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Today,when English is one of the major languages in the world, it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that this is relatively recent thing-that in Shakespeare's time,for example,only a few million people spoke,and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe,and was unknown to the rest of the world.
English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England,in all the continents of the world. This exporting of English began in the seventeenth century,with the first settlements in the United States,assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,that has given the English language its present standing in the world.
1. English was spoken by a few million people in Shakespeare's time...T....
2. It is considered as a mother language outside England....T...
3. English was spoken in North America in the seventeenth century....F.....
4. Most of the immigration in the USA do not speak English......F....
câu 2 ở trong bài nói as a mother tongue con ở câu hỏi ns as a mother language đúng hay sai
Supply the correct verb forms.
1. After (leave) leaving school when she was 18, Laura (go)has gone to Bristol university for three years. While she (be)was at university, Laura (join) joined a university folk group and started singing. It was at this time that she (write)wrote her famous song "The Price of Peace".
2. One of the first novels in history of literature (be)was written in England in 1719. It (be) was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dofoe. He (bear) beared in London in a rich family. When Daniel (be) was a schoolboy, he (begin)began to write sstories. After (leave) leavingschool he (work)worked in his father's shop and (write) articles for newspapers. Dofoe (visit)visited many countries and (meet) met many people. That helped him much in his writings.
3. A friend of mine, Judith Nelson, (presently, work)is working in the international sales division at an electronics firm. She (just, return) has just returned from a trip to Japan. She (be)was asked to go there because she can speak Japanese. For four years, she (never have) had never had the opportunity to use her Japanese until she (go) went to Tokyo last month. While she (be)was there, she (speak) spoke Japanese everyday and (enjoy) enjoyed very much of it.
4. Ever since the day i (decided)decided to move to London, I (worry) worried whether the decisior. I (take)took was the right one. As I (already sell) have already solden my house and (arrange)have arranged a new job, it is too late to change my mind. However, since then I (hear)heard a lot of negative things about living in the Capital and lately some of them (begin) began to bother me. I (grow) have grown up in a small town and have spent all my life there.
5. Mary (have)had to go to New York last week, but she almost (miss) missed the plane. She (stand)was standing in the queue at the check-in desk when she suddenly (realize) realized that she (leave)had left her passport at home. Fortunately, she (not live) doesn't live very far from the airport so she (have)had time to go back home to get the passport. She (get)has got back to the airport just in time for her flight.
6. Rob Fellow (come)comes from England. He (come)came to Paris six months ago to learn French. He (start) started learning French at school in England when she was eleven so he (learn)has learnt it for nearly 10 years. He just (take) has just taken an exam. If he passes, he ( move) will move into the next class. He (be) is excited today because his parents (come) will come tommorow to stay with him for a few days.
7. (Bear)Born in Scotland in 1847, Alexander Bell (become)became interested very early in the methods of human communication. He (influence) was influenced by his father and grandfather, who (spend) spent years working with deaf people and those with faulty speech. Bell's father even (go) went so far as to develop as system of so-called"visible speech" for the deaf. He (used) sketches of the different positions of the lips and tongue. This science of visible speech (formed) the foundation of young Bell's knowledge of the mechanics of human speech. But the young boy's knowledge of other subjects (not/advance) doesn't advance quite as rapidly.
One day in 1963, a dolphin named Elvar and a famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, were playing a little game. The astronomer was visiting an institute which was looking into the way dolphins communicate with each other. He was standing at the edge of one of tanks where several of these highly intelligent, friendly creatures were kept. Elvar had just swum up alongside him and had turned on his back. He wanted Sagan to scratch his stomach again, as the astronomer had done twice before. But this time Elvar was too deep in the water for Sagan to reach him. Elvar looked up at Sagan, waiting. Then, after a minute or so, the dolphin leapt up through the water into the air and made a sound just like the words "More!"
The astonished astronomer went to the director of the institute and told him about the incident.
"Oh, yes. That´s one of the words he knows," the director said, showing no surprise at all.
Dolphins have bigger brains in proportion to their body size than humans have, and it has been known for a long time that they can make a number of sounds. What is more, these sounds seem to have different functions, such as warning each other of danger. Sound travels much faster and further in water than it does in air. That is why the parts of the brain that deal with sound are much better developed in dolphins than in humans. But can it be said that dolphins have a "language", in the real sense of the word? Scientist don´t agree on this.
