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.
Daniel Webster applied the oratorical skill he had mastered as a lawyer to heighten his appeal for an end to slavery.
A. retrieve
B. convey
C. popularize
D. intensify
Đáp án đúng là: D
Giải thích: heighten (v) nâng cao = intensify (v) tăng cường
Dịch: Daniel Webster đã áp dụng kỹ năng hùng biện mà anh đã thành thạo khi còn là một luật sư để nâng cao lời kêu gọi chấm dứt chế độ nô lệ.
Smiles and grimace (A) can be very effective (B) used in conversation, but more commonly (C), we do not tend (D) to think that nonverbal physical response may be communicating.
Those who don’t get their colleagues are sometimes isolated at their jobs.
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.
Launched by the federations and foundations, Group’s brands find local expression thorough the promotion of social solidarity and culture.
The lecture started. Right after that, I entered the lecture hall.
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.
Modern commercial practice relies to a growing extent on arbitration to handle the dispute.
Which of the followings has the closest meaning to the word “adsorbed” in the last paragraph?
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 from 46 to 50.
Left-handers are the odd ones out. Sure, lefties (46) up about 10 percent of the population - but, frankly, it seems like society has forgotten about them. Just consider all of the right-handed gadgets, awkwardly designed desks, and cooking tools that fit comfortably only in your right hand. What (47) someone to become a lefthander? Scientists aren’t exactly sure, but research points to a complex (48) between genes and environment. While no exact set of “leftie genes” have been discovered, people who dominantly use their left hands do have more left-handed family members. And researchers have found different brain wirings in righties vs. lefties. But no matter (49) it is that drives someone to use their antipodal paw, science has also uncovered a particular set of personality traits that left-handed people tend to have. So for all of you lefties, leftie-loving righties, and ambidextrous folks out there - it’s time to brush up on your left-handed knowledge and help (50) an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.
Left-handers are the odd ones out. Sure, lefties (46) up about 10 percent of the population - but, frankly
It is hard to linguists to draw the line between languages and dialects.
We all working with you. You are so dynamic.
Last night, a tornado swept through this village. It everything in its path.
Health (A) officials warn that (B) anyone who look (C) directly at the sun during an eclipse may put their sight at risk (D).
Foreign students who are doing (A) a decision about which (B) school to attend (C) may not know exactly where the choices (D) are located.