III ​Match the words in A with the definitions in B.

Match the underlined words in the poem with definitions a-h.

a a period of time in history

b not interested in anything

c in the right order

d people who are the same age

e an easy solution, but not a good one

f not clever or intelligent

g something that is typical or usual

h lazy-not wanting to do anything

The Lost Generation

by Jonathan Reed

I am part of a lost generation.

And I refuse to believe that

I can change the world.

I realize this may be a shock, but

'Happiness comes from within'

Is a lie, and

'Money will make me happy'

So in 30 years, I will tell my children

They are not the most important thing in my life.

My employer will know that

I have my priorities straight because

Work

Is more important than

Family

I tell you this:

Once upon a time

Families stayed together

But this will not be true in my era.

This is a quick fix society

Experts tell me

Thirty years from now, I will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my divorce.

I do not concede that

I will live in a country of my own making.

In the future,

Environmental destruction will be the norm.

No longer can it be said that

My peers and I care about this Earth.

It will be evident that

My generation is apathetic and lethargic.

It is foolish to presume that

There is hope.

And all of this will come true unless we reverse it.

dich ra ho minh nha

Travelling can be an expensive hobby but it also is compensates the financial loss with all benefit. If a travelers have interest in life and its manifestations, they can find much to keep themself happy and absorbed. One can definitely find everything that satisfies his intellectual and sensuous cravings.

As a hobby, travelling keeps us busy during leisure time; it is the best method to use time. Till a person breaks from dull routine, physically and mentally; one cannot find satisfaction. Travelling helps us to achieve this break. At a new place, one is curious to know and eager to gather all the unknown information about the place which he has neither read nor heard before he gets thrills and surprises which keep the interest and enthusiasm alive and encourages us to keep our journey on.

While travelling, one comes across a number of people from varied backgrounds and places. By interacting with them, he comes to know about their heritages also. In case one has psychological bent of mind, one increases one’s experience and power to understand others. Understanding human nature is, perhaps, the best part of education. Travelling satisfies all demands of a good hobby – it is absorbing education and refreshment to the mind, body and soul.

ai dich truoc minh tick !!!!

In the future, we’ll be doing lots of things 1………. the help of technology. Now, we drive our cars to work. But in 20 years, we’ll be travelling to different places in our self-driving cars. Now, we use smartphones to communicate with our families and friends. Communication will be 2………… convenient in the future because we’ll be wearing smart watches around our wrists to make phone calls. The way we watch movies will be different in the future, too. We’ll be watching films on digital walls and 3………… special walls will replace computers. Our free time activities will also change. Nowadays, we play online games but we’ll be playing virtual reality games in 20 years. We won’t have to 4…………. shopping for food or clothes 5…………… we’ll be using 3D printers to print things we need. Today, we use digital cameras to take pictures but in the future we’ll be 6…………pictures using drones. These are small planes that can be controlled from the ground.

1. A. by           B. with                                    C. on               D. at

2. A. less         B. the least                  C. more           D. the most

3. A. these       B. its                            C. their                        D. it

4. A going       B. to go                       C. go               D. goes

5. A so             B. but                          C. and             D. because

6. A taking      B. doing                      C. making        D. playing

Task 2: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B.

                                        TEST 1 FOR UNIT 3
I. PRONUNCIATION
A. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. a. language                          b. package                          c. mathematics                     d. marvelous

2. a. chemistry                         b. prepare                            c. receive                              d. degree

3. a. private                             b. diploma                          c. guide                                d. writer

4. a. trouble                              b. study                              c. tutor                                 d. subject

5. a. received                            b. worked                           c. obtained                           d. harbored
B. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others

1. a. background                      b. career                              c. secondary                         d. private

2. a. scientific                           b. atomic                             c. impossible                         d. professor

3. a. obtain                               b. determine                       c. award                               d. harbour

4. a. ambitious                          b. difficulty                        c. brilliant                             d. mature

5. a. education                         b. difficulty                        c. champion                          d. institute

There are many activities that people do in their free time to relax their stressed mind. Among long list of varios activities, there is one I’m interested in, that is travelling – an informative and adventurous hobby which is also one of the most popular pastimes. For some it is a waste of time and money. They argue to use an alternative like read a book or watch a film related to places to be travelled. They forget that touch of actuality gives a different type of sensation and satisfaction.Travelling is a perfect educational hobby as it helps you learn a lot of new things in life. Travelling gives you a great break from your routine and an opportunity to learn a new culture and make friends. The people you come across and interact with may give you some new chances in life, or they may open up your mind. Another interesting thing about travel is that you can travel by many different means such as trains, buses, airplanes, ....

II. Rewrite the following sentence with the given words in such a way that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one. Do not chance the form of the words in the capital letters.

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 35 to 42.

A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to ‘see’ into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.

A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.

One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern ‘A-B-B’. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern ‘A-B-C’. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during ‘A-B-B’  patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: ‘John killed the bear’ is very different from ‘The bear killed John.’ So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.

Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.

What did the study described in the last paragraph do? 

A. compared the effects of different languages 

B. divided babies into two groups with different treatment 

C. investigated if babies can learn Chinese 

D. taught babies foreign languages through listening to videos