Bài tập tiếng anh lớp 12 unit 21

UNIT 21. VERB PATTERN (TAKE, SPEND, LIKE … BETTER THAN, USED TO, BE/GET
USED TO)
I. Circle the best option to complete each sentence:
1. Joanna prefers cats _________ dogs
a. from
b. over
c. than
d. to
2. When my father was young, he _________ get up early to do the gardening
a. used to
b. was used to
c. got used to
d. use to
3. He _________ like beer but now he drinks it a lot
a. isn’t used to
b. hasn’t used to
c. didn’t use to
d. couldn’t use to
4. He spends all his time _________ novels
a. reading
b. to read
c. read
d. on reading
5. I would rather live on a farm than _________ to live in a city.
a. live
b. living
c. lived
d. to live
6. Now, I think she is accustomed _________ eight hours a day.
a. work
b. to work

c. working
d. to working
7. American women _________ independent.
a. are used to be
b. are used to being c. is used to being d. is used to be
8. It takes him thirty minutes _________ to work by bus
a. going
b. to going
c. go
d. to go
9. She usually _________ two hours doing her homework
a. spends
b. takes
c. spent
d. took
10. I’d prefer to stay at home tonight _________ to the cinema
a. rather than go
b. rather than went c. rather than will god. rather would go
11. She preferred _________ television to _________ the cinema
a. watching, going b. watching, go
c. to watch, going d. to watch, go
II. Rewrite the second sentence in such a way that it has the same meaning as the one before
it:
1. It takes me about an hour to watch TV every day
I spend ________________________________________________________________________
2. Nowadays, children would rather play computer games than take part in outdoor activities
Children nowadays prefer _________________________________________________________
3. We spend two hours doing this excersice
It ____________________________________________________________________________
4. They often went to Vung Tau at weekends

They used _____________________________________________________________________
5. My brother likes to go swimming better than to play computer games
My brothers prefers ______________________________________________________________
6. My French friend finds driving on the left difficult
My French friend isn’t____________________________________________________________
7. I advised you to put your money in the bank
You’d better ____________________________________________________________________
8. He prefers golf to tennis
He’d rather ____________________________________________________________________
9. It took us five hours to get to London
We ___________________________________________________________________________
10. He wrote the report in two hours


It took_________________________________________________________________________
11. I get to work in twenty minutes
I spend ________________________________________________________________________
12. My daughter spends two hours studying English every day
It_____________________________________________________________________________
13. It took him the whole day to repair the radio
He spent ______________________________________________________________________
14. The flight to Moscow lasted three and a half hours
It took_________________________________________________________________________