Đề bài: Read the passage and answer the questions.
It was the first lesson after the summer holidays at a small school in England. The lesson was about the seasons of the year. “There are four seasons in the year,” said the teacher, “They are spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In spring, it is warm and everything begins to grow. In summer, it is hot and there are many flowers in the fields and gardens. In autumn, there are many vegetables and much fruit. Everybody likes to eat fruit. In winter, it is cold and it often rains. Sometimes there is snow on the ground.” Here the teacher stopped and looked at one of the pupils “Stop talking, Tom”, he said. “Now listen to me. Can you tell us when is the best time of apples?” “Yes, sir,” answered Tom. “It is when the farmer is not at home and there is no dog in the garden.”
1. Where did the lesson take place?
2. What was the lesson about?
3. What did the teacher ask Tom to do?
4. What did the teacher asked the class to do?
5. Did the teacher say “Stop talking, Tom”?
Đáp án:
1. It took place in a small school in England.
2. It was about the seasons of the year.
3. He asked Tom not to talk.
4. He asked the class to listen to him and tell him the best time for apples.
5. Yes, he did.
Giải thích:
1. Thông tin: It was the first lesson after the summer holidays at a small school in England.
2. Thông tin: The lesson was about the seasons of the year.
3. Thông tin: Here the teacher stopped and looked at one of the pupils “Stop talking, Tom”, he said.
4. Thông tin: “Now listen to me. Can you tell us when is the best time of apples?”
5. Thông tin: Here the teacher stopped and looked at one of the pupils “Stop talking, Tom”, he said.
Dịch: Đó là buổi học đầu tiên sau kỳ nghỉ hè tại một ngôi trường nhỏ ở Anh. Bài học về các mùa trong năm. “Một năm có bốn mùa,” cô giáo nói, “Đó là xuân, hạ, thu và đông. Vào mùa xuân, trời ấm áp và mọi thứ bắt đầu phát triển. Vào mùa hè, trời nóng và có rất nhiều hoa trên ruộng và vườn. Vào mùa thu, có nhiều rau và nhiều trái cây. Mọi người đều thích ăn trái cây. Vào mùa đông, trời lạnh và thường có mưa. Đôi khi có tuyết trên mặt đất.” Tại đây, giáo viên dừng lại và nhìn vào một trong những học sinh “Đừng nói nữa, Tom”, anh ấy nói. "Bây giờ hãy lắng nghe tôi. Bạn có thể cho chúng tôi biết khi nào là thời điểm tốt nhất của táo? “Vâng, thưa ngài,” Tom trả lời. “Đó là khi người nông dân không có nhà và không có con chó nào trong vườn.”
Read the text carefully then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
Spending your free time on the Internet can be fun. You can chat, share photos with friends, and play online games. But some people are addicted to the Internet. They just can’t turn it off. Being online for many hours at a time does not mean you have a problem. The Internet is very useful. Online, you can pay your bills, buy clothes, and read the news. There are many good reasons to spend time online. However, people with an Internet addiction are online too much. They don’t spend time with their friends and family. Instead, they spend their time chatting with their Internet friends, people they have never met in real life. Some also play online games all day or night. Some people with Internet addictions even leave their jobs so they can spend even more time online! People with Internet addictions don’t just go online to shop, have fun, or do work. People who have this problem often go online because they want to escape the stress and problems in their lives. Many internet addicts stop caring about their real lives, and focus only on their online lives. One way Internet addicts can get help is by using special software. This software controls how much time someone can spend online. It tells the computer to turn off the internet after a certain amount time. This helps people focus on real life. The software’s goal is to teach people to use the Internet for good reasons and not just as an escape.
1. People with Internet addiction spend most of their free time on the Internet.
2. Paying bills online is a useful way to use the Internet.
3. Internet addiction causes problems in one’s daily life.
4. Most Internet addicts play online games all day or night.
5. Using special software is a way of helping people stop their Internet addiction.
The passage below contains 10 errors. UNDERLINE and CORRECT them.
After an absence in thirty years, I decided visiting my old school again. I had expected to find changes, but no a completely different building. As I walked up the school ground, I wondered for a moment if I had come at the right address. The grimy, red brick fortress with their tall windows that had looked up grimly on the playground and playing fields had swept away. In its place stood a bright, modern block risen from the ground on great concrete stilts. A huge expanse of glass extending across the face of the building, and in front, there was a well-kept lawn where previous there had been untidy gravel yard.
Read and choose the best answer.
Parents send their children to school to prepare for the time when they grow up. Children learn their native language so that they will be able to communicate fluently with other people around them. Moreover, they can preserve the valuable culture and literature of their country. They learn foreign languages in order to benefit from other countries’ heritage. The more foreign languages they learn, the more benefits they get. Children also learn math to calculate, geography to know about nature, and history to know about human beings and historical events. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical uses in their life.
1. Parents send their children to school to ________.
The city where I live has a bad ________ because of its high crime rate.
A. reputation
B. reputative
C. reputed
D. reputing
Jim was absent from class yesterday. He was suffering from a bad cold.
=> ____Tìm và sửa lỗi sai: It was not until the match ended that everybody had left the stadium.
“It was nice of you to help me. Thank you very much.", Tom said to you.
=> Tom thanked _______.
After fighting the fire for twelve hours, the firemen succeeded in putting it out.
=> Having fought ____________.
Đề bài: Read the text carefully, then choose the correct answers.
More than two hundred years ago, the term 'environmental pollution was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank pure water, and breathed fresh air. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. People all over the world are worried about things that are happening to the environmental pollution. Actually it is man that is destroying the surroundings with many kinds of wastes. Everybody knows that motorbikes and cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufactures know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on treating the wastes safely. Scattering garbage is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?
More than two hundred years ago _____________
I must have my suit cleaned before the interview.
=> I ____________.
The remark was so unexpected that she did't know what to say.
=> It was such __