A recent survey shows that Britons hate their neighbors. The results are alarming. 80% of the people who took part in the L1rvey feel that their neighbors are inconsiderate. 25C/c don’t talk to the people who live next door and 10% don’t even know their names. In fact, one million householders in Britain would like to move because of the people that live next door.

The biggest cause of friction is noise. Many of the complaints about noise came from people who live in flats and divided houses. The other major problems are arguments about car parking spaces, and old people complaining about the young.

What does the word ‘hate’ in line 1 mean?

Read the passage and choose A, B, C or D to complete each blank.

Hue Festival

Hue Festival is a big cultural event of Hue City that is held every two years. It is the (27) _______ to honor cultural and historical values of that Vietnam’s former capital city. The first Hue Festival (28) _______place in 2000.

At the beginning of Hue Festival, visitors can enjoy (29) _______ colorful and grand opening ceremony with unique (30) _______ of several art groups from Vietnam and other countries. During the festival, there is a variety (31) _______ cultural events such as the Hue Poetry Festival, Massive Street Arts Performances, Art Exhibitions, the Week of Vietnam’s historical films. (32) _______, visitors can come and explore some traditional values of Vietnam at Gastronomy Quarters, Traditional  Kite Flying Festival (33) _______ watch “Ao dai” Grand Show, “Oriental night” Show, and sporting activities (34) _______ boat race, human chess, etc. Especially, many ancient sceneries of Nguyen Dynasty are also reproduced (35) _______ provide tourists an insight into Vietnam’s feudal era.

Hue Festival is well-known as an (36) _______ festival where cultures of many countries converge together as well as where Vietnamese traditional and cultural values are widely presented to the world.

Question 28...................

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to answer these following questions

Hi, my name is David and my favorite activity is watching television. I often watch cartoon on Disney channel. My grandmother and mother enjoy watching craft programs. My daddy and brother love watching football matches on the sport channel. I usually spend about 2 hours a day watching TV. In the evening, all the family gather and watch the news and weather forecast. Today, the weatherman announces that it will rain tomorrow. I think you should bring along a raincoat before going out.

Who love watching football matches?

Read the passage and choose the best answer:

Let me introduce you to Steven. He is a newcomer. He lives next-door to me in the same apartment building. He wants me to show him around the neighborhood. “There is everything in our area. Over there is a supermarket and a restaurant to the left of the building. There is a post office opposite the restaurant and there is a park between the supermarket and the parking lot. The supermarket sells a lot of things. If you want to look for a place of recreation, let’s go to the pub next to the park. Don’t worry about the price. It’s as comfortable as your home but only as cheap as a convenient store. There is a hospital only 3 kilometers from here.”

 The supermarket sells a lot of things.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to answer these following questions

Hi, my name is David and my favorite activity is watching television. I often watch cartoon on Disney channel. My grandmother and mother enjoy watching craft programs. My daddy and brother love watching football matches on the sport channel. I usually spend about 2 hours a day watching TV. In the evening, all the family gather and watch the news and weather forecast. Today, the weatherman announces that it will rain tomorrow. I think you should bring along a raincoat before going out.

What is David’s hobby?

Read the following passage and choose the item (A, B, C, or D) that best answers each of the questions about it. 

An entertainment is any (1)_________which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their (2)_________time. 

Entertainment is typically passive- as in watching opera or a (3)_________. Activities that involve participating in (4)_________or sports are more often considered to be recreation. Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical (5)___________are considered hobbies.

The industry that provides entertainment is (6)_________the entertainment industry. There are many (7)________of entertainment, which cater to particular tastes. For example, there is cinema, theatre, sports, games, social dance which cater to different groups of people.

These may also be grouped on the age of person’s interest, such as child entertainment or (8)________entertainment. For example, puppets, clowns, pantomimes, and (9)_______tend to appeal to children, though adults may also find them (10)_________.

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Read the passage below and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE?
Let me introduce you to Steven. He is a newcomer. He lives next-door to me in the same apartment building. He wants me to show him around the neighborhood. “There is everything in our area. Over there is a supermarket and a restaurant to the left of the building. There is a post office opposite the restaurant and there is a park between the supermarket and the parking lot. The supermarket sells a lot of things. If you want to look for a place of recreation, let’s go to the pub next to the park. Don’t worry about the price. It’s as comfortable as your home but only as cheap as a convenient store. There is a hospital only 3 kilometers from here.”

There is a post office between the restaurant and the park.

Read the passage and choose A, B, C or D to complete each blank.

The British generally (31) _________ a lot of attention to good table manners. Even young children are expected to eat properly with knife and fork. We eat most of our food with (32) _________. The foods we do not eat with a knife, fork or spoon include sandwiches, crisps, corn on the cob, (33) _________ fruit.

