VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES: Choose the best options 

Van Mieu was a place to ______ the most brilliant scholars of the nation. 

She finds the work she has to do quite easily; boredom is her biggest problem.

The composer Verdi has written the opera Aida to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, but the opera was not performed until 1871 .

Men and women in the Peace Coips work with people in developing countries to help them improving the living conditions.

The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky for twenty-four hours or longer.

Any group that conducting its meeting using parliamentary rules will encounter situations where prescribed procedures cannot be applied.

The camp on the inhospitable, mosquito-infested banks of the River Sekonyer, was set up to track the primates and learn from their habitat, diet and behavior .

Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that are often represented at symbols

We are very pleased with Susan s effort – she applies herself very well with the task in hand.

Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick describes the dangers, difficult, and often violent life aboard a whaling ship.

The giant panda eats chiefly mainly bamboo shoots, though it also eats some other plants and occasionally feeds on fish and small rodents.

Salt was once too scarce and precious that it was used as money

Vaslov Nijinsky achieved world recognition as both a dancer as well as a choreographer.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I was surprised ________ what happened at the end of the film.

Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence:

 I made a mistake__________ I was tired.

Choose the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions:

Tim _________ a book when I came to his house.

The company suffered substantial losses after the  stock market crash and found it difficult for recovering.

 If the sun shines, we ___________ to the town.

_____ against women and girls should be eliminated when government and people co-operate.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

The manager is away on a business _________ so I am in charge of the office now.

The Homestead Act of 1862 granted 160 acres of land for any settler who would spend five years on the land