Đề HSG TP.HCM 2021–2022 — Ngày 1
Đề thi chọn đội tuyển học sinh giỏi THPT TP.HCM, năm học 2021-2022, ngày thi thứ nhất
Đề thi chọn đội tuyển học sinh giỏi THPT môn Tiếng Anh — Sở GD&ĐT TP.HCM. Đây là đề ở trình độ C1–C2, khó hơn hẳn đề tốt nghiệp: ngoài trắc nghiệm còn có điền từ, chia dạng từ, sửa lỗi và viết luận.
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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.
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1. After several near disasters, a controversy has ______ the safety of nuclear energy among several countries all over the world.
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4. It came as a surprise that Holena disclosed the names of the chosen candidates before time: she must have done it against her ______.
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8. He foolishly hoped to ______ the police by changing his address every week but they caught up with him in time.
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10. I tried to explain why I had missed the deadline, but he ______ my excuse as pathetic.
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13. Chloe, who works as an accountant, is not really well off but she is never ______.
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14. Could I ______ your brain on influenza and common colds?
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15. I have asked Tina many times to change the way she manages her team, but it seems to me that I have ______.
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16. The audience gazed at the violinist with ______ admiration.
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17. Darren believes in ______ his mind in any situation, and this really annoys others.
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18. The geographers should know the hidden ______ in that part of the river.
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19. It was no surprising that the sales assistant could patiently ______ criticism from his customers.
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20. The movie star could ______ answer every question from the journalists about the film, which was unexpectedly amazing.
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21. In Britain, the popularity of radio increased until 1952, ______ four out of five households owned one.
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22. The influence of Aspasia on Athenian thought, though denounced unsparingly by most critics, may indeed have been beneficial, ______ it tended towards the emancipation of the Attic women from the over-strict tutelage in which they were kept.
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23. They are taking the head cleaner the police car. They ______ him.
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24. ______ sleeping badly, and some very steep hills to walk over: It was quite a relief to get to the valley this afternoon.
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25. This building ______ finished by the end of last year but there have been so many strikes that it isn't finished yet.
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26. Authorities accepted the deal ______, contending that many more illegal weapons were in civilian hands.
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27. I didn't have a problem with the new manager's ideas ______, but I disliked some of his mannerisms.
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28. I suppose I found it hard at my new school because I just ______ to the situation.
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29. It's very imperative that we ______ as soon as there's any change in the patient's condition.
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30. In no way ______ that people will be prevented from organizing peaceful protests.
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31. Despite having been ______ dead, Magaret suffered no brain damage and no adverse side effects.
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32. The coastguard boarded the ship and found ______.
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33. I cam to Penny's office for her advice, but I did not see her, Penny ______ a marvelous idea.
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34. We had to queue a good ______ hours to get the tickets, but we made the ______ of our time, reading, talking and playing cards.
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35. ______ the alarm sounding, visitors should leave the zoo by the nearest exist.
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36. ______, pretending to be soldiers.
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37. ______ that only specialists can fathom its complexities.
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38. I dread ______ what Alan's going to say when he sees what you have done to the car. You know how proud he is of it.
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39. If there aren't any tickets let when we reach the front of the queue, we ______ all this time for nothing.
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40. ______, the referee could neither change his decisions nor make an excuse.
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41. The speech delivered by the Olympic record holder ______ more motivating to the young students.
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42. The second lost game has disheartened the local team ______ the next match.
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43. My cousin had an accident last week and got her car damaged. Luckily, she was safe and she has got a ______ insurance.
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44. The rebels decided to ______ the mountains after the leader had been captured.
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45. ______ the tribe's customs, the youngsters dyed their hair and wore jeans to the festivals.
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46. Whether the mayor has given the right decision about social distancing or not is still a ______ of contention.
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47. I don't believe you have won the gold medal. I ______, you know.
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48. You should really let ______ the children. They can't be perfect all the time.
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49. My sister is still ______ at missing my birthday's party last week.
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50. This scores of her final exam ______ contrast with those of the mid-term. She has made nice effort.
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.
Scientists have developed a hi-tech sleeping bag that could prevent the vision problems that some astronauts
experience while living in space.
In zero-gravity, fluids float into the head and 1 the eyeball over time. It's regarded as one of the riskiest
medical problems affecting astronauts, with some experts concerned, it could 2 missions to Mars.
The sleeping bag sucks fluids out of the head and towards the feet, 3 the pressure build-up
Its development was led by Dr. Benjamin Levine, professor of internal medicine at University of Texas.
