Have you ever seen a small, red beetle with black dots on its back? These little insects are called ladybugs. These little insects are harmless to humans. A ladybug does not bite or sting humans. Ladybugs are also harmless to plants, and they do not carry diseases. But how did the ladybug get
its name? There are many stories. One of these stories came from the Middle Ages. The crops were being eaten, and the villagers began praying. The red beetles with black dots came and ate the harmful insects. These beetles were named “the Beetles of Our Lady.” The name was shortened to lady beetles or ladybugs.

Since then, the ladybug has been known to bring good luck. There are many beliefs about ladybugs from all over the world. It has been said that if a ladybug lands on a young maiden’s hand, she will marry soon. In England, it has been said that if a farmer sees a ladybug, he will have a good harvest. Some people believe that the number of spots you see on the ladybug’s back will represent the number of children you will have.

Ladybugs today can still bring good fortune. If you have a ladybug in your garden, then you do not need to use insect poison to get rid of aphids. Aphids are tiny insects that are harmful to many plants. They suck the juice from the leaves of the plant. A ladybug can eat as many as 50 aphids in a day. Some people buy ladybugs to fight the aphids.

Story Questions

d. Ladybugs will reproduce.

Give the correct form of the words in brackets.

Traffic jam (1. to be) _______________ a common sight in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta etc.This is due to (2. increase) _______________ population of the metropolitan cities. People from far offplaces rush towards big cities to (3. earn) _______________as big cities (4. have) _______________manyoptions and possibilities for them. Then there are permanent citizens also. So, with the human traffic, vehiculartraffic also increases. As the standard of living is (5. become) _______________ high everyone wants to (6.purchase) _______________his own car.

DANH NGÔN HAY VỀ HOA HỒNG

1.Những nụ hồng tình yêu làm đẹp vườn đời.

The roses of love glad the garden of life.

2.Sự thật và hoa hồng đều có gai.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

3.Hoa hồng lặng lẽ ca ngợi tình yêu, bằng ngôn ngữ chỉ trái tim mới hiểu.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

4.Thay vì phàn nàn rằng khóm hồng đầy gai, hãy vui sướng rằng khóm cây đầy gai nở rộ hoa hồng.

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses

5.Hoa hồng, ôi vẻ hai mặt trắng trong, đỏng đảnh
Làm một giấc mộng không của ai dưới gánh nặng của bao đời.

Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.

6.Bông hồng kia trên bờ giậu mỉm cười
Trái tim tôi hạnh phúc trả lời
Và bỗng điều gì trong thẳm sâu thầm hỏi
Ai là hoa, và ai là tôi?
Giữa chúng tôi, mối giao cảm nhỏ nhoi
Như nhẹ rung, tinh tế tuyệt vời.

7.Chỉ một đóa hồng là đủ cho bình minh.

One rose is enough for the dawn.

8.Thế giới là một đóa hồng, hãy tận hưởng hương thơm và trao nó cho bè bạn.

The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends.

9.Bởi nó tin chắc vào vẻ đẹp của mình, hoa hồng đòi hỏi chúng ta ghê gớm.

Because it is sure of its beauty, the rose makes terrible demands on us.

10.Đẹp hơn đóa hồng là tâm hồn chiêm ngưỡng nó.

More beautiful than a rose is the soul that beholds it.

11.Một bông hồng là một lời tranh luận. Nó tuyên bố sự chiến thắng của cái đẹp trước sự hung tàn, của sự dịu dàng trước bạo lực, của thời khắc phù du trước vĩnh hằng, và của cái phổ biến trước cái cá biệt. Hồng ở vùng Cực Bắc hay hồng ở sa mạc Sahara cũng đều nở hoa như nhau.

A rose is an argument. It proclaims the triumph of beauty over brutality, of gentleness over violence, of the ephemeral over the lasting, and of the universal over the particular. The same rose bursts into bloom on the North Cape and in the Sahara desert.