1/ The dolphin leapt into the air because
A. Sagan was too near the water
B. it was part of the game they were playing.
C. he wanted Sagan to scratch him again
D. Sagan wanted to communicate with him
2/ "Dolphins" brains are particularly well developed to
A. help them to travle fast in water
B. arrange sounds in different structures
C. respond to different kinds of sound
D. communicate with humans through sound
Give the correct form of the word in brackets
BILINGUALISM IN CHILDREN
Bilingualism or having two languages in the brain, it was said, disrupted (1.effect) .....effective..thinking. It was argued that having one well- developed language was superior to having two (2.develop)..half-developed ... languages. However, we now know that this early research was misconceived and (3.correction)... incorrect.... The most recent research from Canada, the United States and Wales suggests that bilinguals are, at least, equal to monolinguals, who just know one language, on IQ tests. Far from making people mentally (4.confusion).......confused., bilingualism is now associated with a mild degree of intellectual (5.superior)..superiority.... Research across different continents of the world shows that bilinguals tend to be more fluent, flexible, orginal and elaborate in their answers to this type of open- ended question. Bilinguals are called divergent thinlrrs who like (6.imagine)......imagining. answers to a question. There are other dimensions in thinking where approximately balanced bilimguals may have temporary and (7.occasion)...occasionally .... permanent advantages over monolinguals: increased (8.sense)..sensitivity ...... to communication, a slightly speedier movement through the stages of cognitive (9.develop)...development...., and being less fixed on the sounds of words and more centered on the meaning of words. These advantages may mean an (10.initiate).....initial ... head start in learning to read and learning to think about language
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Read the text on the tight about the invention of semaphore. Five sentences have been removed. Choose from sentences A-F the one which fits each gap (l-4).There is one extra sentence which you do not need. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A Using ropes, these could be moved to form 49 different shapes that could be recognized easily.
B The main problem was that it could not be used during the night or on foggy days.
C These messages could be sent very quickly.
D The new republic faced enemies on all sides in the form of the forces of Britain, Austria, Holland, Prussia and Spain.
E In August 1794, it carried its first message, the news of Napoleon's victory at Le Quenoy.
F A system was built between London and the south coast, and other countries followed.
War has been called 'the mother of invention', and this was certainly true in the French Revolutionary wars in 1792. 1 | D | What the Revolutionary Government urgently needed was a reliable system of communication.
Claude Chappe, who was a priest and an engineer, had developed a telegraph system, but had not been able to test it fully. However, his brother Ignace was a member of the government, and arranged for Claude's system to be tested. It turned out to be a great success and started a new form of high-speed communication.
The two brothers had a series of towers built 5 to 10 km apart. At the top of each tower was a tall wooden mast, and they attached one horizontal and two vertical wooden beams to this mast. Claude called this system 'semaphore', which comes from the Greek meaning 'bearing a sign'. 2 (A )
Operators in each tower watched neighbouring towers through a telescope and then passed the message on to the next one in the line. The first line stretched from Paris to Lille, a distance of 2.40 km. 3 ( C). At an average speed of three signals a minute, it was carried in 20 minutes, more than 90 times faster than messengers on horseback.
Once the value of Chappe's system was understood, it soon became the standard method of communication in Europe. 4 (F ). By the time the electric telegraph was developed, France had more than 550 semaphore towers stretching 4,800km.
Unfortunately, Chappe's system had some disadvantages. 5 ( B) The towers were also expensive to maintain and the cost of staff was high. In the end, Chappe was depressed by these criticisms of his inventions and by claims from other engineers that they had invented semaphore, and he committed suicide in 1805.
Read the text on the tight about the invention of semaphore. Five sentences have been removed. Choose from sentences A-F the one which fits each gap (l-4).There is one extra sentence which you do not need. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A Using ropes, these could be moved to form 49 different shapes that could be recognized easily.
B The main problem was that it could not be used during the night or on foggy days.
C These messages could be sent very quickly.
D The new republic faced enemies on all sides in the form of the forces of Britain, Austria, Holland, Prussia and Spain.
E In August 1794, it carried its first message, the news of Napoleon's victory at Le Quenoy.
F A system was built between London and the south coast, and other countries followed.
War has been called 'the mother of invention', and this was certainly true in the French Revolutionary wars in 1792. 1 | D | What the Revolutionary Government urgently needed was a reliable system of communication.
Claude Chappe, who was a priest and an engineer, had developed a telegraph system, but had not been able to test it fully. However, his brother Ignace was a member of the government, and arranged for Claude's system to be tested. It turned out to be a great success and started a new form of high-speed communication.
