Teacher: Ms Le Huong 0974310555 FLD – Hong Duc University Subject: MA degree entrance exam revision Lesson 1: Relative pronouns I. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS OR RALATIVE ADVERBS 1. Jack London ……………… wrote “Iron heel” is a famous American write. 2. Rachel had never told me ……………… she lived. 3. Is there anything ……………… I can do? 4. This is the house ……………… he used to live. 5. They are the men about ……………… I was telling you. 6. We saw the people ……………… car had broken down. 7. Is this the best play ……………… you have ever seen? 8. That is the woman ……………… will be prime Minister one day. 9. We all thank him ……………… gave us a lot of help. 10. Next summer holidays, our family will go to Miami ……………… my sister is living. 11. The boys ……………… are playing in the garden are my cousins. 12. He finally married the girl ……………… he loved. 13. The flowers ……………… my friend gave me have withered. 14. Mary is the girl ……………… bicycle was stolen yesterday. 15. Love, ……………… is a wonderful feeling, comes to everyone at some time in his life. 16. I saw many people and cattle ……………… went to market. 17. The man to ……………… you spoke is my boss. 18. Swimming, ……………… is a good sport, makes people strong. 19. The decision was postponed, ……………… was exactly what they wanted. 20. I know the place, ……………… you can find many beautiful roses. 21. I was Dr Fleming ……………… discovered penicillin. 22. Budapest , ……………… is on the Danube, is a beautiful city. 23. They show me the hospital ……………… buildings had been destroyed by the storm. 24. The teacher with ……………… we studied last year no longer teaches in our school. 25. It is easy to find faunlts in people ……………… we dislike.
Trang 1Teacher: Ms Le Huong - 0974310555 FLD – Hong Duc University Subject: MA degree entrance exam revision
Lesson 1: Relative pronouns
I FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS OR
RALATIVE ADVERBS
1 Jack London ……… wrote “Iron heel” is a famous American write
2 Rachel had never told me ……… she lived
3 Is there anything ……… I can do?
4 This is the house ……… he used to live
5 They are the men about ……… I was telling you
6 We saw the people ……… car had broken down
7 Is this the best play ……… you have ever seen?
8 That is the woman ……… will be prime Minister one day
9 We all thank him ……… gave us a lot of help
10 Next summer holidays, our family will go to Miami ……… my sister
is living
11 The boys ……… are playing in the garden are my cousins
12 He finally married the girl ……… he loved
13 The flowers ……… my friend gave me have withered
14 Mary is the girl ……… bicycle was stolen yesterday
15 Love, ……… is a wonderful feeling, comes to everyone at some time
in his life
16 I saw many people and cattle ……… went to market
17 The man to ……… you spoke is my boss
18 Swimming, ……… is a good sport, makes people strong
19 The decision was postponed, ……… was exactly what they wanted
20 I know the place, ……… you can find many beautiful roses
21 I was Dr Fleming ……… discovered penicillin
22 Budapest , ……… is on the Danube, is a beautiful city
23 They show me the hospital ……… buildings had been destroyed by thestorm
24 The teacher with ……… we studied last year no longer teaches in our school
25 It is easy to find faunlts in people ……… we dislike
II COMBINE THESE PAIRS OG SENTENCES, USING RELATIVE
Trang 2………19) have you seen the film? Everyone is talking about it
………20) the trip sounds wonderful Your aunt has just been on it
………21) that young boy stole a pen He has just left the shop
………22) the pen was very valuable He stole it
………23) where's the umbrella? You brought it with you
………24) the book has been borrowed by someone You wanted it
………25) my sister is studying geologly She finds it fascinating
Trang 3………26) Van Goh cut off his ear He was a well known writer
………27) Togo is a former French colony It is in West Africa
………28) Sheila is a TV producer I've just met her
………29) the treaty has been signed by the president He took power last year
………30) David is going to talk about careers I'm sure you all know him
………31) who lives in the house? It has a white door
………32) we visited a patient His eyesight had been restored by the surgeon
………33) the girls should go to the main office Their names begin with the letters A-K
………34) the countries will not be helped They have very large debts
………35) the people will be compensated Their house was damaged by the bomb
………36) the shop will make a big profit It's turnover is the largest
………37) the player changed their shirts at half-time Their shirts were dỉty
………38) that's the room The meeting is help in that room
………39) I'll always remember the day I first saw that sight on that day
………30) she was born in Malaysia Rubber trees grow well there
………41) No one knows the school My uncle taught at the school 10 years ago
………42) New year's Day is aday All family members gather and enjoy a family dinner then
………43) please ask them the time The train started the trip at the time
………44) there are many hotels Tourist can enjoy their holidays there
………45) We'll take you to Dalat You can enjoy pure air there
………46) you can't enjoy hiking in winter Snow covers everything in winter
Trang 4………47) the field is very fertile They plant potatoes in the field
………
III BUILD A COMPLETE SENTENCES WITH THE GIVEN WORDS:
1 Alice / mother / die / last year / my friend //
The government of the United States has a special birdbanding departmentwhich makes all the birdbands The bands do not hurt the birds, as they are made
of aluminum and are very light They come in different sizes for different sizebirds Each band has a special number On each band are these words: “NotifyFish and Wildfife service, Washington D.C” Anyone who finds a dead bird aband on as legs is asked to send the band to Washington with a note telling whereand when the bird was found In this way naturalists add to their knowledge of thehabit and needs of birds
1.The title below that best expresses the main them or subject of this selection is
A The work of John Audubon
B Studying birdlife through birdbanding
C The migration of birds
Trang 5D The habits and needs of birds
1 According to the selection Audubon proved his theory that
A the government should make a scientific study of birds
B birds prefer a diet of flies
C birds return to the same nesting place each spring
D silver is the best material for birdbands
2 Audubon’s purpose in banding the phobes was to
A notify the government
B satisfy his curiosity
C start a birdbanding department
D gain fame as the first birdbander
3 The migration habits of phoebes depend upon
A the available food supply
B nesting places
C the number of young birds
D the help of bird lovers
4 which statement is TRUE according to the selection?
