Choose the correct options to complete the following sentences.

1.Why________you always______over spilt milk? I am tired of what you say.

A. are - crying B.do - cry C.do - drink

2.We are all in the garden for the monthly family gathering. I am preparing some omelets and eel soup for the whole family. They_____us healthy.

A.are keeping B.keep C.will

3.Look! That girl is very attractive. -Yeah,she______me of an old friend of mine

A.reminds B.is reminding C. will remind

4. What______you______? -Nothing. I am just trying to say that Laura won't be available this Sunday.

A.are - meaning B. do - mean C.are - meant

5.I will go to Frankfurt tomorrow. What time_____the train from Berlin____?

A.will - leave B.is - leaving C. does - leave

6.Which one do you prefer: the red or the black car? - I_______the red car looks better.

A. am thinking B.think C. thought

7.Felix is very rich. He _________ a Mercedes.

A. is driving B. drives C. just drove

8.Only when he________truly sorry can I accept his apology.

A.feels B. is feeling C.will feel

9. Would you like somem soup? - Wow. It_______good. Can you get me some? Thanks.

A. is smelling B. is tasting C. smells

10. Will you accompany me to the graduation prom next Friday? - Yes, if noting comes up. I______.

A. am promising B. will promise C.promise

Bt:Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given words , using present continuous

1.My brother is in the garden.He (water) .........the flowers

2.Hanh is not at work today (she/go).........on her trip to Da Lat?

3.Why(Ann/not wear).........her new dress for the party at the moment?

4.Look!Our cat (lie) .........in the yard under the sunshine

5.Right now , Ron (talk) ..........about his school in front of 300 people

6.(students/use)..........the school computers now?

7.Mrs.Brown can’t answer the phone because she (have).......... a meeting now

8.At present,the government (look)..........for the terrorists in an attack near a primary school

9.Tung(not/do)...........chores now because he is very tired

10. (Kate and Bill/play) ..........shuttlecock in the playground?

Hãy chọn thì thích hợp, hiện tại đơn hoặc hiện tại tiếp diễn

1 My brother..........a motorbike

A. has B. is having

2 Mrs Tuyet is at the market. At the moment she....at the vegetables

A. looks B. is looking

3 My brother .... trouble with his motorbike, so he has to take the bus to work.

A has B are looking

4 These vegetables.... fresh

A look B are looking

5 I usually .... coffee with my breakfast

A drink B am drinking

6 Today I .... a glass of milk because I don't feel well

A drink B am drinking

7 It's very cloudy now. I .... it'll rain soon

A think B am thinking

8 Why are you smiling? What .... about?

A do you think B are you thinking

9 Right now Mrs.lee is in the kitchen . She ... the soup to see if it's OK

A tastes B is tasting

10 This fruit ....great! I've never eaten a better fruit before

A tastes B is tasting

Passive Voice -present progressive

1 Somebody is cleaning the room at the moment

2 She was arranging the flowers when i came

3 They were building the wall when it started to rain

4 The teacher is telling the students a funny story

5 Somebody was following her when she turned back

6 They are watering the flowers in the garden now

7 My father is repairing the car in the garage at the moment

8 Jonh is calling other members in his class now

9 Martha was delivering the documents to the department

V. Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the correct form.

1. Why didn’t you your bed this morning?

2. I can’t come out now. I’m the cleaning.

3. Could you the dishwasher and put the things away, please?

4. It’s not fair. I breakfast yesterday. Nam should it today.

5. Look at this bin! Please the rubbish out now.

6. Mum, I’ve my room. Can I go out now?

7. Phong, the table. It’s nearly dinnertime.

8. A: Where’s Dad?

B: He’s the car. He always the car on Sunday morning.

V. Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. Ms Lan is not in the office today. She (work) at home today.

2. “Where (you/come) from?” “I’m Italian - from Rome.’

3. “(you/ speak) French” “Just a little.”

