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There are many festivals in Vietnam but surely everyone knows, Tet is the most important festival. It is celebrated on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month. On Tet, everyone in the family will gather, eat and have fun together. Before Tet, people will go shopping, they buy flowers, decorations and food. In the evening, everyone will make banh chung, a traditional Vietnamese dish. On Tet, they will eat banh chung together and visit relatives together. And most especially, kids like us will receive lucky money. In the evening, we can watch colorful fireworks in the sky. I love Tet very much, every year, I look forward to Tet.
Tham khảo
Today I’m going to tell you about one of the biggest, oldest traditional festival and has the widest popular range in Vietnam, which is Tet Holiday.
Tet marks (=celebrates) the arrival of spring and is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture and it has the date falling in (which falls in) = takes place around late January or early February according to the Lunar Calendar.
Tết is also an occasion for family reunions. When Tet comes around the corner, most Vietnamese people return to their families to visit their family members, to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors in their homeland as a sign of respect.
Many Vietnamese people prepare for Tet by cooking special holiday food which includes giò, xôi, canh măng anh banh chung - an indispensable (= absolutely necessary) dish that is tightly packed sticky with meat and mung beans filling, wrapped in banana leaves
Traditionally, every household is decorated by yellow apricot blossoms (hoa mai) in the central and the southern parts of Vietnam; or peach blossoms (hoa đào) in the northern part.
Many customs are practiced around Tet. Children often receive a red envelope containing money from their elders after giving them traditional Tet greetings. During Tet days people also visit relatives and friends to wish them all a happy new year. Local pagodas are popular spots as well, as people go there to wish for a better year to come for their families.
Tet holiday is the only occasion that people that people start forgetting about the troubles of the past year and hope for a better upcoming year.
5. Talk about your favourite sport
I would like to talk about a sport that I particularly enjoy and have been practising for a few years. It is basketball. For me, this is not only a sport or a physical exercise but also an ideal way for me to relieve of stress and to make new friends.
I first knew about basketball when I was a little kid through a video game called NBA 2k8. However, at that time I did not play badminton at all, partly because I was not an active kid who was aware of the critical importance of physical exercises. When I went to high school, a lot of my friends were a big fan of basketball and my high school offered big playgrounds for sports activities, therefore I practised basketball much more often.
I usually play basketball in the weekends and watch NBA on the nights when my favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers play. I often go to sports centres with a number of my classmates for basketball matches. Sometimes we even participate in local league, didn’t accomplish anything big but it was extremely fun.
For me, basketball is a good way to help me pursue a healthy lifestyle. It is also an affordable type of sport as you do not have to buy a lot of specialised sports materials. Finally, playing basketball enables me to develop a number of important and non-academic skills such as discipline, team-work, problem-solving and co-operation.
Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the collumn on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
The origins of Halloween
Halloween is celebrated in many parts of the (0)________ (WEST) world, and is a time when people dress up as witches or ghosts, and go "trick-or treating". It is (1) ____UNDOUBTEDLY_ (DOUBT) one of the most popular traditions in the United States and Britain.
The celebration (2) ____ORIGINATED_(ORIGIN) about two thousand years ago with the Celts. These people were the (3) ___INHABITANTS__ (INHABIT) of an area that includes Britain, Ireland and Brittany. They relied on the land for their (4) ___LIVELIHOOD___ (LIVE), and this meant that they were at the mercy of (5) ____UNPREDICTABLE___ (PREDICT) weather conditions, especially during the winter.
The Celtic new year began on 1st November, which also marked the beginning of winter, a period (6) __TRADITIONALLY____ (TRADITION) associated with death. On the eve of the new year, it was believed that the barriers between the worlds of the living and the dead were (7) __TEMPORARILY__ (TEMPORARY) withdrawn, and it was possible to communicate with spirits. The Celts believed that the spirits offered them (8) _GUIDANCE__ (GUIDE) and protection, and the Druids (Celtic priests) were (9) ____REPUTEDLY___ (REPUTE) able to predict the future on this point.When the Roman completed their (10) ___CONQUEST___ (CONQUER) of Celtic lands, they added their own flavour to this festival. The advent of Christianity brought about yet other changes.
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
It is often said that the British talk about the weather more than any other people in the world; some extremists (1.)___ argue___ that they talk about nothing else. But in fact, even in countries with (2.)__ much____ less changeable climates than Britain’s, the weather is an endless, if not varied, (3.)__ opening____ of conversational fodder. This seems only natural when you consider that the weather is one of the few things we all have in (4.)__ common____. It affects our senses, and (5.)__ even____ our moods, so directly and, at times, so intensely (6.)___ that___ it is only natural we should talk about it. After several days (7.)___ or___ even weeks of dark, gloomy weather, a bright day tends to bring out the best in everyone; people recognize the relief (8.)___in___ others’ expressions which they feel inside themselves, and find it hard to resist commenting a change which is having such an evident (9.)___ effect___ on everyone. “Nice day, isn’t it?” is much more than simply a comment on the state of the weather; it is a comment on the human state itself, an acknowledgement that the tenability of our place in the universe depends
(10.)____on__ the existence of a community of human feeling
Read the passage and choose the word ( A , B , C or D ) which best fits each gap
Lunar New Year , or Tet , is Vietnam's main ...........( 1) .......... It is the grandest and most ........ ( 2 ) ...... occasion in the year which falls sometime between 19th January and 20th February on the Western calendar .
On the days of Tet , everyone tries to be nice and ........ (3)....... to each other . People believe that what they do ....(4).... the first day of the year will influence their luck during the whole year . Thus , only positive comments should be .......(5)......
1. A. day B. excursion C. holiday D. vacation
2. A. big B. important C. boring D. importance
3. A. impolite B. rude C. polite D. please
4. A. on B. at C. for D. of
5. A. done B. taken C. had D. made
1 As a baby, Helen had normal sight and hearing.
(Khi còn bé, Helen có thị giác và thính giác bình thường.)
Thông tin: “"Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama, with the ability to both see and hear, like any normal child.”
(Helen Keller sinh năm 1880 tại Alabama, có khả năng nhìn và nghe như bất kỳ đứa trẻ bình thường nào.)
Chọn True
2 A relation of one of the family servants gradually taught Helen sign language.
(Mối quan hệ của một trong những người hầu trong gia đình dần dần dạy Helen ngôn ngữ ký hiệu.)
Thông tin: “She learned to communicate with the daughter of the family cook using sign language that they invented together.”
(Cô học cách giao tiếp với con gái của một đầu bếp gia đình bằng ngôn ngữ ký hiệu mà họ cùng nhau phát minh ra.)
Chọn True
3 Helen's mother was very unhappy and frequently got cross with her.
(Mẹ của Helen rất không vui và thường xuyên cáu kỉnh với cô.)
Thông tin: “Her mother was very patient with her and tried to help her.”
(Mẹ cô đã rất kiên nhẫn với cô và cố gắng giúp đỡ cô.)
Chọn False
4 Anne Sullivan was partially blind.
(Anne Sullivan bị mù một phần.)
Thông tin: “Anne Sullivan, who was herself visually impaired...”
(Anne Sullivan, người bị khiếm thị...")
Chọn True
5 The first word that Helen understood through finger-spelling was 'doll'
(Từ đầu tiên mà Helen hiểu được khi đánh vần bằng ngón tay là 'búp bê')
Thông tin: “The first word she tried to teach her was 'doll' - Anne had brought Helen a doll as a present.”
(Từ đầu tiên cô ấy cố gắng dạy cho cô ấy là 'búp bê' - Anne đã mang cho Helen một con búp bê như một món quà.")
Chọn True