I. Read the following passage and decide whether each of the statements is TRUE or FALSE.

A visit to Scotland often begins in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. Edinburgh is an old city with many important and interesting buildings. After London, Edinburgh is the second city for visitors in Britain.

          If you come to Edinburgh by train from the south, the first thing you see when you leave Waverley Station is Edinburgh Castle. It stands high over the city. Soldiers in kilts take visitors around and tell them the castle's story.

          Edinburgh is a hilly city but it is a good city to visit on fool After the castle. You can visit more of the Old Town. Go down the Royal Mile to Holyrood house the Queen's home when she comes to Edinburgh. It is three hundred years old.

I. Read the following passage and decide whether each of the statements is TRUE or FALSE.                                 

                                           THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and the New Year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. The first Thanksgiving celebration was held in 1621. Traditional foods are turkey, sweet potatoes, fruits and vegetables. Many people have pumpkin pie for dessert at the end of the meal. It is the time for counting our blessings we have received during the year and being with our families and friends.                   

31. Thanksgiving is a national celebration of Canadians and Americans.

32. It is celebrated on 2nd Thursday of November in America.

33. It was first held in 1621.

34. Pumpkin pie is one of the traditional foods on Thanksgiving Day.

Read the passage and decide whether each of the following statements is True or False.

Friendship is more ambiguous than we might think. What makes someone a good friend? A good friend is someone who you feel positive around, someone you connect with on a deep and natural level, and someone who cares for you unconditionally. A friend should give off positive vibrations when you are together, and should be a positive influence on your life, and not someone who you feel takes away your happiness when you are around him or her. This influence often extends into many areas of your life, so that you are enriched with the friendship at many angles. Finding a deep and natural connection with someone is easier said than done. You might search your whole life for that special someone who you can connect with you on such a level. This connection is so unique that it is often described as if you have met them before in a previous life, or that you instantly understand each other, even on the first meeting. This connection is generally what keeps friends together for years and what allows them to understand each other at a greater depth than most people.

Note : ambiguous (a): not easily understand, not clearly            *Rare (a): unusual, not done or seen very often

25. A good friend is one that share good feelings with you.                                                ______

26. It is easy to find a deep connection between two people.                                              ______

27. The connection is so rare that it’s described by the phrase “a previous life”.                 ______

28. The unique connection is doesn’t friends gain understanding of each other.                 ______

VII. Reading and do the tasks.

1. Read the following passage and decide whether each of the statements is TRUE or FALSE.

Rio Carnival in Brazil is the biggest festival in the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world visit the city Rio during this festival. They dance wildly and watch parades and samba dancers. The Rio Samba parades are the main attraction of this carnival. Competing samba schools in Rio spend the whole year preparing for the parades. Each school chooses a social or historical theme and they design their costumes and music based on the theme. After the performances, a winner will be announced.

Statements True/ False

1. Rio Carnival is a festival that takes place every year.

2. Only local people are allowed to join the event.

3. There is a competition for samba schools.

4. Samba schools have different themes.

5. Samba schools are not quite serious about the parades.

Read the passage , then decide whether the statements that follow are True or False
The ao dai, the traditional dress of Vietnamese women, has been mentioned in many poems, novels and songs. It is a long silk tunic that is slit on the sides and worn over loose pants. Vietnamese women usually wear it, especially on special occasions such as Tet, Vietnamese Teachers’Day, or Wedding Anniversary. Nowadays, some fashion designers have made it more and more beautiful by changing the traditional ao dai. Some of them print lines of poetry on it, or they add the patterns such as sun, stars, crosses, and stripes to the ao dai. The ao dai becomes the national clothing, just like Kimono in Japan. Every morning, thousands of schoolgirls in white ao dai make the streets look nicer. Vietnamese women continue to wear this unique and fashionable dress.
Choose True (T) or False (F)
1. The ao dai isn't the traditional dress of Vietnamese women.
2. Vietnamese women never wear the ao dai on special occasions.
3. The Ao Dai is a long silk tunic that is slit on the sides and worn over loose pants.
4. Some designers print lines of poetry on it, or they add the patterns such as sun, stars, crosses, and stripes to the ao dai.
5. Vietnamese women continue to wear this unique and fashionable dress.

Read the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) , or false (F)

Bau Truc pottery iems are made from clay from the Quao River mied with sand. Clay is collected from the river only once a year,each lasting for half a month. Clay is taken more or less depending on the ability of each person. In the clay collecting season,local people try to take as much clay as they can to store, for use in an entire year.

Currently,people in Bau Truc pottery village still make pottery items in the traditional way. They do not use the wheel but the craftsmen have to turn around the products.The potters shape their products by their skillful hands and feet around apole-round pillar, rather than on one wheel. From this step, silky clay block initially gradually forms a smooth rounded hollow block, then the formation of flower vases, or water pots.

