I started working at eight and I was still working at six in the evening, when you called. Been
=> When you called, _______________________ ten hours .
Đáp án: I had been working for
Giải thích: Hành động đang xảy ra trong quá khứ thì hành động khác xen vào, hành động đang xảy ra chia quá khứ tiếp diễn, hành động xen vào chia quá khứ đơn. Tuy nhiên trong tình huống này muốn nhấn mạnh tính liên tục của hành động “tôi đang làm việc” => chia quá khứ hoàn thành tiếp diễn.
Dịch: Khi bạn gọi điện thì tôi đã đang làm việc được 10 tiếng rồi.
Find the mistake
Since rats are destructive and may carry diseases, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
He graduated with doctorates of _______ and surgery from Florence, gaining the highest honors that year.
Find the mistake
We shouldn't make an appointment with this doctor. You can see him whenever you want.
Sửa lỗi sai: Please turn off your television. I also like watching TV but now I am having to study for the exam.
Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
Recent research has (1)____ that a third of people in Britain have not met their (2)____neighbors, and those who know each other (3) _____ speak. Neighbors gossiping over garden fences and in the street was a common (4)_____ in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (5)_____ . "Poor neighborhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy," said Chinn.Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large (6)_____ of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social activity is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at (7)_____. Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in West London, with two flat mates, who work in e – commerce. "We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our contact comes via letters (8)_____ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin bags properly," said Mayer. The (9)_____ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and (10)_____ of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighborhood Watch, call on people who live in the same are to keep an eye on each others' houses and report everything they see which is unusual.
Such … the play that the theater is likely to be full every night.
To absorb more oil from spring rolls, we can use materials like _____ newspaper to wrap them after frying.
Politicians should never lose________of the needs of the people they represent.
The first time I tried out my new bike I _________ balanced and fell off.