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18 tháng 7

tìm chữ số tận cùng :7^1+7^2+...+7^50.giúp mình với ạ .Cảm ơn mọi người

 

19 tháng 7

bạn gửi câu hỏi nhầm chỗ rồi nhé!

QT
Quoc Tran Anh Le
Giáo viên
16 tháng 9 2023

1. Could you please tell me if there is a test requirement to enroll in the tour guide training courses?

(Xin cho biết để đăng ký tham gia khóa đào tạo hướng dẫn viên du lịch có phải thi sát hạch không?)

2. I would like to know if SGV Vocational School offers any discounts for students who are financially disadvantaged.

(Tôi muốn biết Trường dạy nghề SGV có giảm giá cho học viên có hoàn cảnh khó khăn không?)

3. I would appreciate it if you could tell me the daily wage for the apprenticeships provided by SGV Vocational School.

(Tôi sẽ đánh giá cao nếu bạn có thể cho tôi biết mức lương hàng ngày cho việc học nghề do Trường dạy nghề SGV cung cấp.)

7 tháng 9 2023

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am writing to enquire about the tour guide training courses offered by SGV Vocational School. I am very interested in exploring different cultures and would like to know more about the courses.

Firstly, I would like to ask if there is a test requirement to enroll in the tour guide training courses. As I do not have any previous qualifications in this field, I would like to know if there are any specific requirements for admission.

Secondly, I would appreciate it if you could inform me if SGV Vocational School offers any discounts for students who are financially disadvantaged. This would greatly assist me in planning for the cost of the training.

Lastly, I would like to enquire about the daily wage for the apprenticeships provided by SGV Vocational School. It would be great if you could provide me with more information about this opportunity.

Thank you for considering my request. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Lan

9 tháng 9 2023

Tham khảo:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing this email to inquire about how to become a member of the Don ca tai tu Club. I saw the advertisement and I am very interested in joining the club.

First, I would like to know more about the activities that the club offers. Do you have instrument classes or workshops in addition to singing? I am a beginner and I am interested in learning more about the traditional folk singing.

Second, I wonder if there are any age or skill level requirements for joining the club. I am not very experienced in singing or playing instruments, but I am very passionate about traditional folk music.

Finally, I would like to know if there is a membership fee and if so, how much it is. Also, are there any upcoming events or performances that I can attend before deciding to join?

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Lan.

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...
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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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20 tháng 4 2020

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

#maymay#

~ Study Well :33 ~

20 tháng 4 2020

thank you for your wishes

11 tháng 8 2021

Dear Peter

I received your email last week, in which you asked me about my city Ha Noi in 2050. There are different ideas about this question. I thought about it in a few days, and now I can give you two predictions.

Let's take a look at optimis aspects. In 2050 Ha Noi will become a more liveable city for lots of reasons. The city authorities have built a very careful plan to promote advanced technology to make greener motorbikes to deal with air pollution. In addition, the city dwellers are encouraged to make use of public transport system to reduce traffic jam. The government will also grow more trees and encourage people to use solar panels.

On the contrary, pessimis people think that the city life will be a dangerous place to live in because the government cannot control the use of private cars and motorbikes. Besides, they don’t believe that citizens will use public transports because this system in our city are aging and not upgraded regularly. It also take time to find a bus and go to the destination in spite of very short distance. People's life will also continue to be threatened because of pollution such as air pollution by burning fossil fuels, emission from cars and motorbikes, noise pollution from constructing buildings and sounding of transportations. The effects of global warming have great impacts on the city dwellers, higher temperature in the summer and colder climate in te winter.

That's all about my answer to your question. I hope you will be satisfied with it, Peter.

Best wishes,

Nga

 k mình nha bn CHÚC BN HỌC TỐT

12 tháng 8 2021

Dear Anne(Hà Lam).

I received your email last week, in which you asked me about my city New York in 2050. There are different ideas about this question. I thought it in a few days, and now I can give you two predictions.

Let's take a look at an optimis viewpoint. In 2050 New York will become a more liveable city than ever before for lots of reasons. The city authorities have built a very careful plan to promote self-driving electric taxis to deal with crowded public transport. In addition, the city dwellers are encouraged to use city's building roofs for gardens fertilised with compose in order to recycle rubbish and reduce pollution. The government will also build offshore windfarms to replace ageing electricity network.

On the other hand, pessimis people think that the city life won't be a safe place to live in because the government cannot control the use of guns, and therefore the crime rate will be higher. People's life will also continue to be threatened because of natural disasters such as floods, storms, earthquakes. The effects of global warming have great impacts on the city dwellers.

That's all about my answer to your question. I hope you will be satisfied with it, Nam.

Best wishes,

Wonie(Quyên)

tham khảo ạ

17 tháng 8 2021

Dear Bich

Your last email asked me about my city Ha Noi in 2050. Well, but I'm busy and have no time to reply you soon. Today I am writing to you about that question. There are different ideas about this question. I thought about it in a few days, and now I can give you some predictions.

