The One Pillar Pagoda has become the symbol of Vietnamese culture and history. This unique Buddhist pagoda is located in Ha Noi, Vietnam’s second largest city. It is regarded alongside the Perfume Pagoda, as one of Vietnam’s two most iconic temples.

It was built by Emperor Ly Thai Tong of the Ly dynasty (1028 – 1054). Legend has it that Ly Thai Tong was childless and he used to go to pagodas to pray for a son. One day he was dreaming that he met Bodhisattva Avalokteshvara who handed him a baby son while seated on a beautiful lotus flower in a pond. Not long after that, his wife bore him a son. Overjoyed by this, the emperor ordered the construction of One Pillar Pagoda in 1049.

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                        DA LAT – DREAM CITY

Da Lat lies on Lam Vien plateau, in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong. 300 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City. Da Lat is a well-known city  attracting all the people who have been there once. Da Lat is known as a city of pine trees, waterfalls and flowers. Da Lat is described as a forest of flowers with (1) ………………………colours and various species. Flowers can be found (2) ……………………….and in any season. We ca see flowers in Da Lat in the parks, (3) ……………………. of the houses, in the gardens etc . Da Lat has the widest range of orchid varieties in the country. Da Lat has (4) …………………… rivers and canals but it has many picturesque waterfalls. It takes tourists several days (5) ………………………all the waterfalls in the area. The famous Cam Ly Falls is only 3 kilometers (6) ………………………the town center. The Prenn Falls is 10 kilometers in the south of Da Lat.  The water (7) ………………………down like a white shade. Da Lat people are very (8) …………………of it. They always boast to tourists about it in the first place. Around the Prenn Falls is the valley of various flowers and pine hills

1.A. different                  B. general                  C. official                              D. astounding

2.A. somewhere              B. anywhere              C. nowhere                            D. everywhere

3.A. behind                     B. next to                   C. opposite                            D. in front

4.A. few                           B. little                       C. much                                 D. lots

5.A. visit                          B. visiting                  C. to visit                               D. visited

6.A. in                              B. at                            C. to                                        D. from

7.A. falls                          B. goes                       C. pours                                 D. walks

8.A. pride                        B. priding                  C. prided                                D. proud

English is a very useful __(1)__. If we know English, we can go to any countries we like. We will not find it hard to make people understand __(2)__ we want to say. English also helps us to __(3)___ all kinds of things. Hundreds of books are _(4)_ in English every day in many countries .English has also helped to spread ideas and knowledge to all corners of the __(6)__. Therefore, the English language has helped to spread better ___(7)__ and __(8)___ among countries of the world.

1.      A. language                  B. languages                       C. linguist                        D. linguistics

2.      A. where                       B. when                               C. what                             D. which

3.      A. learnt                        B. learning                          C. to learn                        D. learn

4.      A. write                         B. wrote                              C. written                         D. writing

5.      A. countrified              B.                                         C. country                        D. countryside

6.      A. school                      B. class                                C. word                            D world

7.      A. to understand          B. understanding               C. understand                  D. understood

8.      A. friend                       B. friendly                          C. friendliness                D. friendship

IV.: Choose the word in the box to complete the  following passage

                                    DA LAT – DREAM CITY

Da Lat lies on Lam Vien plateau, in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong. 300 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City. Da Lat is a well-known city  attracting all the people who have been there once. Da Lat is known as a city of pine trees, waterfalls and flowers. Da Lat is described as a forest of flowers with (1) ………………………colours and various species. Flowers can be found (2) ……………………….and in any season. We ca see flowers in Da Lat in the parks, (3) ……………………. of the houses, in the gardens etc . Da Lat has the widest range of orchid varieties in the country. Da Lat has (4) …………………… rivers and canals but it has many picturesque waterfalls. It takes tourists several days (5) ………………………all the waterfalls in the area. The famous Cam Ly Falls is only 3 kilometers (6) ………………………the town center. The Prenn Falls is 10 kilometers in the south of Da Lat.  The water (7) ………………………down like a white shade. Da Lat people are very (8) …………………of it. They always boast to tourists about it in the first place. Around the Prenn Falls is the valley of various flowers and pine hills

1.A. different                  B. general                  C. official                              D. astounding

2.A. somewhere              B. anywhere              C. nowhere                            D. everywhere

3.A. behind                     B. next to                   C. opposite                            D. in front

4.A. few                           B. little                       C. much                                 D. lots

