UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR.
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. People can buy daily …………. in many local post office in early morning.
A. newspapers
B. books
C. postcards
D. letters
5. All post offices in Viet Nam are equipped with advanced ………………….
A. knowledge
B. machines
C. science
D. technology
6. Fax transmission has now become a cheap and ……….. way to transmit texts and graphics over
distance.
A. inconvenient
B. convenient
C. uncomfortable

D. comfortable
7. 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
8 Your EMS mail will be ……………….. in the shortest possible time.
A. provided
B. delivered
C. taken
D. caught
9. You can choose to send your letters by air or …………………..mail.
A. sea
B. land
C. surface
D. hand
10. He was a kind and courteous mailman.
A. polite
B. strict
C. unpleasant
D. rude
11. 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
12. John often uses Express Money ……………..to send money to his parents in the countryside.
A. Change

B. Exchange
C. Transfer
D. Send
13. 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
14. Fax …………..has become more and more popular because it is cheap and convenient.
A. exchange
B. distance
C. sending
D. transmission
15. If you go to the post office, please post these letters.
A. fax
B. sign
C. send
D. stamp
16. I can answer the question ……………… you say is very difficult.
A. which
B. whom
C. who
D. whose
17. This is Mr. Jones, …………..invention has helped hundreds of deaf people.
A. which
B. that
C. whose
D. whom
18. Tom, ……………. sits next to me, is from Canada.
A. that

B. whom
C. who
D. whose
19. The volunteers, …………….. enthusiasm was obvious, finished the work quickly.
A. who
B. whom
C. whose
D. that
20. Many scientists have claimed that ……………… like music are often good at mathematics.
A. children
B. children who
C. children whom
D. whose children
21. My friend, ……………… I visited lask week, is taking a holiday soon.
A. that
B. whom
C. which
D. whose
22. The doctor re examining a patient …………… was taken to hospital last night.
A. which
B. who
C. whom
D. whose
23. A pacifist is a person …………….. believes that all wars are wrong.
A. who
B. whose
C. whom
D. which
24. My friend, ……………… hated horror film, refused to go to the cinema with me.
A. whom

B. which
C. whose
D. who
25. 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
WRITING: Rewrite the sentences, using relative clauses.


1. Most of the people speak German. They live in Australia.→ ……………………………………………………………
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.→……………………………………………………

9. The flat is very dirty. He lives in it.→ ……………………………………………………………………..
10. This is Jack. I stayed during the summer with him.→ ………………………………………………………
11. Helen is the girl. I have talked to you about her.→ ………………………………………………………
12. The music sounds really interesting. You are listening to it.→ …………………………………………………
13. I’m waiting for the bus. I go to work on it.→ ……………………………………………………………………
14. That is the house. I lived in it when I was young.→ …………………………………………………………
15. The man is called Eric. She works for him.→ ………………………………………………………………...
16. The boy is very nice. I go to school with him.→ …………………………………………………………..
READING. 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. What was the United States post office set out for?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. What is the most important element in mail delivery?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. What did mail delivery evolve?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. What is any road on which the mail travels called?

…………………………………………………………………………………………….
Fill in each blank of the sentences with one word from the box.
preparation decorate
popular
wrapped

celebrate
represent

excited
influence


traditional
exchange

1. How do people __________ New Year in your country?
2. On the first day of Tet, people often visit relatives and friends to __________ New Year wishes.
3. Japanese usually ____________ their houses with some small pine trees, which ________ constancy and
longvity.
4. People believe that what they do on the first day of the year will _________ their luck during the whole year.
5. People usually make ________ for Tet severals weeks beforeband.
6. Tet is also the time for children to receive lucky money __________ in red envelopes.
7. Besides the __________ flowers for Tet such as peach flowers and apricot flowers, the kumquat trees are also
_________ throughout the country.
8. Children are always ___________ about the Tet holiday.