NASA has 4 vision problems in more than half the astronauts who served for at least six months on
the International Space Station (ISS). Some became far-sighted, had difficulty reading. and sometimes needed
crewmates to assist in experiments.
In 2005, astronaut John Phillips launched to the ISS with 20/20 vision came back six months later with his vision
at 20/100. Others experienced a less severe 5 of the condition.
On Earth, gravity pulls fluids down into the body each time a person gets out of bed — something known as
“unloading”. But in space. the low gravity allows more than a half a gallon of body fluid pressure to 6 in the
head, 7 pressure to the eyeball. It can cause a condition called spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome,
or SANS. This in turn can lead to 8 flattening at the back of the eyeball, swelling of the optic nerve and vision
“The pressure in zero-g is always lower than the pressure in one-g. But it's not as low as when you're standing
up. That's the problem - 10 we spend one-third of our time lying down at night and two-thirds upright during
the day. Nasa astronauts can't stand up during flight". Dr. Levine told BBC News.
Even though the brain pressure in a person lying down on earth is slightly higher than in someone who's in
space, astronauts experience this pressure constantly and can never 11 it by shifting to an upright position.
The sleeping bag fits around the person's waist, enclosing their lower body within a solid frame. A suction device.
which works on the same 12 as a vacuum cleaner, creates a pressure difference that draws fluid down towards
the feet. This prevents it from building up in the brain and applying damaging pressure to the eyeball
Several questions need to be answered before the sleeping bag technology is used 13 . including the
14 amount of time astronauts should spend in the sleeping bag each day.
But Dr. Levine says the development means SANS may no longer be a health 15 by the time Nasa’s
are launched to the Red Pianet.
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Passage B
Leadership is different from management. but not for the reasons most people think. Leadership is not 16
and mysterious. It has nothing to do with having 17 or other exotic personality traits. It is not the 18
of a chosen few. Nor is leadership necessarily better than management or a(n) 19 for it
Rather, leadership and management are two distinctive and 20 systems of action. Each has its own
function and characteristic activities. Both are necessary for success in an increasingly complex and 21
business environment. Most U.S. corporations today are overmanaged and underled. They need to develop their
capacity to 22 leadership. Successful corporations don't wait for leaders to come (23)) ______. They actively
seek out people with leadership potential and 24 them to career experiences designed to develop that
potential. Indeed, with careful selection, nurturing, and encouragement, dozens of people can play important leadership
roles in a business organization.
But while improving their ability to lead, companies should remember that strong leadership with weak
management is no (25) , and is sometimes actually worse than the (26) . The real challenge is to combine
strong leadership and strong management and use each to balance the other
When it comes to preparing people for executive jobs, such companies 27 ignore the recent literature
that says people cannot manage and lead. They try to develop leader-managers. 28 companies understand
the fundamental difference between leadership and management. they can begin to 29 their top people to
provide both. —————
Management is about coping with complexity. Its practices and procedures are largely a response to one of the
most significant developments of the twentieth century: the emergence of large organizations. Leadership, 30,
is about coping with change. Part of the reason it has become so important in recent years is that the business world
has become more competitive
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Đọc hiểu READING COMPREHENSION
Đọc kỹ bài rồi trả lời câu hỏi
Passage A
Choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best answers the question or best completes the unfinished statement about the passage.
London is Choking
London's unhappy status as a city with some of the worst road traffic congestion in the world is well-known. It is a
problem that substantially arises from London's lusty economic and population growth, which generates more pressure
on road space, which means more and more people spending more and more time sitting in jams. This is bad for
business, bad for air quality and bad for people's tempers too. No wonder there's so much rage on the capital's roads
these days.
Bicycles clearly represent a possible solution, but how can they form part of a complete strategy. In the longer
term, installing dedicated cycling infrastructure may help alleviate congestion if it nurtures a significant enough shift away
from private cars and taxis. Surface transport chief Leon Daniels said on Tuesday that the number of cyclists using the
routes where superhighways have been installed has risen by an average of 60% compared with before they were put
in, which is a good sign.
Early cycle counts show that there has been an average 60% increase in cyclists using the new routes when
compared to before they were built, and at its busiest cyclists make up 70% of all traffic on Blackfriars Bridge on the North
South Cycle Superhighway. Currently, less than three per cent of central London roads have segregated cycle lanes.
