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UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE
A. PHONETICS
I. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.
1) A. facsimile B. transfer C. spacious D. fax
2) A. equipped B. delivered C. transferred D. received
3) A. helps B. provides C. documents D. texts
4 A.express B. recipient C. secure D. messenger
5. A. satisfaction B. facsimile C. punctuality D. spacious
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
* Circle the best answer for each sentence.
1) The hotel staff is friendly and ____.
A. unhelpful B. courteous C. discourteous D. impolite
2) We are proud our ____ staff, who are always friendly and efficient.
A. well-done B. well-appointed C. well-behaved D. well-trained
3) EMS stand for ____.
A. Electronic Mail Service B. Express Mail Service C. Economic Mail Service D. Environment management Service
4) If someone want to send a document and does not want to lose its ____, facsimile service will help you.
A. beginning B. last C. original D. recent
5) People can buy daily ____ in many local post office in early morning.
A. newspapers B. books C. postcards D. letters
6) All post offices in Viet Nam are equipped with advanced ____.
A. knowledge B. machines C. science D. technology
7) Fax transmission has now become a cheap and ____ way to transmit texts and graphics over distance.
A. inconvenient B. convenient C. uncomfortable D. comfortable
8) If you ____ to your favourite newspapers and magazines, they will be delivered to your house early in the morning.
A. buy B. book C. pay D. subscribe
9) Post offices offer a special mail service which is called ____.
A. ESM B. EMS C. SEM D. MES
10) Your EMS mail will be ____ in the shortest possible time.
A. provided B. delivered C. taken D. caught
11) The message introduces the ____ provided by the National Post Office.
A. parcels B. messengers C. expresses D. services
12) I cannot tell you all ____ I heard.
A. which B. that C. as D. because
13) I can answer the question ____ you say is very difficult.
A. which B. whom C. who D. whose
14) This is Mr. Jones, ____ invention has helped hundreds of deaf people.
A. which B. that C. whose D. whom
15) Tom, ____ sits next to me, is from Canada.
A. that B. whom C. who D. whose
16) The volunteers, ____ enthusiasm was obvious, finished the work quickly.
A. who B. whom C. whose D. that
17) Many scientists have claimed that ____ like music are often good at mathematics.
A. children B. children who C. children whom D. whose children
18) My friend, ____ I visited lask week, is taking a holiday soon.
A. that B. whom C. which D. whose
19) The doctor re examining a patient ____ was taken to hospital last night.
A. which B. who C. whom D. whose
20) My friend, ____ hated horror film, refused to go to the cinema with me.
A. whom B. which C. whose D. who
C. READING
* Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out to improve transportation of the post office mails. From those early days to the present, the post office has helped develop and subsidize every new mode transportation in the United States. Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery. Even when the general public had still suspected of the security of a new means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process.
As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually