A & B level certificate revision

II. FIND THE MISTAKES (300 SENTENCES)
1. What is the higher mountain in the world?	
	a. What 	b. is	c. higher 	d. in
2. I wish my mother gives me presents more often. 
	a. wish	b. gives 	c. me	d. more often
3. The teacher was pleasing with the result of your examination.
	a. The 	b. was	c. pleasing 	d. of
4. The little boy didn't know how lacing his shoes. 
	a. The little boy	b. didn't	c. how	d. lacing
5. You are quite so thin that you can slip between the bars.
 	a. are	b. quite so 	c. can slip 	d. between
6. To turnon the light, I was surprised at what I saw. 
	a. To turn	b. on 	c. was 	d. at
7. I would ratherlive on a farm than to live in a city. 
	a. would rather	b. live 	c. on	d. to live
8. The school library is free and open forallthe pupils and teaching staff.
	a. is	b. and 	c. for 	d. all
9. Why don't you borrow books in the local lending library?
	a. Why 	b. don't	c. borrow 	d. in
10. He had to admit that there were something in what mother kept saying.
	a. admit 	b. were 	c. what 	d. saying
11. The students suggested buyingflowers forthe teachers in the Teachers' Day.
	a. The students 	b. buying	c. for 	d. in
12. No one have solved such a difficult problem.
	a. have	b. solved 	c. such	d. difficult
13. During their meat, they discussed what to do at the weekend.
	a. During 	b. meat	c. to do 	d. at
14. If you write the essay careful, you willget good mark.
 	a. If	b. write	c. careful 	d. will
15. Ordinary Americans are friendly and not afraid to show its feelings.
	a. Ordinary 	b. are	c. not 	d. its
16. The girl who were injured in the accident is now in hospital.
	a. who 	b. were 	c. in	d. is
17. Thank you very much of the present that you sent me.
 	a. very	b. much 	c. of	d. that
18. There wasn't some directory in the telephone box fromwhich I was phoning.
	a. wasn't 	b. some 	c. the	d. from
19. The man who I was waiting fordidn't turn up. 
	a. The man	b. who 	c. was 	d. for
20. Women wearmake-up to beautifulthemselves. 
	a. wear	b. make-up 	c. beautiful	d. themselves
21. Mai and Lan have a row because they have misunderstood one another.
	a. have	b. because	c. misunderstood 	d. one another
22. The workers are buildinga new bridge which is 150 meters in high.
	a. building	b. a new bridge 	c. which	d. high
23. It's no use asking themkeep quiet. 
	a. no use	b. asking 	c. them	d. keep
24. This text is too long for me to read it. 
	a. is	b. long	c. to read 	d. it
25. I can't get used to doingso difficult exercises. 
	a. can't	b. used 	c. doing 	d. so
26. My father doesn't know speak English. 
	a. My	b. doesn't 	c. speak 	d. English
27. She behaves as if she was a baby. 
	a. behaves	b. as if	c. was	d. a
28. You wanted me to tellyou about what I was doinghere and how was my life.
	a. to tell 	b. about	c. was doing 	d. was
29. The course is good, but more hard than I thought. 
	a. is	b. but	c. more hard 	d. thought
30. Sleepingall day, to eat too much and nevergoing out is unhealthy.
	a. Sleeping 	b. to eat	c. much 	d. never
31. The dentist gave me a check upand then tellingme I needed two fillings.
	a. me	b. check up 	c. telling	d. fillings
32. These engines used beingstarted by hand. But now they are started by electricity.
	a. used 	b. being	c. But now 	d. are
33. This house is often brokenoff and a lot of things are taken away.
	a. is	b. broken 	c. off	d. away
34. My father has a mechanic to repairhis motorbike monthly. 
	a. has	b. a	c. to repair 	d. monthly
35. There always is one wise woman who is both feared and respected by her people.
	a. always 	b. wise	c. who 	d. both
36. The woman tells them close their eyes tightly and cover them with their hands.
	a. tells 	b. close 	c. tightly	d. with
