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 following questions. Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these How-to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words “How to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money. Another may tell you how to save or spend it and another may explain...
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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 following questions.
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these How-to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words “How to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money. Another may tell you how to save or spend it and another may explain how to give your money away.
Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can buy the book — How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Millionaire”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “How to Live on Nothing”.
One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read “How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer books which give step by step instructions on how to redecorate or enlarge a house.
Why have How-to books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How-to books help people deal with modern life.
It can be inferred from the passage that
A. Today people are more bored with the modern life
B. Modern life is more difficult to deal with
C. Today people have fewer choices to make
D. Today people are more interested in modern life
IV. Complete the sentences with the words below.
have into make voice up get excuse tell clue tongue
1. Why are you shouting at the top of your ……………voice…………….? I’m standing right beside you.
2. He’s very nervous. He’s been asked to ……………make…………… a speech at his nephew’s wedding.
3. I didn’t ………dùng see sẽ hợp lý hơn………………… the point of what she was trying to say. Did you understand her?
4. There’s so much noise in the room that I can’t hear you. Please speak ………up…………………
5. I’ll leave my phone number on the notice board in case you need to ………get………………… in touch with me.
6. Please don’t raise your voice to me. I don’t want to ………have………………… an argument about this.
7. She’s only three years old; she may have a watch, but she can’t …………tell……………… the time yet.
8. I haven’t had a ……clue…………………… what the answer to your question is. Maybe Mark can help you.
9. I don’t believe he was ill yesterday. He’s just making an ………excuse…………………
10. The name of the shop is on the tip of my …………tongue……………… but I can’t remember it now.
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