UNIT 6 – COMPETITIONS

I. PRONUNCIATION:
1. A. construction B. description C. aggressive D. consideration
2. A. marathon B. maximum C. formally D. effective
3. A. patter B. spirit C. announce D. survey
4. A. windowpane B. stimulate C. society D. confident
5. A. representative B. disadvantaged C. anniversary D. enthusiastic
6. A. marathon B. enthusiastic C. ethnic D. smoothly
7. A. representative B. general C. refreshment D. celebrate
8. A. tragedy B. tradition C. track D. tragic
II. VOCABULARY and GRAMMAR:
1.Could you send me details of the………………….?
A. complete B. competing C. competition D. competitor
2. Ann said “What about……………to a party?”
A. go B. to go C. goes D. going
3. We always enjoy going to school by…………….
A. trainee B. trainer C. training D. train
4. The teachers…………….their students from cutting the class.
A. prevention B. preventing C. prevented D. prevents
5. I have always dreamed of……………a rich man.
A. became B. become C. becoming D. to become
6. We insisted on…………….her last year.
A. helped B. help C. to help D. helping
7. Mr. Smith said “I feel like…………….our children soon”
A. meet B. met C. to meet D. meeting
8. Hung apologized for not…………….able to complete the poem.
A. be B. been C. being D. was
9. The wall needs………………
A. painted B. paint C. painting D. to paint
10. We need…………….the wall.
A. to paint B. painted C. paint D. painting
11. I look forward to…………….from you soon.
A. hear B. hearing C. to hear D. heard
12. Our students are very interested…………studying English.
A. off B. in C. on D. at
13. Some…………….had come from different towns and were not used to being away from home.
A. participations B. participation C. participant D. participants
14. You should spend a ot of time………………your lesson.
A. learning B. learn C. to learn D. learnt
15. The final result don’t make me…………..pleased at all.
A. feeling B. felt C. to feel D. feel
16. Mary……………..her younger sister………….passing the exam.
A. congratulation / on B. congratulated / on
C. apologized / for D. apology / for
17. He was…………..damaging the machine.
A. warned B. accused of C. blamed from D. thought of
18. Thomas………….giving me a lift even when I didn’t like it.
A. warned against B. suggested C. insisted on D. determined
19. My father is thinking………….to the countryside when he retires.

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 A. of moving B. to move C. to moving D. in moving
20. The cat was afraid when it saw its………..in the mirror.
A. picture B. look C. sight D. reflection
21. Before he went to Oxford university to study English, he……………for a local company.
A. worked B. works C. had worked D. was working
III. READING COMPREHENSION
A.Choose the word or phrase A, B,C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
David, Ann, Mai were the members of group A. They quickly (1)………….. the questions and tried
to find out the answers. At first, things went smoothly. They almost completed the five (2)………… But in
activity 5, David had difficulty (3)………… the poem. He couldn’t remember the last sentence. Time was up,
and the judges announced the results. The (4)………….was group B, which got 70 points, David’s group got
65 points, and the group C got 60. Mai felt a bit (5)…………. David apologized for not being able to complete
the poem. But Ann made it better by saying “For me, the most important thing was our participation in the
competition and the enjoyment we had from it all”.
1.A. read B. reading C. reads D. to read
2. A. action B. activity C. acting D. activities
3. A. recited B. to recite c. recite D. reciting
4. A. won b. winner C. winning D. to win
5. A. disappointing B. disappointed C. to disappoint D. disappoint
B. Choose the correct answers by circling its corresponding letter A,B,C or D:
We had the marathon today. A dozen of us sped off. People stood on the streets, cheering of on. It
was like we were in the Olympics. Peter was ahead of me. So was Owen. Then I shot off. I was racing ahead.
My legs were going faster than the rest of me. I sped off onto the main road and kept running past other
runners until there was only Peter left in front of me. On and on I ran. My legs and lungs were hunting but I
couldn’t stop. Just outside the town, I ran past Peter. A minutes later, I was declared the winner of the
marathon. Everyone cheered and clapped. It was hot. I was perspiring. I couldn’t hardly breathe but I didn’t
matter. I felt like a hero.
1.How many students took part in the marathon?
A.there were many students B. there were a few
C. there were ten D. there were twelve
2. At first the writer ran…………
A. very fast B. very slowly
C. as quickly as his friends,Peter and Owen D. more slowly than his friends, Peter and Owen
3. After a long distance of running, he felt………………….
A. very strong B. very tired C. very excited D. happy
4. He ran past over Peter…………
A. after some minutes B. outside of the town
C. inside of the town D. after a minute
5. He was declared…………
A. the hero of the marathon B. the winner of the marathon
C.the strongest of the marathon D. the healthy man of the marathon
IV. WORD FORM:
1. The streets were noisy and full of…………………………. (act)
2. ……………………….for jobs is intense nowadays (compete)
3. She coomplained to the company about its awful service and they sent her a written…………………
(apologize).
4. Knowing the ending already didn’t spoil my………………..of the film (enjoy)
5. Their company has two……………………in every European city (represent)
6. My parents have always………………………me in my choice of career. (courage)

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 7. He has a limited…………………of French literature (know)
8. I found this information on their……………………..(web)
9. It’s………………….to take more than the recommended close of tables (danger)
10. Please refrain from talking during the………………………(perform)
V. PREPOSITIONS:
1. Mike thanked me…………….having invited him to my birthday party.
2. Sarah insisted………………..paying for the meal.
3. Kate apologized…………..me…………..not coming to visit me the summer before.
4. Dane congratulated me……………winning the championship.
5. Jane accused me……………..being selfish.
6. Marta warned me……………drinking too much caffeine.
7. The contest aimed to stimulate the spirit of learning English……………….students.
8. The teacher explained the competition’s rules………………the students very carefully.
9. Most students are interested…………….the annual English Speaking Contest.
10. He apologized……………not being able to complete the poem.
11. Time was……………..and the judges announced the results.
VI. TRANSFORMATION:
1. “I’m happy you have passed the final exams. Congratulation !” Jim said.
 Jim congratulated……………………………………………………………………………..
2. Miss White said to Peter: “It was nice of you to invite to the dinner”
 Miss White thanked…………………………………………………………………………..
3. Lan said, “We should go for a picnic on Sunday”
 Lan suggested…………………………………………………………………………………
4. The thief said, “I stole Mrs. Mai’s car”
 The thief admitted…………………………………………………………………………….
5. The police said, “you musn’t leave the shop”
 The police stopped……………………………………………………………………………
6. Tom said to Kate, “I would drive you to the station”
 Tom insisted…………………………………………………………………………………..
7. The thief said, “I didn’t take the bicycle”
 The thief denied………………………………………………………………………………
8. I said to Tom, “Don’t play with the matches”
 I warned………………………………………………………………………………………
9. “You didn’t do what I said” the mother said to her son.
 The mother accused…………………………………………………………………………..
10. Ha said : “I was sorry I dropped the jug”
 Ha apologized………………………………………………………………………………….
11. Her mother said to Linh “I can’t let you come to see Jack tonight”
 Her mother prevented…………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………….THE END…………………………………

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