Text 1:

Provide the correct article A/AN/THE/X (zero article) in the following gaps.

(1)________first few days after getting home from (2)______ college were okay but then I began to feel rather bored and lonely. My parents were busy working and (3)______most of my friends were either away on holiday or else had (4)________ holiday jobs. I tried to get a job myself but without success. I was beginning to wish I had not come home when I saw (5)_______advertisement for holiday courses in (6)________local newspaper. For (7)_______small fee you could try lots of different activities organized by (8)________ town’s youth club. Each activity lasted half (9)________ day and they were all exciting. I also met new people as many of (10)________ tourists staying in the town joined in.

Text 2:

Provide the correct form of the word in bold capitals.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is (1) WORRY that 1.1 billion teenagers and people in their twenties and early thirties are damaging their (2) HEAR by listening to loud music. It says (3) NEAR half the young people in middle and high-income countries risk hearing loss because of the "(4) SAFETY use" of personal music (5) PLAY, including smartphones. Loud music in nightclubs, bars and at sporting events also increases the risk. The WHO recommends a safe (6) LIMITED of listening to music for just one hour a day. The WHO director for (7) INJURE prevention, Dr Etienne Krug, told the BBC that: "What we're trying to do is raise (8) AWARE of an issue that is not (9) TALK about enough." He said hearing loss is easily (10) PREVENT.

Text 3:

Clinic for internet addicts opens in US

If you have to take a quick break from reading this article to send a text message or check your Blackberry, then the good news is that help is at hand.

A new centre for cyberspace addicts has opened in the US city of Seattle. It claims to be America’s first residential centre for people addicted to the internet and video games. For $14,000, six people at a time can spend 45 days fighting against their constant need to connect to the internet. Residents are given counselling and psychotherapy, as well as group activities such as household chores, walks in the grounds and exercising.

The centre, in the countryside about 50km outside Seattle, is the idea of therapist Hilarie Cash. She recorded her first case of cyberspace addiction in 1994, with a patient so glued to video games that he lost his marriage and two jobs. But until this summer she had only met patients on a day-by-day basis. Cash points out that although countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan have places where internet addicts can find help, America has been slow to recognise the problem.

Ben Alexander, 19, was one of the centre’s first residents. He became addicted to the video game World of Warcraft, which took up most of his time awake. He started playing the game when he was a new student at Iowa University. “At first it was a couple of hours a day. By midway through the first semester, I was playing 16 or 17 hours a day,” he said.

By comparison to the whizz-bang on the screen in front of him, the social life at university seemed very boring. He came to see the game as an “easy way to socialise and meet people.” Alexander eventually left the university and found help with his gaming problem. “I don’t think I’ll go back to World of Warcraft any time soon,” he said. 

Text 4:

Read the text and fill in each blank with a most suitable word.

School students do not shower after sports class

A report has found that more than half of high (1)__________ boys and two-thirds of girls never shower after a physical (2)__________  class. Researchers suggest that students don't want to sweat and take a (3)__________ , so they are less active in sports classes. The researchers questioned almost 4,000 children in schools in Essex, England. Lead researcher Dr Gavin Sandercock said he was surprised (4)__________  how rarely students showered. He said: "We know (5)__________  children aren't getting (6)__________  physical activity because we have seen their fitness declining; (7)__________  the unwillingness to shower is a barrier to working up a sweat (8)__________  playing sport, it's something we need to tackle to promote activity at schools."

Text 5:

Read the text and choose the most suitable option to complete the text.

The Internet bus

In the desert areas that surround Tucson city, USA, students spend hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from their schools. But when mobile internet equipment was (1)____________  on a yellow school bus, the bored, often noisy, teens were transformed into quiet, studious individuals.

District officials got the idea during (2)____________  drives on school business to Phoenix, two hours each way, when they (3)____________  that, when they went in pairs, one person could drive and the other could work using a laptop and a wireless card. They (4)____________  if internet access on a school bus could (5)____________  students’ academic productivity, too.

But the idea for what students call ‘the internet bus’ really took shape when the district’s chief information officer (6)____________  across an article about having internet across in cars. He thought, “What if you could put that in a bus?”

The officials have been delighted to see the (7)____________  of homework getting done, morning and evening, as the internet bus (8)____________  up and drops off students along the 70-minute drive. (9)____________  some students spend their time playing games or visiting social networking sites, most students do make (10)____________  their travel time to study.

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Câu 14:

Thailand defeated Laos ___2______3.

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Câu 15:

A number of political prisoners….. since Independent Day

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Câu 17:

There’s someone at the door. ………….. it

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Câu 18:

There are a lot of…. buildings in the centre of Sydney.

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Câu 21:

You are _______ to clean the bathroom.

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Câu 24:

 _______ did he pay for his transitor radio?

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Câu 28:

The kids found it hard to stay ________.

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Câu 30:

1.   He is _________ now so he can’t afford to buy a car.

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