To: Tri@English-PenPal.com

From: huy@English-PenPal.com

Subject:Tips for Learning English

Hi Tea

Thanks for your email. You asked me if I know some fun ways to learn English – yes, I do!First, you can watch movies or TV shows in English. Just turn on the subtitles and try to understand new words. Second, reading short stories or online articles in English is very helpful. It’s better if the text is a little difficult for you. Finally, you can listen to English songs. Search for the lyrics online and sing along. It’s a fun way to learn new words.Which one do you like best? Let me know! Good bye<3

Vu Van Huy

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37. One you have finish reading, you can go on with your work.
A: continue doing
B: continue to do
C: keep do
D: keep to do
38. The doctor wanted to examine the test results with her patient.
A: go over
B: up
C: go on
D: go out
39. The local meeting is on this weekend. Please put it down in your diary.
A: make a note
B: made a note
C: have made a note
D: to make a note
40. You don't need the light on in here. Press the switch, please!
A: turn on
B: turn down
C: turn off
D: turn up
41. My grandfather has recovered form the illness.
A: get over
B: got over
C: to get over
D: getting over
42. She spent her chilhood in a small village in the south.
A: grew up
B: grow up
C: grown up
D: to grow up
43. We are really expecting to see you again pleasure.
A: looking forward to
B: look up
C: look for
D: look after

Read the sentences and decide which statement(s) is/are true, false or not given.
1) A total of about 20 000 deaths caused by lung cancer is closely related to smoking in countries like the United States. Therefore, smoking prohibition is one of the best solutions for fewer deaths due to lung cancer in those countries.
A. There are 20 000 deaths caused by cigarettes in the USA.
B. 20 000 deaths caused by cancer are people who live in America.
C. Several countries need to ban smoking completely, like the United States.
D. Such governments as the USA's will have fewer deaths caused by smoking, should they establish smoking prohibition.
E. The USA hasn't had any deaths relating to cigarettes.

2) It is proved that people living with smokers will be more likely to suffer from lung diseases than smokers. For instance, in a family where the husband is a smoker, his wife and children will have a more 25% chance to suffer from diseases like pneumonia. People who exposed to constant smoking during childhood and/or adolescence will also have more chances to have respiratory diseases.
A. If you live with somebody who smokes, you will also take up smoking.
B. If you live with somebody who smokes, you won't have pneumonia.
C. If your parents smoked constantly during your childhood, you will be likely to suffer from respiratory diseases.
D. High level of exposure to smoking can make you more likely to have lung diseases.

3) Deaths caused by respiratory diseases are no longer unrelated to smoking. Patients who suffer from diseases like pneumonia or COPD won't stand a chance of survival if they are heavy smokers. Moreover, Emphysema or other diseases will make patients less likely to have no after-effects.
A. Smoking is, however, unrelated to lung cancer.
B. Patients who suffer from COPD and Emphysema will be likely to have after-effects.
C. Heavy smokers won't survive if they are sick.
D. There is no chance that a heavy smoker will able to overcome respiratory diseases.

Put the following statements into indirect speech.

1 ‘We make £450 a week,’ said one of the men, ‘and send most of it home to our wives.’

2 We’ve been here for two and a half years,’ said the man who had spoken first, ‘and we’re going to stay another six months.’

3 ‘I’ve got a job on an oil-rig,’ said Paul.
‘That’ll be very hard work,’ I said.
‘I know it’ll be hard,’ he replied, ‘but I don’t mind hard work, and it’ll be a good experience
4 ‘The ice will soon be hard enough to skate on,’ said Тоm.
‘I’ll look for my skates when I get home,’ Ann said.
5 ‘I’m living with my parents at present,’ she said, ‘but I hope to have a flat of my own soon.’
6 ‘I’m leaving tomorrow,’ she said, ‘by the 4.30 from Victoria.’
‘We’ll come and see you off,’ we said.
7 ‘I’ve just bought a car,’ said Peter, ‘but it’s not insured yet so I can’t take you for a drive.’
8 ‘I’d like to speak to Susan,’ said Mary, ‘but I’m bathing the babies and they will drown if I leave them alone in the bath while I go to the phone.’9 Mary has just received a postcard from Ann, beginning, ‘I’m coming up to London next week. I hope you and Jack will meet me for lunch one

What do you think of when you read the word ‘robot’? Many people think about big machines in car factories or futuristic monsters in films. Few of us think about the past. But people were building incredible machines with human abilities hundreds of years ago!

            For example, Egyptian texts from 1100 BC mention moving statues which ‘chose’ the next king. None of these statues exists, but probably they were built using the ancient Egyptians’ mechanical technology. Another ancient Greek inventor, Philon of Byzantium, built a female robot. If someone placed a cup in her hand, it mixed water and wine to make a drink. However, the robot wasn’t popular because people didn’t need robots to work. They had lots of slaves.

            After that, more and more mechanical robots were built. They did more and more difficult tasks, such as playing the flute, writing and drawing a picture. Although modern technology has moved on, these historical robots still amaze people today.

1. Were people building robots hundreds years ago?

______________________________________________________________________________

2. Whose robots chose the next king- Egyptian robots or Greek ones?

______________________________________________________________________________

3. Why wasn’t the female robot popular?

______________________________________________________________________________

4. What kind of musical instrument could mechanical robots play?

I Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.

existed C. occurred heavy A. health D. describe mineral A. tidal B throw D. thought A. though D. pull C. trust thunder

II Choose the best answer from the four options given (marked A, B,C, or D) to complete each sentence.

6. can't understand the French visitors. I wish ......................... French.

A. knew B. will know C. know D. have known

7. The church ............... about 100 years ago

A. is built B. was built C. will be built D. has been built

8. People in Israel are going to celebrate their festival ..................... is called Passover.

A. whose B. who C. which D. where

9. ...................... I was really tired, I couldn't sleep.

