b. Fill in the blanks with the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

(Điền vào chỗ trống với dạng đúng của thì quá khứ đơn.)

1. Last Sunday, Andy and his friends volunteered (volunteer) at the soup kitchen. 

(Chủ nhật trước, Andy và bạn anh ấy làm tình nguyện ở quán ăn cho người nghèo.)

2. We______(clean up) the park near our school last weekend. 

3. My parents______(raise) money to help the local children's hospital two months ago. 

4. Last Monday, lots of students_______(donate) books and clothes they_____(not use) any more to poor children in their town. 

5. Our school______(collect) all of the donations and sent them to poor people. 

6. They ______(plant) frees in the streets to make their town cleaner. 

We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with people all across the Earth. Profound and _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and _____ (MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already _____ (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who are able to _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to _____ (BANK) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

Q: We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with people all across the Earth. Profound and _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and _____ (MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already _____ (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who are able to _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to _____ (BANK) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18) _______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______  rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25)_______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26)_______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27)_______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (23)

A. over      

B. again      

C. repeatedly       

D. repeatin

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18)_______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20)_______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______ rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______ The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25) _______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26) _______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27) _______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (18)

A. it  

B. them       

C. that        

D. those

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18) _______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______  rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25)_______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26)_______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27)_______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (27)

A. recycle  

B. preserve  

C. keep       

D. reuse

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18) _______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______  rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25)_______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26)_______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27)_______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (22)

A. pollute  

B. polluting 

C. polluted 

D. pollution

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18) _______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______  rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25)_______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26)_______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27)_______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (26)

A. future   

B. time being        

C. times      

D. period

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks .

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (18) _______ in our cars and to heat our building inwinter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (19)_______ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (20) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go (21)_______  rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (22)_______ air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the same land over and (23)_______. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (24)_____ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land (25)_______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (26)_______            

     This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (27)_______ the world’s resources.

Điền vào số (20)

A. what     

B. who         

C. whom    

D. which