V. Read the passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend talking about food?, “Have you ever eaten......?”,

“What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly.

In most part of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a large amount of beer, and the French drink wine every day.

The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. Newzelanders sheep meat, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish. So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been eating, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.

1. The text is mainly about ___­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________.

A. people’s attitude to food                                                            B. the importance of meat

C. strange dishes in the world                                                        D. food and life

2. The writer think that ___­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________.

A. people eat only what is normal to everybody

B. people often change their feelings about food

C. people have different opinions about food

D. people like eating different food as they travel from one country to another.

3. In many Asian countries ___­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________.

A. people almost always have rice in their meal                                     B. rice is a perfect food

C. rice is included in every menu                                                 D. rice is completely eaten

4. The Japanese enjoy eating raw fish because ___­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________.

A. it is not good to have fish cooked                                            B. it is special to them

C. it is well boiled                                                                            D. it doesn’t smell

5. People everywhere think that ___­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________.

A. we can spend few hours talking about food                          

B. there is very little common sense in talking about food

C. there is very little common sense in what we say about the eating habits

D. we should do much to change our eating habits
 

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VI. Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank.

Yesterday afternoon Frank was telling me about (1) _________ experiences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a very lagre business company, but (2) ___________ a boy, he used to work in a small shop. It was his job (3) __________ repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day and six a week. He (4) ________ money for years and in 1938 bought a small work-shop of  his own. During the war, (5) __________ used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that times he had two helpers. (6) __________ the end of the war, the small work-shop had become a lagre factory which employed seven hundred (7) _________ twenty-eight people. Frank smiled (8) ________ he remembered his hard early years and (9) _________ long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair (10) __________ son’s bicycle.

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SECTION C. WRITING

VII. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word given. DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD GIVEN.

1. “Send me a postcard when you arrive in Hanoi”, said my father.               I

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2. This is the first time I have seen such a wonderful computer.                     NEVER

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3. My father used to work in this company.                                                        ANY

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4. Did it take your group a week to finish this object?                                      FINISHING

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5. It is easy to make this cake.                                                                               BE
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VIII. You have received a letter from your friend, Alan Walker, who is coming to visit your country with some of his friends. Write a letter to Alan Walker (about 100 – 120 words) to answer his questions.

Hi Nam!

What are the best places to explore and things to see in your area? Should we use public transport or hire bikes? Are there interesting museums or exhibitions to learn about your country?

Join us if you can!

Alan Walker,


IX. Write an essay (about 120 – 150 words) following the topic below.
 
What can young people do to help protect and improve their local environment?
 
You MUST use some notes, about:
1. Recycling things
2. Cycling or walking and using no cars
3. (Your own idea)