tailieunhanh - Book grammar for IELTS part 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'book grammar for ielts part 4', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Past tenses 2 Fill in the gaps with a verb from the box in the past simple past perfect simple or past perfect continuous tense. Use each verb once. be buy decide develop discuss feel like make phone run start stay take visit wait work- 1 She .as a waitress for five years when he met her. 2 The the time they got there. 3 In the supermarket the ingredients he needed and then went home to make her birthday cake. 4 Holly did very well in her exam which was a shock because she. never an exam before. 5 They went on a big tour of Britain. First London for a few days. Then York and Edinburgh and then Bath. Bath before but so much that go back again. 6 Scientists announced the launch of the new drug last week. for five years. 7 By the time I got to the meeting they. already the important issues and big decisions without me. my mobile to tell them the train was late and that they . not for me. 8 I looked terrible when I saw Joe last night because over an hour and I was exhausted. 33 D Test practice Academic Reading Questions 1-12 Read the passage below and answer Questions 1-12. The history of the biro A One chilly autumn morning in 1945 five thousand shoppers crowded the pavements outside Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The day before Gimbels had taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement in the New York Times announcing the sale of the first ballpoint pens in the United States. The new writing instrument was heralded as fantastic. miraculous. guaranteed to write for two years without refilling Within six hours Gimbels had sold its entire stock of ten thousand ballpoints at each - approximately 130 at today s prices. B In fact this new pen was not new after all and was just the latest development in a long search for the best way to deliver ink to paper. In 1884 Lewis Waterman had patented the fountain pen giving him the sole rights to manufacture .