C. convenient - thuận tiện
C. convenient - thuận tiện
An e-book reader is convenient, it is used ... eletronic books, newspapers or magazines.
A. read B. to read C. reading D. to reading
EXERCISE 2. Choose the best option to complete the following sentences:
1. The more she smiles , ................ she becomes.
A. more graceful B. the most graceful C. most graceful D. the more graceful
2. Hotels have developed …………………… restaurants.
A. as rapidly as B. so rapidly as C. as rapid as D. more rapid
3. Can Tho bridge is the …………………… one in the South of Viet Nam.
A. long B. shortest C. longest D. longer
4. Albert Einstein’s contributions to scientific theory were ................ those of Galileo and Newton.
A. important than B. more important C. the most important D. as important as
5. Impalas cannot move as ................ cheetahs but they are more efficient runners.
A. faster than B. fast as C. fast D. are fast as
6. Both are informative articles, but this one is ................ .
A. best B. the best C. most D. better
7. She is the .………… girl in our town.
A. more beautiful B. beauty C. most beautiful D. more beautifully
8. The harder you learn.............
A. The better is your English B. The better will be your English
C. The better becomes your English D. The better your English will be
9. Jim is the ................. in his class.
A. clever B. cleverest C. cleverer D. more clever
10. Of the two shirts, this one is ...................
A. the prettiest B. the most pretty C. prettier D. the prettier
11. Your house is ................. mine.
A. as bigger as B. many times as big as C. much big as D. not many times big
12. Last year it wasn’t as cold as this year.
A. This year it is as colder than last year. B. This year it is colder than last year.
C. This year it isn’t as cold as last year. D. This year it isn’t colder than last year.
13. She is older than me.
A. I’m more younger than her. B. I’m as younger as her.
C. I’m more young than her. D. I’m younger than her.
14. The test is not …………………
A. as difficult as it was last month. B. so difficult as it was last month
C. more difficult as it was last month. D. Both A & B are correct
15. The Nile River is ………………… of all.
A. longer B. the longest C. long D. longest
16. .................. we read, .................. we know.
A. The most/ the most B. The more/ the more C. Most/ most D. More/ more
17. It gets ................... Let’s go swimming.
A. hot and hot B. the more hot C. more and more hot D. hotter and hotter
18. Peter usually drives .................. Mary.
A. more fast B. more fast than C. more fast D. faster
19. The problem seems to be ..................
A. more serious B. more serious than C. more serious as D. more and more serious
20. Peter can not earn .................. his wife.
A. as many money as B. as much money as C. as many money than D. as much money than
21. Prices get ..................
A. high and high B. highest and highest C. more and more high D. higher and higher
22. The more manufacturers advise, .................. they sell.
A. the most products B. the products more C. the more products D. most products
23. ................. a car is ................. it is.
A. The more expensive/ the comfortabler B. The most expensive/ the most comfortable
C. The more expensive/ the more comfortable D. The less expensive/ the more comfortable
24. Of the five students. Mary is .................
A. more intelligent B. the more intelligent C. most intelligent D. the most intelligent
25. Steel is ................ than wood.
A. more heavy B. as heavy C. heavier D. more heavier
26. A super market is …………………… a shopping center.
A. less convenient as B. less convenient than
C. not so convenient than D. the most convenient as
27. Viet Nam becomes …………………… to foreign tourists.
A. more and most attractive B. the more attractive
C. much and more attractive D. more and more attractive
28. This car is …………………… than mine.
A. less expensive B. as expensive C. expensive D. not so expensive
29. Tim’s grades are …………………… than John.
A. worse B. worst C. as bad D. so bad
30. The …………………… we start, the sooner we will be back.
A. early B. earliest C. earlier D. more early
EXERCISE 3. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the same meaning as the sentence printed before it.
1. My kitchen is smaller than yours.
Your kitchen ………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. No one in the class is taller than Dave.
Dave is ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Mum doesn’t speak English as well as Dad.
Dad ……………………………………………………………………………………………….………
4. Lan is better cook than Hoa.
Hoa can’t …………………………………………………………………………………………...……
5. No restaurant in the city is better than that one.
That restaurant is …………………………………………………………………………………………
6. This watch is worse than that one.
That watch ………………………………………………………………………………………….……
7. My sister writes more carefully than she did.
My sister …………………………………………………………………………………………………
8. This story is more interesting than any other story that I have ever read.
This is the …………………………………………………………………………………………………
9. She is the most beautiful girl I have ever known.
I’ve never .....................................................................................................................................................
10. Peter does not drive so carefully as Tom.
Tom ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
EXERCISE 4. Identify the mistake in each sentence by choosing a suitable option.