4. Don’t forget your umbrella. It (rain) again.

5. “Can you help me with the dinner?” “Not now. I (watch) TV.”

6. In Viet Nam, children (look) after their old parents.

7. “Hi! What (you/do) here” “I (wait) for a friend.”

8. Can I look at the newspaper now? (you/read) it?

9. Can I phone you back? We (have) dinner.

10. Mr Long (work) in an office every day, but now he (help) his wife to prepare dinner.

C. READING

I. Read the passage, and decide whether the following statements are true (T), false (F), or not given (NG).

Career of the Year

Fourteen-year-old Ed Bond from London is this year's winner of the Young Career of the Year Award.

When he’s not at school. Ed looks after his mother, who is disabled and in a wheelchair. He also looks after his ten-year-old sister. He helps to do the washing and the cooking. ‘Ed’s great,’ says his father. ‘I have to go to work at six in the morning, so Ed has to help his mother a lot. He doesn’t have to do the housework but he does it anyway. We worry because he doesn’t have much free time, but he doesn’t complain.’ ‘I want to help.’ says Ed, ‘and anyway I don’t have to do so much at weekends because my dad’s at home.’

T F NG

1. Ed helps to look after his mother.   

2. Ed’s mother can’t walk.   

3. Ed’s father is also ill.   

4. Ed is an only child.   

5. Ed does all the shopping for the family.   

II. Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

Family types vary in different countries and among different cultures. In Western, industrialized societies, the nuclear family ranks as the most common family type. It consists of a father, a mother and their children. But nuclear families exist together with many other types of family units. In the single-parent family, for example, a mother or a father heads the family alone. A blended family is formed when a divorced or widowed parent remarries. As divorce rates have risen, the number of single-parent and blended families has increased.

In many parts of the world, parents and children live together with other family members under the same roof. These complex families usually contain several generations of family members, including grandparents, parents and children. They may also include brothers or sisters and their families, uncles, aunts and cousins. Even when relatives do not live together, they still consider themselves members of the same extended family includes grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.

1. The nuclear family ranks as the most common family type .

A. an many industrialized countries B. in countries with nuclear weapons

C. that consists of more than two generations D. that leads to the divorce of parents

2. In the single-parent family, .

A. there are often no children

B. only one parent lives with his or her child or children

C. the number of blended children has increased

D. children live with their grandparents

3. Grandparents, parents and children are mentioned as .

A. the three typical generations of an extended family

B. three branches of a family tree

C. the closest and happiest relatives in family units

D. a complex combination

4. The second paragraph is about .

A. American culture B. relatives and family members

C. the relationship between family members D. the extended family

5. The word “blended” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .

A. complex B. married C. mixed D. formed

III. Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

The American family unit is in the process of change. In the first half of the 20th century, there were mainly two types of families: the extended and the nuclear. An extended family includes mother, father, children and some other relatives, living in the same house. A nuclear family is composed of just parents and children livingunder the same roof.

As the American economy had progressed from agricultural to industrial one, people were forced to move to different parts of the country to get good jobs. These jobs were mainly in the large cities. Now, in fact, three-quarters of Americans live in urban areas which occupy 2.5% of the national total land mass. Of the 118 million in the labour force, only 3 million still work on the farm.

Since moving for better jobs has often divided the extended family, the nuclear family became more popular. At present, 55% of the families in the US are nuclear families. But besides the two types of traditional family groupings, the family is now being expanded to include a variety of other living arrangements because of divorce. There is an increase in single-parent families, in which a father or mother lives with one or more children. Divorce has also led to blended families, which occur when previously married men and women marry again and combine the children from former marriage into a new family. There are also some couples who do not want to have children to form two-person childless families.

