II. Language

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The high-speed train link is responsible for one of the biggest urban regeneration projects in the area.

1. city
2. rural
3. countryside
4. remote

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A (An)   is someone who develops plans and programs for the use of land. They use planning to create communities, accommodate growth, or revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

1. architect
2. engineer
3. urban planner
4. land planner

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Oil, natural gas, and coal are  ___  fuels.

1. renewable
2. non-renewable
3. new
4. alternative

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We are at different stages in this development, and it is important not to become              over this.

1. optimistic
2. optimist
3. pessimistic
4. pessimist

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The city has been gradually expanding the paths and has been promoting itself as a walkable and              ..................community.

1. live
2. alive
3. living
4. livable

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By providing a variety of options, she believed each inhabitant can use the town as he/she wishes.

1. resident
2. worker
3. farmer
4. president

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If you want to raise rents, you have to the housing first.

1. detect
2. upgrade
3. demolish
4. build

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When we know our background and history, then we will also be able to build a (an)   _____ future.

1. over-crowded
2. difficult
3. sustainable
4. renewable

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The  ______ has been destroyed: roads, hospitals, universities, nurseries, schools, businesses.

1. buildings
2. material
3. condition
4. infrastructure

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If income remains significant, we either have not discovered the correct mechanism, or income may not be a simple indicator.

1. exploited
2. detected  
3. looked
4. searched

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We will need new technologies to generate energy and use it in clean and safe ways, only from fully ______ sources.

1. replaced
2. controlled
3. renewable
4. endurable

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Copenhagen has been voted the most ______ city in the world several times.

1. ecological friendly
2. ecologically soundly
3. eco-friendly
4. friendly ecologically

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As we move toward 2050, we are facing the consequences of _____ urbanization and population growth.

1. promoting
2. improving
3. moving
4. accelerating

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New York has invested substantially in improving the ______ of its waterways in recent years.

1. quality
2. quantity
3. level
4. feature 

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China has already been experimenting with ways to make its cities more ______ for the last two decades.

1. sustain
2. sustainable
3. survival
4. available

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Vancouver is often considered to be one of the most ______ cities in the world. 

1. fit
2. liveable
3. endurable
4. suitable

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Telecommunications and cloud computing will ______ transportation for moving ideas and intellectual property.

1. change
2. replace
3. remove
4. eliminate

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By 2050, seven out of every 10 people on Earth will be a(n) ______ .

1. shelter
2. urban residence
3. city developer
4. city dweller

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Since 2007, Boston police have been using Shotspotter, a system that allows them to _____ the location of shots fired immediately.

1. detect
2. select
3. collect
4. realize

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_______ structure in Ha Noi will be change with the development of satellite areas.

1. City
2. Downtown
3. Urban
4. Town

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The garden looks _____ since you tidied it up.

1. better
2. well
3. more good
4. more well

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Your English is improving. It is getting ______.

1. well
2. good
3. much well
4. clearly

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He seemed to be a bit _____ today.

1. badly
2. awfully
3. strangely
4. strange

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The fish tastes _____, I won’t eat it.

1. awful
2. awfully
3. more awfully
4. as awful

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He did not come and she looked rather _____.

1. worry
2. worrying
3. worrier
4. worried

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The chef tasted the meat _____ before presenting it to the President.

1. cautious
2. more cautious
3. cautiously
4. much cautiously

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I’ll feel _____ when my exams are over.

1. happily
2. more happily
3. happy
4. happier

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Although the dish smelt _____, he refused to eat saying that he was not hungry.

1. bad
2. good
3. well
4. worse

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The situation looks _______. We must do something.

1. good
2. well
3. bad
4. badly

Decide whether the bold part in each of the following sentences is an “action verb” or a “linking verb”.

July is smelling the soup her mother has just made.

1. action verb
2. linking verb