Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 41 to 45.
The Internet has truly transformed how students do theirhomework. (41) ____homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason. Rather than using books for research, students today are (42) ____ to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data available online. In the past, students were limited to their school’s (43) ____ of books. In many cases, they got to theschool library and found out that someone had already taken the books they needed. Nowadays, such inconvenience can be avoided since the Internet never runs out of information. Students, however, do have to (44) ____ sure that the information they find online is true. Teachers have also benefited from the homework which is done on the Internet. They do not need to carry students’ papers around with them any more. This is because online (45) ____ allow students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark. Of course, this also means that students can no longer use the excuse that the dog ate their homework!
Kiến thức: Liên từ
Giải thích:
But: nhưng
For = Because: bởi vì
While: trong khi (thể hiện sự tương phản giữa hai mệnh đề)
(45) _____homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason.
Tạm dịch: Trong khi việc làm bài tập ngày nay vẫn có nghĩa là dành thời gian ở thư viện, nhưng là vì một lý do khác hẳn.
Chọn C
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 21 to 25.
Located in central Africa, Lake Victoria is a very unusual lake. __(21)__ of the largest lakes in the world; it is also one of the youngest. Estimated to be about 15,000 years old, it is a relative baby compared with Earth’s other very large lakes, __(22)__ more than two million years old. Yet judging by the variety of life in it, Lake Victoria __(23)__ a much older body of water. Usually, lakes need a much longer time __(24)__ by a diverse array of life-forms. It is common for new lakes to contain only a small number of species. Lake Victoria, however, is packed with colorful fish, most notably, cichlids. There are __(25)__ 500 different species of just this one type of fish.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy, (31) ___ historically revolves around extended trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one (32) ___ The Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on exports , refining, imported goods, especially in manufacturing.
Manufacturing constituted 26 (33)____ of Singapore’s GDP in 2005. The manufacturing industry is well-diversified into electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, (34)___ engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10 percent of the world’s foundry water output. Singapore is the busiest port in the world in terms of tonnage shipped. Singapore is the world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City (35)_____ Tokyo