Minh Anh-GK2
Minh Anh-GK2
1. The average American throws out over 2 grams / kilograms / tons of rubbish every day.
3. The average American eats nearly 6 grams / kilograms / tons of ice cream per year.
4. More than half of a hundred / thousand / million people in America experience homeless one night.
5. Each family in the USA gets 2 pieces of personal mail every day / month / year.
6. The USA has got more than 1 dozen / hundred / thousand gold medals in the history of the Olympic
Games.
II. Read the descriptions and complete the sentences with the words given below
I’ve got three really good friends - Mai, Lan and Hoa. Mai is _______________ (1. old) than us - she’s
fourteen and we’re all thirteen. Lan is the ________________ (2. young) she had her thirteenth birthday
last week. Hoa is the ______________ (3. tall) - she’s one metre seventy. I’m only one metre fifty, but
Mai is __________________ (4. short) than me - she’s only one metre fourty-five.
The ___________________ (5. intelligent) person is definitely Mai. But Lan is _________________ (6.
artistic) than Mai. She can paint really good pictures. Hoa is the _________________ (7. funny) person I
know. I’m ____________________ (8. quiet) than all of them, but we always have fun.
IV. Read the text and mark the sentences T (true), or F (false).
Some people call Stephen Wiltshire “the human camera”. Stephen was in a helicopter for twenty
minutes, above London, and then he drew pictures of the city from memory. Stephen wasn‟t bom in
London and he doesn’t know the city, but in twenty minutes he memorized hundreds of buildings. His
pictures weren’t perfect, but they were very detailed.
Most people haven’t got a photographic memory like Stephen. In fact, the maximum number of things
people can usually remember from a list is about six or seven. But it is possible to train your brain.
For example, Mahavir Jain, from India, memorized 18,000 words and definitions from an English
dictionary. His English exams were easy after that and now he owns three English schools.
People also try to memorize pi. For most people at school, 3.142 is enough, but Akira Haraguchi, from
Japan, once recited 100,000 digits of pi in sixteen hours. He started at 9.30 a.m. on a Tuesday and
finished at 1.28 a.m. the next day. It was a record.
There are also memory superstars. Dominic O’Brien was first interested in memory after he left school
and he started to train his memory. In 1991 he won the World Memory Championships. He was World
Memory Championship seven more times between 1992 and 2001. In 2002 Dominic memorized the
order of cards in fifty-four packs of playing cards. That’s 2,808 cards. The world record was 2,704 cards.
When he repeated the cards, Dominic was wrong only eight times.
V. Choose the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from others. Write A, B, C or D in the
blank.
VI. Choose the bold word that has a different stress pattern from the others. Write A, B, or C in the
blank.
VII. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write A, B, or C in the blank.
A. weeksB. minutes
C. seconds
2. Tom was too _________ to come and sit by a girl in class.
A. competitive
B. shy
C. clever
A. as tall as
B. like
C. different from
A. shy
B. lazy
C. clever
A. speaks
B. speak
C. speaking
VIII. Complete the sentences with the correct form of verbs in brackets
3. When I _________ (see) Mai, I _________ (tell) her you are here.
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XI. Rewrite the following sentences with the given beginning in such a way that the meanings stay
unchanged.
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