I, Choose the correct answers to complete the passage.
You have a headache and you sneeze and cought. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (1).................... that you have a cold, and you feel completely (2).................... . You are not sure if you will live through the day.
Everyone suffers (3).................... the common cold at some time of orther. It isn't a serious (4)....................., but over a billon dollars a year is spent on different kind of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough (5)...................., make you head less intense, and stop your nose (6).................... for a while. However, it can cure you cold, So far, (7).................... no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.
(8).................... there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about (9).................... to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won't catch cold (10).................... say that you should avoid geeting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so.
1. a. diseases b. fevers c. cures d. symptoms
2. a. sad b. hungry c. miserable d. thirsty
3. a. from b. of c. with d. about
4. a. misery b. illness c. headache d. wrong
5. a. less b. fewer c. much d. more
6. a. walking b. jogging c. running d. flowing
7. a. it is b. there is c. they are d. there are
8. a. although b. despite c. in spite d. but
9. a. what b. why c. where d. how
10. a. other's b. another c. others d. other
II, Write questions for the underlined words or phrases.
1. The souvenir shop is in front of the book store.
\(\Rightarrow\)..................................................................
2. It's five kilometers from my house to the supermarket.
\(\Rightarrow\)..................................................................
3. It takes Miss Lan fifteen minutes to walk to work.
\(\)\(\Rightarrow\)..................................................................
4. We go to Ho Chi Minh City by train.
\(\Rightarrow\)..................................................................
5. Trung will mail his letter to Bruce, his pen pal.
\(\Rightarrow\)..................................................................
III, Choose the word which does not belong to the topic of the CAPITAL LETTER.
Eg:
MONTH
a. Friday b. February c. July d. November
Answer: Friday
1. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
a. guitar b. violin c. piano d. song
2. SPORTS
a. volleyball b. soccer c. concert d. tennis
3. SUBJECTS
a. Comics b. Biology c. Maths d. Literature
4. ENTERTAINMENT
a. do assignment b. see a movie c. collect stamps d. listen to music
5. CAREER
a. worker b. teenager c. singer d. painter
