Task 1. Choose the correct tenses given in column A with suitable tenses in column B to make sure when you turn into reported speech. (Chọn thì ở cột A với thì thích hợp ở cột B khi chuyển sang câu tường thuật.)

Task 2. Read and choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the passage.
(Đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn đáp án A, B,C hoặc D)

Bicycles

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not (1) earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci had drawn picture for bicycle and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced (2) long after he died.

A person riding a bicycle use (3) energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so in developed (4), most people don't travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel (5) if they ride to work. It's because (6) cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes (7) to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work (8) their cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious. (9) the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths only for bicycle and to make (10) so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.

Task 3. Read the passage and fill one suitable word in each blank.
(Đọc đoạn văn sau và điền vào chỗ trống 1 từ thích hợp.)

The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaptation and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was (1)__ as a specialist tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use (2)___ undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computations in nuclear physics. (3)____ World War Two computers were developed in order to wage counter espionage and break codes used by the enemy. In the post-war years the scope of computers was expanded to include the military industrial complex and academia. Obviously people needed to (4)_____ around these institutions and so there was a need for early network tools. In the 1960's an early version of the Internet, ARPPANET was used in computer science and engineering projects. However, only 10 years later computers were starting to change our lifestyle, the way we do business and many style things (Elliot, 1994) and by the late 1980's networks were expanding to embrace sections of the general public. The (5)_____ was born.