Mid term test

LISTENING
Part 1: Listen and answer Yes or No: (1pt)
Van is living with the Parker family in the American state of Ohio …………………….
Mr. Parker works part time at a grocery store …………………….
Sam is the same age as Van …………………….
Van often does chores after school …………………….
The Parker family relaxes and they watch Peter play volleyball …………………….
Part 2: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks (1pt)
At 6.30 in the morning, the bus collected Ba and his family from their home. After picking everyone up, the bus continued north on Highway Number 1. It crossed the Dragon Bridge and stopped at the (1) ………………….. to get some more fuel. Then, it (2)……………… the highway and turned left onto a smaller road westward. This road ran between green paddy fields, so the people on the bus could see a lot of cows and buffaloes. The road ended before a big (3)…………….. beside a pond. Instead of turning left towards a small (4)………………, the bus went in the opposite direction. It didn’t stay on that road for very long, but turned left onto a road which went through a small bamboo forest. Finally, the bus dropped everyone off at the (5)……………….. ten meters from a big old banyan tree. It would park there and waited for people to come back in the evening.

SPEAKING: Match the questions in column A with responses in column B (1pt)
A
B
Matching

1. What do you usually wear on the weekend?
A. Three weeks ago
1……………………

2. Where is your home village?
B. one hour
2……………………

3. Does your village have a river
C. It’s to the West of the city
3. …………………..

4. How long does it take to get to your village?
D. I usually wear short dress
4. …………………..

5. When did you last come back to your village?
E. My village has a big lake
5..…………………..


F. No. It has no rivers



USE OF ENGLISH
Part 1: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others: (0.8pt)
A. subject B. introduction C. hurriedly D. conclusion
A. standard B. material C. traditional D. amusement
A. recently B. exchange C. generation D. convenient
A. clothing B. economic C. grocery D. pagoda
Part 2: Choose the word that best completes each of these sentences (1,2 pts)
I wish I ………………. time to visit my grandparents more often.
Having B. have C. had D. is having
Many tourists visit the …………… of a historical hero on the mountain.
Shrine B. mosque C. church D. park
The journey to the village is very …………
A. interesting B. interest C. enjoy D. enjoyable
The Parkers are nice …………… van feels like a member of their family.
Because B. so C. and D. but
They came …………….. Sunday morning and stayed here …………….. 8.00 to 10.30.
in - between B. on – at C. on – between D. in – from
Part 3: Supply the correct form of the words in brackets (0.8 pt)
I (not see) ……………………… her since she moved to Ho Chi Minh city.
Liz wishes she (visit) ………………………….. Ba’s village again someday.
These department stores (build) ………………………… near my house two months ago.
It took me half an hour (get) …………………. to the picnic site.

READING
Part 1: Read the passage. Fill in the blanks with the given words in the box. (1.0pt)
Clothes, symbolizes, fashionable , uniform , wearing , conclusion, pride , occasions

Vietnamese schoolgirls in senior high schools wear the white ao dai as school (1) ………….. The white color of the ao dai they wear (2)………….. the purity of school age. On special (3)……………. such as weddings, festivals, ceremonies, Vietnamese women wear the ao dai of various designs and material. Women and girls seem to look more graceful and tender in their ao dai.
Many foreign visitors like this traditional clothing of Vietnamese women. Once a visitor, when seeing schoolgirls walking to school, told me , “I enjoy watching them. They look like fairies in a wonderland with their laps of the ao dai fluttering. The ao dai is the (