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VII. Choose the correct completion.
1. I'm not an astronaut. If I...........an astronaut, I ................. my camera with me on the rocket ship.
A. am/ will take B. was/ would take
C. were/ had taken D. was/ would have taken
2. Don't throw aerosol into a fire. An aerosol .......... if you ................ it into a fire.
A. will be exploded/ throw B. would explode/ threw
C. explodes/ will .throw D. can explode/ throw
3. That sounds like a good offer. I.................it if I................you.
A. had accepted/ were B. will accept/ am
C. would accept/ were D. accepted' were
4. Nora is using my car right now. If she................ it back in time. Your welcome to borrow it.
A. brought .B. would bring C. will bring D. brings
5. If energy ......................inexpensive and unlimited, many things in the world would be different.
A. is B. was C. had been D. would be
6. If you ............... all of my questions, I ...................... anything to help you.
A. don't answer/ can't do B. didn't answer/ won't do
C. wouldn't answer/ can't do B. wouldn't answer/ couldn't do
7. If I ................... wings,....................... take an airplane to fly home.
A. have/ won't have to B. had/ wouldn't have
C. have/ will have to D. had/ didn't have to
8. 'Here's my phone' number.
'Thanks, I ................you a call if I .................... some help.
A. will give/ will need B. would give/ needed
C. give/ need D. will give/ need
9. If we .......................serious about pollution, we ...................... more money on research.
A. had been/ spent B. were/ had spent
C. were/ would spend D. are/ will spend
10. Sea water is salty. If the oceans.................of fresh water, there ............. plenty of water to irrigate all of the deserts in the worlD.
A. consisted/ would be B. consisted/ were C. would consist/ could be D. consist/ will be
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Part 4:
We have seen photographs of the whole earth taken from great distances in outer space. This is the first time, the (131) very first time, in man's long history that such pictures have been possible. (132) For many years most people have believed that the earth was ball-shaped. A few thought it was round and (133) flat, like a coin. Now we know, beyond doubt, that those few were (134) wrong/mistaken. The photographs show a ball-shaped (135) earth/planet, bright and beautiful. In colour photographs of the earth, the sky is as (136) black as coal. The (137) sea looks much bluer than it usually does to us. All our grey (138) clouds are a perfect white in colour; because, of course, the (139) sun is for ever shining on them. We are (140) lucky to live on the beautiful earth
1) I shouldn't drink that wine if I...were..(be) you
2) More tourist would come to this country if it..had....(have) a better climate
3) If I were sent to prison would you..visit...(visit) me ?
4) If someone...gave....(give) you a helicopter what would you do with it ?
5) I...would buy...(buy) shares in that company if I had some money
6) If the student had spoken politely,the teacher.....wouldn't be..(would/not/be) angry
7) they would have called you if the....had had.(have) your telephone number
8) the company wouldn't have cut the stress if we...had protested..(protest)
9) If they had paid attention, they..wouldn't have learned...(learn) the lesson
10) we..would go...(go) to the movies if we had had money
11) you would have found your book if you..had looked..(look) for it
12) If she had helped me I..would have finished...(finish) my homework
13)If it ...was..(be) sunny,we would have gone to the beach
14)they ..would have seen..(see) the film if they had come earlier
15)you would have found your book if you..had looked.(look) for it
1. One of the characteristics of the postal service before the 1840s was that
A. postmen were employed by various organisations.
B. letters were restricted to a certain length.
C. distance affected the price of postage.
D. the price of delivery kept going up.
2. Letter writers in the 1830s
A. were not responsible for the cost of delivery.
B. tried to fit more than one letter into an envelope.
C. could only send letters to people living in cities.
D. knew all letters were automatically read by postal staff.
3. What does the text say about Hill in the 1830s?
A. He was the first person to express concern about the postal system.
B. He considered it would be more efficient for mail to be delivered by rail.
C. He felt that postal service reform was necessary for commercial development.
D. His plan received support from all the important figures of the day.
It might not have looked very impressive, but the Penny Black, now 170 years old, was the first stamp to be created and it launched the modem postal system in Britain.
Before 1840 and the arrival of the Penny Black, you had to be rich and patient to use the Royal Mail. Delivery was charged according to the miles travelled and the number of sheets of paper used; a 2-page letter sent from Edinburgh to London, for example, would have cost 2 shillings, or more than £7 in today’s money. And when the top-hatted letter carrier came to deliver it, it was the recipient who had to pay for the postage. Letter writers employed various ruses to reduce the cost, doing everything possible to cram more words onto a page. Nobody bothered with heavy envelopes; instead, letters would be folded and sealed with wax. You then had to find a post office - there were no pillar boxes - and hope your addressee didn't live in one of the several rural areas which were not served by the system. If you were lucky, your letter would arrive (it could take days) without being read or censored.
The state of mail had been causing concern throughout the 1830s, but it was Rowland Hill, an inventor, teacher and social reformer from Kidderminster, who proposed a workable plan for change. Worried that a dysfunctional, costly service would stifle communication just as Britain was in the swing of its second industrial revolution, he believed reform would ease the distribution of ideas and stimulate trade and business, delivering the same promise as the new railways.
Hill’s proposal for the penny post, which meant any letter weighing less than half an ounce (14 grams) could be sent anywhere in Britain for about 30p in today’s money, was so radical that the Postmaster General, Lord Lichfield, said, 'Of all the wild and visionary schemes which I ever heard of, it is the most extravagant.’ Lord Lichfield spoke for an establishment not convinced of the need for poor people to post anything. But merchants and reformers backed Hill. Soon the government told him to make his scheme work. And that meant inventing a new type of currency.
