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Vận dụng tiếng Anh USE OF ENGLISH

Trắc nghiệm từ vựng – ngữ pháp – thành ngữ

Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete each blank.

  1. 1. The chairman was ______ convinced by the facts given in the articles issued three months after the incident.
  2. 2. The snake can ______ poison from a distance of a metre.
  3. 3. The aristocrats are described as ______ in so many novels that we may take the idea for granted.
  4. 4. It is really hard to get a compromise in this situation, for the sales manager is said to be ______.
  5. 5. Failure in the match last Tuesday has put an end to our ______ hope of entering the semi-final.
  6. 6. The innocent clerk was extremely excited about his first trip to a faraway land and keen on buying ______ souvenirs for everyone in the office.
  7. 7. The kidnapped child's ______ parents pleaded for witnesses to contact the police as soon as possible.
  8. 8. After years of working hard, the employees are understandably criticized for their ______ and lack of creativity.
  9. 9. The horror story provokes fear and anxiety with senseless description of ______ of deaths.
  10. 10. The abolition of red tape has helped eliminate ______ in the import and export process, facilitating foreign trade.
  11. 11. After years of low profits, the firm's sales figures suddenly ______ up.
  12. 12. We were very glad to receive a ______ description of all the cases related to diphtheria reported for the last 6 months in the hospital.
  13. 13. The poems Clara recited were suggestive ______ the time we were in the Gobi Desert.
  14. 14. Loud rock music can ______ our ears; many rock fans either neglect or ignore the information for the sake of their craze.
  15. 15. After hours of intensive work, the nurses looked ______. All they need was a short nap.
  16. 16. The lady claimed to be ______ and offered to contact the dead, but nobody believed her.
  17. 17. My suitcase was ______ brand new, but it came apart on the luggage carousel.
  18. 18. She decided to ______ it alone and started her own business.
  19. 19. The minister ______ certain schools for their falling standards in education.
  20. 20. On my very first day at work, I could tell that my supervisor was an impolite woman, a real ______.
  21. 21. Since he became famous, the megastar has always been surrounded by a crowd of friends and ______.
  22. 22. I get so stressed at work that it's sometimes hard to ______ in the evenings.
  23. 23. He is so confident, thinking that he is the ______.
  24. 24. The horse ______ the jump and threw its rider onto the ground.
  25. 25. It can be recognized from the first look that Mary and Pete are a(n) ______ couple.
  26. 26. Producing these chemicals will probably ______ serious environmental hazards.
  27. 27. I can't tell the reason why the boss keeps ______ me.
  28. 28. The concrete is ______ by putting metal bars in it, which makes it stronger and more durable.
  29. 29. We refused to make decisions based on ______ and rumors.
  30. 30. The police finally resorted to making a(n) ______ entry into the gang's house.
  31. 31. It is not difficult to realize that the new project on road pricing plays second ______ to other current schemes.
  32. 32. They have decided to ______ the charges against the Director and settle out of court.
  33. 33. Alisa is really good at managing human resource; she could ______ from the goats and boost their talents.
  34. 34. Don't ask Jane to make a speech. She is ______ a speaker.
  35. 35. The horse we could have bet on came ______. We could not say it was bad luck.
  36. 36. Only three of the students in my class are girls; ______ are all boys.
  37. 37. Everyone thinks that the concert last night was extremely successful, ______?
  38. 38. She agreed that all the present paperwork ______ for everyone to have more time to socialize.
  39. 39. ______ getting a pet tarantula?
  40. 40. The federal court system's structure, when viewed as a triangle, is easy to understand. At the lowest level, or the base of the triangle, ______ the trial courts which are called the District Court.
  41. 41. ______ my dad, I would never have started playing tennis in the first place.
  42. 42. Our plane tickets never arrived, ______ in the post.
  43. 43. It turned out that I ______ have bought Frank present after all.
  44. 44. We would rather ______ the party on the beach in such weather.
  45. 45. The local government doubted whether the residents ______ the project of urban planning.
  46. 46. The entertaining company muzzled the press, thus ______ anger from the public.
  47. 47. ______ in her ability, I could not put her under charge of such banking transactions.
  48. 48. ______ that we had to take on more staff.
  49. 49. The video was so real that we felt as if we ______ in a cave in Peru.
  50. 50. The game arcade ______ noisier; I could not hear what Mark was saying.