37. They visited America about a thousand years ago, on the eleventh century AD.
	a. visited	b. thousand 	c. ago	d. on
38. Ha Dong is the town where I amborn and grew up. 
	a. is	b. where 	c. am	d. grew
39. She is the girlabout that I talked to you yesterday. 
	a. the girl	b. that 	c. to	d. yesterday
40. The lesson that we are learning now is very interested but difficult.
	a. that 	b. now	c. interested 	d. but
41. She made me to pay forthe damage I had done. 
	a. made	b. to pay 	c. for	d. had done
42. He warned me to make an eye on my luggage as that place was full of thieves.
 	a. me	b. to make 	c. on	d. full
43. When you are late forclass, you should apologize foryour teacher.
	a. When 	b. for	c. should 	d. for
44. The village that I was born and grew up is situatedon the Red River.
	a. that 	b. grew	c. situated 	d. on
45. Some children, before going to school, go to kindergartens, officially are called nursery schools. 
	a. before	b. go	c. officially	d. are called
46. English children start school in six and finish at sixteen. 
	a. English	b. start 	c. in	d. at
47. I don't feel as tired after a train journey so I do aftera car journey.
	a. don't 	b. tired 	c. so	d. after
48. The child ran fastly to get to school. 
	a. child	b. fastly 	c. to	d. school
49. If it will rain this afternoon, we will have to cancel our picnic.
	a. If	b. will rain	c. will	d. cancel
50. He is very weak to lift this suitcase. 
	a. very	b. weak 	c. to	d. this
51. Sun weather can always be depended on in southern countries.
	a. Sun	b. always 	c. on	d. in
52. The man that wife and family are away seems very lonely. 
	a. that	b. and 	c. are	d. seems
53. Each year more and more people try settingnew and unusualrecords.
	a. more and more 	b. people	c. setting 	d. unusual
54. Someone else put 49,999 dominoes in a line and knocking them all down.
	a. else	b. dominoes 	c. in	d. knocking
55. The peel were actually 52 meters long. 
	a. The	b. were	c. actually 	d. long
56. Why did all the customers at the Red Lion have topay of their beer that week?
	a. did 	b. at	c. have to 	d. of
57. The heavy rain made it possiblefor us to have our picnic. 
	a. heavy	b. it	c. possible 	d. to
58. If you make a five-days trip  ...  morning.
	a. spent 	b. to find 	c. so that 	d. telling
196. I wanted somethingfresh to eat while I were in Britain. 
	a. something	b. to eat 	c. were 	d. in
197. In towns, there was very few bus shelters untilabout thirty years ago.
	a. In	b. was 	c. until	d. years
198. Most people no longer wears the kinds of clothes that protect them fromthe wind, cold and rain.
	a. Most 	b. wears 	c. that	d. from
199. Most of them were build in the nineteenth century and some are very grand.
	a. of	b. build	c. nineteenth 	d. are
200. They were intended to persuade people to drink water, instead with beer or spirits. 
	a. were	b. to persuade 	c. to drink	d. with
201. Communication willbe impossible if everyone made up his own language.
	a. Communication 	b. will	c. if	d. his
202. The more words you know, the most ideas you can express.
	a. more 	b. know 	c. most 	d. can
203. Words are the main things we using in communicating what we want to say.
	a. are	b. things 	c. using 	d. what
204. As wellas talking with our voices we can also talking with our bodies.
	a. well 	b. with 	c. also	d. talking
205. They may nod herhead to show that they have understood or shake it to indicate disagreement.
	a. her	b. to show 	c. have	d. disagreement
206. Written language without of punctuation is not easy to follow.
	a. Written 	b. of	c. is	d. to follow
207. We use volume and pitch emphasizing words and make meanings clear.
	a. use	b. and	c. emphasizing 	d. make
208. The division betweenthe roles of the mother and the father is no longervery clearly.
