Ex1:

1.The nurse applied ( press ) ............... to his arm to stop the bleeding
2.The city is a ( mix ) ................ of old and new buidings​  
3. He was ( instrument ) ................ in bringing about an end to the conflict
4. This particular model has a further ( refine ) ............... 
5. The aim was to maximize the machine's ( produce ) ................ capacity

Ex2:
1. By the end of the summer,the farmers ( harvest ) ............. the whole crop
2. When we went back to the store,they ( sell ) .............. the thing I wanted
3. The manager already ( leave ) .............. the room by the time we got to the office
4. Dung told us she ( be ) ............... very ill since fhe retuened from Hanoi
5. Mrs.White ( phone ) ................. us after we had sold our house
6. How many cities and provineces you ( visit ) ............... by May last year
7. Giang ( not finish ) ............. the report when his director came in
8. Chinh was An Giang last week;he ( be ) ......... in long An Giang two days earlier
9. Three girls none of whom we ( see ) ............. before,( come ) ............... into the hall
10. They ( live ) .................. through terrible times during the war years

A. Fill in each blank with a suitable word ( 1ms)

                                                  How Nam has improved his English.

               In the first year of lower secondary 1……………………., I had some difficulties in learning English. My English pronunciation 2………………………. really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not 3………………………..how to improve them. I didn’t want my father 4………………………… mother to know about this. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher 5………………….......................... English told me to wait 6…………………………… her outside the classroom. She took 7………………………… to the school library and showed me tapes  of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English- English dictionary to 8…………………………….  my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” she said.  I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first 9…………………… in the English Speaking Contest 10……………………for secondary school students in my hometown.

1…………….. 2……………….3………………….4…………………5…………………...

6……………...7……………….8………………….9………………….10…………………

B. Read the passage and choose the best answers A, B, C or D. ( 0.5 ms)

1. What difficulties did Nam have in learning English in the first year?

A. The pronunciation

B. The grammar

C. Both pronunciation and grammar

D. The way of improving his pronunciation

2. Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?

A. His teacher

B. One of his friends

C. His father

D. His mother

3. Where did Nam and his teacher go after that?

A. to the town library

B. to the school library

C. to the teachers’ room

D. to his house

4. What did the teacher show him then?

A. A glass bookcase

B. An English-English dictionary

C. An English Grammar book

D. Cassettes of pronunciation drills

5. What did he win in the English Speaking Contest one year later?

A. The first prize

B. The second prize

C. The third prize

D. The fourth prize