Read the following facts about two famous sportspeople.

Hoang Giang - No. 1 sportsman in shooting

- Born: 1978 in Viet Nam

- 1995: finished sports school

- 1996: took part in a shooting competition

- 2001: won a gold medal for shooting

Jenny Green - one of the best female golfers in history

- Born: 1972 in Greenland

- 1987: becarne a member of local golf club

- 1994: took part ina female golf tournament

- 2002: became the female golf champion

I.Read the passage and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each question.

 Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. She was born in 1981 in Michigan. She is known as one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She used to be the world No. 1 in both women's singles and doubles tennis. In 1999, she won her first Grand Slam singles title. She started playing tennis when she was very young. She turned professional when she was Just 14 years old. So far, she has had 4 Olympic gold medals and 23 Grand Slam singles titles. With her powerful style, she changed the way women play professional tennis. Her elder sister, Venus Williams, is very famous too. They play doubles together and they are two women that have the most Grand Slam singles titles among active females.

1. Who does this passage mainly talk about?

      A. Serena Williams     B. Venus Williams            C. Grand Slam                   D. Michigan

2. Which sport does she play?

      A. tennis                       B. table tennis                    C. badminton                     D. football

3. When did she become a professional player?

      A. 1994                          B. 1993                                 C. 1999                                D. 1995       

4. How many Olympic gold medals has she had so far?

      A. 4                                B. 14                                     C. 23                                    D. 5

5. Who does Serena Williams team up with?

      A. Serena Williams     B. Grand Slam                    C. Venus Williams            D. Olympic Gold

k  There are many ways to exercise. Some require lots of equipment. Others need lots of people. Running doesn't need any of those. It's a great way of exercise.

Running helps your brain work better. It also improves your feelings and sleep. Better sleep helps you healthy. Running also gives you a healthier heart. You may live three years longer. When your body is healthy, it can fight diseases.

Let's go for a nice run! Run with your friends, your family or your dog. Run in the park or in the street in the early morning. You can get some fresh air, enjoy the scenery and keep fit at the same time. Just remember to stretch before you run and cool down after running.

1. Running needs _____________.

      A. a lot of equipment     B. many people             C. none of these                 D. many person

2. Running improves _____________.

      A. our feelings                                                          B. our sleep                       

      C. both A and B                                                        D. our feeling and sleep

3. Running can help us live longer for_____________.

      A. three years               B. four years                       C. five years                       D. two years

4. We can run in, _____________.

      A. our house                B. parks and streets          C. our school                      D. Both A and B

5. Don't forget to _____________.

      A. do some exercise before running                     B. cool down after running

      C. Both A and B are correct.                                   D. Both A and B are incorrect.

III. Read the passage and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each question.

Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. She was born in 1981 in Michigan. She is known as one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She used to be the world No. 1 in both women's singles and doubles tennis. In 1999, she won her first Grand Slam singles title. She started playing tennis when she was very young.

She turned professional when she was Just 14 years old. So far, she has had 4 Olympic gold medals and 23 Grand Slam singles titles. With her powerful style, she changed the way women play professional tennis. Her elder sister, Venus Williams, is very famous too. They play doubles together and they are two women that have the most Grand Slam singles titles among active females.

1. Who does this passage mainly talk about?

A. Serena Williams     B. Venus Williams            C. Grand Slam                   D. Michigan

2. Which sport does she play?

      A. tennis                       B. table tennis                    C. badminton                     D. football

3. When did she become a professional player?

      A. 1994                          B. 1993                                 C. 1999                                D. 1995       

4. How many Olympic gold medals has she had so far?

      A. 4                                B. 14                                     C. 23                                    D. 5

5. Who does Serena Williams team up with?

      A. Serena Williams     B. Grand Slam                    C. Venus Williams            D. Olympic Gold

Bessie Smith, an American singer, is known as the Empress of the Blues. She had a beautiful voice. Born in poverty in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she was helped in her career by Ma Rainey, one of the best known of the early women blues singers. After touring in the South, Smith went to New York City in 1923 and recorded with leading jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, and Benny Goodman. Then she became the most popular blues singer of her time, reportedly earning $2000 a week at the peak of her career. She died in Clarksdale, Mississippi, after an automobile accident.

1.      What did Bessie Smith do?

A. singer                    B. a dancer                C. a teacher                D. a worker

2.      She was born in a....................... family.

A.  rich                        B. wealthy                 C. poor                      D. bad

3. ................................. helped her with her career.

