V. Read the following passage and choose the best answers to tướng each of the questions.
Every state has its own laws for driving and getting a driver's license. To learn these laws, people have to tướng read the Rules of the Road book for their state. They can get the book không tính tiền at a driver's license facility in their state.
In Illinois, people between the ages of 15 and 18 have to tướng take a driver's education course in school before they can get a permit to tướng practice driving. People over 18 don't have to tướng take this course in order to tướng get a permit. When people get a learner's permit, they have to tướng take a test. They have to tướng know the traffic signs and laws in order to tướng pass this test. Then they have to tướng get their vision tested. When they get theirlearner's permits, they can practice driving, but a licensed driver has to tướng be in the siêu xe with
them at all times. A learner's permit is good for one year.
When the learner is ready to tướng get a license, he or she has to tướng take a driving test. During the test, new drivers have to tướng back out of an alley, park uphill anddownhill, make right- and left-turns, obey all traffic laws, and tự whatever else the examiner may ask them to tướng tự to tướng show that they know how to tướng drive.
1/ What is the writer trying to tướng tự in the text?
a. Complain about traffic accidents.
b. Describe what to tướng tự to tướng get a driver's license.
c. Persuade drivers to tướng drive carefully.
d. Advise drivers how to tướng drive.
2/ Why would somebody read the text?
a. To find out about traffic laws.
b. To learn how to tướng drive a siêu xe.
c. To find out about getting a driver's license.
d. To learn some details about the rules of the roads .
3/ In order to tướng get a driver's license, most important of all, the learner has to tướng .................................
a. read the Rules of the Road book for his/her state
b. get his/her vision tested
c. know all the traffic laws
d. pass a driving test
4/ The word "free" most nearly means ..............................
a. without limit b. without having to tướng pay
c. without shopping d. at any time
5/ The word "alley" most nearly means ......................
a. narrow passage b. garage c. garden d. sidewalk
VI. Read the following passage and choose the best answers to tướng each of the questions.
When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard allover the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected.
Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to tướng the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to tướng give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!
1/ Big Ben was built .......................
a. for the B.B.C. b. after a fire c. in honour of Sir Benjamin Hall d. long before 1834
2/ Accuracyis maintained ..................._
a. by microphones in the clock tower b. by workmen
c.because the clock is at Greenwich Observatory d.by officials who kiểm tra the clock frequently
3/ Big Ben is one of the first sights you will see when you London.
a. will visit b. visit c. have visited d. will be visiting
4/ Big Ben is the ..................... clock in London.
a. famousest b. most famous c. more famous d. famouser
5/ It is .......................very big and very accurate. a. and b. also c. both d. together
6/ How often .....................checked?
a. have they it b. they have it c. tự they have it d. they tự have it
7/ A painter ......... working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands.
a. who b. had been c. had d. ...................
VII. Read the following passage and choose the best answers to tướng each of the questions.
Quite a number of things have been done tohelp solve traffic problems in Singapore. For example, motorists must buy a special pass if they want to tướng drive into the downtown business district. They can go into the business district only if they have the pass displayed on their windshield.
Another thing Singapore has done is to tướng make it more difficult to tướng buy cars. People have to tướng apply for a certificate if they want to tướng buy a siêu xe. And the number of certificates is limited. Not everyone can get one. There is also a high tax on cars, sánh it costs three or four times as much to tướng buy a siêu xe in Singapore as it does in, say, the United States or Canada. The other thing Singapore has done is to tướng build an excellent public transportation system. Their subway system is one of the best in the world. And there is also a very good xe taxi and bus system.
1/ In Singapore, drivers must have .................... to tướng drive into the downtown business district.
a. a special I D thẻ b. a special pass c. a driving certificate d. a driving lesson
2/ Singapore has done many things to tướng make it difficult to tướng buy cars because it ............................
a. wants to tướng solve the siêu xe problems b. wants to tướng help motorists to tướng be safe
c. helps poor people d. wants to tướng solve traffic problems
3/ The public transportation system in Singapore is ...................................
a. not very good b. very good c. very bad d. awful