Comparisons

st ill 	C. worse	D. worst
Thousands of years ago giraffes had much ______ necks than they have now.
	A. short	B. shorter	C. less short	D. least short
Special airplane fares for tourists make travel _______ than ever before.
 	A. less expensive and more attractive	B. less expensive but attractive
	C. not only expensive and attractive	D. less expensive therefore attractive
My friend believes that research is a group’s effort and ______ do I.
	A. as 	B. the same	C. so	D. too
Eat _____ and more fruit.
	A. much less	B. much fewer	C. many less D. many fewer
Mary is ______ in our class.
	A. prettier 	B. more pretty	C. most pretty	D. the prettiest
Jogging makes our health _____.
	A. more good	B. better 	C. the more good 	D. the most good
______ we jog, _______ we are.
	A. the most / the healthiest	B. the most / the healthier C. the more / the most healthy D. the more / the healthier
The winter is coming, it is getting _______.
	A. more cold	B. the most cold	C. colder and colder 	D. the more cold
The _____ things are produced, the ______ prices are.
	A. more / cheaper	B. most / cheapest	C. much / cheap 	D. many / cheaper
He learns English worse than we ______.
	A. are	B. have 	C. do 	D. were
The test is not ______ difficult ______ it was last month.
	A. as / as	B. so / as	C. more / as	D. A and B
_____ we read, ______ we know.
	A. the most / the most 	B. the more / the more	C. most / most D. more/ more
It gets ______ . let’s go swimming.
	A. hot and hot	B. the more hot 	C. more and more hot 	D. hotter and hotter
Minh usually runs ______ Hung.
	A. more fast	B. more fast than	C. the fastest	D. faster than
The prblem seems to be _____.
	A. most serious 	. more serious than 	 C. more serious as D. more and more serious
Your dress is longer than _____.
 	A. I 	B. me	C. my	D. mine
Prices get ______.
 	A. high and high	B. highest and highest	C. more and more high	D. higher and higher
I would rather be a teacher ______ .
	A. than	B. more than	C. better D. better than
The more waste paper we recycle, _______ .
	A. the more trees we preserve	B. the less trees we preserve	
	C. the most trees we preserve	D. the least trees we preserve
There are ______ diseases being treated by laser beams.
	A. more or less 	B. more than	C. more and more	D. less than
“We produce more food. It gets cheap. ”means _______.
	A. the more food we produce, the cheaper it gets	B. the most food we produce, the cheapest it gets
	C. the least food we produce, the less cheap it gets	D. most food we produce, cheapest it gets
Baby teeth require ______ later permanent teeth.
	A. more care than 	B. as careful as 	C. as much care than 	D. the most care 
	@Exercise : Choose underlinded part that need correcting
There are least students present today than there were yesterday. 
“Tomorrow Never Die” is one of the more exciting films.
Most babies will grow up to be as cleverer as their parents.
One of the uniquer parks in the United States is the Petrified Forest National Park of Arizona.
Key West, Florida, is the furtherest south than any point in the continental US.
New York is the larger of all American cities.	 
The new models are not only less expensive but also the more efficient. 
The more they advertise, the least expensive things are. 
The problem is the more serious because there has been no relevant solution up to now.
The more he earns, the most happy he is. 
Nam plays the piano better than I am. 
Mary looks more prettier than she used to be.
Jim has failed the examination. He is the baddest in our class.
Minh can play table tennis better more than I can. 
Your computer works faster than my.
His father’s health gets worst and worst.
The most we work, the more money we earn.
This car is more economical as that one.
Peasants lead a more miserable life than city dwellers are. 
Not everyone has realized that the most largest organ of the human body is the skin.
The more fast you drive, the more dangerous you get.
All the athletes are trying to run as fastly as they can.
Rice is most important in Vietnam.
The weather is more hot as it was yesterday.
The more that she tried to remove the strain from her shirt, the worst it looks. 
VOCABULARY
Mr. Bùi Thanh
1.A(n) ___________ is the child has no parents.
	 A.victim	 B.orphan	 C.patient	 D.disadvantaged
2.A person in a film is called _____________.
	 A.actor	 B.actress	 C.character	 D.perfomer
3.The film didn’t end as ___________ as we had thought.
	 A.tragicly	B.tragically	 C.tragedy	 D.tragical
4.The silent films aren’t so interesting as the ___________ ones.
	 A.spoke	 B.speaking	 C.spoken	 D.speaker
5.	________ , his marks were better than mine though he copied my test.
	 A.Surprising	 B.Surprised	 C.Surprisingly	D.Surprisedly
6.The ______ look on her face disappeared when she saw the present.
	 A.disappointed	 B.disappointing	 C.disappointment	D.disappointments
7.______ is a situation in a game when two teams have the same score.
	A.Balance	B.Equality	C.Tie	D.Equivalant
8.The girl is thought _______ in happiness with her old husband.
 A.lives	 B.living	 C.has lived	 D.to live
9.I hear a noise behind me and turned ______ , but I saw nothing.
	A. on	B.round	C.out	D.away
10.What a lovely baby you have! He certaintly resembles you.
	A.likes	B.takes after	C.shapes	D.similar
11.My train was delayed for several hours because of an accident.