Let's take a look at optimis aspects. In 2050 Ha Noi will become a more modern city for lots of reasons. High technology has been applied in our lives. The robots will replace us for many jobs such as manufacturing, farming, etc. Smart cars which will be commonly used in the road. They will help human beings to decrease the accidents as well as traffic jams.

On the contrary, pessimis people think that the city life will be a dangerous place to live in because the environment is completely polluted. The effects of global warming have great impacts on the city dwellers, higher temperature in the summer and colder climate in the winter. There are a lot of means of transport so that emission from them cause air pollution. Our health will be threatened because of low air quality index.

That's all about my thoughts about your question. I hope you will be satisfied with it, Bich.

Best wishes,

Chau

I. Circle the word that is pronounced differently from the others. 1. bear leave peace cheap 2. near here ear meat 3. hair chair rain air 4. tour pour four thought 5. gulf hunt sure current II. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. challenged discoveries overcome investigating contribution covered conservation entrapment maintained migrate 1. Scientists have made many important new.......... of the depth by using modern devices. 2. Community police have made a very positive...
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I. Circle the word that is pronounced differently from the others.
1. bear leave peace cheap
2. near here ear meat
3. hair chair rain air
4. tour pour four thought
5. gulf hunt sure current
II. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
challenged discoveries overcome investigating contribution
covered conservation entrapment maintained migrate
1. Scientists have made many important new.......... of the depth by using modern devices.
2. Community police have made a very positive ................to crime prevention.
3. This new discovery traditional beliefs. Some whales are known to.............into warm
waters to bear their calves.
5. Seventy-five percent of the earth surface is .............by water.
6. Unless the biodiversity were.............marine life would be at stake.
7. Scientists are.....................how the crash occurred.
8. Sperm whale populations are at risk due to hunting and their accidental in
..............fishing nets.
9. What can I do to.................my fear of flying?
10. The government has just set up a wildlife....................project.
III. Choose the word or phrase that could best explain the underlined word or phrase
in each sentence.
1. If modern technology did not exist, we would never have such precious information.
A. valuable B. precise C. confidential D. detailed
2. Some marine animals are dangerous to humans.
A. living in the mountain B. living in the ocean
C. living in the forest D. living in the house
3. The floor was covered in tiny pieces of paper.
A. unimportant B. many C. very large D. extremely small
4. Sperm whales and sharks are carnivores.
A. animals that live in the sea B. animals that only eat plants
C. fish that aren't born from eggs D. animals that eat meat
5. We enjoyed the warm water of the Gulf of Thailand.
A. a small sea
B. a large area of ocean almost surrounded by land
C. a part of the sea enclosed by a wide curve of the shore
D. a large area of water surrounded by land
IV. Complete these sentences with should/ shouldn't + infinitive (or a passive form)
using one of these verbs: include, keep, meet, refrigerate-ate, stay, break, tell, warn,
take, play.
1. Those boys ................... football on the street. It's very dangerous.
2. This medicine ................... in a cool place.
3. You...............him about this deal. It's supposed to be absolutely confidential.
4. Here's someone you really .....................

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5. She................. in bed all day unless she's ill.
6. According to the label, the jam................ after opening.
7. You'll catch cold if you go out like that. I think you ...........a hat.
8. People ................of the danger of swimming off this beach.
9. This information you send ............. details of courses taken at university.
10. People ....................their promises.
V. Give advice to the following people. Use I think ... should or I don't think ... should
and one of these phrases.
go to the dentist take them back to the shop
tell your bank wait
go to work tell them to buy fruit
drive be more careful
write to people work so hard
1. Kate is crying because I knocked her over. We were playing a game.
_____________________________________________________
2. Peter's got a very bad colD.
_____________________________________________________
3. Ann's phone bill was enormous! Three hundred pounds!
_____________________________________________________
4. Keith wants to drive home, but he hasn't got his glasses.
_____________________________________________________
5. I've lost my cheque book and credit cards.
_____________________________________________________
6. My children spend all their pocket money on sweets.
_____________________________________________________
VI. Comment on these situations. Use a type 2 conditional.
1. Alan always overeats at lunch because he never eats breakfast.
If Alan cite breakfast, he wouldn't overeat at lunch.
2. I don't know enough about the machine, so I can't mend it myself.
__________________________________________________________________
3. I don't ride the bus to work every morning because it's always so crowded.
_________________________________________________________________
4. Not enough money is spent on cancer research, so a prevention has not been found.
_________________________________________________________________
5. The wind is blowing harD. so I won't take the boat out for a ride.
_________________________________________________________________
6. Nick can't find the way because he hasn't got a map.
_________________________________________________________________
7. I can't look the word up because I haven't got a dictionary.
_________________________________________________________________
8. Linus is smart, so he finds clever solutions to life's problems.
_________________________________________________________________
VII. Choose the correct completion.
1. I'm not an astronaut. If I...........an astronaut, I ................. my camera with me on the
rocket ship.

