rewrite the sentence :
some years back young people used to pay less attention to traditional festivals than they did nowadays
nowadays young people pay more attention to traditional festivals than they used to
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Some people feel that young people face more pressure today than the equivalent age groups did in previous generations. What is your opinion? write an essay 200-250 words to state your idea CÓ AI BIẾT BÀI NÀY ĐƯỢC LẤY TỪ ĐỀ THI NÀO KHÔNG
Write the correct from of the words in the words in brackets
1. Nowadays young people want to leave home as soon as they reach ................. .(adult)
2. A good nights sleep will improve your ................ .(concentrate)
3. Teens should learn to be ................. when making a presentation.(confidence)
4. Going away to college has made me much when theyre ...................... .(depend)
5. A lot of people eat to much when theyre ................... .(depress)
6. I have a bad hab...
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Write the correct from of the words in the words in brackets
1. Nowadays young people want to leave home as soon as they reach ................. .(adult)
2. A good night's sleep will improve your ................ .(concentrate)
3. Teens should learn to be ................. when making a presentation.(confidence)
4. Going away to college has made me much when they're ...................... .(depend)
5. A lot of people eat to much when they're ................... .(depress)
6. I have a bad habit of taking on more .................... than I can handle. (responsible)
7. Students have spoken of their growing .......................... with school administrators. (frustrate)
8. Ann suffered from depression and a number of other ............... problems.( emotion)
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choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences
1)children........................outdoors with things they found,like stones of feathers
a)used to play b)used to be playing
c)were used to play d)didnt use to play
2)the time machine is a science fiction novel by H,G well can................people...............to the past
a)put,back b)take,back
c)give,back d)turn,back
3)its new yea...
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choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences
1)children........................outdoors with things they found,like stones of feathers
a)used to play b)used to be playing
c)were used to play d)didn't use to play
2)the time machine is a science fiction novel by H,G well can................people...............to the past
a)put,back b)take,back
c)give,back d)turn,back
3)it's new year traditon in russia for people to........................in a hole which is drug in the ice
a)bring a bath b)take a bath
c)turn a bath d)give a bath
4)a lourspeaker is............................the sound much louder so that many people can hear it from a distance
a)used to making b)used to made
c)used to make d)use to make
5)marriages......................... by parent
a)used to be arranged b)were used to be arranged
c)used to arrange d)were used to arranging
6)there is alway such a big gap between old and young people that the old sometimes.....................to understand young generations
a)make it difficult b)find difficult it
c)are difficult for it d)find it difficult
7)in the countryside in viet nam,families..........................extended,three or more generations together in the same house
a)used to be b)were
c)were used to be d)used to
8)in many places in the world,people............................cloth with natural meterials
a)use to dye b)used to dying
c)were used to dying d)use to dye
9)the farmers in my home village .................................rice on trucks.they used buffulo-driven carts.
a)didn't use to transport
b)weren't used to transporting
c)weren't used to transport
d)use to transport
10)tuberculosis-TB-...............................a lot of people.it was a fatal disease
a)use to kill b)used to killing
c)were used to killings d)used to kill
choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences
1)children........................outdoors with things they found,like stones of feathers
a)used to play b)used to be playing
c)were used to play d)didnt use to play
2)the time machine is a science fiction novel by H,G well can................people...............to the past
a)put,back b)take,back
c)give,back d)turn,back
3)its new year traditon in russia for people to........................in a hole which is drug in th...
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choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences
1)children........................outdoors with things they found,like stones of feathers
a)used to play b)used to be playing
c)were used to play d)didn't use to play
2)the time machine is a science fiction novel by H,G well can................people...............to the past
a)put,back b)take,back
c)give,back d)turn,back
3)it's new year traditon in russia for people to........................in a hole which is drug in the ice
a)bring a bath b)take a bath
c)turn a bath d)give a bath
4)a lourspeaker is............................the sound much louder so that many people can hear it from a distance
a)used to making b)used to made
c)used to make d)use to make
5)marriages......................... by parent
a)used to be arranged b)were used to be arranged
c)used to arrange d)were used to arranging
6)there is alway such a big gap between old and young people that the old sometimes.....................to understand young generations
a)make it difficult b)find difficult it
c)are difficult for it d)find it difficult
7)in the countryside in viet nam,families..........................extended,three or more generations together in the same house
a)used to be b)were
c)were used to be d)used to
8)in many places in the world,people............................cloth with natural meterials
a)use to dye b)used to dying
c)were used to dying d)use to dye
9)the farmers in my home village .................................rice on trucks.they used buffulo-driven carts.
a)didn't use to transport
b)weren't used to transporting
c)weren't used to transport
d)use to transport
10)tuberculosis-TB-...............................a lot of people.it was a fatal disease
a)use to kill b)used to killing
c)were used to killings d)used to kill
write an arguement: Many people think parents shouldn't pay attention to their children's study. what about you?
