Câu hỏi: “Go on Jack, apply for the job” said Mary.

A. Mary told Jack to go on and apply for the job.

B. Mary suggested applying for the job.

C. Mary said that Jack would apply for the job.

D. Mary encouraged Jack to apply for the job.

Câu 1: No matter how hard Fred tried to start the car, he didn’t succeed.

A. Fried tried very hard to start the car, and succeeded.

B. Fried tried hard to start the car, and with success.

C. However hard he tried, Fried couldn’t start the car.

D. It’s hard for Fried to start the car because he never succeeded.

Câu 2: I did not read his book. I did not understand what the lecturer was saying.

A. What the lecturer wrote and said was too difficult for me to understand.

B. I found it very difficult to understand what the lecturer said in his book.

C. I would have understood what the lecturer was saying if I had read his book.

D. The lecturer’s book which I had not read was difficult to understand.

Câu 3: I said to her “If you let your son do whatever he wants, you will spoil him.”

A. I said if she lets her son do whatever he wants, she will spoil him.

B. I warned her that if she let her son do whatever he wanted, she would spoil him.

C. I warned her that if she let her son do whatever she wanted, she would spoil him.

D. I told her if her son did whatever she wanted, she would spoil him.

Câu 4: I am not certain, but there may be about twenty applicants for the job.

A. I am not sure if there are about twenty applicants for the job.

B. At a guess, there are about twenty applicants for the job

C. I guess that there are twenty applicants for the job

D. Twenty people are guessed to have applied for the job

Câu 5: The storm blew a lot of trees down last night.

A. A lot of trees were blown down last night by the storm.

B. A lot of trees were cut down last night

C. The storm could have blown a lot of trees down.

D. The storm was strong enough to blow down old trees.

Câu 6: He was driving so fast that he could have had an accident.

A. He wasn’t driving fast enough to avoid an accident.

B. He did’t have an accident although he was driving very fast.

C. If he had been driving very fast, he would have had an accident.

D. An accident happended, and it was caused by his very fast driving.