Without my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
A. Had my tutor not helped me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
B. If my tutor didn’t help me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
C. If it hadn’t been for my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
D. If my tutor hadn’t helped me, I could have made such a good speech.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges
A. Thank you. I couldn’t have finished my presentation without your help.
B. __________.
A. Forget about it. I didn't mean so.
B. I highly appreciate what you did.
C. It doesn't matter anyway.
D. Never mind.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.
I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.
Điền vào số 37
A. of
B. from
C. into
D. for
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.
I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.
Điền vào số 39
A. ThatB. Which
B. Which
C. There
D. Here
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.
I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.
Điền vào số 40
A. in
B. on
C. off
D. down
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.
I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.
Điền vào số 41
A. afford
B. build
C. borrow
D. lend
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.
I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.
Điền vào số 38
A. much
B. X
C. once
D. many times
I have a good job with good salary. You _______ send me any money, my lovely father.
A. mustn’t
B. mightn’t
C. mayn’t
D. needn’t
Read the following passage adapted and choose the correct answer (corresponding to A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions that follow.
It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late – I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive a car, perhaps – means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “______”.
A. For beginners
B. At the starting point
C. At the beginning
D. First and foremost
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
Today was such beautiful day that I couldn’t bring myself to complete all my chores.
A. such beautiful
B. myself
C. to complete
D. my chores
