Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
WILLIAM THE HERO!
Brave William Baldock, who is six years old, is a hero after helping his mother when she fell downstairs. William quickly rang for an ambulance when he discovered his mother had broken her leg. In spite of being frightened, he (23) ________ the emergency services what had happened and answered all the questions they asked him. He also telephoned his father at work, and then his grandmother, to explain what he had (24) _________. While waiting for these people to come, William looked after his 18-month-old sister. When ambulance man Steve Lyn went to the house, he was amazed. 'It's great that a young boy of six knew the right number to dial, and was able to give us the correct information. (25) ________ of William's quick thinking, we were able to (26) ________ there immediately." Mrs. Baldock left hospital yesterday, very (27) ________ to both William and the ambulance service.
Điền vào ô 27
A. greatful
B. happy
C. agreeable
D. Approving |
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Một số lượng lớn các phát minh phải trải qua nhiều năm khó khăn nghiên cứu và phát triển trước khi chúng được hoàn thiện. Ví dụ, Thomas Edison đã phải thực hiện hơn 1.000 nỗ lực để phát minh ra bóng đèn sợi đốt để dẫn tới thành công. Lịch sử có rất nhiều câu chuyện của những con người đầy nghị lực khác, vấp ngã, thất bại nhiều lần trước khi họ thành công. Tuy nhiên, một số phát minh thì không phải trải qua những giai đoạn khó khăn, mà chỉ đơn giản là do tai nạn tạo ra.
Trong hầu hết các trường hợp đó, khi nhà phát minh vô tình phát minh ra thứ gì đó, thực ra họ đã cố tạo ra thứ gì đó khác. Ví dụ, trong những năm 1930, nhà hóa học Roy Plunkett đã cố gắng tạo ra một chất mới có thể được sử dụng để làm lạnh các vật phẩm. Ông trộn lẫn một số hóa chất với nhau. Sau đó, ông đặt chúng vào một bình chứa áp lực và làm mát hỗn hợp. Vào thời điểm thí nghiệm của ông ấy hoàn tất, ông ấy đã có một phát minh mới. Nó không phải là một chất mới có thể được sử dụng để làm lạnh. Thay vào đó, ông đã phát minh ra Teflon, ngày nay được sử dụng phổ biến nhất để sản xuất chảo và chảo không dính. Tương tự như vậy, nhiều thập kỷ trước đó, John Pemberton là một dược sĩ ở Atlanta, Georgia. Anh đang cố gắng tạo ra một loại thuốc bổ mà mọi người có thể sử dụng bất cứ khi nào họ bị đau đầu. Trong khi anh không thành công trong nỗ lực đó, anh đã xoay xở để phát minh ra Coca-Cola, loại nước ngọt có ga nổi tiếng thế giới.
Các nhà khoa học cũng đã vô tình khám phá ra những phát hiện quan trọng khi họ tiến hành các thí nghiệm. Năm 1928, Alexander Fleming phát hiện penicillin, một loại kháng sinh, theo cách này. Ông đã phát hiện một số nấm mốc đang phát triển trong một món ăn với một số vi khuẩn. Ông nhận thấy rằng vi khuẩn dường như tránh nấm mốc. Khi ông điều tra thêm, ông đã xác định một số tính chất hữu ích của penicillin, đã cứu hàng triệu mạng sống trong vài thập kỷ qua. Tương tự như vậy, vào năm 1946, nhà khoa học Percy Spencer đã tiến hành một thí nghiệm với vi sóng. Anh ta có một thanh kẹo trong túi, và anh nhận thấy nó đột nhiên tan chảy. Anh ta điều tra và tìm hiểu lý do tại sao điều đó lại xảy ra. Ngay sau đó, ông đã chế tạo một thiết bị có thể sử dụng vi sóng để hâm nóng thức ăn.
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.
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.
When posed with a complicated mathematical equation, some students seek the assistance of a teacher.
She worked here for a while then _________ afternoon she just quit and left.
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.
The University of Kentucky has held this prestigious title until 1989, when it was granted to the University of Georgia.
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 questions.
A large number of inventions require years of arduous research and development before they are perfected. For instance, Thomas Edison had to make more than 1,000 attempts to invent the incandescent light bulb before he finally succeeded. History is replete with numerous other examples of people trying, yet failing to make inventions before they eventually succeeded. Yet some inventions have come about not through hard work but simply by accident.