1. A nuclear family is one that .

A. consists of father, mother, and children living in the same house

B. relatives live with

C. there are only grandparents, parents and their children living in

D. is bigger than extended family

2. The expression “under the same roof” means

A. a house with one roof B. a house with the roof the same as the wall

C. in the same building D. under the house

3. The nuclear family becomes more popular because of .

A. more divorces B. the division of the extended family

C. fewer jobs in big cities D. an increase in single-parent families

4. How many types of families have there been in the US since the first half of the 20th century?

A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five

5. A blended family is a newly-formed family .

A. with the combination of children of the two previously married father and mother

B. that has only father or mother living with children

C. in which there are no children

D. that there is only one couple living in with their newborn children

IV. Read the passage carefully, and do the tasks that follow.

The Role of the Japanese Mother

The focus of the mother is her home and family, with particular attention to the rearing of children. While most Japanese believe that a woman's place is in the home, women make up almost 40 percent of the labor force. More than half of these women are married. Many mothers with small children work only part-time so they can be home when their children are not in school. The extra income earned by the mother is often used to meet the cost of their children's education.

Japanese mothers take the responsibility of their child's education and upbringing very seriously. They seldom confront their preschool children because they want to foster an intimate, dependent relationship. The purpose of this approach is to get the child to obey willingly with the mother’s wishes and to shape the child's behavior over a long period of time. The close nature of the mother-child relationship and the strong parentalcommitment help to provide a strong foundation for the child's entry into elementary school.

Mothers are involved directly in with the child's school. Each day a notebook is sent back and forth between mother and teacher remarking on the child's mood, behavior, health, and activities both in school and at home. Mothers attend PTA meetings usually twice a month and are involved with school committee's working on special projects such as gardening and hot lunch preparation. School is a very stressful and competitive process so the Japanese mother concentrates all her efforts on getting her children through so they can get accepted into the appropriate universities.

Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

Task 2: Read the passage, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).

T F

6. Most Japanese women are housewives.  

7. Taking care of children and bringing them up are of great importance to  

Japanese mothers.

8. Japanese mothers tend to be very strict to their children at home.  

9. Japanese mothers and teachers work together for the children's study  

progress and comfort at school.

10. The Japanese mother concentrates all her efforts on getting her children  

through, so the atmosphere at home is very stressful.

D. SPEAKING

Rearrange the sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation, writing the letter (A-H) in each blank.

1. ___ A. Nam: It’s not only for our mother's benefits but it also makes us more independent when we have grown up.

2. ___ B. Nam: Besides cleaning and cooking, my mother also does a lot of other things around the house although she goes to work.

3. ___ C. Nam: I agree with that saying. All of us take it for granted that our mother is responsible for doing all the housework.

4. ___ D. Nam: Besides the relationship, we enjoy a friendlier atmosphere in our home all the time when we attend to each other.

5. ___ E. Mai: So does my mother. My father, my brother and I try to share the burden so that my mother can follow her own interests.

6. ___ F. Mai: I’ve just read a saying about household chores, Nam. It’s “Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”

7. ___ G. Mai: It’s very useful for our future life. And I think we will have better relationship when we share household chores with one another.

8. ___ H. Mai: Yeah, when we come home from school, our house is clean and tidy and lunch or dinner is ready for us to eat.

V. There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it.

1. During The Second World War, almost a third of a million people was killed.

2. It was raining heavy when I woke up yesterday morning.

3. Doctors have known for a long time that loud noises can cause hear damage or loss.

4. Streets of Bangkok are usually crowding with people selling food, clothing, flowers and souvenirs.

5. It often takes my mom half an hour getting to work by underground every morning.

6. Found in the 12thcentury, Oxford University ranks among the world’s oldest ones.

7. Brown isn’t in his own car, he is driving someone else car.

8. The homeworks that your teacher assigned is due on Tuesday unless you have made prior arrangements to turn it in late.

9. He started working as an editor 10 years ago but now he knows as a famous MC.

10. In icy winter days, I prefer being driven to driving myself.

There is a mistake in each sentence below. Find the mistake and correct it.

(Có một lỗi sai trong mỗi câu dưới đây. Tìm lỗi và sửa nó.)

