Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Seeking a new life and hoping a significant (28) ___________ in their standard of living, foreign workers began flocking into Western Europe during the 1950s. In Britain, some of the first immigrants arriving from the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent were welcomed by brass bands, but the dream of a new life soon (29) _______ sour for many.
Attracted by the promise to earn good money and learn new skills, the reality they found was often one of low wages and, in many case, unemployment. Some did not adapt (30) _______ to life in a country of cold weather and discrimination. The (31) ________ of West Indian immigrants moved into the inner cities, areas that were already fraught with social tensions caused by poverty and poor housing. There were cases of open hostility towards the newcomers; riots (32) ________ out in Notting Hill, West London in 1958, when gangs of white youths began taunting immigrants.
Yet despite the numerous difficulties they encountered, many foreign workers did manage to adjust to their new conditions, settling in their new adopted country and prospering. Their contribution had the effect of not only speeding up the pace of economic change in the postwar period, but also transforming Western Europe into a multiracial society.
Điền vào ô 30
A. closely
B. easily
C. greatly
D. normally
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Kiến thức: Từ vựng
Giải thích:
closely (adv): gần gũi, thân mật easily (adv): dễ dàng
greatly (adv): rất nhiều normally (adv): thông thường
Some did not adapt (30) easily to life in a country of cold weather, cold welcomes and discrimination.
Tạm dịch: Một số người không dễ dàng thích nghi với cuộc sống ở một đất nước có thời tiết lạnh giá, với sự chào đón thờ ơ và phân biệt đối xử.
Chọn B
Dịch bài đọc:
Tìm kiếm một cuộc sống mới và hy vọng một sự thay đổi đáng kể trong mức sống của họ, những người lao động nước ngoài bắt đầu đổ xô vào Tây Âu trong những năm 1950. Ở Anh, một số người nhập cư đầu tiên đến từ Tây Ấn và tiểu lục địa Ấn Độ đã được chào đón bởi các ban nhạc kèn đồng, nhưng giấc mơ về một cuộc sống mới đã sớm trở nên chua chát đối với nhiều người.
Bị hấp dẫn bởi lời hứa hẹn rằng sẽ kiếm được nhiều tiền và học các kỹ năng mới, thực tế họ tìm thấy thường là nhận những mức lương thấp và, trong nhiều trường hợp, là thất nghiệp. Một số người không dễ dàng thích nghi với cuộc sống ở một đất nước có thời tiết lạnh giá, với sự chào đón thờ ơ và sự phân biệt đối xử. Phần lớn những người nhập cư từ Tây Ấn di chuyển vào các thành phố nội địa, những khu vực vốn đã đầy căng thẳng xã hội do nghèo đói và nhà ở tồi tàn. Có những trường hợp thù địch công khai đối với những người mới đến; Năm 1958, bạo loạn đã nổ ra ở Notting Hill, West London, khi các nhóm thanh niên da trắng bắt đầu chế giễu người nhập cư.
Tuy nhiên, bất chấp vô số khó khăn mà họ gặp phải, nhiều công nhân nước ngoài đã xoay sở để thích nghi với điều kiện mới của họ, định cư tại đất nước mới và thịnh vượng. Đóng góp của họ có tác dụng không chỉ thúc đẩy tốc độ thay đổi kinh tế trong thời kỳ hậu chiến, mà còn biến Tây Âu trở thành một xã hội đa chủng tộc.
People should _______ green lifestyle to help conserve the natural resources.
Would you mind _______ these plates a wipe before putting them in the cupboard?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Seeking a new life and hoping a significant (28) ___________ in their standard of living, foreign workers began flocking into Western Europe during the 1950s. In Britain, some of the first immigrants arriving from the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent were welcomed by brass bands, but the dream of a new life soon (29) _______ sour for many.
Attracted by the promise to earn good money and learn new skills, the reality they found was often one of low wages and, in many case, unemployment. Some did not adapt (30) _______ to life in a country of cold weather and discrimination. The (31) ________ of West Indian immigrants moved into the inner cities, areas that were already fraught with social tensions caused by poverty and poor housing. There were cases of open hostility towards the newcomers; riots (32) ________ out in Notting Hill, West London in 1958, when gangs of white youths began taunting immigrants.
Yet despite the numerous difficulties they encountered, many foreign workers did manage to adjust to their new conditions, settling in their new adopted country and prospering. Their contribution had the effect of not only speeding up the pace of economic change in the postwar period, but also transforming Western Europe into a multiracial society.
Điền vào ô 28
We are all too _______ of traditions in our modern world, but they can have a very strong impact on us.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Right after the boy got out of his house, it started to rain heavily.
Sometimes people just focus on the _______ benefits without thinking of the environmental risks of certain economic activities.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
The children were attracted by the show. It was performed by the animals.
__________, cars are widely used as the most popular mode of transport in the United States.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy – one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped or, as the case might be, bumped into concepts that adults that for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total.
Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers – the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects - is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table – is itself far from innate.
According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils, they _______.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following questions.
John and Jill are talking about Jill’s trip.
Jack: “How was your trip to Denmark?”
Jill: “_______. Everything was perfect.”
If he _______ ill yesterday, he would have taken part in the football match.
“Don’t _______ to phone Mrs. Whiteman. I’ve already talked to her about the upcoming meeting held by the board of directors.”, said Mary.
_______, the meeting stops now. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions later.