In most cases, when someone unintentionally invented something, the inventor was attempting to create something else. For example, in the 1930s, chemist Roy Plunkett was attempting to make a new substance that could be used to refrigerate items. He mixed some chemicals together. Then, he put them into a pressurized container and cooled the mixture. By the time his experiment was complete, he had a new invention. It was not a new substance that could be used for refrigeration though. Instead, he had invented Teflon, which is today most commonly used to make nonstick pots and pans. Similarly, decades earlier, John Pemberton was a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia. He was attempting to create a tonic that people could use whenever they had headaches. While he was not successful in that endeavor, he managed to invent Coca -Cola, the world - famous carbonated soft drink.
Scientists have also made crucial discoveries by accident when they were conducting experiments. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, an antibiotic, in this manner. He discovered some mold growing in a dish with some bacteria. He noticed that the bacteria seemed to be avoiding the mold. When he investigated further, he determined some of the many useful properties of penicillin, which has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Likewise, in 1946, scientist Percy Spencer was conducting an experiment with microwaves. He had a candy bar in his pocket, and he noticed that it suddenly melted. He investigated and learned the reason why that had happened. Soon afterward, he built a device that could utilize microwaves to heat food. the microwave oven.
In paragraph 1, the word arduous is closest in meaning to _______.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Read the folBrave William Baldock, who is six years old, is a hero after helping his mother when she fell downstairs. William quickly rang for an ambulance when he discovered his mother had broken her leg. In spite of being frightened, he (23) ________ the emergency services what had happened and answered all the questions they asked him. He also telephoned his father at work, and then his grandmother, to explain what he had (24) _________. While waiting for these people to come, William looked after his 18-month-old sister. When ambulance man Steve Lyn went to the house, he was amazed. 'It's great that a young boy of six knew the right number to dial, and was able to give us the correct information. (25) ________ of William's quick thinking, we were able to (26) ________ there immediately." Mrs. Baldock left hospital yesterday, very (27) ________ to both William and the ambulance service.
Điền vào ô 26
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.
How is the news different from entertainment? Most people would answer that news is real but entertainment is fiction. However, if we think more carefully about the news, it becomes clear that the news is not always real. The news does not show us all the events of the day, but stories from a small number of chosen events. The creation of news stories is subject to specific constraints, much like the creation of works of fiction. There are many constraints, but three of the most important ones are. commercialism, story formulas, and sources. Newspapers, radio, and TV stations are businesses, all of which are rivals for audiences and advertising revenue. The amount of time that the average TV station spends on news broadcasts has grown steadily over the last fifty years - largely because news is relatively cheap to produce, yet sells plenty of advertising. Some news broadcasts are themselves becoming advertisements. For example, during one week in 1996 when the American CBS network was airing a movie about the sinking of the Titanic, CBS news ran nine stories about that event (which had happened 84 years before). The ABC network is owned by Disney Studios, and frequently runs news stories about Mickey Mouse. Furthermore, the profit motive drives news organizations to pay more attention to stories likely to generate a large audience, and to shy away from stories that may be important but dull. This pressure to be entertaining has produced shorter, simpler stories. more focus on celebrities than people of substance, more focus on gossip than on news, and more focus on dramatic events than on nuanced issues.
As busy people under relentless pressure to produce, journalists cannot spend days agonizing over the best way to present stories. Instead, they depend upon certain story formulas, which they can reuse again and again. One example is known as the inverted pyramid. In this formula, the journalist puts the most important information at the beginning of the story, than adds the next most important, and so on. The inverted pyramid originates from the age of the telegraph, the idea being that if the line went dead halfway through the story, the journalist would know that the most crucial information had at least been relayed. Modern journalists still value the formula for a similar reason. Their editors will cut stories if they are too long. Another formula involves reducing a complicated story into a simple conflict. The best example is "horse race" election coverage. Thorough explication of the issues and the candidates' views is forbiddingly complex. Journalists therefore concentrate more on who is winning in the opinion polls, and whether the underdog can catch up in the numbers than on politicians' campaign goals.
Sources are another constraint on what journalists cover and how they cover it. The dominant sources for news are public information officers in businesses and government offices. The majority of such officers try to establish themselves as experts who are qualified to feed information to journalists. How do journalists know who is an expert? In general, they don't. They use sources not on the basis of actual expertise, but on the appearance of expertise and the willingness to share it. All the major news organizations use some of the same sources (many of them anonymous), so the same types of stories always receive attention. Over time, the journalists may even become close friends with their sources, and they stop searching for alternative points of view. The result tends to be narrow, homogenized coverage of the same kind.
According to paragraph 3, an advantage of the inverted pyramid formula for journalists is that _________.
Peter and Mary are friends. They have just finished lunch in a restaurant.
Mary. The food is great. I'll get the bill.
Peter. _________.
It is said that a drizzle on the Phap Van - Cau Gie Expressway caused poor______ and slippery road surface, leading to the vehicles, traveling at high speed, unable to respond safely.