Alternatively, could the answer to London's congestion be a network of a subterranean cycleways? A new project
from design firm Gensler suggests that it might. Dubbed the London Underline, the project would turn London's
abandoned tube tunnels into living streets beneath the city. While there's still a speculative, utopian look to the proposals,
the London Underline is being taken seriously enough in some quarters. Earlier this week. it won the Best Conceptual
Project gong at the London Planning awards.
The project would use dual tunnels in the Underground's defunct stretches to create parallel pedestrian paths and
cycle ways. also lined with cafes and click-and-collect points for online shopping. To help make the tunnels more
financially viable, each path could be surfaced with kinetic paving, which uses footfall and the friction created by bike
tyres to generate electricity. The tunnels would not need to be connected directly to ground level. They would be
accessed via tube stations, while bikes for hire points would lurk at the mouth of each stretch.
The first response to all this is probably a surprise. Not many people were aware that London had a vast network
of unused tunnels slithering beneath its surface. The truth is that it doesn't really, but there are some interesting
underground stretches here and there that are currently lying dark and sullen. Saying that these scattered stretches
could create the first city-wide network of its kind needs some imagination, but at least opening the Underline for
business isn't necessarily a major funding drain.
Could the network be turned into art pieces or advertising opportunities? Could it all be tied together, perhaps with
sponsorship and naming rights, so that it's a self-funding exercise? The idea of an Emirates Underline or an O2
Underground snaking beneath London might not be everyone's dream of London's bright future, but if the project created
some quirky new spaces that generate revenue, who's to complain if somebody wants to at least think the concept
through?
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2. What does the writer say about the role of bicycles in forming a solution to the traffic congestion?
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3. What does the writer mention is true about cycling statistics?
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4. What's the writer's opinion about the idea of the underground bicycle network?
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5. What does the writer point out as a major problem in the London Underline project in the sixth paragraph?
Passage B
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A recent programme in the UK works with a homeless man, Ray, to evaluate the quality of the food served in soup
kitchens, and he works with the organization “Not Just Soup”. It's a street kitchen for the homeless which gets the city's
restaurants to cook up full meals for those with nowhere else to go. These dishes are not merely the oft-talked-up
wonders contrived from the leftovers and scraps; they're the good stuff. Ray gives a five out of 10 if the food is properly
cooked, rising to six or seven if it is nutritionally balanced, to an eight or above if it's exceptional. And he will give these
scores direct to the cook's faces, Harsh.
If you've got nowhere to sleep and are dependent on handouts, you may think reviews are irrelevant. Ray put some
clarity on that point. He claimed that “Not Just Soup" was the calmest and least violent soup kitchen in the city, because
people feel dignified by this. People go there and feel like somebody gives a damn, and that somebody has made an
effort to cook for them
The word dignity rarely features in the rhetoric around food poverty, but it should. The people who utilise street
kitchens and food banks apparently occupy an entirely different category from those of us who are more fortunate; we
do not discuss the quality of the food sold in the ultra-cheap value ranges and don't think those forced to buy the stuff
should mention it either. Instead, we pursue another narrative, one drawn from a deeply ingrained puritanical culture in
Britain which insists the only thing that matters for those in dire poverty is basic nutrition. Apparently, they should be
grateful they are fed at all. The notion that those who have nothing should be allowed any form of pleasure or even just
comfort doesn't feature.
It's easier to dismiss them as feckless victims of their own incompetence, who are self-excluded from any idea of
the Good Life. That is for those of us with taste and filled wallets; it is not for the likes of you. The senior Tory Dominic
Raab announced during the election campaign that users of food banks generally just had cash-flow problems. While
he was loudly criticised for it, my suspicion is many people quietly agree. To suggest to that mob, baying politely in
agreement over the breakfast table, that those in food poverty deserve not just sympathy but genuinely good food is a
tough call.
But it's an argument that needs to be made. This does not mean everybody is entitled to roast swan, with a little
braised otter to follow. Hyperbole helps no one, and certainly not those in poverty. But is it too much to ask that when
we think about those who are not in a position to feed themselves, for whatever reason, we accept they be allowed the
dignity of a good meal? Surely it's the mark of a civilised society?
