I. Complete the passage with the words from the box.

score    without   sport     each    play    game    positions    boring

Basketball is a pretty cheap (1)___________ to play in terms of equipment. So long as you have shoes and clothes and a ball, you can play. You can play with 1 hoop or 2, but it is way more fun to have a full court to (2)___________ on and several friends to do it with. Of course, you can have knee braces, expensive shoes, and some fancy jerseys if you want, but you can play (3)___________ them if you want. Basketball is a (4)___________ of 5-on-5. There are 5 different (5)___________: point guard, shooting guard, center, small forward, and power forward. Unlike some other sports, all players can (6)___________ points, and there is NO goalkeeper. There isn’t a (7)___________ position to play! Basketball has 4 quarters. For pro games, quarters are 15 minutes. Teams switch directions of play after (8)___________ quarter.

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The country is (1).............beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the country (2) .......... the summer holiday though they can't live (3) ............. all the year round. Some have cottage built in a village (4) .......... that they can go there whenever they (5) ..........find  the time.

   English villages are not alike, but (6)............. some ways they are not very different from (7) ...................other. Almost every village (8) ...........a church, the round or square tower of which can (9) ............seen from many miles around. Surrounding the church is the church yard, (10).......... people are buried.

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Computing is now at the (1) ___________ stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. (2) ___________ printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these (3) ___________ were unable to read and hadn’t got enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book (4) ___________ we do today. They wanted books (5) ___________ they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to (6) ___________, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.

The position with computers is very similar today. A few years (7) ___________, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but (8) ___________ didn’t know how to (9) ___________ them. In many (10) ___________,  however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputer but also know how to use them.

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It is not easy for (1)………..……students of English to improve their accent. Unlike children, who are flexible, adults often find (2)…………..….hard to change the way they speak. This is (3)………………..even the top or smartest adult students have difficulty with pronunciation. There are several things that (4)……………..…..international student can do to improve his or her (5)………………..
One method is to sign up for a pronunciation class. Studying pronunciation can (6)……………….…students understand the rules of English, but in (7) ……………..…. to practice speaking, students often need to be opposed to English outside the classroom as well. This is why many students say that studying  in an English – speaking (8)………..………greatly affects their English. Living with native (9) …..………. can help students to learn new vocabulary as (10)……………….…as improve their accents. International students can also learn important cultural information. This can help to prevent misunderstandings  that can occur when people from different cultures live together.

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Must                    is                             are                         more                     course

Best                       all                           too                        take                       of

Today our knowledge of food and what it does for our bodies is far (1) _______ advanced than that of the ancient. Now we know about vitamins and how each kind of vitamin helps in the growth of a particular part of our bodies. There (2)______ all kinds of vitamin pills which one can take to make up for one’s lack of certain important things which are needed for normal health. Of (3)______, if we eat well and properly, the food that we eat will take care (4) _____ our bodies without these pills and so there is no need to (5)_____ any kinds of vitamin pills unless our doctor tells us that our bodies are short of something which can be supplied by them.

Generally speaking, everything we eat does some good to our bodies, but if we eat (6)______ much of one kind of food and pay no attention to others, we may have too much of one kind of chemical substance and not enough of others. Then, we may be in trouble.

We are often told that we (7)________ eat some meat at each meal in order to get the necessary protein. That (8)________ only partly true, for proteins are not found only in meat. We can also get them from some vegetables.

The (9)_______  advice about what to eat is that we should eat (10)_______ kinds of food but never too much of any.

basketball is a pretty cheap(1)----------- to play in teams of equipment. So long as you have shoes and clothes and a ball,you can play. You can play with 1 hoop or 2, but it is way more fun to have a full court to (2)------------- on and several friends to do with. Of couse you can have ...v.....v.., but you can play (3)------- them if you want.

basketball is a (4)---------- of 5-on-5. there are 5 different (5)--------: point guard, centre, small. unlike some other sports, all players can (6)-------- point. there isn't a (7)--------- position to play.

basketball has 4 quarters. for pro games, quarters are 15 minutes. teams switch directions of play after (8)--------- quarter.

dien cac tu sau: score, without, sport, each, play, game, positions, boring

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          Jane is twenty- six (1)___________ old. She lives with her family in an (2)_________  in London. There are four (3) __________in her family. Her parents (4) __________ in a hospital. Her brother is a (5) __________ at university. Jane works (6) __________ a travel writer for a magazine. She (7) _________abroad five or six times a year.

          Now she is traveling in South America. She does not (8) ___________ Spanish very well, but she is studying it at the moment (9)________ she needs to talk to local people. Every evening she writes notes about people (10) __________ places.

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          Jane is twenty- six (1)___________ old. She lives with her family in an (2)_________  in London. There are four (3) __________in her family. Her parents (4) __________ in a hospital. Her brother is a (5) __________ at university. Jane works (6) __________ a travel writer for a magazine. She (7) _________abroad five or six times a year.

          Now she is traveling in South America. She does not (8) ___________ Spanish very well, but she is studying it at the moment (9)________ she needs to talk to local people. Every evening she writes notes about people (10) __________ places.

Fill in the blank with one suitable word.

We are sure you are interested ............. sports. Many of you certainly play. ........ games as volleyball or football, basketball or tennis. People who play a game are ........... . Players form teams and play matches against ....... teams - their opponents. Two people playing with each other are ........... . Each team can lose or win. In a football match players truy to score as many goals as they .......... 

There ..... so many kinds of sports such as cycling, boxing, swimming, gymnastics, rowing ......... many more. You can .......an active part in all of them or you can just be a devoted fan. Everybody may choose the sport he is fond of ......... interested in.