Exercise II. Read the article, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Simple Ways to Lose Weight on a Budget
Plan to Cook at Home Instead of buying costly prepared meals, which often tend to be high in calories, cook your own at home. Plan out your meals with high-fiber foods like beans and whole grains which will keep you full and are a cheaper, healthier alternative to rich proteins and more processed grains. Eat Less Eating less leads to weight loss, and cost savings, especially if you cut down on the right things. Start by cutting your portions of pricy meat and poultry. Double Up on Vegetables Vegetables are great for weight loss, as well as all-around health. They are low in calories and high in water and fiber - two things that keep you feeling full. Save cash by shopping for those that are in season. Frozen vegetables can be a great bargain, with just as much nutrition as fresh, since they are picked and frozen at their peak ripeness. Get Creative with Your Exercise Options You don’t need to shell out a monthly gym fee to get moving. Instead, find fun activities you enjoy for free. If you’re just getting started with a regular exercise routine, try your beginning with daily walks: start slowly and build up time and speed. Make Friends with Someone One of the most powerful resources you have for helping you lose weight is your social network. Find a friend who is also trying to lose weight and agree to help each other stay motivated. One study found that when friends participated in a group weight-loss programme together, they lost more weight than people who did the same programme on their own.
11. The advantage of cooking at home is ………..
A.to have food that is high in calories
B.to enjoy a variety of rich proteins and more processed grains
C. to plan out your costly prepared meals
D. to choose foods that keep you full and is cheaper
12. In order to cut down on your daily calories, you should do all the following things EXCEPT ………….
A. follow vegetarian diets for your meals
B. eat less meat and poultry
C. eat more beans, lentils, tofu and eggs
D. cut down on animal proteins for some of your meals
13. All of the following are true about vegetables EXCEPT that ……….
A. vegetables can keep you feeling full
B. they help you lose weight effectively
C. frozen vegetables are not good for your health
D. you feel healthier and save money with fresh vegetables in season
14. We can infer from the article that ………….
A.you should join in a social network instead of going to a gym
B.a partner can make you feel more motivated in losing weight
C. you should find fun activities at the gym and follow them
D. joining a programme you can lose more weight than your partner
15. The phrase “shell out” is closest in meaning to………….
A. become more interested in something
B. pay money for something
C. peel something out
D. take someone out of a shell

IV.Read the passage carefully,and then do the follwing tasks.

The healthy eating diet

Healthy eating is about feeling great and having more energy.If you choose the right foods,you healthy diet will be a tasty diet,too.You can still enjoy your favourite sweet and salty foods,but too much sugar and salt is bad for your body.

Dairy products like milk,cheese and yoghurt are great because they contain calcium and keep your teeth and bones healthy.You should choose low-fat dairy products.

Meat,fish,eggs,beans and nuts are important,too.They keep our bodies healthy and they give us energy to work and play.

Whole grains are an important part of every meals.If you eat lots of whole grains,you will have a healthy heart.Whole grains are in bread,cereal,pasta,and rice.Dark break and brown rice are great sources of whole grains.

Fruit and vegetables are the most important part of a healthy diet.They are low in calories and full of vitamins.Eat lots of fruit and vegetables with every meal,and as snacks during the day.Fruit and vegetables with darker colours have more vitamins.

A.Find the underlined words in the text to match the meanings.

1.____________:an amount of energy.

2.____________:the power that your body gets from food.

3.____________:food that you eat between meals.

4.____________:It food is this,it tastes of sugar.

5.____________:It food is this,it tastes of salt.

6.____________:the types of food that you eat most often.

7.____________:things in food that we need to grow and be healthy.

8._____________:the palace where you get some thing from.

B.Answer the following questions.

1.What does the healthy eating diet help you?

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2.What can you also enjoy when you have a healthy eating diet?

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3.Why are dairy products good for your health?

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4.What is the function of meat,fish,eggs,beans and nuts?

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5.Why are whole grains an important part of every meal?

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6.What types of foods can we get whole grains from?

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7.Why are fruit and vegetables the most important part of a healthy diet?

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8.What typesof fruit and vegetables have more vitamins?

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As a result of years of research, we know that too much animal fat is bad for our health. For example, Americans eat a lot of meat and only a small amount of grains, fruit and vegetables. Because of their diet, they have high rates of cancer and heart disease; In Japan, in contrast, people eat large amounts of grains and very little meat. The Japanese also have very low rates of cancer and heart disease. In fact, the Japanese live longer than anyone else in the world. Unfortunately, when Japanese people move to the United States, the rates of heart disease and cancer increase as their diet changes. Moreover, as hamburgers, ice-cream, and other high-fat foods become popular in Japan, the rates of heart disease and cancer are increasing there as well. People are also eating more meat and dairy products in other countries such as Cuba, Mauritius and Hungary. Not surprisingly, the disease rates in these countries are increasing along with the change in diet. Consequently, doctors’ everywhere advise people to eat more grains, fruit and vegetables and to eat less meat and fewer dairy products.

61. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Doctors advise people to eat more grains, fruit and vegetables.

b. Eating meat causes cancer and heart disease.

c. The kind of diet we have can cause or prevent diseases.

d. Children eat the same way their parents eat.

62. Why do the Japanese have low rates of cancer and heart disease?

a. Because they eat a lot of grains and very little meat.

b. Because they do eat animal fat.

c. Because their diet changes.

d. Because they live longer than anyone else in the world.

63. “…the Japanese live longer them anyone else…” What does anyone else mean?

a. some other people

b. all other people

c. most other people

d. nobody

64. Where does the word ‘there’ in line 11 refer to?

a. in the United States

b. in Cuba

c. in Japan

d. in Cuba, Mauritius, and Hungary

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of thequestions.

Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend talking about food?, “Have you ever eaten......?”, “What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly.

In most part of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a large amount of beer, and the French drink wine every day.

The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. Newzelanders eat sheep meat, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish.

So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been eating, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.

28. The text is mainly about............

A. people’s attitude to food B. the importance of meat

C. strange dishes in the world D. food and life

29. The writer think that ............

A. people eat only what is normal to everybody

B. people often change their feelings about food

C. people have different opinions about food

D. people like eating different food as they travel from one country to another.

30. In many Asian countries............

A. people almost always have rice in their meal B. rice is a perfect food

C. rice is included in every menu D. rice is completely eaten

31. The Japanese enjoy eating raw fish because............

A. it is not good to have fish cooked B. it is special to them

C. it is well boiled D. it doesn’t smell

32. People everywhere think that............

A. we can spend few hours talking about food

B. there is very little common sense in talking about food

C. there is very little common sense in what we say about the eating habits

D. we should do much to change our eating habits

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V. Reading the following passage and choose the best answers

LEARNING A LANGUAGE

Speech is one of the most important (1)_________of communicating. It consists of far more than just making noises. To talk and also to (2)_________by other people, we have to speak a language, that is, we have to use combinations of (3)_________that everyone agrees stand for a particular object or idea. Communication would be impossible if everyone made up their own language.

Learning a language properly is very (4)_________. The basic (6)_________ of English is not very large, and only about 2000 words are needed to speak it quite …56…. But the more words you know, the more ideas you can (7)_________and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.

Words are the (8)_________ thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we (9)_________ the words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and (10)_________whether we are pleased of angry, for instance.

1. A. ways B. reasons C. rules D. tests

2. A. be examined B. be talked C. be understood D. be spoken

3. A. sounds B. languages C. systems D. talks

4. A. important B. expensive C. simple D. easy

5. A. word B. vocabulary C. grammar D. structure

6. A. good B. fluent C. well D. perfect

7. A. grow B. need C. pass D. express

8. A. most B. main C. certain D. full

9. A. send B. talk C. say D. pass

10. A. asks B. understands C. knows D. shows

Complete the conversation about eating habits, using the responses (A-H) given.
A. But people consume three times more salt than necessary in some regions.
B. All of us should be wise consumers.
C. Doctors try to make the public aware of the problem.
D. Teenagers tend to drink more soft drinks.
E. I think nutrition education must be carried out in school, when their eating habits are still forming.
F. But now there is an unbalanced diet of much more sugar and salt.
G. The intake of calcium is an essential element for height growth.
H. I often have water instead of soft drinks.
Nina: I think all of you have a balanced diet and it’s good for health. Right, Mi?
Mi: It is our traditional way of eating. (1) _____________________________________________________
Nina: It may lead to health risks, like in our country.
Mi: (2) ________________________________________________________________________________ They contain sugar and other harmful substances.
Nina: How about your family?
Mi: (3) ________________________________________________________________________________ I think we consume more sugar from soft drinks, andit’s not good for health.
Nina: I think taking a lot of salt is not beneficial to our health, either.
Mi: (4) ________________________________________________________________________________
Nina: It may be the causes of high blood pressure. Is there any measure to stop that?
Mi: (5) ________________________________________________________________________________ My parents eat less salt, and so do I.

Nina: At puberty, we need a lot of calcium. What about Vietnamese teenagers?
Mi: (6) ________________________________________________________________________________ Nowadays, it only meets 50 to 60 percent of the body’s demand
Nina: Really? We could solve it by buying fresh and healthy supply of food.
Mi: I agree with you. (7) __________________________________________________________________
Nina: But there are a lot of attractive advertisements about fast food and soft drinks for young people. Some teens don’t know much about nutrition.
Mi: (8) ________________________________________________________________________________

(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

A volcano is an opening in the earth’s surface through (23)___________ lava, hot, gases and rock fragments erupt. (24) ________ an opening occurs when melted rock from deep within the earth blasts through the surface. Most volcanoes are a top mountains, particularly cone-shaped mountains. The mountains themselves are also called volcanoes. Eruptions of volcanic mountains are spectacular sights. In some eruptions, huge fiery clouds rise over the mountain, and growing rivers of lava flow down (25) _________ sides. In other eruptions, red- hot ash and cinders shoot out the mountaintop, and large chunks of hot rockare blasted (26) ________ into the air. A few eruptions are so ( 27) _________ that they blow the mountain apart. Some eruptions occur on volcanic islands. Such islands are the tops of volcanic mountains that have been built (28) __________ from the ocean floor by repeated eruptions. Othereruptions occur along narrow cracks in the ocean floor.

23/ A. which B. that C. where D. when

24/ A. So B. Such C. That D. Many

25/ A. its B. it C. their D. theirs

26/ A. high B. low C. below D. above

27/ A. gentle B. violent C. terrible D. awful

28/ A. up B. on C. into D. onto

(29-32) Read the dialogue and then decide whether the statements that follow are true or false. Write True or False in your answersheet:

Bad weather comes in many different forms. One kind of bad weather is the tornado. It is one of the most destructive storms that we have on the earth. A tornado is a long cloud which comes down from the sky. It is shaped like a funnel and consists of windwhich whirls around and around extremely fast. In fact, the wind can reach a speed of more than nine hundred kilometers per hour. Weather scientists are unable to know exactly when a tornado will occur. Fortunately, the tornado is not usually very big and it does not last long. There are about two hundred tornadoes annually in the United States, but in some years there are many more. Tornadoes that occur over water are called waterspouts

____ 29/ One good thing about a tornado is that it does not last long

____ 30/ Tornadoes over water are called funnels.

____ 31/ The annually number of tornadoes in the United States is about one hundred.

____ 32/ There are about two hundred tornadoes in one year in America