Read and fill in the blank with correct tense of verb 

Dear Hanh, Hello from Hanoi! Hanoi in December is so beautiful. The air is cold and dry. I (1) -_____ (be) so busy since I (2)______  (get) here last week! I (3) _______ (eat) so many new kinds of food, and I (4)______ (meet) so many wonderful people. I met an old man who has lived in Hanoi for 75 years. He said he (5)______ (see) so many wonderful things in his life, and he told me about them, although some of the stories were also very sad. But do you know the best thing I (6)______ (do) since arriving here? It was when I took a bus tour of the city. It was amazing! I (7)_______ (never be) to such a fascinating city. I (8)______ (visit) some amazing cities, but never anywhere as amazing as this. I think I (9)_____ (already fall) in love with Hanoi - you should come here one day! See you next week! Love, Minh

I.Each sentence has a mistake find and correct it.

1.I wish I can go to the cinema with you tonight.

2.He asked me if I know that man over there.

3.We are used to live next door to each other at one time.

4.Printing was invented by the Chinese.

5.There was little traffic, so the journey didn’t take very long.

6.The number of the books in the library has risen to over five million.

7.If I had his phone number here, I will give it to you immediately.

8.My aunt has begun taught English for twenty years.

9.He became interest in reading while he was working in the city library.

10.My father has retired three years ago and he is now living on his pension.

Last week John went to his uncle’s farm in a village not very far (1) ______________________ the city center. It’s the busiest time of the year for farmer to (2) ___________________________ their crops. It is also the time for his holyday. He intends to stay here for a week. He wants to do something (3) ____________________ to help him.
John got up early to (4) _______________________ the first bus and after twenty-five minutes he came to the village. The weather was (5) _____________________. John was very glad to meet his uncle. After a while he went to the field where his uncle grows maize. He enjoyed the fresh air and the aroma of the maize
(6) __________________ in the air. John helped his uncle to work in the maize field from early morning till late in the evening (7) _____________________ his stay on the farm.
The week (8) _____________________ by so quickly. Back to the city, John has learned a lot about the farm life.

Sửa lỗi:

1. I wish I can go to the cinema with you tonight.

2. He asked me if I know that man over there.

3. We are used to live next door to each other at the time.

4. Printing was little traffic, so the journey didn't take very long.

5. There was invented by the Chinese.

6. The number of the books in the library has risen to over five million.

7. If I had his phone number here, I will give it to you immediately.

8. My aunt has begun taught English for twenty years.

9. He became interest in reading while he was working in the city library.

10. My father has retired three years ago and he is now living on his pension.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.

Making an efficient ice box was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.

But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

The author describes Thomas Moore as having been "on the right track" in the third paragraph to indicate that ________.

A. the road to the market passed close to Moore's farm

B. Moore was an honest merchant 

C. Moore was a prosperous farmer 

D. Moore's design was fairly successful 

Read the following passage 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.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1860-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented. 

Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The common-sense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the nice balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.         

But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

The author describes Thomas Moore as having been "on the right track"  to indicate that ______________.

A. the road to the market passed close to Moore's farm  

B. Moore was an honest merchant 

C. Moore was a prosperous farmer 

D. Moore's design was fairly successful  

1.by the year 2050 many people currently employed..........(lose)their jobs

2 susan .............(work)as a nurse for three years before her marriage

3.since they had that big argument he crosses the street whenever he..........(see)

4. this time tomorrow I...........(relax)in the swimming pool

5.at the end of this month we..........(live) here for ten year

6.the beach was so crowded the other day that we.......(have)difficulty finding an empty spot

7.robert.........(work) for the company for very long before he was promoted

8........(cry)?your eyes are red

9.he looked tired because he..........(run)for six hours

10.in 1975 archeologists..........(discover)the ruins of the Olympic Stadium in Greece

Express by using the possessive form in the blank space
1. That house belongs to my sister. That is my _____
2. I live very near here. I live a _____ from here.
3. I bought potatoes to the value of five pence. I bought a _____ of potatoes.
4. I have enough work here to last me for a week. I have a _____ here.
5. He borrowed a book belonging to me. He borrowed a _____
6. We set out on our journey on a cold morning in winter. We set out on our journey on a cold _____
7. After climbing for two hours we were glad to take a rest for a few minutes. After a _____ we were glad to take a _____
8. Here are the football results for today. Here are _____
9. He wanted some meat, so he went to the _____
10. The discussion lasts for an hour and a half. It is an _____