	a. between 	b. roles	c. no longer 	d. clearly
209. A father can change the baby, dressed the children or make the dinner.
	a. change 	b. dressed 	c. the	d. make
210. A father is the person who provides us formoney to feed and clothe ourselves.
	a. is	b. who 	c. for 	d. and
211. A dad is the person who you ask forpocket money. 
	a. person	b. who 	c. for	d. money
212. The tablemanners you have in a restaurant is very different from those you have at home.
	a. table	b. manners 	c. is	d. those
213. Allthe parks are beautifulkept and are forthe use and enjoyment of the people.
	a. All	b. beautiful 	c. for	d. enjoyment
214. There always is nearly a crowd at the door of the theatre asking for returned tickets.
	a. always	b. crowd 	c. at	d. asking
215. China teams are famous fortheir skill in table tennis.
 	a. China	b. are 	c. for 	d. in
216. There was once a foreigner who went in England to learn English.
	a. was 	b. who 	c. in	d. to learn
217. If you evergo into a house in Japan, you must rememberingto take off your shoes.
	a. ever 	b. into	c. remembering 	d. off
218. Many houses have no other furnitures in their rooms.
 	a. Many	b. no	c. furnitures 	d. in
219. You will see a bowl of flowers or a long silk paintings on one of the walls.
	a. a 	b. of	c. paintings 	d. walls
220. You may be surprised seeing that there are no bedrooms.
	a. be	b. seeing 	c. that	d. no
221. One of the greatest difficulties for foreign students in American universities are the lecture system.
	a. One	b. difficulties	c. for	d. are
222. It is not easy to take good notes from a lecture on a foreign language.
	a. is	b. good 	c. from 	d. on
223. The first skill to learn is how to write only the more important words, not whole sentences.
	a. first	b. to learn 	c. more	d. whole
224. Her mother died early with her father tried hard to bringup the four children.
	a. early 	b. with 	c. hard	d. to bring
225. Marie learnt to read and write in the age of four. 
	a. learnt	b. to read 	c. in	d. of
226. She worked very hard and became a famous chemist and physicists.
	a. very 	b. hard	c. became	d. physicists
227. Jim was havingdinner at a restaurant when Henry was comingin.
	a. was having 	b. at	c. when	d. was coming
228. He could understandalgebra and to speak French when he was six.
	a. understand 	b. to speak	c. when 	d. was
229. English is the native or officiallanguage on one-fifths of the land area of theworld. 
	a. is	b. official	c. one-fifths 	d. of
230. Many universities, school classes taught in English even thoughthe native language is not English. 
	a. Many	b. taught	c. even though 	d. native
231. I myself prefer the underground as it is rapidity, easy and cheap.
	a. myself 	b. the	c. rapidity 	d. cheap
232. There are such many cars and buses in London that one can not drive along the roads quickly, and without many stops.
	a. such 	b. in	c. that	d. without
233. If you don't know London very good, it is very difficult to find the bus you want.
	a. If	b. don't 	c. good 	d. to find
234. Some butterflies flies more than3000 kilometers on their journey to the south.
	a. Some 	b. flies	c. more than 	d. on
235. On the winteringplaces, millions of butterflies cover the trees and ground like a carpet.
	a. On	b. wintering 	c. of	d. like
236. It is certainly true that the average woman has weaker muscles that the average man.
	a. certainly 	b. average 	c. has	d. that
237. When men lived in caves and hunt animals for food, strengthof body was the most important thing.
	a. lived 	b. hunt	c. strength 	d. most
238. Most of the words are the same in American and in British English, but theAmerican people say any English words not like people do in England.
