ALICE WAS HAVING LUNCH WHEN PETER _____________. (COME) ALICE...

28. Alice was having lunch when Peter _____________. (come)

VIII. Choose a suitable word to fill in each blank. (1 m)

always many in more by big narrow much on narrower

We live (29) __________ a small flat above a corner shop in Tay Son Street. The flat is far from

Phong's school so he usually goes to school (30) ________ bike. I worry about this. He has to

ride his bike in so (31) ________ and crowded streets to get to school. There's so (32) _______

traffic: so many cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

IX. Read the letter and then choose one best answer (A, B, C or D). (1 m)

Marie Curie was bom in Warsaw on November 7

^th

, 1867. She received general education in

local schools and some scientific training from her father. As a brilliant and mature student, Marie

harboured the dream of a scientific career, which was impossible for a woman at that time. To save

money for a study tour abroad, she had to work as a private tutor. Finally, she was the first woman

in France to be a university professor. Soon after, she was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for

determining the atomic weight of radium. But her real joy was ‘‘easing human suffering”. The

founding of the Radium Institute in 1914 made her humanitarian wish come true.

Answer the questions.