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Page | 1 UNIT 1 MY NEW SCHOOL F. READING I. Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each numbered blank. Our teacher always motivates us to take (1) _______ in the sports activity, quiz competitions, oral and written activities, debates, scouting, group discussion and (2) _______activities in the school. Our class teacher teaches us (3) _______discipline of the school and keeps the school compound clean (4) _______tidy. Our principal (5) _______us motivational messages daily on the stage of prayer. We learn (6) _______ honest, truthful, obedient and sincere in our whole life. We learn_______ how to concentrate (7) _______the study in the class room. Our school organizes a quiz competition, dance competition and sports competition annually which is compulsory for (8) _______to participate. 1. A. piece B. part C. sort D. type 2. A. same B. similar C. another D. other 3. A. to maintain B. maintain C. maintains D. maintaining 4. A. what B. if C. and D. or 5. A. tell B. tells C. told D. telling 6. A. be B. being C. to be D. been 7. A. on B. at C. in D. to 8. A. we B. our C. ours D. us 9. II. Read the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks. all actual your idea for forward and score On the first day of school, the secret to success is in the planning, not the pedagogy. How’s (1) __________ back-to-school planning going? Have you forgotten anything? Our checklist can help! Included: Online resources (2) __________ a variety of back-to-school planning needs, including welcome letters, bulletin board ideas, (3) __________ back-to-school activities. It’s official. You’re a teacher! You aced (4) __________ your education courses, know the subject matter backward and (5) __________, can rattle off the names and philosophies of dozens of educational theorists, and achieved a pretty respectable (6) __________ on the state certification exam. You finally have an (7) __________ job and an official class list. There’s only one problem. The first day of school is drawing near and you have no (8) __________ want to do. Are you really ready to face that first terrifying day? III. Read the following text and answer the questions below One of the reasons you may have identified for underperforming is that you’re not taking good enough notes. Hurriedly scrawled notes from class can be difficult to make
Page | 2 sense of when you come to revise from them, or even to write an essay based on them. It’s all to easy to misunderstand your own notes and fail to get a strong enough grasp of the topic. It’s imperative, therefore, that you produce good notes from each of your classes and from the books you use – notes that you can read, that are useful, and that are logically organized. If you make notes by hand- in class, for example – try to type them up at the end of the day, while they’re still fresh in your mind. 1. What is the one of the reasons for underperforming? ……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………… 2. What are problems of Hurriedly scrawled notes? ……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………… 3. What is the problem when misunderstanding your own notes? ……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………… 4. Why are good notes from each of your classes and from the books important? ……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………… 5. What should be done after making notes by hand? ……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………………………….……………………… IV. Read the following text and answer the questions below. Chu Van An High School, also known as Chu Van An National School or Pomelo School, is one of the three provincial public magnet high schools in Hanoi, Vietnam, along with Hanoi-Amsterdam High School and Nguyen Hue High School. Established by French authorities in 1908 as High School of Protectorate, this is one of the oldest institutions for secondary education in Indochina. Despite the initial purpose of the French government for this school which was training native civil servant to serve in their colonial establishments, Vietnamese students at Buoi school, common name of the school, had many times struggled against colonial doctrine and the ruling power. With that patriotic and hard-working traditions, a lot of Buoi alumni became important figures in many area of Vietnam society such as the revolutionary Pham Van Dong, doctor Ton That Tung or poet Xuan Dieu 1. Who established Chu Van An High School? ……………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. When was Chu Van An High School established? ……………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. What is the initial purpose of the French government for this school? ……………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. What was the common name of Chu Van An High School? ……………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5. Say the names of some important Buoi alumni. ……………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Page | 3 V. Read the following text and use the given words to fill in the blanks by – are – and – And - within – local – secondary - is Education in Canada is for the most part provided publicly, funded (1) ……………………. overseen by federal, provincial, and (2) ……………………. government. Education (3) ……………………. within provincial jurisdiction and the curriculum is overseen (4) ……………………. the province. Education in Canada is generally divided (5) ……………………. primary education, followed by (6) ……………………. education and post-secondary. (7) ……………………. the provinces under the ministry of education, there (8) ……………………. district school boards administering the educational programs. =================================================== UNIT 2: MY HOME F. READING I. Read the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks. or for more architecture before and These by English art and architecture, the distinctive national art and (1) __________ that art may be said to have evolved in the 12 th century with the Norman style. Building (2) _________ that time was in what is commonly called the Saxon (3) ________ Anglo- Saxon style, which combined Roman (4) ________ Celtic features, it is represented (5) __________ sparse remains of monasteries, churches, and cathedral crypts, notable (6) __________ the use of long-and-short ashlar stonework (7) _________ churches were small, relatively simple structures, having one or (8) ________ towers and one or three aisles, with wooden or stone roofing. II. Read the following text and answer the questions below. Norman style, Romanesque architecture that developed (1) __________ Normandy and England between the 11 th and 12 th centuries and during the general adoption of Gothic (2) ________ in both countries. Because only shortly before the Norman Conquest (3) ________ England (1066) did Normandy become settled and sophisticated (4) ________ to produce an architecture, the Norman style developed almost simultaneously in (5) _________ two countries; early buildings, erected soon after the conquest, (6) _________ extremely similar. Eventually, however, the styles of the two countries diverged, (7) _________ the architecture of Normandy drew closer in form to typical French Romanesque, whereas that of England (called Anglo-Norman Architecture) because (8) _________ much more distinctive national tradition. 1. A. on B. at C. over D. in
Page | 4 2. A. engineering B. engineer C. architecture D. architect 3. A. of B. about C. within D. from 4. A. much B. enough C. over D. high 5. A. a B. an C. the D. No article 6. A. is B. are C. has D. have 7. A. and B. or C. as D. because 8. A. one B. the C. an D. a III. Read the text and decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F) My dream house is a cottage not far from the sea. On the ground-floor, there are four rooms. The first room is my living room, which has a white sofa, a black armchair and a coffee table. There are lots of paintings and trinkets as well. There is also a lamp, French windows with a view of the garden, television set and a phone in the living room. My dream house has a fully-equipped kitchen, including a fridge and a door to the garden. There is a bathroom with a shower and toilet. There is also a study room where I keep my desk and computer. On the first floor, There are three bedrooms and a bathroom. 1. ________ There are 4 rooms in author’s house. 2. ________ There are grey armchair and a coffee table in the living room. 3. ________ There are French windows with a view of the sea. 4. ________ The kitchen in the house is fully equipped. 5. ________ There are three bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor. IV. Read and choose the correct answers. Mr. Smith’s house has got four bedrooms, a living-room, a dining-room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a separate toilet. There is a toilet in the bathroom too. The bedrooms and the bathroom are upstairs, and the living-room, the dining-room, the kitchen and the toilet are downstairs. The first bedroom is Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s, the second one is Tom’s, the third one is Mary’s, and the fourth one is Anne’s. There is a baby bed in Anne’s bedroom too, but there is no baby living there. When you enter Mr. Smith’s house, the room on the left is the living-room, and the room on the right is the dining-room. Where is the kitchen? It is behind the dining- room. And where is the toilet? It is straight on, in front of you. There is a garden behind the house, but it is not big. Is there a garden in front of the house too? Yes, there is, but it is very small.