DOUBLE COMPARISON

Choose the best answer for each of the following questions

1……………you study for these exams, ………..you will do.
a. The harder/ the better b. The more / the much
c. The hardest / the best d. The more hard / the more good
2. My neighbour is driving me mad! It seems that………….it is at night , ……………he plays his music!
a. the less / the more loud b. the less / less
c. the more late / the more loudlier d. the later / the louder
3. Thanks to the progress of science and technology, our lives have become………….
a. more and more good b. better and better
c. the more and more good d. gooder and gooder
4. It gets…………..when the winter is coming.
a. cold and cold b. the coldest and coldest c. colder and colder d. more and more cold
5. Thanks to the great effort of doctors and nurses, her health is getting…………….
a. worse b. better c. the worse and worse d. better and better
6. The more you work, the…………you can earn.
a. more promotion b. more tired c. more money d. more experience
7. Nowadays everything is getting………….
a. more expensive b.more expensive and more expensive
c. more and more expensive d. the most expensive
8. The fatter I become, the…………I run.
a. quicker b. more slowly c. slower d. more fast
9. The more a car costs, ………………….. it goes.
a. faster b. the faster c. the more fast d. the more faster
10.The younger you are, _______ it is to learn.
a. easier b. you are easier c. the easier d. the easy
11._______ we finish the project, _______ we can start the next one.
a. The soonest/ the sooner b. The sooner/ the most soon
c. The sooner/ the sooner d. The soonest/ the soonest
12.__________ I forget, _________I know.
A. The more/ the less B. the more/ the little
C. The many / the less D. The many / the little
13. __________the sun is, ________the shadow is.
A. the higher / the low B. The more high / the more low
C. The higher / the lower D. the more higher / the more lower
14. _______it is, _________miserable I feel
A. The hotter / more B. The hotter / the more
C. The more hotter / the more D. The more hot / the more
15. ………..the time passes, ……….I feel the deadline of my thesis is coming, but I have just finished half of it.
A. The faster / the nervous B. The more fast / the nervous
C. The fast / the more nervous D. The faster / the more nervous
16. A: “When shall I tell him?” – B: “………………!”
A. The sooner it was, the better it was B. The sooner the better
C. sooner and better D. The sooner is the better

Choose the underlined part among A,B,C or D that needs correcting.

1. The fastest you drive, the greater you get.
A B C D
3. Prevention is more cheaper and more effective than any kind of treatment.
A B C D
10. The suitcase seemed to get heavy and heavier as I carried it along the road.
 A B C D
1. The longer the children waited in the long queue, the more impatiently they became. ( Đề năm 2016)
A B C D
2. The better you are at English, more chance you have to get a job with international organizations. (Đề 2009)
A B C D
WRITING
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. The better the weather is, ______. ( Đề năm 2017)
A. the most crowded the beaches get B. the most the beaches get crowded
C. the more crowded the beaches get D. the more the beaches get crowded
2. The higher the cost of living is, ______. ( Đề năm 2017)
A. the life of the immigrants becomes the harder B. the hardest the life of the immigrants becomes
C. the harder does the life of the immigrants become D. the harder the life of the immigrants becomes
3. The more you practise speaking English, ______. (Đề năm 2017)
A. the more fluently you can speak it B. the more fluent you can speak it
C. the more you can speak it fluent D. the more you can speak it fluently
4. The larger the area of forest is destroyed, ______. ( Đề năm 2017)
A. the most frequent natural disasters are B. the most frequently natural disasters occur
C. the more frequent are natural disasters D. the more frequently natural disasters occur
5. The higher the content of carbon dioxide in the air is, ____________ . (Đề năm 2014)
A. more heat it retains B. it retains the more heat
C. the more heat it retains D. the heat it retains more
6. _________, the less polluted the environment will be. (Đề năm 2012)
A. The more polluted landfills will be B. The fewer landfills we have
C. The less landfills are polluted D. The more landfills are there
Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.
1. When the unemployment rate is high, the crime rate is usually also high.  
A. The unemployment rate and the crime rate are both higher.
B. The unemployment rate is as high as the crime rate.
C. The higher the unemployment rate is, the higher the crime rate is.
D. The high rate of unemployment depends on the high rate of crime.
2. As we go far to the north, we are less likely to meet high temperature.
A. The farther north we go, the less likely we are to meet high temperature.
B. The further north we go, the less likely we are to meet high temperature.
C. The farther we go to the north, the more likely we are to meet high temperature.
D. Both A and B are correct.
3. The harder our father works, the less time he spends with the family.
A. My father enjoys his work so much that he works so hard.
B. My father spends much time working to support the family.
C. The more time my father spends with the family, the happier he feels.
D. My father doesn’t spend much time with the family as he works so hard.
4. If you practise harder, you will have better results.
A. The harder you practise, the best results you will have.
B. The harder you practise, the better results you will have.
C. The more hardly you practise, the better results you will have.
D. The hardest you practise, the most results you will have.
5. The more he learned about the job, the less interested he got.
A. As soon as he learned about the interesting job, he got it.
B. Though learning that the job is not interesting, he got it.
C. Even though the job is not interesting, he learned about it.
D. When he got to know more about the job, he lost his interest in it.
6. The older he grew, the more forgetful he became.
A. He grew older and more and more forgetful.
B. He became more forgetful and older.
C. He grew older when he became more forgetful.
D. As he grew older, he became more and more forgetful.