D: READING I. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage. British parents are always complaining that (1) _________ children spend too much time (2)_________TV and not enough time doing other activities like sports and reading. A (3) _______ survey of people’s free time activities (4) _________ that young people spend about 23 hours a week in (5) __________ of the television set, that means over 3 hours a day It is (6) __________ that the average adult watches even more: 28 hours a week. Every household in the county has a TV set and over half have two or more. According (7) _________ the survey people do not only watch TV in their living room, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as (8) ___________ We cannot deny that television also has some negative effects (9) __________ children, because many films shown on TV contain violence, crime and other bad things. Excessive watching of TV by children has lowered their results in (10) __________ at school. 1. A. he B. they C. their D. theirs 2. A. to watch B. watch C. watching D. watched 3. A. late B. lately C. recent D. recently 4. A. show B. shows C. showing D. to show 5. A. between B. behind C. opposite D. front 6. A. surprise B. surprises C. surprising D. to surprise 7. A. to B. in C. from D. at 8. A. well B. good C. happy D. also 9. A. special B. specialize C. especial D. especially 10. A. learn B. learned C. learning D. to learn II. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each question. Can you imagine a world without words? The main way that we communicate with each other is by using words. We can communicate either by speaking and listening or by writing and reading. With words, we can give and receive information, ideas, orders and instructions. People have used writing to communicate for about 7000 years. At first, they used to draw simple pictures to represent objects, such as people and animals. Then people started to put pictures together to represent something more difficult, like a sentence. The next step in the development of writing was to use symbols, or signs. These symbols represented the sounds of words and not their meanings. Finally, the alphabet from which modern English comes was invented in about 1500 BC. The people who invented the alphabet used a set of symbols to represent the sound “o”. This symbol is still used to the same sound today. Many languages are written with letters of an alphabet, including Vietnamese. 1. What is the most suitable title for this article? A. listening and speaking B. writing and reading C. words and writing D. alphabets 2. People communicate with each other using_______. A. books B. words C. instructions D. information 3. The first kind of writing used simple_______. A. objects B. people C. pictures D. animals 4. A later form of writing used symbols to represent_______. A. words B. sounds C. pictures D. meanings 5. An alphabet is a set of letters that represent the different sounds of a_______. A. letter B. symbol C. word D. language III. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space. During the teenager years many young people can at times be difficult to (1)_______ to. They often seem to dislike (2)________questioned. They may seem unwilling to talk about their work in school. This is a normal development at this (3)________, though it can be very hard for parents to understand. It is part of becoming (4) ________, of teenagers trying to be adult while they are still growing up. Young people are usually more (5)________to talk if they believe that questions are asked out of real interest and not because people are trying to check up on them. (6)________ should do their best to talk to their son or daughter about school work and future plans (7)________should not push them to talk if they don’t want to. Parents (8) ________also watch for the danger signs: some young people in trying to be adult may experiment with alcohol or smoking. Parents need to watch for any (9) ________of unusual behavior which may connected with these and get help (10) ________necessary.