The two brothers had a series of towers built 5 to 10 km apart. At the top of each tower was a tall wooden mast, and they attached one horizontal and two vertical wooden beams to this mast. Claude called this system 'semaphore', which comes from the Greek meaning 'bearing a sign'. 2 (A )
Operators in each tower watched neighbouring towers through a telescope and then passed the message on to the next one in the line. The first line stretched from Paris to Lille, a distance of 2.40 km. 3 ( C). At an average speed of three signals a minute, it was carried in 20 minutes, more than 90 times faster than messengers on horseback.
Once the value of Chappe's system was understood, it soon became the standard method of communication in Europe. 4 (F ). By the time the electric telegraph was developed, France had more than 550 semaphore towers stretching 4,800km.
Unfortunately, Chappe's system had some disadvantages. 5 (B ) The towers were also expensive to maintain and the cost of staff was high. In the end, Chappe was depressed by these criticisms of his inventions and by claims from other engineers that they had invented semaphore, and he committed suicide in 1805.
Fill in the blanks with “WHO, WHICH, or WHERE” :
1- The dress .......... which ............... was given to her by her boyfriend no longer fits her well.
2- The boy ............who............... used to live next door is now a famous basketball player.
3- Baseball is the sport which is the most popular in the United States.
4- The hotel where we stayed was very comfortable.
5- That’s the house where I was born.
6- He’s looking for the hospital ............................ was destroyed by last week’s storm.which
7- I’ve made a lot of friends ................................................. are so warm and friendly.who
8- I’m going to a party .............................................................................. starts at eight.which
9- I hate formal occasions like weddings .................... I have to put on a jacket and tie.10- There are the children who........................................................... took part in the parade.VIII- Finish the second sentences so that it has thesam meaning with the first one :1- Although it rained heavily, we went to Hoa’s birthday party.In spite of the heavy rain, we went to Hoa's birthday party
2- The owners of the restaurants are usually very rich.The people who own the restaurants are usually very rich
3- Despite his intelligence, he doesn’t study well at school.Even though he is intelligent, he doesn't...
4- Their wedding was held in a very lovely church.The church which held their wedding was very lovely
5- It was such a cold day that we stayed indoors.The day was so cold that we stayed indoors
.IX- Make a cross on the correct answer A, B, C, or D in the following sentences :
1- By ______________, it is enjoyable for many Americans to buy a Christmas tree and decorate it.A. celebration B. tradition C. priority D. memory
2- Was the movie “Star wars” ________________________ for an Oscar ?A. taken B. recognized C. nominated D. accepted
3- There is a(n) ___________________ need for greetings cards when Christmas day comes.A. considerable B. considerate C. terrific D. ancient
4- He is famous for his ________________. He is very helpful to those less fortunate than himself.A. kind B. unkind C. kindly D. kindness
5- Tuan was an effective ____________________ in that volunteer programme. A. active B. activitist C. actor D. activity
6- _________________ Easter, many children and adults enjoy painting eggs.A. On B. At C. During D. In
7- People in Ireland dance __________________ Easter Day to win prize cakes.A. on B. at C. for D. in
8- Easter is a joyful festival _____________________ comes in early spring.A. which B. that it C. where D. when
9- Anna was the woman _________________ first thought of Mother’s day.A. that B. who she C. she D. whose
10- Mrs. Thoa is generous to the poor __________________ she is not rich.A. although B. but C. however D. so
11- January 1st _________________ widely recognized as New Year’s Day in the 1500s.A. becomes B. become C. has become D. became
12- In homes, presents __________________ round the Christmas tree on Christmas day.A. place B. is piacing C. placed D. are placed
13- Passover, a Jewish festival, ____________________ freedom from slavery.A. is celebrated B. celebrate C. celebrates D. celebrating
14- Father’s Day _______________ a national holiday in America since 1972.A. has been B. was C. is D. will be
15- “You are a great dancer, Doris !” “Thanks, Rita. ____________________________.”A. That’s very nice of you to say so C.
Well doneB. Let’s have a celebration D. I’m an awful dancer
1:which2:who 3:which4:where5:where6:which7:who8:which 9:whoVII:1:of the heavy rain, we went to Hoa's birthday party 2:own the restaurants are usually very rich3:though he is intelligent, he doesn't...4:held their wedding was very lovely5: was so cold that we stayed indoorsIX:1:C. priority2:C. nominated3:A. considerable4: D. kindness5:C. actor6:B. At7:A. on8:A. which9:D. whose 10:C. however11:C. has become 12: D. are placed13:A. is celebrated14:A. has been15:A. That’s very nice of you to say so