Complete the following sentences by filling in each blank with an appropriate relative pronoun.. The professor _______ I talked to didn’t know the answer to my question.. There are three
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I Complete the following sentences by filling in each blank with an appropriate relative pronoun.
1 I was invited by the girl I met at Ethel’s birthday party.
2 We went to the restaurant Jane recommended to us.
3 These walls are all remain of the city.
4 We received an offer of 80,000 USD for the house, we accepted.
5 The man _ wife you met lives next door.
6 Is there anything I can do to help?
7 One of the people _ were arrested was Mary.
8 The professor _ I talked to didn’t know the answer to my question.
9 A child mother loves him or her will grow up with confidence.
10 Many people just couldn’t keep promises _ require a lot of effort to fulfill.
II Combine the two sentences, using a relative pronoun Decide whether the relative clause needs commas.
1 A person should visit Paris That person wishes to have a spectacular view.
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2 Adam Wilkinson is the mayor of the city in the 70s His family is politically active.
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3 A car can be expensive It has all the latest improvement.
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4 The Volkswagen is cute It looks like a bug.
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5 The President is supposed to provide leadership He is a symbol of dignity.
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6 English is the language used in aviation It is spoken around the world.
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7 I can’t find my book anywhere My friend asked me to lend it to him.
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8 That pretty woman has married three times She is wearing a big red hat.
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9 I like the TV program about a funny guy His brother taped his mouth shut to stop him from snoring.
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10 My friend didn’t make it to the movie on time It disappointed me
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III Find and correct the mistakes in the following sentences if necessary.
1 This is my brother, who’s wife is French.
2 The woman whose daughter was crying tried to calm her.
3 He didn’t wait at the traffic lights who were red.
4 Samuel Johnson who was born in 1709 was the son of a bookseller.
5 I don’t like people talk too much.
6 My only brother, who lives in Sydney, came to see me last month.
7 The shoes whom I bought yesterday are very comfortable.
8 Do you know the girl which I danced with?
9 The apples that we bought in the shop are bad.
10 That’s the car whose brakes are being repaired.
IV Fill in the blank with the suitable words :
Security facsimile advanced transmission polite recipient delivered surface subscribers transfer
1 The organization is mainly concerned with the preservation of peace and
international _.
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3 A word which has synonym meaning with courteous is _.
4 Fax has now become a cheap and convenient way to transmit texts over distances.
5 There are three different ways of sending a letter: air mail, mail and Express Mail Service.
6 Thanh Ba Post Office is equipped with _ technology.
7 What will you have to do to if you want to get your newspaper and magazines to your house?
8 Messenger Call Service is used for notifying the of the time and place to receive the call.
9 If you want to send a document and do not want to lose its original shape, our service will help you.
10 Express Money is the service you can use if you want to send money to your relatives who live far away from you
V Choose from the four given options marked A, B, C and D one best answer to complete each sentence
by circling the responding letter A, B, C or D:
1 This hotel has got a very ……… kitchen.
A spacious B space C spaceship D spacing
2 A ………is someone who sells meat
A baker B butcher C chemist D shopkeeper
3 A person who sells flowers is called a ……….
A florist B farmer C vegetarian D biologist
4 We call a man who delivers the mail a ………
A newsman B mailbox C mailman D officers
5 We’d like to buy the house……… overlooks West Lake.
A who B whose C where D which
6 The woman………daughter Jack loves is very kind.
A whose B who C whom D which
7 The letter……… she received this morning is from the USA
A whose B who C whom D which
8 I don’t know the girl……….is wearing a long blue dress.
A whom B whose C which D who
9 Would you mind……… this parcel to Mr Brown, please?
A send B sending C to send D sent
10 I would like to have my mails and newspapers……… early in the morning.
A deliver B delivery C delivered D to deliver
VI Read the passage and answer the following questions:
When you have a office box, the postman does not bring letters to you , but you go to the post-office and get your letters and parcels from your box The box is locked , and you have the key, so the letters are quite safe.
One day, the head teacher of a school wrote to the post-office and asks for a post-office box for his school He soon got an answer It said, “We will give you a post-office in one month”
Three months later, the head teacher wrote to the post-office again and said,” Why haven’t we got a pot-office yet?” This was how the post-office answered:
“ Dear Sir, We gave you a post-office box 2 months ago and wrote to you then to tell you Here is the key
to your box You will find our letter to you in it”
1 What happens when you have a post-office box?
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2 Why are letters safe when they are in a post-office box?
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3 Why did the headmaster write to the post-office?
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4 Why did he write to the post-office 3 months later?
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5 When do you think the headmaster will receive the key to his post-box?
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