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1 Rupert often dresses as though he rolls in money but he’s actually on the dole.
2 How can you sit there as if nothing has happened?
3 It’s time for us to go now, Sammy. Are you ready?
4 Isn’t it about time you learned to drive?
5 Is it a good time to call Aunty Audrey? What time is it in Australia?
6 I’d rather you said that you didn’t want to come!
7 I’d sooner go by plane but I couldn’t afford the air fare.
1. I'm not sure what's happening in this film because I have only been watching it for a few minutes.
(Tôi không chắc chuyện gì đang xảy ra trong bộ phim này vì tôi mới chỉ xem nó được vài phút.)
2. How long has Alex been a member of the film club?
(Alex đã là thành viên của câu lạc bộ điện ảnh bao lâu rồi?)
3. I can't go to the cinema because I haven’t finished my homework yet.
(Tôi không thể đi xem phim vì tôi chưa làm xong bài tập về nhà.)
4. Those two girls in the front row have been talking to each other since the film started!
(Hai cô gái ở hàng ghế đầu đã nói chuyện với nhau từ khi bộ phim bắt đầu!)
Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the collumn on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
The origins of Halloween
Halloween is celebrated in many parts of the (0)________ (WEST) world, and is a time when people dress up as witches or ghosts, and go "trick-or treating". It is (1) ____UNDOUBTEDLY_ (DOUBT) one of the most popular traditions in the United States and Britain.
The celebration (2) ____ORIGINATED_(ORIGIN) about two thousand years ago with the Celts. These people were the (3) ___INHABITANTS__ (INHABIT) of an area that includes Britain, Ireland and Brittany. They relied on the land for their (4) ___LIVELIHOOD___ (LIVE), and this meant that they were at the mercy of (5) ____UNPREDICTABLE___ (PREDICT) weather conditions, especially during the winter.
The Celtic new year began on 1st November, which also marked the beginning of winter, a period (6) __TRADITIONALLY____ (TRADITION) associated with death. On the eve of the new year, it was believed that the barriers between the worlds of the living and the dead were (7) __TEMPORARILY__ (TEMPORARY) withdrawn, and it was possible to communicate with spirits. The Celts believed that the spirits offered them (8) _GUIDANCE__ (GUIDE) and protection, and the Druids (Celtic priests) were (9) ____REPUTEDLY___ (REPUTE) able to predict the future on this point.When the Roman completed their (10) ___CONQUEST___ (CONQUER) of Celtic lands, they added their own flavour to this festival. The advent of Christianity brought about yet other changes.
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
It is often said that the British talk about the weather more than any other people in the world; some extremists (1.)___ argue___ that they talk about nothing else. But in fact, even in countries with (2.)__ much____ less changeable climates than Britain’s, the weather is an endless, if not varied, (3.)__ opening____ of conversational fodder. This seems only natural when you consider that the weather is one of the few things we all have in (4.)__ common____. It affects our senses, and (5.)__ even____ our moods, so directly and, at times, so intensely (6.)___ that___ it is only natural we should talk about it. After several days (7.)___ or___ even weeks of dark, gloomy weather, a bright day tends to bring out the best in everyone; people recognize the relief (8.)___in___ others’ expressions which they feel inside themselves, and find it hard to resist commenting a change which is having such an evident (9.)___ effect___ on everyone. “Nice day, isn’t it?” is much more than simply a comment on the state of the weather; it is a comment on the human state itself, an acknowledgement that the tenability of our place in the universe depends
(10.)____on__ the existence of a community of human feeling