FIND THE MISTAKES 300 SENTENCES1... In the United States, w h ich more coffee is used than in an y other nation, many people drink their coffee " black", w it hou t cream or sugar.
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1 W h a t is the h i g he r mountain in the world?
2 I w ish my mother g iv e s m e presents m o r e o f t en
3 T h e teacher w a s p l e a si n g with the result o f your examination
4 T h e little b o y d i dn 't know ho w l a ci n g his shoes
5 You a r e q u ite so thin that you c a n slip b e t w ee n the bars
6 T o t u r n o n the light, I w a s surprised a t what I saw
7 I w ou ld r a t he rli v e o n a farm than t o li v e in a city
8 The school library is free a n d open f o r a llthe pupils and teaching staff
9 W h y d on 't you bo rro w books in the local lending library?
10 He had to a d m it that there w e r e something in w ha t mother kept s a y i n g
11 T h e s t ud e n ts suggested bu y i n gflowers f o rthe teachers in the Teachers' Day
12 No one h a v e s o l v e d s u ch a d i f f ic u lt problem
13 D u r i n g their m eat , they discussed what to d o a t the weekend
14 I f you w r ite the essay c a r e f u l, you w illget good mark
15 O r d i na r y Americans a r e friendly and n o t afraid to show its feelings
16 The girl w h o w e r e injured in the accident is now in hospital
17 Thank you v e r y m u ch o f the present t ha t you sent me
18 There w a s n 't s o m e directory in t h e telephone box f r o mwhich I was phoning
19 T h e m a n w h o I w a s waiting f o rdidn't turn up
20 Women w ea r m a k e - u p to b ea u t i f u l t h e m s e l v e s
21 Mai and Lan h a v e a row be c au s e they have m is un d e r st o o d o n e ano t he r
22 The workers are b u il d i n ga ne w b r i d g e w h ich is 150 meters in h i g h
23 It's n o u se a ski n g t he mk e e p quiet
24 This text is too l o n g for me to re a d it
25 I c an 't get u s e d to do i n gso difficult exercises
26 M y father d o e s n 't know s pea k E n g lis h
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27 She b e ha v e s a s i f she w a s a baby
28 You wanted me to t e llyou ab o u t what I w a s do i n ghere and how w a s my life
29 The course is good, bu t m o r e h a r d than I t hou g ht
30 S l eep i n gall day, to ea t too m u ch and ne v e rgoing out is unhealthy
31 The dentist gave m e a c he ck u pand then t e lli n gme I needed two f illi n g s
32 These engines u s e d be i n gstarted by hand B u t n o w they a r e started by electricity
33 This house is often b r o k e n o ff and a lot of things are taken a w a y
34 My father ha s a mechanic t o r e p a irhis motorbike m o n t h l y
35 There a l w a y s is one w ise woman w h o is bo th feared and respected by her people
36 The woman t e lls them cl o s e their eyes ti g h tly and cover them w ith their hands
37 They v isit e d America about a t hou s a n d years a g o , o n the eleventh century AD
38 Ha Dong is the town w he r e I a mborn and gr e w up
39 She is t h e g i r labout t h a t I talked to you y e st e r da y
40 The lesson t ha t we are learning no w is very i n t e r e s te d b u t difficult
41 She m ad e me to p a y f o rthe damage I h a d d o ne
42 He warned m e t o m a ke an eye o n my luggage as that place was f u ll of thieves
43 W he n you are late f o rclass, you s h ou ld apologize f o ryour teacher
44 The village t ha t I was born and gr e w up is sit ua t e d o n the Red River
45 Some children, b e f o r e going to school, g o to kindergartens, o f f ic i a lly a r e c a ll e d nursery schools
46 E n g lish children st a r t school in six and finish a t sixteen
47 I d o n 't feel as ti r e d after a train journey so I do a f t e ra car journey
48 The c h ild ran f a stly to get to sc h oo l
49 I f it w ill r a in this afternoon, we w ill have to c an c e l our picnic
50 He is v e r y w ea k to lift t h is suitcase
51 S u n weather can a lw a y s be depended o n in southern countries
52 The man t h a t wife an d family a r e away s e e m s very lonely
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54 Someone e lse put 49,999 d o m i n o e s in a line and k n o cki n g them all down
