THE SITUATION SEEMED HOPELESS AND DESPERATION FILLED THEM BOTH WIT...

22. The situation seemed hopeless and desperation filled them both with anger.

A. pessimistic

B. pointless

C. promising

D. useless

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

word or phrase that best fits of each of the numbered blanks

I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to (23) _____________ you

about it. I was very (24) _____________ when I knew I was going to Australia because I

had never been there before. I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English (25)

_____________ I met my host family. At first I couldn’t communicate with them because

my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning grammar wasn’t much used

at all (26) _____________ we didn’t have real practice at school. Even though my

grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t. my problem is pronouncing “l” and “r”.

For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat in Vietnam? I wanted to

tell them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice”…