Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
The Concorde can fly across the Atlantic without re-fueling and carrying 11 tons of freight.
A. across
B. without
C. carrying
D. of freight
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Đáp án C
Carrying => carry. Theo cấu trúc song hành thì giữa động từ can fly ….and carry
Tạm dịch: Máy bay Concorde có thể bay ngang qua Đại Tây Dương mà không cần phải nạp thêm nhiên liệu giữa chặng và có thể tải được trọng lượng hàng đến 11 tấn
We couldn’t help laughing when he took _____ his teacher so well
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
I’d suggest that we avoid telling any scary stories with Janet around. She’s a bit unstable and could get hysterical.
The man who was driving the truck would not admit that he had been at fault, and _____.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Usually the climate in mountainous areas becomes much windy at higher altitudes.
Mrs. Granny is completely deaf. You’ll have to _____ allowance for her.
Hurry up, or they _____ serving meals by the time we get to the restaurant.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
It’s no use trying to persuade Tom to change his mind.
ENGLISH SPEELING
Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (33) ______. They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard it. However, English has a (34) _____ range of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were needed to express the different sounds. Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters were combined.
With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put at risk. English survived, but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French (35) _____, and many French words were introduced into the language. The result was more irregularity.
When the printing press was invented in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke other first languages. They made little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the shortterm (36) _____ of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way. Rules were drawn up, and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English was not fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the Anglo- Saxon period, like the 'k' in 'knife', now became (37) _____. Also, the pronunciation of vowels then had little in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn't changed. No wonder, then, that it is often difficult to see the link between sound and spelling.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
He said: “I’m sorry I didn’t reply to the letter.”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
