Viết 2 - EN25 (185)
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
He could not afford to buy the car.
A. He bought the car though it was expensive.
B. He bought the car because it was inexpensive.
C. He had enough money but he didn’t buy the car.
D. He couldn’t buy the car because it was too expensive.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Many people think Steve stole the money.
A. It was not Steve who stole the money.
B. The money is though to be stolen by Steve.
C. Many people think the money is stolen by Steve.
D. Steve is thought to have stolen the money.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
My husband didn’t leave the car key, so I couldn’t pick him up at the station.
A. Unless my husband had left the car key, I could have picked him up at the station.
B. If my husband had left the car key, I could pick him up at the station.
C. If my husband had left the car key, I could have picked him up at the station.
D. If my husband left the car key, I could have picked him up at the station.
Choose the best answer:
Some students want to learn English …………….. get a job abroad.
A. for to
B. for
C. in order to
D. for that they
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
He never has enough money.
A. He is always short of money.
B. He is always lack of money.
C. His money is always not enough.
D. He usually needs money.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
You’d better take a taxi; it was raining hard outside.
A. You’d better take a taxi in case it was raining.
B. She gave us a lift because it was raining heavily.
C. She advised us to take a taxi because it was raining.
D. She didn’t lend us any raincoats but a taxi.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
I have not met her for three years.
A. During three years, I met her once.
B. The last time I met her was three years ago.
C. I did not meet her three years ago.
D. It is three years when I will meet her.
Choose the best answer:
They are going to Spain …………… Spanish.
A. for learning
B. to learn
C. for that they learn
D. so to learn
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
‘Have you ever been to Japan?’ he asked me.
A. He asked me if Japan was visited by me.
B. He told me if I had gone to Japan.
C. He asked me if I had ever been to Japan.
D. He wanted to know whether I had been to Japan.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
They are not allowed to go out in the evening by their parents.
A. Their parents never let them to go out in the evening.
B. Going out in the evening is permitted by their parents.
C. Although their parents do not allow, they still go out in the evening.
D. Their parents do not want them to go out in the evening.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Barry continued to smoke even though we had advised him to quit.
A. Despite being told not to smoke, Barry continued to do.
B. Barry did not quit smoking because of our advice.
C. Barry took our advice so he stopped smoking.
D. If we had advised Barry, he would have quit smoking.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
When they arrived, the good seats were already taken.
A. We couldn’t get good seats although we arrived early.
B. They didn’t get good seats because they arrived too late.
C. They had to stand for the whole show.
D. They arrived late enough to get good seats.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
My brother and I went to that school.
A. I went to that school and so my brother did.
B. I went to that school and so did my brother.
C. I go to that school and my brother, too.
D. I went to that school and so my brother did, too.
Choose the best answer:
A few may have understood that …………… a culture, or the people from that culture, you must first speak the language.
A. so as to understand
B. in order that
C. as to
D. to that
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
The meeting was put off because of pressure of time.
A. There was not enough time to hold the meeting.
B. The meeting lasted much longer than usual.
C. People wanted to get away, so the meeting began early.
D. The meeting was planned to start in a short time.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
The furniture was so expensive that I didn’t buy.
A. The furniture was too expensive that I didn’t buy.
B. The furniture was not cheap enough that I didn’t buy.
C. The furniture was such expensive that I didn’t buy.
D. The furniture was too expensive for me to buy.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
His eel soup is better than any other soups I have ever eaten.
A. I have ever eaten many soups that are better than his eel soup.
B. His eel soup is good but I have ever eaten many others better.
C. Of all the soups I have ever eaten, his eel soup is the best.
D. His eel soup is the worst of all soups I have eaten.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
She says she would like to have been put in a higher class.
A. She wishes she had been put in higher class.
B. She wishes she is put in higher class.
C. She wishes she will be put in higher class.
D. She wishes she was put in higher class.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
It is essential that we meet him at the airport.
A. He might be met at the airport.
B. He should be met at the airport.
C. He may be met at the airport.
D. He must be met at the airport.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Chuck denied breaking the window.
A. Chuck didn’t break the window.
B. Chuck refused to break the window.
C. Chuck was determined not to break the window.
D. Chuck said that he hadn’t broken the window.