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Passage C
Which building
BIG BUILDINGS
A. The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is located in New York City and is 102 stories high; its name is derived from what the public
fondly call New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in
early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970, Following the September
11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in the world, until One World Trade Center
reached a greater height in April 2012. The Empire State Building is currently the fifth-tallest completed skyscraper in
the United States and the 29th tallest in the world. It is also the fifth-tallest completed skyscraper in the measured by
pinnacle, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States. The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon. It
is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by
the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2007. it was ranked number one on the AIA's List of America's Favorite
Architecture
B. Burj Khalifa
The Burj Khalifa known as the Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates. It is the tallest structure in the world standing at 829.8 m, it is designed to be the centerpiece of large-scale,
mixed-use development. The decision to build the building is reportedly based on the government's decision to diversify
from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition. The building was named in honour of the
ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi and the UAE
government lent Dubai money to pay its debts, The building broke numerous height records, including its designation
as the tallest tower in the world. The Y-shaped plan is designed for residential and hotel usage. A buttressed core
structural system is used to support the height of the building. It contains a total of 57 elevators and 8 escalators. Critical
reception to Burj Khalifa has been generally positive, and the building has received many awards. However, the labour
issues during construction were controversial, since the building was built primarily by workers from South East Asia
who were allegedly treated poorly.
C. Shanghai Tower
The Shanghai Tower is a 632-metre, 127-storey megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. As of 2016, it is
the world’s second-tallest building by height. It also has the world’s highest observation deck within a building or structure
and the world’s fastest elevators at a top speed of 20.5 m/s. Designed by Gensler and owned by the Shanghai city
government, it is the tallest of the world’s first triple adjacent super-tall buildings in Pudong, the other two being the Jin
Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center. Its tiered construction, designed for high energy efficiency,
provideas nine and separate zones divided between office, retail and leisure use. Construction work on the tower began
in November 2008 and topped out on 3 August 2013. ______ The exterior was completed in summer 2015. ______ Although the building
was originally scheduled to open to the public in June 2015, as of October 2016, most the building is still closed, The
observation deck was opened on 1 July 2016. ______
D. Taipei 101
Taipei 101 is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. In 2011, the building was awarded the
LEED platinum certification, the highest award according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
rating system, and became the tallest and largest green building in the world. The tower has served as an icon of modern
Taiwan ever since its opening. The building was architecturally created as a symbol of the evolution of technology and
Asian tradition. Its postmodernist approach to style incorporates traditional design elements and gives them modern
treatments. The tower is designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes. A multi-level shopping mall adjoining the
tower houses hundreds of stores, restaurants and clubs. Fireworks launched from Taipei 101 feature prominently in
international New Year's Eve broadcasts and the structure appears frequently in travel literature and international media.
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15. failed to meet its target?
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16. was conceived as part of a larger project in order to aid in the divestment from the fossil fuel industry?
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17. when being designed, took into account the geological activity of an area?
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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.
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1. Various species are on the verge of extinction, from giant animals to ______. (ANIMAL)
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2. The jury ______ gave the final verdict, which aroused anger from the public. (DILATE)
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3. The firefighters who sacrificed their lives to rescue the victims were given ______ medals of bravery and devotion. (POST)
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4. The notion of ______ was employed as we explored how fiction could have been inspired by psychoanalysis. (TEXT)
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5. The domestic turkey was re-introduced into North America from Britain, taken there ______ by the colonists of New England and Virginia. (CIRCLE)
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6. Some of the comedies are skillfully based on the stories around ______ people who humorously involve themselves in weird incidents. (WIT)
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7. The voters have had hopes for the creative ways in which the young candidates would ______ at the local authorities. (OFFICE)
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8. It was not until ______ was applied as part of his treatment that he found mental relaxation. (REFLEX)
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9. The businessman's ______ investment turned out to be one of his best decisions of the year; he earned much more than before. (MEDITATE)
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10. The tax rise has ______ the citizens of the country to such an extent that there would likely be some demonstrations. (FLAME)
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.
- PROSSESS
- CONTINUITY
- REPOSE
- EXTRICATE
- THINK
- FORM
- BREAK
- REAL
- BARBARITY
- GLOSSY
- DISCOVER
- IMMORAL
The story of the American West is at once the story of a unique part of the country and a metaphor for the country as a whole. It is the story of all of us, with all its sober 11 and bright myths, no matter where on the continent we happen to live, or how recently our ancestors arrived on its shores.
In the West, everything seems somehow larger, and we can now see why so many different peoples have come to consider their own innermost lives 12 linked with it. For the centuries, the West has been the 13 of the dreams of an astonishing variety of people - and it has been on the long, dusty roads of the West that these dreams have met and collided, 14 all who travelled along them, rewarding some while disappointing others. The story of the West was once told as an 15 series of triumphs - the victory of 'civilization' over 16, a relentlessly inspirational epic, in which greed and cruelty were often 17 over as enterprise and courage. Later, that epic would be turned upside down by some, so that the story become another equally misleading 18 tale, one in which the crimes of conquest and 19 were allowed to overshadow everything else. The truth about the West is even more complicated and compelling. America without the West is 20 now. Yet, there was nothing inevitable about America taking it.