Complete the passage with an -ingor to-infinitiveform of the verb in brackets.
Last night I decided (1.go)....................to Sallys birthday party.I was really nervous.I usually avoid(2.go)................... to parties because I have trouble(3.remember)..........................peoples name.Well,last night things were different.Before the party,I read a book about(4.do).........................some of memery exercises.They really helped.As a result,I stopped (5.worry).................about...
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Complete the passage with an "-ing"or "to-infinitive"form of the verb in brackets.
Last night I decided (1.go)....................to Sally's birthday party.I was really nervous.I usually avoid(2.go)................... to parties because I have trouble(3.remember)..........................people's name.Well,last night things were different.Before the party,I read a book about(4.do).........................some of memery exercises.They really helped.As a result,I stopped (5.worry).................about what people would think of me,and I tried(6.pay)........................attention to what people were saying.And guess what?I had a good time!now I do enjoy(7.go).....................to parties
My grandmother is more than ninety years old which makes her the oldest person in the whole family. Despite her old age, her memory is still fresh. She always tells us that many things used to be different when she was young. My grandma used to begin her day very early. She used to start her day at 4 oclock while everybody else was still in beds. She used to do all the housework by herself. She used to make clothes for her children and as for her outdoor work, she used to raise some chicken and...
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My grandmother is more than ninety years old which makes her the oldest person in the whole family. Despite her old age, her memory is still fresh. She always tells us that many things used to be different when she was young.
My grandma used to begin her day very early. She used to start her day at 4 o'clock while everybody else was still in beds. She used to do all the housework by herself. She used to make clothes for her children and as for her outdoor work, she used to raise some chicken and sheep and she also used to help the males to grow vegetables. There didn't use to be many pastime activities. Her hobby used to be listening to the radio. In the evening all the family used to sit by the fire in the sitting room where all the family gathered at night to tell stories or discuss family matters as weddings, harvest time or to assign the next day's work.
When a member of the family was ill, she used to show him which herbs to use. She collected them from the near forest or from the mountain. My grandma used to know so many effective methods to cure illnesses.
1. How is the memory of the writer's grandmother?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
2. What time did she use to start her day?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
3. What did she use to do in her pastimes?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Where did her family use to sit in the evening?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
5. What did she usually do when a member of the family was ill?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
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The perception of today’s youngsters as media-savvy cynics could hardly be further from the truth. Instead, this
generation of keen consumers may turn witty advertising into an endangered species. Julia Day reports
The youth of today are cynical, media-savvy, seen it all, done it all, wouldn’t-be-seen-dead-in-the-T-shirt types
who appreciate only the most achingly trendy adverts, TV shows and magazines, right? Wrong: that was so last generation....
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The perception of today’s youngsters as media-savvy cynics could hardly be further from the truth. Instead, this
generation of keen consumers may turn witty advertising into an endangered species. Julia Day reports
The youth of today are cynical, media-savvy, seen it all, done it all, wouldn’t-be-seen-dead-in-the-T-shirt types
who appreciate only the most achingly trendy adverts, TV shows and magazines, right? Wrong: that was so last generation.
Today’s youngsters don’t “get” clever ads, are not in the least suspicious of commercials ercials, don’t know the difference between newspapers’ political stances, or TV channels, and they don’t mind admitting it. In short, they are not half as media, marketing and advertising literate as we might have thought, according to new research
commissioned by five media groups – Guardian Newspapers, Channel 4, Carlton Screen Advertising, media buying
agency OMD, and Emap Advertising.
As a result media companies and advertisers are going back to basics to arouse the interest of 15- to 24-year-olds with instant impact messages, plain product pictures, bigger posters, annoying jingles, celebrity endorsements and repetitive ads. Today’s youth are a far cry from today’s thirtysomethings who grew up as commercially-naive kids weaned on the cold war, no national commercial radio, three national TV stations, grant-funded higher education, sponsorship-free Glastonbury festivals and regular strikes and student protests.
