câu 1 People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I? 

câu 2 Suproliglicatiouspenuvaliancia – how do you spell it? 

câu 3 I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrong. If you pronounce me wrong it is right? What word am I? 

câu 4 What AM I? 
I am pronounced as a one letter alphabet!
I am written with three letters 
I am complete with just two letters 
I am double 
I am blue I am black I am brown I am gray I am yellow and I am green 
I can read from both ends 
I appear the same every way! 
What am I? 

Read the essay, choose the answer to fill in the blanks

In  this  age of (1) ………telephone networks and electronic mail, it seems that fewer and even fewer people are taking time to sit  down  and  write  letters  (2) ………friends  and  relatives.  For hundreds  of  years,  letters  were  the  only way to  keep  (3) ………people  who  were  any distance away and letter-writing was seen as an important skill for all learned  people (4) ……….

Gradually, (5) ………, the importance of writing letters is decreasing to a point that majority   of us have to (6) ………a special effort to turn out something worthwhile when we apply for a job or  make a complaint. In business circles the tendency is for routine communications to become shorter. (7) ………clients may appreciate a detailed letter, an employee who sends out long letters is often   regarded as (8) ………. Many people prefer the telephone in all circumstances and its speed is essential  in  many situations but (9) ………have you put the telephone down, dissatisfied  with what you have managed to say? I don’t think I’ll throw my (10) ………away yet.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

How men first learnt to (1) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (2) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (3) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (4) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that a peal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (5) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Điền ô số 3

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

How men first learnt to (1) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (2) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (3) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (4) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that a peal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (5) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Điền ô số 2

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

How men first learnt to (1) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (2) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (3) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (4) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that a peal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (5) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Điền ô số 1

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

How men first learnt to (1) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (2) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (3) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (4) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that a peal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (5) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Điền ô số 4

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

How men first learnt to (1) ........ words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (2) ............ invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (3) ........... certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (4) .......... spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that a peal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (5) ........... Above all, the real poet is a master of words.

Điền ô số 5

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 37 to 44.

Life Writings

The diary and the letter were the most extensively practiced forms of life writings in eighteenth-century America. From the numerous examples of these two types of writing from the period, a portrait of daily life of the period can be gleaned.

Many of the diaries that were kept during this period were life diaries by authors interested in maintaining day-to-day records of reflective self-examination, but some of the most compelling were situational diaries; those prompted by and limited to lengthy descriptions of personal reflections about a particular event. Three of the many situational journals of this period are those written by Sarah Kemble Knight, William Burd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Sarah Kemble Knight's diary of her five-month trip at the end of 1704 and the beginning of 1705 from Boston to New Haven to New York and back again to Boston was published more than a century later as The Journal of Madam Knight. Though this diary does include an account of the hardship that she encountered along the way, it is principally composed of humorous descriptions of and commentary on the hospitality that she was offered and the manners of those that she encountered. William Burd II kept two diaries to describe his experiences on a 1729 surveying expedition to settle a border dispute between Virginia and North Carolina. One of the diaries, History of the Dividing Line between Virginia and North Carolina, was published in 1842, while its companion, Secret Diary, was published in 1929. In these diaries, Burd used a humorous and satirical approach to describe not just the day-to-day events of the trip but also the characteristics which set his beloved Virginia culture apart from the (in his opinion) decidedly less praiseworthy culture of those non-Virginians that he encountered in his trip. Dr. Alexander Hamilton's Itinerarium (1744) describes a four-month voyage of discovery undertaken by Hamilton through the mid-Atlantic and New England colonies; in the diary that he kept of this trip. Hamilton provides considerable commentary on the social customs of various areas, comparing the customs and culture of the better homes of the American colonies with those of the great salons of Europe.

Letter-writing also held a place of importance in eighteenth-century America (indeed, the ability to produce cultured letters was considered a form of art), and many letters extant from that period provide insights into the culture, mores, and styles of written communication of that era. Many of the letter writers employed devices in common usage in European models of the time, demonstrating that letter writers felt a sense of cohesiveness with the cultured classes of Europe: John and Abigail Adams signed the names Lysander and Constantia to their early letters, while Thomas Jefferson created an elaborate dialogue between his head and his heart to discuss the nature of friendship in a 1786 letter to Maria Cosway. The variety of purposes that these letters served provides additional insight into the priorities of the society of the time. The letters were used to cement love matches and friendships, as the previously mentioned letters did; they were the primary method for relaying news among family and friends who were scattered across various geographic locations; they were often used as a means of carrying out business in this era before more rapid long-distance communication; they were often used used as a way of sharing professional, social, or political ideas among leaders in various fields who perhaps had no other way to get together and exchange ideas. 

Which of the following is NOT listed in paragraph 3 as a purpose served by eighteenth century letters?