ________ ; work is being done on the (62) ______ difficult question. By the time the easier questions are answered, answers (63) _____ the more difficult ones will usually begin to (64) ______ into consciousness. It is often (65) ______ a question of waiting for recall to comz to the memory.

51. A. try B. want c. hesitate D. wait

52. A. simple B. apart c. else D. similar

53. A. some B. certain c. a D. this

54. A. leads B. begins c. helps D. prepares

55. A. light B. fresh c. dim D. dark

56. A. merely B. almost c. barely D. hardly

57. A. loosen B. weaken c. decrease D. reduce

58. A. into B. in c. about D. by

59. a . after B. besides c. before D. against

60. A. Of B. with c. for D. in

61. A. place B. shape c. charge D. action

62. A. too B. less c. not D. more

63. A. to B. of c. about D. for

64. A. appear B. grow c. extend D. come

65. A. nearly B. likely c. just D. even