Now a lifetime of MTV, the internet, dawn-till-dusk advertising and PlayStation gaming has created a generation
so used to being bombarded with fast-turnover information, they filter it instantly without paying much attention to its meaning. This is a generation of “thoroughbred consumers” says Stuart Armon, managing director of 2cv: research, the company that conducted the so-called Roar research into the media habits of the nation’s youth. “Previous generations were suspicious of advertising, they might have liked ads, but they wouldn’t necessarily buy the product. But this generation has been consuming since they were born. They don’t see any reason to be suspicious,” says Armon.
One young panellist in the focus group research embodied this attitude: “If the advert is good, you think their
product will be good because the more they can spend on advertising, the more money they are obviously getting for
their product.” Armon says the trend has become more pronounced over the seven years that the continuous tracking
study has been running, but has reached a peak in the latest round of interviews with 600 youngsters.
“Advertising is accepted and expected. Young people don’t see anything wrong in being sold to and think that if a product is in a TV ad, it must be good. It’s a myth that they are interested in clever ads – they are not willing to decipher complicated mmessages, they want simple ones.” Many panellists dramatically illustrated this point by revealing they thought Budweiser’s “Real American Heroes” ad, ironically celebrating “Mr foot-long hot dog inventor”, was an ad for hot dogs rather than beer, even though the ad might not be aimed at them.
However, many loved Heineken’s ironic ad featuring Paul Daniels singing Close to You, purely because it made
them laugh. “They are looking for an instant message. If it’s not there, they don’t take any notice. And they literally,
and naively, believe celebrities in ads really use the products they are advertising,” says Armon. A girl panellist from Birmingham commented: “In some of the Nike ads they’ve got all these well-known footballers. You think, ‘Oh my God, they’ve got everybody famous there.’ You think it must be good if they want it.”
The youngsters only read newspapers for the celebrity gossip and sport, rather than news, and couldn’t distinguish between papers’ political stances. They also failed to distinguish between TV channels – they access TV through programmes, not channels, for example watching Sky because The Simpsons is on, not because it’s Sky.
The results of the research deeply worry Sid McGrath, planner at the ad agency that made the infamous “You’ve
been Tango’ed” ads, HHCL and Partners. But they do not surprise him. “My worry is that the youth of today are not
being called upon to flex their intellectual muscles enough,” he says.
“There is instant gratification everywhere – in food it’s Pot Noodles or vending machines, even their pop icons are one-dimensional figures delivered on a plate. Young people are living vicariously through other people’s lives and are not asking for much at the moment. A lot of stimulation is ‘lean back’ – it doesn’t require as much involvement as it used to.”
He says advertising is changing as a result: “Lots of the most popular ads at the moment are happy, clappy, fun.
Easy to digest. They’ve got notice or inclination to decode ads.” One reason behind the shift, McGrath believes, is that young people want relief from the traumas of real life: “Advertising is becoming the opium of the masses rather
than the educator.”
16. Research shows that, compared with the previous generation, young people today are _____.
A. less perceptive B. more sensitive C. more worldly-wise D. better informed
17. In paragraph 3, the word ‘stances’ is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A. attitudes B. situations C. functions D. places
