To : Basketball TeamThere will be a basketball competition for junior high students in our city. The contest

will be held next month, June 8 to 12 in the sports center not far from our school. We were

the runners-up last year, so we have to become the best this year. Therefore, our team will

practice every day during this month. Please gather at the school basketball court after

school today for our first practice. We have to win. Keep up the good team work.

Basketball Coach,

Mr Aly
8. Why do they have to keep up their good team work?

A. They will join the competition.

B. They want to be a good team.

C. They want to be the winner.

D. Their coach is Mr. Aly.

9. Where will the basketball competition be held?

A. At the school basketbal court.

B. In the nearby sports center.

C. At the center of the school.

D. In the city center.

1. Turn on the machine by preesing the “ON” button. It is usually on the top of the

photocopy machine, on the control panel. Some machines have a power switch on

the side.

2. Open the cover of the photocopy machine and put your sheets on the glass surface

underneath.

3. Pay attention to put the paperproperty.

4. Select the number of copies at the display at the control panel of the photocopier.

5. Press the color button or “Black and White.” Some of fotocopy machines are color

copiers.

6. Choose the accurate size paper on the control panel.

7. Reset the original image, large, or smaller if necessary.

8. For your pleasure, you can set other image editing features or functions on the

photocopier.

9. Press “Start: or “Copy” button, it is usually the largest button on the control panel.

10. According the text to make a colored copy, we should . . . .

A. choose the appropriate size paper

B. switch “Black and White” button

C. select the number of copies

D. press the color button

11. Based on the text, the writer wants to tell us about how to . . . .

A. make a photocopier

B. operate the photocopier

C. turn on the photocopier

D. the steps to make a cup of coffee

12. To determine the size of the paper, we can find it on . . . .

A . black and white button

B. start and copy button

C. on and off button

D. the control panel

Once a farmer went to the nest of his goose and found there an egg. It was yellow and

shiny. When he picked it up, it was heavy as a rock. He was about to trow it away because he

thought that someone was playing atrick on him. But on the second thought, he took it home,

and discovered to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold!

He sold the egg for alot of money. Every morning the goose laid another golden egg,

and the farmer soon became rich by selling the eggs. As he grew rich, he also grew greedy.

“Why should I have to wait to get only one egg a day?” he thought, “ I will kill the goose

and take all eggs out of her at once.”

When the goose heard the farmer’s plan, she flew away to a nearby farm. So when the

farmer came out the next day, do you know what he found in the goose’s nest? Nothing.
13. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. The farmer became a rich and greedy man.

B. The man farmer took the goose home.

C. The goose laid a golden egg.

D. The farmer killed the goose.

14. What did the farmer do after he found the egg in the nest?

A. He bounght it to the market.

B. He cooked it for dinner.

C. He brought it home.

D. He threw it away.

15. “When the goose heard the farmer’s plan …”

The underlined word is closest in meaning to ....

A. looked

B. listened

C. spoke

D. told

16. What can we learn from the story above?

A. Success needs sacrifice.

B. We must be careful with a strange man.

C. We have to care and share to anyone needs.

D. Someone who wants more, he/she will lose what she/he already has.​