Find ONE mistake in each of the following sentences and correct it.
Read the passage. Choose the most suitable word to fill in the blank.
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site ___(11)___ 2003, the remarkable Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park contains the oldest mountains in Asia, formed approximately 400 ___(12)___ years ago. Riddled with hundreds of cave systems - many of extraordinary scale and length - and spectacular ___(13)___ rivers, Phong Nha is a speleologists’ heaven on the Earth.
The Phong Nha region is changing fast. Son Trach village (population 3000) is the main centre, with an ATM, a growing range ___(14)___ accommodation and eating options, and improving transport links with other parts of central Vietnam.
The caves are the region’s absolute highlights, but the above-ground ___(15)___ of forest trekking, the area’s war history, and rural mountain biking mean it deserves a stay of around three days.
Read the passage and choose the best answers.
My grandmother is more than ninety years old, which makes her the oldest person in the whole family. Despite her old age, her memory is still fresh. She always tells us that many things were different when she was young.
My grandma used to begin her day very early. She used to start the day at 4 . o’clock while everybody was still in bed. She used to do all the housework by herself. She used to make clothes for her children and as for her outdoor work, she used to raise chickens and sheep. She also used to help the males to grow vegetables.
There didn’t use to be many pastime activities. Her hobby used to be listening to the radio. In the evening all the family used to sit by the fire in the sitting room where all the family gathered at night to tell tales or discuss family matters such as weddings, harvest time or to assign the next day’s work.
When a member of the family was ill, she used to show him which herbs to use. She collected them from the nearby forest or from the mountain. My grandma used to know so many effective methods to cure illnesses.
Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Either boys or girls, usually aged from seven to ten, play the two-person game of “Mandarin’s Box”. They draw a rectangle on the ground and divide it___(21)___ ten small squares called “rice fields” or “fish ponds”.
They also draw two additional semi-circular boxes at the two ends of the rectangle, which are called “mandarin’s boxes” – the game’s name, each person has 25 small pebbles and a bigger stone.
Each player places the stone in one of the mandarin’s boxes and five small pebbles in each of the other squares. Then the game begins. The first player takes up the contents of one square on his or her side of the board, but not a mandarin’s box and distributes the pebbles one by one, starting with the text square in ___(22)___ direction. Since each square contains five pebbles at the beginning, the first move will distribute five pebbles to the left or right.
After the last pebble is distributed, the player takes the contents of the following square and repeats the distribution ___(23)___. But if the following square is one of the mandarin’s boxes, the turn ends and passes to the other player.
If the last pebble falls into a square that precedes one empty square, the player wins all the contents of the square following the empty square and removes these pebbles from the board. However, if there are two or more empty squares in a row, the player ___(24)___ his or her turn.
Once a player has taken pebbles from the board, the turn is ___(25)___ to the other player. If all five squares on one player’s side of the board are emptied at any time, that player must place one pebble he or she has aside back in each of the five squares so that the game can resume.
The game continues until the two mandarin’s boxes both been ___(26)___. At the end of the game, the player with more pebbles wins, with each of the large stones counting as ten points.
Choose the best rewritten sentences.