Bài soạn Tiếng Anh khối lớp 11 - Unit 1: Friendship

 Unit 1: FRIENDSHIP
A. Pronunciation
I. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different.
1.	A. acquaintance	B. quality	C. interest	D. sympathy 
2.	A. mutual	B. affair	C. insist	D. constant
3.	A. unselfishness	B. impossible	C. understanding	D. relationship
4.	A. principle	B. benefit	C. interview	D. guitarist
5.	A. incapable	B. hospitable	C. intelligent	D. Mathematics
II. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
6.	A. survive	B. live	C. hive	D. five 
7.	A. recite	B. either	C. favorite	D. motorbike
8.	A. poem	B. only	C. rumor	D. sorrow
9.	A. object	B. generous	C. village	D. change
10.	A. remain	B. Britain	C. remain	D. attraction
B. Vocabulary and Grammar
III. Choose one best answer to complete each sentence below.
11. I must admit he has a very good ________ of humor.
A. sense	B. sensation	C. sensibility	D. sensor 
12. Globalization means there will be more and more ________ affairs.
A. two-way	B. two-faced	C. two-sided	D. two-side
13. When you do not care about somebody, you do not think ________ of them.
A. many	B. much	C. high	D. several
14. A happy couple should be based on ________ understanding.
A. each other	B. one another	C. mutual	D. together
15. The headmaster is well-known for his strict working _________.
A. principles	B. laws	C. principals	D. either A or B
16. Please look at the people in these photos and describe their physical ________.
A. character	B. identify	C. identification	D. characteristics 
17. A ________ person is the one who is pleasant and friendly.
A. quick-witted	B. good-natured	C. caring	D. studious
18. Nowadays, ________ building is popular accommodation.
A. department	B. compartment	C. closet	D. apartment
19. Mary and John are good friends. They have many things in ________.
A. similarity	B. common	C. familiarity	D. same
20. At the end of the semester, teachers have a lot of work _________.
A. did	B. doing	C. to do	D. do
21. Did you hear him ________ that night? His voice was so sweet.
A. sang	B. sing	C. sung	D. to sing 
22. When you are a student, there will be hundreds of things ________ of.
A. thought	B. to be thought	C. think	D. to think
23. The man is of medium ________.
A. high	B. tall	C. long	D. height 
24. He must be very intelligent because he has a ________ forehead.
A. broad	B. tall	C. long	D. height
25. It’s difficult to keep us apart since we have a _________ friendship.
A. long-life	B. lifelong	C. life	D. living
IV. Find out one mistake in each sentence.
26. In order to avoid boredom, you should take on an internet.
A B C D 
27. To tell you the truth. I don’t feel any attraction on this object.
A B C D
28. His face looks pale. He seems to tired of what has happened to his family.
 A B C D
29. If you still insist in your own way, I have nothing to say to you.
 A B C D
30. I like everything about him except for his crook nose.
 A B C D
31. Do you not think that good-look appearance can get people a good job?
 A B C D 
32. She can never forget the moment when she won the first international price.
 A B C D
33. Vietnamese students are well-known for their eager to learn.
 A B C D
34. Each student in the class takes turning to answer the teacher’s questions.
 A B C D
35. I’m so sorry because I’m not in a position to let you to go without permission.
 A B C D
36. You can tell him to fetch food for you but you can’t make him eating it.
 A B C D 
37. Thinking about the moment I saw the car to run over the dog is hair-raising.
 A B C D
38. Whenever Janet goes to bed, she feels a hand touched her head.
 A B C D
39. Working overtime means that the employer has to pay some addition money.
 A B C D
40. When you are lonely and sad, you will need a help hand.
 A B C D
C. Reading
V. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer.
Passage 1:
Friendship is a gift of God. Some of us are blessed with good friends. But as it happens, these friendships are taken for granted in some cases and not valued. It is similar to a case of two couples. Say one has no child even after many years of marriage and the other has many children, more than they can manage. What do you think? Will the couple with many children value the children as much as the couple which has none? Everything is relative in life. We value what we don’t have and give less valuable to what is freely available with us. Friendship is one such relationship. Why should we value friendships? What qualities does a good friend bring in our relationship that makes the friendship so valuable? Let us examine some of these.
Judgment – a good friend is rarely judgmental. We can be open in our behavior with our good friends because we know that they will not judge us. We can enjoy this freedom only with friends. It is nothing short of a blessing, because with other people our actions and behavior are always calculated and guarded and that takes away lots of pleasure from our life.
Share sorrow and losses – a friend can be depended upon to share all our problems and sorrows. This sharing may not reduce the impact of loss but helps us to burden ourselves. This is no small gift of friendship. Once I saw the image of a man left alone in the village after an earthquake. The whole villages got killed except this man. With who, will this man share his sorrow? A friend gives us this gift.
Hope – During our times of trouble, only a friend comes forward and gives us encouragement and hope. With that inspiration one begins afresh. At times in life when we feel totally devastated and hopeless, and when our self-esteem reaches a big low, a friend helps us regain confidence in ourselves.
41. Which statement is the best summary of the reading text?
	A. Friendship is a precious thing in the life.	B. It’s hard to keep a valuable friendship.
	C. Friendship and its qualities.	D. Friendship gives us hope.
42. Which statement is not mentioned in the text?
	A. What is not owned is valued.	B. Friendship is relative.
	C. Good friends rarely judge one another.	D. A good friend can share your happiness
43. Which statement is true according to the text?
	A. All of us have good friends.
	B. There are three main qualities that keep our friendship valuable.
	C. A good friend always helps us reduce the pain.
	D. A good friend cannot help you when you are hopeless.
44. “Some of us are blessed with good friends”. To be blessed means:
	A. to be happy to have	B. to be lucky to have
	C. to be easy to have	D. to be chosen to have
45. Which statement is the author’s idea?
	A. The couple with a lot of children do not value them as much as the couple which do not have any.
	B. Friendship gives us freedom.
	C. A friend gives us presents.
	D. A friend gives us hope and helps us overcome our difficulties. 
Passage 2:
Nothing good may last forever. If we think that a good friendship will last forever, we may be wrong. Every friendship may end. Very few friendships survive. And they are lucky friendships. We develop many friends in our childhood. And go on our separate ways in high school. Most of the childhood friendships end at that stage, and new friendships are formed. Same pattern is repeated after college. We go in different directions to pursue different careers. The contact with friends is lost and slowly these friendships also end.
Friendship is like a river. It flows towards its destination and on the way it meets many interesting people. But relations between friends change with changing circumstances. Don’t you think that the friendship undergoes a change if one of the friends gets married? The entry of a new person may bring irreversible change in friendship. Similarly disagreement over issues may bring very old friendships to a sudden end. A friendship is formed because friends have common interests and opinions. Once they begin having different opinions, there are more disagreements compared to agreements in the relationship. This sours the friendship.
There are some other factors that damage friendships. For example, friends sometimes have expectations. Relationships are not always totally selfless. If a friend fails to meet needs of another friend when required, it hurts the friendship badly. Imagine two friends, both begin their career with the same income. Say that after few years, one of them becomes much richer than the other. Will the friendship retain its old charm? It looks difficult.
Every relationship has its up and down. It is for us to think optimistically or be a pessimist, knowing well that every friendship may end one day. Why should we think about how friendships may go bad tomorrow? Why not enjoy the relations today and let tomorrow worry about itself? Friendships do die for different reasons. But it is not a universal law. Many friendships survive over a long period and give immense joy to the friends. Why not take your friendships as one of those types and nature them?