Fill in each blank with a correct preposition
My grandparents set______the lantern workshop,then my parents took___it.
We must face____reality that our products are in competition with those of other villages.
I invited her to join our trip to Trang An,but she turned____my invitation
I'm really looking____to our visit to the new museum
Fill the blank with the correct form of the word at the end of each sentence.
We liked our teacher for his lively ___.(person)
Two ____ hijacked an airplane and made the pilot fly to Baghdad.(terror)
We always have a spare bedroom in case visitors arrive ____.(expect)
She sat in terrible ____ on the hard chair for over an hour.(comfort)
Morning exercise is very ____ to our health.(benefit)
I fell ____ because I hadn’t had any sleep the night before.(sleep)
You need to read the ____ before using this machine.(instruct)
Her ____ was so great that she could not sleep all night.(anxious)
Tom took part in the activities with great ____.(enthusiastic)
I was annoyed at his ____ to co-operate. (refuse)
IV. Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the word in brackets: (1pt)
1. It is very…………….for people in remote areas to get to hospitals. (CONVENIENT)
2. My sister doesn’t like surfing the Internet, she says it is…………….(BORE)
3. Our family has lived……………..in the country than in the town since last year. (HAPPY)
4. The…………….have a very hard life. They can not live permanently in one place. (NOMADIC)
Exercise 1: Fill in the blank spaces with the gerund, infinitive with to or infinitive without to of the verb in brackets.
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III. Correct a mistake
1. Instead of going into town to make my shopping, I use the local store.
2. Everyone in our neighborhood is very pleasing about the new market.
3. Since then I didn’t have a chance to visit the city again.
4. Now they are studying continuously for more than two hours.
5. It is too far that I can’t walk to the bus stop.
6. Travel in Hanoi is now much easier with many means of public transport.
7. Our new neighbors had lived in Arizona since ten years before moving here.
8. The book does not say much about prices, but is very information about everything else.
9. Until children reach to the age of 11, they have more or less the same sort of education at school.
10. The public feel very concerning about the pollution of water sources by all kinds of chemicals.
VI. Read the text below and write one word in each blank to complete it.
Many people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But (1) a _____________, the idea for a computer had been worked out (2) o _____________ two centuries ago by a man (3) c _____________ Charles Babbage. Babbage was born in 1791 and (4) g _____________ up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up (5) p _____________ for several calculating machines which he called "engines". But despite the fact that he (6) s _____________ building some of these, he never finished any of them. Over the years people have argued (7) w_____________ his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building (8) t _____________ engine based on one of Babbage's designs. (9) i_____________ has taken six years to complete and more than four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to (10) r _____________ people of Babbage's work.
V. Fill in each blank with “a”, “an”, or “the” to complete the following passage.
(21)__________ history of Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture started in 1891 when (22)____________ French scientist began to collect Cham sculptures that had been discovered in scattered areas of Quang Nam Province and brought them to Da Nang.
(23)___________ first museum building was designed by French architects, and construction began in 1915 and was finished by May 1916. (24)___________ Museum has played (25)_________ important role in preserving sculpture items featuring the cultural, spiritual and ritual lives of the Cham people.
I. Fill in each blank with “a”, “an”, or “the” to complete the following passage.
(1)__________ history of Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture started in 1891 when (2)____________ French scientist began to collect Cham sculptures that had been discovered in scattered areas of Quang Nam Province and brought them to Da Nang.
(3)___________ first museum building was designed by French architects, and construction began in 1915 and was finished by May 1916. (4)___________ Museum has played (5)_________ important role in preserving sculpture items featuring the cultural, spiritual and ritual lives of the Cham people.
Use the correct form of the simple present or simple past:
1. Everyday, Ba ______ to school at 6 am. Yesterday he ______ to school at 6:30 am. He ______ late. (go/ go/ be)
2. Last year we ______ in Nha Trang with our grandparents, but now we ______ in Hue with our parents. (live/ live)
3. Last week I ______ my friend Daisy a letter and she ______ me immediately . (send / reply )
4. My father ______ drinking beer but yesterday he ______ two big glasses of beer. He ______ happy to receive my mother’s news. (not like/ have/ be)
5. What ______ you ______ yesterday? I ______ you but you ______ in. (do/ phone/ not be)
6. Last month my brother _____ me his photographs. He ______ his photographs every year. (send/ send)
7. What time ____ you ______ you go to the market yesterday? – I ______, I’m sorry. (go/ not remember)
8. I ______ how to dance when I ______ six years old. (not know/ be)
9. Nam is a careful driver but yesterday he ______ carelessly. (drive)
10. How many cigarettes ______ your father ______ a day? (smoke)
4. My classmate said to me that he didn't want to join in our camping trip to the mountains. RATHER
-> My classmate said that _________________________________________.
1. When we (be) ........... small, our family (live) ......... in the countryside
2.Miss Trang is in hospital
- Yes, i know.I (visit)........ her tomorrow
3. I (read) ..... an interesting book at the moment. I (lend) ..... it to you when i finish it
4.Look at those black clouds. It (rain) .......
5.I (not invite) ........ her to the party because i (forget)....... her phone number
6. Look ! Our new teacher (come)..... She (have)...... long, black hair