55 T h e peel w e r e a c t u a lly 52 meters l on g
56 Why d id all the customers a t the Red Lion ha v e topay o f their beer that week?
57 The h ea v y rain made it po ssi b lefor us to have our picnic
58 If you m a ke a f i v e - da y s trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship en t e r s a different time z on e everyday
59 When he arrived a t the f u r n it u r e shop, they ha d b e e n s o ld the table he w an t ed
60 May Day r e g u l a r l y is c e l eb r a t e d i n many countries a r o u n d the world
61 I f airplane ticket w a s n 't expensive, I c ou ld f ly to Singapore f o rmy holidays
62 Friends advised h e rto st o p doing the h ou s e w o r k be c au seher old age
63 A l t h o u g h she is 103 b u t she still does a l o t o f work in the flat
64 He h a d so a d i f f i c u l t exercise that he couldn't do it
65 It is the l a rg e rcity in Europe with a population o f over eight million
66 It is a b e au t i f u lbuilding o f two towers and a v e r y big clock c a ll e d Big Ben
67 Many hundred years a g o there w e r e many villages and little towns in England
68 They usually took a tree back w ith them and pu t it o n the centre o f the village
69 The international w o r ki n g class m a d e the on e of May their day o f solidarity
70 The f i r st May Day c e l eb r a t e d in England in 1 8 90
71 Television is one of m a n 's important m e a n of c om m u n ic a ti o n
72 T h ou g hTV, home viewers can see and l e a r n a b ou t people, places and things in faraway lands
73 TV provides m an y more en t e r t a i n m e n t programs a s an y other kind
74 P o v e r ty desert c o u n t r i e s in Africa can gr o wguayule
75 The ru bbe r farms will m a ke a l o t o f money and give jobs to a g r ea t dea l o f people
76 A r ou n d the age o f sixteen you m u s t make one of the biggest de c isi o n of your life
77 Junko Tabei, is a Japanese f r o mHokkaido, w a s the first woman to m a kethis difficult climb
78 A T o k y o newspaper - television c o m pan y ha d o rg an i z e d the climb in 1975
79 Bill a n d Fred w a s students a t a university and they w e r e friends
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80 T h e noise on the roof o f the trailer w o ke Bill and Fred up very qu ick
81 I n April 1984, David Hempleman - Adams w a lk e d through northern Canada to the North Pole w ith himself
82 David w a s a b r a v e r y man to go o n this adventure by h i m s e l f
83 Biddenden, England is a small town o f 1,500 p e r s on , with a history of nine hu n d r e d years
84 Each Easter Monday, o ld people, widows, widowers, and others li v i n g on small incomes take part w ith a ceremony c a ll e d Chulkurst Charity
85 Her family w e r e p a t r i ot s w h o supported the American R e v o l u ti o n a l
86 She w ou ld be killed i f t h a t she d id n o t betray the patriots in the area
87 The city of Lufkin, Texas, h a s h a d m u c h than ten million employees w o r ki n g for it without pay
88 These e m p l o y e r s have not t a k e n vacations, a sk e d for sick leave, or complained about ha v i n gto work long hours
89 The worms e a t the waste and turn it i n to clean fertilizer w ho m the city then sells to farmers
90 D u r i n g the Revolutionary War, American patriot w i v e s and children frequently had to t a ke refuge in forts
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91 The women w ou ld spend t h e irtime to ma ke bread and bullets f o rthe soldiers
92 The women w e r e indignant and d e ci d e d that they themselves would d o one more effort to d r i v e off the enemy
93 The delay to p r e v e n t the surrender and a l l o w e d time for reinforcements t o a rr i v e and d r i v e off the enemy
94 The J a p a ne se first de v e l ope d fake food i n the 1920s to introduce people to unfamiliar W e st dishes
95 David w a s a young man w h o w o r ki n g in a n office in a big city
96 He decided to ha v e a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains w he r e there were m u ch streams
97 A rich m e n and his w i f e went in a shop to bu y a bracelet
98 She t r a v e l e d to villages and r e li g i ou s centers, with only an interpreter and a few m e n to carry her camping
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99 She a d op t e d a f i f t e en - y ea r s - o ld Sikkimese boy to t r a v e l w ith her
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100 O n e day a lady s a w a mouse t o r u n across her kit c he n floor
101 She d id n o t want t o g o back to the shops be c a u se it was very l a t e l y
102 The last t i m e I went to London, I d i d n 't have time to visit all the p l a ce I wanted to see
103 I soon g o t to know w he r e w e r e the main st r ee t s
