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Write the following sentences, paying attention to the subject, the object or the adverbial modifier of the sentence:Ex: The neighbor told them about it.- It was the neighbor who/that told them about it.20. He already plays for national spide, he only turned professional last year.--...................................................................................................................
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Write the following sentences, paying attention to the subject, the object or the adverbial modifier of the sentence:
Ex: The neighbor told them about it.
-> It was the neighbor who/that told them about it.
20. He already plays for national spide, he only turned professional last year.
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VERB TENSE
1. He (arrive)________ home five minutes past eight last night.
2. He was very polite. Whenever he (meet)________me, he (say)_____ Hello
3. He (write)______a letter when he ( break)_______the pencil
4. As soon as you (get) _______her letter, she (arrive)_______in Paris
5. I (go) ______to the post office to ask my package, but they (say)_____that it ( not, arrive)______yet
6. When I (finish ) _______my writing test, all of the students ( already, go)_______
7. Miss Clark (be)...
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VERB TENSE
1. He (arrive)________ home five minutes past eight last night.
2. He was very polite. Whenever he (meet)________me, he (say)_____" Hello"
3. He (write)______a letter when he ( break)_______the pencil
4. As soon as you (get) _______her letter, she (arrive)_______in Paris
5. I (go) ______to the post office to ask my package, but they (say)_____that it ( not, arrive)______yet
6. When I (finish ) _______my writing test, all of the students ( already, go)_______
7. Miss Clark (be) _______with this company for two years now
8. He says he (just, arrive)__________home from work
9. Mary is very nervours because she ( never, see)________such a big sea
write down in big letters the three dreams you have for this new year share them with your friends
10 Your EMS mail will be ……………….. in the shortest possible time.A. provided B. delivered C. taken D. caught11. You can choose to send your letters by air or …………………..mail.A. sea B. land C. surface D. hand12. Can you send it to me ……………..fax.A. through B. by C. on D. in13. Could you fax it ……………me?A. with B. on C. to D. through14. He was a kind and courteous mailman.A. polite B. strict C. unpleasant D. rude15. If you want to send a document and do not want to lose its original shape, our facsimil...
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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. He was a kind and courteous mailman.
A. polite B. strict C. unpleasant D. rude
15. 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
16. John often uses Express Money ……………..to send money to his parents in the countryside.
A. Change B. Exchange C. Transfer D. Send
17. 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
18. Fax …………..has become more and more popular because it is cheap and convenient.
A. exchange B. distance C. sending D. transmission
19. If you go to the post office, please post these letters.
A. fax B. sign C. send D. stamp
20. The post office offers the ...... Mail Service which is particularly fast.
A. Secure B. Efficient C. Express D. Reliable
Combine the following pairs of groups of sentences , using relative pronouns
11. We lit a fire . It soon dried out our clothes
12. They rowed across the Atlantic. Thís had never been done before
`13. The lorry crashed into a bus-load of schoolchildren. Six of them were slightly injured
14. She refuses to use machines . This makes her work more arduous
15. I met Mary .She asked me to give you this
16. The women preayed aloud all night. This kept us awake
17. The river bed is uneven an...
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Combine the following pairs of groups of sentences , using relative pronouns
11. We lit a fire . It soon dried out our clothes
12. They rowed across the Atlantic. Thís had never been done before
`13. The lorry crashed into a bus-load of schoolchildren. Six of them were slightly injured
14. She refuses to use machines . This makes her work more arduous
15. I met Mary .She asked me to give you this
16. The women preayed aloud all night. This kept us awake
17. The river bed is uneven and you may be in shallow water one moment and in dêp water the next . This makes it unsafe for non-swimmers
18. Mary said that there should be a notice up warning people. Mary's children couldn't swim
19. Ann said that there were far too many notices. ANn's chidren could swim very well
20. HE paid me 5 for cleaning ten windowns . Most of them hadn't been cleaned for at least a year
VI. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible In meaning to the original sentence, but using the word given in capital letters, which must not be altered in any way. 1. You really ought to find a steady job. HIGH 2. The only weapons the soldiers had were old-fashioned rifles. MEANS3. Second-hand cars are never a good buy. TIME4. No obstacle was allowed to stand in the way of the director’s new project. SWEPT5. The Minister gave no precise figures about the cas...
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VI. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible In meaning to the original sentence, but using the word given in capital letters, which must not be altered in any way.
1. You really ought to find a steady job. HIGH
2. The only weapons the soldiers had were old-fashioned rifles. MEANS
3. Second-hand cars are never a good buy. TIME
4. No obstacle was allowed to stand in the way of the director’s new project. SWEPT
5. The Minister gave no precise figures about the casualties. GO INTO
6. If you wish to complain, you must write a letter. WRITING
7. You don’t seem very well. Take a few days’ holiday. RUN
8. We should abolish all these antiquated customs. DONE
9. You can’t prevent children from getting colds in winter. SUSCEPTIBLE
10. There’s an office party on Friday. Why don’t you come? FANCY
30 tháng 7 2019 lúc 14:05
The Penny Black
It might not have looked very impressive, but the Penny Black, now 170 years old, was the first stamp to be created and it launched the modem postal system in Britain.
Before 1840 and the arrival of the Penny Black, you had to be rich and patient to use the Royal Mail. Delivery was charged according to the miles travelled and the number of sheets of paper used; a 2-page letter sent from Edinburgh to London, for example, would have cost 2 shillings, or more than £7 in today’s mo...
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The Penny Black
It might not have looked very impressive, but the Penny Black, now 170 years old, was the first stamp to be created and it launched the modem postal system in Britain.