Hill quickly settled on 'a bit of paper covered at the back with a glutinous wash which the user might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of a letter’. Stamps would be printed in sheets of 240 that could be cut using scissors or a knife. Perforations would not arrive until 1854. The idea stuck, and in August 1839 the Treasury launched a design competition open to ‘all artists, men of science and the public in general’. The new stamp would need to be resistant to forgery, and so it was a submission by one Mr Cheverton that Hill used as the basis for one of the most striking designs in history. Cheverton, who worked as a sculptor and an engineer, determined that a portrait of Queen Victoria, engraved for a commemorative coin when she was a 15-year-old princess, was detailed enough to make copying difficult, and recognisable enough to make fakes easy to spot. The words ‘Postage’ and ‘One Penny’ were added alongside flourishes and ornamental stars. Nobody thought to add the word ‘Britain’, as it was assumed that the stamps would solely be put to domestic use.
With the introduction of the new postal system, the Penny Black was an instant hit, and printers struggled to meet demand. By the end of 1840, more than 160 million letters had been sent - more than double the previous year. It created more work for the post office, whose reform continued with the introduction of red letter boxes, new branches and more frequent deliveries, even to the remotest address, but its lasting impact on society was more remarkable.
Hill and his supporters rightly predicted that cheaper post would improve the ‘diffusion of knowledge’. Suddenly, someone in Scotland could be reached by someone in London within a day or two. And as literacy improved, sections of society that had been disenfranchised found a voice.
Tristram Hunt, an historian, values the ‘flourishing of correspondence’ that followed the arrival of stamps. ‘While I was writing my biography of Friedrich Engels I could read the letters he and Marx sent between Manchester and London,’ he says. ‘They wrote to each other three times a day, pinging ideas back and forth so that you can almost follow a real-time correspondence.’
The penny post also changed the nature of the letter. Weight-saving tricks such as cross-writing began to die out, while the arrival of envelopes built confidence among correspondents that mail would not be stolen or read. And so people wrote more private things - politically or commercially sensitive information or love letters. ‘In the early days of the penny post, there was still concern about theft,’ Hunt says. ‘Engels would still send Marx money by ripping up five-pound notes and sending the pieces in different letters.’ But the probity of the postal system became a great thing and it came to be expected that your mail would not be tampered with.
For all its brilliance, the Penny Black was technically a failure. At first, post offices used red ink to cancel stamps so that they could not be used again. But the ink could be removed. When in 1842, it was determined that black ink would be more robust, the colour of the Penny Black became a sort of browny red, but Hill’s brainchild had made its mark.
1. One of the characteristics of the postal service before the 1840s was that
A. postmen were employed by various organisations.
B. letters were restricted to a certain length.
C. distance affected the price of postage.
D. the price of delivery kept going up.
2. Letter writers in the 1830s
A. were not responsible for the cost of delivery.
B. tried to fit more than one letter into an envelope.
C. could only send letters to people living in cities.
D. knew all letters were automatically read by postal staff.
3. What does the text say about Hill in the 1830s?
A. He was the first person to express concern about the postal system.
B. He considered it would be more efficient for mail to be delivered by rail.
C. He felt that postal service reform was necessary for commercial development.
D. His plan received support from all the important figures of the day.
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1. When someone...recites . a poem or other piece of writing, they it alooud after they have learned it.
2. The workers have made.. representations...to the boss but he just does not seem to be listening.
3. A lot of things...need to be done...to the house before we can move in.
4.No one is a better cook than your mother,...are they..?
5. The doctor said.. that if... the patient did not stop smoking, he would be seriously ill.
6. We cannot grow enough food to..support ...the increasing population.
CHọn câu trả lời đúng:
1) Tha teaching of history shouldn't be.........to date and figures.
A.limiting B.limitation
C.limit. D.minuted ( limited )
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2) We don't have the...............to update our computer software.
A.sources. B.resources
C.funds. D.origins
3) One third of the world's...... consumes two thirds of the world resources.
A.people B.men
C.population D.human
4) The practice of controlling the number of children a person has, using various methods of contraception is called.................
A.family planning
B.birth control
C.population
D. A&B
5) When a person has an infectious diseases, he is........ from other people.
A. isolated. B. Limited
C. Separated. D.confined
6) Since the early 1990s Viet Man has experienced............ growth but th differences between the lives of the rich and the poor have been greater.
A. population B.economic
C.educational D.financial
7) A person who has moved from one place to another especially to find work.
A.emigrant B.immigrant
C.migrant D. A&C
8) What's the........ of your country.
A.populate B.population
C.populous D.popular
9) If the ball.......... the line, that would have been the end of the game.
A.would cross. B.Will cross
C.has crossed. D.crossed
10) If someone knocked a candle over, it............ a fire.
A.will start B.started
C.would start. D.would have started
11) If you......... told us about the bad service, we would have eaten there.
A.hadn't B.don't
C.didn't D.wouldn't have
12) What would Tom do if he ...........the truth?
A. would know B. knows
C. had known D. knew
13) If I ...........you were sick. I would have called sooner.
A. knew B. had known
C. know D. would have known
14) If there........... a row, I'm going to keep out of it.
A. will be B. is
C. were D. had been
15) If I ............ you, I'd call and apologise .
A. am B. were
C. would be D. was
a
cô giáo mình chữa là D