12.Thiên nhiên mới xảo quyệt làm sao khi giấu đi từng nếp nhăn của sự già cỗi không tưởng nổi sau những đóa hồng và vi-ô-lét và sương sớm!

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

13.Không thể hái hồng mà không bị gai đâm.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Bạn hãy viết một đoạn văn cảm nhận về hoa hồng.

( GOOD LUCK )!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

II. Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences (4ms)

 1. Some students have portable CD players with small …………. .

A. headphones         B. cell phones            C. telephone               D. earphones

2. Hoa’s  friend is interested _________ writing letters

          A. in                                B. on                   C. for                          D. at

3. American students take part ………. different activities at recess.

A. on                        B. in                           C. at                            D. to

4. I am ………….. my math homework .

A. do                        B. does                       C. doing                      D. to do

5. Her group is ……………… a play for the school anniversary celebrations.

A. rehearsing           B. playing                  C.  doing                     D. talking

6. What’s your …………. subject, Lan? - I like History.

A. favorite                   B. popular                         C. famous             D. like

7. Her date of birth is ............ November tenth.

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

8. How ....... is it from the hospital to the bus stop?

            A.  long                        B. high           C .  often                 D .  far

Part 2 : Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks (1pt)

At 6.30 in the morning, the bus collected Ba and his family from their home. After picking everyone up, the bus continued north on Highway Number 1. It crossed the Dragon Bridge and stopped at the (1) ………………….. to get some more fuel. Then, it (2)……………… the highway and turned left onto a smaller road westward. This road ran between green paddy fields, so the people on the bus could see a lot of cows and buffaloes. The road ended before a big (3)…………….. beside a pond. Instead of turning left towards a small (4)………………, the bus went in the opposite direction. It didn’t stay on that road for very long, but turned left onto a road which went through a small bamboo forest. Finally, the bus dropped everyone off at the (5)……………….. ten meters from a big old banyan tree. It would park there and waited for people to come back in the evening.

A. SPEAKING: Match the questions in column A with responses in column B (1pt)

A

B

Matching

1. What do you usually wear on the weekend?

A. Three weeks ago

1……………………

2. Where is your home village?

B. one hour

2……………………

3. Does your village have a river

C. It’s to the West of the city

3. …………………..

4. How long does it take to get to your village?

D. I usually wear short dress

4. …………………..

5. When did you last come back to your village?

E. My village has a big lake

5..…………………..

F. No. It has no rivers

B. USE OF ENGLISH

Part 1: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others: (0.8pt)

1. A. subject B. introduction C. hurriedly D. conclusion

2. A. standard B. material C. traditional D. amusement

3. A. recently B. exchange C. generation D. convenient

4. A. clothing B. economic C. grocery D. pagoda

Part 2: Choose the word that best completes each of these sentences (1,2 pts)

1. I wish I ………………. time to visit my grandparents more often.

A. Having B. have C. had D. is having

2. Many tourists visit the …………… of a historical hero on the mountain.

A. Shrine B. mosque C. church D. park

3. The journey to the village is very …………

A. interesting B. interest C. enjoy D. enjoyable

4. The Parkers are nice …………… van feels like a member of their family.

A. Because B. so C. and D. but

5. They came …………….. Sunday morning and stayed here …………….. 8.00 to 10.30.

A. in - between B. on – at C. on – between D. in – from

Part 3: Supply the correct form of the words in brackets (0.8 pt)

1. I (not see) ……………………… her since she moved to Ho Chi Minh city.

2. Liz wishes she (visit) ………………………….. Ba’s village again someday.

3. These department stores (build) ………………………… near my house two months ago.

4. It took me half an hour (get) …………………. to the picnic site.

C. READING

Part 1: Read the passage. Fill in the blanks with the given words in the box. (1.0pt)

Clothes, symbolizes, fashionable , uniform , wearing , conclusion, pride , occasions

Vietnamese schoolgirls in senior high schools wear the white ao dai as school (1) ………….. The white color of the ao dai they wear (2)………….. the purity of school age. On special (3)……………. such as weddings, festivals, ceremonies, Vietnamese women wear the ao dai of various designs and material. Women and girls seem to look more graceful and tender in their ao dai.

