Viết lại câu sử dụng In spite of/ Despite:

1. Although the children ate all the cakes, they didn't like such sweet cakes.

2. The little boy ran out of the house although it started raining.

3. My mother bought me some story books although I didn't enjoy reading book at all.

4. My parents are going to plant a lot of flowers in the garden although the soil there is not fertile.

5. Although it snowed, they didn't wear enough heavy clothes to keep themselves warm.

6. She still cried for food although her father gave her some bread.

7. My classmates waited for the teacher outside although it got cold and dark.

8. Although the trip to Da Lat was cancelled because of the bad weather, the children still though that they could go there.

9. Although our teacher didn't feel well, she helped us to finish our project.

10. Although these students tried their best, they couldn't pass the final examination.

11. They spent a lot of money on toys although they got lots from their grandparents and parents on their birthday.

12. We are not allowed to watch television late although there are many interesting films on TV by that time.

18. He drove his car home by himself although he was drunk last night.

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Ôn tập thì Hiện tại đơn (the Simple Present Tense). Hãy đọc đoạn văn dưới đây và trả lời các câu hỏi.

  Our summer holidays last three months. During the last week of the holidays we get ready for school. We buy pencils, pens, paper, new books and copy books. On the first day of school we see all our old friends again and we tell them about the holidays. After that we go into class. It is so hard to keep quiet and pay attention to our teacher. He always says with a laugh, "You forget more in three months than you learn in a year."

1. How long do our summer holidays last ?

2. When do we prepare for school ?

3. Who do we see on the first day ?

4. What do we tell them ?

5. Where do we go then ?

6. What does our teacher always say ?

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AN EXCURSION

When our teacher sugeested an excursion during the last June holidays , we chose the Botanic Garden , the place we all wanted to visit . All the boys and girls of the class assembled in our school one day and started our bus journey at 9.00am .As soon as we arived at the garden , our teacher took us to an open grass patch and told us about the progra for the day. The Botanic Garden has a variety of flowers and tress ,each and everyone is labeled .The air was very cool and clean so we felt very refreshed.It was so pleasing to see the well cut grass, hedges and flowering plants all around . Our teacher told us about the history of the Botanic Garden. We spent some time cracking jokes and telling stories .After that we had lunch . Our teacher took a few photographs of us in the garden

1. This passage is mainly about the history of the Botanic Garden ........

2. The program for the day was told on the bus ........

3. The air was very clean and cool .........

4. After having lunch , they cracked jokes and told stories ........

Combine each pair of sentences into one by using a sutable RELATIVE CLAUSES :

1. She is the woman. I told you about her.

2. You didn't tell us the reason. We have to cut down our daily expenses for that reason.

3. I recently went back to Paris. I was born there nearly 50 years ago.

4. Do you know the music ? Is it being played on the radio.

5. I saw a lot of people and horses. They went to the market.

6. I've seen the little girl and her puppy. They have lived next door for ages.

7. This is Mrs. Jones. Her son won the champoinship last year.

8. Is this the style of hair ? Your wife wants to have it.

9. The professor is excellent. I am taking his course.

10. The building is the tallest one in town. He works in that building.

11. Mr.Brown is a nice teacher. We studied with him last year.

12.The day was rainy. She left on that day.

13. Her father died last year. She looked after him for over twenty years.

14. Is that the computer ? Your father bought it last month.

15. This is the place. We visited this place last week.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or 0 on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Every summer, when the results of university entrance exam come out, many newspaper stories are published about students who are top-scorers across the country. Most portray students as hard-working, studious, smart and, generally, from low-income families. They are often considered heroes or heroines by their families, communes, villages and communities, And they symbolise the efforts made to lift them, and their relatives, out of poverty. The students are often too poor to attend any extra-classes, which make their achievements more illustrious and more newsworthy. While everyone should applaud the students for their admirable efforts, putting too much emphasis on success generates some difficult questions.

If other students look up to them as models, of course it's great. However, in a way, it contributes to society's attitude that getting into university is the only way to succeed. For those who fail, their lives are over. It should be noted that about 1.3 million high school students take part in the annual university entrance exams and only about 300,000 of them pass. What's about the hundreds of thousands who fail? Should we demand more stories about those who fail the exam but succeed in life or about those who quit university education at some level and do something else unconventional?

"I personally think that it's not about you scoring top in an entrance exam or get even into Harvard. It's about what you do for the rest of your life," said Tran Nguyen Le Van, 29. He is the founder of a website, vexere.com, that passengers can use to book bus tickets online and receive tickets via SMS. His business also arranges online tickets via mobile phones and email. Van dropped out of his MBA at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona in the United States. His story has caught the attention of many newspapers and he believes more coverage should be given to the youngsters who can be role-models in the start-up community. Getting into university, even with honours, is just the beginning. We applaud them and their efforts and obviously that can give them motivation to do better in life. However, success requires more than just scores," Van said. Van once told a newspaper that his inspiration also came from among the world's most famous drop-outs, such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook or Bill Gates who also dropped out of Harvard University.

Alarming statistics about unemployment continues to plague us. As many as 162,000 people with some kind of degree cannot find work, according to Labour Ministry's statistics this month. An emphasis on getting into university does not inspire students who want to try alternative options. At the same time, the Ministry of Education and Training is still pondering on how to reform our exam system, which emphasises theories, but offers little to develop critical thinking or practice. Vu Thi Phuong Anh, former head of the Centre for Education Testing and Quality Assessment at Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City said the media should also monitor student successes after graduation. She agreed there were many success stories about young people, but added that it was imbalanced if students taking unconventional paths were not also encouraged.

Vietnam is, more than ever, in desperate need of those who think outside the box. Time for us to recognise talent, no matter where it comes from or how.

Question 43: c?

A. Many students consider universities as their only way after school.

B. A good model of being successful in the real life out of school.

C. Not many students are successful after graduating from universities.

D. University is not the only way to success.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually and the first woman to win this prize was Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner in 1905. In fact, her work inspired the creation of the Prize. The first American woman to win this prize was Jane Addams, in 1931. However, Addams is best known as the founder of Hull House.

Jane Addams was born in 1860, into a wealthy family. She was one of a small number of women in her generation to graduate from college. Her commitment to improving the lives of those around her led her to work for social reform and world peace. In the 1880s Jane Addams traveled to Europe. While she was in London, she visited a ‘settlement house’ called Toynbee Hall. Inspired by Toynbee Hall, Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, opened Hull House in a neighborhood of slums in Chicago in 1899. Hull House provided a day care center for children of working mothers, a community kitchen, and visiting nurses. Addams and her staff gave classes in English literacy, art, and other subjects. Hull House also became a meeting place for clubs and labor unions. Most of the people who worked with Addams in Hull House were well educated, middle-class women. Hull House gave them an opportunity to use their education and it provided a training ground for careers in social work.

Before World War I, Addams was probably the most beloved woman in America. In a newspaper poll that asked, “Who among our contemporaries are of the most value to the community?”, Jane Addams was rated second, after Thomas Edison. When she opposed America’s involvement in World War I, however, newspaper editors called her a traitor and a fool, but she never changed her mind. Jane Addams was a strong champion of several other causes. Until 1920, American women could not vote. Addams joined in the movement for women’s suffrage and was a vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and was president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. . Her reputation was gradually restored during the last years of her life. She died of cancer in 1935.

The word “their” in line 16 refers to

A. children of working mothers

B. middle-class women

C. visiting nurses

D. labor union members

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 31 to 38.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we

never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

Exams, grades and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only be estimated by __________.

A. parents

B. educated persons

C. the children themselves

D. teachers