III. Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Dolphins are mammals, not fish. They are warm blooded like man, and give birth to one baby, called a calf, at a time.

At birth, a bottlenose dolphin calf is about 90-130 cms long and will grow to approximately 4 metres, living up to 40 years.

They are highly sociable animals, living in groups, called pods, which are fairly fluid, with dolphins from other pods interacting with each other from time to time.

Dolphins carry their young inside their womb for about 12 months. The baby is born tail first, and its mother will feed the calf for up to 2 years.

However, the calf will stay with its mother for between 3-6 years, during which time it will learn all about feeding techniques, social interaction and group hunting.

Questions

1. What are dolphins?

2. What is a baby dolphin called?

3. Are dolphins friendly with other dolphins?

4. What is a group of dolphins called?

5. What kind of blood does a Dolphin have?

6. How long does a dolphin calf stay with its mother?

7. How long can a dolphin live?

8. How long does it take for a dolphin to have a baby?

9. When a dolphin calf is born, what emerges first?

10. Do dolphins lay eggs?

Fill each gap in the passage with a suitable word:

Almost every office now uses computer. They are used for all kinds of work. For (1)......, scientists, engineers, and economists use them. Bussiness people use (2)....... to make business decisions. Doctors also use computers to help their patients. Computers make work easier for writers, (3)......... And even students now use computers to help in (4)....... studies. Besides, some people (5)...... computers at home to help them make plans (6)....... pay bills. Everyone knows (7)........ computers are useful. And there are many other new computer programs. Some people like the way computers hum and sing (8)........ they are working. It is a happy sound, (9)......... the sounds of toys. Computer also have lights and pretty pictures. With a computer, anyone can feel like an artist. And computers even seem to have personalities. That may sound strange, but computers seem to have feelings. Sometimes they seem happy, (10)........... they seem angry. It is easy to think they are like people.

Read the passage below and choose the best answers.

Each nation has many good people who take care of others. For example, some of high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or home for the elderly. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems. Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, or the shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers. Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go and play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger boys and girls. Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

1. What do volunteers usually do to help those who are sick or old in their homes?

A. They mow lawns, do shopping, and clean up their houses.

B. They cook, sew, and wash their clothes.

C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.

D. They take them to baseball games.

2. What do they help boys whose fathers do not live with them?

A. To get to know things about their fathers.

B. To get to know things that boys want from their fathers.

C. To learn things that boys usually learn from their fathers.

D. To learn things about their fathers.

3. Which activity is NOT available for the students at the clubs?

A. playing games B. watching films C. going to interesting places D. learning photography

4. Why do they use many high school and college students as volunteers? Because......

A. they have a lot of free time.

B. they can understand the problems of younger boys and girls.

C. they know how to do the work.

D. they are good at playing games and learning crafts.

5. What do volunteers believe?

A. In order to make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.

B. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy.

C. The happiest people in the world are those who are young and healthy.

D. Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people in the world

Điền từ còn thiếu vào chỗ trống :

Do you think the animals can understand each other ?

The answer is yes . They can communicate (1) ........................ each other by signs and sounds . For example , dogs communicate in many ways . They not only bark , (2) .................... they howl , growl , snarl , and whine . They lift a paw , or bare their teeth . Other dogs can understand what these sounds and actions (3) .......................

Animals communicate with each other not only with sounds and movements , but with smell . Most animals that live in herds (4).......................on smell to keep together . And , of course , we know how dogs recognize each other by smell.

Apes are supposed (5) ...................among the most intelligent of animals , yet , they really have no better " language " than other animals . They make many sounds and expressions of the (6) .........................to communicate their feelings of anger or hunger or joy , but they have nothing like the words of human speech .

By the way , unlike human begings who have to learn (7) ........................talk , apes and other animals know their " language " by instinct . They will make the right kind of cries and sounds and expression even if they have never seen another animal like (8) ..............before . Birds , however , learn their way (9) .....................singing , at least in part . That is why a sparrow brought up among canaries will try (10) ......................like one . It has been learning the wrong " language "

We are already familiar with computers-computers work for us at home,in offices,in industry.But it is also true that many children today are using computers at school before they can write.What does this mean for the future.Are these children today are computers at school before they can write.What does this mean for the future.Are these children lucky or not.

