Thay Giao

Thao

Teacher of English

RIVISION 1
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given nouns
for the following exercise. Use each noun only one time.
chair
job

experience
luggage

furniture
information

permission
hair

work
progress

1. I don't have much _______________. Just two small bags.

2. They are going to tell you all you want to know. They are going
to give you a lot of _______________.
3. There is room for everybody to sit down. There are a lot of
_______________.
4. We have no _______________ not even a bed or a table.
5. 'What does Alan look like?' He's got a long beard and very
short _______________.
6. Carla's English is very bad. She must make _______________.
7. George is unemployed. He's looking for a _______________.
8. If you want to leave work early, you have to ask for
_______________
9. I don't think Ann will get the job. She hasn't got enough
10.
Shakespeares _______________ are wonderful.
Complete the exercise with correct forms of the given
nouns. Use each noun only one time.
attorney
discovery
medium

beach
laboratory
ox

box
man
piano

clif
match
tooth

1. The age at which the first tooth appears difers greatly from
child to child. Very occasionally, children are born with one or
more _______________.
2. I need some _______________ to light the fire.
3. Studies are showing that _______________ process information
diferently from women.
4. Maria needed some legal advice for her businesses, so she
contacted two _______________.
5. New scientific are made every day in _______________
throughout the world.

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Thao

Teacher of English

6. The farmer loaded his cart with _______________ of fresh

vegetables to take to market. His cart was pulled by two
_______________.
7. The north side of the island has no _______________ for people to
walk on. There are only steep _______________. No one can
climb theses steep walls of rock.
8. The music building at the university has 27 _______________ for
students to play on.
9. People get most of their news about the world through the
mass _______________ that is, through radio, television, the
internet, newspapers, and magazines.
Choose the appropriate options to complete the sentences.
1. Today, _____ people who enjoy winter sports is much greater
than that of twenty years ago.
A. a number of
B. many
C. a great deal of
D. the number of
2. According to the studies, dolphins, whales and _____ other sea
creatures use highly sophisticated navigation systems.
A. any
B. a little
C. many
D.
each
3. The dietary habits of a child often have _____ to do with that
child's eating habits as an adult.
A. little
B. whole
C. every
D.
a great amount
4. In the United States of America, there are literacy classes for
workers, _____ of whom never graduated from high school.
A. a little
B. much
C. any
D.
many
5. In the first _____ months of life, an infant learns how to lift its
head, how to smile and how to recognize its parents.
A. many
B. any
C. the number of
D. few
6. Serving _____ terms in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an
important United States politician.
A. plenty
B. several
C. a lot
D.
whole
7. Although the language learning abilities of apes have surprised
_____ scientists, they generally agree that apes do not progress
beyond _____ linguistic abilities of a two-year-old child.

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Thao

Teacher of English

A. few / a
B. a little / the
C. many / the
D.
each / a
8. The storm continued for _____ of the days when we were in
New Orleans, but fortunately there wasn't _____ damage in the
city.
A. a few / many B. several / few
C. all / a little
D.
most / much
9. Heavy fines and jail sentences have made _____ diference in
preventing elephant poaching for their tusks.
A. a few
B. little
C. many
D.
none
10.
Although _____ species of fox are reddish in color, _____
Arctic fox is often pure white.
A. a great amount of/an
B. any / the
C. all / an
D. most / the