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 favourite 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. equipped 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
21. I can answer the question you say is very difficult.
A. which B. whom C. who D. whose
22. This is Mr. Jones, ..invention has helped hundreds of deaf people.
A. which B. that C. whose D. whom
23. Tom, . sits next to me, is from Canada.
A. that B. whom C. who D. whose
24. The volunteers, .. enthusiasm was obvious, finished the work quickly.
A. who B. whom C. whose D. that
25. Many scientists have claimed that like music are often good at mathematics.
A. children B. children who C. children whom D. whose children
26. My friend, I visited last week, is taking a holiday soon.
A. that B. whom C. which D. whose
27. The doctorsre examining a patient was taken to hospital last night.
A. which B. who C. whom D. whose
28. A pacifist is a person .. believes that all wars are wrong.
A. who B. whose C. whom D. which
29. My friend, hated horror film, refused to go to the cinema with me.
A. whom B. which C. whose D. who
30. Tam, ..parents died last year in an accident, has just moved ta Ha Nam to live with his uncle
A. whose B. whom C. who D. which
31. We didnt want to swim in the sea, .looked very dirty.
A. where B. in which C. which D. that
32. The teacher .house is next to mine died this morning.
A. who B. whom C. which D. whose
33. Yesterday I went to I had never been to before.
A. Thanh Ba Post Office, that B. Thanh Ba Post Office where
C. Thanh Ba Post Office which D. Thanh Ba Post Office, which
34. Express Money Transfer is one of the quickest ways helps us to send money.
A. who B. whose C. when D. that
35. The government sent money and food to the people ...houses were destroyed by the storm last
week
A. which B. that C. whom D. whose
36. .has just won an international scholarship.
A. David Pike, whose parents are both teachers. B. David Pike whose parents are both
teachers
C. David Pike parents of who are both teachers D. David Pike, whom parents are both
teachers
37. The restaurant .has just opened has a famous chef.
A. whose B. who C. it D. that
38. This school is only for children ..first language is not English.
A. who B. whose C. which D. that
39. The man had blew off in the wind chased it across the park.
A. his B. who C. whose D. which
40. She lives in the house
A. which has the red door B. has the red door
C. that with the red door D. with its red door

II. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.
41. The waiter whom served us yesterday was polite and friendly.
A B C D
42. This class is only for people whos first language is not Chinese.
A B C D
43. This is the boy who sister studied with me in high school
A B C D
44. He is moving to Lang Son city, that is in the north-east of Viet Nam.
A B C D
45. The girl is standing over there is from Australia
A B C D

C. WRITING:
Rewrite the sentences, using relative clauses.
1. Most of the people speak German. They live in Australia.
.
2. The bus isnt running today. It goes to Oxford.
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3. I dont like the man. He is going out with my sister.
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4. Michelangelo is one of Italys greatest artists. He lived until he was 90.
.
5. Mary was staying with her friend. He has a big house in Scotland.
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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.
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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 Valayers 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 19
th
century, the U.S. Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches
for operation on the nations 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 transportation B. 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 .. .
A. motorway B. highway C. national road D.post road