Reading and Writing Part 2
Questions 7-13
For each question, choose the correct answer.
Talking about Sport
Alan
I started playing tennis when I was five years old, but I was never very good at it. My
parents really wanted me to do well and paid for me to have lessons outside school,
but I always preferred football. I’m good enough to be in a top local team. With
tennis, I could never hit the ball where I wanted it to go – it was always too high or
too far. Finally, my parents let me stop going to tennis lessons and I’ve spent my time
playing football since then.
Rod
My favourite sport has always been rugby. I’ve tried other sports and I was good at
tennis. I won a tennis competition at school and my sports teacher told me that I was
an excellent tennis player. But I didn’t enjoy it as much as rugby because I like being
part of a team. So I stopped playing tennis when I was about thirteen. My teacher
and parents thought I should continue with it, but I preferred rugby.
Ben
I’ve always played a lot of sport. It’s an important part of my life, and since I left
school I do a wide variety of different types of sports – golf, rugby, tennis and
football. I’m quite good at all of them, but I can’t really say that I enjoy one of them
more than the others. I’m probably best at rugby because I’m a big person, and it is
hard to stop me when I’m running fast.
Alan Rod Ben
Who doesn’t have a favourite
7 A B C
sport?
Who was very good at a sport that
8 A B C
was not their favourite?
9 Who had extra lessons in a sport? A B C
Who says their body size helps
10 A B C
them do a sport?
Who has enjoyed football all their
11 A B C
life?
Who likes to play with a group of
12 A B C
other people?
Who says they are good at only one
13 A B C
sport?
Reading and Writing Part 3
Questions 14-18
A very clever family
The Smiths are possibly the cleverest family in the country, and now the youngest
member, ten-year-old Charlotte, has won a national spelling competition to add to
the family’s successes. Charlotte is the youngest ever winner of the National Young
Spelling Bee Competition – the youngest winner before her was her older sister,
Helen, who won it when she was eleven.
Charlotte and Helen’s older brother, Mark, is also very clever. He finished school early
and went to university at the age of fifteen, three years before most young people
start their university studies. The children’s parents, Charles and Vivien, are both
teachers and say their children’s success comes from working hard, playing hard and
following strict rules about homework and bedtimes.
‘Other people think that Charles and I don’t let the children have any time to relax
and play, and that we’re always making them do their homework. But it’s not true!’
says Vivien. we have lots of fun time in the family. But there’s a time for fun and
there’s a time for work, and we make sure the children understand that work comes
before play.’
When Charlotte took part in the spelling competition the whole family, including her
grandparents, went to watch her. Helen took off a day from school – the first day in
her life that she missed going to school. ‘I felt bad about missing school,’ Helen said,
‘but I think it was important to Charlotte that I was there.’
14 Charlotte won the spelling competition
A after her sister.
B when she was eleven.
C when she was older than Helen.
15 Most people
A go to university early.
B are like Mark when they go to university.
C start university at the age of eighteen.
16 Charles and Vivien help their children by
A letting them relax and play any time they want.
B making them do their homework before they relax.
C not letting them have any time to relax and play.
17 When Charlotte won the competition,
A Helen missed it because she was at school.
B all the family were there, but not her grandparents.
C her brother, sister, parents and grandparents were watching.
18 Helen said that
A Charlotte wanted her to be at the competition.
B Charlotte missed school for the competition.
C Charlotte thought competitions were more important than school.
Reading and Writing Part 7
Questions 25-30
Look at the three pictures.
Write the story shown in the pictures.
Write 35 words or more.
Write the story on your answer sheet.
Gợi ý – Một số từ vựng có thể dùng trong bài Viết (nên sử dụng thì quá khứ đơn /
tiếp diễn để kể lại câu chuyện)
Suitcase (n): vali
Get a taxi: bắt taxi
Train station (n): nhà ga
Traffic (a): giao thông
Catch the train (v): bắt tàu
Late (a): muộn
Miss (v): bỏ lỡ
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