THE WOMAN WAS TOO WEAK TO LIFT THE BASKET. A. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS WEAK,...

Câu 14: The woman was too weak to lift the basket.

A. Although she was weak, she could lift the basket.

B. She was so weak that she couldn’t lift the basket.

C. The woman lifted the basket, so she wasn’t very weak.

D. The woman shouldn’t have lifted the basket because she was so weak.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 15 to 19.

Every child in Great Britain between the ages of five and fifteen must (15) _______ school. There

(16) _______ three main types of educational institutions: primary (elementary) schools, secondary schools

and universities.

State schools are free, and attendance is compulsory. Morning school begins at nine o’clock and

lasts until half past four. School is open five days a week.

(17) _______ Saturdays and Sundays there are no lessons. There are holidays at Christmas, Easter

and in summer. In London as in all cities there are two grades of state schools for those (18) _______ will

go to work at fifteen: primary schools for boys and girls between the ages of five and eleven, and secondary

schools for children from eleven to fifteen years.

The lessons are reading, writing, the English language, English literature, English history,

geography, (19) _______, nature study, drawing, painting, singing, woodwork and drill.