My mother came (1)______ Baffin Island. She used to live in an igloo: a domed house (2)______ from blocks of ice. The house had only one room for all the (3)______: grandparents, parents, brothers, unmarried sisters, and sometimes other relatives. Everyone worked together to survive the Arctic (4)______. Men went out hunting (5)______ women stayed at home making clothes and preparing food. When they had to travel far, they (6)______ on dogsleds. At night they used to entertain themselves by telling and (7)______ out stories. They danced to drum music (8)______.

Akycha from Canada

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

2. A. build B. to build C. building D. built

3. A. children B. people C. families D. generations

4. A. spring B. summer C. fall D. winter

5. A. while B. during C. before D. after

6. A. walked B. rode C. drove D. flew

7. A. going B. knocking C. acting D. turning

8. A. so B. too C. neither D. either

Muptiple choice

1. We can learn how ______ banh chung at Tet.

A. make B. to make C. making D.made

2. Men used ______ the bread winner of the family.

A. be B. to be C. to being D.to

3. Should we try to ______ every custom or tradition which is in danger of dying out?

A. preserve B. act out C. entertain D. open

4. The children in my home village used to go ______, even in winter. Now they all have shoes.
A. on foot B. bare-footed C. playing around D .played around

5. At night they used to entertain ______ by telling and acting out stories.

A. them B. their C. themselves D. themself

6. There is usually a ______ gap between the old and the young, especially when the world is
changing so fast.
A. generation B. value C. age D.old

7. It must be incredible travelling by dogsled. I wish I ______ it.

A. can do B. could did C. could do D.can done

8. Every nation has respect for their long-preserved ______.
A. behaviours B. practices C. traditions D.traditonal

9. Once a month I went downtown to collect the post and then walked from village to village, ______ were far away from each other.

A. which B. where C. that D.where

10. In Viet Nam, ______ often refers to age and social position, not to wealth.
A. seniority B. tradition C. generation D.culture

11. I also passed______ on the news I had heard from the town and the other villages.

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

12. Giving lucky money to the young and the old at Tet is a common ______ in many Asian countries.

A. behavior B. practice C. tradition D. cultural

13. She used to live in an igloo: a domed house ______ from blocks of ice.

A. to build B. built C. building D.to built

14. I wish people in the world ______ conflicts and lived in peace.

A. don’t have B. doesn’t have C. didn’t have D. didn’t having

15. I have told you many times ______ the door open.

A. not leave B. not to leave C. to not leave D. not to leaving

16. I wish my friends spent less time ______ computer games and more time outdoors.

A. play B. to play C. playing D. played

17. The farmers in my home village ______ rice home on trucks. They used buffalo-driven carts.

A. used to transport B. used to be transported C. didn’t use to transport D. used to transport

18. A ______ is used to make the sound much louder so that many people can hear it from a distance.

A. loudspeaker B. radio C. television D.computer

19. I suppose it was a special occasion, ______?

A. was it B. wasn’t it C. don’t I D.doesn’t I

20. He could be f red for his rude ______ towards the VIP guest.

A. behaviour B. practice C. tradition D.practices

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.

In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the most famous pop group in the whole world. Since then, there have been a great many groups that have achieved enormous fame, so it is perhaps difficult now to imagine how sensational The Beatles were at that time. They were four boys from the north of England and none of them had any training in music, They started by performing and recording songs by black Americans and they had some success with these songs, Then they started writing their own songs and that was when they became really popular. The Beatles changed pop music. They were the first pop group to achieve great success from songs they had written themselves. After that it became common for groups and singers to write their own songs. The Beatles did not have a long career. Their first hit record was in 1963 and they split up in 1970. They stopped doing live performances in 1966 because it had become too dangerous for them - their fans were so excited that they surrounded them and tried to take their clothes as souvenirs! However, today some of their songs remain as famous as they were when they first came out Throughout the world many people can sing part of a Beatles song if you ask them.

The word "they" is closest in meaning to

A. The Beatles          

B. the fans   

C. the songs          

D. the performances