5.A. visit                          B. visiting                  C. to visit                               D. visited

6.A. in                              B. at                            C. to                                        D. from

7.A. falls                          B. goes                       C. pours                                 D. walks

8.A. pride                        B. priding                  C. prided                                D. proud

Chu Van An High School is one of the oldest and most prestigious state schools in Viet Nam. Established in 1908 by the French, the school was located beside the West Lake, and was originally named after the location it was in. It is a very pleasant, spacious school with great views of the lake from the classroom windows.
In 1943, the school was moved to Ninh Binh, and was not moved back to Ha Noi until 1945. In that year, the school was renamed Chu Van An, after a famous Vietnamese Confucianism teacher of the Tran Dynasty. Professor Nguyen Gia Tuong became the first Vietnamese principal of the school. Many famous people like ex-Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, Doctor Ton That Tung, and poet Xuan Dieu used to be the school’s students.

Today the school is still located in the same area, and has maintained its prestige, as well as its reputation as one of the top schools in Ha Noi. It is very difficult to be admitted to the school. Every year, there are around three thousand applicants but only about five hundred are admitted. Those applicants have to take an entrance examination conducted by the Department of Education and Training of Ha Noi.

Training of Ha Noi.

1. When was Chu Van An High School established?

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2. When was the school moved to Ninh Binh?

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3. Who was the first Vietnamese principal of the school?

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4. Who used to be the students of the school?

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5. Where is the school now?

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  III. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting.

1.      Would you mind if I ask you a private question?

                    A           B                 C          D

      2. When we are on holiday, we used to go to the beach every day.

                     A         B                              C                           D

     3. He said that they will have to set off soon after midnight.

                     A            B             C                D

4. We wish we can consult an expert on how to solve this problem.

                          A              B                               C               D

      5. He works much more hard for his exams than he does for his normal school work.

              A                     B                                          C                  D

      6. The doctor suggested that he should drink more water, and took a lot of rest.

                             A                     B                      C                  D

7. I used to listen to music during I was riding my bicycle to school.

                        A                 B                          C                    D

      8. When he lived in Japan, he didn’t used to eat food with forks, but with chopsticks.

          A                 B                          C                                                D

     9. None of them had any idea about how make a raft with only a few bamboo canes.

              A                 B                               C                              D

10. He suggested to go to Phong Nha Cave since it’s a famous natural wonder of Viet Nam.

                                      A                                    B        C                                 D

II. Read the passage and answer the questions below.

           Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State. He grew up in a rich family. His parents sent him to a private school. There he met his business partner, Paul Allen. When they were in eighth grade, they were writing programs for business computers and making more.

          In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They thought he would get over his obsession with computers and become a lawyer like his father. Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend Allen. They worked eighteen hours a day in a dormitory room at Harvard. They were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers. In 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product.

     Allen became ill with cancer and left Microsoft in 1983. He recovered a few years later and started his own company. Meanwhile, Microsoft became a giant company. By 1990, at the age of thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the USA.

1.Where was Bill Gates born ?

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2.Was Bill Gates the youngest billionaire in the history of the USA at the age of 34 ?

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3.When was Gates accepted at Harvard University ?

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4.Why did Bill Gates and Paul Allen create Microsoft in 1975 ?

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I.Read and complete the text with the words in the box.

Living in a city has a (1) _______of drawbacks. Firstly, there is the problem of traffic jams and traffic accidents. The increase (2) _______ population and the increasing number of vehicles have caused many (3) _______ to happen everyday. Secondly, air (4) _______ negatively affects people’s health, and is also has a bad influence on the environment. More and more city suffer from coughing or breathing problems. Thirdly, the city is noisy, even at  (5) _______. Noise pollution comes froms the traffic and from constructions sites. Buildings are always being knocked (6) _______ and rebuilt.

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

1.A. bamboo                              B. took                       C.  afternoon                          D. soon

2.A. waste                                  B.  save                     C.  take                                D. crack                   

3. A. much                                 B.  bury                      C.   come                               D. fun

4. A. reach                                 B.   seat                       C.  weather                           D.  between

5.A.concentration                  B.   question                C.   attraction                        D. emotion

6.A.  exist                                 B.   exchange             C.  extreme                           D.  expect

7.A.  tolerant                             B.   backdrop            C.  remote                              D.  dogsled

8.A.  behavior                           B.   habit                    C.  tramway                           D.  cashew