Exercise 5. Use the adjectives or adverbs in brackets in their correct forms of comparison to complete the sentences.
1. Minh says life in the countryside is ……………………. he expected. He’ll go there whenever he has free time. (interesting)
2. My brother is studying at a university in Ha Noi. He often says he loves living in our village because people here are ……………………. people in Ha Noi. (friendly)
3. Last week we went to Sa Pa. It’s ……………………. to look at the paddy fields on mountain slops than the paddy fields on the lowlands. (wonderful)
4. My grandparents often tell us that they used to live in a ……………………. life than it is now. (hard)
5. Living in the countryside is ……………………. and ……………………. living in big cities. (peaceful - quiet)
6. The cost of living in my town is ……………………. in this area. (expensive)
7. Living in modern flocks of flats is ……………………. other places. You can buy everything you want just on the ground floor. (convenient)
8. City children have ……………………. life than the country children. (exciting)
9. He is a famous athletic so of course he runs ……………………. me. (fast)
10. My grandfather says that farmers in the past worked ……………………. farmers nowadays. (hard)