Fill in: can, can't, could, couldn't, was/ wasn't able to or had been able to:

1. On entering the house, she _____ smell something burning in the kitchen.

2. I'm busy today, so I _____ go shopping with you.

3. I heard Brian's voice, but I _____ see him until I turned on the lights.

4. When I lived on the coast, I _____ swim in the sea every day.

5. If Gordon _____ avoid the rush hour traffic, he would have arrived at the party on time.

6. I'm not usually very good at tennis, but yesterday I _____ beat my brother in a match.

49 After (hear).......the conditions I deciede (not enter)...........for the competition

50 He postponed (make)...............money to (earn).................it

51 I'm very sorry for (be)............late.It was goof of you (wait)................for me

52 Forgive my ( ring).............you up so late, but I couldn't allow your victory (pass).......without (congratulate)........you

53 He advised me (consider).............all the facts before(decide)..............(accept).............the job

54 The refused (allow) .............us(go)............in without (sign)............the book

55 My uncle used (show)..............me where (go)..........and what (buy)................

56 I couldn't resist(ask)...............him why he was trying (avoid).............(meet)............me

57 Your doctor advised you (go).......to bed early, so I really can't understand your (want).......(stay)........up late

58 I remember (hear)...........him (say)...........that the grass needes (cut)................

59 The snow kept (fall)...........and the workmen grew tired of (try)........(keep)...............the roads clear

Insert to where necessary before the infinitives in brackets

1.He doesn't even bother (read)... letters, let alone (answer).. them

2.The bank robbers made the cashier (show)...them how (open)...the safe

3.If you knew he was wrong, why didn't you (say)...something? I didn't like him (say)... anything because he always gets angry if you contradict him

4.It's better (be)...to sure than sorry

5.What do you (want)...me(tell)...him?Tell him that any time him he carses (call)...I shall be delighted ( discuss)... the matter with him

6.Did you remember(give)...him the money?No, I didn't.I still have it in my pocket;but I'll (see)...him tonight and I promise (not forget) this time

7.I saw the driver (open).his window and (throw)... a box into he bushes

8.This is far too heavy for one person (carry)...; let me (help) you

9.I saw afraid of (pick)....up the revolvers as I don't know (handle)....firearms

10.I saw the plane (crash)....into the hill and(burst)....into flames

Tìm lỗi sai và sửa lỗi

1. He had not idea how difficult the job was.

2. I don't know who wrote the song, but I'll try and find about.

3. She showed me where did I left my luggage.

4. I knew Tim when he was a child, but I didn't see him for many years.

Hơi khó chút;v 

-    I distinctly remember (1. pay)                        him. I gave him two dollars.

-   Yesterday I was walking along the street when I realized that a man with a black beard, whom I (2. see)   already, (3. follow)                                                    me.

-   He insisted that the new baby (4. name)                       after his grandfather.

(5. spend) all his money, he decided to go home and ask his father for a job

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln. 

What did Grace Bedell do every night before she went to sleep?

A. She wrote letters.

B. She looked at the photograph. 

C. She made shadow figures on the wall.

D. She read stories.

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

What did Grace Bedell do every night before she went to sleep?

A. She wrote letters.

B. She looked at the photograph.

C. She made shadow figures on the wall.

D. She read stories.