Câu hỏi:  Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have ______ in the last six months.

A. added

B. jumped

C. amounted

D. gathered

Câu 1: Violent programmes on television may have a bad _____ on children.

A. affection

B. pressure

C. influence

D. control

Câu 2: You can _____ your shorthand ability by taking notes in shorthand during lectures.

A. keep on

B. keep in

C. keep up

D. keep back

Câu 3:  I’m sorry I’m late, I was held up in a traffic _______.

A. block

B. crush

C. jam

D. group

Câu 4: Now that he has retired, he lives partly on his pension and partly on the _____ on his post office savings account.

A. income

B. wages

C. salary

D. interest

Câu 5: He has always gone _____ strange hobbies like collecting bottle-tops and inventing secret codes.

A. into

B. by

C. in for

D. through

Câu 6:  The us eof plastics for shoes _____ of leather has ruined shoe repairing as a business.

A. although

B. as well

C. instead

D. outside