READING 1

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Part A.
Scan the passage on the next page and find the dates of the four blog posts.
a. Post 1 : ________________________________

b. Post 2 : ________________________________

c. Post 3 : ________________________________

d. Post 4 : ________________________________

Part B
Read each blog post quickly to find the following information.
a. Post 1: Which city did they go first? ________________________________

b. Post 2: Where is the market that they visited? ________________________________

c. Post 3: How long did they go hiking for? ________________________________

d. Post 4: What is in Vung Tau? ________________________________

Part C
Read the following sentences. Check (√) true (T) or false (F). Then check the number of the
post where you found the answer.

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Part D
Read the following sentences about Juliana’s Trip. Circle your answers. Then write the words of
phrases from the reading that helped you find the answers.
1. She thinks the market in Cholon is really .....
a. Great.
b. Expensive.
c. Noisy.

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2. She thinks the Hmong people are very .....
a. Practical.
b. Modern.
c. Friendly.

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3. She likes hotels that are .....
a. Expensive.
b. Traditional.
c. Simple.

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4. At the end of her trip, she says she wants to ....
a. Go home and see her friends visit more of Vietnam.
b. Learn to cook Vietnamese food.

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 Text 1

We’re in Vietnam

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Part E
Read the following title and passages and predict the missing parts by choosing the sentences
provided.
Text 2

A Restaurant for Change

Jamie Oliver wants to change peoples' lives and he is using food to do it. (1) XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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He is also 5 changing lives through his Italian restaurant, Fifteen.
Fifteen started in London, England, as a place to train young adults to work in a kitchen. (2) XXX
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Every September, a new group of 18- to 24-year-olds start work at Fifteen. When they start, they
are usually not qualified for a restaurant job, but that will change quickly. In the 12 months of training,
the student chefs study cooking at college and get hands-on training at the restaurant. (3) XXXXXXXX
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The students also learn how to manage money and deal with difficult customers. overall, the program
encourages them to believe in themselves and enables them to look forward to a future in the
restaurant business.
The restaurant's name, Fifteen, comes from the number of students the restaurant had when it
started in 2002. (4) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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percent of the graduates are still working in the food industry. Some own restaurants or work in some
of the best kitchens around the world. Others are now starring in their own TV shows. (5) XXXXXXXX
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Besides learning kitchen skills, they learn the importance of using
fresh ingredients and how to create their own recipes. And their
education doesn't stop with preparing and serving food
They're all great examples of what young people can do if they're
given the opportunity and support.
Oliver's idea was to create a professional kitchen that can help
young people get a fresh start and a chance to become professional
chefs.
Today, Oliver has three of these restaurants; and· a few hundred
students have finished the program.
Oliver, a chef, is well-known for sharing his secrets of cooking
healthy food through his magazine, cookbooks, and television
shows

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Part F
Use the context to guess the general meaning of the words or phrases below. Scan the passages
on the next page to help you find the answers. Circle the best answer to complete each
statement.

Part G
Write the referents of the following pronouns based on the Text 2 on the next page.

No Pronoun Location Referent

1 This line 7

2 It line 10

3 Their line 20

4 It line 21

5 These line 32

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Text 3

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Part H
After reading each of the following paragraphs, select the choice that best represents the topic
of the paragraph.
1. Many people look back to the 1950s as the golden age of the traditional family, but was
it really? Teenage pregnancy rates were higher in the 1950s than they are today,
although a higher proportion of teenage mothers were married (primarily due to
“shotgun weddings,” a colloquialism that developed from the idea that many fathers of
pregnant girls had to force, possibly with a weapon, a man to marry his daughter once
she became pregnant). Many families were unable to survive the traumas of war and
its aftermath, and the divorce rate rose from one in six in 1940 to one in four
marriages in 1946. Although many families prospered in the years following World
War II, many others suffered from economic hardship. In 1948, Newsweek reported
that most of the 27 million schoolchildren in the United states were badly in need of
medical or dental care, while more than 900 thousand children were malnourished.

—Kunz, THINK Marriages & Families, p. 8

a. teenage pregnancy rates

b. the effect of war on divorce

c. family problems in 1950s

d. golden age

2. In the past few years, social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter
have become hugely popular across all ages. Despite the opinions of some that young
people are in danger of turning into crouching androids glued to their computers,
research shows that the majority of friendships are still maintained offline. Offline
friendships are characterized by more interdependence, depth, understanding, and
commitment, but online friendships can gain some of these qualities with time. Most
online friends tend to be rather cautious about disclosing personal information.
however, this does not apply to people with a negative view of themselves and others;
they instead seem to share more information, possibly in an attempt to become more
self-confident in their interactions. Interestingly, even in online friendships people
seem to gain more satisfaction when befriending people of a similar age and place of
residence.
—Kunz, THINK Marriages & Families, p. 82
a. offline vs. online friendships

b. technology and self-image

c. personal information sharing online

d. satisfaction in online friendships

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3. A century ago politicians used to say, “Vote early and often.” Cases such as West
Virginia’s 159,000 votes being cast by 147,000 eligible voters in 1888 were not that
unusual. Largely to prevent corruption associated with stuffing ballot boxes, states
adopted voter registration laws around the turn of the century, which require
individuals to first place their name on an electoral roll in order to be allowed to vote.
Although these laws have made it more difficult to vote more than once, they have also
discouraged some people from voting at all. Voter registration requirements in the
United states are, in part, to blame for why Americans are significantly less likely to go
to the polls than citizens of other democratic nations.

—Edwards et al., Government in America, p. 313

a. voter turnout

b. voter registration

c. voter eligibility

d. voter fraud

4. Compared with the technical resources of a theatre of today, those of a London public
theatre in the time of Queen Elizabeth I seem hopelessly limited. Plays had to be
performed by daylight, and scenery had to be kept simple: a table, a chair, a throne,
perhaps an artificial tree or two to suggest a forest. But these limitations were, in a
sense, advantages. What the theatre of today can spell out for us realistically, with
massive scenery and electric lighting, Elizabethan playgoers had to imagine and the
playwright had to make vivid for them by means of language. Not having a lighting
technician to work a panel, Shakespeare had to indicate the dawn by having Horatio, in
Hamlet, say in a speech rich in metaphor and descriptive detail:

But look, the morn in russet mantle clad

Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
—Kennedy and Gioia, Literature, p. 1243
a. impact of technological limitations on Elizabethan theater

b. benefits of modern technology in theater performances

c. effects of Shakespeare’s writing style

d. the use of language to make ideas vivid