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.
When you also consider the various sciences of the earth system, another aspect of viruses and bacteria 1 to the fore. During the long geochemical history of the earth, microbes, together with fungi and plants, have been essential, and are still essential, to the very 2 of the environment in which we humans live. The pandemic has shown us that we will never escape the 3 presence of these living beings, entangled as we are with them. They 4 to our actions; if they mutate, we have to mutate as well.
This is why the many national lockdowns, 5 on citizens to help them survive the virus, are a powerful 6 for the situation in which humanity finds itself detained for good. Lockdown was painful enough, and 7 many ways have been found, 8 in part to vaccination, to allow people to resume a semblance of 9 life. But there is no possibility of such a resumption if you consider that all living forms are locked down for good inside the limits of the earth.
It's in this finite space where everything we care for and everything we have ever encountered exists. There is no way of escaping our 10 existence, as young climate activists shout: 'There is no planet B.' Here is the connection between the Covid lockdowns we have experienced in the past 2 years, and the much larger but definitive state of lockdown that we find ourselves in: we are trapped in an environment that we have already altered irreversibly.
If we have been made aware of the agency of 11 in shaping our social relations, we must now reckon with the fact that they will also be moulded forever by the climate crisis and the quick reactions of ecosystems to our actions. The feeling that we live in a new space appears again at the local as well as the global level. Why would all nations convene in Glasgow to keep global temperature rises below some 12 upon limit, if they did not have the sensation that a huge lid had been put over their territory? When you look up at the blue sky, are you not aware that you are now under some sort of dome inside which you are locked?
13 is the infinite space; now you are responsible for the 14 of this overbearing dome as much
as you are for your own health and wealth. It weighs 15 you, body and soul. To survive under these new
conditions we have to undergo a sort of metamorphosis. ;
Passage B
The notion that reading is one of the most important 16 to educational success is 17 by all:
newspaper critics, devoted teachers and parents. But what is happening to standards? 18 are critical: “it is a
great surprise and disappointment to us to find that our young employees are so 19 deficient in their command
of English”. Many may 20 for the golden days, but that quotation was from those days - 1921! The complaints
of today are remarkably like 21 of the past.
The latest panic was prompted by a very limited study by a group of educational psychologists using dubious
test. No wonder, it was castigated 22 intellectual sloppiness. Yet there are many detailed research studies
that illuminate reading problems. Recently, it was shown that the more lead, aluminium or zinc in a child's body as tested
by hair or saliva tests, the 23 the reading scores. Did that get 24 reported?
The same fears are repeated often: “But are they being 25 to read? * The worries appear to be
misdirected. Yes, there are serious doubts about whether the present curriculum is helping effective reading, but it is
not the early stages 26 are weak. 27 is it. contrary to much printed panic, because of too little teaching
of phonics. It is because we stop developing reading skills except in the teaching of literature. We are extraordinarily
good at teaching 28 Reading for learning is something different 29 equally important. This is how we
grapple 30 ideas, arguments and discourse of Higher Education.
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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
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1. The new law came into operation only after the educational organizations had launched some lobbies. (ENTERED)
It was not
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2. Having sufficient evidence of the information leak, the laboratories were able to accuse Jevera. (ACCUSATION)
Had it
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3. When my sister decided to take part in the talent show, she took a risk with it. (GAMBLED)
Determined to go
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4. The reporters developed the star's story so negatively that it ruined her chances of success. (GOOSE)
So
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5. Although it is not suitable anymore, many teachers still force their students to learn history lessons by repetition. (HAMMER)
Regardless
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6. Romantic films supposedly lead people to expect that their relationships will always be a success. (SIGHTS)
Romantic films are successful relationships,
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7. Rita is fond of talking too much without listening to others and that's why she is not popular at work. (SOUND)
Since Rita
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8. My brother could not persuade his wife though he was persistent in moving to the countryside. (WORK)
No matter
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9. The Principal delivered his speech and mentioned the possibility of organizing a field trip the following month (DROPPED)
His speech
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10. A lot of people lost their jobs during the pandemics and became short of money. (PINCH)
Having