They arrived at the station with only a minute a spare. (nick)
=> _________________________________________.
Đáp án đúng là: They arrived at the station in the nick of time.
Giải thích: with only a minute to spare = in the nick of time: đúng lúc
Dịch: Họ đến nhà ga đúng lúc.
You (speed) _____ then; otherwise, the policeman wouldn’t have stopped you.
II. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
The garden was dead because it (be) _____ dried all summer
Both of the two washing machines are out of order.
=> Neither ________________________________________.
Make sure you are given a ____ for everything you buy. (RECEIVE).
The government’s economic policies have _____ a lot of criticism.
I find it hard to see others in pain.
=> I can’t stand ____________________________________.
I was glad to see that the bad guy got his ____ at the end of the movie. (COME).
Section C: Vocabulary and Grammar
I. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the gap in each of the following sentences and write A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet
When the new boss started, he made it _____ that we were all going to have to work ______.
The crowd cried out in ____ as the car burts into flames (HORRIBLE).
He can’t play for the team because he is very old. (of)
=> __________________________________________.
IV. There are FIVE mistakes in the text (from 46 to 50). Identify each mistake, write it down and give your correction.
By the end in 2018, the total capacity of renewable power projects accounted for 2.1 percent of total electricity output in Vietnam. However, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Cao Quoc Hung affirmed that developing renewable energy to ease the reliance to traditional power generation methods is one of Vietnam’s priority tasks. Under the national strategy on renewable energy development for 2015-2030, Vietnam’s electricity output from renewable sources would decrease from 58 billion kwh in 2015 to 101 billion kwh in 2020, 186 billion kwh in 2030 and 452 billion kwh by 2050, or 42 percent of total electricity output. Reaching that goal, the government has offered a series of preferences to investors, included credit access, tax and land rent remissions, and the application of the Feed-in-Tariff electricity pricing mechanism for solar, wind, biomass power.
It is an ___ experience to swim among the coral reefs and more than one hundred species of colourful tropical fish.
I often had earaches when I was child. (suffer)
=> I used _________________________________ earaches when I was a child.