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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
3. If energy ......................inexpensive and unlimited, many things in the world would be
different.
A. is B. was C. had been D. would be
5. 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
4. 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
5. '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
6. 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
7. 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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23 tháng 4 2020

bạn làm bài II đi

23 tháng 4 2020

mình đã tách từng bài ra rồi á~

The Penny Black 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...
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The Penny Black

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.

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

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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30 tháng 7 2019
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

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.

30 tháng 7 2019
The Penny Black

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.

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

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.

6. “What are you doing now?” the teacher asked Tom. * A. The teacher asked Tom what he was doing now. B. The teacher asked Tom what was he doing then. C. The teacher asked Tom what he was doing then. D. The teacher asked Tom what was he doing now. 7. “Do you know Long’s address?” he asked me. * A. He asked me for Long’s address. ...
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6. “What are you doing now?” the teacher asked Tom. * A. The teacher asked Tom what he was doing now. B. The teacher asked Tom what was he doing then. C. The teacher asked Tom what he was doing then. D. The teacher asked Tom what was he doing now. 7. “Do you know Long’s address?” he asked me. * A. He asked me for Long’s address. B. He asked me if someone knew Long’s address. C. He asked me if I know Long’s address. D. He asked me if I knew Long’s address. 8. “Please stay home when the pandemic is everywhere,” the teacher said to us. * A. The teacher said us to stay home when the pandemic was everywhere. B. The teacher asked us stay home when the pandemic was everywhere. C. The teacher asked us to stay home when the pandemic was everywhere. D. The teacher asked us when the pandemic was everywhere and we had to stay home. 9. “I’ll tell you about this tomorrow, Mary,” said Tom. * A. Tom said to Mary that he will tell her about that the next day. B. Tom told Mary that I would tell you about that the next day. C. Tom told Mary that he would tell her about that the next day. D. Tom said Mary that he would tell her about that the next day. 10. “Please don’t post false information on the Internet,” Kerry said to Susan. * A. Kerry asked Susan to post false information on the Internet. B. Kerry asked Susan not to post false information on the Internet. C. Kerry asked Susan didn’t post false information on the Internet. D. Kerry asked Susan if she didn’t post false information on the Internet.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.FIRST TIME IN THE AIRWhen John Mills was going to fly in an aeroplane for the first time, he was frightened. He did not like the idea of being thousands of feet up in the air. “I also didn’t like the fact that I wouldn’t be in control,” says John. “I’m a terrible passenger in the car. When somebody else is driving, I tell them what to so. It drives...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

FIRST TIME IN THE AIR

When John Mills was going to fly in an aeroplane for the first time, he was frightened. He did not like the idea of being thousands of feet up in the air. “I also didn’t like the fact that I wouldn’t be in control,” says John. “I’m a terrible passenger in the car. When somebody else is driving, I tell them what to so. It drives everybody crazy.”

However John couldn’t avoid flying any longer. It was the only way he could visit his grandchildren in Canada.

“I had made up my mind that I was going to do it, I couldn’t let my son, his wife and their three children travel all the way here to visit me. It would be so expensive for them and I know Tom’s business isn‟t doing so well at the moment – it would also be tiring for the children – it’s a nine-hour flight!” he says.

To get ready for the flight John did lots of reading about aeroplanes. When he booked his seat, he was told that he would be flying on a Boeing 747, which is better known as a jumbo jet. “I needed to know as much as possible before getting in that plane. I suppose it was a way of making myself feel better. The Boeing 747 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world at the moment. The first one flew on February 9th 1969 in the USA. It can carry up to 524 passengers and 3.400 pieces of luggage. The fuel for aeroplanes is kept in the wings and the 747’s wings are so big that they can carry enough fuel for an average car to be able to travel 16,000 kilometres a year for 70 years. Isn‟t that unbelievable? Even though I had discovered all this very interesting information about the jumbo, when I saw it for the first time, just before I was going to travel to Canada, I still couldn‟t believe that something so enormous was going to get up in the air and fly. I was even more impressed when I saw how big it was inside with hundreds of people!”

The biggest surprise of all for John was the flight itself. “The take-off itself was much smoother than I expected although I was still quite scared until we were in the air. In the end, I managed to relax, enjoy the food and watch one of the movies and the view from the window was spectacular. I even managed to sleep for a while!

Of course,” continues John, “the best reward of all was when I arrived in Canada and saw my son and his family, particularly my beautiful grandchildren. Suddenly, I felt so silly about all the years when I couldn‟t even think of getting on a plane. I had let my fear of living stop me from seeing the people I love most in the world. I can visit my son and family as often as I like now!”

Question: How did John feel about his fears in the end?

A. He thought he had wasted time being afraid

B. He realized it was okay to be afraid.

C. He hoped his grandchildren weren‟t afraid of flying.

D. He realized that being afraid kept him safe.

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30 tháng 9 2018

Đáp án: A