Wales has a population of about three million. English is the main language and only twenty per
cent speak both Welsh and English. Every year, (1) ………… August there is a Welsh-speaking
festival. It (2) ………… place in a different town each year so everyone has a chance for it to be
near them. Local people (3) _______ years making plans for when the festival will be in (4)
_______ town. Each festival is (5) _______ by about 160.000 people. They travel not only from
nearby towns and villages (6) _______ also from the rest of the British Isles and (7) _______
from abroad. There are concerts, plays and (8) _______ to find the best singers, poets, writers
and so on. Shops sell Welsh music, books, pictures and clothes as (9) _______ as food and drink.
The festival provides a chance for Welsh-speaking people to be together for a whole week, with
(10) _______ Welsh language all around them.
1. A. on B. by C. in D. at
2. A. takes B. finds C. has D. makes
3. A. pass B. put C. spend D. do
4. A. our B. their C. his D. its
5. A. . arrived B. attended C. visited D. come
6. A. but B. and C. since D. however
7. A. . just B. hardly C. quite D. even
8. A. tests B. examinations C. competitions D. races
9. A. long B. far C. good D. well
10. A.. one B. a C. the D. some

PART A: READING

I. Circle the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage below: (1.0pt)

Thirty years ago in Vietnam, very few people had TV sets. These TV owners were very (1)____________. After dinner, their neighbors (2)_____________both inside and outside their houses. Some watched through the windows. All evening, (3)____________ sat and watched the black and white programs. Times have changed. Today, many families have a TV set. They sit and watch (4) _____________ their own living rooms.

1. A. important      B. wonderful         C. expensive         D. popular

2. A. gathers        B. gathered         C. gather            D. to gather

3. A. he            B. she             C. they             D. I

4. A.in             B. at              C. on               D. to

II. Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions: (2.0pts)

A French oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau (1910 - 1997), invented a deep-sea diving vessel in the early 1940s. In the vessel, he could explore the oceans of the world and study underwater life. Now we can explore the oceans using special TV cameras as well. We can learn more about the undersea world thanks to this invention.

Questions:

1. When was Jacques Cousteau born?

________________________________________________________________

2. How old was he when he died?

________________________________________________________________

3. What did he invent?

________________________________________________________________

4. Can we learn more about the undersea world thanks to Jacques Cousteau's invention?

________________________________________________________________

PART B: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

I. Circle the word that has different stress from others: (0.5pt)

1. A. aquarium       B. material        C. appointment      D. temperature

2. A. adventure       B. detective        C. cucumber       D. invention

II. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from others: (0.5pt)

1. A. helped         B. rented         C. talked          D. watched

1. A. baseball        B. ask           C. participate       D. basketball

III. Circle the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence: (1.5pt)

1. She smiled ___________ me in a friendly way when she saw me.

A. with             B. to            C. of              D. at

2. We ___________ our grandparents next week.

A. visit             B. will visit        C. visited          D. to visit

3. How ___________ is the blue hat? It's 50,000 dong.

A. far              B. many          C. old             D. much

4. What about ___________to school every morning?

A. going            B. go            C. to go            D. went

5. The nurse __________ Lan's temperature yesterday.

A. will take          B. took           C. is taking          D. takes

6. I usually ___________football.

A. will play          B. is playing       C. play             D. played

PART C: WRITING

I. Rewrite each sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one: (1.5pts)

1. How tall are you?

=> What__________________________________________________________?

2. Nam is a bad swimmer.

=> Nam swims _____________________________________________________

3. What is wrong with him?

=> What is the______________________________________________________?

4. You ought to take morning exercise

=>You should _____________________________________________________

5. I prefer living in the city.

=> I Prefer __________________________________________________________

II. Complete the following sentences with the words given:(1.0pt)

1. Let's/ buy a papaya.

=>_________________________________________________________________

2. Are you free/ Thursday?

=>_________________________________________________________________

i love the............of folk songs (perfrom) chia động từ

khoanh câu đúng

at 7.00 tomrrow, you.................to school 

A.cycle             b.will cycle                C.will be cycling                   D.cycled

i went to sê the film..............feeling really tired

A.in spite         B.althoung      C.because              D.despite

 tìm chỗ sai: the Oscar statuette is officially call the Academy Award of Merit (giải thích)

A                                     B          C                          D

điền từ trong ngoặc vào chỗ trống:

1.this time in 2030, many countries...............nuclear power (are using / are going to use / will be using / will use)

2.I..........stay up late watching TV last year, but now i don't (be used to / used to /get used to / be used for)

3.she drives faster and more...............than me (careless / carelessly / careful / uncareful )

4.she sure that they will find the story.............. (acting / acted / interesting/ interested)

5.by the middle of the 22 rd century, people in developingcountries...........more renewable energy (will be used/will be using/ will use/has been using)

6.he love acting and when he finshed..........the musical,Moulin Rouge (filming/film/ to film/ filmed)

7.he love acting and when he finshed the musical..........,Moulin Rouge (filming/film/ to film/ filmed)

8.a lots dancers go to Rio de Janerio to............the Rio Carnival (join/perform/attend/appear)

9.we.........to school 2 year ago, nơ I go to school on foot (used to cycle/ cycled/ was cycing/ went)

10.it's to rain any minute now. the children.............in the rain(is being caught/ will be caught/ is caught/ are caught)

11. that film was so...............(bored/ to bore/ boreing/ boreingly)

12.Lan enjoys ......part in Rio (take/ takeing/ took/ taken)

13.Tom Hank's............In Saving Private Ryan is very good (acting/ act/ action/ active)

14.Peter got bored..............with the movie because it was too alonf ang dull (of/with/for/by)

15the Beatles is m favorite music band. I love all their...........(performing/performnce/performed/ perform)