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KỲ THI OLYMPIC 10-3 LẦN THỨ V, NĂM 2021
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN: TIẾNG ANH; LỚP 10
ĐỀ THI VÀ ĐÁP ÁN
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 PTS)
I. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences
1. My supervisor is angry with me . I didn’t do all the work, I __________ last week. A. should have done B. may have done
C. need to have done D. must have done
2. ______________ law degrees as today.
A. Never have so many women received
B. Never have women ever received
C. Never so many women have been receiving
D. Never have there been so many women recieving
3. He was _________________ we had expected.
A. much efficient at written work than B. efficiently working like
C. not nearly as efficient at working as a writer as
D. not more efficient in writing than
4. Don’t worry, David. _____________, you can depend on me. I’ll never let you down. A. Comes what comes B. Come what may C. Whatever it comes D. Comes what might
5. It is estimated that _________ 10% of the population goes to university A. any B. a C. some D. the
6. ___________ Jim’s support, I wouldn’t have got the job. A. As for B. Except for C. But for D. Just for
7. “Why doesn’t Constance buy a dishwasher?”
“She can’t _____________ because there isn’t enough space in the kitchen. A. have one installed B. have installed one C. have one install D. have install one
8. _________________, only people who agree with her are real Jews.
A. we can infer how she is concerned
B. Inferred from what she is concerned
C. We can infer what she is concerned
D. We can infer that as far as she is concerned
9. It was ony when the police came to the house to question him that he realized ____________.
A. what he had made a fool of himself
B. what he had made himself a fool of
C. what a fool he had made of himself
D. what he himself had made a fool of
10. _____________ at the site of a fort established by the Northwest Mounted Police, Calgary
is now one of Canada’s fastest growing cities. A. It is built B. To build C. Having built D. Built Đáp án: 1. A 2.D 3.C 4.B 5.B 6.B 7.A 8.D 9.C 10.D
II. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences
11. I haven’t seen Peter for a long time. I will _________ him this weekend. A. call for B. call in C. call off D. call on
22. Her husband treated her badly. I'm surprised she _________________ it for so long. A. put up with B. put off C. put through D. put up
13. Remember to ____________ the campfire before you leave. A. put off B. put down C. put out D. put up
14. You’d better ___________ animal fat if you want to lower your cholesterol level. A. cut down with B. cut off with C. cut out on D. cut down on
15. The doctor told him to keep ________ sweets and chocolate to lose weight. A. at B. back C. up D. off
16. _________ entering the hall, he found everyone waiting for him. A. On B. During C. With D. At
17. I don’t think he will get ________ the shock in such a short period of time. A. off B. out C. over D. away
18. I don't think anyone understood what I was saying at the meeting, did they? I totally failed to get my point ______. A. around B. along C. across D. about
19. The taxi drew _________ at the gate promptly at 6 o’clock. A. up B. along C. outside D. over
20. Never _______________ off till tomorrow what you can do today. A. put B. set C. do D. turn 11. D 12. A 13. B 14. D 15. D 16. A 17. C 18. C 19. A 20.A
III. VOCABULARY (10 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences
21. Hoang Anh Tuan ____________ injury to win the Olympic silver. A. recovered B. suffered C. avoided D. overcame
22. In my father’s ____________, it is essential to eat vegetable every day. A. idea B. opinion C. confidence D. principle
23. Last summer, we had ____________holiday in Spain A. a two week’s B. a two – weeks C. two – week D. a two – week
24. He retired early____________ill – health. A. on behalf of B. on account of C. believe D. imagine
5. Their eventual choice of house was _____ by the time Peter would take to get to the office. A. related B. consequent C. determined D. dependent
26. He set one alarm-clock for five o’clock and the other for five past so as to _____ that he did not oversleep. A. assure B. ensure C. insure D. reassure
27. When Tim was eating a cherry, he accidentally swallowed the _____. A. nut B. stone C. seed D. core
28. She loved tennis and could watch it till the _____ came home. A. she B. everyone C. horses D. cows
29. Could you close the window? There is a bit of a _____. A. current B. wind C. draught D. breeze
30. Thousands of steel _____ were used as the framework of the new office block. A. beams B. girders C. stakes D. piles
31. She loved tennis and could watch it till the _____ came home. A. she B. everyone C. horses D. cows
32. Could you close the window? There is a bit of a _____. A. current B. wind C. draught D. breeze
33. Thousands of steel _____ were used as the framework of the new office block. A. beams B. girders C. stakes D. piles
34. The ceiling fans were on, but unfortunately they only _____ the hot, humid air. A. stirred up B. poured through C. turned into D. cut back
35. He set one alarm-clock for five o’clock and the other for five past so as to _____ that he did not oversleep. A. assure B. ensure C. insure D. reassure
