a. The countryside is more _______________ than Nguyen expected.

A. boring B. exciting C. convenient D. interesting

b. It now is the ________________ time. 

A. harvest B. leisure C. summer D. spring

c. Nguyen sometimes joins the boys in _________________.

A. making kites B. playing football C. herding the buffaloes D. collecting water

d. Rice is transported home on _______________.

A trucks B. motorbikes C. car D. buffalo-drawn carts 

2. Listen again and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). 

1. Nguyen is in the countryside now.

2. Nguyen is staying with his parents.

3. Nguyen’s kite is big and colorful.

4. Nick doesn’t want to be with Nguyen.

1. My father enjoys making crafts, especially carving eggshells. (rewrite, using “hooked”)
-  My father _____________________________________________________________.
2. 75% of the population in the countryside are happy with their life. The rate in the city is only 47%. (Complete the sentence, using “happily”)
-  People in the countryside live _____________________________________________.
3. Mai enjoys to make crafts, especially cloth dolls. (Find and correct the mistake in the sentence.) 
-__________________________________________________________________ .
4. My  uncle has been to Quang Nam to write an article about the Sedang. (Write questions for the underlined parts of the following sentences.)
-__________________________________________________________________ 

Life in an island community
Off the west coast of Scotland, there are many small island communities. Life in these communities is very different from life in the big cities. People from the cities often say that life in the islands is slow and boring. But the island people tell a different story.
Many families live by fishing or farming, and people usually have more than one job. Many families have rooms for tourists who come to visit the islands in summer. The tourists go walking and fishing and play sports. Sometimes they study Gaelic, the local language. And they stay in a 'bed and breakfast' with a local family or in one of the small island hotels. In the long summer evenings, people meet and talk together. They tell stories of where they live and what they do. 
The children on the islands go to small local schools. They have their classes in English and Gaelic. Sometimes there are only eight or ten children in one school! When they are twelve, they go to secondary school in a bigger town on the island. When they finish that school, they decide whether to go to university in a big city, or to stay and work on the island.
a. Do people on the island mainly do one job?
________________________________________________________________________.
b. What languages do children speak at school?
_______________________________________________________________________.
c. How do people from the cities say about life in the island?
________________________________________________________________________.
d. Do the children go to secondary school when they are twelve?
________________________________________________________________________.

1. Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word from the box.
make    do    which    what     so     same          

Many people believe that life on a farm is very quiet and easy, but it isn’t the (1)__________ as they think, It is very hard. I myself have lived on a farm for nearly twenty years, and I know (2)__________ farm work is. You must get up early, feed the chickens and the cows, water the flowers, vegetables, (3)__________ a lot of gardening, and then work in the fields. But I like this way of life and (4)__________ do all my children.

I. Supply the correct form of the words in parentheses. (1 pt)
1. Nomadic ____________ has both advantages and disadvantages. (live)
2. Picking fruit in the summer can be hard work but very ____________. (satisfy) 
3. When you game online, be careful when you 'make friends' with ____________. (strange)  
4. The Great Wall was built ____________ than the White House. (early) 
II. Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in parentheses. (1 pt)
1. In the past, men _____________ wear ao dai, but today they don't have to. (have to)
2. These boys _____________ how to harvest the crop since they were 10 years old. (know)    
3. My father doesn’t mind _____________ my mom from work every day. (pick up)    
4. You should avoid _____________ at the computer for too long. (sit)   

Choose the word (A, B, C or D) whose stress is different from the others. (0.5 pt)

1. A. peaceful B. paddy C. harvest D. expect

2. A. nomadic B. scenery C. blackberry        D. generous

Choose the best answer. (1.5pts)

3. My father enjoys ______ on Sundays.

A. garden    B. to garden      C. gardening      D. to gardening

4. I feel ______ when I live in the countryside.

A. peaceful      B. peacefully    C. more peacefully      D. peace

5. My ______ is hooked on doing the volunteer work.

A. 2moro      B. bro    C. goin’      D. WBU

6. I think ______ with friends is the best way to practice social skills.

A. collecting things           B. gaming online          C. surfing the net            D. socialising

7. My sister likes communicating ______ her friends in her free time.

A. on    B. with    C. to      D. of

8. We worked together to ______ this tent. It was hard work.

A. pick up    B. ride    C. put up    D. herd