V. Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces.
Once a farmer lived a (31)……….. life with his family. His chicken laid many eggs which the farmer used
(32) ……… to buy food and clothing for his family.
One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens (33) …….. a gold egg. He shouted
excitedly to his wife, “We’re rich! We’re rich!”
His wife ran to him and they both looked at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband
decided 34) …….. open all the chickens and find more gold eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs.
When he finished, all the chickens were dead.
There (35) ……… no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wife.
Foolish: ngèc nghÕch greedy: tham lam
11. A. comfort B. comfortable C. unhappily D. happily
12. A. sell B. selling C. sold D. to sell
13. A. lay B. laid C. to lay D. laying
14. A. to cut B. cutting C. cut D. to cutting
15. A. wasn’t B. was C. weren’t D. were