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A MISSION TO MARS

      Have you ever had a dream about traveling to another planet in our solar system? If you have, there is an actual programme that is happening right now, and it hopes to send people to Mars in 2023. Known as the Mars One Mission, it will send a crew of four people on a one-way mission to colonize Mars. Those chosen people will have to be ready to say good-bye to the earth forever, as there will not be a return trip.

      For the people chosen, they will have to learn to do many different things. First of all, they will be living the rest of their lives with just a handful of other people, so they all must have personalities that allow them to get along. Second, the living quarters that they will have won’t be very spacious, so they will have to deal with that condition as well. If they feel homesick, they will only be able to communicate with people back on the earth via e-mail and videos and audio sent back and forth. However, there won’t be any real-time communication. Even at the speed of light, communication between the earth and Mars takes about 20 minutes.

      Whether the Mars One Mission will actually happen is the big question that a lot of people are asking. There is an enormous skepticism in the science community, and Wired magazine gave the mission a miserable score of two out of ten on its probability scale. However, for those who dream to go to Mars, at least they can say there is a possibility that it could happen.

1.   Who might like to go on this mission?

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      Bau Truc pottery village of Cham village ethnic minority is one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia. It’s located about 10 km in the South of PhanRang town. The small village is (1)                              to more than 400 families, of (2)                         85% are in the traditional pottery business. The style is said to be handed (3)               from Po Klong Chan, one of their ancestors from the immemorial time.

      People in Bau Truc use their skillful hands, bamboo-made circles and shells to create priceless works. It is (4)                                 that while the Kinh people have switched to using wheel as an indispensable (5)                                   , their Cham counterparts, on the contrary, still (6)                                  on talent hands and simpletools. To create a pottery product, a Cham craftsman only needs an anvil, not apotter’s wheel, and other simple equipment and moulds and then uses hands to (7)                             pieces of clay into the works he wants.

      The clay is taken is taken from the banks of the Quao River and is flexible, durable when (8)                                              fired. The skills needed to mix sand with the clay are also various. The amount of sand mixed with the plastic material is dependent on what the pottery used for and the sizes. For these seasons, Bau Truc pottery is quite different from pottery elsewhere. For example, water jars made in Bau truc pottery are always favoured by people in dry and sunny areas (9)                                  the temperature of the water in the jars is always one centigrade cooler than (10)                           outside.

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      Cyberbullying is the (1)               of technology to annoy, threaten, embarrass or target (2)                                 person. Online threats and aggressive,                             or rude texts, posts, or messages all count. So does (3)                           personal information, pictures, or videos designed to hurt or embarrass someone else. (4)          comments often focus on things like a person’s gender, religion race, or physical differences.

            Online bullying can be particularly damaging and upsetting (5)                               it is usually anonymous or (6)                       to find. People can suffer (7)                         a 24/7 basis – every time they (8)                  their cellphone or computer.

      The first thing (9)                                     to solve the problem is to tell an adult you trust. You also can talk to your school counselor or a trusted teacher or family member. Ignoring bullies is the best way to take away their power, but it isn’t always easy to do – in the real world (10)              online.

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      Marble Mountains is a group of five smaller mountains (1)                    Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. It is also a travel itinerary linking Da Nang City to the ancient town of Hoi An and Hue City. As the name suggests the Marble Mountains used to be a place providing input (2)                                for craftsmen in the village, but the local government banned marble exploitation (3)                             that the five mountains could disappear.

      Most of the marble for the village now comes from northern provinces such as Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa and Thai Nguyen. As a further step to diversify products, the marble fine arts village has (4)                                   marble from Pakistan.

      As far as I know, the man who (5)                       marble craftsmanship to the region came from Thanh Hoa, and most craftsmen in the village had handed down the craft from generation to generation. There are some 3,000 handicraft workers in Non Nuoc village. (6)       , there are only 70 skillful craftsmen who can (7)                              souls into marble sculptures after other workers have finished (8)                                the Products.

      In the shops along the highway, you can see different marble products in all shapes and sizes, from contemporary (9)                               to religious sculptures. And of course you will have a chance to see craftsmen (10)                         their art and turning soulless marble into sophisticated sculpture products.

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      Teenagers today live in a very competitive world. It is (1)                     important than ever to succeed at school if you hope to (2)                   a chance in the job market afterwards. It’s no wonder that many young people worry (3)                      letting down their parents, their peers and themselves. To try to please everyone, they take on too (4)            tasks until it becomes harder and harder to balance homework assignments, parties, sports activities and
friends. The result is that young people (5)                            from stress.

      There are different ways of dealing with stress. Everyone knows that caffeine, in the (6)                   of coffee or soft drinks, keeps you awake and alert. But caffeine is a drug which (7)                                            become addictive. In the end, like other drugs, caffeine only leads to more stress. There are better (8)                                 to deal with stress: physical exercise is a good release for stress, (9)                                it increases certain chemicals in the brain which calm you down. You have to get enough sleep to (10)                             stress and to stay healthy and full of energy.

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      Subsidy economy from 1976 to 1986 means all (1)                                of goods and raw materials are in the (2)                 of the central government. The government coordinated all steps of economy from planning, collecting, and distributing to (3)             . Each person (4)                                 with standard distributions which depended (5)               working level, age, rank and position in government or professional.

      (6)                         essential supplies had many problems, for example, four people shared a pair of bicycle tires, or even a blanket. Sometimes one pig was shared among 20 households, everyone wanted to take the good (7)                            and very difficult to divide fairly. Moreover, because of bad storage and complicated delivery, many supplied foods were in bad condition, such as broken, rotten or even poisonous. Each family got (8)                   own rice booklet shown date and number kilos of rice. During that time, the Vietnamese had a famous saying, “Your face (9)                        sad like (10)                the rice booklet”.

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      People in Ho Chi Minh City are determined to (1)                                  into the world while maintaining the Vietnamese identity. Therefore, they have decided to use the image of the lotus bud, considered by many as Vietnam’s (2)                                  flower, to be the (3)                inspiration for the architectural design. Ho Chi Minh City’s Bitexco Financial Tower is completed as      Viet Nam is on its way to recover from the global (4)                    crisis. This coincides with a(n) (5)                demand from (6)            business circles for office space.

      Any city you can (7)                     ofhas its (8)                             buildings. For example in Singapore, it is Marina Bay - an icon for (9)                               . In Ho Chi Minh City, it is a demand to (10)                               something that everyone remembers and keeps them reminded of the city.

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      There has been a big change in the roles of men and women at home which in turn (1)                               their feelings about their roles. However, it is important to highlight how this distribution of tasks and responsibilities can affect the relationships (2)       may end up in discords, or even divorces. In order to make a distinction between the past and the present times (3)                               are provided: in the past, 75% (4)                        care ofall the washing and ironing. Husbands were involved in cleaning in only 17% and used their time at home on (5)                        repairs. The care of children was mainly a task carried out by women. The little time that men spent with children usually (6)                   the more enjoyable aspects of child care such as play and outings. However, this has (7)             because now women are the ones who spend less time at home (8)                     to their jobs or their different activities. And nowadays, most husbands stay at home taking care of children and (9)                      the cooking. As a consequence of the change in roles, women have become more liberal and think they can manage (10)                            their own. Men, on the other hand, feel that their position and power in the family has been replaced by women.