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 questions from 35 to 42.
In the early 1800s, to reach the jump-off point for the West, a family from the East of the United States could either buy a steamboat passage to Missouri for themselves, their wagons and their livestock or, as happened more often, simply pile everything into a wagon, hitch up a team, and begin their overland trek right in their front yard.
Along the macadamized roads and turnpikes east of the Missouri River, travel was comparatively fast, camping easy, and supplies plentiful. Then, in one river town or another, the neophyte emigrants would pause to lay in provisions. For outfitting purposes, the town of Independence had been preeminent ever since 1827, but the rising momentum of pioneer emigration had produced some rival jump-off points. Westport and Fort Leavenworth flourished a few miles upriver. St. Joseph had sprung up 55 miles to the northwest; in fact, emigrants who went to Missouri by riverboat could save four days on the trail by staying on the paddle wheelers to St. Joe before striking overland.
At whatever jump-off point they chose, the emigrants studied guide books and directions, asked questions of others as green as themselves, and made their final decision about outfitting. They had various, sometimes conflicting, options. For example, either pack animals or two -wheel carts or wagons could be used for the overland crossing. A family man usually chose the wagon. It was the costliest and slowest of the three, but it provided space and shelter for children and for a wife who likely as not was pregnant. Everybody knew that a top-heavy covered wagon might blow over in a prairie wind or be overturned by mountain rocks, that it might mire in river mud or sink to its hubs in desert sand, but maybe if those things happened on this trip, they would happen to someone else. Anyway, most pioneers, with their farm background, were used to wagons.
In paragraph 3, the phrase “those things” refers to...
A. the belongings of the pioneer
B. the problems of wagon travel
C. the types of transportation
D. the overland routes
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Chọn đáp án B
“Everybody knew that a top-heavy covered wagon might blow over in a prairie wind or be overturned by mountain rocks, that it might mire in river mud or sink to its hubs in desert sand, but maybe if those things happened on this trip, they would happen to someone else” (Mọi người đều biết rằng xe ngựa có mái che nặng phía trước có thể thổi bay trong một cơn gió hoặc bị lật đổ bởi những tảng đá núi, rằng nó có thể vấy bùn sông hoặc chìm trục bánh xe vào cát sa mạc, nhưng có lẽ nếu những điều đó xảy ra trong chuyến đi này thì sẽ xảy ra với người khác.)
Do đó: “those things” đề cập đến “the problems of wagon travel - các vấn đề của việc đi bằng xe ngựa”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Some manufacturers are not only (A) raising their prices (B) but also (C) decreasing the production of their products (D) as well.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Tom may get into hot water when driving at full speed after drinking wine.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Emissions from factories and exhaust fumes from vehicles can have detrimental effects on our health.
All candidates will be treated equally, _________ of their age or background.
It is not easy for many civil servants to _________on their salaries as the inflation rate is very high.
After two years of _________ the country’s economy is finally looking a lot healthier.
When my teacher was away on holiday, Mr Nam had to _________ her.
The cup will be on _________ at the clubhouse for a month before being sent to the museum.
- Hoa: “Would you mind closing the door?” - Hung: “ _________.”
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.
No one has sent me that letter.
