Câu hỏi: Although it rained heavily, they went on working.

A. In spite of the rain heavily, they went on working.

B. In spite of the raining heavily, they went on working.

C. Despite the heavy rain, they went on working.

D. Though the fact that it rained heavily, they went on working.

Câu 1: 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 2: 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.

Câu 3: 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 4: I bought an Italian pair of shoes for $150. They went missing after two days.

A. I bought an Italian pair of shoes that went missing after two days.

B. The Italian pair of shoes that I bought for $150 went missing after two days.

C. The Italian pair of shoes, which I had bought for $150, went missing after two days.

D. My Italian pair of shoes that went missing after two days were bought for 150$.

Câu 5: 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 6: It was an interesting novel. I, therefore, stayed up all night to finish it.

A. Though it was an interesting novel, I stayed up all night to finish it.

B. Unless it was an interesting novel, I would stay up all night to finish it.

C. So interesting was the novel that I stayed up all night to finish it.

D. I stayed up all night to finish the novel, therefore, it was interesting.