Pineapple is a sweet fruit that grows only in hot countries. It does not grow on trees, as some fruit trees

 It grows up from the ground. The tops may be cut off and planted. The pineapple plant grows about two feet high

The pineapple looks like a large pine cone. It has a hard , brown covering.Its leaves have points . Inside it is yellow and juicy. The middle part is hard and it is not used for canning. But the middle part is sweet! Next time you have fresh pineapple , try a piece of the hard middle part. Canned or fresh, the pine apple is a good fruit to eat.
1.The story as a whole is about-..................
A.a vegetable           B.a pine cone         C.the fruit of a tree       D.a sweet fruit
2.Pineapple is a kind of..............
A.fruit                       B.plant                    C.tree                      D.vegetable
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.The middle part of a pineapple is not good to eat
B.Pineapples do not grow on trees
C.Pineapples taste good only when they are canned
D.we can eat pineaples canned but not fresh

 

Last year I went (1)......... a homestay to the United States. I (2)........... with the Johnson family in the (3)........... of California. (4)............ I was there, I went to school with my American sister, Julie.

(5)..........., speaking English every day was (6)................ I was homesick (7)............... then I started (8).............. my homestay English was easier. School was fun.

I liked living with the Johnsons. We ate dinner together every night. We went to the movies a lot. (9).............. spring vacation, we went on a camping trip.

Now I'm (10)............. home with my parents. I often write to my American family and they write to me. Next year the Johnsons are going to visit me.

1. A. to B.on C. for D. at

2. A. lived B. stay C.was D. came

3. A. part B. area C. state D. country

4. A. And B. While C. Because D. When

5. A. First B. For first C. At first D. At the first

6. A. bad B. good C. different D. hard

7. A. However B. But C. And D. after

8. A. enjoying B. catching C. perferring D. missing

9. A. In B. During C. From D. For

10. A. in B at C. back D. return

I. Complete the sentences with the corect form of the asjectives in brackets

1. I was very .................... in the lesson because our teacher is very ........................ in history ( interest )

2. My friend is a very ......................... sort of person but he hates doing ...................... activities ( relax )

3. Studying for exams is very ....................... I get ........................... when I open my school books ( tire )

4. We were all very ........................... about the school trip but it wasn't an ...................... trip at all ( excite )

5. It's a .......................... book and I'm ........................... every time I start reading it ( bore )

II. Complete the sentences using although, despite, in spite of, however. or nevertheless. Sometimes, two answers are possible

1. I think I did OK in my speench last night ............................ I'd had almost no sleep for 24 hours

2. .......................... I heard the telephone ring, I didn't answer it

3. We enjoyed our holiday ............................. the rain

4. ..................... he got top marks at high school, he never went to university

5. .................... there was no electricity, I was able to read because I had a candle

6. She failed the test ........................... she studied hard

7. ........................ diffculties, the firemen managed to save many people who were caught in the fire

8. Everyone thought she would accept the offer. ............................, she turned it down

9. Carol arrived at thr meeting ............................ I asked her not to be there

10. It looks like they're going to succeed .............................. their present diffculties

11. ......................... it was raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat

12. My father is very busy. ........................, he is always willing to give a hand with the housework

13. The sky was grey and cloudy. ............................, we went to the bech

14. Some English words have the same pronunciation ............................. they are spell differently, for example, dear and deer

15. I was cold and wet ........................ Bob put on his swimming suit and went to the beach

 Complete the sentences, using although, despite, in spite of, however, nevertheless. Sometimes, two answers are possible.

1. ....................... it was raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat.

2. My father is very busy. ............................, he is always willing to give a hand with the housework.

3. Some English words have the same pronunciation ................................... they are spelled differently, for example, deer and dear.

4. I was cold and wet. ......................................, Bob put on his swimming suit and went to the beach.

5. I think I did OK in my speech last night............................. I'd had almost no sleep for 24 hours.

6. Carol arrives at the meeting ..................................... I asked her not to be there.

7. The sky was grey and cloudy. ........................................, we went to the beach.

8. It looks like they're going to succeed ................................. their present difficulties.

9. ................................... there was no electricity, I was able to read because I had a candle.

10. .................................. I heard the telephone ring, I didn't answer it.

