II. Complete the reading with a word from the list.

                                             Da Lat
Da Lat, also spelled Dalat, city in (1) province, southeastern Vietnam, in the Lang Bian (2). Linked by road and rail with the coast at Phan Rang, the city is a market center for (3) grown vegetables (4) for nearby coffee, tea, and rubber plantations. It is an (5) resort founded in 1920 by a French physician as a therapeutic retreat from the tropical heat of the (6). There are pine (7), lakes, and waterfalls on the plateau and a 2135-m (7000-ft) mountain north of the (8). Da Lat was once the summer (9) and there are many villas in the city, (10) those of the former (11) Bao Dai, and the governors of Cochin China and Annam. The city has a university and a sanatorium. The city has grown (12) in recent years since the government (13) encouraging people to move out of overcrowded areas and into new (14) zones.
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Greatest in Da Lat

Da Lat market in the center of Da Lat city in Lam Dong province. Although it is open from the early morning, the market is most crowded from 6p.m to 10p.m. It is also the busiest shopping area in the city and a tourist attraction as well.

At night, there are a lot of food stalls in Da Lat market. Some of the most popular foods here include Vietnamese pizza, bánh mì with meatball, grilled beef kebabs, and crap soup. Prices are different between stalls but usually affordable. The city’s cool climate makes the hot food even more enjoyable

*XI.       Complete the passages with the words from the box.

      Son Doong cave is world’s (1) ____________ cave, located in QuangBinh province,Vietnam. It was (2) ____________ by a local man named Ho Khanh in 1991 and wasrecently discovered in 2009 by British cavers, led by Howard Limbert. The name “SonDoong" cave (3) ____________ “mountain river cave”. The cave was created 2-5 millionyears ago by river water eroding away the (4) ____________ underneath the mountain.

      At about 9 kilometers in length, 200 meters in (5) ____________ and 150 meters inheight, Son Doong Cave is (6) ____________ larger than Deer Cave in Malaysia and hasreplaced Deer Cave to take pole position (7) ____________ the world’s largest cave.

*X. Read the text carefully, then choose the correct answers.

      Where are you going for your next holiday? How about Australia?

      Australia has got 37,000km of coastline and the best beaches in the world! The GreatBarrier Reef is off the north-east coast of Australia. It’s the largest coral reef in the sea! You can take a boat to it and dive there. It’s a fantastic undersea world.

      Inland Australia is called ‘the outback’. There are lot of wild camels, and there are some you can ride, too! There are fantastic national parks, where you can camp under the stars. In the Uluru National Park, there’s a very big sandstone rock, called Ayers Rock. It looks amazing in the evening sun.

      Do you like adventure? Then you can take a canoe trip along the Murray River. It’s Australia’s longest river. Another good trip for adventurous people is to the Blue Mountains. These are west Sydney in New South Wales. The mountains look blue and they contain lots of unusual animals and plants.

      Australia has got its own rainforest. It’s along the coast of North Queensland. It’s only 900,000 hectares today, but it once covered all of Australia. You can see lots of interesting animals in the rainforest, but be careful of the crocodiles!

      Do you like wildlife? Australia has got a unique type of animal - marsupials. These include kangaroos, koalas and platypuses. You can see them in the Yanchep National Park, near Perth in Western Australia. Remember the koalas aren’t teddy bears. They can be dangerous!

      -coral reef (n): rạn san hô                               - marsupial (n): thú có túi

      -platypus (n): thú mó vịt

1.   ___________ is off the coast of Australia.

      a. Ayers Rock                                                 b. The Yanchep National Park

      c. The rainforest                                              d. The Great Barrier Reef

2.   Ayer Rock is___________.

      a. in the Yanchep National Park                     b. a huge sandstone rock

      c. a coral reef in the sea                                  d. also called Uluru National Park

4.   Australia is famous for___________.

      a. its largest rainforest                                    b. the longest river in the world

      c.its unique animals                                        d. beautiful national parks

5.   Which sentence is not true?

      a.Australia was once mostly covered in rainforest

      b.The Blue Mountains are situated not far from Sydney.

      c.You can see platypuses in the wild in Australia.

      d.Australian crocodiles live in the outback.

IV.: Choose the word in the box to complete the  following passage

                                    DA LAT – DREAM CITY

Da Lat lies on Lam Vien plateau, in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong. 300 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City. Da Lat is a well-known city  attracting all the people who have been there once. Da Lat is known as a city of pine trees, waterfalls and flowers. Da Lat is described as a forest of flowers with (1) ………………………colours and various species. Flowers can be found (2) ……………………….and in any season. We ca see flowers in Da Lat in the parks, (3) ……………………. of the houses, in the gardens etc . Da Lat has the widest range of orchid varieties in the country. Da Lat has (4) …………………… rivers and canals but it has many picturesque waterfalls. It takes tourists several days (5) ………………………all the waterfalls in the area. The famous Cam Ly Falls is only 3 kilometers (6) ………………………the town center. The Prenn Falls is 10 kilometers in the south of Da Lat.  The water (7) ………………………down like a white shade. Da Lat people are very (8) …………………of it. They always boast to tourists about it in the first place. Around the Prenn Falls is the valley of various flowers and pine hills

