Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the following sentences.
She never let you cook the meal, ____?
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Louis Armstrong, who born in 1901 and died in 1971, was a very famous jazz musician. He used to be known “Satchmo” and this nickname stayed with him for the rest of his . As a child in New Orleans, he learned to the trumpet while he was living in a special home for children who had got into with the police. When he had finished his stay in the home, he joined various bands and then he formed his own. Between 1925 1928, he made about 60 records. These records made him one the first solo stars in the history of pop . When he died, he had been making records and he had been touring all over the for more than forty years, and he was just as popular he had been before. He even had a number one pop record – What A Wonderful World – in the 1960s.
Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best answer to the questions below.
Mr. Smith gave his wife 10 pounds for her birthday – ten pretty pound notes. So a day after her birthday, Mrs. Smith went shopping. She queued for a bus, got on and sat down next to an old lady. After a while, she noticed that the old lady’s handbag was open. Inside it, she saw a wad of pound notes exactly the ones her husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag – the notes had gone! Mrs. Smith was sure that the old lady who was sitting next to her had stolen them. She thought she would have to call the police; but as she disliked making a fuss and making people into trouble, she decided to take back the money from the old lady’s handbag and say nothing more about it. She looked around the bus to make sure that nobody was watching, and then she carefully put her hand into the old lady’s bag, took the notes and put them in her own bag. When she got home that evening, she showed her husband the beautiful hat she had bought. “How did you pay for it?” he asked. “With the money, you gave me on my birthday, of course”, she replied. “Oh? What’s that then?” he asked as he pointed a wad of ten-pound notes on the table.
When did Mrs. Smith go shopping?
What did Mrs. Smith see in the old lady’s handbag?
What was Mrs. Smith sure the old lady had done?
Why did Mrs. Smith look round the bus?
What can be inferred at the end of the story?
Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Is your brother’s birthday in December 22nd?
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
I don’t know the town very well because I am only here since last week.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The children are very boring and they don’t know what to do.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The company has too little money that it can hardly operate anymore.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
I haven’t seen my sister since 2006.
=> I last ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
He is too young to go to school alone.
=> He is ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
We spent two hours getting to London.
=> It took ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
If you don’t try hard, you will not pass your final exam.
=> Unless ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
“Let’s go to the cinema.”, Lien said.
=> Lien suggested ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
The poor farmer was tired but he kept working.
=> In spite ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
Has someone booked the seats yet?
=> Have ..........?
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Is it really necessary for us to arrive so early?
=> Do we really ..........?
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
He has never played a computer game before.
=> This is ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Everyone heard about the accident before I did. (TO)
=> I was the ..........