1. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c, d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Although there are many (1)_______throughout the year. Tet (2)_______the lunar New Year holiday is the most (3)_______celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a (4)_______ which occurs in late January or early February. It is a time for families (5)_______ and decorate their homes and enjoy (6)______ food such as sticky rice cakes. Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
1. A. celebrations B. activities C. information D. news
2. A. and B. but C. or D. because
3. A. beautiful B. important C. interesting D. interested
4. A. festival B. costume C.performance D. parade
5. A. clean B. to clean C. cleaning D. cleaned
6. A. special B. especially C. specially D. especial
2. Read the pasage below and answer the questions
My favourite food
What kinds of food do you like ? My favourite food is Pho. Pho is the most popular food and it plays an important part in the spirit of Vietnamese people, especially the people who live in Ha Noi are always proud of Ha Noi Pho. Anyone who feels hungry in a short time in the morning can also enjoy a bowl of hot and spicy Pho to fill their empty stomach.
There are two main kinds of Pho: Pho with beef and Pho with chicken. The ingredients of Pho are rice noodles, broth, beef or chicken, onion and spices,… It takes several hours to prepare. When people eat Pho,they can add some kinds of things such as chillies, pepper,… I love Pho very much and I can eat it everyday. I'm sure that you do too. Wherever in Vietnam Pho is one of special food.
a. What is the writer’s favourite food ?
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b. What are the ingredients of Pho ?
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c. How many main kinds of Pho are there?
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d. Is Pho one of special food in Vietnam?
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e. Do you love Pho ? Why ?
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3. Complete the passage below using the words given in the box.
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because - raising – volunteer - another – tradition – community
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In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or another, has been a (1) ................... According to U.S government statistics, about one – fifth of the American population does volunteer work each year. Americans have had the (2)................of volunteering and helping one (3)...................... since the early days of the country. Americans volunteer not (4)......................they are forced or paid to do it. They enjoy it. Traditional volunteer activities include: (5).......................money for people in need, cooking and giving food, doing general labour, providing transportation and tutoring young people. ..
4.Read the following text then answer the questions
Nem Ran or Cha Gio (Fried Spring Roll)
Nem Ran is one of the special dishes in Viet Nam. It is called Nem Ran in Ha Noi and Cha gio in Ho Chi Minh. Nem Ran is easy to prepare. It has long been a preferred food on special occasions such as Tet and other family festivities. Ingredients used for Nem Ran include pork, crabs or shrimps, two kinds of edible mushroom (Nam Huong and Moc Nhi), dried onions, eggs, pepper, salt. All are mixed thoroughly before being wrapped with transparent rice paper in to small rolls. These rolls are fried in boiling oil.
Questions:
1. What dish is the text about?
2. What ingredients do we need to make Nem Ran?
3. Is the mixture wrapped with transparent rice paper?
4. Have you ever made Nem Ran dish?
5 Read the following text then answer the questions
. I want to raise funds for street children. I want to do it because we will be able to provide them with food and books. They will no longer be hungry. They will be able to read. I will ask my friends to help me. We will make postcards and sell them.
1. What does she want to do?
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2. How will she do it?
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3. Have you ever done the work like her?
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4. Will they make postcards and sell them?
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6.Read and fill in the gaps with the words in the box (1,5 points)
ride energy and fit stay
We need calories or (1)……........ to do the things every day. For example, when we walk to school or (2) ……....... a bike to school we spend a certain amount of calories and even when we sleep, we also use them. But how many calories should we have a day to (3)……..... in shape? It’s difficult for us to calculate. If people want to keep (4)……......., they should remember that everyone should have between 1600 (5)……............. 2500 calories a day.
7. Use the words given to write the sentences:
a. She / interested / reading / comic books
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b. I/ enjoy / listen/ pop music / my sister / too
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c. My car / not / as / expensive / his car
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d. This dam / build / last year.
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e. My sister / not / like / arrange / flowers.
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f. He / find / make / pottery / difficult.
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g.They / clean / the beach / two / week / ago.
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h. I / collect / thousand / stamps / so far.
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i. He / not / play tennis / so / well / his brother
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j. There / not / orange juice / fridge.
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8. Finish the second sentence so that its meaning stays the same as the first one
a. She thinks that making models is interesting .
She finds………………………………………………………………………………….……..
b. People speak English all over the world.
English ………………………………………………………………………………………….
c. The painting is bigger than the photograph.
The photograph is not ………………………………………………………………..………….
d. These pictures are the same as those pictures.
Those pictures are not …………………………………………………………….…………….
e. This book is more expensive than my book.
My book is not ..............................................................................................................................
f. Her guitar is not the same as mine.
Her guitar is ....................................................................................................................................
g. What food do you like?
What is ………………………………………?
h. I never watch horror films and my sister doesn’t either.
i. and my sister ………………………………………
9. Put the words or phrases in order to make complete sentences
a. collecting / His / taking / coins/ are / photographs/ hobbies/ and/ .
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b. friends / like / water / and / don’t / watching / shows / either/ My / puppet / I/ don’t/.
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c. different / Each / sisters/ from / of/ three / is / my / others / the/.
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d. in/ The / of / Temple / 1070/ Literature/ founded/ was/.
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e. She / eating / hamburgers / because / are / tasty / likes / they /.
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f. you / after / would / some / like / milk tea / school / have / to /?
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j. Classical/ is/ as/ interesting/ music/ as/ music/ folk/.
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h. like/ I/ pop/ music/ my/ and/ does/ too/ brother/.
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i. the/ Beat/ with/ sugar,/ eggs/ and milk/ together/ flour/.
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j. is/ some/ milk/ There/ left/ the/ fridge/ in/.
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