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.
Research has shown that sending young offenders to prison can be counterproductive.
A. achieving good results
B. achieving bad results
C. achieving unfortunate results
D. achieving indirect result
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Đáp án A.
Tạm dịch: Nghiên cứu đã chỉ ra rằng cho những tội phạm trẻ đi tù có thể ___________.
Ta có thể suy luận được ý của tác giả là việc cho tội phạm trẻ đi tù chưa chắc đã đem lại kết quả tốt
=> đáp án đúng là A. achieving good results (đề bài yêu cầu tìm đáp án trái nghĩa).
Hoặc nếu các bạn biết nghĩa hai từ sau thì chắc chắn các bạn có thể suy luận được đáp án đúng là A.
- productive (adj): hiệu quả.
Ex: Most of US are more productive in the morning.
- counter (adv): theo hướng ngược lại.
Ex: The government's plans run counter to agreed European policy on this issue: Kế hoạch của chính phủ đi ngược lại chính sách đã được nhất trí ở Châu Âu về vấn đề này.
- counterproductive (adj): mang lại hiệu quả trái chiều.
Ex: Increases in taxation would be counterproductive.
MEMORIZE
Tiền tố “counter”: mang nghĩa trái với từ gốc
- counteract (v): chống lại, làm mất tác dụng
- counter-argument (n): tranh luận trái chiều
- counterattack (n): cuộc phản công
- counterclockwise (adj): ngược chiều kim đồng hồ
- counterproductive (adj): mang lại hiệu quả trái chiều
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 ofprimary stress in each of the following questions
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 that differs from the other three in the position ofprimary stress 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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was at school, sports day was the highlight of the year. Let me set the scene. First of all, on sports day, it was always bound (26) ___________ rain. Sunny weather? No such luck. Despite the previous two months of soaring temperatures, as likely as not, on the morning of the games, The temperature would plummet. So, imagine a hundred (27) ___________ small children, dressed in tight shorts and thin vests, shivering in the cold, unaware of the heartbreak that lies in store for them. Swept up by the excitement and desperate to win, tempers soon get frayed. One girl finds herself disqualified from the egg and spoon race despite giving it everything she’s got, and another boy, (28)_____ jealous of the winner of the sack race, makes the mistake of being rude to him within earshot of the teachers. Scores of tiny children, bitterly disappointed at tasting defeat for the first time, break down and cry. Twenty years on, I’m certainly not (29) ___________ any young, but I do have some really lasting (30) _______ of those days at school!
Điền vào ô số 28
I’d rather you__________a noise last night; I couldn’t get to sleep.
_________ in all parts of the state, pines are the most common trees in Georgia.
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.
People say that the tulip originated from Constantinople.
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 underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
One of the features of London is the number of big stores, most of them are to be found in or near the West End
Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources___________.
Olga and her mother are standing on the balcony on a wet day.
Mother: “Oh, how I hate this weather!”
Olga: “ __________ ”
