What is the most important idea in the text?

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

The doctor advised Peter to give up smoking.

He drank ______ wine last night and gets sick now.

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.

His choice of future career is quite similar ______ mine.

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.

She's not only beautiful ______ intelligent.

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.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer among A, B, C or D provided.

Is winning everything? Ask kids and the answer is probably "No". Ask the adults and the answer is probably "Yes". And it is adults who control sports for young people - with terrible results for many kids. Twenty millions of children between the ages of eight and sixteen play organized sports outside of school. Their experiences are sometimes very bad. Why? Because of the adults, often their parents, who watch the games. Children's sports are organized like professional sports. Children play baseball and football. They wear all the equipment that professional athletes wear. They have uniforms and umpires and referees and leagues. They have games. And many people come to watch their games, especially the families of the players. Because the children's games are like adults, professional games, their parents want adult professional competition. When a child drops a ball, his father becomes angry. When a child doesn't run fast, his mother might shout, "Run faster! Run faster!" And the child? With an angry father and a shouting mother, this is not a happy time. Unhappy and nervous, the child wants to stop playing. The game is not fun now. But he or she can't stop, because the competition is not finished.

How are the children's sports organized?

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

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

We are going to have my house ______ tomorrow morning.

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.

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.

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