Skkn chuyên đề tiếng anh học kỳ ii

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Exercise 1: Read the text about baseball, America's number one pastime.

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Choose ONE word that fits into each blank.

 it originated in the USA,

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Baseball is America's national sport. But, 

baseball is played in many other countries, especially in Central and South
America and Japan. Baseball 

 an Olympic sport at the 1992 Olympics.

Baseball is not only a sport but an American 
summer afternoons 

 of life. Many families spend

 their children at a baseball park, sitting in the stands

with popcorn and hot dogs. They cheer for their favourite team and wear their
baseball

The game 

caps.

 played with a long wooden bat and a small hard ball. The players

have large heavy gloves to 

 the ball. They usually 

 light shirts and

knee-long trousers. Shoes have spikes on them to help players run on the field.

A baseball field is divided 

 two parts. The infield has the shape of a diamond

and is bordered by the bases that runners run around. A few players stand in the
grassy outfield and wait to catch the ball 

A baseball game consists of nine parts, 
score runs and defend. A pitcher 

 letting it drop on the ground.

 innings. Teams take turns trying to

 the ball towards a batter 

 tries to hit it

so that the other team can't catch it. The batter tries to run around the bases


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 as possible. A ball that is hit into the stands is called a home run. The
 the game.

Exercise 2: read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap.

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team that scores the most runs after nine innings 

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Use only one word in each gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example (0) AS
Motorbike Stunt Rider
I work (0) ... a motorbike stunt rider - that is, I do tricks on my motorbike at shows.
The Le Mans racetrack in France was (1) ........ I first saw some guys doing
motorbike stunts. I'd never seen anyone riding a motorbike using just the back
wheel before and I was (2) ........ impressed I went straight home and
taught (3) ........ to do the same. It wasn't very long before I began to earn my living
at shows performing my own motorbike stunts.

 
I have a degree (4) ........ mechanical engineering; this helps me to look at the
physics (5) ........ lies behind each stunt. In addition to being responsible for design
changes to the motorbike, I have to work (6) ........ every stunt I do. People often
think that my work is very dangerous, but, apart (7) ........ some minor mechanical
problem happening occasionally during a stunt, nothing ever goes wrong. I never
feel in (8) ........ kind of danger because I'm very experienced.
(Source: FCE Handbook. Reproduced with permission from Cambridge English)
Exercise 3: For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which
best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.


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re.. Her Her stud studen ents ts,, ma main inly ly wome women, n, sit sit
(17)....................... class saying over and over (18)....................... : "I want to be
rich. I deserve to be rich. I was born to be rich. I will be rich." She (19)...............
(19).......................

........

them

useful

information,

(20)...................

(20)....................... .... as the telephone telephone numbers of the golf and tennis
tennis clubs (21)....... (21)........... ........ ........ ........ .... the filthy filthy rich
(22)....................... to be found. She advises them on (23)....................... to wear at

a croquet match. She instructs them (24)....................... the basic etiquette of
dealing

(25).......................

servants:

"Always

address

the

chauffeur

(26)....................... his surname." (27)....................... homework, her students study
the Wall Street Journal . She trains them to walk (28)....................... straight backs,
and to keep their arms (29)....................... their sides. She also advises them to
confirm (30)....................... his chequebook stubs that their target millionaire really
does have the money he appears to have. THE MAFIA LOAN SHARKS 
Exercise 4: read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap.
Use

only

one

word

in

each

gap.

Loan-s Loan -sha hark rkin ing g - lend lendin ing g mo mone ney y - is the the
bigg bigges estt rack racket et in the the Un Unit ited ed Stat States es underworld.
It is (01)................ (01)........................ ........... ... profitable that one New York
gang boss built up $500,00 (02)................... (02).......................... ....... $7.5 million
in about five years. (03) (03).. ........ ...... ....... ....... .... are are fou four oper peratin
ating g lev levels in loan loan-s -sh hark arking. ing. At the the (04).....
(04).........

........

.......

.....

..

is

the

Mafia

boss.

boss.

Just

(05).....


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(05)......... ........ ........ ........ ...... .. him are his principal principal lieutenants who

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give money to (06)................ (06)........................ ........... ... own subordinates for

themselves, and pass the rest (07)................... (07)........................... ........ to the

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investment. These third-echelon underlings lend out much of the money
lowest level, the bookie and the street-corner thug. A retired expert from New
York City's bureau of criminal investigation describes (08)......................... it
works:

"A

big

racket

boss

(09)........................

ten

trusted

lieutenants

(10)....................... a Christmas party in his home, He distributes one million
dollars (11)........................... cash - $100,000 to (12)........................... of these ten
men. He doesn't have to keep any rec record ord of the the nam names or the am
amo ounts unts.. All All he says ays is, is, I want one one per per cent ent
(13)........................... week. I don't care (14)........................... you get, but I want
one per cent. For the next year's Christmas party, the only problem this gang leader
has is where he is going find five more men to hand out the $500,000 to that he
earned during the year." Naturally Naturally,, the interest interest rate goes (15)....
(15)........ ........ ........ ....... ....... ........ .... as the money money goes through the
various echelons. On the second level, the rate may be 1.5 or 2 per cent a week. On
the lowest level, it can be 5 per cent a week, 260 per cent a year.  A SIGN OF THE
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