If you cannot eat a certain type of food or have some special needs, tell your host several days before the dinner party. If you are a guest, it is polite to wait until your host starts eating or indicates you (34) _________ do so. It shows consideration. Always chew and swallow all the food in your mouth (35) _________ taking more or taking a drink. Always say thank you when served something. It shows appreciation.

Question 34.................

Read and answer following qussetions

Hi, my name is Lam and my favorite activity is watching television. I often watch cartoon on Disney channel. My grandmother and mother enjoy watching craft programs. My daddy and brother love watching football matches on the sport channel. I usually spend about 2 hours a day watching TV. In the evening, all the family gather and watch the news and weather forecast. Today, the weatherman announces that it will rain tomorrow. I think you should bring along a raincoat before going out.

What is Lam’s hobby?

Read and complete sentences in the passage.

An is a student and he lives in a bed-sit on the suburb of Hanoi. It’s a part ________ (1) an old house. He ________ (2) one room and a kitchen and share a bathroom with three other people. In his room, there is a bed on the left hand side. There is ________ (3) armchair beside the bed. The desk is opposite the bed and there is a closet on the right side of the room. Above the desk, there is a bookshelf ________ (4) above the bed there is a clock. He has a TV and a Wi-Fi, too. In the kitchen, there is a cooker on the right hand side. The sink is ________ (5) the cooker. There’s a small table and two chairs in the center. The kitchen is small, but it’s ok. Viet like his room very much.

 Above the desk, there is a bookshelf ________ (4) above the bed there is a clock

Read the following passage and choose the item (A, B, C, or D) that best answers each of the questions about it. 

An entertainment is any (1)_________which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their (2)_________time. 

Entertainment is typically passive- as in watching opera or a (3)_________. Activities that involve participating in (4)_________or sports are more often considered to be recreation. Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical (5)___________are considered hobbies.

The industry that provides entertainment is (6)_________the entertainment industry. There are many (7)________of entertainment, which cater to particular tastes. For example, there is cinema, theatre, sports, games, social dance which cater to different groups of people.

These may also be grouped on the age of person’s interest, such as child entertainment or (8)________entertainment. For example, puppets, clowns, pantomimes and (9)_______tent to appeal to children, though adults may also find them (10)_________.

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Read the passage and answer the questions.

Ethnic Groups

Vietnam is a multi – nationality country with 54 ethnic groups. The Viet (Kinh) people account for 87% of the country’s population and mainly inhabit the Red River delta, the central coastal delta, the Mekong delta and major cities. The other 53 ethnic minority groups, totaling over 8 million people, are scattered over mountain areas (covering two – thirds of the country’s territory) spreading from the North to the South.

Among ethnic minorities, the most populated are Tay, Thai, Muong, Hoa, Khmer, Nung… with a population of around 1 million each, while the least populated are Brau, Roman, Odu with several hundred people each.

A number of ethnic minorities had mastered some farming techniques. They grew rice plants in swamped paddy fields and carried out irrigation. Others went hunting, fishing, collecting and lived a semi-nomadic life. Each group has its own culture, diverse and special. Beliefs and religions of the Vietnamese ethnic minority groups were also disparate from each other.

Which of the following statements is true of minor ethnic peoples?

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

My neighborhood is very convenient - it’s near the shopping center and the bus station. It is also safe. But those are the only good things about living downtown. It is very noisy - the streets are always full of people! The traffic is terrible, and parking is a big problem! I can never park on my own street. I’d like to live in the suburbs.

It’s easy to ______.

Read the passage below and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE?

Light pollution is the excessive, misdirected or invasive use of artificial outdoor lighting. Mismanaged lighting affects the environment, energy resources, wildlife, humans and astronomy research.

Light pollution is not a new phenomenon. Over the last 50 years, as countries became affluent and urbanized, demand for outdoor lighting increased and light pollution sprawled beyond the city limits and into suburban and rural areas. This form pollution is now prevalent in Asia, Europe, and North America, particularly in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C. In 2008, National Geographic magazine named Chicago the most light-polluted city in the United States.

However, the most light-polluted spot in the world is Hong Kong, China. In March 2013, the University of Hong Kong named the city the most light polluted in the world. A study by the university found the night sky in Tsim Sha Tsui, an urban neighborhood in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong, to be 1,200 times brighter than a normal urban city sky. Luminous pollution of this magnitude is on the rise worldwide. In a 2010 article from the Ecology and Society Journal, Hölker and others stated the use of artificial lighting increases by 20% each year, depending on the region, and noted there is an urgent need for light pollution policies that surpass energy efficiency to include humans, animals and the environment.

 A city in Hong Kong is more than two hundred times brighter than a normal one.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

It is five o’clock in the evening when Mrs. Jackson comes home from work. She walks into the living room and looks at her three children. They are 14, 13 and 9 years old. They are watching TV. The living room is a mess. There are dirty socks on the floor and cookies on the sofa. Games and toys are every where. Jackson is angry, “This place is a mess” she tells her children, “I can’t work all day and then do housework all evening. I’m not going to do housework!” Jackson doesn’t do housework. She doesn’t clean or wash dishes. She doesn’t wash clothes, either. Every evening she sits on the sofa and watches TV.

