II. Read the following letter and choose the correct answers.

Dear Shirley.

You won't believe what Jack and I did last weekend! We went to Cancun! We got there early Friday moming, checked in, and went straight to the beach. We went scuba diving all morning, and we relaxed on the beach and swam all afternoon. On Saturday, we went to Tulum, the Mayan ruins about two hours south of Cancun. On Sunday, we rented a sailboat and went then we went parasailing on the beach. It was a lot of fun! As soon as I came down from parasailing, we had to run to the hotel, check out, and get to the airport. We slept all the way home, but what wonderful three days!

Love,

Beth

The word ‘got’ in line 1 could be replaced by which of the following?

II. Write a short paragraph (about 80 words) about a famous place in Viet Nam you would like to visit.

You should base on some suggestions below.

- What place is it?

- Where is it located?

- What are the main features of the place?

- Why would you like to visit it?

II. Choose the best option to complete the following sentences by circling A, B, C or D.

Your friend doesn't like taking part in outdoor activities, ______?

Find the word which the underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.

Life in the countryside is more comfortable than that in the city.

=> Life in the city ……………………………………

C. READING

I. Choose the correct answers to complete the passage.

No writer in American literature is (1) __________ or more loved than Samuel Longhorn Clements. Born in Missouri in 1835, he grew (2) __________ on the bank of the Mississippi river and later adopted the pen name Mark Twain. The (3) __________ environment inspired the two novels which made him famous, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi", told of his adventures on the river boats of that period.
Mark Twain's life as a writer started during the Civil War. At that time he (4) __________ as a newspaper man in Nevada and California. His short story "The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was an immediate (5) __________ and his new career began.