1 Listen to a radio programme about therapy dogs. Choose the correct answers (a-d).

(Nghe một chương trình radio về trị liệu chó. Chọn câu trả lời đúng (a-d).)

1 Why does the presenter use the quote about animals at the start of the programme?

a To show how affectionate they are.

b To explain how considerate they are.

c To illustrate how ignorant they are.

d To emphasise how trusting they are.

2 According to Freya Wilcox, Alzheimer's patients are generally

a easy-going.

b insecure.

c thick-skinned.

d vain.

3 During the therapy dogs' visits, the patients tend to be

a more sympathetic.

b hungrier.

c more upbeat.

d more single-minded.

4 To be a therapy dog, an animal must

a have the right personality.

b know a lot of people.

c be wary of strange noises.

d understand body language.

5 Why do the dogs go home at night?

a In order to spend some time with their trainers.

b So as not to catch an illness from the patients.

c To be clean and rested for the next day's work.

d So that they don't disturb the patients.

2 Work in pairs. You want to give an elderly relative a pet to keep him or her company. Say which of these pets you would choose and why. Say why you are rejecting the other option.

(Làm việc theo cặp. Bạn muốn tặng một người thân lớn tuổi một con thú cưng để bầu bạn với họ. Cho biết bạn sẽ chọn vật nuôi nào trong số những vật nuôi này và tại sao. Nói lý do tại sao bạn từ chối lựa chọn khác.)

3 Match texts (A-C) with questions (1-6) below. Some texts match with more than one question.

(Nối văn bản (A-C) với câu hỏi (1-6) bên dưới. Một số văn bản phù hợp với nhiều hơn một câu hỏi.)

Which meeting...

1 was held in order for an important question to be asked? ☐

2 lasted for less than an hour? ☐

3 involved people of different nationalities? ☐

4 was organised privately? ☐

5 involved the exchange of gifts? ☐

6 resulted in a long-term association between the participants? ☐

Three monumental meetings in history

A

On 4 May 1904, a meeting was held between two British businessmen that resulted in one of the most famous automobile partnerships in history. After purchasing a car whose performance he was dissatisfied with, Frederick Henry Royce had succeeded in creating his own model that gave the occupants a quieter and smoother ride. One of these vehicles was purchased by Royce's colleague Henry Edmunds, who was friends with a car dealer in London called Charles Stewart Rolls. Edmunds showed Rolls his new car and arranged for Rolls and Royce to meet over lunch at the Midland Hotel in Manchester. The two men began doing business together, and on 15 March 1906, Rolls-Royce Limited was born. Unfortunately, the partnership ended rather abruptly four years later when Rolls was killed in a plane crash. However, the company continued, and the Rolls-Royce went on to become arguably one of the best cars in the world.

B

On 17 July 1975, a meeting occurred that a few years earlier would have been unthinkable. On that day, US astronaut Thomas Stafford and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov exchanged the first international handshake in space. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, named after the two spacecraft involved, was a joint venture organised by the US and Soviet governments to demonstrate the improved relations between the two nations. The Apollo and the Soyuz were launched on 15 July within seven and a half hours of each other, and they met over France, where the two spacecraft joined. They stayed connected for nearly two days, long enough for the three Americans and two Soviets to visit each other's ships, conduct experiments together, share meals and converse in each other's languages. One of the gifts they exchanged was a bag of tree seeds which were later planted in the two countries.

C

On 27 March 1997, a rather awkward meeting took place before the press in a Tennessee state prison hospital. The participants were two men: Dexter King, son of the murdered civil rights activist Martin Luther King, and James Earl Ray, the man who had been convicted of the assassination. King was 36 when the meeting happened, and Ray was 69 and very sick - he had to be taken to the meeting room in a wheelchair. During the 25 minutes the two men spent together, King asked Ray if he had killed King's father. Ray, who confessed to the killing at the time of his arrest, but then withdrew his confession, replied that he hadn't, to which King responded, 'I believe you.' Whether Ray was the killer or the murder was a government conspiracy will always remain a mystery because Ray died of liver disease a year later in prison.

10 a bring about

b bring in

c bring up

5 Some people say that you can't be friends with a person you hardly ever see. Write an essay in which you give your opinion of this view and show how a friendship of yours illustrates this.

(Một số người nói rằng bạn không thể làm bạn với một người mà bạn hiếm khi gặp mặt. Viết một bài luận trong đó bạn đưa ra ý kiến của mình về quan điểm này và cho thấy tình bạn của bạn minh họa điều này như thế nào.)