	a. Most 	b. same 	c. any	d. do
239. In Canada much people speak English because they also came from England many years ago. 
	a. In	b. much	c. because 	d. also
240. Jim gets up at half past seven everyday, has breakfast at eight o'clock, and starts works at half past nine.
	a. at	b. has	c. starts 	d. works
241. Peter usually gets up at eleven o'clock and has breakfast on lunchtime.
	a. usually 	b. gets	c. has 	d. on
242. Holiday towns and fishing villages in the South - West are prepared to fight the oil pollution which is threatening localbeaches.
	a. fishing	b. prepared 	c. which	d. local
243. Yesterday there was a collision in the English Channel between the "S.P Titan", who is one of the biggest oil tankers in the world, and a Dutch cargo ship.
	a. was	b. between 	c. who	d. tankers
244. Helicopters rescued both crews, and nobody dies in the collision.
	a. rescued 	b. both	c. dies 	d. in
245. Hundreds of small boats, which are carrying detergents, is spraying the oil.
	a. of	b. which	c. carrying 	d. is
246. The Amazon forest, in Brazil, covers five million square kilometers - an area as biggeras the whole of Europe excludingRussia. 
	a. covers	b. million 	c. bigger	d. excluding
247. If the destruction of the forest continues at the same rate, there would be nothing left by the year 2005.
	a. If	b. continues 	c. would	d. left
248. Scientists says that the disappearance of the trees is already causing changes in the climate.
	a. says	b. disappearance 	c. of	d. in
249. Brunei is one of the smallest but most rich countries in the world.
	a. one	b. smallest 	c. most rich 	d. in
250. Most them think that Brunei is in the Middle East but it isn't.
	a. them 	b. that 	c. in	d. isn't
251. And the beauty is that there are so little people to share all this money.
	a. beauty 	b. that	c. little 	d. this
252. In 1980 the Sultan met an air hostess calling Mariam Bell and fellin love with her.
	a. met	b. calling 	c. fell	d. with
253. Factory chimneys give out smoke that containingsulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. 
	a. Factory	b. give	c. containing 	d. and
254. When it rains, these acids dissolve in the rain and make it to be acidic.
	a. it	b. dissolve 	c. in	d. to be
255. Acid rain is believed be the worst pollution problem of all.
	a. is 	b. be	c. worst 	d. of
256. Acid rain has harmed aquatic life by to turn many lakes into lifeless bodies of water.
	a. has harmed	b. to turn	c. into 	d. of
257. It is not possibleto do this on a large enough scale to save all the lake.
	a. is	b. possible 	c. large	d. lake
258. Car exhaust fumes contain carbon monoxide and lead which are high poisonous. 
	a. exhaust 	b. contain 	c. which	d. high
259. 1.6 billion gallons were sold every year, in over one hundred and sixty countries.
	a. were 	b. in	c. hundred 	d. countries
260. It is certainly that Coca-Cola will be drunk far into the twenty-first century.
	a. certainly 	b. drunk	c. into	d. twenty-first
261. At the intersection forBroad Street and Park Avenue, Kim had the green light and drove into the intersection. 
	a. At	b. for	c. green 	d. into
262. No one were hurt, but the damage to Kim's car was heavy.
	a. No one 	b. were	c. to	d. was
263. When we have guests to our house, we shouldbe very polite to their.
	a. When 	b. to	c. should	d. their
264. The Americans tend to be informal while they're being receivedcompany or coming for a social engagement.
	a. tend 	b. to be	c. being received 	d. coming for
265. Women don't usually shake hands as they are introduced to each other but men did.
	a. don't 	b. as	c. to 	d. did
266. A Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Suez and separates the continents of Africa and Asia.
	a. A	b. connects 	c. separates 	d. of
267. Ships sailing in Europe to Asia once had to take the route around the Southern tip of Africa.
 	a. sailing	b. in	c. take	d. around
268. She has takenthe driven test three times, but she hadn't beenable to pass the test yet.
	a. has taken 	b. driven	c. hadn't been 	d. yet
269. Walt Whitman, born in New York in 1819, was two of America's unusual literary figures.
	a. born 	b. in	c. two	d. figures
270. He has given freely of his time by caring for the wounded during the Civil War.
	a. has given 	b. freely	c. caring	d. wounded
271. He had felt that it was necessary achievinga new poetic form in order to communicatehis views.
	a. had felt 	b. was	c. achieving	d. communicate
272. Although many believed the "talking leaf" to be the gift from the Great Spirit but Sequoyah refused to accept that theory.
