20 CÂU HỎI
Choose the word / phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence
I ____________ late this morning because my alarm didn’t go off.
A. get up
B. got up
C. getting up
D. gets up
It __________ heavily the day before yesterday.
A. rain
B. rains
C. raining
D. rained
My computer ___________ broken last week.
A. was
B. were
C. had been
D. has been
He _____________ me a big teddy bear on my birthday last week.
A. buyed
B. buys
C. bought
D. buying
________________ in this mansion 5 years ago?
A. Did you live
B. You lived
C. Have you lived
D. Did you lived
My dad found some money while he ________________ his suitcase.
A. was packing
B. packed
C. package
D. are pack
My brother was staying in München when he ___________ his girlfriend.
A. meet
B. met
C. is meeting
D. had met
Columbus ______________ America more than 400 years ago.
A. discovered
B. had discovered
C. discovering
D. discovery
The train____________ half an hour ago.
A. has been leaving
B. was leaving
C. left
D. had left
Helen: “What were you ________ at 10p.m last night?” Susan: “I ______ on my Math project at that time.”
A. do/ works
B. do/ worked
C. doing/ was working
D. does/ works
Choose the underlined part A, B, C or D that needs correcting (2.5 points)
At this time last year, they build this house.
A. At this time
B. last year
C. build
D. this house
I was chatting with my friends while my teacher were teaching the English lesson yesterday.
A. was chatting
B. my friends
C. were teaching
D. yesterday
She was painting a picture when her mother was making a cake.
A. was painting
B. when
C. was making
D. cake
When John, their son, was 11 years old, he was reading Shakespeare’s sonnets every night.
A. When
B. was
C. was reading
D. every
Rammy, the feline, chased mice in the garden while we were talking.
A. feline
B. chased
C. garden
D. were talking
Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has THE SAME MEANING as the given one.
We have written to each other for three years.
A. We used to write to each other for three years.
B. We started to write to each other three years ago.
C. We have written to each other since three years.
D. We used to write to each other in three years.
It took him two hours to do his homework.
A. He did his homework two hours ago.
B. He finished his homework two hours ago.
C. He did his homework in two hours.
D. He spent two hours doing his homework.
He hasn’t had his eyes tested for a year.
A. He last had his eyes tested a year ago.
B. He didn’t have any tests on his eyes in a year.
C. He hadn’t tested his eyes for a year.
D. The last time he tested his eyes was a year ago.
The oral examination lasted three hours.
A. We finished the oral examination at three o’clock.
B. It is a three-hours oral examination.
C. We spend three hours taking the. oral examination.
D. It took us three hours to take the oral examination.
I used to live in Happy Valley.
A. I’m used to living in Happy Valley.
B. I’m living in Happy Valley.
C. I once lived in Happy Valley but no longer live there.
D. I’ve always lived in Happy Valley.