. Fill in each blank with a correct preposition.
1. He came in .........time for the start of the meeting.
2. There’s no access ___________ the Internet in the remote area.
3. ____________ Christmas Eve, people often have big parties.
4. They received the news ____________ great joy.
5. That girl is very clever___________ her hands.
6. They get ___________ well with each other despite their differences in characters.
7. I can’t agree ____________ your opinion. It’s not persuasive.
8. Her whole life was devoted __________ helping the poor and the miserable.
9. We need to think that playing games is just ____________ fun.
They came here ____________ Quynh’s car
1. Internet/ be/ very fast and convenient way/ get information
2. It/ be/ cheap/ way/ communicate/ friends and relatives
3. They/ get in touch/ each other/ by means/ e-mail/ or chat
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4. You/ can check/ weather conditions/ before/ go/ camp/ or fish
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5. You/ also book/ tickets/ film shows, concerts, or soccer matches
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6. Now/ you can sit/ comfortable/ home/ do/ shopping
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7. Internet/ be/ also/ source of entertainment
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8. You/ listen/ music/ watch videos/ play games
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9. Internet/ be also/ use/ teaching and learning/ foreign language
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10. fact/ it/ be/ hard/ imagine/ modern life/ without/ Internet
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II. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank in each of the following sentences.
1. Light ____________ in an exactly straight line.
A. traveled B. travels C. has traveled D. is traveling
2. That’s the bike ____________ the engine needs to be repaired.
A. which B. whose C. that D. of which
3. I remember ____________ him not to forget ___________ the instruction carefully, but he did not do so.
A. asking; reading B. to ask; to read C. asking; to read D. to ask; reading
4. I saw a ____________ look on his face as he was wheeled into the operation room.
A. frightful B. frightening C. frightened D. fright
5. ____________ good advice it was!
A. What B. Which C. How D. How so
6. The manager got his secretary ____________ the document.
A. to be typed B. to type C. typed D. type
7. You should have the raincoat with you ____________ it rains this afternoon.
A. since B. in the case C. in case D. if only
8. If you had taken my advice, you ____________ able to deal with the problem now.
A. will be B. are C. would be D. would have been
9. She ______________ a famous singer some years ago.
A. is used to be B. is used to being C. used to be D. used to being
10. It’s about time we ____________ work.
start B. must start C. starting D. started
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. hello B. lose C. only D. whole
2. A. mouths B. cigarettes C. crops D. staffs
3. A. sugar B. champagne C. ship D. decision
4. A. although B. thought C. throughout D. month
5. A. honest B. home C. hourglass D. honorable
III. -ence
Make nouns ending in –ence from the following verbs, making any necessary changes in spelling.
Then put each noun in its correct place in the sentences below.
prefer obey defend offend insist coincide refer
depend correspond reside differ interfere exist pretend
1. He couldn’t go to university but continued his education through _________________ courses.
2. This monument is in memory of the men and women who died in _________________ of this country.
3. Police dogs are trained to a high standard of _________________.
4. Tea or coffee? Do you have any _________________?
5. She wasn’t really angry at all. It was just _________________.
6. Dictionaries, encyclopaedias and atlases are called _________________ books.
7. The doctors tried to cure him of his _________________ on drugs.
8. The United Nations came into _________________ in 1945.
9. Despite his _________________ that he was innocent, he was arrested.
10. I can’t tell the _________________ between butter and margarine.
11. I hope she didn’t take _________________. I was only joking.
12. I met John on holiday quite by chance. What a _________________.
13. She complained of _________________ by her mother-in-law in her private affairs.
‘Place of _________________’ means the place where you live.