I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to (1)_______you about it. I was very (2)_______when I knew I was going to Australia because I had never been there before. I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English (3)_______I met my host family. At first I couldn’t communicate with them because my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning English wasn’t much used at all (4)_______we didn’t have real practice at school. Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t. My problem is (5)_______ ‘l’ and ‘r’. For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat in Vietnam?” I wanted to tell them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice”…

1. A. say B. tell C. talk D. speak

2. A. exciting B. excites C. excited D. excite

3 A. after B. until C. when D. while

4. A. although B. even C. because D. so

5 A. pronouncing B. speaking C. reading D. telling

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer 
I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to (1)____you about it. I was very
(2)________when I knew l was going to Australia because 1 had never been there before. I didn’t think about
the problems of speaking English (3j________1 met my host family. At first 1 couldn’t communicate with
them because my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning English wasn’t much used at all
(4)________we didn’t have real practice at school. Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation
wasn’t. My problem is (5)________‘1’ and ‘r’. For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat
in Vietnam?” I wanted to tell them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice”...

1. A. say B. tell C. talk D. speak

2. A. exciting B. excites C. excited D. excite

3. A. after B. until C. when D. while

4. A. although B. even C. because D. so

5. A. pronouncing B. speaking C. reading D. telling

III. Fill in each gap with a suitable word to complete the following passage

My nam is Linda Black. I'm forty-eight years___and this is my plan when I retire. Well, when I retire, I'm going on___Vietnamese. I can already speak French, Italian, and German and I want to learn___language. I'm also going to learn to drive. I never had time to learn___I was younger. Then I'm going to wear boring clothes. I'm tired___blouses and skirts. I'm going to___jeans and tracksuits all the time. And when I come___from my travels I'm going___a book and become a TV star and tell everyone about the places I__and the people I met

I. Fill in each blank of the following passage with only one suitable word.

   When I first started learning English ten years ago, I could   (1)   a word- "Hello", "Goodbye", "Thank you" was just about it. I went to classes two evenings a week and I was surprised at how quickly I   (2)   progress.   (3) the course we learned a lot of vocabulary and studied grammar rules.   (4) thing I enjoyed most was to be able to practice speaking English with the orther students in my class.

    After two years I went to England to a language school. It was in Cambridge. I   (5)  a three-week course at a very good school and I  (6)  with a local family. It was a fantastic experience and I picked  (7)  a lot of new language from speaking with my host family and with other students   (8)  all over the world. I really  (9)  my pronunciation as well. When I got   (10)  to Spain, I was so much more confident. I could actually hold a conversation with my teacher in English

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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 36 to 42.

    When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few meters from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not?

          Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get irritated with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend’s in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail

The word “rough” is closest in meaning to ____________.

A. careful

B. forceful

C. easy

D. mild

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.

When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few metres from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not?

Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get irritated with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend’s in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail.

The word “rough” is closest in meaning to ______________.

A. careful

B. forceful

C. easy

D. mild

* Read the passage carefully and choose the best word or phrase given to fill in each numbered blank:

“ Good accommodation makes a successful career”. I didn’t believe in this saying until I arrived (1) ________ here to start my new job. At first, I stayed in a mini hotel, but I soon realized that I needed a permanent (2) _______ to live in as I was going to work in this city for long. The (3) _______ apartment I had a look at was in the basement of a deteriorating old building; so it was (4) _______ very damp in winter, especially when the weather become snowy, apart (5) _______ the fact that the only view was that of a dull red brick wall. (6) _______ I looked over a small apartment in a modern (7) _______ . It had a comfortable (8) _______ space for my big car and a large garden, but the (9) _______ was certainly too high for me to afford. I didn’t want to (10) _______ up in a narrow, dirty place at all; so I decided to (11) _______ a tiny ad for home sharing in the (12) _______ newspaper. This house was in a quiet neighborhood, and as (13) _______ as I saw it, I immediately (14) _______ in love with it. I have been living there (15) _______ then and have done my job even more successfully than ever before.

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 43 to 50.

         When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few meters from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not?

         Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get angry with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend's in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail.

The word "rough"in the passage  is closest in meaning to ___________.

A. forceful 

B. beautiful           

C. careful    

D. easy

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 36 to 42.

    When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few meters from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not?

          Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get irritated with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend’s in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail

The following are true EXCEPT ___________.

A. the waves came crashing into the writer's front garden in bad weather

B. the write moved to a new house when he was 8

C. the writer didn't know how to sail

D. the distance from the writer's house to school was 8 miles