Before 1840 and the arrival of the Penny Black, you had to be rich and patient to use the Royal Mail. Delivery was charged according to the miles travelled and the number of sheets of paper used; a 2-page letter sent from Edinburgh to London, for example, would have cost 2 shillings, or more than £7 in today’s money. And when the top-hatted letter carrier came to deliver it, it was the recipient who had to pay for the postage. Letter writers employed various ruses to reduce the cost, doing everything possible to cram more words onto a page. Nobody bothered with heavy envelopes; instead, letters would be folded and sealed with wax. You then had to find a post office - there were no pillar boxes - and hope your addressee didn't live in one of the several rural areas which were not served by the system. If you were lucky, your letter would arrive (it could take days) without being read or censored.
The state of mail had been causing concern throughout the 1830s, but it was Rowland Hill, an inventor, teacher and social reformer from Kidderminster, who proposed a workable plan for change. Worried that a dysfunctional, costly service would stifle communication just as Britain was in the swing of its second industrial revolution, he believed reform would ease the distribution of ideas and stimulate trade and business, delivering the same promise as the new railways.
Hill’s proposal for the penny post, which meant any letter weighing less than half an ounce (14 grams) could be sent anywhere in Britain for about 30p in today’s money, was so radical that the Postmaster General, Lord Lichfield, said, 'Of all the wild and visionary schemes which I ever heard of, it is the most extravagant.’ Lord Lichfield spoke for an establishment not convinced of the need for poor people to post anything. But merchants and reformers backed Hill. Soon the government told him to make his scheme work. And that meant inventing a new type of currency.
Hill quickly settled on 'a bit of paper covered at the back with a glutinous wash which the user might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of a letter’. Stamps would be printed in sheets of 240 that could be cut using scissors or a knife. Perforations would not arrive until 1854. The idea stuck, and in August 1839 the Treasury launched a design competition open to ‘all artists, men of science and the public in general’. The new stamp would need to be resistant to forgery, and so it was a submission by one Mr Cheverton that Hill used as the basis for one of the most striking designs in history. Cheverton, who worked as a sculptor and an engineer, determined that a portrait of Queen Victoria, engraved for a commemorative coin when she was a 15-year-old princess, was detailed enough to make copying difficult, and recognisable enough to make fakes easy to spot. The words ‘Postage’ and ‘One Penny’ were added alongside flourishes and ornamental stars. Nobody thought to add the word ‘Britain’, as it was assumed that the stamps would solely be put to domestic use.
With the introduction of the new postal system, the Penny Black was an instant hit, and printers struggled to meet demand. By the end of 1840, more than 160 million letters had been sent - more than double the previous year. It created more work for the post office, whose reform continued with the introduction of red letter boxes, new branches and more frequent deliveries, even to the remotest address, but its lasting impact on society was more remarkable.
Hill and his supporters rightly predicted that cheaper post would improve the ‘diffusion of knowledge’. Suddenly, someone in Scotland could be reached by someone in London within a day or two. And as literacy improved, sections of society that had been disenfranchised found a voice.
Tristram Hunt, an historian, values the ‘flourishing of correspondence’ that followed the arrival of stamps. ‘While I was writing my biography of Friedrich Engels I could read the letters he and Marx sent between Manchester and London,’ he says. ‘They wrote to each other three times a day, pinging ideas back and forth so that you can almost follow a real-time correspondence.’
The penny post also changed the nature of the letter. Weight-saving tricks such as cross-writing began to die out, while the arrival of envelopes built confidence among correspondents that mail would not be stolen or read. And so people wrote more private things - politically or commercially sensitive information or love letters. ‘In the early days of the penny post, there was still concern about theft,’ Hunt says. ‘Engels would still send Marx money by ripping up five-pound notes and sending the pieces in different letters.’ But the probity of the postal system became a great thing and it came to be expected that your mail would not be tampered with.
For all its brilliance, the Penny Black was technically a failure. At first, post offices used red ink to cancel stamps so that they could not be used again. But the ink could be removed. When in 1842, it was determined that black ink would be more robust, the colour of the Penny Black became a sort of browny red, but Hill’s brainchild had made its mark.
1. One of the characteristics of the postal service before the 1840s was that
A. postmen were employed by various organisations.
B. letters were restricted to a certain length.
C. distance affected the price of postage.
D. the price of delivery kept going up.
2. Letter writers in the 1830s
A. were not responsible for the cost of delivery.
B. tried to fit more than one letter into an envelope.
C. could only send letters to people living in cities.
D. knew all letters were automatically read by postal staff.
3. What does the text say about Hill in the 1830s?
A. He was the first person to express concern about the postal system.
B. He considered it would be more efficient for mail to be delivered by rail.
C. He felt that postal service reform was necessary for commercial development.
D. His plan received support from all the important figures of the day.
VII. Finish each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the words given in capital letters. 1. She speaks English well. COMMAND 2. I supposed, quite wrongly, that he was your friend. MISTOOK3. The final score in the match between Liverpool and Everton on Saturday was two all. DREW4. On no account will I lend you $ 500. QUESTION5. Venus was more beautiful than the other two goddesses. MOST6. His salary is $ 1,000 more now...
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VII. Finish each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the words given in capital letters.
1. She speaks English well. COMMAND
2. I supposed, quite wrongly, that he was your friend. MISTOOK
3. The final score in the match between Liverpool and Everton on Saturday was two all. DREW
4. On no account will I lend you $ 500. QUESTION
5. Venus was more beautiful than the other two goddesses. MOST
6. His salary is $ 1,000 more now than it was last year. RISEN
7. Dr. Jones knew everything about the disease. NOTHING
8. His health steadily improved. STEADY
9. Don’t make more mess than is absolutely necessary. POSSIBLE
10. She’s been delicate since the day she was born. LIFE