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 question below.
Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at night but can’t find the energy to get out of bed (35) ________ for school? According to a new report, today’s generation of children are in danger of getting so (36)_______ sleep that they are putting their mental and physical health at (37)_______. Adults can easily survive on seven to eight hours’ sleep a night, (38)_______teenagers require nine or ten hours. According to medical experts, one in five youngsters (39)________ anything between two and five hours’ sleep a night less than their parents did at their age. This (40) _____ serious questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s ability to concentrate at school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in memory, impaired reaction time and poor concentration is well (41) _______. Research has shown that losing as little as half an hour’s sleep a night can have profound effects (42) ______how children perform the next day. A good night’s sleep is also crucial for teenagers because it is while they are asleep (43)______ they release a hormone that is essential for their ‘growth spurt’ (the period during teenage years when the body grows at a rapid rate). It’s true that they can, to some (44) ______, catch up on sleep at weekends, but that won’t help them when they are dropping off to sleep in class on a Friday afternoon. By Tim Falla and Paul A.Davies, Solutions Advanced. OUP
Điền vào ô 37
A. jeopardy
B. threat
C. risk
D. Danger
Đáp án : C
In jeopardy: lâm nguy
At risk : nguy hiểm
=) C
Peter was born and brought up in Hastings and knows it like ____________.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
Cable (A) television companies (B) recently announced that (C)it will increase (D) services charges next year
Luckily I ______ a new pair of sunglasses as I found mine at the bottom of a bag.
English is used by pilots to ask for landing ____________ in Cairo.
They couldn’t help ____________when they heard the little boy singing a love song.
Could you please turn off the stove? The potatoes____________ for at least twenty minutes
Before the invention of the steamboat, there ____________ no way to cross the ocean.
Many small birds use new sites for each nesting, ____________ large birds often reuse the same nest
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions
The company empowered her to declare their support for the new event. As a matter of fact, she now has more power to do what she wants than ever before.
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(A)Neither John (B) nor his family members (C) enjoys their life (D)in the city
____________ of economic cycles been helpful in predicting turning points in cycles, they would have been used more consistently.
The man whom you____________on the bus yesterday is my father.
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(A)More than 180 countries (B) have Red Cross organizations (C)that some (D)are called by different names.