Carlos and Alice have given up their stressful full-time jobs in IT and telecom sales in San Francisco in California and have moved to a small town in the Pacific Northwest in Washington state. They have opened a small chocolate company there. They now make their own chocolates and sell them in their own café and shop. The business is doing well and has just served its 30,000th customer. Most of their customers are tourists, but they have also started to sell their chocolates online. The unusual thing about their chocolates is that they don't add any sugar because it is sweet enough without it.

Ikbal and Rose haven't moved to the country but they have started a small business in New York. They make bread in their kitchen at home and they sell it to the neighbors. Each week the neighbors ring the doorbell and pick up some bread. Ikbal and Rose have made lots of new friends and they have gotten to know a lot of people in their neighborhood. They have also learned a new skill. They have learned how to make bread. From this small beginning, their business has grown into a successful company.

1.Carlos and Alice ..... a chocolate company in the Pacific Northwest.

2.They have just served their......... thousandth customer.

3.There is one ingredient that they don't use in their chocolates. That is .

4.Ikbal and Rose have started baking bread....... in New York.

5.They sell their bread to...... .

6.People can order and buy the bread ...........

Complete the sentences using my own/ our own + the following:

1. I share a kitchen and bathroom, but I have __________.

2. Gary doesn't think the same as me. He's got __________.

3. Julia is fed up with working for other people. She wants to start __________.

4. In the test we had to read a story, and then write it in __________.

5. We stayed at a luxury hotel by the sea. The hotel had __________.

( bedroom     business     opinions     private     beach     words)

CÁC BẠN GIẢI CHI TIẾT RA GIÚP MÌNH NHÉ! CẢM ƠN CÁC BẠN RẤT NHIỀU!

Thanks to sheer hard work (A), the young entrepreneur has successfully managed (B) to launch (C) a magazine of his own (D). 

A. hard work

B. successfully managed

C. launch

D. of his own

Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời câu hỏi :

My aunt Nhan is an actress . She must be at least thirty - five . However , she often appears on the stage as a young girl . Nhan will have to take part in a new play soon . This time she will be a girl of seventeen . In the play , she must appear in a bright red dress and long black stockings . Last year in another play , she had to wear short sokds and a bright , orange - colored dress . If anymore askes her how old she is , she always answers , " My dear , it must be terroble grow up "

1, What does your Nhan do ?

2, How old is she ?

3, When will Nhan have to take part in a new play ?

4, What did she have to wear in another play last year ?

5, Does she like to talk about here age ?

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Family conflict

The generation gap, which refers to a broad difference between one generation and another, especially  between young people and their parents, usually leads to numerous conflicts. Such family conflicts can seriously threaten the relationship between parents and children at times. It goes without saying that, however old their children are, parents still regard them as small kids and keep in mind that their offspring are too young to protect themselves cautiously or have wise choices. Therefore, they tend to make a great attempt to help their children to discover the outside world. Nevertheless, they forget that as children grow up, they want to be more independent and develop their own identity by creating their own opinions, thoughts, styles and values about life. One common issue that drives conflicts is the clothes of teenagers. While teens are keen on wearing fashionable clothes which try to catch up with the youth trends, parents who value traditional clothes believe that those kinds of attire violate the rules and the norms of the society. It becomes worse when the expensive brand name clothes teens choose seem to be beyond the financial capacity of parents. Another reason contributing to conflicts is the interest in choosing a career path or education between parents and teenagers. Young people are told that they have the world at their feet and that dazzling future opportunities are just waiting for them to seize. However, their parents try to impose their choices of university or career on them regardless of their children's preference. Indeed, conflicts between parents and children are the ever lasting family phenomena. It seems that the best way to solve the matter is open communication to create mutual trust and understanding.

What do parents usually do to help their children as they are young?

A. They prepare everything for their children.

B. They take care of their children carefully.

C. They encourage their children to explore the outside world.

D. X

Read the article about a film. Explain in your own words what is unusual about the main character.

                                                    I USED TO BE older…

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button certainly lives up to its title. It is a very unusual film about a man who lives his life backwards: he is born as an old man and dies as a baby.

The story begins in 1918 when a woman gives birth to a baby with the appearance of an elderly man. The mother dies and the father abandons the baby, who is called Benjamin. Two workers at a nursing home, Queenie and Tizzy, decide to look after Benjamin, who fits in with the elderly residents at the home because he looks so old. But as the years pass, Benjamin becomes physically younger.

At the age of twelve, he meets a young girl called Daisy and gets on with her very well despite having the appearance of an old man, but later they lose touch when Benjamin starts working a job on a boat.

Years later, he catches up with Daisy again in Paris. In their forties, they finally look the same age for the first time - and fall in love. They almost marry and settle down together, but they never go through with it. One reason is that Daisy could never put up with Benjamin's strange condition.

In the end, they run out of time: Daisy is becoming an old woman and Benjamin is becoming a child. He finally dies in Daisy's arms as a baby.

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 following questions.

WHY DON’T YOU GET A PROPER JOB?

She wants to be a singer; you think she should go for a long–term career with job security and eventually retire with a good pension. But a new report suggests that in fact she’s the practical one. Why do parents make terrible careers advisers?

Today’s 14 and 15–year–olds are ambitious. They are optimistic about their prospects, but their career ideas are rather vague. Although 80% of them have no intention of following in their parents’ footsteps, 69% still turn to their parents for advice. They look at their working future in a different way to their parents.

A job for life is not in their vocabulary; neither is a dead–end but secure job that is boring but pays the bills. Almost half the boys surveyed expected that their hobbies would lead them into the right sort of job, while most girls seemed determined to avoid traditionally female careers such as nursing.

In the past, this might have counted as bad news. Certainly when I was 15, my guidance counsellors were horrified at my plans to become a writer. I’m glad I didn’t change my plans to suit them. Even so, their faith in rigid career paths was well–founded. In those days, that was the way to get ahead.

But the world has changed. The global economy is not kind to yesterday’s diligent and dependable worker. The future belongs to quick–thinking people who are resourceful, ambitious and can take the initiative. This means that a 14–year–old who sees her working future as a kind of adventure, to be made up as she goes along is not necessarily being unrealistic.

However, she has to have the training and guidance to help her develop the right skills for today’s market; not the rigid preparation for a workplace that disappeared twenty years ago. Many young people are very aware of the pitfalls of the flexible workplace; they understand that redundancy, downsizing and freelancing are all part of modern working life, but no one is telling them how they might be able to turn the new rules of the employment game to their advantage. This is what they need to know if they are to make a life for themselves.

So what is to be done? A good first step would be to change the way in which schools prepare young people for adult life. The education system is becoming less flexible and more obsessed with traditional skills at just the time that the employment market is going in the opposite direction.

Accurate, up–to–date information on new jobs and qualifications can help guidance counsellors to help their students. Young people need solid information on the sort of training they need to pursue the career of their dreams. Also, a little bit of encouragement can go a long way. If nothing else, a bit of optimism from an adult can serve as an antidote to the constant criticism of teenagers in the press.

What, then, can we as parents do to help them? The best thing is to forget all the advice that your parents gave you, and step into your teenager’s shoes. Once you’ve done that, it’s easier to see how important it is that they learn how to be independent, resourceful and resilient. Give them the courage to follow their dreams –however odd they might sound right now. In a world that offers economic security to almost no one, imagination is a terrible thing to waste.

What does the writer feel will happen if the education system does not change? 

A. Young people will be discouraged from working

B. Young people will receive mover criticism in the press

C. Young people will be unable to fulfill their potential

D. Young people will not be optimistic about their future