Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Câu 1: Smoking is an extremely harmful habit. You should give it up immediately.
A. As smoking is an extremely harmful habit, you should give it up immediately.
B. You should give up smoking immediately and you will fall into an extremely harmful habit.
C. When you give up smoking immediately, you will affect your health with this harmful habit.
D. Stop your smoking immediately so it will become one of your extremely harmful habits.
Câu 2: His academic record at high school was poor. He failed to apply to that prestigious institution.
A. His academic record at high school was poor as a result of his failure to apply to that prestigious institution.
B. Failing to apply to that prestigious institution, his academic record at high school was poor.
C. His academic record at high school was poor; as a result, he failed to apply to that prestigious institution.
D. His academic record at high school was poor because he didn’t apply to that prestigious institution.
Câu 3: He cannot lend me the book now. He has not finished reading it yet.
A. Having finished reading the book, he cannot lend it to me.
B. He cannot lend me the book until he has finished reading it.
C. As long as he cannot finish reading the book, he will lend it to me.
D. Not having finished reading the book, he will lend it to me.
Câu 4: He behaved in a very strange way. That surprised me a lot.
A. His behaviour was a very strange thing, that surprised me most.
B. He behaved very strangely, which surprised me very much.
C. What almost surprised me was the strange way he behaved.
D. I was almost not surprised by his strange behaviour.
Câu 5: Crazianna is a big country. Unfortunately, it has never received respect from its neighbours.
A. Though Crazianna is a big country, it has never received respect from its neighbours.
B. It is Crazianna, a big country, that has never received respect from its neighbours.
C. Crazianna has never received respect from its neighbours because it is a big country.
D. Crazianna is such a big country that it has never received respect from its neighbours.
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