Choose the best answer to comple each of the following sentences 1.. Read the following passage carefully, then answer questions: There are about 5,000 living languages in the World toda
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I Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following passage:
Linda is from England, but she (1) (live) _ in the United
States (2) (work) _ for a women’s magazine She (3) (start)
_ writing articles many years ago She (4) (write) _ many articles As a journalist, she (5) (visit) nearly every city in the World Recently, she (6) (be) _ to a number of countries in Africa Now she (7) (be) _ on holiday in Italy She (8) (go)
three days ago She (9) (say) she (10) (return) _ to the United States next week
II Choose the best answer to comple each of the following sentences
1 We haven’t had any news of Liz 2003
2 The house is small for us to live in
3 Do you mind on your own?
4 This is the factory my father used to work
5 You must leave now you will be late for school
6 All of us were that he was successful in the final exam
A surprise B surprised C surprising D surprisingly
7 Radium was by Marie Curie
A discover B discovered C discoverer D discovery
8 I don’t think that film is
9 She was born June 26th , 1995
10 The man you met on Main Street yesterday is your new
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III Read the following passage carefully, then answer questions:
There are about 5,000 living languages in the World today, but only about six
of them are major languages of the World Two – thirds of the World’s population speak those languages More than 350 million people speak English as their first language Nobody knows exactly how many people speak it as a foreign language Chinese is the only language with more speakers than English This is because of the huge population of China It is true that English is the most widespread language on Earth It is the language of business, technology, sports and aviation (hàng không)
* Questions:
1 How many living languages are there in the World today?
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3 Does anyone know exactly how many people speak it as a foreign language?
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4 Which language has more speakers than English?
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5 Is Chinese the most widespread language on Earth.?
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IV Complete the following sentences, using a word or a phrase
Whose – who is standing – though – will fail – unless
1 If you don’t work hard, you _ the exam
2 Marie Curie , _ father was a polish, was a French physicist (nhà vật lý)
3 World population will continue to rise _ we try to reduce it
4 The girl _ in front of the school gate is our new classmate
5 Even _ tired, Mrs Hoa helped me with my homework
V Fill in each of the blanks with a suitable preposition to complete the following passage:
Mark Twain is a famous American writer His name was Samuel langhorn Clemens and Mark Twain was his pen name He was born in a small town (1) _ the Missouri river (2) _ the USA The boy had many friends (3) _ school and when he became a writer, he described them (4) _ his stories, Samuel always wanted to be a sailor and (5) _ the age of twenty he found work(6)
a river boat After some time he left the boat and went to live (7) _ California Here he began to write short stories (8) _ the name (9) _ Mark Twain He sent them (10) _ newspapers The readers loved his stories very much
VI Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence:
1 They are painting the living room at the moment
The living room _
2 John drives more carefully than his brother does
John’s brother doesn’t
3 Learning English is not easy
It is _
4 They were such difficult questions that we couldn’t answer all of them
The questions were so
5 I don’t know her phone number, so I can’t call her
If I _