	A.kept up	B.held up	C.turned up	D.stood up
12.Nam as well as his colleagues often doesn’t arrive on time for the meeting.
	A.come across	B.hold up	C.get on	D.turn up
13.I hope you will soon recover from the death of your wife.
	A.win	B.take after	C.conquer	D.get over
14.They became excited and worried because the ______ of the match was 4-0.
	A.goal	B.score	C.mark	D.point
15.A(n) ____ is a country providing the necessary space or equipment, ect… for a special event.
	A.owner nation	B.participating nation	C.boss nation	D.host nation
16.You can ______ the new words in the dictionary.
	A.look into	B.look over	C look up	D.look for
17.I hope you will get ______ with the cold weather here.
 A.acquaintance B.acquaintant	C.acquainted	 D.acquainting
18.All the rooms have carpets, which are ________ in the price of the house.
	A.included	B.including	C.equipped	D.fitted
19.The shares are ________ to rise in value.
	A.like	B.liked	C.likely	D.liking
20.This company needs somone _______ in all branches of the business.
	A.accustomed	B.customary	C.experimented	D.experienced
21.When Pele retired, it was a great ________ to the brazillian soccer.
	A.lost	B.losing	C.lose	D.loss
22.My boss regrets _________ his secretary now that she is gone.
	A.denying	B.to refuse	C.to hire	D.firing
23.The doctor recommended _________ two meals a day.
	A.my sister eating	B.that my sister eats	C.that my sister eat	D. that my sister must eat
24. “ Do you still remember me?” - “ Yes”. He asked me if I still remembered him, and ________
	A.I did	B.I answered I had	C.I said I did	D.I said I would
25.Who is your favorite friend? - The man _________ the car.
	A.is washing	B.washing	C.to wash	D.has just washed
26.This is the purse of the girl _______ on the street last night.
 	A.was killed	B.killed	C.to be killing	D.was being killed
27.The men received commands from ________ one-eyed general.
	A.no word needed	B.an	C.a	D.very
28.Are we permitted _______ guests to the ceremony? I’d like to invite my friend to join _______ us.
	A.to bring / with	B.bringing / __ 	C.to bring / in	D.to bring / __
29.Had he followed my advice before, he ________ in danger now.
	A.weren’t	B.won’t be	C.wouldn’t be	D.wouldn’t have been
30.As soon as I graduate, I ________ to my home town.
	A.will return	B.return	C.have returned	D.will have returned
31.If you’re finding it difficult to ________ on your salary, why don’t you ask for a rise?
	A.experience	B.escape	C.reject	D.manage
32.I proposed ________ her but she didn’t agree.
	A.with	B.to	C.no word needed	D.on
33.You’d better extinguish your cigarette because smoking isn’t allowed in here.
	A.turn down	B.give up	C.put out	D.put aside
34.Don’t run away! I don’t want to borrow anything; I just want a quick word with you.
	A.hurry up	B.refuse	C.escape	D.deny
35.We had only a day to visit all the tourist _________.
	A.attractive	B.attractively	C.attractions	D.attracted
36.He is one of the best _______ in modern computers.
 A.specialize	 	B.specialist	 C.special	 	D.specialists
37.He works for an ________ agency.
	A.ads	B.advertising	C.advertised	D.advertiser
38.We’re selling these toys at a very ________ price.
	A.competed	B.competing	C.competition	D.competitive
39.In addition _________, I make coffee.
	A.cleaning	B.to doing cleaning	C.to the cleaning	D.to doing the cleaning
40.Don’t worry about the volcano .It’s been __________ for years.
	A.active	B.acting	C.inactive	D.reacting
ANSWER KEYS:
1B 	2C 	3B 	4C 	5C 	6A 	7C 	8D 	9B 	10B 	11B 	12D 	13D 	14B 	15D 	16C 	17C 	18A 	19C 	20D 	21D 	22D 	23C 	24C 	25B 	26B 	27C 	28D 	29C 	30A 	31D 	32B 	33C 	34C 	35C 	36D 	37B 	38D 	39D 	40C
Comparisons
I. Comparison of equality
1. Affirmative
 as + adj/adv + as (baèng/nhö)
Ex: - I’m as tall as Tom. (Toâi cao baèng Tom.)
- John works as hard as his father. (John laøm vieäc chaêm chæ nhö cha cuûa anh aáy.)
2. Negative
 not as/so + adj/adv + as (khoâng baèng/nhö)
Ex: - This watch is not as/so expensive as mine. (= my watch) (Ñoàng hoà naøy khoâng ñaét nhö cuûa toâi.)
- She does not sing as/so well as her sister. (Coâ aáy haùt khoâng hay baèng chò coâ aáy.)
II. Comparative of adj/ adv
1. Short adj/ adv
 adj/adv + ER + than
Tính töø/traïng töø ngaén laø töø coù moät vaàn hay hai vaàn taän cuøng baèng “y”: fast, cold, thick, lucky, happy .…
Ex: - John is stronger than his brother. (John khoeû hôn anh cuûa caäu aáy.)
- This athlete runs faster than that one. 
(Vaän ñoäng vieân naøy chaïy nhanh hôn vaän ñoäng vieân kia)
2. Long adj/ adv
 more + ad