Read these following passages and choose the best answer : The police are looking 1 __________ a tall, teenager boy 2 __________ blue eyes in connection with a robbery yesterday at Dayto[r]
Trang 1A ADJECTIVE ORDERS : (Thứ tự các tính từ)
When there is two or more than two adjectives standing in front of noun, those adjectives are arranged in orders
according to this order that YOU MUST LEARN BY HEART (Khi có hai hay nhiều hơn hai tính từ đứng trước danh từ, những tính từ này được sắp xếp theo một thứ tự nhất định mà BẠN PHẢI HỌC THUỘC)
1 Cardinal number (số đếm) : one, two, ten,
twenty,…
2 Opinion (ý kiến) : lovely, nice, great, awful,
wonderful
3 Size (kích cỡ) : big, small, long, short, tall, fat,
large,…
4 Age (tuổi tác) : new, old, young, elderly,…
5 Shape (hình dáng) : round, oval, square,
rectangle,…
6 Color (màu sắc) : red, brown, blue, green, black,
…
7 Origin (xuất xứ) : American, Chinese, Japanese,
…
8 Material (chất liệu) : stone, plastic, leather, paper,…
Note : sau các động từ be, become, get, seem, look, feel,… là các tính từ và động từ nguyên mẫu
B PHRASE OF RESULT with ENOUGH : (Cụm từ với ENOUGH)
1 Enough with adj or adv.
The same subjects:
S + be/V + adj /adv + enough + to + Vo.
E.g She is old, so she can drive a car.
She is old enough to drive a car
Different subjects:
S + be/V + adj /adv + enough + for someone + to + Vo.
E.g The bag is very light I can carry it
The bag is light enough for me to carry
2 Enough with noun
S + be/V + enough + Noun + to + Vo.
E.g She doesn’t have much money, so she cannot buy a house
She doesn’t have enough money to buy a house
EXERCISES I.Arrange the adjectives in brackets in the correct order.
1 It is a (wooden/ round) table ………
2 She is wearing a (green/ new/ beautiful) dress ………
3 What a (sunny/ lovely) day! ………
4 My uncle lives in a (old/ lovely/ small) house ………
5 That girl has (blue/ nice/ big) eyes ………
6 He gave me (black/ leather) gloves ………
7 My teacher has a (round/ pink/ small) face ………
It’s a (small/ metal/ black) box ………
I .Use ENOUGH to combine each pairs of these following sentences : 1 My sister is old She can drive a car
2 The coat isn’t warm I don’t wear it in winter
3 The weather is fine We can go camping
4 Those apples aren’t ripe We can’t eat them
5 It’s near our house We can walk there
6 We aren’t tall We can’t see the summit
7 The ice is quite thick He can walk on it
8 It’s not very dark at the moment We can see the star clearly
9 The ladder isn’t very long I didn’t reach the window
10 I didn’t have money I couldn’t go on a holiday to Beverly Hills
11 She is beautiful and intelligent She can become Miss World
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12 The worker is clever He can make fine things from wood.
PRACTICE EXERCISES
I Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others :
II Choose the correct answer :
1.I (sent/ gave/ received/ took) a letter from my old friend last week
2.She spends most of her free time (doing/ to do/ do/ for doing) volunteer work
3.He is (not enough old/ enough not old/ not old enough/ enough old) to ride his bike to school 4 She is wearing a (red new pretty/ new pretty red/ pretty red new/ pretty new red) dress
5.Her mother (left/ leaves/ is leaving/ will leave) this city two years ago
6 I find Peter is not communicative He’s rather (kind/ reserved/ sociable/ humorous) in public 7.He enjoys (to listen/ listen/ listening/ to listening) to music while he’s studying
8.Each of them (have/ has/ to have/ having) a different character
9.A child whose parents have died is called a(n) (cousin/ neighbor/ nephew/ orphan)
10.Lien is very shy but her sister is (reserved/ generous/ outgoing/ kind)
11.How do you do ? - _ ?
A I am very well, thanks B Nice to meet you C How do you do ? D What do you do ?
12 _ to talk to my new friend ? – I’d love to
A Would you like B Are you like C Do you like D Are you liking
III Choose the word or phrase that needs correcting :
1 I (A) strongly believe that friends (B) plays an important (C) role in (D) our life
2 Children nowadays spend (A) more time (B) to play video games (C) than (D) reading books
3 (A) This software isn’t (B) good enough (C) for the children (D) use
4 Hoa (A) is very (B) happy when she (C) received a letter (D) from her friend this morning
5 We are (A) very close friends (B) although we (C) have quite different (D) character
6 You (A) won’t pass the examination (B) if you (C) don’t work hardly enough
7 He always (A) eats eggs (B) for breakfast and (C) drink some (D) milk
8 Harry went (A) to Disneyland (B) and (C) has a good (D) time
9 Each (A) of the (B) rooms (C) have a color (D) television
10 Once when I (A) was ten, I (B) used to get sick and (C) went to (D) the hospital
II Put the following words in the correct order.
