(32) ______, working there was a great experience which I will never forget.
A. By contrast
Kiến thức: Liên từ
Giải thích:
A. By contrast: Ngược lại B. However: Tuy nhiên
C. Moreover: Hơn thế nữa D. On the whole: Nhìn chung
(32) On the whole, working there was a great experience which I will never forget.
Tạm dịch: Nhìn chung, làm việc ở đó thật là một trải nghiệm tuyệt vời mà tôi sẽ không bao giờ quên.
Chọn D.
Dịch bài đọc:
Nội dung dịch:
Công việc đầu tiên của tôi là làm một trợ lý bán hàng tại một cửa hàng bách hóa lớn. Tôi muốn làm việc bán thời gian vì tôi vẫn đang học đại học và tôi chỉ có thể làm việc vài đêm một tuần.
Tôi đã tình cờ thấy tờ quảng cáo trên tờ báo địa phương. Tôi vẫn còn nhớ rõ về cuộc phỏng vấn như thể nó mới chỉ diễn ra ngày hôm qua. Giám đốc nhân sự ngồi sau một chiếc bàn lớn. Ông ấy hỏi tôi rất nhiều câu hỏi đa dạng khiến tôi ngạc nhiên vì tất cả những gì tôi muốn chỉ là làm việc trong lĩnh vực bán hàng. Một giờ sau, tôi được thông báo rằng tôi đã được nhận công việc và được giao một hợp đồng làm việc để kiểm tra. Tôi đã được đào tạo trong mười ngày trước khi nhận chức vụ của mình. Ngoài ra, với tư cách là một nhân viên, tôi được hưởng một số quyền lợi bao gồm cả việc được giảm giá. Cuối cùng khi bắt đầu làm việc, tôi chịu trách nhiệm quản lí khu bán đồ chơi. Tôi thực sự thích nơi đó và tôi yêu thích việc mô tả quảng cáo những món đồ chơi khác nhau. Tôi cũng thực sự ngạc nhiên về sự thân thiện của các đồng nghiệp của mình. Họ làm cho công việc ở đó trở nên vui vẻ ngay cả khi chúng tôi phải đối mặt với những khách hàng khiến chúng tôi căng thẳng. Nhìn chung, làm việc ở đó thật là một trải nghiệm tuyệt vời mà tôi sẽ không bao giờ quên.
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 had hardly left the office when the phone rang.
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.
He has a thorough knowledge of the Vietnamese history. He can answer any questions about the country’s milestones.
Some people were diagnosed with having Covid-19. They had exposed to so many people before they got the health check result.
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 30 to 34.
For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one spring break destination in the United States. A weeklong drinking binge is not for anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to travel locally or internationally and work to alleviate problems such as poverty, homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning experience that university students can feel good about. During one spring break week, students at James Madison University in Virginia participated in 15 “alternative spring break” trips to nearby states, three others to more distant parts of the United States, and five international trips. One group of JMU students traveled to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Another group traveled to Mississippi to organize creative activities for children living in a homeless shelter. One group of students did go to Florida, but not to lie on the sand. They performed exhausting physical labor such as maintaining hiking trails and destroying invasive plant species that threaten the native Florida ecosystem. Students who participate in alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week camping in tents. But students only pay around 250 dollars for meals and transportation, which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring break hotspots.
Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich rewards along with a break from school work.
(Source: FCE success workbook)
What is the passage mainly about?
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 40 to 47.
By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?
Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.
Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.
And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.
Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.
(Source: https://bigthink.com)
What topic does the passage mainly discuss?
They appeared _______ pessimistic about their chances of winning.
_____ colleges and ____universities are the main institutions that provide tertiary education.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
They started on the study excitedly. They had prepared all the need things for it.