104 I can spend q u ite a long time in Westminster Abbey and learn o f all the interesting things t he re
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105 T he y a r e very p l ea s an t to travel b y steamer d o w n the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridge
106 O n e d a y a f a m e singer w a s invited by a rich lady to her house
107 At ten o'clock, the singer w a s a sk e d c om i n g up st a i r s to the lady's guests
108 William H.Harrison, the man w h o served t h e m o s t s h o r t term, died o f pneumonia several weeks a f t e rhis inauguration
109 Abraham Lincoln was on e of four p r e si d en ts w h o w a s assassinated
110 James A Garfield was s ho t d u r i n g his first year in office by a man to t h a t he w ou l dn 't give a job
111 He doesn't m u ch like the work, bu t he en j o y e d the relationships w ith the other workers
112 After g e tti n gher s ix - y ea r- o ld daughter ready and d r i v i n g her to t h e sc h oo l, she starts on the housework
113 She f i n d s housework bo re d and d oe s n 't like to s t a y at home all day
114 A artist went to a be a u t i f u lpart of the country f o r a holiday, and stayed with a farmer
115 The artist was very p l ea s e d and thanked the farmer for s a y i n g s o kind things ab o u t the paintings
116 Se v e r a lmembers of his family did a great deal t o e n c ou r a g ehim in the field of sci e n t i f ic
117 While he d e a lt with the deaf and i n v e sti g a ti n gthe science of acoustics, his studies e v en t ua lly led to the
i n v en ti o nof the multiple telegraph and his greatest invention - the telephone
118 Along in jogging and swimming, c y cli n g is on e of the best all-round forms o f exercise
119 It can help to i n c r ea se your st ro n g and energy, g i v i n g you more efficient muscles and a s t r on ge rheart
120 D o i n g too much too q u ickly can damage muscles that a r en 't used t o w o r k
121 If you ha d any doubts ab o u t taking up cycling for health reasons, t a lk to your doctor and a sk his or her advice
122 The decay be g i n s in a little crack in the enamel to c o v e r o f the tooth
123 We s h ou ld eat food that is good a t our t ee thand our body
124 Some accidents c au se injuries b u t s o m e lead to d i e
125 The T ra n s p o r t Department organizes road s a f e ty campaigns every year in o r de r t h a t reduce traffic a cci d e n ts
126 I f everyone t a k e s care when c r o ssi n g the road, there will be m o r e traffic accidents
127 Coffee an d tea is favorite hot d r i n ks of people in all parts of the world
128 In the United States, w h ich more coffee is used than in an y other nation, many people drink their coffee " black", w it hou t cream or sugar
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Trang 6129 In China, Japan and other O r i e n t a lcountries, w he r e tea is the national drink, people a l m o st use ne v e rsugar in their tea
130 Richard leaves a t home at a bo u t half past eight, w ith his schoolbag un d e r his arm
131 He d oe s n ' t buy a ticket every day so he has a s ea s o nticket
132 S c h oo ls in England a r e no t the same f r o m in ou rcountry
133 In England school c h il d r e ndo not go to s c hoo l o n Saturdays w i t h Sundays
134 In some places, winter be g i n s in November and e n d i n gin March o rApril
135 You can s e e a lot of c h il d s running and jumping in the snow or p l a y i n g with snowballs
136 One day their mother t o o k them in their aunt's house to play w h i le she went to the big city to buy s o m e new clothes
137 Two old g en tl e m e n lived in a q u ite street in Pa r is
138 They went o f t e n for walks t o g e t he rin the streets w he n the weather w a s fine
139 In England n o bo d y under the age of eighteen a r e allowed to d r i n k in a public bar
140 There is a prison in iceland which a ll o w s its prisoners g o i n g out without any guards to w o r k everyday
141 Mary and h e rhusband wanted to g i v e the old lady to a n ice birthday present
142 He is s u c h famous that he ha s a great many f an s
143 The po lice caught h e be c a u sehe was involved in a robbery
144 If he doesn't u n der st an d the lesson, h is father o f t e n explains it f o rhim
145 Most o f the b u il d i n gin this town are r a t h e runattractive, b u t this church is an exception
146 She h a s a s t r on g ly de t e r m i n a ti o nto b e a teacher
147 The government a r e trying p l a y i n g down t h e irinvolvement in the affair
148 The e x pan si o n of t h is factory will to c r ea te more employment to l o c a l people
149 There is a chill st r iki n g me w he n I go alone in night
150 This morning, I e n c oun t e r e da friend I h a v en 't seen f o ra long t i m e s
151 It is possible to i n f e rtwo c o m p l e t e ly opposite c o n cl u si o n from this set of facts