Điền từ có phương án GUIDED CLOZE

Đọc đoạn văn rồi chọn từ hợp nhất cho mỗi chỗ trống

Passage A

Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) for each blank space.

In the "Easy Platitudes" thread about race, crime, and culture, Sharon Astyk, a white woman whose family fosters black children, made a thought-provoking observation:

"In the end, you cannot substitute for home life. You just can't. For most children, the lack of a 1 home foundation is the deciding factor. So the question becomes whether there are social inputs that can be provided that could possibly make home 2 more functional for struggling families. As long as the nuclear family in 3 is the model that's available to us, I don't think you can - because functionally the 4 of an outsider, however benign, can't 5 that barrier.

In larger functional family units with less clear boundaries - big kin clans of literal or honorary kin, you might be able to do it if you can provide some functionally kinship relationships (Aunties and Uncles of the honorary sort, for example) that actually work like kin (they are around a lot of the time and have 6 boundaries and do things kin do for one another like take the kids when they are home sick or give you a ride to work). I've seen it work in a few church or other 7 where people are committed to that kind of 8 of relationship.

It is funny, we always mention the fatherlessness, the destruction of the black nuclear family - and that's a huge 9 and a huge factor. But we often forget that the 10 nature of nuclear families and the decreasing cultural emphasis on family - the idea that you buy resources like transportation, support, childcare, etc... may also have been just as 11. The nuclear family is a tough model for even the most functional family 12 any kind of stress, it is a disaster for a family that isn't 13 functional. Our entire economy is built around the 14 of the nuclear family, which is thought to be a mobile unit. We would not easily accept a family model that kept one of the parents permanently separated from the rest of the family, but we consider it 15 when a nuclear family must be separated from one or both extended families."

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Passage B

The trailblazing weather hunters put their lives on the 16 to gather data on the life cycle of thunderstorms. Witch of November was laying down the law. An ominous weather 17 whipped the iron-green waters of Lake Erie 18 a froth. The lead-coloured sky grew darker as a severe thunderstorm began 19 thousands of volts in all directions. The 20 sounds of thunder travelled from one side of the horizon to the other. Yet while seemingly saner people sought cover from the deluge which was in the 21, a group of volunteer pilots prepared to fly directly into this cacophony.

At the time, the 22 power and inner workings of thunderstorms were poorly understood. In 1945, Congress sought to 23 that deficiency by mandating and funding a multi-agency meteorological study. A group of brave airmen stepped forward in the interest of science to help 24 the layers of mystery surrounding severe weather. 25 the Thunderstorm Project, the joint venture involved no less than four federal agencies. With World War II over, a surplus of trained personnel, aircraft and equipment

created the ideal conditions to launch the project. The end of the war also saw a corresponding increase in the number of weather-related civil aviation accidents, providing additional 26 for the in-depth study.

The Thunderstorm Project's main objective was to get inside a severe weather event to assess its characteristics and the dangers it held. It was an important study for its time, 27 a par with post-war atomic bomb testing then taking place in the South Pacific.

It was the pilots' mission to obtain the maximum number of traverses through each storm and to sample storms in all stages of development. No storm was to be avoided, be it too large or violent. That said, they had to undergo careful screening to ensure they were well suited to the program. In addition to their volunteer spirit, the crews had to 28 a high level of alertness and confidence and be 29 by the unexpected dangers of such 30 research.

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Đọc hiểu READING COMPREHENSION

Đọc kỹ bài rồi trả lời câu hỏi

Passage A

For passage A and B, choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best answers the question or best completes the unfinished statement about the passage.

