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V)-Read the legend, and put the following paragraphs into the correct order. Write the answer (B-G) in the blanks. The first paragraph (A) has been done for you.
Legend of the Water Melon

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   A. Once upon a time, the sixth son of King Hung the Fifth named An Tiem
   

disobeyed the King’s order and was asked to move to a deserted island.

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and strong enough to overcome difficulties without anyone’s help. An Tiem was immediately called back to the court. He brought his fruit with him to offer the King, his father. The King gave him his crown and An Tiem became King Hung the Sixth.

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   ___________ C. An Tiem carved the island’ name and his own on some of the fruit and threw them into the sea. Later, seamen found the strange fruit with An
   

Tiem’s name floating in the sea.

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   ___________ D. Since then the fruit which was called “dua hau”has become the symbol of luck. People often offer it to relatives and friends as a New Year
   

present.

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   ___________ E. When the dry season came, all the plants were dry and the well had no water left. One day An Tiem was so tired and thirsty that he tasted the fruit. He found out that it tasted delicious and satisfied his thirst. He tried to grow the plant around his house then. Soon the whole island was covered with
   

the green fruit.

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   ___________ F. Soon, words about the fruit reached the mainland and many merchants tried to find the way to the island. The island was now crowded. Many boats came and went. An Tiem helped anyone who wanted to settle on the
   

island. Soon, news about that reached the King.

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   ___________ G. The Prince had to build his own shelter, dig a well for water, and fish and hunt animals for food. One day, he found a green fruit as big and round as a ball. He split the fruit into halves and found the inside of the fruit red. He did not eat it because he was afraid it was poisonous.
   

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VI)-Read this legend, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each gap.
Lac Long Quan and Au Co (Origins of the Vietnamese)
Once upon (41)__________, in the land called Lac Viet, Lac Long Quan, the dragon king of the ocean, lived (42)__________ and sometimes turned to the land to help people fight against demons, (43)__________ them to grow rice and cut wood for building houses.
Lac Long Quan (44)_________ Au Co – the daughter of Agriculture Saint. The couple lived in harmony in a palace. Later, Au Co gave birth to a one-hundred-egg bag, hatching to 100 sons. One day, Lac Long Quan (45)__________ that he couldn’t live (46)__________ the land all the time. He took 50 of their sons to settle down into the sea. The rest (47)______________ Au Co to go up to the mountain.
Although they separated, they remembered to help and protect (48)__________
in need. The eldest son, who followed the mother with 49 brothers, (49)____________
King Hung. He set up his capital in Phong Chau and gave his country the name Van Lang.
From the story, the Vietnamese (50)_______________ always proud of the noble origin: dragon’s children and family’s grandchildren.

41.	A. time	B. a time	C. the time	D. times
42.	A. on water	B. on the water	C. under water	D. under the
				water
43.	A. teach	B. ask	C. learn	D. make
44.	A. got married	B. got married	C. married	D. married with
	with
45.	A. was believed	B. was thought	C. considering	D. felt
46.	A. at	B. on	C. in	D. under
47.	A. follow	B. following	C. followed	D. were followed
48.	A. other	B. each other	C. another	D. others
49.	A. become	B. becoming	C. was	D. became
			becoming
50.	A. is	B. are	C. was	D. were

VII)-Read this legend, and do the tasks that follow. Kitchen Gods

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Once upon a time, there was a childless couple. The wife was faithful and loved the husband passionately while the husband was treated his wife badly. One day he beat the poor wife with a stick and dismissed her from home. The women had to come to another place. She then got married with a kind man, and they lived in harmony.
One afternoon when her husband had gone for hunting, a beggar came and asked for some food. The woman was kind; she filled the poor beggar’s bag and recognized that the beggar was her former husband. The man also recognized his wife then. She felt sorry for the man when hearing that from the day he dismissed her, he was deeply sad and regretful. So he decided to go away to find her until he spent all money and became a beggar.
After being offered a big meal, the man was drunk so the woman had to drag him out and hid him in a stack because it was time for her recent husband to come back from the forest.
After a while, there was a knock at the door, the hunter appeared with a deer on his back. He then happily asked the woman to go to the market to prepare for the dinner. When the woman came back, she found that the stack of straw, where the drunk former husband was sleeping, had been burned with a deer roasted. She cried painfully, and then jumped into the fire. The hunter didn’t know what had happened and what to do but jumped into the fire to die beside his wife.
At that moment, God was in the heaven, he was moved by the story so he turned three of them into three parts of the earthen tripod so that they could live side by side forever and conferred them with the title of Kitchen Gods to oversee all the cooking of people. Every year, they all together came back to the heaven on the 23^rd of the 12^th lunar month to report to God.
Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

	Answer		A	B
	______	51.	childless (adj)	A. to give an official title or honour to somebody
	______	52.	dismiss (v)	B. having no children
	______	53.	moved (adj)	C. to watch something to make sure that it is don
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______	54.	confer (v)	D. having strong feelings of sadness or sympathy
______	55.	oversee (v)	E. to order somebody to leave

Task 2: Read the passage again, and then answer the following questions.

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   Why did the wife have to leave for another place?
   

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   What did the former husband do after dismissing his wife from home?
   

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   Why did the wife jump into the fire?
   

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   What did the hunter do then?
   

