Ex 1. Choose A, B,C or D for each gap in the following sentences.

1. Joanna prefers cats _________ dogs

A. from            B. over                         C. than                         D. to

2. Nowadays people                   hours sitting in front of computers.

            A. spend                       B. last                           C. set                            D. take

3. Mai enjoys __________to music, especially pop music in her free time.

A.    hearing                   B. playing                     C. listening                   D. talking

4. Viet plays the guitar ________ than Phong does.

A.    more goodly            B. more well                 C. better                       D. gooder

5. Do you think older people drive _________ than younger people?

A. slow             B. slower                      C. more slow                D. more slowly

6. The volunteers have to work much ______usual to save the dying animals from the forest fire.

A.  as hard as                 B. more hard than         C. harder than               D. the hardest

7. People know they should save energy, _________ they still waste it

A. but                           B. then                         C. and                          D. so

8. _________ I moved house, I haven’t had much contact with those friends

A. Although                 B. Since                        C. Because of                D. So that

9. I don’t like ________up early in the winter days. I love _________ in bed late.

A.    getting/ stay            B. get/stay                    C. getting/staying         D. get/ staying

10. My family ________ the tradition of cooking sticky rice on the first day of a lunar month.

A.    discovers                B. allows                      C. follows                     D. advises