A. Even though B. so C. Therefore D. Because of

10. Lan is very tired. ................. , she has to finish her assignment before going to bed.

A. Although B. so C. Therefore D. However

11.I suggest ............. some money for poor children.

A. raise B. to raise C. raised D. raising

12. She asked me if I .................. a laptop computer the following day.

A buy B. will buy C. bought D. would buy

13. I ........................ telephone her ifI knew her number.

A. would B. have to C. will D. shall

14, Honda motorbikes ........................ in Viet Nam.

A. produce B. will produce C. are produced D. would be produced

15. We have learnt English ...................... 2001

A. for B. Since C. in D. during

III, Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.

1. They have just sold that old house.

That old house ............................................

2, The weather was bad but they had a wonderful holiday.

Although ...................................................................

3. They will build a new mall here

A new mall ........................................

4. Unless he takes these pills, he won't be better

If .........................................................................

5. Depite working hard, he can't support his large family.

Although .........................................................................

IV. Give correct form of the words

1. There are always because the firm is so......................... (efficient)

2. Vietnam is determined to .........................successfully in the country. (society)

V- Read the passage carefully and then answer the question below.

Every child in Great Britain between the age of and fifteen must attend school. There are three main types of institutions: primary (elementary) schools, secondary schools and universities. State schools are free, and attendance i Morning school begins at nine o'clock and lasts until half past four. School is open a week. On Saturdays and Sundays there are no There are Christmas. Easter and in summer. In London as in all cities there at schools are two those who will go to work at fifteen: primary schools for between the ages of five and eleven, and girls years. and secondary schools for children from eleven to fifteen The lessons are reading, writing the English language, English literature, English history, geography, science. Nature study, drawing, painting, singing, woodwork and drill (physical training)

1. What are three main types of educational institutions?

..........................................................................................

2. What are the two grades of state schools for those who will go to work fifteen?

.....................................................................................................................................

3. What subjects do children study at school?

.............................................................................

4. Are state schools free?

...................................................

10 ‘I’ve got a job on an oil-rig,’ said Paul.
‘That’ll be very hard work,’ I said.
‘I know it’ll be hard,’ he replied, ‘but I don’t mind hard work, and it’ll be a good experience
11 ‘The ice will soon be hard enough to skate on,’ said Тоm.
‘I’ll look for my skates when I get home,’ Ann said.
12 ‘I’m living with my parents at present,’ she said, ‘but I hope to have a flat of my own soon.’
13 ‘I’m leaving tomorrow,’ she said, ‘by the 4.30 from Victoria.’
‘We’ll come and see you off,’ we said.
14 ‘I’ve just bought a car,’ said Peter, ‘but it’s not insured yet so I can’t take you for a drive.’
15 ‘I’d like to speak to Susan,’ said Mary, ‘but I’m bathing the babies and they will drown if I leave them alone in the bath while I go to the phone.’
16 Mary has just received a postcard from Ann, beginning, ‘I’m coming up to London next week. I hope you and Jack will meet me for lunch one day.’ (Imagine that Mary is reading this card to Jack. Begin: Ann says . . .)
17 ‘Nothing ever happens in the village,’ she said. ‘It’s like a dead village. All the young people have drifted away to the towns.’
18 ‘I’ve missed my train,’ said Bill. ‘Now I’ll be late for work and my boss will be furious.’
19 ‘We’ll wait for you if you’re late,’ they said.
20 ‘They are supposed to be landing at London airport,’ I said. ‘But if the fog gets any thicker the plane may be diverted.’
21 ‘If you lend me the chainsaw,’ said Mary, ‘I’ll bring it back the day after tomorrow.’
22 ‘I hate getting up on dark mornings,’ grumbled Peter.
‘It is horrible,’ agreed his wife, ‘but the mornings will be lighter soon and then it won’t be quite so bad.’
23 ‘The sales are starting tomorrow,’ said the typist. ‘As soon as we finish work the whole typing pool is going to make a dash for the shops.’
‘I hope you’ll all get what you want,’ I said.
24 ‘I wish I had something to eat,’ said Peter.
‘You’ve only just had lunch,’ said his sister. ‘I don’t know how you can be hungry again so soon.’

There have been lots of films that depict an ongoing or impending disaster which is mainly caused by natural phenomena, the effects of which have a deep 1.___________ on mankind. Quite often technological arrogance or the exploitation of nature by men evoke Mother Nature’s 2.___________ which is cruel but not unjustifiable in any case. 3.___________, all of us have witnessed floods, occurring mainly due to massive deforestation, or the continuous temperature rise with the subsequent 4.___________ of the ice caps and desertification affecting many countries worldwide. 5.___________, the effects of pollution are of great significance since they not only affect the flora and fauna - with the list of the 6.___________ species getting longer and longer - but also human beings due to disruptions in the food 7.___________. In recent years, environmental organisations and activists have sounded the alarm, but it is up to the governments to 8.___________ drastic measures in order to avoid more serious problems in the future. Our relationship with nature has to be 9.___________. If we don't wish to see the side effects of our senseless actions, then we all have to stop the destruction of natural habitats and 10.___________ down pollution.

1. A. impact B. response C. outcome D. fallout

2. A. anger B. revenge C. fury D. outrage

3. A. Furthermore B. Likewise C. Yet D. Thus

4. A. melting B. condensing C. shrinking D. downsizing

5. A. Consequently B. Additionally C. Accordingly D. Similarly

6. A. unprotected B. endangered C. imperilled D. jeopardized

7. A. row B. string C. chain D. range

8. A. make B. set C. put D. take

9. A. mutual B. reciprocal C. bilateral D. communal

10. A. narrow B. close C. scale D. break