36. When Tim was eating a cherry, he accidentally swallowed the _____. A. nut B. stone C. seed D. core
37.The plane from Dallas ______ two hours late, so I missed my connecting flight from Frankfurt to London. A. took on B. took in C. took over D. took off
38. Let me give you a little ____________about the president of the company. A. specialization B. concentration C. background D. degree
39. Their eventual choice of house was _____ by the time Peter would take to get to the office. A. related B. consequent C. determined D. dependent
40. Houses __________as a bomb exploded in the neighborhood. A. dipped B. disappeared C. dropped D. shook 21. D 22. B 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. B 28. D 29. C 30. B 31. D 32. C 33. B 34. A 35. B 36. B 37. D 38. C 39. C 40. D
IV. GUIDED CLOZE (10 PTS)
Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space Passage A:
In an age when technology is developing faster than ever before, many people are being
attracted (41) ________ the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can do this is by
investigating their own family history. They can try to find out more about (42) ________their
families came from and what they did. This is now a fast-growing hobby, especially in countries
with a (43) ________short history, like Australia and the United States.
It is (44) ________ thing to spend some time going through a book on family history and to
take the (45) ________ to investigate your own family’s past. It is just another to (46) ________
the research work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a disorganised way and (47)
________yourself many problems which could have been avoided with a little forward planning.
If your own family stories tell you that you are (48) ________with a famous character, whether
hero or criminal, do not let this idea take over your research. Just (49) ________it as an
interesting possibility. A simple system for collecting and storing your information will be
adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get in your (50) ________. The most
important thing, though, is to get started. Who knows what you might find? 41. A. with B. to C. at D. for 42. A. which B. when C. where D. why 43. A. fairly B. greatly C. mostly D. widely 44. A. a B. one C. no D. some 45. A. idea B. plan C. purpose D. decision 46. A. carry out B. put out C. find out D.wear out 47. A. produce B. cause C. build D. create 48. A. connected B. joined C. attached D. related 49. A. treat B. control C. contact D. direct 50. A. track B. path C. road D. way 41. B 42. C 43. A 44. B 45. D 46. A 47. B 48. A 49. A 50. D Passage B:
Global warming could cause drought and possibly famine in China, the source of much of Hong
Kong’s food, by 2050, a new report predicts. Hong Kong could also be (51) ____________
from flooding as sea levels rose. The report (52) _____________ building sea-walls around
low-lying areas such as the new port and airport reclamations. (53) ______________ by the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the report, which includes work by members of the
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, uses the most recent projections on climate
change to point to a gloomy (54) ______________ for China.
By 2050, about 30 to 40 per cent of the country will experience changes in the type of
vegetation it (55) _____________, with tropical and subtropical forest conditions (56)
______________ northward and hot desert conditions rising in the west where currently the
desert is temperate, crop-growing areas will expand but any benefit is expected to be negated
by increased evaporation of (57) ____________, making it too dry to grow crops such as rice.
The growing season also is expected to (58) ______________, becoming shorter in southern
and central China, the mainland’s (59) ______________. The rapid changes make it (60)
______________ that plants could adapt. 51. A. at a loss B. at risk C. at it again D. at random 52. A. comments B. realizes C. agrees D. recommends 53. A. To publish
B. Having published C. Published D. Publishing 54. A. outlook B. perspective C. view D. sight 55. A. supports B. grows C. raises D. rises 56. A. running B. shifting C. dashing D. rushing 57. A. land B. soil C. moisture D. humid 58. A. reshape B. remain C. rotate D. alter 59. A. breadwinner B. breadline C. breakbasket D. breadboard
60. A. unforthcoming B. unlikely C. unchanged D.unregulated 51. B 52. D 53. C 54. A 55. A 56. B 57. C 58. D 59. C 60. B
V. Reading Comprehension (10 pts)
Read the text below and choose the best answer to each question PASSAGE A
The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the stimulated
Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously,
when atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy by themselves, without any outside
intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule
holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper
published in 1917. However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules
always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus
always would be much weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists
began trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one atom or
molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New York.
