Choose the option that best completes each blank in the passage. Write A, B, or C in the blank.

Thanksgiving Day

American (5) the Thanksgiving holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. Families meet for a special meal including turkey, corn, potatoes and pumpkin pie – a (6) dessert. Then families do activities together or watch TV.

The Thanksgiving festival celebrates the first harvest of the Pilgrims – a group of religious settlers. In September 1620, they (7) England for America on a ship – the Mayflower. That winter, when they arrived, they were very cold and didn’t have enough food. So half of them died. A Native American leader, Squanto, (8) the settlers. His people showed the settlers how to grow corn and vegetables and how to hunt animals for food.

In Autumn 1621, after a good harvest, the Pilgrims held a big celebration to thank God. They invited the Native Americans. For three days, they ate together. Also, they (9) games, sang songs and danced. It was the start of a long tradition.

Photographers also need to sit quietly.

Photographers should find a _______________________________________

You need to wait for a long time.

You need to be ____________________________________________

Photographers need to think creative to take good photos.

Read the passage and decide whether each statement is True or False. Write True or False in each blank.

Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festivals

The way people celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival differs from generation to generation as society keeps moving forward. Although traditional Mid-Autumn celebration activities for children and families are not so popular nowadays as they used to be decades ago, the timeless cultural value of truth, goodness, and beauty are always honoured, and practiced in a variety of ways.

There is something new about today’s Mid-Autumn Festival. It’s the presence of colourful electronic lanterns that play music, aside from the traditional star-shaped paper-and-bamboo lanterns, and a lot of baked and white mooncakes with flavours that better meet consumers’ changing tastes. Just like many other traditions, Mid-Autumn Festival has changed to catch up with the modern life.

1. People celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival differently.

Rewrite the following sentences with the given beginning in such a way that the meanings stay unchanged.

It is difficult to take photos of wild animals.

It is not ____________________________________________

Sportsmen usually move fast.

Rearrange the words in a correct order to make a complete sentence.

his parents / talk / Tom/ did / to / ?

we / last weekend / ate / a / at / restaurant / .

go / your / where / mother / did / shopping / ?

Choose the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from others. Write A, B, C or D in the blank.

Listen to five airport announcements. Choose the correct answer, A, B or C.

Announcement A

What time does the flight begin?