Mr. Mender learned English rapidly and easy.A B C D
The maid was careful to keep the room cleanly.A B C D
His knowledge of English grammar is quite well.A B C D
The last story was as interested as the other ones.A B C D
Mr. Slater’s house is biger than ours.A B C D
That brown chair is most comfortable than this one.A B C D
Lan is the most pretty of all the girls.A B C D
That lesson is a most difficult of all the lessons.A B C D
Does your country have worse weather as this?A B C D
This girl is the most beautiful of the two daughters that he has.A B C D
Frank plays tennis worse of all the players.A B C D
The most he tries, the more he succeeds.A B C D
13. She can pronounce English words more correct than she could last term.
A B C D
14. In this class, the students are talking more loudlier than the teacher.
A B C D
15. This summer is hotter and winder than last summer.
A B C D
16. You should practise English oftener to be a better speaker of English.
A B C D
17. Ha Anh can now speak English more well than the last time I met him.
A B C D
18. She is much more intelligent than Nam does.
A B C D
19. The more rich he is, the more miserable he gets.
A B C D
20. The harder we studied, the most confused we got.
A B C D
Our family has got many books. All the (22)_____ of our family buy books and read them. My mother says that books help us in self-education. In ancient times books (23)_____ written by hand. It was difficult to write a book (24)_____ a pen. Then printing came into our life. Printing played an important (25)_____ in the development of literature and culture. Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats. But it is difficult to buy all books (26)_____ we want to read. That’s why we get books in public libraries. There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to (27)_____ them. I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book “ An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser.
This novel was (28)_____ at the beginning of the 20th century. The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story. This novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays. Books must be our friends during our life.
Question 22: A. groups B. members C. partners D. relates
Question 23: A. had B. have C. are D. were
Question 24: A. at B. with C. in D. by
Question 25: A. chain B. step C. stage D. role
Question 26: A. when B. which C. who D. where
Question 27: A. create B. imagine C. solve D. deal
Question 28: A. presented B. published C. opened D. constructed
III. Circle the error in each sentence below:
1. Ralph wishes that he went to the bank this morning before he went to work.
A B C D
2. The lesson is too difficult for us to understand it.
A B C D
3. Approximately 30 percent of all parents in the world let their children to attend school
A B C D
4. Until the 1400s, most books and texts were producing by cribes who copied them by hand
A B C D
5. Some birds, such as quails, can move instant from a resting position to full flight
A B C D
6. Solving the problem of population is more expensive than prevent it.
A B C D
7. We are here so as we can talk to the manager.
A B C D
8. Nobody want to risk climbing a mountain without safe equipment.
A B C D
9. He feels so tired that he didn't want to answer the phone.
A B C D
10.They told me he is earning a lot of money in his new job.
A B C D
Ex 6 Mark the letter A , B , C or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions .
26 In some rural areas , parents still prefer their sons to their daughters .
A Sons are not as favoured as daughters in some rural areas .
B Parents in some rural areas like their daughters more than their sons .
C Parents in some rural areas still favour their sons rather than daughters
D Daughters are more preferable than sons in some rural areas
27 . Single -sex schools should be abolished by the government
A Single -sex schools should be controlled by the government
B Single -sex schools should be allowed to multiply by the government
C The government should promote single-sex schools
D The Government should eradicate single -sex schools
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PAPER RECYCLINGA Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tonnes of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards, this is a good performance since the worldwide average is 33 percent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the way for even greater utilization of used fibre. As a result, industry’s use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years.
B Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example, stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to support from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items.
C There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of books and permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printers and lastly households which discard newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur the collection cost.
D Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people trained to recognise various types of paper. This is necessary because some types of paper can only be made from particular kinds of recycled fibre. The sorted paper then has to be repulped or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which has had little sorting. Various machineries are used to remove other materials from the stock. After passing through the repulping process, the fibres from printed waste paper are grey in colour because the printing ink has soaked into the individual fibres. This recycled material can only be used in products where the grey colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. This involves adding chemicals such as caustic soda or other alkalis, soaps and detergents, water-hardening agents such as calcium chloride, frothing agents and bleaching agents. Before the recycled fibres can be made into paper they must be refined or treated in such a way that they bond together.
E Most paper products must contain some virgin fibre as well as recycled fibres and unlike glass, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-cycled which means that a product made from recycled paper is of an inferior quality to the original paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour and capital that go into producing virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to collect the waste paper from the community and to process it to produce new paper. And the recycling process still creates emissions which require treatment before they can be disposed of safely. Nevertheless, paper recycling is an important economical and environmental practice but one which must be carried out in a rational and viable manner for it to be useful to both industry and the community.
i. Process of paper recycling
ii. Less threat of waste paper to the environment
iii. Collection of paper for recycling
iv. Sources of paper for recycling
v. Bad sides of paper recycling
vi. Contribution of community to recycling paper
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2. Paragraph B .......................
3. Paragraph C .......................
4. Paragraph D .......................
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