Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the best option for each of the blanks.
Why do people like to chew gum? Some people say they like the taste. ____24____ say they can think better if they chew gum. Some people chew it when they have some boring work to do. Others chew gum when they are nervous.
Gum is a ____25____ of things. For many years gum companies made gum from chicle. Chicle is a natural gum from a tree in Mexico and Central America. Now companies use plastic and rubber made from petroleum instead of chicle.
Gum must be soft ____26____ you can chew it. A softener keeps it soft. The gum company makes the softener from vegetable oil. A sweetener makes the gum sweet. The sweetener is usually sugar. Then the company adds the flavor.
Thomas Adams made the first gum from chicle in 1836. ____27____, chewing gum was not new. The Greeks chewed gum from a tree over 2,000 years ago. Mayan Indians in Mexico chewed chicle. Indians in the Northeastern United States taught Europeans to chew gum from a tree there.
People first made bubble gum in 1928. Children like to ____28____ bubble with bubble gum. Some university students do too
Điền câu 24
A. The other
B. Others
C. The others
D. Other
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Đáp án B
Phân biệt:
- the other: cái/người kia (còn lại trong hai cái/người) → đã xác định nên có mạo từ “the”
- the others: những cái/người kia (những cái/người còn lại trong một số lượng nhất định) → đã xác định nên có mạo từ “the”
- other: cái/người khác (không nằm trong số lượng nào cả) → không xác định nên không có mạo từ
- others: những cái/người khác (không nằm trong số lượng nào cả) → không xác định nên không có mạo từ
→ Chỗ trống cần một từ mang nghĩa số nhiều (không nằm trong số lượng nào cả) → dùng “others”
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It is essential that Alice ________ Tom of the meeting tomorrow
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Developments in micro technology-computers and telecommunication are bound to have a huge influence on various ________ of our lives.
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I wonder if you could ________ me a small favour, Tom?
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Any child has the right to an education ________ of sex, creed, race or nationality
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Offices, too, will go ________ with the result that paper will almost completely disappear
Choose the sentence that is similar in meaning to the given one:
Madeleine wears high heels to look taller
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If only we ________ more time, we could have seen more of the country
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They shifted economic priority from heavy industry to three major economic programmes, ________, production of food, production of consumer goods and production of exports.
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Ellen: “________?” – Tom: “He’s tall and thin with blue eyes.”
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That T.V is badly damaged. It cannot be repaired
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A: I had a really good weekend at my uncle’s.
B: “________”.
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There is a very clear relationship ________ education and academic success.
Choose the sentence that is similar in meaning to the given one:
Mike graduated with a good degree. However, he joined the ranks of the unemployed
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The crowd became increasingly angry at the long delay
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 43 to 50:
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of his surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before settle. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960’s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
