VI. Rewrite the sentence in such a new way that the new one still keeps the same meaning as the original one.

1. Would you like to go on a picnic with me?

→ What about…………………………………………………………………?

2. When is your birthday?

→ What …………………………………………………………………………?

3. There are forty students in my class.

→ My class ………………………………………………………………………

4. Nam walks to school every day.

→ Nam goes

People are living longer, so there are more (1)…. people. Many young people are doing community service. They help elderly people. They do their shopping. They do their housework. They clean their yards. They (2)…. paint their houses. Some young people work (3)…. hospital volunteers. In America, they are called “candy stripers” (4)…. of the striped pink and white uniform they wear. Others are concerned about the environment and work on neighborhood clean-up campaigns.

1. A. elderly     B. long-lived    C. older     D. A&B are correct

2. A. mainly    B. even    C. mostly    D. partially

3. A. for    B. at    C. as    D. in

4. A. because     B. when    C. though    D. because of

C/ WRITING

I. Rewrite the sentences, beginning with the words given (and using the words in brackets)

17. People grow a lot of flowers in Da Lat.

→ A lot of flowers

18. Plays are longer than films. (not as…as)

→ Films are 

III. Word form: Put the word in brackets in the correct form

7. Thousands of Vietnamese ……………....... graduated from the Imperial Academy (SCHOOL)

8. Dan Bau is a ………………........... musical instrument in Viet Nam (TRADITION)

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

5. A. fear    B. hear     C. earn     D. clear

6. A. chicken    B. architect     C. cheap     D. chair

Câu 25 - 30:

Her parents like the life in the countryside. Everything is fresh and cheap here. Her father is a farmer and her mother is a farmer, too. They love their (25)                       very much. They work on the farm house together. They have a big field where they grow a lot of rice. It is their main (26)                      . They also raise some chicken which (27)                       their eggs and a buffalo which works on the farm with them. Their farming work is (28)                       and busy but they are always happy. (29)                       the year, they don’t have any public holidays but they have some days off after the harvest time. They often takes their children to (30)                      .