Viết 2 - EN25 (186)
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Madeleine wears high heels to look taller.
A. Madeleine buys high heels to look taller.
B. In order to look taller, Madeleine wears high heels.
C. So that to look taller, Madeleine wears high heels.
D. Madelein wants high heels to make her taller.
Choose the best answer:
I haven’t seen that coat before. How …….. you had it?
A. just have
B. ever have
C. much have
D. long have
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Without this treatment, the patient would have died.
A. If he doens’t follow this treatment, the patient would have died.
B. If he didn’t follow this treatment, the patient would have died.
C. If he hadn’t followed this treatment, the patient would die.
D. If he hadn’t followed this treatment, the patient would have died.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
‘Leave my house now or I’ll call the police’ shouted the lady to the man.
A. The lady told the man that should would call the police if he didn’t leave her house.
B. The lady informed the man that she would call the police if he didn’t leave her house.
C. The lady threatened to call the police if the man didn’t leave the house.
D. The lady said that she would call the police if the man didn’t leave her house.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
The woman was too weak to lift the basket.
A. Although she was weak, she could lift the basket.
B. The woman lifted the basket, so she wans’t very weak.
C. She was so weak that she couldn’t lift the basket.
D. The woman shouldn’t have lifted the basket because she was so weak.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Why don’t you meet to discuss the pay offer?
A. I suggest you need to meet.
B. I suggest you would meet.
C. I suggest you should meet.
D. I suggest you had a meeting.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
The children coulnd’t go swimming because the sea was very rough.
A. The sea was too rough for the children to go swimming.
B. The sea was too rough for the children to go swim.
C. The sea was too rough for the children not to go swimming.
D. The sea was too rough for the children go swimming.
Choose the best answer:
How do you know about this? ………….. you?
A. Who have told
B. Who told
C. Who has told
D. Who did tell
Choose the best answer:
He should think positively …………….. miss any opportunities.
A. that in order to
B. not as to
C. in order not to
D. as so not to
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
I find it impossible not to worry about Lan.
A. I feel worried about Lan, but can’t do anything to help.
B. I can’t help feeling worried about Lan.
C. I can’t do nothing to help Lan although I feel worried about her.
D. I’m unable to worry about Lan.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
He said he was not guilty of stealing the car.
A. He denied that he had stolen the car.
B. He denied be guilty of stealing the car.
C. He said he wouldn’t steal the car.
D. He refused to steal the car.
Put the phrases in the correct order to make complete sentences:
the staff
not to delay the project any further
are working at weekends
so as
A. 3124
B. 1342
C. 3142
D. 4321
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
I would prefer you not to smoke in here.
A. I’d rather you shouldn’t smoke in here.
B. I’d rather you don’t smoke in here.
C. I’d rather you didn’t smoke in here.
D. I’d rather you not to smoke in here.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
The sooner you stop smoking cigarettes the better you’ll feel.
A. As soon as you feel better, you’ll try to stop smoking.
B. When you stop smoking, you’ll begin to feel better.
C. You feel so much better since he stopped smoking.
D. Though you feel better, you still smoke.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
Because they made too many mistakes, they failed in the exam.
A. They made such many mistakes that they failed in the exam.
B. They made too many mistakes for them to fail in the exam.
C. They made so many mistakes that they failed in the exam.
D. They made very many mistakes that they failed in the exam.
Choose the best answer:
Don’t touch the dog. It ………….. hurt you if you don’t get close to it.
A. will hurt
B. is not hurting
C. won’t hurt
D. doesn’t hurt
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
He is sorry now that he didn’t invite Molly to his party.
A. He wishes he had invited Molly to his party.
B. He wishes he would invite Molly to his party.
C. He wishes he invited Molly to his party.
D. He wishes he will invite Molly to his party.
Choose the best answer:
Though he did work hard, he .............. found the content of his boss.
A. hardily
B. hardly
C. hardest
D. hard
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
I haven’t been to a concert for over a year.
A. The last time I went to a concert over a year ago.
B. I went to a concert for over a year ago.
C. The last time I went to a concert since over a year ago.
D. The last time I went to a concert was over a year ago.
Select the best choice that has similar meaning to the following sentence:
‘Why didn’t I get a computer before?’ thought the office manager.
A. The office manager wondered why hadn’t he got a computer before.
B. The office manager wondered why he hadn’t got a computer before.
C. The office manager wondered why didn’t he got a computer before.
D. The office manager wondered why he didn’t get a computer before.