Instead of working with light, however, he worked with microwaves, which have a much longer
wavelength, and built a device he called a “maser”, for Microwave Amplification by the
Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser
was not completed until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists were
building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated emission at even shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell
Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify
stimulated emission of visible light waves. At about the same time, similar ideas crystallized in
the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them
down in a series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific
journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application. Three decades later,
people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser.
61. The word “intervention” can best be replaced by A. need B. device C. influence D. source
62. The word “it” refers to A. light bulb B. energy C. molecule D. atom
63. Why was Towne’s early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves?
A. He was not concerned with light amplification.
B. It was easier to work with longer wavelengths.
C. His partner Schawlow had already begun work on the laser.
D. The laser had already been developed.
64. In his research at Columbia University, Charles Townes worked with all of the following EXCEPT A. stimulated emission B. microwaves C. light amplification D. a maser
65. Why do people still argue about who deserves the credit of the laser?
A. The researchers’ notebooks were lost.
B. Several people were developing the idea at the same time.
C. No one claimed credit for the development until recently.
D. The work is still incomplete. 61. D 62.A 63.B 64.A 65.C PASSAGE B
A pilot cannot fly by sight alone. In many conditions, such as flying at night and landing
in dense fog, a pilot must use radar, an alternative way of navigating. Since human eyes are not
very good at determining speeds of approaching objects, radar can show a pilot how fast nearby
planes are moving. The basic principle of radar is exemplified by what happens when
one shouts in a cave. The echo of the sounds against the walls helps a person determine the size
of the cave. With radar, however, the waves are radio waves instead of sound waves. Radio
waves travel at the speed of light, about 300,000 kilometres in one second. A radar set sends
out a short burst of radio waves. Then it receives the echoes produced when the waves bounce
off objects. By determining the tune it takes for the echoes to return to the radar set, a trained
technician can determine the distance between the radar set and other objects. The word “radar”
in fact gets its name from the term “radio detection and ranging”. “Ranging” is the term for
detection of the distance between an object and the radar set. Besides being of critical
importance to pilots radar is essential for air traffic control tracking ships at sea, and for
tracking weather systems and storms.
66. What is the main topic of this passage? A. Alternatives to radar B. The nature of radar C. History of radar D. Types of ranging
67. According to the passage, what can radar detect besides location of objects? A. shape B. size C. speed D. weight
68. Which of the following words best describes the tone of this passage? A. humorous
B. argumentative C. explanatory D. imaginative
69. According to the passage, the distance between a radar set and an object can be determined by______.
A. the term “ranging" used for detection of the distance between an object and the radar set
B. the time it takes for the radio waves to produce echoes and bounce off the object
C. the tune it takes for a burst of radio waves to produce echoes when the waves bounce off the object
D. the time it takes for the echoes produced by the radio waves to return to the radar set
70. What might be inferred about radar?
A. It was developed from a study of sound waves.
B. It takes the place of a radio.
C. It gave birth to the invention of the airplane.
D. It has improved navigational safety. 66.B 67.C 68.C 69.D 70.D PASSAGE C
As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the United States
increased. The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and
cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new
emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for
economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the most
important means of integrating immigrants into American society.
The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of
the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By
1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year
was greatly lengthened. Kindergartens, vacation schools, extracurricular activities, and
vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of
students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants. Classes
for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, unions, churches,
settlement houses, and other agencies.
Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit
the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were once such population. Schools tried
to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial
economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home.
Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women,
American education gave homemaking a new definition. In pre-industrial economies,
homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly
included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, in the highly
industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however, overproduction rather than
scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a
consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers cooking,
shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic
necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these
notions seem quite out-of-date.
71. The paragraph preceding the passage probably discusses _____.
A. the industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life the United States in the 19th century
B. the formal schooling in the United States in the nineteen century.
C. the urbanization in the United States in the nineteen century.
D. the most important means of integrating immigrants into American society in the nineteen century.
72. It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that one important factor in the increasing importance
of education in the United States was _____.
A. the expanding economic problems of schools
B. the growing number of schools in frontier communities
C. an increase in the number of trained teachers D. the increased urbanization of the entire country
73. The word "means" is closest in meaning to _____. A. qualifications B. method C. advantages D. probability
74. The phrase "coincided with" is closest in meaning to _____.
A. happened at the same time as B. ensured the success of C. was influenced by D. began to grow rapidly
75. According to the passage, one important change in United States education by the 1920's was that _____.
A. the amount of time spent on formal education was limited
C. adults and children studied in the same classes
B. new regulations were imposed on nontraditional education
D. most places required children to attend school
76. “Vacation schools and extracurricular activities” are mentioned in line 9 to illustrate _____.
