Choose the correct option.

1.   He joined / was joining the company 25 years ago and he still works for us.

2.   At this time last week, we lay / were lying on a beach in the sun.

3.   What did they do / were they doing at 11pm last night - it was really noisy?

4.   When I walked / was walking into the class, the teacher talked / was talking about the new course.

5.   My parents lived / were living in Berlin for ten years. They lived / were living that when the Berlin wall came down in 1999.

6.   How many pictures didyou take / were you taking while you travelled / were travelling around Ireland?

7.   The Titanic crossed / was crossing the Atlantic when it hit / was hitting an iceberg.

8.   As soon as I saw / was seeing the accident I called / was calling the police.

9.   While Matt did / was doing his homework, his mother made / was making the dinner.

10. When the ambulance came / was coming, we carried / were carrying him into it.

11. We played / were playing a computer game when Mum called / was called for lunch.

12. When the teacher said / was saying “Stop!”, I stilltried / was still trying to finish the last question.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 12: 500 years ago, the average human ______ was about 40 years.

A. lifespan

B. lifetime

C. life cycle

D. life length

III. Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

1.      Scientists believe that fish first ___________ on Earth around 480 million years ago.

            A. appeared                B. is appearing                        C. appears                               D. appear

2.      ___________ is your hand luggage? This one or that one?

            A. What                       B. Who                                     C. Why                                     D. Which

3.      I’m meeting Tom tonight. I think you ___________ him last Christmas.

            A. are seeing               B. saw                                      C. sees                                     D. will see

4.      Teddy is excited about his new laptop. He ___________ about it now.

            A. talks                        B. talked                                  C. will talk                                D. is talking

5.      Mrs. Nga doesn’t have ___________ experience of working as a librarian.

            A. many                       B. much                                   C. the                                       D. an

6.      Look, this is my project. Where is ___________?

            A. you                          B. your                                     C. yours                                   D. you’re

7.      Greg didn’t want to forget his meeting with Dr. Harris, ___________ he put a reminder on his alarm.

            A. or                            B. but                                       C. and                                      D. so

8.      Hoi An is one of the ___________ towns in Vietnam.

            A. old                           B. older                                    C. oldest                                  D. the oldest

9.      Are you coming on Friday? - ___________.

            A. I’m afraid not          B. I’m afraid to                        C. I’m afraid not to                  D. I’m afraid I don’t

10.  What would you like to do at the weekend? - ___________.

A. I like to do a lot       B. I’d like to watch cartoons   C. I can’t stand it                     D. I don’t like that

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

Parents' ambition for their children is not wrong if they ………….

A. force their children into achieving success

B. themselves have been very successful

C. understand and help their children sensibly

D. arrange private lessons for their children

V. READING COMPREHENSION

A. Choose the one option - b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank.

I (1) ................ my teaching career nearly ten years ago. I spent six years (2) …........... in a remote village (3) .................. the villagers were very poor and the living standard was low. Sometimes I was very disappointed (4) .................. bad living condition and low pay. I was really homesick. However, at that time, with my youth (5) .................., I tried my best to devote (6 ..................... to the noblest career, that was "teaching". I loved my poor little students. They were living in (7) …………… but they could not (8) ................... from empty mind.

I am proud (9) ................... myself to be a teacher, a hard working "boatman" taking my students to the "destination" of (10) ..................... .

1. a. begin                              b. began                             c. have begun                     d. had begun

2. a. teach                              b. to teach                          c. teaching                          d. taught

3. a. which                             b. there                               c. when                               d. where

4. a. in spite of                       b. because of                      c. because                           d. though

5. a. enthusiasm                     b. movement                      c. emotion                           d. culture

6. a. me time                          b. my career                       c. my duty                          d. myself

7. a. poor                               b. poverty                          c. debt                                 d. shortage

8. a. bear                                b. cope with                       c. suffer                              d. manage

9. a. in                                    b. on                                   c. about                               d. of

10. a. knowledge                   b. competence                    c. background                     d. experience

XIII. Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D for each of the gaps to complete the

following text.

    Television first came some sixty years ago in the 1950s. Nowadays, it is one of the

 most (1)                    sources of entertainment for both the old and the young.

 Television brings (2)           for children, world news, music and many other

 (3)          . If someone likes sports, he can just choose the right sports,  (4)                        .

 It is not difficult for us to see why (5)             is a TV set in almost every home

 today.

1. A. cheap              B. expensive          C. popular            D. exciting

2. A. news                B. cartoons            C. sports               D. plays

3. A. sets                  B. reports              C. channels           D. programmes

4. A. athletes            B. channel              C. time                  D. studio

5. A. it                     B. this                    C. that                   D. there

A. Choose the one option a,          b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank.

I (1)        _____my teaching career nearly ten years ago. I spent six years (2) _____ in a remote village (3) _____the villagers were very poor and the living standard was low. Sometimes I was very disappointed (4) _____ bad living condition and low pay. I was really homesick. However, at that time, with my youth (5) _____, I tried my best to devote (6) _____to the noblest career, that was "teaching". I loved my poor little students. They were living in (7)^­­­­_____but they could not (8) _____from empty mind.

I am proud (9) _____ myself to be a teacher, a hard working "boatman" taking my students to the "destination" of (10) _____.

1. a. begin                  b. began                     c. have begun            d. had begun

2. a. teach                  b. to teach                  c. teaching                 d. taught

3. a. which                 b. there                       c. when                       d. where

4. a. in spite of          b. because of c. because                  d. though

5. a. enthusiasm        b. movement             c. emotion                  d. culture

6. a. me time  b. my career                          c. my duty                  d. myself

7. a. poor                    b. poverty                  c. debt                        d. shortage

8. a. bear                    b. cope with               c. suffer                      d. manage

9. a. in                        b. on                           c. about                      d. of

10.a. knowledge       b. competence           c. background           d. experience

Choose the most suitable answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage.

When I first started learning English ten years ago, I could hardly __________(1) a word – “hello”, “good bye”, “thank you” was just about it. I went two classes two evenings a week and I was surprised at home quickly I _________(2) progress. ________(3) the course we learned a lot of vocabulary and studied grammar rules. ________(4) thing I enjoyed most was to be able to practice speaking with other students in my class.

After two years I went to England to a _________(5) school. It was in Cambridge. I did a ___________(6) course at a very good school and I stayed with a local family. It was a fantastic experience and I ________(7) up a lot of new language from speaking with my host family and with other students from ___________(8) the world. I really improved my pronunciation as well. When I got back __________(9) Spain, I was so much more confident. I _________ actually hold a conversation with my teacher in English.

1. A. talk B. speak C. say D. tell

2. A. do B. make C. did D. made

3. A. During B. After C. Before D. While

4. A. That B. A C. The D. Those

5. A. science B. language C. art D. finance

6. A. the three-week B. third-week C. three-weeks D. three-week

7. A. picked B. looked C. got D. stood

8. A. all B. over C. over all D. all over

9. A. from B. to C. in D. X

10. A. didn’t B. can C. could D. couldn’t