Câu hỏi: 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.

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 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 3: People believe that 13 is an unlucky number.

A. 13 is believed to have been an unlucky number.

B. It is believe 13 to have been an unlucky number.

C. 13 is believed to be an unlucky number.

D. It believes that 13 is an unlucky number.

Câu 4: 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 5: Ann paints landscape pictures. She finds it very pleasant.

A. Ann finds it pleasure to paint landscape pictures

B. Ann takes great pleasure in painting landscape pictures

C. Painting landscape pictures makes Ann feel pleasure

D. Ann feels pleasant in painting landscape pictures

Câu 6: 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.