25.

It takes Minh 2 hours to do his homework every day.

-> Minh spends ____________________________________________________________.

26.

She had hardly begun to speak before people started interrupting her.

-> Hardly _________________________________________________________________.

27.

I was going to buy that house, but because of what he said, I didn’t.

-> She persuaded ___________________________________________________________.

28.

We arrived too late to see the first film.

-> We didn’t _______________________________________________________________.

29.

She didn’t say a word as she left the room.

-> She left _______________________________________________________________.

30.

They think the owner of the house is abroad.

-> The owner _____________________________________________________________.

31.

You remembered to post the letter, didn’t you?

-> You didn’t _____________________________________________________________.

32.

Without his help, we would all have been in worse trouble.

-> Had it ________________________________________________________________.

33.

Since the invention of computer, people have saved a lot of time.

-> Since the computer was _________________________________________________.

34.

They were unable to finish the football match because of the heavy rain.

-> The heavy rain ________________________________________________________.

35.

The Picasso painting was so expensive that nobody could buy it.

-> So __________________________________________________________________.

36.

Mount Everest is higher than any other mountains in the world.

-> Mount Everest is _______________________________________________________.

37.

It was a four-hour flight from Ho Chi Minh city to Bangkok.

-> It took _______________________________________________________________.

38.

My mother doesn’t usually go to work without having breakfast.

-> My mother isn’t used ____________________________________________________.

39.

“I wouldn’t go swimming on bad weather like that if I were you”, Nick said to Tom.

-> Nick advised ___________________________________________________________.

40.

I haven’t decided to choose which place for our honey moon yet.

-> I haven’t made _________________________________________________________.

41.

A new amusement park for the youth will be built in this city.

-> They _________________________________________________________________.

42.

If she doesn’t work harder, she’ll lose her job.

-> Unless ________________________________________________________________.

43.

She prefers playing video games to reading books.

-> She would rather _______________________________________________________.

44.

I’m always nervous when I travel by air.

-> Traveling ______________________________________________________________.

45.

He objected to the fact that his secretary came to work late.

-> He was annoyed ________________________________________________________.

46.

“Why don’t we visit the Quang Ninh museum first?” Quang said.

-> Quang suggested that ____________________________________________________.

47.

Everyone had already left when I came to the party.

-> As soon as _____________________________________________________________.

48.

I’m really excited about the upcoming linguistics workshop.

-> I’m looking _____________________________________________________________.

49.

He was so brave that he ran after the thief to get the bag back.

-> It was _________________________________________________________________.

50.

The plane had hardly left the airport when the accident happened.

-> No sooner ______________________________________________________________.