            After two weeks, every plate, fork and glass in the house is dirty. All the children’s clothes are dirty. Every garbage basket is full. The house is a mess.

            Then, one day Mrs. Jackson comes home from work and gets a big surprise. The kitchen is clean. The children clean the kitchen!

            The next day, the living room is clean, and the children are washing their clothes. Jackson tells the children “OK, I’ll do the housework again. But you have to help me.”

            Now Jackson and her three children do the housework together. Then they all sit on the sofa and watch TV!

When Jackson came home from work, she found the house ……………..

Choose the words or phrases that best fit each of the blank spaces.

MY NEIGHBORHOOD

When I think of my neighborhood I get (26) ________. For one thing it is in a crowded street (27) ________ many tall storeyed building on both (28) ________. One can't see the (29) ________ or sunset when one lives in this street. It is always crowded and (30) ________ but for the small hours of the night. All (31) ________ of vehicles move about the streets, especially in the morning and (32)______ office hours. These vehicles raise continuing loud, unpleasant noise. (33) ________ the road is well tarred there is no dust.

There is a school  and a department store (34) ________. The school children add to the crowd and noise of the place. Very often they encroach upon the road for there is no proper playground for them.

Having lived in this neighborhood (35) ________ quite a long time, I long for the rural atmosphere which the poets have sung so much about.

Question 31..............

Read and answer the question.

Let me introduce you to Jack. He is a newcomer. He lives next-door to me in the same apartment building. He wants me to show him around the neighborhood. “There is everything in our area. Over there is a supermarket and a restaurant to the left of the building. There is a post office opposite the restaurant and there is a park between the supermarket and the parking lot. The supermarket sells a lot of things. If you want to look for a place of recreation, let’s go to the pub next to the park. Don’t worry about the price. It’s as comfortable as your home but only as cheap as a convenient store. There is a hospital only 3 kilometers from here.”

How long is the hospital from there?

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to answer these following questions
Charles is twelve years old. He lives in a modern villa in the suburb of the city. His father is a manager. His mother is a secretary. And he is a student. The villa is next to a large shopping center so it’s very convenient. There is a big backyard where they can sit and have afternoon tea. His mother often buys some flowers because there is a flower shop opposite their house. At Tet, they often go to the historic pagoda near their villa.

Is the villa in front of a shopping center?

Choose the words or phrases that best fit each of the blank spaces.

MY NEIGHBORHOOD

When I think of my neighborhood I get (26) ________. For one thing it is in a crowded street (27) ________ many tall storeyed building on both (28) ________. One can't see the (29) ________ or sunset when one lives in this street. It is always crowded and (30) ________ but for the small hours of the night. All (31) ________ of vehicles move about the streets, especially in the morning and (32)______ office hours. These vehicles raise continuing loud, unpleasant noise. (33) ________ the road is well tarred there is no dust.

There is a school  and a department store (34) ________. The school children add to the crowd and noise of the place. Very often they encroach upon the road for there is no proper playground for them.

Having lived in this neighborhood (35) ________ quite a long time, I long for the rural atmosphere which the poets have sung so much about.

Question 35.........................

Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the gaps.

Native American Indian groups in North America lived (31) ___________ different cultural regions, each of which developed its own customs and traditions. A custom is the specific way in which (32) ___________ group of people does something. This can include how foods are prepared, what clothing is worn, the kinds of celebrations and much more. The set of customs developed and (33) ___________ by a culture over time is a tradition.

A culture’s customs are often determined by the natural resources found in their environment. In the Desert Southwest region, cloth weaving develop (34) ___________ a custom. The area has fewer large animals whose skins can be used for making clothing or blankets. Cloth weaving was a way (35) ___________ meeting the need for clothing without using animal skins. In the Eastern Woodlands area, however, hunting and fishing were daily activities. Since it was easy to get animal skins, developing skills like weaving were less important.

Question 31..................

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Living in the country is something (1)………….  people from the city often dream about. However, in reality, it has both advantages and (2)……………..  .

There are certainly many advantages to living in the country. First of all, you can enjoy (3)…………. and quiet. Moreover, people tend to be friendlier. A further advantage is that there is less (4)…………., so it is safer for young children.

However, there are certain drawbacks to life outside the city. Firstly, because there are (5)……… people, you are (6)…………… to have few friends. In addition, entertainment is difficult to find, (7)…………….. in the evening. Furthermore, the fact that there are fewer shops and services means that it is hard to find (8)……………… .

In conclusion, it can be seen that the country is (9)…………… suitable for some people than others. On the whole, it is often the best place for those who are retired or who have young children. In (10)……………., young people who have a career are better provided for in the city.

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