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Sửa: comfortable -> comforting
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Comforting: có thể làm dịu, an ủi
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 26 to 30.
Spectacular, played today on all kinds of surfaces by tens of millions of people, for fun or in competition, tennis has spread (26) ______ over the world. Designed and codified in England in the 1870s, it is the direct descendant of jeu de paume, invented in France in the 11th century. The developments of this mediaeval (27) ______ , originally practised with bare hands, like the invention of the racket in the 16th century and the special scoring system (15, 30, 40, game), led directly to tennis, (28) ______ its name, from the French word “tenez!” (in the sense of “here it comes!”), which you said to your opponent as you were about to serve.
The popularity of tennis in England quickly (29) ______ that of croquet. Indeed, barely three years passed between the publication of A Portable Court of Playing Tennis by Welsh Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874, the defining work in terms of codifying lawn tennis, and the holding of the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877. The decisive element introduced by Wingfield was the use of a rubber ball, (30) ______ could bounce on grass.
(Adapted from https://www.olympic.org/)
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.
Van Cliburn studies piano from 1951 to 1954 and won multiple awards between 1958 and 1960.
He wasn't aware that only one mistake could________his chances of getting the job.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Let’s begin our discussion now, ___________?
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.
The forces behind the women's liberation movement vary from culture to culture.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
John's decision to drop out of university to go to a vocational school drove his mother up the wall. She thought that it is really a stupid decision.
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
I haven’t stayed in a hotel for years.