A All young birds build their nests on the walls farm buildings
B Resident of Georgia may expect to see phoebes all year long
C The weight of a band causes a bird considerable discomfort
D The government offers a reward for information about dead birds
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Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form:
1 If I see him , I _ (give ) him a gift
2 If I had a typewriter, I _ (type) it myself
3 If I had known that you were in hospital, I _ (visit) you
4 You could make better progress if you _ (attend) class regularly
5 If I _ (know) his telephone number, I’d give it to you
6 If you _ (arrive) ten minutes earlier, you would have got a seat
7 If he worked more slowly, he _ (not make) so many mistakes
8 I shouldn’t drink that wine if I _ (be) you
9 If I _ (find) a cheap room, I will stay a fortnight
10 A lot of people _ (be) out of work if the factory closed down
Exercise 2: make conditional sentences
1 Keep silent or you’ll wake the baby up →If
Exercise 3: Use UNLESS instead of IF
EX: If you do not study hard, you will fail the exam
Unless you study hard , you will fail the exam
1 If you do not like this one, I’ll bring you another
Trang 74 if you had not sneezed, he wouldn’t have known that we were there.
Exercise 4: One of the four underlined parts marked A, B, C, D in each
sentence is not correct in standard English Identify them.
1 If Lucia had been here now, she would find out the truth about her uncle’s accident
A B C D
2 If a student takes a course on Computer Science, it will take him four years doing the course
A B C D
3 Unless it did not rain, Peter would pay us a visit
8 If we had had a map, we would not be lost yesterday
D /,ʌnə'vɔidəbl/ kh thể tránh được; tất yếu
13.He spends money carelessly as if he was a millionaire
Trang 816.She has found that nobody can help her if she did not try her best to do it herself.
A B C D
Exercise 6: Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences.
1 If the oceans _of fresh water, there _ plenty of water to irrigate all thedeserts on earth
A is / will be B.were / would be C would be / were D had been /would have been
2 _have enough apples, she’ll bake an apple pie this afternoon
3 If you _to me, you wouldn’t have got so much trouble
A listened B would listen C had listened
D Would have listened
4 If you don’t know how to spell a word, you _ look it up in the dictionary
5 If the sun _, we _for a walk
A shines / will go B shone / will go C shone / would go D hadshone / would go
6 The campfire _ if it _ last night
A wouldn’t be cancelled / hadn’t rained B wouldn’t have been cancelled / hadn’t rained
C would have been cancelled / hadn’t rained D will be cancelled / rains
7 But for our parents, we _ successful in life
A will never be B would never be C wouldn’t have be D would have never been
8 If I _ my wallet at home this morning, I _ money for lunch now
A leave / will have B didn’t leave / would have
9 It is too bad, Lam isn’t here If he _ here, he _ what to do
C had been / would have known D was / would know
10.If we _ the plans carefully, we would not have had so many serious
mistakes
studying
11.I will never talk to you again _ you apologize me _ your being rude
A if / for B unless / for C or / of D whether / or
12. _ if you work harder, you will be sacked
13.I think you should stop smoking
A If I am you, I will stop smoking B If I were you, I will stop smoking
Trang 9C If I were you, I would stop smoking D If I had been you, I would stop smoking.
14.If you take the ice out of the fridge, it _
15.We should do something to protect water from being polluted _we will have nothing to drink in the future
17.not / forget / keep / touch / me / if / you / come / Singapore
A Don’t forget keeping in touch with me if you come to Singapore
B Don’t forget to keeping in touch with me if you come to Singapore
C Don’t forget to keep in touch with me if you come to Singapore
D Don’t forget kept in touch with me if you come to Singapore
18.If I can’t afford something, I never buy it
A I never buy anything that I can’t afford
B I never buy something that I can’t afford
C I never buy anything that I can afford
D The thing that I can’t afford I never buy anything
19.The police want to contact with people if they saw him
A The police want to talk to anyone who sees the man
B The police want to talk to anyone who saw the man
C The police wants to talk to anyone who saw the man
D The police who saw the man want to talk to someone
20.How should people be punished if they start a fire?
A What we should do with someone who starts the fire?
