32. Many people don’t realize how _______students have to work at school and at home.

            A. hard                       B. hardly                    C.  harder                  D. harderly

33. Many women work_______home.

            A. at                            B. in                            C. on                           D. from

34. They take _______of the  house and looks after the children .

            A. care                        B. homework            C. notice                    D. part

35. My dad is a mechanic. He _______machines in a factory.

            A. does                       B. cleans                    C. repairs.

36. Most _______ the time my dad and I get along well.

            A. of                           B. in                            C. at                            D. for

37.  We sometimes go to Hanoi _______vacation.

            A. on                          B. for                          C. about                     D. in 

38. Write me a letter and tell me _______about your family.

            A. many                     B. more                      C. most                      D. much 

39. She _______teaching at a high school.

            A. am                         B. be                           C. are                          D. is

40. What are you _______ now?

            A. do                          B. does                       C. doing                     D. does

Ex2: Lexical reading (Read the text then circle the best answer

    Many people think that students have (1) ________ easy life because they only work a few hours a day and have long vacations. In fact, students have to (2) ________ hard at school and (3)______ home. They have five (4) __________ a day, six days a week. That is about 20 hours a week – (5) __________ hours than any worker. But they have about 12 hours of homework every week. And a student has to review his or her work before tests. This makes their working week about 45 hours.

       1. A. a                              B. an                  C. the                                

2. A. to work                   B. working         C. work       

3. A. at                             B. in                   C. on                             

4. A. hour                        B. class              C. periods                       

5. A. less                          B. more              C. many                        

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

Question: If the student’s score is below the minimum grades announced by the university, ______.

A. the place will be offered to someone else

B. he must take a year out

C. he mustn’t apply to any other university

D. he will be able to get the place

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

Question: If the university is interested in the application, _____.

A. the student will be offered a place

B. the student will have to attend an interview

C. the student will go straight to the university

D. the student will take an A-level examination

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

Question: Students do their A-level examination _______.

A. at the beginning of their last year at school

B. before they send the application forms to the universities

C. at the end of their time at school

D. right after they receive an application for

Read the passage and answer the questions

Hello! I am Lan. I am in class 8A and I live in Ha Noi. I have five periods a day and I go to school six days a week. Each period lasts for forty- five minutes. I work hard at school and at home, but I think my parents work harder than me. I spend more than twelve hours of homework every week. Each year, I have a long summer vacation, it is a longest vacation in a year. I stay with my family or visit my relatives during the summer vacation.

How many days a week does Lan go to school?

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

Question: The main idea of the passage is______.

A. how to be accepted to a university

B. how to take an A-level examination

C. studying at a university

D. what to do after leaving school

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

Question: The maximum number of universities that a student can apply for is_______.

A. two

B. three

C. four

D. five

III. Read the passage and choose the correct answer. 

Many people now think that teachers give pupils too much homework. They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time. Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks which they have already done at school.

Recently in Greece many parents complained about the difficult homework which teachers gave to their children. The parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time, and they wanted to stop it.

Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework recently. In Demark, Germany and several countries in Europe, teachers cannot set homework at weekends. In Holland, teacher allow students to stay at school to do their homework. The children are free to help one another. Similar arrangements also exist in some British schools.

1. According to the passage, which of the following sentences is Not True?

a. In all schools in Britain children can do their homework at school and help one another

b. In Greek, parents wanted to stop homework

c. Greek parents thought their children's homework was not easy

d. According many parents, a lot of homework has not been planned properly.

2. According to the passage, many parents would like their children to.............

a. do more homework

b. have less homework

c. have no homework

d. do their homework at school

3. In which countries can't teacher set homework at weekends?

a. Germany and Britain

b. Spain and Turkey

c. Germany and Denmark

d. Denmark and Holland

Read the passage and answer the questions

Hello! I am Lan. I am in class 8A and I live in Ha Noi. I have five periods a day and I go to school six days a week. Each period lasts for forty- five minutes. I work hard at school and at home, but I think my parents work harder than me. I spend more than twelve hours of homework every week. Each year, I have a long summer vacation, it is a longest vacation in a year. I stay with my family or visit my relatives during the summer vacation.

How many hours of homework does she spend every week?