I. Change these sentences into active voice:

1.      All the paintings in the gallery are displayed by the painter.

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2.      The kettle will be turned off by Jim

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3The door was locked by Peter yesterday

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4.Was you taken to the airport by your parents?

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5.How often is the room cleaned by Jane?

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6.A long essay will be written by my brother.

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7.Flowers have been arranged beautifully by my aunt.

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8.The new car is sometimes driven to work by Mr. Smith.

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9.English is spoken all over the world.

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10.The gate was opened.

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Question 6:  He is a famous_____.His paintings are well-known all over the world

            A. poet                       B. singer                    C. painter                   D. musician

Question 8:  Her hobbies are _________photos and collecting toys

            A. collecting             B. taking                    C. playing                  D. writing

Question 9:  There isn’t ________water in the bottle.

            A. a                             B. an                           C. some                      D. any

Question 10:  Orange juice is my favourite ____________

            A. food                       B. drink                      C. dish                        D. recipe

Question 11: Turn the TV off. The show is…………………

Question 12:  Mozart was one of the famous……………….of classical music.

Question 13:  His daughter wants to become a well-known……….but she has no talent at all.

Question 14: Is there _____________ rice?

A.  a lot of                         B.   some                   C.    any                  D. a

Question 15:  Huong Pagoda ____ was visited by thousands of tourists during the first three months of the Lunar Year.

A. Event                              B. Celebration                 C. Holiday                         D. Festival

Question 16: We can fold the omelette _____half .

A .into                        B. in                            C. on                         D. of                          

Question 17: Pour some  water_____ the pan to cook the broth.

A. into            B. to                            C. on               D. in

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

Recently, we made a trip to visit Dong Ho village with a desire to meet the old artisan – Nguyen Huu Sam. Just when we arrived villagers at the dyke in the village and talked with the villagers about the artisan, they immediately told us about him.

The old house owned by the artisan is situated in a long alley of the village. On the walls of the house there are many folk paintings in different genres, from daily life paintings to landscape paintings shown in a set of “four seasons”.

Mr. Sam told us about his past. When he was three years old, he was instructed in the craft of making Dong Ho paintings by his father. At five, he could help his father apply the Dong Ho paintings, and learn how to print the paper with proper colours. At seven, he was able to draw with a pen and make the most difficult samples. Years went by and the soul of Dong Ho folk paintings has kept seashell powder paint to the poonah-paper.

In the 1940s, this craft flourished. At that time, he was assigned by his parents to take the paintings to the market for sale. Mr. Sam said that 17 families in the village have been engaged in making Dong Ho paintings.

Artisan Sam has always been devoted to the making of Dong Ho paintings and has waited for opportunities to restore this traditional craft. In 1967, when the local authorities assigned him to restore the traditional genre of Dong Ho folk paintings, he gathered 50 villagers with professional skills and collected hundreds of woodblocks to establish the Dong Ho Painting Cooperative. Thanks to his efforts, such famous painting as "Rat's wedding", “Rooster”, “Scene of jealousy” and “Writing verses about precious flowers" have been revived. Dong Ho paintings have been available in many parts of the world such as Japan, France, Germany, Singapore and the United States.

The themes of Dong Ho paintings are about ………..

A. landscapes

B. weddings

C. various aspects of life

D. animals and flowers

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 44 to 55.

         Panel painting, common in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, involved a painstaking, laborious process. Wooden planks were joined, covered with gesso to prepare the surface for painting, and then polished smooth with special tools. On this perfect surface, the artist would sketch a composition with chalk, refine it with inks, and then begin the deliberate process of applying thin layers of egg tempera paint (egg yolk in which pigments are suspended) with small brushes. The successive layering of these meticulously applied paints produced the final translucent colors.

         Backgrounds of gold were made by carefully applying sheets of gold leaf, and then embellishing of decorating the gold leaf by punching it with a metal rod on which a pattern had been embossed. Every step in the process was slow and deliberate. The quick-drying tempera demanded that the artist know exactly where each stroke be placed before the brush met the panel, and it required the use of fine brushes. It was, therefore, an ideal technique for emphasizing the hard linear edges and pure, fine areas of color that were so much a part of the overall aesthetic of the time. The notion that an artist could or would dash off an idea in a fit of spontaneous inspiration was completely alien to these deliberately produced works.

         Furthermore, making these paintings was so time-consuming that it demanded assistance. All such work was done by collective enterprise in the workshops. The painter or master who is credited with having created the painting may have designed the work and overseen its production, but it is highly unlikely that the artist’s hand applied every stroke of the brush. More likely, numerous assistants, who had been trained to imitate the artist’s style, applied the paint. The carpenter’s shop probably provided the frame and perhaps supplied the panel, and yet another shop supplied the gold. Thus, not only many hands, but also many shops were involved in the final product.

         In spite of problems with their condition, restoration, and preservation, many panel paintings have survived, and today many of them are housed in museum collections. 

The author mentions all of the following as problems with the survival of panel paintings EXCEPT ______.

A. condition

B. restoration 

C. preservation

D. theft