1. I'm writing to you to tell you how much I'm wanting to see you.

2. Jack is away on business, so now I look after his dog.

3. Nam's often looking untidy.

4. She can't answer the phone now. She cooks dinner.

5. Excuse me, do you read the newspaper? Could I borrow it?

6. What are your family doing in the evenings?

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TEST 1

To do well at school, college or university you usually need to do well in exams. “All students hate exams” may be a generalization, but it is fairly true one. Certainly, all of the students I’ve known disliked doing exams, None of them thought that the exam system was fair; to do well in a exam you simply had to be able to predict the questions which would be asked, This was the case as regards tow students in my class at college. Botyh of them were exceptionally bright, but in the final year “exam” neither of them got an a grade. In fact, they both got Cs. The exam had tested us on questions which had come up the previous year. They had both assumed that the same questions wouldn’t come up again, and hadn’t prepared for them.

1) Students need to do well in exams __________.

a. In order to do well at school.

b. Because they need to do well at school.

c. So that to do well at school.

d. Therefore they have to do well at school.

2) The stastement “ All students hate exams” is _________.

a. extremely true b. completely true

c. quite true d. very true

3) Which of the following sentences is not true?

a. All of the students the writer has known thought that the exam system was unfair.

b. To do well in an exam you simly had the ability to predict the questions which would be asked.

c. None of the students the writer has known disliked doing exams.

d. “ All students hate exams” is fairly true generalization.

4) Why did the two students in the writer’s class get C grades in the final exam?

a. Because the exam was very difficult.

b. Because they didn’t prepare for the questions that had come up the previous year.

c. Because they were dull students.

d. Because the questions weren’t in their lesson.

5) The writer’s main purpose of writing the passage is to _________________________.

a. describe the importance of exams.

b. discuss how exams effect on the students.

c. explain the equality in examinations.

d. criticize the exam system.

TEST 2

Every year people in many countries learn English. Some of them are young children. Others are teenagers. Many are adults. Some learn at school. Others study by themselves. A few learn English just by hearing the language in film, on television, in the office or among their friends. Most people must work hard to learn English.

Why do these all people learn English? It is not difficult to answer this question.

Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects. Many adults learn English because it is useful for their work. Teenagers often learn English for their higher studies because some of their books are in English at the college or university. Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.

1. According to the writer. English is learn by _____________.

a. young children b. adults

c. teenagers c. all are correct

2. Most people learn English by ____________.

a. themselves b. hearing the language on television

c. working hard on the lesson d. speaking English to their friends

3. Where do many boys and girls learn English?

a. at home b. in the office

c. in evening class d. at school

4. Teenagers learn English because ___________.

a. It’s useful for their higher studies b. it’s one of their subjects.

c. They want to master it. D. a and c are correct.

5. Why do many adults learn English?

a. Because they want to see movies in English.

b. Because they need it for their job.

c. Because they are forced to learn.

d. Because it’s not difficult to learn.

Relative clause:

1) Astronomy is one of the world oldest sciences. It is the study of planets and stars.

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2) The vegetables are grown without chemicals. They are sold in supermarkets.

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3) People have marched to London. They are protesting against pollution.

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4) The police never found the money. It was stolen in the robbery.

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5) There was a big red car. It had been parked outside the house.

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6) Libya is a leading producer of oil. It is a country in North Africa.

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7) A chemical company has been bankrupt. It employed 4000 people.

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8) A new drug may gives us eternal youth. It was developed by a British university.

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9) A new motorway is planned. It will cost 500 million pound.

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10) Some weapons belong to the IRA. They are found at a flat in Bristol.

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11) John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767. He was the sixth president of the United States.

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12) There were some children. They were swimming in the river.

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13) Tennis fans have been queuing all night at Wimbledon. They hope to buy tickets.

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14) Some paintings haven't been found yet. They were stolen from the museum.

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15) Two languages, Finnish and Swedish, are used in Helsinki. It is the capital of Finland.

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