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
Marie didn’t turn up at John’s birthday party. I feel so sorry for that.
A. If only Marie turn up at John’s birthday party.
B. I wish Marie had turned up at Johns birthday party.
C. I wished Marie wouldn’t turn up at John’s birthday party.
Dịch câu gốc: Marie đã không đến bữa tiệc sinh nhật của John. Tôi cảm thấy rất tiếc vì điều đó.
Tình huống xảy ra trong quá khứ vì vậy chúng ta sẽ sử dụng câu ước không có thật trong quá khứ.
S + wish(es/ed) + S + had (not) + P2.
Dịch các phương án.
A. Sai ngữ pháp: turn up, lẽ ra phải là had turned up → loại A
B. Tôi ước Marie đã đến bữa tiệc sinh nhật của John.
C. Tôi đã ước rằng Marie sẽ không đến bữa tiệc của John (Câu này đang viết theo câu ước mong muốn có một sự thay đổi trong tương lai, vừa không đúng với tình huống ở quá khứ vừa không hợp ngữ nghĩa với câu gốc) → loại C
D. Thật là đáng tiếc khi Marie xuất hiện tại bữa tiệc sinh nhật của John. → sai về nghĩa, loại D.
Chọn B
After a momentary of concentration, Simon managed to regain his focus and completed the test.
They have ______some measures to control traffic jam at rush hours.
Judo players are______to their opponents and bow to each other before and after a contest.
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.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.
Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. The face was created by the Romanian (26) ______ Gheorghe Leonida. The statue is 30 metres tall, not including its 8-metre pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres wide. By (27) ______ , it is approximately two-thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty’s height from base to torch.
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), and is (28) ______ at the peak of the 700-metre Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as (29) ______ of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The statue, (30) ______ was constructed between 1922 and 1931, is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
(Adapted from https://world.new7wonders.com/)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
“Never say that again,.............................. ?”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.