Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
The Internet bus
In the desert areas that surround Tucson city, USA, students spend hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from their schools. But when mobile internet equipment was (46)____________ on a yellow school bus, the bored, often noisy, teens were transformed into quiet, studious individuals.
District officials got the idea during (47)____________ drives on school business to Phoenix, two hours each way, when they (48)____________ that, when they went in pairs, one person could drive and the other could work using a laptop and a wireless card. They (49)____________ if internet access on a school bus could (50)____________ students’ academic productivity, too.
But the idea for what students call ‘the internet bus’ really took shape when the district’s chief information officer (51)____________ across an article about having internet across in cars. He thought, “What if you could put that in a bus?”
The officials have been delighted to see the (52)____________ of homework getting done, morning and evening, as the internet bus (53)____________ up and drops off students along the 70-minute drive. (54)____________ some students spend their time playing games or visiting social networking sites, most students do make (55)____________ their travel time to study.
Chọn A
He didn’t succeeded in searching for the stolen car.
→ He tried in vain _________________________________________.She started to clean up the house just after the guests had left.
→ No sooner _______________________________________________.
People don’t want to buy cars with large engines any more. (call)
-> There isn’t ______________________________________.Give the right form of the word in each blanket in the following passage.
From what we had read in the (26. ADVERTISE)________, it promise to be the holiday of a lifetime – not only a quality hotel in a top (27. SEA)_________ resort, but also (28. SURPRISE)_________ cheap with it! We should have known it was too good to be true! We arrived at the airport to discover we only had (29. STAND)_________ tickets and there was no guarantee we would be flying. Luckily, two places became free at the last minute and we took off. The flight lasted at least (30. TWO)_________ as long as it should have and by the time we arrived, we were both feeling rather (31. POOR)_________ , probably because of the dubious in-flight meal we had had. We were met by our guide, who seemed (32. LANGUAGE)_________ incompetent and understood very little of what we said to him. Instead of the hotel we had seen in the photograph back home, he took us to a squalid little guesthouse much (33. FAR)_________ away from the resort than we were expecting. We wanted to explain that there had been a (34. DREAD)_________ mistake but it was (35. USE)_________ trying to complain – nobody could understand us.