Identify one part of each sentence that needs correcting.

1.       One of the most urgent problems facing us now are the need to control population growth.                  

2.       The food my mother is cooking in the kitchen smells deliciously.        

3.       For more than 450 years, Mexico City has been the economic, culture and political centre of the country. 

4.       It’s really annoyed to talk to a hot-tempered person like him.           

5.       My sister attends an university in Hanoi which specializes in foreign trade.                               

6.       If anyone in the audience has anything to add to what the speaker has said, let them speak up.                                                                 

7.       This new theory was very well received in the past few weeks.      

8.       Her work has now been recognizing as a great contribution to science, though it was ignored at first.           

9.       Medical students must learn both the theory or the practice of medicine.                        

10.    Normally, fifteen-months-old babies can pick up objects and put them into small containers.                

Choose the underlined words or phrases that are not correct in standard written English.

One of the most urgent problem facing us now is the need to control population growth.

Read the reading below, say whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). (Write T or F at the end of the statement.)

   HELPING MORTHER AT HOME

Every child should love his mother. A girl or boy learns’ many good things from mother. Mother teachers us to be obedient, helpful and friendly to others.

Ever since my young days I have always helped my mother in the kitchen. I get up early in the morning and help my mother prepare breakfast. Then I clean the kitchen and sweep the floor. I also help mother wash the post and pans.

On Sunday I follow my mother to the market and help her to carry vegetables and fish back home. Some times my mother asks me to cut vegetables. I readily do I wash vegetables. I like to give small help whenever I am free from school work.

One day when my mother was sick, I cooked dishes for lunch. My mother is always happy and tells me that I should be good to everyone.

Every mother will be happy if her children help her at home.

It is a useful lesson for children to love their parents ____

I. Choose the best answer

1. His mother is short ………….. his sister is so tall.

A. although                  B. but                       C. and                      D. despite

2. Environmental ………….. is a serious problem facing mankind today.

A. polluted                   B. pollute                  C. pollution               D. polluting

3. In order to save money, we should use public transport ………….. motorbikes.

A. instead of                 B. except                  C. besides               D. along with

4. I’m really ………….. that people have spoiled the environment by littering garbage everywhere.

A. disappointing           B. disappointed         C. disappoint           D. disappointment

5. Lan suggested ………….. to the cinema tonight.

A. go                             B. to go                     C. went                    D. going

6. I’m ………….. that you are working hard.

A. pleasant                    B. pleased                 C. pleasure            D. pleasing

7. If the rice paddies ………….. polluted, the rice plants will die.

A. is                               B. was                        C. are                    D. were

8. Lan visited London last summer. She stayed in a hotel and her friend, Mary came to pick her ………….. to go sightseeing.

A. up                              B. over                        C. out                    D. of

9. The boy ………….. put up the Christmas decoration is my brother.

A. who                            B. whose                    C. whom               D. which

10. She has never learned ………….. to play the violin.

A. how                            B. what                       C. why                  D. whether

11. Owning a car is too costly, ………….. I traveled by bus instead.

A. so that                        B. so                           C. that                  D. since

12. The details should ………….. carefully.

A. is checked                  B. check                     C. was checked    D. be checked

13. If Mary doesn’t improve in math, we ………….. have to find a tutor for her.

A. will                              B. can                          C. should             D. would

14. The journey to the village is very ………….. .

A. interested                   B. interesting               C. disinterested    D. interest

15. I don’t like using the internet because it has some …………..

A. benefits                      B. advantages              C. limitations        D. disadvantages

Read the reading below, say whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). (Write T or F at the end of the statement.)

   HELPING MORTHER AT HOME

Every child should love his mother. A girl or boy learns’ many good things from mother. Mother teachers us to be obedient, helpful and friendly to others.

Ever since my young days I have always helped my mother in the kitchen. I get up early in the morning and help my mother prepare breakfast. Then I clean the kitchen and sweep the floor. I also help mother wash the post and pans.

On Sunday I follow my mother to the market and help her to carry vegetables and fish back home. Some times my mother asks me to cut vegetables. I readily do I wash vegetables. I like to give small help whenever I am free from school work.

One day when my mother was sick, I cooked dishes for lunch. My mother is always happy and tells me that I should be good to everyone.

Every mother will be happy if her children help her at home.

Children can learn a lot of good things from their mother. ____

Read the reading below, say whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). (Write T or F at the end of the statement.)

   HELPING MORTHER AT HOME

Every child should love his mother. A girl or boy learns’ many good things from mother. Mother teachers us to be obedient, helpful and friendly to others.

Ever since my young days I have always helped my mother in the kitchen. I get up early in the morning and help my mother prepare breakfast. Then I clean the kitchen and sweep the floor. I also help mother wash the post and pans.

On Sunday I follow my mother to the market and help her to carry vegetables and fish back home. Some times my mother asks me to cut vegetables. I readily do I wash vegetables. I like to give small help whenever I am free from school work.

One day when my mother was sick, I cooked dishes for lunch. My mother is always happy and tells me that I should be good to everyone.

Every mother will be happy if her children help her at home.

The writer seldom helps her mother at home. ____