	a. many 	b. to be 	c. but	d. to accept
273. In 1821, aftertwelve years of work, he had successfully developinga written language that would enable thousands of Indians to read and write.
	a. after	b. successfully 	c. developing 	d. would
274. After inventingdynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very richness man.
 	a. inventing	b. became 	c. very	d. richness
275. Every year on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, the awards are presentedforthe winners.
	a. on	b. death	c. presented 	d. for
276. No awards was presented from1940 to 1942 at the beginning of World War II.
	a. No 	b. was	c. from	d. at
277. Franklin initiated many improvement in the city of Philadelphia.
	a. initiated	b. improvement 	c. in	d. city
278. Franklin played an importance role in the early history of the United States.
	a. an	b. importance 	c. early	d. the
279. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on England in 1821 and emigrated to New York City when she was ten years ol	d. 	a. was
	b. on 	c. in 	d. to
280. She decided that she wantedto become a doctor, who was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century.
	a. wanted 	b. who	c. for 	d. in
281. In 1849, aftergraduation frommedical school, she decides to furtherher education in Paris.
	a. after 	b. from	c. decides 	d. further
282. Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made use of variety forms of communication. 	a. humans	b. inhabited 	c. use	d. variety
283. Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certainactions, either intentionally norunintentionally. 
	a. transmits	b. certain	c. either 	d. nor
284. It is believed that when a she-wolf loses her litter, she seeking a human child to takeits place.
	a. believed 	b. when	c. seeking 	d. to take
285. In 1925, he joinedthe advertisingdepartment of Doubleday Page and Company, one of the most large publishing houses in New York.
	a. joined	b. advertising 	c. the most	d. houses
286. He was a favorite contributor to many leadingmagazines, and her name becamea household word. 
	a. favorite	b. leading	c. her name 	d. became
287. We were sittingquiet by the side of a lake when we had an unpleasant surprise.
	a. sitting 	b. quiet 	c. side	d. unpleasant
288. If you are planning to transfer, remember that you must to obtain the permission before leaving the university where you are currently studying.
	a. to transfer 	b. to obtain	c. leaving 	d. where
289. You must complete the form I -538, have it to sign by the foreign student advisor at the school where you are currently studying.
	a. complete 	b. to sign	c. at	d. currently
290. As more women in the United States moved up the professionalladder, more are finding it necessity to make business trips alone. 
	a. As	b. women	c. professional 	d. necessity
291. It is a wellidea to encourage your husband and children to learn to cook a few simple meals while you are away.
	a. well	b. to encourage 	c. to learn	d. meals
292. The inventionof the electric telegraph gave birth of the communications industry.
	a. invention 	b. birth	c. of	d. communications
293. With increasing development and use of computer technology, there is a newly disease to worry about.
	a. With	b. development 	c. use	d. newly
294. In some countries in Europe, teachers are allowed giving children some homework only at weekends.
	a. in 	b. are	c. giving	d. homework
295. Five prisoners were injured when they attempted to escape in the prison last night.
	a. were 	b. when	c. attempted 	d. in
296. Is driving a car more dangerous than to fly in a modern plane?
	a. driving	b. dangerous 	c. than	d. to fly
297. I'd like to write applyingfor the post of accountant in your company.
	a. to write 	b. applying 	c. of	d. in
298. I have five years of experience like an accountant and can speak English fluently.
	a. experience 	b. like	c. speak 	d. fluently
299. I feel very happy to get your letter after so a long time. 
	a. happy	b. to get 	c. so	d. time
300. The driver asked the passengers not to get off the bus while it was moved.
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