152 He is not v e r y s an g u i n e a b ou t his chances of s u cc e s s f u l
153 She a d m i r e s Korean a c t r e ss e s in so far as she wears a s t h e m
154 She p r e s en t e d reward f o rthe return o f her l o st bracelet
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155 We are i n t e r e s t e d o f the c on s e r v a ti o n o f forests
156 I think there a r e a n y resources t h a t we have left u n t a pp e d
157 He e n r ic h s his k n o w l ed g e by list en i n gto the radio e v e r y n i g ht
158 We h a v e searched f o rsome of the b oo k s to w h ich you need
159 It is many y ea r s f o rMount Vesuvius l a st erupted
160 R e f o r m i n gthe education s y st e m w illbe a d i f f ic u lty process
161 I found it ha r d ly to keep my c on c en t r a t i o n with s u ch a noise going on
162 I k e e p my re f e r e n ce books n ea r in my desk for c o n v en i en c e
163 Pu t the cap back o n the bottle, o t he r w ise the juice w ou ld spill
164 All p il o ts are r e s p on si b lef o rtheir passengers' s a f e
165 The c o u n t r y air a r e fresh, m o r eo v e r, it is not po ll u t e d
166 I always m a ke a point of c h e cki n g that a ll the windows are shut a f t e rI go out
167 We are ha v i n ga little get-together to c e l e b r a te D a v id promotion
168 She is enough o ld to b e independent o f her pa re n ts
169 The train h e got on ha s an accident bu t he w a s unharmed
170 You n ee d attach a label to each piece w ith luggage
171 You should w ea r conspicuous clothes w he n to w a lk a t night
172 She m a d e a few c on v en ti o n a l r e m a r k about t h e weather
173 She can l oo k back o n her career w ith g r ea tly satisfaction
174 I f ee la c e r t a inapprehension w ith my interview t o m o rr o w
175 What w a s she s a i d convinced m e that I was m ist a k en
176 A w e lltool-box is a h a nd y thing to have i n the house
177 One o f his l e ss attractive t r a it is criticizing his wife in public
178 T h e driver w a s t o o ti n ghis horn a s he re a c h e d the bend
179 T r y to more positive in dealing w ith the problem
180 She h a d re a lpsyched he r s e l f up f o rthe big match
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Trang 8181 W h e n life w a s simple, man's needs were f e w and he could supply t he irall.
182 The w o m a n who c o m e in does not k no w the man w e ll
183 I li v e in Elgol, is a small village o n the south-west coast o f the island
184 I stop f o rpassengers an d empty the five post bo x a l on gthe road
185 I pick u p the school children t h a t live along my route and t oo k them to the school in Broadford
186 There a r e a school f o ryoung children in Elgol, but the o l d e rchildren have to travel into the town
187 S o m e ti m e s it takes m e about three h o u r s f i n is h i n gmy round
188 Stories are the go ode st way of t e a c h i n g m o r a llessons t o young people
189 I talk about t h e Tower of London, a n d then o f the li v e s of people in England today
190 Sun Jingxiu, a 80-year-old r e ti r e d teacher, is the o l de st storyteller in the country
191 Small children d o e s n 't understand t h a t hot water and hot d r i n ks can b e dangerous
192 More o ft e n ly the children h a v e fallen t h ro u g h a glass door or window and are b a d ly hurt
193 The two young w o m a n are w a tc h i n gpeople dancing, and w a iti n g for an
invitation to j o i n in
194 Her da r k dress re fl e cts a view of life w h i c h is m an y less optimistic
195 I s p en t an hour trying to f i n d a phone s o t ha t I could ring you t e lli n g you I'd be a little late this morning
196 I wanted s o m e t h i n gfresh to e a t while I w e r e in Britain
197 In towns, there w a s very few bus shelters un tilabout thirty y ea r s ago
198 M o st people no longer w ea r s the kinds of clothes t h a t protect them f r o mthe wind, cold and rain
199 Most o f them were bu ild in the n i ne t ee n t h century and some a r e very grand
200 They w e r e intended t o p e r s ua d e people to d r i n k water, instead w ith beer or spirits
201 C o m m u n ic a ti o n w illbe impossible i f everyone made up h is own language
202 The m o r e words you k n o w, the m o st ideas you c a n express
203 Words a r e the main t h i n g s we u si n g in communicating w ha t we want to say
204 As w e llas talking w ith our voices we can a lso t a lki n g with our bodies
205 They may nod he rhead to s ho w that they ha v e understood or shake it to indicate d is a gr e e m e n t
206 W r itt e n language without o f punctuation i s not easy to f o ll o w
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208 The division be t w ee nthe r o l e s of the mother and the father is n o l on g e rvery cl ea r l y
