UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE I. Complete the following sentences by filling in each blank with an appropriate relative pronoun. 1. I was invited by the girl ________ I met at Ethel’s birthday party. 2. We went to the restaurant ________ Jane recommended to us. 3. These walls are all ________ remain of the city. 4. We received an offer of 80,000 USD for the house, ________ we accepted. 5. The man _______ wife you met lives next door. 6. Is there anything ________ I can do to help? 7. One of the people _____ were arrested was Mary. 8. The professor _______ I talked to didn’t know the answer to my question. 9. A child ________ mother loves him or her will grow up with confidence. 10. Many people just couldn’t keep promises _________ require a lot of effort to fulfill. II. Combine the two sentences, using a relative pronoun. Decide whether the relative clause needs commas. 1. A person should visit Paris. That person wishes to have a spectacular view. → 2. Adam Wilkinson is the mayor of the city in the 70s. His family is politically active. → 3. A car can be expensive. It has all the latest improvement. → 4. The Volkswagen is cute. It looks like a bug. → 5. The President is supposed to provide leadership. He is a symbol of dignity. → 6. English is the language used in aviation. It is spoken around the world. → 7. I can’t find my book anywhere. My friend asked me to lend it to him. → 8. That pretty woman has married three times. She is wearing a big red hat. → 9. I like the TV program about a funny guy. His brother taped his mouth shut to stop him from snoring. → 10. My friend didn’t make it to the movie on time. It disappointed me → III. Find and correct the mistakes in the following sentences if necessary. 1. This is my brother, who’s wife is French. 2. The woman whose daughter was crying tried to calm her. 3. He didn’t wait at the traffic lights who were red. 4. Samuel Johnson who was born in 1709 was the son of a bookseller. 5. I don’t like people talk too much. 6. My only brother, who lives in Sydney, came to see me last month. 7. The shoes whom I bought yesterday are very comfortable. 8. Do you know the girl which I danced with? 9. The apples that we bought in the shop are bad. 10. That’s the car whose brakes are being repaired. IV. Fill in the blank with the suitable words : Security facsimile advanced transmission polite recipient delivered surface subscribers transfer 1. The organization is mainly concerned with the preservation of peace and international___________. 2. Those telephone companies have launched major campaigns to increase their number of ___________. 3. A word which has synonym meaning with courteous is _____________. 4. Fax __________ has now become a cheap and convenient way to transmit texts over distances. 5. There are three different ways of sending a letter: air mail, ________ mail and Express Mail Service. 6. Thanh Ba Post Office is equipped with _________ technology. 7. What will you have to do to if you want to get your newspaper and magazines ________ to your house? 8. Messenger Call Service is used for notifying the __________ of the time and place to receive the call. 9. If you want to send a document and do not want to lose its original shape, our ________ service will help you. 10. Express Money ________ is the service you can use if you want to send money to your relatives who live far away from you. V. Choose from the four given options marked A, B, C and D one best answer to complete each sentence by circling the responding letter A, B, C or D: 1. This hotel has got a very …………… kitchen. A. spacious B. space C. spaceship D. spacing 2. A ………………………is someone who sells meat A. baker B. butcher C. chemist D. shopkeeper 3. A person who sells flowers is called a ……………. A. florist B. farmer C. vegetarian D. biologist 4. We call a man who delivers the mail a ……………………… A. newsman B. mailbox C. mailman D. officers 5. We’d like to buy the house……………… overlooks West Lake. A. who B. whose C. where D. which 6. The woman…………………daughter Jack loves is very kind. A. whose B. who C. whom D. which 7. The letter………………. she received this morning is from the USA. A. whose B. who C. whom D. which 8. I don’t know the girl………………….is wearing a long blue dress. A. whom B. whose C. which D. who 9. Would you mind…………………… this parcel to Mr. Brown, please? A. send B. sending C. to send D. sent 10. I would like to have my mails and newspapers……………… early in the morning. A. deliver B. delivery C. delivered D. to deliver VI. Read the passage and answer the following questions: When you have a post-office box, the postman does not bring letters to you , but you go to the post- office and get your letters and parcels from your box. The box is locked , and you have the key, so the letters are quite safe. One day, the head teacher of a school wrote to the post-office and asks for a post-office box for his school. He soon got an answer. It said, “We will give you a post-office in one month” Three months later, the head teacher wrote to the post-office again and said,” Why haven’t we got a pot-office yet?”. This was how the post-office answered: “ Dear Sir, We gave you a post-office box 2 months ago and wrote to you then to tell you. Here is the key to your box. You will find our letter to you in it” 1. What happens when you have a post-office box? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. Why are letters safe when they are in a post-office box? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. Why did the headmaster write to the post-office? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. Why did he write to the post-office 3 months later? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5. When do you think the headmaster will receive the key to his post-box? ………………………………… . UNIT 9: THE POST OFFICE I. Complete the following sentences by filling in each. 8. The professor _______ I talked to didn’t know the answer to my question. 9. A child ________ mother loves him or her will grow up with confidence. 10.