C – READING : I/ Read the passage and choose whether the statements are true (T) or false Reading 1. Last week, Mr and Mrs Lam took their children back to their home village about ten kilometers in Da Lat. The village lies at the foot of a hill where people plant a lot of vegetables . Their parents have lived there for nearly fifty years. Their house is in the center of the village . It’s a new house built of bricks, located in the middle of a large garden. Their bedrooms look out over the yard behind the house where various kinds of flowers are in full bloom all year round. True / False statement: 1.Mr and Mrs Lam took their children back to their home village in Da Lat. 2. People plant a lot of vegetables at the foots of a hill. 3. Their parents have lived in Da Lat for nearly fifteen years. 4. Their new house was built in the middle of a large city. Reading 2. Lily comes from China. She’s a university student. She’s eighteen years old. She is studying English as a foreign language center. English is important to her because she will need it for her job in the future. She began learning English when she was very young – at the age of eight. She thinks that her biggest problem is listening. People speak very quickly, so she can’t understand them. English is really hard for her to learn, but she likes it. She wants to be a teacher of English. She hopes to become a singer one day because she loves English songs very much. Statements True Fasle 1. English is important to Lily because she will need it for her future job. 2. She started learning English when she was eighteen. 3. She has a problem with listening. 4. She can understand people when they speak fast. Part A: Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage Reading 1 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is an (1)……… for Vietnamese youth from 15 to 30 years of age. The Union (2)……… good characters, love for the nation, and encourages good citizenship, soft skills and personal fitness. The Union was (3)……… on March 26 1931 by the beloved President Ho Chi Minh. It had different names (4)……… the years. One of its first names was “Vietnam Communist Youth Union”. In December 1976, it was (5)……… named as it is called today: Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. (6)………, people normally use the name “The Youth Union”. 1/ a. aim b. organization c. environment d. program 2/ a. helps b. takes c. builds d. gives 3/ a. find b. found c. founded d. finds 4/ a. over b. from c. up d. with 5/ a. frequently b. specially c. finally d. officially 6/ a. Although b. However c. Because d. So Reading 2. We bought a house in the city center last year and moved into my new house (1) ________ September. It was an old house, but it was new to us. The house had running water, gas, and electricity, but for some reason there was no electric light in the kitchen. It was (2) ___________ quite unexpected: a house with electricity but (3) ____________ a kitchen light. It was really puzzling because our kitchen was a large room, perhaps (4) ____________ in the house. Thus, I phoned for a (an) (5) ____________ and had him put a light in there. And he charged $86 for (6) ___________ the job. 1. a. on b. in c. at d.of 2. a. nothing b. something c. anything d. everything 3. a. with b. and c. of d.without 4. a. larger b. the largest c. smaller d. the smallest 5. a. plumber b. mechanic c. electrician d. cleaner 6. a. doing b. do c. to do d. did