Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
The river is getting ...................... in this area.
A.more polluted
B.the most polluted
C.as polluted as
D.more and more polluted

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Lan is very beautiful, but she is .............. her younger sister.
A.more beautiful than
B.the most beautiful
C.less beautiful as
D.less beautiful than

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Hoa is the same..................Mai.
A.age of
B.old as
C.age as
D.old of

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
It is not .................... it was yesterday.
A.more hot than
B.so hot as
C.the hottest
D.as hot than

Kara will turn James down if he asks her to marry him.
A.Kara has indicated that she would not marry James even if he asked her to.
B.Kara will marry James, but only if he asks her to.
C.Should James make a marriage proposal to Kara, he will be rejected.
D.James should have better sense then to ask Kara to marry him.

On account of quarantine restrictions, they will not allow us to take our dog across the border into the country.
A.We can’t bring our dog over the border into the country because there are quarantine regulations.
B.Dogs are only allowed to cross the border into the country under the quarantine regulations.
C.Quarantine regulations mean that we need official permission to take our dog across the border into the country.
D.Because of the quarantine laws, we’ll need to find a way to bring our dog over the border into the country.

Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (10 pts)
They said that they (work) ________ there for twenty-nine years and they would stop working the following year
A.had working
B.have been working
C.had been worked
D.had been working

I'm nothing like as patient as I used to be.
A.I’m more patient now than I was.
B.I used to have a little more patience.
C.I used to have a lot more patience.
D.I’m more patient than ever.

Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (10 pts)
- Can you tell me when the train for Ho Chi Minh City (leave)________ ? - At 8 every morning.
A.leaves
B.leaving
C.having left
D.to leave

Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets to complete the following sentences. (10 pts)
I (sit)________ down for a rest while the shoes (repair)_______
A.had sat/ were being repaired
B.sat/ were being repaired
C.sat/ were repaired
D.stt/ were being repaired