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8. I always feel relaxed the evening.

9. We went to Nha Trang last summer.
10. I won‟t be out so long. I‟ll be back ten minutes.

IV. Read the following passage, answer/ complete the questions/ statements below it.
Once, there was a boy named Boly. He lived with his aged grandmother in Kanchi Village. His
grandmother always woke up very early in the morning and made little buns and cakes. She sold
them in the market place. With the money she earned, she sent Boly to school.

Boly was a good boy. He was an orphan. He loved his grandmother a lot. After school, he
always went home quickly. Then, he would have his lunch and do his homework. In the evenings,
Boly would go round the village selling the cakes his grandmother made. Boly and his
grandmother lived quite happily.

One day, Boly‟s grandmother fell ill. She could not make any more cakes. Boly now had to
look for work. He went from house to house doing odd jobs.
It was in one of these houses that a kind gentleman asked Boly why he was working at such a
tender age. After listening to Boly‟s story, the man said that he wanted to adopt Boly. He was
willing to take care of Boly‟s grandmother too. From then on, Boly and his grandmother led a very
happy life.

1. The phrases of words “very old” is similar to the word ......................... in the text.
2. Boly was living with his grandmother because ........................................................................
................................................................................................................................................

3. Boly‟s grandmother could afford to send him to school by .....................................................
4. After school, Boly would immediately ....................................................................................
5. Boly had to look for work because...........................................................................................

V. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the correct words.
When a light passenger plane flew off course some time (1) , it crashed (2)
the mountains and its pilot was killed. (3) only passengers, a young
woman and her two baby daughters were unhurt. It was the (4) of winter. Snow lay
thick (5) the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was miles (6) . When
it grew dark, she turned a suitcase (7) a bed and put the children inside it, covering them
(8) all the clothes she could find. During the night, (9) got terrible cold. The
woman kept as near as she (10) to the children and even tried to get into the case
herself, but it was too small. Early the (11) morning, she heard planes passing
overhead and wondered how she could (12) a signal. Then she had an idea. She
stamped out the letters “SOS” in the snow. Fortunately, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message
(13) radio to nearest town. It was not (14) before a helicopter arrived on
the scene and (15) the survivors of the plane crash.

VI. Read the following passage and complete the sentences.
In 1920, after some thirty - nine years of problems with disease, high costs, and politics, the
Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing
ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal Zone instead of traveling some seven thousand miles
around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal

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