VI. Fill ONE suitable word into each blank (10 p)
In the first year of lower secondary (1)……………….…, I had some difficulties in learning English. My
English pronunciation (2) ……………….…really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not (3)
……………….…how to improve them. I didn’t want my father (4) ……………….…mother to know about
this. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher (5) ……………….…English told me to wait (6)
……………….…her outside the classroom. She took (7) ……………….…to the school library and showed me
the tapes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English-English
dictionary to (8) ……………….… my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do”, she
said. I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first (9) ……………….…in the English
Speaking Contest (10) ……………….…for secondary school students in my hometown.