B What should we do with someone starts the fire?
C What with someone who starts the fire should we do?
D What should we do with someone who starts the fire?
21.Let’s knock on their door to see _ home
A if they’re B unless they’re C whether they were
D if they were
22.Unless we _ more snow, we can’t go skiing
D had
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D unless
24.Unless you wash the car, you _ not drive it at the weekend
D may
25.If Peter _ his car before the drive, he _ the problem of out of petrol
would not have got
C checks / will not have got D would be checking / will not have got
26.He stepped on the mine, and it exploded
A If he doesn’t step on the mine, it doesn’t explode
B If he doesn’t step on the mine, it won’t explode
C If he didn’t step on the mine, it wouldn’t explode
D If he hadn’t stepped on the mine, it wouldn’t have exploded
27.In my experiments, the liquid is cooled to 32ºF It always freezes
A If you cool the liquid to 32 degrees, it froze
B If you cooled the liquid to 32 degrees, it would freeze
C If you cool the liquid to 32 degrees, it will freeze
D If you had cooled the liquid to 32 degrees, it would have frozen
28.It may rain this afternoon I hope it doesn’t because I don’t want the match to
29.Unfortunately, I don’t know Philosophy, so I can’t answer your question
A If I know Philosophy, I can answer your question
B If I know Philosophy, I will be able to answer your question
C If I knew Philosophy, I would be able to answer your question
D If I had known Philosophy, I would have been able to answer your
question
30.If the bag had not been heavy, we would have taken it with us
A The bag is heavy, so we cannot take it with us
B The bag was heavy, so we could not take it with us
C Because the bag was heavy so we could not take it with us
D We took the bag with us although it was heavy
31. _ there are some more ideas, we can end the meeting now
case
32.If he _ with us now, he _ the beauty of nature of the National Park
Trang 11A is / can enjoy B was / will enjoy C has been / would enjoy D were / could enjoy
33.If they had searched more carefully, they…the watch sooner
would have found
34.If I had got up early, I _ to have breakfast now
D would have had
35.He talked as if nothing _
A has happened B had happened C will happen
D would happen
36.Can you imagine what _ if everyone _
A will happen / can fly B would happen / could fly
C had happened / could have flown D happened / will have happened
37.The wind was so strong that the cottage collapsed
A The wind was too strong to collapse the cottage
B If the wind were not so strong, the cottage would not collapse
C Due to the strong wind, the cottage collapsed
D It is the strong wind made the cottage collapsed
38.Slow down _
A In case you will get and accident
B Provided that you would get and accident
C And you will get and accident
D Or you will get an accident
39.I regret behaving so impolitely with her and she was disappointed
A Unless I behave so impolitely with her, she would not be disappointed
B Provided that I did not behave so impolitely with her, she would not be disappointed
C I wish I did not behave so impolitely with her
D If I had not behaved so impolitely with her, she would not have been disappointed
40.I cannot buy a new computer _ I save enough money
41.Most people you meet will be polite to you _
A if you are polite to them B if you will be polite to them
C unless you are polite to them D if you were polite to them
42.Take an umbrella with you _
A in case it rains B unless it rains C if it will rain D even if it would rain
43.If you do so, it _ the matter worse
A makes only B would only makeC will only make D had only made
44.You _ English fluently unless you practice it every day
A will speak B will not speak C can speak D did not speak
Trang 1245.Hurry up _ you will miss the bus and be late for school.
46.You will get a good seat if you _ first
47.The baby will die if nobody sends for a doctor
A unless a doctor is sent for B if a doctor is sent for
C unless nobody sends for a doctor D if a doctor will be sent
48.He needs a lot of money to cure his daughter’s illness _ he works day and night
49.Sam will not graduate _
A if he passed all the tests B if he does not pass all the tests
C unless he passes all the tests D unless he had passed all the tests
50. _ , we cannot continue our journey
A If there is not enough food B If only there is not enough food
C Only if there is enough food D If there was enough food
51.If I had been more confident, I would have passed the driving test
I failed my driving test because of my lack of confidence
I had failed my driving test because of my lack of confidence
I passed the driving test in spite of my lack of confidence
I passed the driving test with confidence
52.You / in need / I / help
A If you are in need, I will help you with something
B If you are in need, and I will help you with something
C If you are in need or I will help you with something
D Otherwise you are in need, I will help you with something
53.Ok / I / pick you up / 4 o’clock / afternoon?
A Do you OK if I pick you up at 4 o’clock in the afternoon?
B Is it OK if I pick if I pick you up at 4 o’clock in the afternoon?
C Do you mind it is OK if I pick you up at 4 o’clock in the afternoon?
D I wonder is it OK if I pick you up at 4 o’clock in the afternoon?
54.I / get / refund / change / another sweater
A I would like to get the refund if you can change me another sweater
B Unless I would like to get the refund or you can change me another
sweater
C I would like to get the refund or you can change me another sweater
D I would like to get the refund; consequently, you can change me another sweater
55.If I had time, I would go with you
A.I am free and surely go with you B.I am too busy to go with you
C I will go with you because I have time D I am free enough to go with you