A. PHONETICS
I.
oOo |
uncertain, unfasten, uncommon, unworried, immortal, |
ooO |
unafraid, unaware, |
oOoo |
uncomfortable, unpopular, impossible, impersonal, improbable, immovable, impurity, impassable |
ooOo |
unambitious, unemployment, uncompleted, imprecision |
oOooo |
immeasurable |
ooOoo |
unacceptable, unachievable, unbelievable, immaterial |
ooOooo |
uncommunicative |
II. 1. unattractive 2. impolite 3. impractical 4. unnatural 5. unofficial
6. unpleasant 7. uncompetitive 8. unlucky 9. unnecessary 10. improper
B. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
I. 1. artist 2. novelist 3. beginner 4. ancestor 5. pianist
II.1. educational 2. inventions 3. construction 4. exploration 5. comfortable 6. harmful
III.
1. will have built 2. will connect 3. will design 4. will have run
5. will have implanted 6. will be taking 7. will become 8. willcreate
IV.
1. The scientist said that cloning would become more popular in the next century.
2. Dr. Nelson said that every home would have at least one robot to perform any boring task.
3. Our teacher told us that parents did not allow children to playcomputer games for a long period of time.
4. The doctor told his patient that nutrition pills could cause serious side effects.
5. The physicist said that nuclear power plants didn’t require a lot of space.
6. The politician told the audience that wrong decisions in Chernobyl had caused a big nuclear explosion.
V.
1. Chau said that the real inventor of the telephone was Antonio Meucci, a poor Italian American.
2. She said that Meucci shared a workshop with Bell in the 1860s, and made a “talking telegraph” for his wife, who was ill in bed.
3. She said that Meucci didn’t become the inventor because he never took his idea to the US Patent Office.
4. She also said that Meucci was too poor to pay the $250 that he needed.
5. She said that Bell took/had taken the invention to the Patent Office, and became the inventor.
C. SPEAKING
I.
1. He was born in England.
2. He now lives in Massachusetts in the USA.
3. He looks very ordinary (about sixty years old and with brown hair).
4. Yes, he did. He went to school in London.
5. Because both his parents worked with computers.
6. He went to Oxford University, and studied physics.
7. He became more and more interested in computers.
8. In 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.
9. Because Tim Berners-Lee decided to make his ideas free to everyone.
10. He thinks that the web is a universe of information and it is for everyone.
II. 1. E 2. C 3. G 4. D 5. A 6. F 7. H 8. B
D. READING
I. 1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. A
II. 1. H 2. E 3. F 4. G 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. T 9. F 10. F 11. T 12. T
III. 1. B 2. D 3. F 4. C 5. E 6. A
IV.
1. It got darker outside.
2. She thought that there should be a way to make her paper easierto see in the dark.
3. She used phosphorescent paint to cover an acrylic board.
4. The Glo-Sheet/ It can emit light but without heat.
5. She was 12 years old then.
E. WRITING
There are several advantages of smartphone. Smartphones give users the ability to surf websites instead of using a desktop or a laptop. They also haveapplications which help us to create and edit Microsoft office documents. Smartphones have GPS which helps us to find the place we are looking for. With a smartphone, we can have access to any email accounts, like Outlook or Gmail, social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. However, smartphones have some disadvantages. Smartphones are not durable, especially when they are not taken good care of. It is very expensive to buy smartphones compared to other phones. Smartphones can only work efficiently when there is an Internet connection. You cannot depend on smartphones for all your work but you need a computer to do some tasks.
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TEST (UNIT 11)
I. 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C
II. 6. C 7. D 8. A 9. D 10. B
III. 11. D 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. C 17. D 18. B 19. C 20. B
IV.
21. development 22. safety – risky 23. scientist – researcher – scientific
24. dangerous 25. production 26. industrial – medical
27. technological 28. ability
V. 29. runner 30. homemaker 31. foreigner 32. programmer 33. hobbyist
VI. 34. youngest 35. contributions 36. researchers 37. independence
38. technicians 39. mathematicians 40. mathematical 41. founders
VII. 42. Our teacher said that we were learning more about our universe.
43. Dr. Nelson said that scientistshad made various applications in long distance communication.
44. Our Chemistry teacher told us that science was a good and useful servant but it was a bad destructive master.
45. Our headmaster said that space tourism would broaden our knowledge of space.
46. Our History teacher told us that during the time in Paris in 1946 Uncle Ho had attracted several Vietnamese scientists to return to the country.
47. Our Math teacher said that Professor Le Van Thiem had believed in the importance of education and science, so he had founded a teacher training college and a college of fundamental science.
VIII. 48. D 49. G 50. B 51. I 52. E 53. A 54. F 55. J 56. C 57. H
IX. 58. T 59. F 60. T 61. T 62. F 63. T 64. F 65. T
X. 66. He studied to serve the country’s independence.
67. He tried to study the science of making weapons.
68. It was the good thing to research and manufacture weapons for our soldiers to fight the enemy, so Uncle Ho changed his name – Tran Dai Nghia.
69. Because he was a gentle and quiet engineer, but his weaponswere so successful.
70. It was bazookas/ recoilless canon (SKZ)/ flying bombs .
XI. 71. Tim Berners-Lee was born in England.
72. He went to school in London.
73. When he was 18, he went to Oxford University.
74. At university, he become more interested in computers.
75. At Oxford, he made his first computer from a television.
76. He graduated in 1976.
77. He got a job with a computer company in England.
78. In 1989, he worked as a software engineer at CERN – the large physics laboratory in Switzerland.
79. Scientists come from all overthe world, and they have difficulty (in) sharing information.
80. He thought he saw/ could see a way to solve the problems: millions of computers were being connected together through the Net.