I>USE THE RIGHT FORM  OF THE VERB

1.Two times two (make) four.

2.Two 2’s (make ) four.

3.Two plus two (be) four.

4.How many (be) six and five?

5.Nine from fourteen (be) five.

6.Twenty years (be) not a long period of time in human history.

7.Five dimes (make) fifty cents.

8.Five dollars (be) a small sum.

9.“ The three Musketeers” (be) written by Alexandre Dumas.

10.You don’t have to say much , a word or two (be) sufficient.

11.These (be) one or two things I’d like to talk over with you.

12.The number of new books in our library (be) ever growing.

13.A number of new books in our library (be) displayed at the book show.

14.Our only guide ( be) stars.

15.There (be) a lot of traffic on this road.

8 Read the text. Choose the correct answers.

Climb every mountain Stephen Venables’ love of mountains began at nine years old on a skiing trip to the Alps. ‘I was thrilled,’ he remembers. ‘It was actually far more impressive and exciting than seeing the Himalayas for the first time, because when you’re nine it’s all new and you don’t know what to expect.’

From that moment, Stephen knew that he wanted to climb mountains, but he didn’t realise then that one day he would be the first British man to climb Everest without oxygen. However, his record-breaking expedition in 1988 was not an easy one. 1 ___ After years of climbing, he was prepared for this and he knew that the best thing he could do was wait for the weather to change.

‘At first I tried sitting on a rock because rock is warmer than snow, but it wasn’t completely flat. I really wanted to lie down so I decided to cut a ledge in the snow. I did sleep a bit,’ he says. ‘They always say you should stay awake but I was totally exhausted.’ Fortunately, the storm passed, and Stephen managed to climb back down to his camp and enter the record books. 

The Everest expedition wasn’t Stephen’s only difficult climb. 2 ___ ‘It was very unlucky that it happened, but I was lucky that there were five of us.’ The group included Chris Bonnington and Stephen’s good friend Harish Kapadia. It took them twelve hours to make camp in a safe place. Then two of the team went for help.

‘I think that was one of the most wonderful moments of my life – finally being in the tent and realising that I could just lie back in my sleeping bag.’ 3 ___ By that time, there was almost no food left. ‘On the last day we had a boiled sweet and we used the last tea bag so many times that it wasn’t actually changing the colour of the water.’ But luckily, the team managed to keep going until help arrived.

1 What happened to Stephen Venables when he was nine years old?

a He was able to compare two different mountain ranges.

b He realised where he would like to live in the future.

c He decided what he wanted to do in his life.

2 What is the writer’s purpose in this article?

a To describe the best way to climb a mountain.

b To tell the story of a mountain climber.

c To explain why mountain climbing is dangerous. 

9 Read the text again. Match sentences A–E with gaps 1–3. There are two extra sentences.

A But Stephen didn’t know then that the rescue would take four days.

B While he was climbing Everest, he met the climber Chris Bonnington for the first time.

C In 1992, while climbing another Himalayan mountain, he fell 100 m, breaking both his legs.

D It was the second time that he needed medical attention because of his injuries.

E He was coming down from the top of the mountain when he was caught in a snowstorm.

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 following questions.

Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these How-to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words “How to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money. Another may tell you how to save or spend it and another may explain how to give your money away.

Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can buy the book — How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Millionaire”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “How to Live on Nothing”.

One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read “How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer books which give step by step instructions on how to redecorate or enlarge a house.

Why have How-to books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How-to books help people deal with modern life.

It can be inferred from the passage that

A. Today people are more bored with the modern life

B. Modern life is more difficult to deal with

C. Today people have fewer choices to make

D. Today people are more interested in modern life

Rewrite the sentences without changing the meaning
 

1.   My sister looked so far when she returned from Paris.

2.        He doesn’t love me any more. He used………………………

3.        They often went to school by bike when they were young. They used ………………………….

12.I no longer eat meat.

I used to …………………………….

13.    When Lan was small, she used to cry a lot. Lan often ………………………………………

14.    My father used to drive to work when he lived in Japan. My father …………………………………………..

15.    We had a nice garden once, but now we don’t any more. We ……………………………………………….

16.    David used to have long hair.

David no longer…………………………………..

17.    Her mother usually got up early.

Her …………………………………………….

18.    He often ate lots of ham. He …………………………….

19.    We lived in the country in 1980s but now we live in HCM City. We…………………………………………………………………………

20.   When Nam was young, he hated school. Now he likes school.

Nam......................................................................................................

21.    Ann was a secretary for many years, but now she owns her own business.

Ann.......................................................................................................

22.    Before Adam got married, he went bowling five times a week.

Adam....................................................................................................

23.    When we raised our own chickens, we had fresh eggs every morning

We........................................................................................................

24.    Now you have a job every summer. Have you always worked during summer?

What....................................................................................................