UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR.. in many local post office in early morning.. If you go to the post office, please post these letters.. Between the Revolutionary period
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Circle the best answer for each sentence.
1 The hotel staff is friendly and………
2 We are proud our ……… staff, who are always friendly and efficient
A well-done B well-appointed C well-behaved D well-trained
3 EMS stand for ………
A Electronic Mail Service B Express Mail Service
C Economic Mail Service D Environment management Service
4 People can buy daily ………… in many local post office in early morning
5 All post offices in Viet Nam are equipped with advanced ………
6 Fax transmission has now become a cheap and ……… way to transmit texts and graphics over
distance
A inconvenient B convenient C uncomfortable D comfortable
7 If you ………… to your favourite newspapers and magazines, they will be delivered to your house early in the morning
8 Your EMS mail will be ……… in the shortest possible time
9 You can choose to send your letters by air or ……… mail
10 He was a kind and courteous mailman.
11 If you want to send a document and do not want to lose its original shape, our f acsimile service
will help you
12 John often uses Express Money ……… to send money to his parents in the countryside
13 The Messenger Call Service helps you to notify the recipient of the time and place to receive the call.
14 Fax ………… has become more and more popular because it is cheap and convenient
15 If you go to the post office, please post these letters.
16 I can answer the question ……… you say is very difficult
17 This is Mr Jones, ………… invention has helped hundreds of deaf people
18 Tom, ……… sits next to me, is from Canada
19 The volunteers, ……… enthusiasm was obvious, finished the work quickly
20 Many scientists have claimed that ……… like music are often good at mathematics
A children B children who C children whom D whose children
21 My friend, ……… I visited lask week, is taking a holiday soon
22 The doctor re examining a patient ……… was taken to hospital last night
23 A pacifist is a person ……… believes that all wars are wrong
24 My friend, ……… hated horror film, refused to go to the cinema with me
25 Tam, … parents died last year in an accident, has just moved ta Ha Nam to live with his uncle
WRITING: Rewrite the sentences, using relative clauses.
Trang 21 Most of the people speak German They live in Australia.→ ………
2 The bus isn’t running today It goes to Oxford.→………
3 I don’t like the man He is going out with my sister.→………
4 Michelangelo is one of Italy’s greatest artists He lived until he was 90.→ ………
5 Mary was staying with her friend He has a big house in Scotland.→………
6 The person asked me some very difficult questions He interviewed me.→ ………
7 Charlie Chaplin became a very rich man He was from a poor family.→………
8 The 1992 Olympics were held in Barcelona It is in the north-east of Spain.→………
9 The flat is very dirty He lives in it.→ ………
10 This is Jack I stayed during the summer with him.→ ………
11 Helen is the girl I have talked to you about her.→ ………
12 The music sounds really interesting You are listening to it.→ ………
13 I’m waiting for the bus I go to work on it.→ ………
14 That is the house I lived in it when I was young.→ ………
15 The man is called Eric She works for him.→ ………
16 The boy is very nice I go to school with him.→ ………
READING Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer. Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out to improve transportation of the post office mails From those early days to the present, the post office has helped develop and subsidize every new mode transportation in the United States Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery Even when the general public had still suspected of the security of a new means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent By the turn of the 19th century, the U.S Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation’s better post roads – a post road being any road on which the mail travels – and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail safely 1 What was the United States post office set out for? ………
2 What is the most important element in mail delivery? ………
3 What did mail delivery evolve? ………
4 What is any road on which the mail travels called? ……….
Fill in each blank of the sentences with one word from the box.
1 How do people New Year in your country?
2 On the first day of Tet, people often visit relatives and friends to New Year wishes.
3 Japanese usually their houses with some small pine trees, which constancy and
longvity.
4 People believe that what they do on the first day of the year will _ their luck during the whole year.
5 People usually make for Tet severals weeks beforeband.
6 Tet is also the time for children to receive lucky money in red envelopes.
7 Besides the flowers for Tet such as peach flowers and apricot flowers, the kumquat trees are also _ throughout the country.
8 Children are always _ about the Tet holiday
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