LANGUAGE FOCUS
Exercise 1. Read aloud the dialogue, paying attention to the sounds /b/ and /p/.
Đọc to đoạn hội thoại, chú ý đến âm /b/ và /p/
Barb: It’s my birthday today, Peter.
Peter: Oh, yes. Happy birthday, Barb.
Barb: Thank you, Peter. Look at the presents my parents and brother gave me.
Peter: I didn’t remember your birthday, Barb. I’m terribly sorry.
Barb: Well, you can buy me a big bottle of perfume, Peter!
Exercise 2. Rewrite the following story, using the passive in the numbered sentences.
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Last Tuesday Ted received a letter from the local police. (1) In the letter, the police asked him to call at the station. (2) Ted wondered why the police wanted him. So yesterday he went to the station. (3) There, a smiling policeman told him that they had found his bicycle. (4) Five days ago, someone picked up the bicycle in a small village four hundred miles away. (5) Now they are sending it to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. (6) He was also amused because he never expected the police to find the bicycle. (7) Somebody stole it twenty years ago, when Ted was a boy of fifteen.
(1) In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
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(2) Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police.
(3) There, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been tound.
(4) Five days ago, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.
(5) It is now being sent to his home by train.
(6) He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found.
(7) It was stolen twenty years ago, when Ted was a boy of fifteen.
Exercise 3. Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to fill the blank.
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In 1712 Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, a sailor whose unusual adventures (1) __________________ the writer. After a conflict with his officer, Selkirk (2)_________________ on a desert island. For more than four years he (3)_________________ alone on that island, managing not only to stay alive but also to make himself rather comfortable. At last, the sailor (4)________________ by a passing ship. When Selkirk (5) __________________ to London, he (6)________________ about. Several articles of his adventures (7)_________________ , read and admired. However, by the time Defoe (8)________________ Selkirk, the sailor (9)_____________________ . So Defoe (10)_____________ to write a book of a man named Robinson Crusoe.
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1. |
A. impress |
B. would impress |
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C. impressed |
D. had impressed |
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2. |
A. left |
B. had left |
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C. was left |
D. had been left |
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3. |
A. had lived |
B. lived |
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C. must live |
D. was living |
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4. |
A. was saved |
B. had been saved |
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C. would save |
D. would be saved |
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5. |
A. returned finally |
B. finally returned |
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C. had finally returned |
D. had returned finally |
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6. |
A. much talked |
B. talked much |
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C. had talked much |
D. had been much talked |
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7. |
A. published |
B. had been published |
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C. had published |
D. were published |
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8. |
A. had met |
B. would meet |
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C. meeting |
D. met |
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9. |
A. forgot |
B. had forgotten |
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C. had been forgotten |
D. was forgotten |
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10. A. started |
B. would started |
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C. had started |
D. had been started |
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C
6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. A