PLEASING THE CROWD

It is by the results of international fixtures that the status of a country's football is judged. Success in the World Cup, when it was held in England in 1966, included a kind of euphoria in the minds of football fans who had long felt that the English game was lagging behind that of the Europeans and South Americans. Hungary's defeats of England 6-3 and 7-1 in 1953 and 1954 had made it clear that British soccer could no longer claim to be the best in the world. Not only Europeans, but to an even greater extent the South Americans, showed themselves to be more skillful and imaginative than the English at both international and at club level, and a proliferation of European competitions proved the point beyond all doubt.

As the crushing defeats by Hungary in 1953 and 1954 had marked the decline of British football, so the winning of the World Cup in 1966 appeared to mark a period of new supremacy for the victors. However, the next World Cup 1970, and the subsequent failure even to qualify for the finals in 1974, made it clear that the quality of the English game, with its tactical stereotypes, had fallen behind that of the best of the overseas competition. The repeated claims of managers that the English First Division was the best in the world had failed to convince a public which takes a close interest in the international results, and the fall in gates after the English team failed to qualify in 1974 indicated quite clearly that domestic football is judged in an international context.

Despite mixed fortunes in the 1980s the popularity of football in most European countries is fairly high, and the performance of local clubs and national sides is perhaps the most common subject of talk in cafes, clubs and factories. However, the future is not altogether bright. Leading teams like Barcelona and Liverpool enjoy the continued support of loyal fans, irrespective of how individual games turn out on the day, but support for most teams varies from week to week with their fortunes, and future planning in terms of ground development, the provision of amenities and spending in the transfer market is difficult. The impecunious position of some well-known teams is indicative of the danger to even the mightiest of clubs.

However, football can also be very big business. Some clubs do take considerable sums at the gates each week. But the really big money comes from sponsors. Sponsors include tobacco companies and car manufacturers. In return for their cash they insist that their name be displayed at the ground, on programmes and on the players' shirts. They also insist on competitions bearing their name; thus even non-smokers have the cigarette company's product on their lips every time they refer to the football scene. Sponsorship helps enormously to stabilize the financial fortunes and standing of clubs. The money is there, even when the results go against them. But they have to beware, since the sponsors will quickly withdraw their support if the downturn in a club's performance lasts for too long. Crowd trouble, too, and the bad publicity this can attract, will drive them away.

Bad crowd behaviour, with hooliganism both inside the ground and outside as well, has now become one of football's most disturbing features. As long as football remains "the people's game" it will reflect current social problems and it might even create a will to resolve them, before they deter increasing numbers of people from attending grounds.

  1. 1. In 1966, the result of the World Cup ______.
  2. 2. The 1974 World Cup led to ______.
  3. 3. According to the passage, when was English football comparatively poor?
  4. 4. The writer says that support for most teams depends on ______.
  5. 5. Which of the following things does the passage say about sponsorship?

Passage B

STANDARD OR NOT?

Within the national group, our prejudices tend to be mixed and, because they operate mainly on an unconscious level, not easily recognizable. We can be natives of great cities and still find a town dialect less pleasant than a country one. And yet, hearing prettiness and quaintness in a Dorset or Devon twang, we can also despise it, because we associate it with rural stupidity or backwardness. The ugly tones of Manchester or Birmingham will, because of their great civic associations, be at the same time somehow admirable. The whole business of ugliness and beauty works strangely. A BBC announcer says "pay day"; a Cockney says "pie die". The former is thought to be beautiful, the latter ugly, and yet the announcer can use the Cockney sounds in a statement like "Eat that pie and you will die" without anybody's face turning sour. In fact, terms like "ugly" and "beautiful" cannot really applied to languages at all. Poets can make beautiful patterns out of words, but there are no standards we can use to formulate aesthetic judgements on the words themselves. We all have our pet hates and loves among words, but these always have to be referred to associations. A person who dislikes beetroot as a vegetable is not likely to love "beetroot" as a word. A poet who, in childhood, had a panful of hot stewed prunes spilled on him is, if he is a rather stupid poet, quite capable of writing "And death, terrible as prunes". We have to watch associations carefully, remembering that language is a public, not a private, medium, and that questions of word-hatred and word-love had best be tackled very coldly and rationally.