18. According to new research by five media groups, today’s youngsters are _____.
A. able to understand the language of advertising
B. unable to ‘read’ the messages in the many forms of advertising
C. bright enough to do some research before buying something
D. a bit wary of adverts
19. Advertisements aimed at the present young generation _____.
A. are using a variety of new techniques B. are technologically sophisticated
C. are making use of old techniques D. are becoming more subtle
20. It can be inferred that celebrity endorsements are advertisements _____.
A. that show viewers how to become famous
B. that famous people like watching
C. where famous people say they use and like certain products
D. where viewers are invited to take part in a phone-in progra e
21. Young people seem to believe that costly advertising _____.
A. makes no difference to the popularity of the product B. is the mark of a good quality product
C. means the product is probably overpriced D. does not inspire customer confidence
22. According to Stuart Armon, youngsters today pay more attention to an advert _____.
A. if its message is i ediately obvious B. if it is on their favorite TV channel
C. if it gives them something to think about D. if it has a witty element
23. Sid McGrath is concerned that young people these days _____.
A. are encouraged to eat too much B. are given too many choices
C. are not required to drink D. do not get enough exercise
24. The author uses the phrase ‘living vicariously’ in the penultimate paragraph to mean that young people _____.
A. want to become more sophisticated than other people
B. do not imitate people around the
C. do not rely on their own feeling or senses to understand the world around the
D. want to be independent of other people
25. According to McGrath, many advertisements today are adapting to satisfy youngsters’ desire to _____.
A. understand their problems B. see the funny side of their problems
C. forget their problems D. find solutions to their problems
BÀI 2:
There was nothing unusual about Wellington Street, or so I thought as I was growing up. The cobbled street, one
of four identical streets next to each other, was calm, apart from the occasional sound of raised voices from the pub on the corner. Everybody said hello to each other, although rarely much more than that. It was the kind of street that in the past had covered the whole of the north-west of England, affordable housing for the workers, the kind of street that used to be the heart of a community. Now it was a relic, unchanged while the modern world went on around it.
The first time I got a sense that my childhood world was not going to remain the same forever was when a letter
arrived from the local council saying that a meeting was being held locally to discuss the development of the area. I
remember wondering why areas had to be developed and I asked my father. He said that people just liked changing
things for the sake of it but my mum interrupted him and explained that the houses needed modernizing. Even then I
could see this as another move in their ongoing argument about money and location. Mum, with her keen sense of
social position and always very aware of what the neighbours thought, wanted to move into a better house, which Dad took to mean a more expensive house.
The evening of the meeting came around and my dad and I went along. It had already started when we got there
and one of the councilors was trying to explain the plans, although the general reaction from the audience was far from positive. I don’t remember the details, but I remember some shouting, until finally one of our neighbours stood up and said that he wasn’t giving his permission for any of it. I remember the councilor saying then, ‘We don’t need permission. We’re telling you, not asking you.’
The mood when we got home was tense. Although she tried to hide it, I think Mum was secretly quite pleased.
Dad sat and frowned at the TV for a while, before Mum brought him a cup of tea. I was surprised when it was he who broke the silence after a minute or two and said, ‘There are one or two nice places up around Ladybride.’ Mum said nothing. She just sipped her tea and looked at me and smiled.
46. The writer describes the street as a place where _____.
A. people felt they were part of a co unity B. people resisted the fast pace of motion life
C. everyone quietly got on with their own life D. everyone could afford their own house
47. Streets of this kind had been built in the past because they were _____.
A. comfortable B. long-lasting C. traditional D. cheap
48. What did the writer NOT understand when the letter arrived?
A. why things had to change B. why his parents were arguing
C. who had organised the meeting D. where they were going to live next
49. Why didn’t the writer’s father want to move house?
A. He knew why the area had to be developed.
B. He didn’t understand why they wanted to change things.
C. He didn’t want to live in a modern house.
D. It would cost them more.
50. Why did the mother’s mother want to move house?
A. She liked to impress other people. B. She didn’t like the neighbours.
C. She knew it would annoy the writer’s father. D. She thought the local council would help.
51. During the meeting, most people were _____.
A. shocked by what they learned B. unhappy about the proposals
C. sympathetic to the councilor D. confused by the explanation
52. Why was the writer surprised by what his father said?
A. He knew that his father was watching television.
B. He thought that it would upset his mother.
C. He knew that what his father said was wrong.
D. He thought his mother would have made the suggestion.
53. According to the passage, who would make a final decision on the development of the area?
A. People in the area B. The councilors C. Home owners D. The writer’s father
54. What would be the most suitable title for this extract?
A. An unhappy childhood B. A difficult marriage C. The wrong decision D. Changing times
55. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A. people at the meeting supported the plan to develop the area
B. everybody in the area wanted to modernize their house
C. the writer said that he didn’t give permission for the development
D. the writer’s father finally agreed to move the house
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In the united states of america,the national language is (1).......english.Four hundred years ago,some english people came to noth america to live and they brought (2)..........language to this country.
Now in the usa people speak (3)...........english.Most of the words are the (4)........in america and british english ,but the america say some englhish words not as people (5)..........in england. Canada is (6)........to the North of the United states of america .It is the...
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In the united states of america,the national language is (1).......english.Four hundred years ago,some english people came to noth america to live and they brought (2)..........language to this country.
Now in the usa people speak (3)...........english.Most of the words are the (4)........in america and british english ,but the america say some englhish words not as people (5)..........in england. Canada is (6)........to the North of the United states of america .It is the (7).......the united states.In canada ,many people (8)............english because they also came from england many years (9)..........But in some parts of canada,people speak (10).........because they came from France.