I'm not very keen Phonetics Identify the mistakes My Mom never lets me to go out at night. The teacher which taught us English last year is Mr Smith. Nam suggested practice English in class as much as possible.
Children are very exciting about the trip to Ha Long Bay. Thanh Vi. Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest : 1. Pick out the word that has the main stressed syllable different from the others : 1. Islam 2. Buddhism B. Choose one word that has opposite meaning to the underlined word : 1.
Difficult : A. Finish : A. Fast : A. Pass : A. Refuse : A. Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets : Mrs. Hoa be She first start After she had taught there for ten years, her family move Since then, she be She teach English very well and her students like Fill in the blank space with the correct from of the words in parentheses : 1.
He is a famous She was really Hanoi people are very We enjoyed the Ho Chi Minh City is not In Malaysia, What is the main language of English is the Like Vietnam, Malaysia has The little girl is dancing English people get used to They go to church every Sunday. They are very It rains heavily. He never goes to school on time. He fails the final examination. Make a cross on the correct answer A, B, C or D in the following sentences : 1. The little girl started crying. Next week when there David and Peter It would have been a much more serious accident He promised to telephone I have never heard from him again A.
She came in quietly I had to get up early, Be careful! Instead B. In place C. On behalf D. On account Yes, can I help you? Not at all. Same to you D. Thank you Remember, it is The manager did not offer her the job because of her untidy Never B. None C. Not only He was unable to You will have to Leave it in the oven until it I wonder who drank all the milk yesterday.
He refused to give up work There was nothing special about his clothes You can use my bicycle He missed the lecture, so I lent hum my notes All of them are B. I heard it was very good C. Because I like it Is there a good chance of promotion? I heard it was very good. Anytime after next week D. Anything to do with computers Martin was very That large dog is perfectly He kindly offered to Several items of Nobody knows what the The discovery was a major Remind B.
Remember C. Mention D. Make The police are looking for a man of Henry will not be able to attend the meeting tonight because Mary was sacked, The severe drought I have always wanted to visit Paris, It's big enough to hold 5, people. I have seventeen students, most of The city Working for 12 hours a day I am right,? Either do I B. I do, too C.
Neither do I D. Take B. Taking C. Taken D. Took A If you compare B. Compare them C. When compared D. A comparison I'd prefer to stay at home tonight Near the park is a famous landmark I'd not rather you do B. I'd rather you won't C. I'd rather you don't D. I'd rather you didn't I remember It seems that the world record for this event is almost impossible to My younger sister is very You don't pronounce S" at the end of Arkansas or Illinois.
All Mike's friends felt sorry I can The new secretary in the sales department is a fast typist but her letters are full of spelling It is Jones is a It is necessary for students to listen to their teacher The doctor will not give the patient the test results Have you read this article Some snakes lay eggs, but My father sometimes Your car is We need to In my opinion, her leaving early was a very We could call the TV stations and I like my work because I have the Our company believes it is the best Children will work hard if the lessons are I gave up the job, I like Life here is very Long has finished his work, he will go home.
As quickly as B. As far as C. As soon as D. As long as My father asked me Her eyes were red and puffy Lomonosov was not Since B. Although C. Because D. If Gibbon usually drinks mineral water, but in this party he He keeps working The old manager has just retired, so Jack takes All of us are waiting the man Please don't be so I can't do all the work by myself. Ken asked Barbara Having not B.
Because having C. Having D. It is raining outside, and Tom brought his umbrella with him Dogs are good traveling companions. They will go Maryam is the one on the corner. Although B. Despite D. S1 : Hello. You must be Maryam. I must be B. I may be C. UNIT 2: I. Pick out the word that is of different topic from the others : 1. It is first time for me to watch an Her performance was greeted with My sleeveless sweater is much more Lines of poetry on ao dai look modern and very She has introduced her earliest fashion collection on the Uniforms make students Jeans and T.
Maryam to Hanoi last year. Some designers have He is very rich, so he can live The singer looks Team games help to We like going in his car as he is a This stamp Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one : 1. It was such a bad news that Mai burst into tears. The news England is The flight to Ho Chi Minh city lasted one hour and a half. It took The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.
The paintings Computers are used to design new models. When did you start working in that factory? How long Change these sentences into the passive voice : 1. We rang the church bells as a flood warning. Someone gives us more information. They told her to stop behaving like a child. The police gave her two weeks in which to pay the fine. The burglars have cut an big hole in the steel door. Nhung expected them to offer her the job. The storm destroyed some big trees yesterday. My mother sent us a lot of moon cakes.
My family has visited Dam Sen Amusement Park. No longer John works B. John does work C. His parents could not help Hundreds of animals are reported Her idea about I am always nervous when taking an exam.
Taking an exam always makes me nervous. I am taking a nervous exam. The exam I am taking is nervous.
It is a nervous exam that I am taking. Since the end of the 20th century, English Expensive as they are, cars are widely used in the US. Because they are expensive B.
Due to they are expensive C. They are too expensive D. Although they are expensive 8. Both televisions and computers The teacher recommended They suggest that beer Her natural Dr Fox is a well.
After which B. When C. Since D. She studies well she is busy. This guy died in , ten years before I was born. This was a marathon I ran willingly. And, at the finish line, I loved John Coltrane. There's no doubt Coltrane was a technical wizard, rumoured to practice more than 12 hours a day. But as he moved from his relatively reserved early work with Miles Davis to the much wilder My Favorite Things and, shortly before his death, to the challenging free jazz of Interstellar Space , his music shed traditional Western harmony, structure and rhythm.
That didn't bother me — I loved Coltrane in all flavours. Yet, his later music's seeming randomness made me question what I'd been hearing all along. Does Naima — a beautiful, plaintive Coltrane ballad named for his first wife — really convey meaning in the way that, say, the prose of Ernest Hemingway, the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, or the lyrics of PJ Harvey do?
Or, as beautiful as the song is, is it all shimmer and no substance? Is Coltrane just sort of noodling around — creating a sound and fury signifying nothing? Such doubts didn't prevent me from studying jazz at university and playing quite a bit of it — poorly — myself. But by my mids, jazz was beginning to bring me low-level panic attacks.
Listening to, say, A Love Supreme , once my favourite Coltrane record, I found the music sounded more like one damned note after another. I could understand what Coltrane was doing aesthetically — I had a music degree — but his effort seemed pointless. Sure, the classic quartet — Coltrane plus pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones — sounded like a force of nature, but nature is indifferent to humanity. Meanwhile, other artists I'd admired — Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, even Ella Fitzgerald — just seemed to be making songs up as they went along.
Well of course they were! The music enshrined in museums, on postage stamps and in Ken Burns documentaries sounded smug. It was lazy, overconfident, resting on its laurels, re-hashing glory days I'd missed by decades.
At least Bach bothered to write everything down. What was the point of listening to Take the A Train or Giant Steps or the squawking Meditations when the medium seemed to have no message? So I went on a jazz fast. Billions lead satisfying lives without John Coltrane — so could I.
When I attempted to explain my jazz problem in conversation or in print, I was met with derision. Last year, an editorial I wrote for the Washington Post on the subject earned hundreds of hate emails and comments, including a brutal response from one colleague. Some I suspected or knew were less familiar with the music than I am insisted I was ignorant — that I, somehow, hadn't listened to the right jazz.
It's a good question. Perhaps because I once loved jazz so much, I'm compelled to ask hard questions about it in attempt to figure out why I don't love it anymore. Or maybe I — misguidedly — think that the musings of one cultural critic will push jazz forward into brighter territory. What about you? Do you love jazz or hate it?
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