Tuyen sinh 10-2012,reading

Read the text and answer the questions
The best place to spennd your holiday
Rvery year, a lot of people come to Paris because it is a glamorous city to visit.
Most tourists go there for the Eiffel tower. This is also a wondeful place to take photographs with the magnificence of the city. Among these tourists are many artsts. They go there in order find inspiration for their works.
Where is the best place for many people to spend their holiday?
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Why do most tourists to Paris?
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Do many artists also go to Paris?
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Why do they go there?
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3. Read the text and answer the questions
In the United States of American, the national language is also English. Four hunderd years ago, some English people sailed to North America to li ve there, and they brought the English language to this new country. Now in the Uinted States of American people speak American English. Most words are the same in American and in British English; the American people say some English words not like people do in England. Canada is to the North of the Uinted States of America. It is larger than the Uinted States. In Canada many people speak English because they also came from England many years ago, But in some parts of Canada, they speak French. The people livingin these parts cane from France
Where is the national language in the Uinted States of America?
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Who brought the English language to this new country?
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Is Canada larger than the Uinted States of America?
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What languages are spoken in Canada?
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4. Read the text and answer the questions
English is an international language. One thousand million people speak English in the world. It is the first language of 400 million people. It is the second language of about 600 million people. Four fifths of the word’s computers use progams in English.Three quarters of all international correspondence is in English.
Ddes English have the most speakers? No, it dosen’t surprisingly. Twice as many people speak Chinese as their firet language.
How many people speak English in the world?
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How many people speak English as the first language?
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Which language has the most speakers?
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4.Why is English considered as an international language?
12. Choose the best option (A,B,C or D) to fill in the passage.
ENERGY FROM THE SUN
About twenty percent of the world’s present enegry already comes from the sun in one from or another. Special devices have already been made available to _(1)_on the roofs houses and flats to _(2)_ the sun’s rays and thus heat water. Thousands of these devices are now being used to provide _(3)_ in homes throughout tho United States while more than a million solar water-heating units have already benn _(4)_ in home in Japan. Other purposes