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   Why did God turn them into three parts of the earthen tripod?
   

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Task 3: Read again, and then complete the details of the legend by filling in each blank with a suitable word or phrase or not more than four words.
Main characters Character 1: The wife. She was kind, and (61)_____________.
Character 2: The former husband. He treated his wife badly, but after that he felt (62)__________________.
Character 3: The recent husband (the hunter). He was kind and (63)____________ his wife very much.
Plot: beginning Once upon a time, there was a childless couple. The husband treated his wife badly. One day he beat the poor wife and dismissed her from home. The women had to (64)____________. She then got married with a kind man, and they (65)_______________.
Plot: middle One afternoon, when her husband had gone for hunting, a beggar cam and asked for some food. The woman recognized that the beggar as her former husband. She (66)___________ her former husband when hearing that from the day he dismissed her, he was deeply sad and regretful. Therefore, he (67)______________ to find her until he spent all money and became a beggar.
After a big meal, the man was drunk so the woman had to pull him out and hid him in a stack of straw (68)___________ time for her recent husband to come back from the forest.

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Plot: end The hunter appeared with a deer on his back. He then happily
asked the woman to go to the market to prepare for the dinner.
When the woman came back, she found that the stack of straw, where her drunk former husband was sleeping, had been burned with a deer roasted. She cried painfully, and then (69)____________. The hunter didn’t know what had happened and (70)______________ but jumped into the fire to die beside his wife.
God turned three of them into three part of the earthen tripod so that they could live side by side forever and conferred them at Kitchen Gods to oversee all the cooking of people.
VIII)-Make sentences about the fairy tale “The Brave Tin Soldier” by Hans Christian Andersen, using the words and phrases given. You can add some words and make changes.

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   Twenty-five tin toy soldiers/ given/ the boy/ a birthday present.
   

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   The last toy soldier/ only one le/ they/ ran out of tin.
   

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   The one-legged soldier/ see/ the paper dancer/ the table/ and/ fall/ in love/ her.
   

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   The soldier/ placed/ the window sill/ an/ knocked out/ the window.
   

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   He/ put/ a paper boat/ and/ wash away.
   

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   The soldier/ eaten/ a fish.
   

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   When/ the fish/ caught, sold, and cut open/ the soldier/ found inside.
   

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   The soldier/ taken back/ the playroom/ and/ he/ thrown onto the fire.
   

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   The paper dancer/ blown onto the fire.
   

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   The soldier/ melt/ a heart shape.
   

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TEST YOURSELFT 2

I)-Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.
1. ____________ the head of the household cleans the dust and ashes from the altars, children are in charge of sweeping and scrubbing the floor.
A. When B. While C. Because D. Although

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   Seven days before Tet, each Vietnamese family offers a farewell ceremony for “Ong Tao”(the Kitchen Gods) to go up to Heaven Palace, ___________
   

his task is to make an annual report to the Jade Emperor of the family’s
affair throughout the year.
A. and B. but C. so D. yet

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   ___________ the yellow apricot blossoms are more adaptable to the hot weather of southern regions, the pink peach blossoms match well with the
   

	dry, cold weather from the North.
	A. If	B. Although	C. When	D. While
4.	Lucky money is put in red envelopes, ____________ the red envelopes
	symbolize luck and wealth.
	A. and	B. because	C. so	D. yet
5.	____________ you take the fruit, you should think of grower.
	A. Although	B. However	C. When	D. While
6.	You ____________ address a person older than you as Mrs., Miss, Ms. or
	Mr. until the person allows you to use her or his first name.
	A. should	B. shouldn’t	C. don’t have to	D. could
7.	_____________ tips are not given in fast shops, tipping is the usual custom
	in expensive restaurants in England.
	A. However	B. Moreover	C. Even	D. Although
8.	It is the ___________ for Australians to eat with their fingers at barbecues
	or picnics outside the home.
	A. habit	B. belief	C. custom	D. tradition

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II)-Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

9.	The Mountain Spirit (Son Tinh) was very ___________, but the Sea Spirit
	(Thuy Tinh) was _________.
	A. gentle-wise	B. fierce-gentle	C. gentle-fierce	D. wicked-ugly
10.	I think An Tiem was very ____________ to carve the island’s name and his
	own name on the water melon and threw them into the sea.
	A. wise	B. mean	C. generous	D. fierce
11.	The Crow was so ___________ that he painted the Peacock’s feathers with
	bright and beautiful colours.
	A. pretty	B. brave	C. clever	D. beautiful
12.	The Little Mermaid was so ____________ that she didn’t kill the prince with
	the knife.
	A. brave	B. pretty	C. clever	D. generous
13.	The magician had a brother, who was even more _________, and he wanted
	to kill Aladdin.
	A. wicked	B. fierce	C. ugly	D. mean
14.	The elder brother was __________ when he gave his brother only a starfruit
	tree.
	A. lazy	B. mean	C. generous	D. clever
15.	The ___________ king kept all the rice to himself when his people had no
	food. He was very ____________.
	A. selfish-cruel	B. selfish-wise	C. generous-	D. generous-
			cruel	cunning
16.	Giant eagles and waves were very ________ during Captain Sinbad’s
	voyages.
	A. wise	B. ugly	C. fierce	D. generous