We are normally quick to observe regional variations in the use of national language, but we feel less strongly about these than we do about class divisions in speech. If we speak with a Lancashire accent, we will often be good-humoured and only slightly derisive when we hear the accent of Wolverhampton or Tyneside. Sometimes we will even express a strong admiration of alien forms of English - the speech of the Scottish Highlands, for instance, or Canadian as opposed to American. But we feel very differently about English speech when it seems to be a badge or banner of class. The dialect known variously as the Queen's English or BBC English or Standard English was, originally, a pure regional form - so-called East Midland English, with no claim to any special intrinsic merit. But it was spoken in an area that was, and still is, socially and economically pre-eminent - the area which contains London, Oxford, and Cambridge. Thus it gained a special glamour as the language of the Court and the language of learning. It has ever since - often falsely - been associated with wealth, position, and education - the supra-regional dialect of the masters, while the regional dialects remain the property of the men. In certain industrial areas it can still excite resentment, despite the fact that it no longer necessarily goes along with the power or privilege.

  1. 6. According to the writer, a rural accent may sound attractive, but it may also be ______.
  2. 7. Our judgements on words we like or dislike are often based on a word's ______.
  3. 8. British accents show which region the person comes from, but may also show their ______.
  4. 9. A person with a regional accent may have less power than someone who ______.
  5. 10. If someone speaks with a Standard English accent (R.P.) they ______.

Passage C

In which section does the writer mention

Read the passage and then do the task that follows

LOCKED IN TIME

What are the issues surrounding the preservation of good architecture?

A

Emerging from the Lincoln tunnel into midtown Manhattan in New York, a yellow cab from JFK Airport takes you past an architectural masterpiece. Number 510 Fifth Avenue was originally the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank and was designed in 1954 as a new kind of banking house, something other than a thick-walled fortress. It was a glass temple of finance, inviting passers-by to step through its cool transparency and be converted to its gleaming vision of the future. Mid-twentieth-century banks were usually mundane but at 510 Fifth Avenue, the vault was displayed behind the glazed facade and the escalators became central to the composition, falling and rising diagonally across the gridded lines like an updated game of Snakes and Ladders. The upper floor featured a gilded screen by the artist Harry Bertoia.

B

But things are changing at 510 Fifth Avenue. As a very carefully-designed and much-admired building, it now finds itself at the frontier between developers and preservationists and it's turning into quite a fight. For if there's one thing in architecture that causes friction, it's that our needs change, and so buildings must evolve and adapt in order to stay useful. Within reason, Vornado Realty Trust, the site's owners and one of New York's largest developers, has made the not unreasonable assumption that this commercial building on the world's primary shopping street should be adapted to suit its new tenant, a retailer of lumberjack-style shirts. For this purpose, the gilded screen has been dismantled, the entrance is to be moved, the escalator reversed and the vault moved. On the basis that the facades remain intact, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved these changes in April. But in July, a judge halted work after a legal challenge by the Citizens' Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation, which argues that, given the transparency of the facade, Landmark status must extend to those interior features that contribute to the streetscape. Too late. It is now gutted, the interior features broken from their positions of more than half a century.

C

Architects are often feted for designing buildings whose form follows function. And that's reasonable - intelligent design brings intellectual and physical beauty to the world. But architects are no better at predicting the future than the rest of us. Hence, the flip side to architectural masterpieces: the closer a building's form follows its function, the bigger the upheaval when the original purpose no longer needs to be served. Preservation groups are aware that conservation is an expensive business. Arguments to preserve for preservation's sake are weakened when loans are in short supply and the economic buoyancy that might offer a long-term business case for the sensitive commercial usage of old buildings starts to sink. The stronger argument is to update historic places so they can fund themselves. In any repurposing of a historic building, something has to give. And it usually gives in the direction of apartments, shops, restaurants or art galleries. It's a global picture.

D

The most exciting place in New York is the High Line, built as an elevated railway through the Meatpacking District and unused since the 1980s. It was scheduled to be torn down, but local residents started a grass-roots movement in 1999. Three years on, they gained the authorities' support for a radical redevelopment as a city garden, a string of improbable greenery threading through an overlooked quarter that has since spread economic fertilizer in its wake with hotels, boutiques and bars abounding. Back in Fifth Avenue, there's much hand-wringing over the stripped modern icon. Is it too late to hope the perfect tenant will turn up and want to strike a deal? If it's not to change further, who will put it back together, take care of it and run it as ... what - an icon?

