His choice of future career is quite similar ______ mine.

Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D the one showing the underlined part that needs correcting.

I asked the boys to move their bicycles off the football pitch but they flat refused.

She's not only beautiful ______ intelligent.

He drank ______ wine last night and gets sick now.

Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D to complete each of the following sentences.

We took part in a sponsored walk _______ to support the poor.

We are going to have my house ______ tomorrow morning.

Like many other baby birds, ducklings are blind _______ birth.

Complete the second sentence as similar in meaning as the first one beginning with the words given

"I'm terribly sorry I'm late" said Flora. → Flora apologized …….

She started learning French two years ago. → She's ……

Fill in each blank space with one appropriate from the box. There are more provided words than needed.

In the summer of 2000 the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion (15) a campaign for illiteracy eradication. In the campaign, six hundred ethnic minority students from the northern highlands were asked to provide reading and writing skills to 1,200 illiterate people living in their own villages. In 2001, eight hundred volunteer. Students took (16) in the campaign. The number of people receiving reading and writing lessons (17) 4,623. This was an effective way to help people in remote and mountainous areas to read and write.

The fight against illiteracy continued in the summer of 2002. This time the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decided to expand its activities to the central mountainous provinces. At present, the number of illiterate people in the remote and mountainous areas is gradually decreasing. It is hoped that illiteracy will soon be (18) in our country as more and more people are taking part (19) the struggle against it.

Peter acknowledged that his chances in winning the race to be slim.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words.

I fell in ________ love with him because of his kind nature.

Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D the one that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word.

She is a very generous old woman. She has given most of her wealth to a charity organization.

The trousers are too small for me (enough). → These trousers ….