1 warm/ enough/ to/ go/ the/ weather/ is/ not/ swimming
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2 go/ haven’t/ enough/ like/ got/ money/ I’d/ to/ on/ holiday/ but/ I
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3 moves/ round/ the earth/ the/ sun
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4 has/ a/ different/ each/ of/ them/ character
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5 brown/ has/ eyes/ she/ big
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6 many/ are/ flowers/ garden/ in/ red/ her/ there/ small
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7 teacher/ dark/ has/ our/ hair/ straight/ long
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8.enough/ Jane/ stay/ to/ alone/ old/ isn’t/ at home
>………
Trang 3IV Use the correct verb tense or form :
1 Nien (be) _ Hoa’s next door neighbor in Hue She (be) _ very beautiful She (have) big brown eyes and a lovely smile Last week, she (go) to Hanoi (visit) Hoa They (travel) around the city and (see) a lot of interesting places Nien (think) _ Ha Noi (be) _ a beautiful but so noisy and busy city, so she (not like) (live) _ there
2 The sun _ in the east and (set) in the west
3 Alexander Graham Bell (not invent) _ the electric light bulb Thomas Edison (do)
4 What (you / do) every day after school ?
5 She (not drink) _ coffee She (drink) _ Oolong tea
6 Look out ! You (fall) into a big hole
7 Each of the students (have) _ their own account in the school website
8 I _ them because of their joke last night (annoy)
9 Rice (not grow) _ in cold climates
10 I would like _ a big cake for you and your family (make)
11 It takes me two hours this composition (compile)
12 It (be) often very hot in the summer
V Use the correct word form :
1 She’s beautiful with a (love)……… smile
2 (Luck)……… , the barber cut my hair too short
3 Each of my friends has a (differ)……… character
4 Nam is very (social)………, kind and generous
5 My uncle often spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local (orphan)………
6 Miss White is more (beauty)……… than Miss Brown
7 This story is full of (humors)………
8 It has a (different)……… between them
9 He writes more (slow)……… than I do
10.People in my country are very warm and (friend)………
11.She looks more (beauty)……… than her sister
12.They were very (luck)……… to survive a shipwreck
13.Those cats look (love)………
V Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
generous – orphanage – sociable – planet – next door – humor – joke – reserved- curly
1.The Earth is the name of the we live on
2.He has a good sense of He always makes people laugh
3.After the death of his parents, he was sent to an
4.Don’t do it as a It’s a serious thing
5.She lives next to my house She is my neighbor
6.It was of you to share your food with me
7.Mai has a lot of friends He is very
8.She never talks about her feeling She seems quite
9 Her hair isn’t straight Her hair is _
VI Fill in each blank in this passage with ONE suitable word :
Nga is a good-looking girl (1) _ long straight black hair She goes to school six (2) _ a week She has many (3) Of all her friends, Lan and Hoa are (4) ones she spends most of her (5) with They often go swimming (6) _ Sunday mornings They (7) like listening to music, but Nga (8) the peace (9) _ quiet of the local library The three of them (10) very close friends
Trang 4VII Read these following passages and choose the best answer :
The police are looking (1) a tall, teenager boy (2) blue eyes in connection with a robbery yesterday at Dayton’s Jewelry store (3) to the witness, the robber is about six feet, two inches (4) He’s very thin and his skin is of very (5) _ color He (6) dark straight hair He has board shoulders and a dimple in his check He was last seen to wear a brown jacket and black pants If you (7) anyone fitting his description, (8) the police department immediately
1 A at B for C after D into
2 A of B by C and D with
3 A Following B Talking C According D As
4 A tall B high C long D short
5 A bright B faint C heavy D light
6 A is B have C has D had
7 A saw B see C seen D seeing
8 A say B come C promise D contact
VIII Read and choose the best answer
Nich Johnson live with his parents, and his sister They live in Wembley, in north London
Nick‟s mum is called Sue She works in a supermarket His dad is called Jim and he works in a
bank Nick‟s sister is called Tracy She is nine years old There is also a dog in the family His name
is Fred
1 How many people are there in Nick Johnson‟s family?
2 Where does Nick’s family live?
A America B England C Scotland D Australia
3 Which does the word “his” in line 3 refer to?
A Nick‟s mother B Nick‟s sister C Nick‟s dog D Nick‟s cousin
4 What‟s Nick‟s sister‟s name?
5 Which of the following is not true?
A Nick ‟s family live in London B Nick‟s fat her works in a bank
C Nick‟s mother works in a supermarket D Nick‟s sister is five years old
IX Read these following passages and decide if these following statements are TRUE or FALSE :
This is my close friends’ picture They are Tuong, Hanh, Ha and Nghia Only Tuong is from Hanoi He has curly black hair and a square face with wide mouth He is very generous and humorous Nghia is not as tall as Tuong but very sporty and helpful He
has been the badminton champion for years in his school Ha is the oldest but the smallest She is Hanh’s relative sister She is kind and hard-working Thus, she is good at both Mathematics and English She often goes to English speaking club every Sunday The last one is Hanh She has long hair with beautiful eyes but a little bit reserved However, she sings very well I took this picture when we were singing karaoke at my home last weekend
1 Tuong is the tallest boy of all
2 Hanh is sociable and shy and the oldest among the four
3 Ha has curly hair and beautiful eyes
4 Nghia is very good at playing sports
VIII Rewrite these sentences, keeping the meaning unchanged : 1 The gate is too high for me to reach I am not
2 My teacher’s hair is long, black and curly My teacher has
3 It takes me two hours to watch television every day I spend
4 Tam is not strong He can’t lift that heavy luggage Tam is not
5 The question is very easy All of the students can answer it The question is
6 Peter is still young so he can’t swim in the swimming pool for adults Peter is not
7 The gate is too short for the truck to go through The gate is not
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They are
9 He can’t reach the top of the wardrobe because he is still a bit short
He is not
10 She runs so fast that she won the first prize of the competition
She runs fast
11 They spoke very quickly I couldn’t understand what they said
The spoke