209 A father can c h ang e the baby, d r e s s e d t h e children or m a k e the dinner
210 A father is the person w h o provides us f o rmoney to feed an d clothe ourselves
211 A dad is the pe r s o n w h o you ask f o rpocket m o n e y
212 The t ab l e m a n ne r s you have in a restaurant is very different from t ho se you have at home
213 A llthe parks are be a u t i f u lkept and are f o rthe use and e n j o y m en t of the people
214 There a l w a y s is nearly a c r o w d a t the door of the theatre a ski n g for returned tickets
215 C h i n a teams a r e famous f o rtheir skill in table tennis
216 There w a s once a foreigner w h o went in England t o l e a r n English
217 If you e v e rgo i n to a house in Japan, you must r e me m be r i n gto take o ff your shoes
218 M an y houses have n o other f u r n it u r e s in their rooms
219 You will see a bowl o f flowers or a long silk pa i n ti n g s on one of the w a lls
220 You may b e surprised s e e i n g t ha t there are n o bedrooms
221 O n e of the greatest d i f f ic u lti e s f o r foreign students in American universities a r e the lecture system
222 It is not easy to take g oo d notes f ro m a lecture o n a foreign language
223 The f i r st skill to l e a r n is how to write only the m o r e important words, not w ho le sentences
224 Her mother died e a r ly w ith her father tried ha r d to b r i n gup the four children
225 Marie l ea rn t to re a d and write in the age o f four
226 She worked v e r y ha r d and be c a m e a famous chemist and ph y sicists
227 Jim w a s ha v i n gdinner a t a restaurant w he n Henry w a s c o m i n gin
228 He could u n d e r s t an dalgebra and to s pe a k French w he n he w a s six
229 English is the native or o f f ic i a llanguage on o ne - f i f t h s of the land area o f theworld
230 M an y universities, school classes t au g h t in English e v e n t hou g hthe na ti v e language is not English
231 I m y s e lf prefer t h e underground as it is ra p i d it y, easy and c he a p
232 There are s u ch many cars and buses in London t h a t one can not drive along the roads quickly, and w it hou t many stops
Trang 10233 I f you don 't know London very g ood , it is very difficult to f i n d the bus you want.
234 S o m e butterflies f l i e s m o r e t h a n3000 kilometers o n their journey to the south
235 On the w i n t e r i n gplaces, millions o f butterflies cover the trees and ground like a carpet
236 It is c e r t a i n ly true that the a v e r a g e woman ha s weaker muscles t ha t the average man
237 When men li v e d in caves and h un t animals for food, st r en g thof body was the m o st important thing
238 M o st of the words are the s am e in American and in British English, but theAmerican people say a n y English words not like people d o in England
239 In Canada m u c h people speak English be c a u se they a lso came from England many years ago
240 Jim gets up a t half past seven everyday, ha s breakfast at eight o'clock, and st a r ts w o r ks at half past nine
241 Peter u s ua lly g e ts up at eleven o'clock and h a s breakfast o n lunchtime
242 Holiday towns and f is h i n g villages in the South - West are p r e p a r e d to fight the oil pollution w h ich is
threatening l o c a lbeaches
243 Yesterday there w a s a collision in the English Channel b e t w ee n the "S.P Titan", w h o is one of the biggest oil
t an k e r s in the world, and a Dutch cargo ship
244 Helicopters r e sc u e d b o th crews, and nobody d i e s in the collision
245 Hundreds o f small boats, w h ich are c a r r y i n g detergents, is spraying the oil
246 The Amazon forest, in Brazil, c o v e r s five m illi o n square kilometers - an area as b i gg e ras the whole of Europe
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247 I f the destruction of the forest c o n ti n ue s at the same rate, there w ou ld be nothing l e ft by the year 2005
248 Scientists s a y s that the d i s ap p ea ra n ce o f the trees is already causing changes in the climate
249 Brunei is o n e of the s m a ll e st but m o st r i ch countries in the world
250 Most t h e m think t ha t Brunei is in the Middle East but it is n ' t
251 And the b e a u ty is t ha t there are so little people to share all t h is money
252 In 1980 the Sultan m e t an air hostess c a lli n g Mariam Bell and f e llin love w ith her
253 F a ct o r y chimneys g i v e out smoke that c on t a i n i n gsulphur dioxide a n d nitrogen oxide
254 When it rains, these acids d iss o l v e in the rain and make it t o b e acidic
255 Acid rain is believed b e the w o r st pollution problem o f all
256 Acid rain ha s ha r m e d aquatic life by to t u r n many lakes i n t o lifeless bodies o f water
257 It is not po ssi b leto do this on a l a rg e enough scale to save all the l a k e