  1. 11. the idea that a preservation project can regenerate the surrounding area?
  2. 12. why a particular structure stood out amongst its contemporaries?
  3. 13. the inescapable need to make compromises when structures find a new use?
  4. 14. a successful attempt to halt the total destruction of an obsolete structure?
  5. 15. a paradox regarding the work of highly renowned architects?
  6. 16. an approach to saving the architectural heritage that cannot always be financed?
  7. 17. how an architect made a feature of something which is usually obscured?
  8. 18. a disagreement about how a principle should be applied in practice?
  9. 19. a structure that embodied the optimism of its time?
  10. 20. a feeling that alterations to a structure were justifiable?

Dạng từ WORD FORMS

Chia đúng dạng của từ gốc cho sẵn

Phần A

Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank.

  1. 1. The tennis player has never expected to play against one of his ______ in the semi-final. (PATRIOTISM)
  2. 2. Tree surgery, a scientific process which is part of ______ or urban forestry, looks at the science of developing and maintaining trees. (CULTURE)
  3. 3. We should have known that the sneaky men following us were ______. (FINGER)
  4. 4. Although aged, Mrs. Benson has her hands full all the time, even with ______ weekends. (ACTION)
  5. 5. The school is under new management who are ______, utterly inexperienced in plan-building. (FOOT)
  6. 6. He really had a nerve to ______ criticize the comments of the experts. (SPEECH)
  7. 7. Prepare yourself for any surprise in life, and never believe in the ______ of both material and mental life. (MUTABLE)
  8. 8. The local government has made every effort in air-pollution ______, but what counts is citizens' awareness. (ABATE)
  9. 9. The police questioned the ______ who had freed himself from the gang and returned safe and sound. (ABDUCT)
  10. 10. The research is claimed by a group of accomplished professors to be ______, solely focused on what will happen in the future. (HISTORY)

Phần B

Put the words given in the correct blanks. You have to use their correct forms to make a meaningful passage. There are TWO words you cannot use.

  • PERSONAL
  • OCCUPY
  • INAUGURATE
  • WAR
  • ACTIVITY
  • EFFECT
  • OPPOSE
  • DAUNTING
  • GRACE
  • NOBLE
  • NOTORIOUS
  • UNIVERSE

Knights in shining armors, who rode horses and carried sharp swords and lances in their hands to knock 11 knights off their horses, created the new sport of jousting. The idea of jousting dates back to early times before 1100s and had its origins in France when it was not really a sport. Instead, it was really more of an 12 since jousting tournaments were really 13 tournaments held between the families of 14 for the purpose of gaining 15 and monetary wealth.

As jousting became more of a sport, a code of "fair play" was 16 and chivalry entered into the picture as well as the ideas conveyed in the tales of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table. In addition to the 17 code of ethics, the concepts of fair maidens and brave knights continued to play an important role in jousting.

The early settlers of American colonies showed little interest in jousting until 1800s when a few successful tournaments took place in the South. The Southern style of living was one of gentility and charm, and jousting tournaments 18 the expectations of 19 living. Jousting gained popularity until 1860s when the Civil War shifted the focus of indulging in pastimes to the reality of war's death and destruction. 20 by the changed conditions of the South after the Civil War, jousting took hold once again.

Jousting is a sport which began not as a sport can remove people from present-day stress and tension and put them back into the times of knights in shining armors and royalty.

Điền từ không phương án OPEN CLOZE

Điền MỘT từ thích hợp vào mỗi chỗ trống

Passage A

Fill in each blank in the following passages with ONE suitable word to make meaningful passages.

Paper money is an invention of the Song Dynasty in China in the 11th century CE, nearly 20 centuries after the earliest known use of metal coins. While paper money was certainly easier to carry in large 1, using paper money had its 2: counterfeiting and inflation.

