Tài liệu 278 bài test tiếng Anh của chương trình dạy tiếng Anh trên đài BBC (có đáp án kèm theo)

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Quiz topic: Holiday English
For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer.
1. When you arrive at the airport, the first thing you do is go to ________.
a) reception
b) the check-in desk
c) the departure lounge
d) the arrival desk
2. It’s boring going on holiday with you, all you want to do is __________ on the beach.
a) take the sun
b) sunbathe
c) take a sun bath
d) have a bath in the sun
3. Which of the following is NOT holiday accommodation?
a) guesthouse
b) I’m youth hostel
c) B & B
d) borstal
4. I love going away, but there’s no place like __________.
a) house
b) the office
c) home
d) my bed
5. It was the best holiday ever! We had a ________ of time!
a) fish
b) shark
c) whale
d) great
6. The nearest town was 80 km away, I mean really in the middle of _________.
a) nowhere
b) somewhere
c) anywhere
d) everywhere
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Quiz topic: Holiday English
Answers:
1. When you arrive at the airport, the first thing you do is go to ________.
a) reception
b) the check-in desk
c) the departure lounge
d) the arrival desk
You find a reception in an office or hotel.
Go to the ‘check-in desk’ and show your ticket.
Go to the departure lounge after you check in.
The ‘arrival desk’ is not correct
2. It’s boring going on holiday with you, all you want to do is __________ on the beach.
a) take the sun
b) sunbathe
c) take a sun bath
d) have a bath in the sun
‘Take the sun’ is not correct.
‘Sunbathe’ is the verb which describes lying in the sun to get brown.
‘Take a sun bath’ is not correct.
‘Have a sun bath’ is not correct.
3. Which of the following is NOT holiday accommodation?
a) guesthouse
b) I’m youth hostel
c) B & B
d) borstal
A guesthouse is a small hotel.
Youth hostels offer cheap accommodation especially for young people.
B & B stands for bed and breakfast and is similar to a guesthouse.
Borstal is a place that young criminal are sent to rather than to prison.
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4. I love going away, but there’s no place like __________.
a) house
b) the office
c) home
d) my bed
One of the words completes the expression – but ‘house’ is not the correct one.
One of the words completes the expression – but ‘the office’ is not the correct one.
‘There’s no place like home’ means being at home is my favourite place.
One of the words completes the expression – but ‘my bed’ is not the correct one.
5. It was the best holiday ever! We had a ________ of time!
a) fish
b) shark
c) whale
d) great
One of the words completes an idiom meaning we had a fantastic time.
One of the words completes an idiom meaning we had a fantastic time.
‘We had a whale of a time’ means we had a fantastic time.
You can say ‘we had a great time’, but not ‘we had a great of time’
6. The nearest town was 80 km away, I mean really in the middle of _________.
a) nowhere
b) somewhere
c) anywhere
d) everywhere
We can describe an isolated place as being in the middle of nowhere.
How do we describe a place that is very isolated?
How do we describe a place that is very isolated?
How do we describe a place that is very isolated?