Test 2

I. Choose the best one to complete the sentences. 
1. I don’t have a sister. My friend doesn’t have a sister, _________.
A. so B. too C. either D. neither
2. What do you do _______ your free time?
A. in B. on C. at D. for
3. There aren’t many programs ________ children.
A. for B. on C. to D. with
4. Can you tell us_______ you visited?
A. What places B. place C. How D. Where places 
5. What are the _______ of the common cold? 
A. signs B. symptoms C. warning D. notice
6. Scuba-diving became a _____ sport after the invention of special breathing equipment.
A. popular B. healthy C. boring D. free 
7. ______ you do, your cold will last for a few days and then disappear.
A. Who B. Whenever C. Medicine D. Whatever
8. Would you like to have dinner at my house tonight? - __________________ .
A. Yes, I’d love to B. Yes, I like C. Yes, I’d like D. Yes, I do
9. Would you like a cup of tea? - ________________. 
A. No, thank you B. Here you are C. No, please D. No problem 
10. Life is more comfortable, but neighbors don’t ______ each other as well as they did in the past.
A. take B.spend C. catch D. know 
II. Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in parentheses. 
5. The numbers of participants________ every week. (increase)
6. We must remember________ sensibly. (eat)
7. Yesterday, Hoa and her aunt ______ at a fruit stall. (stop)
8. A “balanced diet” means you eat a variety of foods without______ too much of anything.(eat) 
III. Supply the correct form of the words in parentheses. 
1. Last year there was a district walking _________ for school children. (compete)
2. We must wash vegetables carefully because they can be ________. (dirt) 
3. He plays soccer very __________. (skillful)
4. I’m going to see a _______ movie with my parents. (detect)
IV. Choose the underlined part which needs correcting. 
1. You should take regular exercise to stay healthily.
A B C D
2. The weather is terrible, you have stay indoors.
A B C D
V. Read the passage. Then decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F). (1pt)


Yesterday, Mai and her mother went to the market. They wanted to buy some meat, vegetables and fruit for their dinner. First, they went to the meat stall. There was a good selection of meat on the stall: chicken, pork and beef. Mai doesn’t like pork and her mother doesn’t, either. So they bought some beef. Next they went to the vegetable stall. They bought some spinach and cucumbers. Finally, they stopped the fruit stall. They bought a papaya, a pineapple and some oranges.

• Mai and her aunt went to the market. ______
• They went to the meat stall, the vegetable stall and the fruit stall. ______
• There was a good selection of meat on the stall. ______
• They bought a papaya, a pineapple and an orange. ______

VI. Choose the best one to complete the passage. (2pts)
Every year millions of people catch the common cold. It isn’t a serious (1) ­­­­­­­­­­­________, but a lot of money is spent on different kinds of cold (2) _________every year. This medicine can (3)________ the symptoms . That is, it can make you cough less and stop your (4) _________ nose for a while. However, it can’t cure (5) _________cold. Although there is no cure (6) __________ the common cold (7) _________ no medicine to prevent it, people have different kinds of ideas about (8) _________ to prevent and treat cold. 
1. A. fever B.contest C. headache D. disease
2. A. medicine B. temperarure C. amount D. surgery
3. A. relieved B.relieving C. to relieve D. relieve
4. A. runny B. ran C. runner D. run
5. A.their B. my C. your D. her
6. A. of B. at C. for D.in
7. A. since B. but C. so D. and
8. A. when B. when C. how D. what

V. Rewrite the sentences, beginning with the words given. (2pts)
1.Tuan and I don’t like durians. 
à Tuan doesn’t like durians and _________________
2. How tall is he? 
àWhat’s____________________________________?
3.She is a bad tennis player. 
à She plays _________________________________
4.Would you like cold drinks? 
à Do you ___________________________________

complete the sentences, using although, despite, in spite of, however, or nevertheless. sometimes, two answers are possible.

1............................... it was raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat.

2. My father is very busy. ................................ , he is always willing to give a hand with the housework.

3. Some English words have the same pronunciation .................................. they are spelled differently, for example, dear and deer.

4. I was cold and wet. ................................... , Bob put on his swimming suit and went to the beach.

5. I think I did OK in my speech last night ........................ I'd had almost no sleep for 24 hours.

6. Carol arrived at the meeting .............................. I asked her not to be there.

7. The sky was grey and cloudy. ............................... , we went to the beach.

8. It looks like they're going to succeed ............................... their present difficulties.

9. ........................... there was no electricity, I was able to read because I had a candle.

10. ........................... I heard the telephone ring, I didn't answer it.

Choose one suitable word to complete the following passage : ( fishing , singer , Join , Join in , off , watching , when , spend , movies, things , house , home )

I only have Sunday (1) ........ so I have very little free time . Sunday is a wonderful day for me to ( 2) ....... time with my friends and family . One of the (3)......I really enjoy doing on Sunday morning is go to (4)...... with my friends , althought I am not always successful in catching fish . It is a time to relax and talk about the previous week's events and future plans. I usually go (5) ....... late in the afternoon . . My family sometimes (6)............. other relatives on Sunday evening at a karaoke restaurant and we all have a good time together . It is especially fun (7) ....... my father gets up to sing . Please don't tell him I said this , but he is a very bad (8) ......... ! Once in a while I go to the (9)........ with my friends or my brother . Sometimes , I just stay at home , listening to music , (10) .............. videos or reading novels .