A. activities that competed to attract new immigrants to their programs.
B. alternatives to formal education provided by public schools
C. the importance of educational changes
D. the increased impact of public schools on students
77. According to the passage, early-twentieth century education reformers believed that _____.
A. special programs should be set up in frontier communities to modernize them
B. corporations and other organizations damaged educational progress
C. different groups needed different kinds of education
D. more women should be involved in education and industry
78. The word "it" in paragraph 4 refers to _____. A. education B. consumption C. production D. homemaking
79. Women were trained to be consumer homemakers as a result of _____.
A. scarcity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
B. economic necessity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
C. income-producing activities in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
D. overproduction in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
80. The word “others” in paragraph 4 means_______. A. other children B. other homes C. other women D. other employees ANSWERS: 71.B 72.D 73.B 74.A 75.D 76.A 77.C 78.D 79.D 80.C
B. WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS)
I. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
WORD for each space. (20 pts) PASSAGE A: MARY SHELLEY’S STORY Example (0): his
In 1816, English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and (0) ___________ future wife, Mary, visited
another famous poet, Lord Byron, at his house near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. It rained (81)
___________ snowed constantly during their stay, forcing the group to (82) ___________ most
of their holiday indoors. One night, Byron challenged the Shelleys and his doctor, Polidori, to
each make up a ghost story. He said that the person who wrote the most terrifying tale would be the winner.
Mary, who was only nineteen (83) ___________ the time, came up with the idea for her
story after having a nightmare in (84) ___________ she saw a pale student of science kneeling
beside ‘the thing he had put together’. This ultimately led her to write one of the greatest horror
novels of all time - Frankenstein.
In the finished novel, a mad scientist (85) ___________ Victor Frankenstein brings a
monster to life. It is really a warning against man’s dangerous relationship (86) ___________ science.
The book was first published (87) ___________ 1818, although for several years the
writer’s identity was not revealed. (88) ___________then her story has become extremely
popular and many films have been based (89) ___________it. It is astonishing to think that it
was written by a 19-year-old who set about writing the story in a simple attempt (90)
___________scare her close circle of friends. 81. And 82. Spend 83. At 84. Which
85. Called / named 86. with 87. In 88. Since 89. On 90. to PASSAGE B:
ADVICE TO YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT TO START WORK
In these days of high unemployment, it is often difficult (91) ______________ young
people to find a job. If they are lucky (92) __________________ to be asked to go for an
inteview, they may find (93) ____________________ there are at least 20 other applicants for
the (94) __________________. If a company is thinking of offering (95) _________________
a job, they will ask you for at least one reference from either your previous employer (96)
________________ someone who knows you well. (97) __________________ taking up your
job, you may have to sign a contract. You will probably have to do some training, (98)
_________________ help you to do the job more successfully. Once you have decided that this
is your chosen career, you will then have to work (99) _________________ to try and get
promotion, which usually brings more responsibility and more money! If you are unlucky, you
may be made redundant, and not be able to find (100) __________________ job. It is also a
good idea to pay some money into a pension scheme, which will help you to look after yourself
and your family when you are retired. Finally, good luck! 91. for 92. enough 93. that 94. job 95. you 96. or 97. Before 98. which 99. hard 100. another
II. Word formation (20 pts)
Part 1: Supply the correct form of the words in the CAPITAL LETTER (10pts)
101. “Remember to _______________ the water from the stream before you drink it,” Kumar said. (PURE)
102. Lisa is very ________________ . She always manages to look good in photographs.(PHOTO)
103. Have you read the latest _________________ about Madonna’s privte life? (REVEAL)
104. The launch of the space – rocket was delayed because the fuel system was
________________ (FUNCTION)
105. Politeness is one thing. Real kindness is another. You must learn to ______________ between them. (DIFFER)
106. The teacher expressed her ____________________ with Tony because he’s so
disobedient in class. (SATISFY)
107. Being so close to the Atlantic, the weather in Ireland is often both changeable and
___________________. (PREDICT)
108. I remember her as a quiet, hard-working and ___________________ girl. (SPEAK)
109. _______________ statements, feelings, opinions etc. are wrong because they are not
based on facts. (FOUND)
110. Before enrolling on a course, you should first ensure that it has been ________________
by an officially recognized body. (VALID) 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. purify Photogenic Revelations Malfunctioning differentiate 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. Dissatisfaction Unpredictable Well-spoken unfounded validated
PART 2: Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the line to formaword that
fits in the gap in the same line.
