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

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?
..............................................................................
b. Where do some people build their house?
.............................................................................

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Tet or Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which happens in late January or early February. Before Tet, people usually clean and decorate their homes. They go to market to buy candy, jams or dried water melon seeds. They also get new clothes which are worn at Tet. They often buy beach blossoms and marigolds which are traditional flowers on Tet holiday. Tet is a time for family members gather and have some special meals with special food such as sticky rice cakes. People often visit relatives and close friends on the second day of the holiday.

True (T) or False (F)

People often visit relatives and close friends on the first day of New Year.

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Tet or Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which happens in late January or early February. Before Tet, people usually clean and decorate their homes. They go to market to buy candy, jams or dried water melon seeds. They also get new clothes which are worn at Tet. They often buy beach blossoms and marigolds which are traditional flowers on Tet holiday. Tet is a time for family members gather and have some special meals with special food such as sticky rice cakes. People often visit relatives and close friends on the second day of the holiday.

Answer the questions

What is the other name of Tet?

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Tet or Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which happens in late January or early February. Before Tet, people usually clean and decorate their homes. They go to market to buy candy, jams or dried water melon seeds. They also get new clothes which are worn at Tet. They often buy beach blossoms and marigolds which are traditional flowers on Tet holiday. Tet is a time for family members gather and have some special meals with special food such as sticky rice cakes. People often visit relatives and close friends on the second day of the holiday.

Answer the questions

When does Tet occur?

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Tet or Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which happens in late January or early February. Before Tet, people usually clean and decorate their homes. They go to market to buy candy, jams or dried water melon seeds. They also get new clothes which are worn at Tet. They often buy beach blossoms and marigolds which are traditional flowers on Tet holiday. Tet is a time for family members gather and have some special meals with special food such as sticky rice cakes. People often visit relatives and close friends on the second day of the holiday.

True (T) or False (F)

People don’t clean and decorate their homes.

Read the following passage and answer the questions

Tet or Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which happens in late January or early February. Before Tet, people usually clean and decorate their homes. They go to market to buy candy, jams or dried water melon seeds. They also get new clothes which are worn at Tet. They often buy beach blossoms and marigolds which are traditional flowers on Tet holiday. Tet is a time for family members gather and have some special meals with special food such as sticky rice cakes. People often visit relatives and close friends on the second day of the holiday.

True (T) or False (F)

Tet happens in early January.

Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space ( 1 p ) :

The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the country (1) ………… the summer holidays though they can not live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village (2) ………… that they can go there whenever they can find the time.

English villagers are not all alike, but (3) ……. some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of (4) ……… can be seen for many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard, (5) ………. people are buried.

The village green (6) ………. a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are (7) ……….. round it . Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages (8) ………. water brought through pipes into each (9) ………. .

Most villages are so close to some small town that people can go there to buy (10) ……….. they can’t find in the village shops.