Bau truc's craftsmen use wet cloths to make the products surface smooth. These items are decorated ith seashells, snails or hand-made paintings featuring the daily life of Bau Truc's people

1. Cay can be collected from the Quao River all the year round.

2. Bau Truc pottery is famous because people only use fine clay to make their products.

3. People still make the pottery in the traditional way.

4. Craftsmen shape thepottery items only with their hands and feet.

5. The pots nowadays are shaped on the pottery's wheel.

6. Craftsmen use simple ways to make the products surface smooth.

7. The craftsmen's skills can make the blocks of clay become lively and useful.

8. The desgins of Bau Truc pottery reflect the life of local people.

  Extra readings

Complete the article. Use the pharases below

A. burning fossil fuels for energy

B. leading to climate change

C. investing in renewable energy

D. beacaus it can't escape, it heats the planet

E. heating our homes, cooking our meals, etc

            THE CHANGING CLIMATE

  Problem

We use energy for almost everything we do: for (1)______. This use of energy is (2)_____ - the world is heating up. When (3)______, carbon dioxide is released. Carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat in the atmosphere and (4)______ Over the past thirty year, there has been a growing number of extreme weather events, such as floods. droughts and storms.

  Solution

We should protect our planet, by (5)_______. We should use sources of energy more wisely, for our future, and the future of the planet

I.       Read the text carefully, then decide whether the following statements are true or false.

Jeans are the most popular kind of clothing in the world. They are popular almost everywhere and with everybody. They are considered not just practical but very fashionable as well. But what do you know about the history of jeans? Who made the first jeans?

In 1850 Levi Strauss, a young immigrant from Germany, arrived in San Francisco. He came to sell canvas, a heavy fabric used for tents, to gold miners. One day Strauss saw that the miners needed strong clothes for work. He quickly took some of his canvas and made it into pants. These pants were very strong and lasted a long time. The pants became very popular immediately. Later Strauss wanted to make his pants even better, so he started making his pants from cotton cloth that was softer than canvas but just as strong. This fabric came from Nimes, a city in France, and was called “denim” (from de Nimes). Denim was popular in the fifteenth century. Christopher Columbus used denim for the sails of his ships. Sailors in Genoa, Italy, wore denim pants. The word “jeans” comes from the word “Genoa”. Mr. Strauss made the first jeans in the United States, but their name and their kind of cloth came from Italy and France.

38. Levi Strauss was born in America.

39. Levi Strauss turned strong canvas cloth which he was originally going to sell for tents into pants.

40. The purpose of producing jeans was to provide gold miners strong clothes for work.

41. To make his pants better, Levi Strauss substituted denim for canvas.

42. Blue jeans used to be the most popular pants worldwide.

I. Read the passage and decide whether the statements are True or False
Electricity is the most common form of energy today. In the modern world, electricity is very available at the touch of a switch. Electricity has many uses. The most common use of electricity is to provide artificial lighting. In factories, electricity is used to light up the workplace. It is also used to operate air-conditioners, computers and many other machines. Electricity is also used to power the many appliances that we have in our homes. Such appliances include television sets, computers,
electric fans, irons, and many others. The list is simply endless. Modern man will most probably be lost without electricity.
 

Part II: Read and choose the best answers.
Tropical rain forests are found in the Amazon region of South America, Central America, Africa, South, and Southeast Asia. Rain forests are very important to the world’s climate. The Amazon rain forests alone receive about 30 to 40 percent of the total rainfall on the earth and produce about the same percentage of the world’s oxygen. Some scientists believe that the decrease of rain forests will affect the climate on the earth, making it uncomfortable or even dangerous for life. Saving our rainforests is an international problem. One country or even a few countries cannot solve the problem alone. The nations of the world must work together to find a solution before it is too late.
1. Rain forests are ______ to the world’s climate.
A. significant      B. dangerous     C. unnecessary      D. international
2 The Amazon rain forests receive ______ of the total rainfall on the earth.
A. 20% - 30%     B. 30% - 40%      C. 40% - 50%     D. 50% - 60%
3. Some scientists believe that the decrease of rain forests will _____ the climate on the earth.
A. not influence       B. change    C. keep        D. remain
4. The decrease of rain forests will make people’s life______.
A. comfortable B. unpleasant C. easy D. smooth
5. Saving rain forests is a ______ problem.
A. national B. local C. global D. provincial
6. The nations of the world must ______ to protect rain forests.
A. work hard B. incorporate C. work well D. cooperate

Exercise 3: Read the passage and decide whether the following statements are true or false.

One of the most popular quiz programmes on television in the world is called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? In Britain, the quiz master is Chris Tarrant. He asks the contestants fifteen questions. The first questions are easy but later they are more difficult. If you answer the fourteenth question correctly, you can win £500,000. You can win a million pounds if you can answer the last question. Of course, it is very difficult to come to the last question.

All the questions on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? are multiple-choice questions. After you hear the question, you see four answers. Only one answer is correct. You have to choose the correct answer. If you don’t know the answer to a question, there are three ways you can get help: you can ask the quizmaster to take away two wrong answers; you can ask the studio audience which answer is right; or you can telephone a friend and ask for help. You can only do these things once. Very few people win the million pounds. The first person won a million pounds one year after the programme started.

Today, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? can be seen in more than 100 countries and is now the world’s most popular quiz programme.

1.   Chris Tarrant is the quizmaster in Britain                        T / F

2.   You have to answer 20 questions.                                    T / F   

3.   You can win £500,000 for the fourteenth question.         T / F

4.   There are two ways you can get help                               T / F

5.   The show is the world’s most popular programme.         T / F