Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 33 to 37.
Most adults struggle to recall events from their first few years of life and now scientists have identified exactly when these childhood memories are lost forever. A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take (33)___________around the age of seven.
The rapid decline of memories persisting while children are five and six is owing to the change in the way memories are formed.
Before the age of seven, children tend to have an (34) ___________form of recall with no sense of time and place in their memories. In older children, however, the early recollected events tend to be more adult like in their content and the way they are formed. Faster rate of forgetting in children and higher turnover of memories means early memories are less likely to survive. (35) ___________ , memories of younger children tend to lack autobiographical narrative leading to a process known as “retrieval induced forgetting” (36) ___________the action of remembering causes other information to be forgotten. Consequently, if childhood memories can survive into the ninth or tenth year of life, they may stay a chance of (37) ___________it into adulthood.
Đáp án C
A. affect (v): tác động
B. effective (a): có hiệu quả
C. effect (n): tác động/ hiệu ứng/ hiệu quả
D. effectively (adv): một each có hiệu quả
Câu hỏi về từ vựng và ngữ pháp. Chọn đáp án C vì cụm từ “take effect” là cụm kết hợp từ (collocation) và có nghĩa là: bắt đầu có tác dụng, tác động/ có hiệu lực/ ngoài ra, sau “take” cần có một danh từ làm tân ngữ, nên chỉ có thể chọn C - effect (n).
Trích bài: A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take effect around the age of seven.
Tạm dịch: Một nghiên cứu mới về hội chứng quên ở trẻ em đã cho thấy hội chứng này bắt đầu có tác động khi trẻ vào khoảng 7 tuổi.
While I was looking through my old albums the other day, I___________this photograph of my parents’ wedding.
In spite of the Indian lacked animals, they had the ability to cultivate plants suitable for daily use.
The commission estimates that at least seven companies took___________ of the program.
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 front 43 to 50.
Homeopathy, the alternative therapy created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, and now widely used all over the world, is based on the belief that the body can be stimulated to heal itself. A central principle of the “treatment” is that “like cures like”, meaning a substance that causes certain symptoms can also help to remove those symptoms. Medicines used in homeopathy are created by heavily diluting in water the substance in question and subsequently shaking the liquid vigorously. They can then be made into tablets and pills. Practitioners believe that the more a substance is diluted in this way, the greater its power to treat symptoms.
However, in a new study, a working committee of medical experts at Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has claimed that homeopathic medicines are only as effective as placebos at treating illness. Their research, involving the analysis of numerous reports from homeopathy interest groups and the public, concluded that there is no reliable evidence that homeopathy works. Moreover, researchers uncovered no fewer than 68 ailments that homeopathic remedies had failed to treat, including asthma, sleep disturbances, cold and flu, and arthritis.
As a result of the findings, the NHMRC is urging health workers to inform their patients to be wary of anecdotal evidence that appears to support the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine. “It isn’t possible to tell whether a health treatment is effective or not simply by considering the experience of one individual or the beliefs of a health practitioner” says the report. Experts believe that most illnesses said to have been cured by homeopathy would be cured by the body on its own without taking the medicine. Apparently, many illnesses are short-lived by their very nature which often leads to people believing that it is the homeopathy that cures them.
A more serious matter is highlighted by Professor John Dwyer of the University of New South Wales. As an immunologist, he is concerned about homeopathic vaccinations on offer for diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, none of which he considers effective. According to Professor John Dwyer, the concept that homeopathic vaccinations are just as good as traditional vaccinations is delusion, and those who believe it are failing to protect themselves and their children.
Which could be the best title for the passage?
The man was very brave. He___________, but he chose to stay and fight.
Visitors to the local museum are mostly attracted by___________ rocking chair.
Her parents are really strict. They rarely let her stay out late, ___________?
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
He was very tired. He agreed to help me with my homework.
The company has made an announcement that any application___________ in after 30th April shall not be considered.
After years of training hard, the athlete finally could___________ her ambition of winning an Olympic gold medal.