Đề thi HK1 môn Tiếng Anh 9 năm 2021-2022 - Trường THCS Trần Hưng Đạo

Read the passage, and choose the best answer. Good manners are a treasure to the people who possess them, as well as to the community they live in. Manners are taught, learnt, and passed from generation to generation. Even hundreds of years ago, children were taught to behave responsibly. They learnt to respect seniority. When they passed an object to another person, they had to use both hands. When they entered a room, they had to bow and greet the oldest person first. Boys learnt to work hard to support their families. Girls learnt to do housework, and to take care of others. Loyalty and honesty were highly appreciated. When they made a mistake, they would not let another person be punished for it. That would be cowardly and mean. They were taught that families were strong, and everybody should stick together in adversity. Fortunately, many of these values have been well preserved. They have contributed to making the unique Vietnamese culture, and strengthening our society.

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage. During the war, children wore straw hats to (11)_________ themselves from debris. Houses and schools were bombed and destroyed. Many children were made (12)_________ and their schools had to be moved around or lessons sometimes had to (13)_________ after dark to avoid being targeted by heavy bombing. Many schools had its roof (14)_________ with several layers of straw to withstand the (15)_________ of the bombs. Life for children was very hard in both the North and South of Viet Nam during the war. Young people were (16)_________ of their duty to serve their country. Even young girls took part in the war efforts by digging bomb shelters. Children took first-aid courses after school so that they could (17)_________ injured people. Childhood years of children born in the 1960s are (18)_________ . As innocent children, they went to school (19) _________ straw hats in the sounds of American jet fighters in the sky and the shots from Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns. Nowadays, they are proud that they came through those hardships. They had their heads held (20)_________ walking out of the war.

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