GIÚP MK VỚI !!!!

I. Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the rest.

1. A. chooses B. houses C. rises D. horses

2. A. busy B. noisy C.sugar D. present

3. A.days B.ways C.bays D.says

4. A.there B.healthy C.gather D. northern

5. A. walked B.sacred C.needed D. naked

II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words in each group.

1. A. tennis B. camera C. soccer D. unhappy

2. A. number B. thirteen C. expensive D. address

3. A. awful B.delicious C. favorite D.journalist

4. A.Geography B. Music C.Physics D.Literature

5. A.diver B. vessel C. affect D.chopstick

PART C. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I. Choose the best answer from the four choices (A or B, C, D) to complete each of the following sentences.

1. Although they sold the house_________$ 2 millions, they were not happy_________it.

A.for/ about B. x/ for C. at/ for D. about/ at

2. Like Bob, his wife prefers clothes made_________silk_________those of cotton.

A. in/ to B. from/ than C. of/ to D. from/ more

3. Our school will ______ the school festival next week.

A. organize B. take C. rehearse D. play

4. We are free now. Shall we go to our club’s party? - .........................

A. Yes, I shall B. Yes, we should C. Yes, we go D. Yes, let’s

5. I and my brother usually spend two hour .........................every evening.

A. do our homework B. to do our homework C. doing our homework D. to doing our homework

6. Of the two students , he is .........................

A. tall B. taller C. the taller D. the tallest

7. When I saw your teacher this morning, I found that he looked very .........................

A. happy B. happily C. to be happy D. being happy

7. Come here. We have .........................good news for you and your family.

A. a B. many C. a lot D. some

8. - “Would you like some corn?” - “______.”

A. No, thanks. I’m full B. Ok. I don’t like corn C. All right D. Yes, I would

9. The word “cook” in the sentence “My mother is a good cook” is ......

A. a verb B. an adjective C. a noun D. an adverb

10. Mary and her friends went ...... in the mountain last weekend.

A. to climb B. climbing C. climb D. climbs

II. There is a mistake in each line of the following passage. Find and correct it:

One of the first novel in the history of literature was written in England in 1719. It was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born in London in the family of a rich man.When Daniel was a schoolboy, he began to write stories. After leave school, he worked in his father’s shop and wrote articles for newspapers. He visited many country and met many people. That helped much in his writing. In 1719, when Defoe was sixty years old, he wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe which made his famous. Defoe used in his book a true story about a sailor on an island for four years. People liked the novel in English and in many other countries. Daniel Defoe write other books but his novel Robinson Crusoe is the most famous. Defoe was not a rich man when he died in 1731.

III. Complete the following passage with the new words formed from the ones in CAPITALS.

EAT MORE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

A recent report on the (0 -EAT) habits of children in Britain suggests that children from the age of three to sixteen show a strong (1-LIKE) _______________for vegetables and only eat sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables at Christmas. One researcher says not eating (2-PROPER) _______________ may have serious consequences on a child’s (3-SPEAK) _______________ and physical development, resulting in poorer (4-PERFORM) _____ at school.One (5-SOLVE) _______________ is to give children extra iron and vitamins but in the long run it is more (6-EFFECT) _______________ if children get the right ingredients in their(7-DAY)_______________ diet.(8-FORTUNATE) _______________, parents choose food for their children that is quickand (9-CONVENIENCE) _______________ to prepare, rather than food which is fresh and (10-HEALTH)____________ . Consequently, it is difficult later to get children to change their habits II. Read the following passage and choose the best answers. My Television My television is an important (1) _____of furniture to me. I can’t get (2) ____ the house very often, but my TV brings the whole (3) ______to me. From the evening news and the “all-news” channels. I learn about events(4) ______ the outside world: politics, the environment, recent changes in technology and medicine, and (5) ______on. I like game shows and travel programs, (6) ______. And I love comedies: I think it’s important to be (7) _____to laugh. I can even watch shows (8) _____other languages and “go shopping” by TV. With the major national networks, I have a (9) ______of fifty different programs (10) ___the same time!

1. A. bit B. piece C. slice D. pair

2. A. out B. in C. out of D. in to

3. A. world B. places C. towns D. cities

4. A. on B. in C. out D. over

5. A. such B. this C. that D. so

6. A. too B. so C. either D. neither

7. A. ability B. enable C. able D. inability

8. A. of B. in C. at D. by

9. A. choose B. chose C. choice D. choosing

10.A. in B. at C. on D. of