III. Reading (Đọc hiểu)
A. Read the passage below and answer the questions.
Two popular traditions at Christmas are decorating the home and singing Christmas carols.
The home is the center of the Christmas celebration inside, an evergreen tree is usually placed in a corner of the living room. Children and their parents wrap strings on colorful lights around the tree. They hang ornament on the branches. A star or angel often grows the top carefully. Wrapped gifts are placed beneath outside, families often string lights around windows and wind lights around tree and shrubs in front yard. As families decorate their home, they often put on a Christmas record. Almost every family has a least one favorite Christmas album or compact dise school children of all ages perform Christmas concerts for their parents and communities on Christmas' s Eve family members gather around the Christmas tree to sing Traditional song such as (Jingle bell and silent night) and then give presents to each other.
Questions
1. What are the popular traditions at Christmas? ........................................................................................................
2. Where is the evergreen tree put? ........................................................................................................
3. How do they decorate the Christmas tree? ........................................................................................................
4. What do family members often do on Christmas' Eve? ........................................................................................................
B. Read the passage and choose the most appropriate answer(A,B,C or D)
How Ha has to improved his English
In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English . My English pronunciation was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not know how to improve them. I didn’t want my father and mother to know about this. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English-English dictionary to improve my English grammar. “Now I thing you know what you should do ”, said she. I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first prize in the English speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.
1. What difficulties did Ha have in learning English in the first year? A. The pronunciation B. The grammar C. Both pronunciation and grammar D.The way of improving his pronunciation
2. Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?
A. His teacher B. One of his friends C. His father D.His mother
3. Where did Ha and his teacher go after that? A. To the town library B. To the school library C. To the teacher’s room D. To the his house
4. What did the teacher show him then? A. A glass bookcase B. An English-English dictionary C. An English grammar book D. Cassettes of pronunciation drills
5. What did he win in the English speaking Contest one year later?
A. The first prize B. he second prize C. The third prize D. The fourth prize
C. Read the passage below and answer the questions
Lan’s excited about the interesting activities. She’s going to do. The Y & Y is having a plan to help the community. She will participate in the recycling program. In joining this program, she will collect glass, used paper and empty cans. Then she will send them for recycling.
She hopes she can save natural resources and raise some money for money for her school. Y & Y in these activities, she also think about participating in either planting trees and flowers or helping the street children. It’s really interesting, isn’t?
Questions:
1. Is Lan having interesting activities? ........................................................................................................................
2. What program will she participate in? ........................................................................................................................
3. What will she collect? ........................................................................................................................
4. What does she hope? ........................................................................................................................
5. Does she like this program? ........................................................................................................................
D. Read the following passages and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
Machu Picchu is an ancient city in Peru. The construction of the city started in 1450. The city covers about 13 square kilometers. For centuries, the city was buried in the jungle and was not discovered until 1911. Today, Machu Picchu is one of the most famous tourist attractions in all parts of South America.
The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made Structure ever built. Much of what exists of the wall are much older and go back to around 200 B.C. The wall is about 11 meters high. The main part of the wall stretches for about 3,400 kilometers.
1. Machu Picchu is modern city in Peru.
2. People began to built the city in 1450.
3. The city was built on the area of thirty square kilometers.
4. People found the city buried in the jungle in 1911.
5. The city attractive to many tourists from South America. 6. The Great Wall of China was constructed by man.
7. The wall was built during the Ming dynasty in 1400.
8. Many parts of the wall were built around 200 B.C.
9. The height of the wall is about 11 meters.
10.The main part of the wall is about 3,400kilometers long.
A. Read the passage below and answer the questions.
Two popular traditions at Christmas are decorating the home and singing Christmas carols.
The home is the center of the Christmas celebration inside, an evergreen tree is usually placed in a corner of the living room. Children and their parents wrap strings on colorful lights around the tree. They hang ornament on the branches. A star or angel often grows the top carefully. Wrapped gifts are placed beneath outside, families often string lights around windows and wind lights around tree and shrubs in front yard. As families decorate their home, they often put on a Christmas record. Almost every family has a least one favorite Christmas album or compact dise school children of all ages perform Christmas concerts for their parents and communities on Christmas' s Eve family members gather around the Christmas tree to sing Traditional song such as (Jingle bell and silent night) and then give presents to each other.
Questions
1. What are the popular traditions at Christmas? ........................................................................................................
2. Where is the evergreen tree put? ........................................................................................................
3. How do they decorate the Christmas tree? ........................................................................................................
4. What do family members often do on Christmas' Eve? ........................................................................................................
B. Read the passage and choose the most appropriate answer(A,B,C or D)
How Ha has to improved his English
In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English . My English pronunciation was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not know how to improve them. I didn’t want my father and mother to know about this. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English-English dictionary to improve my English grammar. “Now I thing you know what you should do ”, said she. I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first prize in the English speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.
1. What difficulties did Ha have in learning English in the first year? A. The pronunciation B. The grammar C. Both pronunciation and grammar D.The way of improving his pronunciation
2. Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?
A. His teacher B. One of his friends C. His father D.His mother
3. Where did Ha and his teacher go after that? A. To the town library B. To the school library C. To the teacher’s room D. To the his house
4. What did the teacher show him then? A. A glass bookcase B. An English-English dictionary C. An English grammar book D. Cassettes of pronunciation drills
5. What did he win in the English speaking Contest one year later?
A. The first prize B. he second prize C. The third prize D. The fourth prize
C. Read the passage below and answer the questions
Lan’s excited about the interesting activities. She’s going to do. The Y & Y is having a plan to help the community. She will participate in the recycling program. In joining this program, she will collect glass, used paper and empty cans. Then she will send them for recycling.
She hopes she can save natural resources and raise some money for money for her school. Y & Y in these activities, she also think about participating in either planting trees and flowers or helping the street children. It’s really interesting, isn’t?
Questions:
1. Is Lan having interesting activities? ........................................................................................................................
2. What program will she participate in? ........................................................................................................................
3. What will she collect? ........................................................................................................................
4. What does she hope? ........................................................................................................................
5. Does she like this program? ........................................................................................................................
D. Read the following passages and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
Machu Picchu is an ancient city in Peru. The construction of the city started in 1450. The city covers about 13 square kilometers. For centuries, the city was buried in the jungle and was not discovered until 1911. Today, Machu Picchu is one of the most famous tourist attractions in all parts of South America.
The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made Structure ever built. Much of what exists of the wall are much older and go back to around 200 B.C. The wall is about 11 meters high. The main part of the wall stretches for about 3,400 kilometers.
1. Machu Picchu is modern city in Peru.
2. People began to built the city in 1450.
3. The city was built on the area of thirty square kilometers.
4. People found the city buried in the jungle in 1911.
5. The city attractive to many tourists from South America. 6. The Great Wall of China was constructed by man.
7. The wall was built during the Ming dynasty in 1400.
8. Many parts of the wall were built around 200 B.C.
9. The height of the wall is about 11 meters.
10.The main part of the wall is about 3,400kilometers long.