1.A. different                  B. general                  C. official                              D. astounding

2.A. somewhere              B. anywhere              C. nowhere                            D. everywhere

3.A. behind                     B. next to                   C. opposite                            D. in front

4.A. few                           B. little                       C. much                                 D. lots

5.A. visit                          B. visiting                  C. to visit                               D. visited

6.A. in                              B. at                            C. to                                        D. from

7.A. falls                          B. goes                       C. pours                                 D. walks

8.A. pride                        B. priding                  C. prided                                D. proud

Kiểm tra Lỗi Chính Tả Trong bài viết này giùm mình nha

I was on vacation with my friends in the last summer . We went HoiAn and visited Quang Ninh province. We stayed in a hotel. Then, we went Dalat. We visited Ho Xuan Huong Lake. We stayed in Da Lat hotel . Hotels where we placed very beautiful. In the afternoon, we went around Dalat city. In the night, we went to the park, drank the milk and saw the movies. The food in Dalat was extremely and delicious but it’s not very expensive. We enjoyed this holiday

Look at the pictures and the example. Read the story and write the word(s) for each gap. There is one example (0).

Last summer I went to Da Lat with my (0) classmates. It’s a beautiful city in the Centre of Viet Nam. We went there by (1) __________. It’s smaller than Ho Chi Minh City, and quieter. The weather was fine. It was colder and drier than in Ha Noi. We stayed in a (2) __________. It’s opposite a big (3) __________. We visited famous places such as Prenn Waterfall and Langbiang (4) __________. The food was cheap, but the clothes were expensive. I enjoyed the trip so much. It was more exciting than I expected. After Da Lat, I would like to visit Phu Quoc (5) __________ some day.

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 28 to 34.

        In 1900 the United States had only three cities with more than a million residents-New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. By 1930, it had ten giant metropolises. The newer ones experienced remarkable growth, which reflected basic changes in the economy. The population of Los Angeles (114,000 in 1900) rose spectacularly in the early decades of the twentieth century, increasing a dramatic 1,400 percent from 1900 to 1930.

        A number of circumstances contributed to the meteoric rise of Los Angeles. The agricultural potential of the area was enormous if water for irrigation could be found, and the city founders had the vision and dating to obtain it by constructing a 225-mile aqueduct, completed in 1913, to tap the water of the Owens River. The city had a superb natural harbor, as well as excellent rail connections. The climate made it possible to shoot motion pictures year-round; hence Hollywood not only supplied jobs but also disseminated an image of the good life in Southern California on screens all across the nation. The most important single industry powering the growth of Los Angeles, however, was directly linked to the automobile. The demand for petroleum to fuel gasoline engines led to the opening of the Southern California oil fields, and made Los Angeles North America’s greatest refining center.

        Los Angeles was a product of the auto age in another sense as well: its distinctive spatial organization depended on widespread private ownership of automobiles. Los Angeles was a decentralized metropolis, sprawling across the desert landscape over an area of400 square miles.

                   It was a city without a real center. The downtown business district did not grow apace with the city as a whole, and the rapid transit system designed to link the center with outlying areas withered away from disuse. Approximately 800,000 cars were registered in Los Angeles County in 1930, one per 2.7 residents. Some visitors from the east coast were dismayed at the endless urban sprawl and dismissed Los Angeles as a mere collection of suburbs in search of a city. But the freedom and mobility of a city built on wheels attracted floods of migrants to the city.

The visitors from the east coast mentioned in the passage thought that Los Angeles

A. was not accurately portrayed by Hollywood images

B. lacked good suburban areas in which to live

C. had an excessively large population

D. was not really a single city

II. READING
1. Read rhe passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word from the list
     though ; attraction ; ancient
     as soon as ; features ; pottery
The pottery-making of Tho Ha village developed significantly in the 14th century. Thus is one of  three (1)____ pottery centers of VN, besides Phu Lang and Bat Trang. The pottery products of Tho Ha include rare (2)___ such as the high level of glazed terra-cotta, water resistance, the bell-like melody, the smoothness and warmth of brown-red glazed color. The (3)___ of this village is extremely durable, may be endless with the time, (4)___ it is buried in the ground or soaked in the water for a long time
    *Answer
1_____
2_____
3_____
4_____

II. Read the letter and fill in the missing words (10pts)

Dear Mom and Dad,

             Hi . I’m on (1) ______ in Viet Nam with Ted and Bob. We (2) ____ in Da Lat yesterday.  It is a very beautiful city and is known as the (3) _______ of Eternal Spring. Da Lat is very famous (4) _____  its water , lakes , and flower gardens . The first two days the weather was fine, warm and sunny, so we did some sightseeing. I (5) ____  a lot of photos . On Thursday we went shopping. Everything was cheap, so we (6) _____  lots of souvenirs and two nice sweaters for you . In the evening we had (7) ________ at a lovely little restaurant and then went to a coffeehouse to (8) _____ Trung Nguyen Coffee. Last night we went to the theater (9) _______ didn’t get back until 11 pm. So we got up late this morning and decided to have a relaxing (10) _____ at the hotel. So, that’s where I’m now .

             Love,

             Peter .