Why are red and yellow flowers popular in decorating the house at Tet?

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question:

In Viet Nam, there is great excitement built up well before Tet Nguyen Dan. First, every family organizes a trip to the cemetery to visit the graves of their ancestor. After that, to create an air of prosperity, wealth and fun for the first three days of the Lunar New Year, people are kept busy cooking traditional foods, buying gifts, and making other preparations. Certain items deemed to be bought or made are banh chung, dried watermelon seeds, tea, dried sausages, fruit (fresh and candied), ornamental plants and flowers. Red and yellow flowers are ideal as they make the house more welcoming.

On the New Year’s days, only good comments and wishes can be expressed. Children receive their li xi (or red envelopes with lucky money inside). People make a visit to family members, neighbors, and close friends. And people who live apart from their family try to get together on these days. Clearly enough, games and various forms of entertainment are staged and these often last a week. Varying traditional specialties including wrestling, buffalo fighting, dragon or unicorn dancing take place in different regions.

Before Tet, people usually _________.

Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences:

Because of the natural disasters, homelessness is on the increase.

The students have discussed the pollution problems since last week. (passive voice)

.…………………………………………………………………………………..…

Some high school students take part in helping the handicapped.

Ann couldn’t understand Peter’s sense of humour. (Cleft sentence: focus on the underlined part)

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Whenever she wants something, she tries her best to get it and doesn’t let anyone discourage her. She is so _________.

Rewrite the following sentences as required so that the new sentences have the closest meaning to the given ones:

She started studying English 10 years ago.

She has.………………….…………………………………..………………………

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

She can cook for herself and that makes her more independent. (using the noun ability and a to-infinitive)

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The film was so bored that many people walked out of the cinema just

                               A                                                 B                        C

after 15 minutes watching it .

                                D

Yesterday, if you arrived earlier, you would have seen your former friend.

                   A           B                                         C                     D

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence:

The _________ of Southeast Asian Nations was founded in 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

The rain_________ It’s been raining for 3 hours.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others: