HOMEWORK 287 T
I. Choose the best words:
1. She often goes .........church to pray because her religion is Islam.
a. on

b. at

c. of

d. to

2. What ...........they do yesterday? They played soccer with their friends.
a. do

b. to do

c. did

d. were

3. I wish that Susan ............harder for her examination.
a. will work

b. worked

c. has worked d. works

4. There used to .......... a movie theatre here, but it closed a long time ago.
a. be

b. to be

c. being

d. been

5. The children are playing .............in the schoolyard.
a. happy

b. happiness

c. happier

d. happily

6. I wish they ............here tomorrow.
a. will come b. would come

c. came

d. to come

7. John ............write the letter to me last year.
a. is used to

b. was used to

c. used to

d. used


8. It is difficult .............English in some weeks.
a. to speak

b. speaking

c. speaks

d. speak

9. The capital of Malaysia is .............. .
a. Hanoi

b. Paris

c. Kuala Lumpur

d. Seoul

10. What is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women? It’s .............
a. the suit

b. the shirt

c. the ao dai

d. the blouse

11. Rice is .............in tropical countries
a. to grow


b. grown

c. grow

d. grew

12. Two department stores ...............by them this year.
a. have been built

b. have built

c. has been built

13. She asked me how I ........English in the future.
a. will use

b. would use c. use

d. to use

14. Nga doesn’t go to school on Sunday, ........... she?
a. do

b. doesn’t

c. does

15. I look forward to .............. you.

d. don’t


d. has built


a. see

b. to see

c. seeing

d. saw

16. Nga is..............English for her work.
a. to study

b. studied

c. studying

d. study

17. He arrived in England ............. Monday evening.
a. in

b. at

c. of

d. on


18. Hoa worked hard, ..........she passed the exam.
a. because

b. so

c. until

d. before

19. An wishes that he..............his parents.
a. would visited

b. can visit

c. could visiting

d. could visit

20. Let’s ............... to the cinema.
a. going

b. to go

c. go

d. goes

21. Nga ............ Math in Qui Nhon University for 4 years but now she teaches in her home
village.
a. to learn


b. learning

c. learnt

d. has learnt

22. She .............try to learn English for her job.
a is

b. has

c. must

d. was

23. What .......you do last night? I.......a football match between Viet Nam selected team and
Malaysia selected team.
a. do – watched

b. did – watch

c. were – watched

d. did – watched

24. We come to USA .............English.
a. study

b. learning


c. to learn

d. studying

25. He ...........with his friends in an apartment in Ho Chi Minh City since last week.
a. living

b. has lived

c. lived

d. live

26. I ........... English here since I graduated from Qui Nhon University.
a. teach

b. taught

c. have taught

d. am teaching

27. Millions of Christmas cards ...............last month.
a. were sent

b. sent

c. send


d. are sent

28. Are you a stamp ..............?
a. collecting

b. collector

c. collect

d. collection

29. Getting to the village is a very ........................ journey.
a. interesting b. interested

c. interest

d. interests


30. We will go...............a picnic next week.
a. in

b. at

c. on

d. to

31. My village is about 100 kilometers................Quy Nhon City
a. from


b. at

c. on

d. for

32. They will come here.............11:30 AM.
a. about

b. at

c. of

d. for

33. We have lived in Ha Noi............4 years.
a. since

b. for

c. on

d. till

34. There is a meeting...............9 AM and 2 PM.
a. a. since

b. between


c. with

d. till

35. I wish you.............us someday.
a. visit

b. will visit

c. visited

d. would visit

36. I wish you .............me with my work.
a. help

b. will help

c. is helped

d. would help

37. They............in that house for several months.
a. live

b. lived

c. have lived d. are living

38. She said that she..............learning English with you.

a. like

b. liked

c. liking

d. to like

39. She asked me where I.............from.
a. come

b. came

c. to come

d. coming

40. What aspect of.................English do you find difficult?
a. study

b. studied

c. learnt

d. learning

41. She..............me where I liked classical music or not.
a. asks

b. asking


c. asked

d. to ask

42. Your teacher writes poems or stories, ................she?
a. don’t

b. won’t

c. didn’t

d. doesn’t

43. I remember................her somewhere
a. see

b. seeing

c. saw

d. to see

44. Excuse me. Can I ............in this a area?
a. smoke

b. smoking

c. smoked


d. to smoke

45. If you know where she lives, please let me ............


a. know

b. knew

c. known

d. to know

46. If you like that book, I will give it ...............you as my present.
a. for

b. from

c. at

d. to

47. Can you turn..............the light? It is too dark.
a. on

b. off

c. down

d. up


48. She won’t take all these suitcases ...............she likes to travel light.
a. so

b. but

c. because

d. therefore

49. Is he an actor...............a singer? An actor.
a. and

b. or

c. but

d. so

50. She studies well..............she is busy.
a. because

b. since

c. although

d. and

51. The people..............live in Greece speak Greek.
a. which


b. whom

c. who

d. when

52. Do you know the man...............you met yesterday?
a. when

b. whom

c. which

d. whose

53. The car.............he has just bought is very expensive.
a. who

b. whom

c. which

d. whose

54. I am preparing for the picnic...............my friends tomorrow.
a. at

b. to


c. in

d. with

55. It snowed in Lang Son ............the winter.............2002.
a. in / of

b. in / in

c. at / for

d. for / at

56. Neil Armstrong, .............walked on the moon, lived in the USA.
a. which

b. whom

c. who

d. that

57. UFOs mean...................... flying objects.
a. unknown

b. unidentified

c. unable

d. unimaginary


58. My parents didn’t allow me ......................., so I had to stay at home.
a. go

b. to go

c. going

d. gone

59. I want everybody to listen ................
a. care

b. careful

c. careless

d. carefully

60. If we became rich, we would travel ................ the world.
a. on

b. in

c. of

d. around


II. Read the text carefully and choose the true (T ) or false ( F ) statements

Hanoi is an interesting city. There are many things that a tourist can do there. There are many
museums that tourists can visit. The History Museums is on Pham Ngu Lao Street and the War
Museum is on Dien Bien Phu Street. Tourists can know the stories about Vietnam’s past in both
museums. The War Museum is full of old weapons and tourists can take photos of them.
It is also possible to organize a tour by taking a bus or a taxi to a lot of villages nearby. There is a
village where you can see people making noodles and another such as pho, banh canh and so
on. Lastly there is a Snake Village, where tourists can see live snakes. You will feel happy when
you come there. Why don’t you hurry up?
True – False statements:
61. There are many museums in Ha Noi.
62. Tourists don’t know about Vietnam’s past and present through stories.
63. Tourists taste pho, banh canh... when they come to the villages nearby Ha Noi.
64. Tourists can see old weapons in the museum on Pham Ngu Lao Street
65. Tourists can see live snakes on the way to the village.
III. Read the text carefully and choose the true or false statements:
Are you looking for a clean, cheap, effective source of power that doesn’t cause pollution or
waste natural resources? Look no further than solar energy from our sun. At present, most of
our electricity comes from the use of coal, gas, oil or nuclear power. This power could be
provided by the sun. One percent of the solar energy that reaches the earth is enough to provide
power for the total population.
Many countries are already using solar energy. Solar panels are placed on the roof of a house
and the sun’ energy is used to heat water. The energy can be stored for a number of days. So on
the cloudy days you can use solar energy, too.
Sweden has an advanced solar energy program. There, all buildings will be heated by solar
energy and cars will use solar power instead of gas by the year 2015.
True – False statements:
66. Solar energy can be clean and cheap.
67. Most of our electricity comes from nuclear power.
68. The solar energy that gets to the earth can’t provide enough power for the world’s population



69. Solar energy can be used on cloudy days.
70. All buildings in Sweden will be heated by solar energy in 2050.
71. One percent of the solar energy that reaches the earth is not enough to provide power for the
total population.
72. Solar energy comes from the moon.
73. Most of our electricity is from the use of coal, gas, oil, or nuclear power.
74. Many countries are using solar energy and solar panels are placed on the ground in the
garden.
75. Coal, gas, oil, and nuclear power don’t cause pollution for the environment.
IV. Match each half – sentence in column A with a suitable one in column B:
A
76. If we pollute the water,...............
77. The play was boring
78. If we cut down the trees in the

B
a) there will be big floods every year
b) so we walked out the restaurant
c) a lot of sea creatures will be preserved

forests,...............
79. If there is too much exhaust fume in the d) more and more people will cope with
air,...........
respiratory problems
80. The bus was late
e) so we went to bed early
81. If you can keep your neighborhood f) You will have an ideal place to live.
clean,.................
82. If we stop


using

fishing, ......................
83. We didn’t like the food

dynamite

for g) we have no fresh water to use.
h) so we got home after midnight.

V. Match the answers with the questions to make meaningful sentences:
Questions
84. What are you learning?
85. Why do you think most people study English?
86. Do you like learning English?
87. When did you learn English?
88. Where are you studying?
89. Why did you choose that college?
90. Are most of your books in English?
VI. Read the text carefully and fill in the form.

Answers
a) Yes, they are.
b) Two years ago
c) At Oxford University
d) Yes. I do
e) English
f) I heard it is very good
h) They need for their job.



Mary is twenty-five and comes from England. She can speak Chinese and Japanese very well
and now she wants to learn Vietnamese for her work. She has never studied it before, so she
would like to go on a course for beginners. She would like to learn Vietnamese three times a
week in the morning.
COURSE APPLICATION FORM
Name: ..........(91)......
Which course? ......(92)..........
Which foreign language can she speak? ...........(93).................
Which foreign language does she want to learn? ...........(94)..............
VII. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks with a suitable word.
We (95) ............all destroying the earth. The seas and the rivers are too (96)................to swim in.
There is so much smoke in the air that it is (97)...............to live in many of the world’s cities. We
have cut down so many trees that there are now vast areas of wasteland all over the world. As a
result, (98)...............in Africa can not grow enough to eat. In certain countries in Asia there is so
little rice. In addition, wild animals are quickly disappearing. For example, tigers in India now
are rare because we have killed so many for them to survive. We must act now (99)..............it is
too late to do anything about it. Join us now. Save the earth. This is too (100)................to ignore.