Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT 2027 môn Tiếng Anh — Đề ôn luyện số 5

When Minh moved into a university dormitory, his roommate turned out to be Kofi, an exchange student from Ghana. For the first few days, both of them felt awkward and hardly spoke. (1) _______, they discovered a shared love of football and spicy food, and within a few weeks they had become close friends.

Friendships like theirs are becoming more common as more young people study and work abroad. Such relationships offer benefits (2) _______. Having a friend from another culture encourages people to question assumptions they had never noticed before, from how to greet an older person to what counts as being on time.

Of course, these friendships also come with challenges. Jokes do not always translate, and a gesture that is friendly in one culture may seem rude in another. (3) _______, small misunderstandings can quickly turn into hurt feelings. Experts suggest that the key is curiosity rather than judgement: (4) _______, it is better to ask about it.

For Minh, the greatest lesson has been about himself. "Explaining Vietnamese customs to Kofi made me realise how much I had taken them for granted," he says. Their friendship is a reminder that (5) _______.