A.  her mother            B. Louis                     C. James                    D. Ma Rainey

4.      She became the most popular.............................. of her time.

A. blues singer         B. rock singer            C. pop singer             D. red singer

5.      She died in …………..

A.  New York             B. Mississippi           C. Tennessee             D. England

Babe Didrikson Zaharias was one of the most extraordinary athletes of all time. She was achampion in basketball, track and field, and golf. She also swam, boxed, played baseball, and manyother sports.As the sixth child in her family, Zaharias was called “Baby”. That soon got shortened to“Babe”. One day, when she was in elementary school, her mother sent her to the grocery store tobuy beef for dinner. On the way home, Babe spotted some boys playing baseball. She dropped her purchases and joined the game.An hour later,her angry mother showed up,looking for the groceries. Babe pointed to where she’d left them. A dog was happily eating the beef.Zaharias gained fame at the 1932 Olympic Games. She won gold medals in the javelin throwand the 80­meter hurdles, and set world records in both. In 1935, Zaharias began playing golf andwas soon winning important championships in the sport. She won every major championship inwomen’s golf and helped make the sport popular for women. In 1950, she was named the greatestfemale athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Zaharias died of cancer in 1956, at the age of 45.
31. What sport is not mentioned as one that Babe Didrikson Zaharias did?
A. Running.
B. Basketball.
C. Tennis.
D. Swimming.
32. What does the author imply by giving the example of Babe’s buying beef?
A. Babe was an absent­minded girl.
B. Babe was keen on playing ball.
C. Babe was not a good child.
D. Babe could help her mother with doing some shopping.
33. What word or phrase is similar in meaning to “purchases”?
A. Buys.
B. What is bought.
C. Goods.
D. Food.
34. When did Babe set world records in javelin throw?
A. When she was 30 years old.
B. In 1935.C. When she was also an excellent golfer.
D. At the Olympic Games in 1932.
35. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
A. Zaharias won important championships in golf before the 1930’s.
B. Zaharias helped make golf popular for women after 1935.
C. Zaharias died of cancer in 1956 when she was younger than 50.
D. Zaharias was named the greatest female athlete of her time

Read the text and then choose the best answer A, B, C, or D.

Geoffrey Hampden has a lot of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admired him for his fine sense of humour, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.

Recently, one of Geoffrey's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a weeding reception. This is the sort of thing that Geoffrey loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the weeding with Jenny. He included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffrey was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny if she enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she didn't. Geoffrey asked her why this was so and she told him that she did not like to see so many people laughing at him!

Question. What is Geoffrey interested in?

A. Going to weddings.

B. Making speeches at his friends' weddings.

C. Making jokes.

D. Teasing his friends.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

An advocate for Kenyan women and environment

        Wangari Maathai has become an international (26) ______  because of her persistence in the struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. Maathai is best known for her efforts to develop the Green Belt Movement, an organization that focuses on planting trees to protect the environment and improve the (27)______ of life. Because of her efforts, Maathai was (28) ______     the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

        In 1976, Wangari Maathai became active in the National Council of Women of Kenya. While she was serving as the chairwoman in the National Council of Women, she began to found an organization that encouraged women’s groups to plant trees in order to conserve the environment. It was this small effort that has (29) ______  women in planting more than 20 million trees on farms, schools, and churches. This effort eventually became known (30) ______ the charitable organization (31)______  the Green Belt Movement.

        Wangari Maathai has become very important to the people of Kenya, Africa and the international (32) ______. Because of her active role in the environment and the Green Belt Movement, more than 20 million trees have been planted, numerous other countries have begun tree planting programmes, and women all over the world have been helped by the example that she (33) ______. As noted by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, she has served as an “(34) ______  for many in the fight for democratic rights and has especially encouraged women to (35) ______ their situation.”

This effort eventually became known (30) ______ the charitable organization

A. as

B. for

C. in

D. ɸ

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Fill in each gap with one suitable word:
Hoang Ngoc Linh is a member of the Tay ethnic group in a mountainous (1) in Bac Giang Province. She was born in 2003, and she goes to Cam Dan Lower Secondary School. In her class there are several students from other ethnic (2)  such as the Nung, the Cao Lan (Sanchay) …, and all of them get on very well. Like her classmates, she prefers to wear (3)  Kinh's clothes, and she wears a uniform when she goes to school. Linh loves to (4)  cartoons on TV and to play with her dolls. She can speak some words of the Tay (5) . At school, she is popular with her teachers and friends as she is a nice girl. She is good at maths and English. Her dream is to become (6)  English teacher when she grows up.

*Read the following passage and mark the letter A, H, C, or 1) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50. Theresa May, the second female Britain’s prime minister following Margaret Thatcher, revealed in 2013 that she had been given a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, a condition that requires daily insulin injections. Asked later how she felt about the diagnosis, she said her approach to it was the same as toward everything in her life: “Just get on and deal with it.” That kind of steeliness brought her to center stage in the aftermath of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the feuding that erupted in the Conservative Party over who would succeed David Cameron. Ms” May, 59 years old, is the country’s longest-serving home secretary in half a century, with a reputation for seriousness, hard work and above all, determination. She is one of a growing number of women in traditionally male-dominated British politics rising to the upper position of leadership. Bom in 1956, Ms. May grew up mainly in Oxford shire, an only child who was first drawn to the Conservative Party at age 12. As a conscientious student, she never rebelled against her religious upbringing and remains a regular churchgoer. Tellingly, her sports hero was Geoffrey Boycott, a solid, stubborn cricketer who specialized in playing the long game. Like many other Britain’s prime minister including Tony Blair, Sir Robert Peel and Margaret Thatcher, she won a place at Oxford. But while almost every other political leader got there by way of Eton College and joined Oxford’s hedonistic Bullingdon Club, she attended a state secondary school and had a more sedate university career. After unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and 1994, she finally became an MP in 1997 general election. May is known for a love of fashion and in particular distinctive shoes. She even wore leopard-print shoes to her final Cabinet meeting as Home Secretary in early 2016. However, she has been quite critical of the media focusing on her fashion instead of her achievement as a politician. May also describes cooking and walking as primary hobbies, and if someone is raising questions about why walking can be classified as a hobby, she elaborates in a column for Balance magazine, in which she wrote of her battle with diabetes.

She first became a member of parliament in ..................

A. 1992

B. 1994

C. 1997

D. 2013