Many foreign visitors like this traditional clothing of Vietnamese women. Once a visitor, when seeing schoolgirls walking to school, told me , “I enjoy watching them. They look like fairies in a wonderland with their laps of the ao dai fluttering. The ao dai is the (4)…………….of Vietnamese women. They know that they wear the unique dress, which is now both traditional and (5)………………...”

Part 2: Read the passage. Write True or False, then answer the question

A VISIT TO A FARM

Last summer, Peter and his classmates went to the countryside. They went to a visit a farm on which Peter’s Uncle Tom worked.

They left early in the morning and went there by bus. Uncle Tom and some workers met them at the bus stop and took them to their farm. On the way, Uncle Tom showed them the field of wheat (lúa mì) and vegetables where some tractors (máy kéo) were running up and down, plowing and breaking the soil, distributing manure (rải phân) and planting potatoes.

After lunch, they all went for a walk. In the large yard of the farm they saw some farm machines. Among them is the biggest machine which is called a combine harvester (máy gặt đập). They were told that this machine can cut and thresh corn at the same time.

In the afternoon they went to the cattle farm. Horses, sheep and cows were raised here, and cows were milked once a day. Uncle Tom also spoke about different things and about life in town and in the country. After having some tea and cakes they said goodbye and went home.

A. True or False (0.6 pt)

1/ Peter and his classmates went to the countryside by bus …………..

2/ The combine harvester can’t cut and thresh corn at the same time …………..

3/ They saw the field of wheat, corn and vegetables on the farm …………..

B. Answer the questions (0.4pt)

1. What can the tractors do? ...............................................................................................

2. What kinds of farm animals are raised there?

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

D. WRITING

Part 1: Fill in the blank with a correct preposition (0.6pt)

1. I’m usually free ……………… Saturday and Sunday.

2. The New Year is celebrated ……………… midnight ……………. January 1^st

3. We often go to our home village at least once …………. the summer.

Part 2: Rewrite these following sentences with the words given (0.8pt)

1. Nga didn’t have time for breakfast this morning because she got up late (write using so)

………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2. He started learning English seven years ago.

He has ………………………………………………………………………………………

3. John can’t speak Vietnamese fluently.

John wishes ………………………………………………………………………………..

4. I have played badminton since 2000.

I began . ……………………………………………………………………………………

Part 3: Make meaningful sentences with the following cues (0.8pt)

1/ People/ go/ village/ have/ a rest/ after/ hard working week.

………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2/ A new style/ jeans/ just/ introduced/ the USA.

………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Dịch giùm mk vs !

Millions of school children failed to attend classes in English-speaking areas of Cameroon when the school term began recently. Schools opened after the government released many of the jailed leaders of protests in Cameroon’s English-speaking areas. The protests were called to direct attention to what some people see as the strong influence of the French language in the country. Cameroon has two official languages: French and English. Many English-speakers believe they are discriminated against by those who speak French.

Schools have been closed in the English-speaking northwest and southwest areas of Cameroon since November. That is when lawyers and teachers called for a strike to stop what they believe is the overuse of the French language. After leaders of the strike were arrested, pressure groups called for their immediate and unconditional release before the new school term. Last week, 55 of the 75 protesters were released, while charges against them were dropped.

Vietnam is a peaceful country from a few years ago ... The national heroes have glorified the race and keep the peace of the country are: Trieu Thi Trinh, Tran Quoc Toan, Ly Thi My, Kim Dong ... Speaking of these heroes, it must be said that the greatest work of Uncle Ho is? Uncle Ho was born Nguyen Sinh Cung, then Nguyen Tat Thanh, then finally: Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh. Uncle is a shining example for the country and Uncle Ho's love for children increasingly deep into the hearts of Vietnamese. Uncle helped people understand that: children are a generation next will follow his father, go to battle but never hide .

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