Many people who do not know about computers think of them as machines that children play with.They worry that children do not learn from experience but just from pressing a button and that is not good for them .They think that children are growing up not nowing about the real world.

But people who understand more about computers see that they can be very good for children.A computer can help them learn about the real workd more quickly,to learn what they want,to learn and to think for themselves.And for the future,don't we need people who can think clearly,who know how to get information quickly and use it well.What do you think

Are we strange to computers

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In which four places can you find computers

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Does every think computers are good for children

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What three things can computers help children to do.

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Does the writer think this is a good thing

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my grandfather told me that our village(1) ...... very poor many years ago . The villagers had to work hard in the fields all day but tehy could not earn enough for their living . ... Their lives were very simple . many people had to ........ in houses made of traw and mud .

Nowadays my village had........... a lot . People live in big brieck houses . In the evening , they can listeni to the ........ on the radio or watch TV for entertainment . All people in my village try their best to make their living better . They raise and resurface the roads........the roads will not be muddy and flooded after it rains .They widen th roads so cars and lorries can get to the village easily . They build a medical center so people's health can be looked .... at any time . They build a new school so their......have better learning conditions . They biuld a bridge.......the river so villagers have a shorter way to town . They also build a football grougd so their children can ..........

Read the passage and complete with the correct prepositions.
We send our children (1)............ school to prepare them (2).......... the time when they will be big and will have to work (3)......... themselves. They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know and understand what others tell them. They learn foreign languages (4)......... order to be able to benefit (5) ........ what people other countries have written and said, and in order to make people (7)......... other countries understand what they themselves mean. Nearly everything they study (8)........ school has some practical use (9)............ their life. We go to school (10).......... all to learn how to learn, so that, when we have left school, we can continue to learn.

I.Read this passage carefully
The countryside is more beautiful than a city and pleasant to live in . Many ppeople think so and they go the countryside for their summer holidays. Some people also build their house in a village so they can go there when they have free time
English villages are not all the same but they are not very different from others. Almost every villages has a church and we can see it drom a long distance. Countrylife is more comfortable now and many villages are very nearr to some small towns where people can buy everything
1. Find the word or phrase in the passage which has the same meaning with:
a. spare time..........................................................
b. whole.................................................................
c. to look................................................................
d. a lot of...............................................................
2. Answer the questions:
a. What do people think about the countryside?
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b. Where do some people build their house?
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Everyone knows that honeybees make honey, but how do they actually do it? Honeybees live in colonies, which means that they live with lots of other bees. Beehives, nests made of wax, are the places where they live and stow their honey.

Honeybees drink nectar from flowers or other sweet deposits from plants or trees. The honey made by these bees is used to supply the colony with food during the cold winter when there arc no flowers to drink from. Thus, these bees not only consume the nectar for nourishment but also bring it home. They have a special organ called a honey stomach which is used to carry the food to their colony.

When honeybees come back home, they regurgitate what they have put in their honey stomachs. Other honeybees in the hive come along and help them. They repeatedly eat and regurgitate many times until the product becomes somewhat digested. Next, the bees move the syrupy product into open honeycomb cells. Then they beat their wings to fan it to prevent fermentation. The fanning makes the water evaporate so that the product gets thick enough. Now it cannot easily be attacked by bacteria. Finally, it can be called honey. After this process, honeybees seal up the honeycomb cells with wax until they are hungry.

The most impressive part of this process is how seamlessly a bee colony works together. In a colony, there are female worker bees, male drones, and one queen bee. Although there are both male and females in the hive, the majority of the work is done by females. The female worker bees are in charge of taking care of the hive and creating honey. When they are young, they take care of feeding the young bee larvae. When they are older, they go out and bring nectar back to the hive, where they begin making honey. The male drones are responsible for fertilizing the eggs, but require little energy as they spend their time waiting around the hive. The single queen bee is responsible for the colony's survival. She is the only female that can lay eggs. The wonderful substance called honey would not exist without the bees' teamwork.

1. What is the main topic of the passage?

A. The role of the female honeybee
B. Preventing fermentation in honey
C. Why honeybees build huge wax nests
D. How a honeybee colony works to make honey