Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

In the summer of 2000 the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion started a campaign for illiteracy eradication. In the campaign, six hundred (1) minority students from the northern highlands were asked to provide reading and writing skills to 1,200 illiterate people living in their home villages. In 2001, eight hundred volunteer. students took (2) in the campaign. The number of people receiving reading and writing lessons (3) 4,623. This was an effective way to help people in remote and mountainous areas to read and write. The fight (4) illiteracy continued in the summer of 2002. This time the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decided to (5) its activities to the central mountainous provinces. At present, the number of illiterate people in the remote and moutainous areas is (6) decreasing. It is hoped that illiteracy will soon be (7) in our country as more and more people are taking part in the struggle against it.

It isn’t quite ........ that he will be present at the meeting.

My wife had never been to Hue, __________?

I have accustomed myself to getting up very early.

London is the city ________I have visited several times.

Tony was totally opposed, but if you give him some time to think about what you said, I'm sure he will __________ to your point of view.

Other oceans in the world aren’t as large as the Pacific one.

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it

You must concentrate on your work more.

Please do not smoke in this area of the restaurant.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence

I’m sorry I didn’t look at the hotel room before I booked it.

=> I regret ____________ the hotel room before I booked it.

Find the mistake in the sentence

The professor had already given the homework assignment when he had remembered that Monday was a holiday.

I was already fed up with the job, but when the boss walked into my office and told me he expected me to work overtime; that was the ______.

The man was not able to go on an expedition to the Middle East because of his age.

Their dog was so fierce that nobody would visit them.