The earliest known form of money is also from China, a cast copper coin from the 11th century BCE, which was found in a Shang Dynasty tomb in China. Metal coins, whether made from copper, silver, gold, or other metals, have been used across the globe as 3 of trade and value. They have advantages - they are durable, difficult to 4, and they hold intrinsic value. The big disadvantage? If you have very many of them, they get 5.

For a couple thousand years after the coins were 6 in that Shang tomb, however, merchants, traders, and customers in China had to 7 up with carrying coins, or with bartering goods for other goods directly. Copper coins were designed with square 8 in the middle so that they could be carried on a string. For large transactions, traders calculated the price as the number of coin strings. It was workable, 9 an unwieldy system at best.

During the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), however, merchants began to leave those heavy strings of coins with a trustworthy agent, who would 10 how much money the merchant had on deposit on a piece of paper. The paper, a sort of promissory note, could then be traded for goods, and the seller could go to the 11 and redeem the note for the strings of coins. With trade renewed along the Silk 12,

this simplified cartage considerably. These privately-produced promissory notes were still not true paper currency, 13.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE), the government licensed specific deposit shops where people could leave their coins and receive notes. In the 1100s, Song authorities decided to 14 direct control of this system, 15 the world's first proper, government-produced paper money. This money was called jiaozi.

Passage B

Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the 16 technology behind, self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image 17 and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems. In many cases, AI can 18 the best human performance levels at specific tasks.

We are witnessing the emergence of a new commercial industry with intense activity, massive financial investment, and tremendous 19. It would seem that there are no areas that are 20 improvement by AI - no tasks that cannot be automated, no problems that can't at least be helped by an AI application. But is this strictly true?

Theoretical studies of computation have shown there are some things that are not computable. Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician and 21 breaker, proved that some computations might never finish (22 others would take years or even centuries). For example, we can easily compute a few moves ahead in a game of chess, but to examine all the 23 to the end of a typical 80-move chess game is completely impractical. Even using one of the world's 24 supercomputers, running at over one hundred thousand trillion operations per second, it would take over a year to 25 just a tiny portion of the chess space explored. This is also known as the scaling-up problem.

Early AI research often produced good results on small numbers of combinations of a problem (like 26 and crosses, known as toy problems) but would not scale up to larger ones like chess (real-life problems). Fortunately, modern AI has developed alternative ways of dealing with such problems. These can 27 the world's best human players, not by looking at all possible moves ahead, but by looking a lot further than the human mind can manage. It does this by using methods involving approximations, 28 estimates, large neural networks and other machine-learning techniques.

But these are really problems of computer science, not artificial intelligence. Are there any fundamental limitations on AI performing 29? A serious issue becomes clear when we consider human-computer interaction. It is widely expected that future AI systems will communicate with and assist humans in friendly, 30 interactive, social exchanges.

Viết lại câu SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION

Viết lại sao cho nghĩa không đổi, dùng đúng từ khoá

Rewrite the sentences so that they mean almost the same as the ones before them. You have to use the exact words given in brackets.

  1. 1. Sooner or later the murderer will be formally accused. (PRESSED)

    It is a ______.

  2. 2. To our surprise, Mark came on stage to confidently deliver his speech. (APLOMB)

    We were taken ______.

  3. 3. This is the first time the students have held a demonstration to protest school regulations. (DEFIANCE)

    Never ______.

  4. 4. If interviewed, the starlet will freely express her remarks on show business without thinking twice. (GAY)

    Should ______.

  5. 5. Though the scientist had tried hard, all of his studies completely failed. (GRIEF)

    No matter what ______.

  6. 6. The new recruits passing the test will receive training for highly competent tasks. (GROOMED)

    Once ______.

  7. 7. The defenders of the visiting team were quite skillful at preventing our effort to score one more goal. (HEAD)

    So skillful ______.

  8. 8. The judges' harsh comments blew up Jimmy's chance to become a singer. (DONE)

    Due to ______.

  9. 9. They have collected enough funds, so they are now carrying out their ideas. (PRACTICE)

    Enough funds ______.

  10. 10. Auntie Clara should not behave like a young girl. (ACTED)

    It's ______.

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