ASSUME GO OVERWHEM HIGH DESTROY
TECHNOLOGY QUESTION PERFECTION PESSIMISM BE
The image that we have of science has (111) ______________ radical change in the last
hundred years. An enormous (112) ______________ explosion, together with a number of very
real anxiety about the environment and all the moral and political ramifications of economic
growth have (113) _______________ put science at the centre of public debate.
The twentieth century began with a challenge to the (114) ________________ that human
knowledge was approaching completion. It will come, perhaps, as something of a surprise to
all of us to realize that emegence of this highly (115) ________________ process came both
from within and outside science.
New scientific theories (116) __________________ reveal the limitations of the old
perspective. We had thought that the world, understood through the medium of rational (117)
_________________, as, indeed, the real world. Now we know that this was no more than a
simplification that just happened to work. Once we realize this, though, we can move in a
number of opposing directions. We can re-evaluate all knowledge (118) __________________
and decide that it is eternally fragmentary and full of a vast of (119) _________________, or
we can be more positive and view these vast explosions of scientific awareness as new
challenges still to come and as celebrations of the (120) ________________ that human
imagination has so far scaled. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. undergone technological unquestionably assumption destructive 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. overwhelmingly beings pessimistically imperfections heights
III. ERROR CORRECTION (20 PTS)
Find and correct 10 errors that the following passage contains. Underline the error and
write the correction in the space provided. (0) is an example.
When I told an architect friend that I was writing a brief book on 0. _____X_______
opera, he asked if it would tell him “what he was missing”. The 0. what → that
feeling what he was missing something was a step in the exact 0. exact → exactly
right direction, but the fact that he had lived in England for 45 121. ______________
years without set foot in the theatre for an opera performance was 122. ______________
a reflection on the small part that opera plays in the lives of the
majority of intelligence people in Britain. The basic appeal of 123. ______________
opera is to the heart, not the head, and an British find the 124. ______________
outpouring of emotion and passionate melody a little
embarrassed. Unlike the Italians, the Germans and the French, the 125. ______________
British have no native operatic traditional of long standing, and 126. ______________
but opera has remained a largely suspect foreign important,
indulged in by the rich, and condemned by intellectual on the old 127. ______________
premise that “anything too silly to be said, could be sang”. Opera 128. ______________
is not really like that at all. The half of its origins may be
aristocratic, but other half are firm rooted in the songs, stories and 129. ______________
dances of popularity entertainment through the centuries. 130. ______________ Suggested answers:
121. set → setting
122. intelligence → intelligent 123. an → the
124. embarrassed → embarrassing
125. traditional → tradition 126. but → so
127. intellectual → intellectuals 128. sang → sung 129. firm → firmly
130. popularity → popular
IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20PTS)
A. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it mean exactly the same as
the sentence printed before it.
131. If you find it necessary, you can contact me on this number.
→Should ______________________________________________________________.
132. Whoever did that must have been a very brave person.
→Only ________________________________________________________________.
133. He had no idea how difficult the exercise would be until he was half way through it.
→Only when ___________________________________________________________.
134. I’d like to visit Singapore more than any other countries in the world.
→Singapore ____________________________________________________________.
135. Can I speak to someone about my problem?
→Would it ______________________________________________________________?
B. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the given word.
136. I expected the film to be good, but it wasn’t at all. (LIVE)
 The film _______________________________________________ at all.
137. Could you watch my bag while I’m away, please? (EYE)
 Could you __________________________________________________.
138. Many species of wildlife are threatened with extinction. (VERGE)
 Many species _______________________________________________.
139. Would you like to contribute something to our campaign? (MAKE)
 Would you like ______________________________________________.
140.Immediately after his arrival, things went wrong. (SOONER)
 No sooner ___________________________________________________. Suggested answers:
131. →Should you find it necessary, you can contact me on this number.
132. →Only a very brave person could have done that.
133. →Only when he was half way through the exercise did he realize how difficult it was.
134. →Singapore is the country I’d like to visit most.
135. →Would it be possible for me to talk to someone about my problem?
136. The film didn’t live up to my expectation at all.
137. Could you keep your (an) eye on my bag while I’m away, please?
138. Many species of wildlife are on the verge of extinction.
139. Would you like to make a contribution to our campaign.
140. No sooner had he arrived than things went wrong. -- THE END --