Bài tập ôn tập Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Unit 9: The post office

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1. UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE A. PHONETICS I. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words. 1) A. facsimile B. transfer C. spacious D. fax 2) A. equipped B. delivered C. transferred D. received 3) A. helps B. provides C. documents D. texts II. Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words. 4) A. courteous B. subscribe C. service D. customer 5) A. technology B. distribution C. delivery D. facsimile 6) A. advanced B. technology C. express D. spacious B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. I. Circle the best answer for each sentence. 1. The hotel staff is friendly and A. unhelpful B. courteous C. discourteous D. impolite 2. We are proud our staff, who are always friendly and efficient. A. well-done B. well-appointed C. well-behaved D. well-trained 3. EMS stand for A. Electronic Mail Service B. Express Mail Service C. Economic Mail Service D. Environment management Service 4. If someone want to send a document and does not want to lose its , facsimile service will help you. A. beginning B. last C. original D. recent 5. People can buy daily . in many local post office in early morning. A. newspapers B. books C. postcards D. letters 6. All post offices in Viet Nam are equipped with advanced . A. knowledge B. machines C. science D. technology 7. Fax transmission has now become a cheap and way to transmit texts and graphics over distance. A. inconvenient B. convenient C. uncomfortable D. comfortable 8. If you to your favorite newspapers and magazines, they will be delivered to your house early in the morning. A. buy B. book C. pay D. subscribe 9. Post offices offer a special mail service which is called A. ESM B. EMS C. SEM D. MES 10 Your EMS mail will be in the shortest possible time. A. provided B. delivered C. taken D. caught 11. You can choose to send your letters by air or mail. A. sea B. land C. surface D. hand 12. Can you send it to me fax. A. through B. by C. on D. in 13. Could you fax it me? A. with B. on C. to D. through 14. Mrs. Pike has just bought some kitchen .for her new house. A. equip B. equiped C. equipment D. equipping 15. He was a kind and courteous mailman. A. polite B. strict C. unpleasant D. rude 16. If you want to send a document and do not want to lose its original shape, our facsimile service will help you A. post B. express C. parcel D. fax 17. John often uses Express Money to send money to his parents in the countryside. A. Change B. Exchange C. Transfer D. Send 18. The Messenger Call Service helps you to notify the recipient of the time and place to receive the call. A. receiver B. fax C. call D. telephone 19. Fax has become more and more popular because it is cheap and convenient. A. exchange B. distance C. sending D. transmission 20. If you go to the post office, please post these letters. A. fax B. sign C. send D. stamp
2. → . 2. The bus isn’t running today. It goes to Oxford. → . 3. I don’t like the man. He is going out with my sister. → . 4. Michelangelo is one of Italy’s greatest artists. He lived until he was 90. → . 5. Mary was staying with her friend. He has a big house in Scotland. → . 6. The person asked me some very difficult questions. He interviewed me. → . 7. Charlie Chaplin became a very rich man. He was from a poor family. → . 8. The 1992 Olympics were held in Barcelona. It is in the north-east of Spain. → . D. READING: I. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. In 1953, a Frenchman, De Valayer (1) . a postal system in Paris. He set up mail (2) And delivered any letters placed in them if they used envelopes (3) .only he sold. (4) enemy put live mice into the letter boxes and ruined De Valayer’s business. A schoolmate from England, Rowland Hill (5) the adhesive postage stamp in 1837, an act for which he was knighted. Through his efforts the first stamp in the world was issued in England in 1840. hill created the first uniform postage rates that were based on weight, rather than size. 1. A. established B. erected C. rebuilt D. discovered 2. A. contains B. cans C. bottles D. boxes 3. A. whom B. where C. whose D. which 4. A. A B. An C. The D. x 5. A. operated B. worked C. invented D. examined II. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer. Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out to improve transportation of the post office mails. From those early days to the present, the post office has helped develop and subsidize every new mode transportation in the United States. Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery. Even when the general public had still suspected of the security of a new means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process. As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent. By the turn of the 19th century, the U.S. Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation’s better post roads – a post road being any road on which the mail travels – and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail safely. 1. The passage is about ___. A. transportation of the Post Office in the US B. the Post Office in the Revolutionary period C. the Post Office in the World War I D. transportation and public ideas 2. According to the passage, the main purpose of the Post Office is ___ A. to develop transportationB. to apply new mean of transportation C. to deliver mail as safely and fast as possible D. to subsidize every new mode of transportation 3. Which means of transportation used in the Post Office is NOT referred in the passage? A. train B. car C. plane D. motorcycle 4. The Post Office ___. A. has never used helicopters in delivery B. contributes income to build highways, railroads, and airways C. has never been the first to use a new means of transportation D. makes no contribution to build roads 5. Any road on which the mail travels is called .