English test! help me pleaz!!!

Em ơi, em hỏi hơi bị thừa rồi , chúng không có sự khác biệt nào hết
- boast of/about sth: to talk about one''s own achievements, abilities, etc with too much pride and satisfaction
ex: She boasted of her skill at chess.
Parents enjoy boasting about their children''s achievements.
- certain of/about sth: firmly believing sth; completely sure
ex: He was quite certain about/of his attacker''s identity.

Please check the answers for me.
5. õ?ƯAfterõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưbeing questionedõ?Ưõ?Ưbyõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưthe police, she was releasedõ?Ưwithoutõ?Ưõ?Ư..charge.
6. Her fatherõ?Ts illness cost a cloudõ?Ưõ?Ưoverõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư..her wedding day.
A doctor who worked in a village was very (1)õ?Ưangryõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư.. because many people used to stop him in the street and asked his (2)õ?Ưadviceõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư . In this (3)õ?Ưwayõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư.. he was never (4)õ?Ưpaidõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư for his services, and he never managed to earn much money. He made (5)õ?Ưupõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưhis mind to put an (6)õ?Ưendõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư. to this. One day, he was (7)õ?Ưstoppedõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư by a young man who said to him õ?oOh doctor, Iõ?Tm so glad to see you. Iõ?Tve got a (8)õ?Ưterribleõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư pain in my left sideõ? The doctor (9)õ?Ưpretendedõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư to be interested and said õ?o Shut your eyes and stick your tongue (10)õ?Ưoutõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưof your mouthõ?. Then he went away, leaving the man standing in the street (11)õ?Ưwithõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư.. his tongue hanging out and a large (12)õ?Ưõ?Ưcrowdõ?Ưõ?Ư . of people laughing at him.
I know a boy __called__ Michael who has a remarkable talent. He knows an incredible amount __of__ football teams and football leagues. He can recite the names of the players, tell you the __result__ of every match __during__ last weekend and who __scored__ the goals, and can give you the history of any football club you care to name.
__What__ I find the most extraordinary of all is that he is as knowledgeable about Spanish and German football as he is about English. He spends a great amount of time going __through__ football magazines and the sports pages of newspapers. He is quite and __keen__ on football. __But__ he does not play the game himself and __hardly__ goes very occasionally to a match.
8. There must be a good explanation for his absence.
I''''mõ?Ư.
I''m sure there is a good explanation for his absence.
The country is more beautiful than __the__ town and pleasanter (lỏĐn 'ỏĐu tiên thỏƠy pleasanter?_?) to live __in__. Many people think __of__ and go to the country __for/on (có gơ khĂc giỏằa on và for holiday không nhỏằ??)__ the summer holidays __but__ they cannot live __there__ all the year round. Some have a cottage __built__ in the village so that they can go there whenever they can __arrange__ the time.
English villages are not all alike, but __in__ some ways they are not very __different__ from each other. Most villages are so __similar__ to some small town that people can go there to buy __what/everything__ they can''''t find in the village shops.

1 câu nữa:
. Before I arrived it had been raining for a week but on Sunday the sun shone for the first time.
Can I use had rained instead?

- I think you can. HAD BEEN RAINING emphasizes the continuous rain (see FOR THE FIRST TIME? That makes "for a week" sound like "suốt tuần").
As I haven''t understood this sentence, I consulted one more friend . Here is what he said:
Before I arrived it had been raining for a week but on Sunday the sun shone for the first time.
Can I use had rained instead?
ban toi: no
ban toi: dung rained la` sai
lifelearner_1: had rained co duoc khong?
ban toi: no
ban toi: phai la` had been raining
ban toi: tai trong cau ddo'' no'' so sa''nh 2 thoi diem
lifelearner_1: nhung tai sao phai la had been raining
lifelearner_1: mua da ngung roi co ma
ban toi: troi no''i roi
ban toi: trong cau ddo'' no'' so sa''nh 2 thoi diem
ban toi: thoi diem, truoc khi toi den, troi da mua, mua cho den luc tui arrived
ban toi: sau ddo'' thi no'' ngung
ban toi: phai dung past perect continuous
ban toi: de dien ta mot su viec xay ra trong qua'' khu va ket thuc trong qua'' khu
ban toi: nhung ko co'' thoi gian ro rang
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