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 32to 38.
In the 20 th century, magazines have been a major growth area of popular publishing. Specialist magazines cater to every imaginable field and activity. In the United Kingdom, over 12,000 periodicals, magazines, bulletins, annuals, trade journals, and academic journals are published on a regular basis. There are some 40 women‘s magazines and over 60 dealing with particular sports games, hobbies, and pastimes. Although some US magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, has succumbed to the circulations, The Reader‘s Digest over 16 million, the National Geographic over 10 million. For many people, magazines have been the most available and widely used form of continuing education, providing information about history, geography, literature, science, and the arts, and as well as guidance on gardening, cooking, home decorating, financial management, psychology, even marriage and family life.
Until the rise of television, magazines were the most available form of cheap, convenient entertainment in the English-speaking world. Radio served a similar function, but it was more limited in what it could do. Magazines and television, however, both address the more powerful visual sense. During the third quarter of the 20 thcentury, coincident with a dramatic rise in the popularity of television, many generalinterest, especially illustrated magazines went out of business. The shift in attention of a mass audience from reading such magazines to watching television has been a major factor in this decline, but it is an implicit tribute to the older genre that its programs are generally organized i n a single format and content.
The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to …………..
A. television
B. publishing
C. entertainment
D. radio
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Đáp án D
it = radio. Trong câu: Radio served a similar function, but it was more limited in what it could do.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
We last went abroad a long time ago.
With ………….. 5,000 tigers remaining in the world today, time is quickly running out for this beautiful animal.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
He didn‘t study enough for his exams, so he failed two of them.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
As it got darker, we had more difficulty seeing.
………………. films about writers are so dull is that writers don‘t dress up to practice their craft.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
We had to go up the stairs because someone was using the lift.
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.
As you ……………. , the technology on the inside matches the brilliance of the exterior.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
A conference was held in Geneva, laying down rules for the treatment and protection of the wounded and the disaster-stricken.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
The Olympic Games impressed sports enthusiasts with its spirit: solidarity, cooperation for peace and development.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
The camp on the inhospitable, mosquito-infested banks of the River Sekonyer, was set up to track the primates and learn from their habitat, diet and behavior.
You can‘t just bury your________ in the sand and hope that this problem goes away.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks from 5 to 10.
Phobias
The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people (5) ……….. everyday situations. It is important to distinguish between a fear and a phobia. It‘s (6) ……….. usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example, being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of us actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begins to (7) ……….. you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (8) ……….. treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most common phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (9) ……….. means fear of the marketplace‘ but we apply to today to describe a distressing (10) ……….. in which people (12) avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Help and supports are rapidly sent to wherever there are victims of catastrophe.
