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UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
10. Can you help me (move) this table?

11. Nam always (get) grade A in Physics, but last semester he (get)
B.
12. They were proud of (be) so successful.

VII. Use the adjective in brackets in their correct forms of comparison to complete the
sentences.
1. Tea is coffee. (cheap)

2. The new harvest machine is than the old one. (effective)
3. The countryside is the town. (beautiful)
4. A tractor is a buffalo. (powerful)

5. My sister is me. (tall)
6. Blue whales are elephants. (heavy)
7. The Mekong River is the Red River. (long)

8. Do you think English is French in grammar? (easy)
9. My new bed is my old bed. (comfortable)

10. The film about my village town is than the book. (interesting)

VIII. Read the text and choose the suitable words with the correct blank spaces.

visitors stories mountain any riding to with life

I live in a (1) .......................... village. My parents often tell me (2) .......................... about their
life in the past. It‟s not much like the village I can see nowadays.
Some villagers now live in brick houses instead of earthen ones. Our houses are better
equipped (3) .......................... electric fans and TVs. Thanks to the TV, we now know more about
(4) .......................... outside our village. We don‟t use oil lamps (5) .......................... more. We
have electric lights which are much brighter. More villagers are using motorcycles for transport
instead of (6) .......................... a horse or walking. We – village children – no longer have to walk
a long way and cross a stream to get (7) .......................... school, which is dangerous in the rainy
season. Now there‟s a new school nearby. We also have more (8) .......................... from the city.
They come to experience our way of life.

IX. Read the text and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
Tokyo is a famous city. There are a few good buildings and impressive temples; there are a few
parks worth visiting. Everything has to be small in Tokyo: houses, rooms, shops. Long-side
streets consist of tiny houses only, and this often creates a toy-like, with small women tip-toeing
along in their kimonos.
Tokyo at night is a very different place from Tokyo in daytime. Millions of neon lights are
switched on and nowhere in the world is more attractive.

A town is not its buildings alone; it is an atmosphere, its pleasure, its sadness, its madness, and
above all its people. Tokyo may lack architectural beauty but it has character and excitement; it is
alive. I found it a mysterious and lovable city.

1. _________There are many beautiful buildings in Tokyo.

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