After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destruct...

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Saranae Alizabeth

12 tháng 2 2020 lúc 19:04

After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty-seven years after the first awards ceremony. Nobel's original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used for the awards which vary from $30,000to30,000to$ 125,000.

Every year on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, the awards (gold medal, illuminated diploma, and money) are presented to the winners. Sometimes politics plays an important role in the judges' decisions. Americans have won numerous science awards, but relatively few literature prizes. No awards were presented from 1940 to 1942 at the beginning of World War II Some people have won two prizes, but this is rare; others have shared their prizes.

1. The word "foresaw" in line 2 is nearest in meaning to _______.

A. Prevalied B. Prevented C. Postponed D. Predicted

2. All of the following statements are true except ________.

A. A few individuals have won two awards

B. Ceremonies are held on december 10 to commemorate Nobel's invention

C. Politics plays an important role in selecting the winners.

D. Awards vary in monetary value

3. The passage implies that Nobel's profession was in ______.

A. Economics B. Sciences C. Peace D. Medicine

4. The word "world while" is closest in meaning to ______.

A. Economic B. Valuable C. Prestigious D. Trivial

5. What is the main idea of the passage ?

A. Alfred Nobel made lasting contribution to humanity

B. Alfred Nobel created awards in six categories for contribution to humanty

C. Alfred Nobel left all his money to science

D. Alfred Nobel became very rich when he invented dynamite

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Nguyễn Việt Hoàng

12 tháng 2 2020 lúc 19:24

1. The word "foresaw" in line 2 is nearest in meaning to _______.

A. Prevalied B. Prevented C. Postponed D. Predicted

2. All of the following statements are true except ________.

A. A few individuals have won two awards

B. Ceremonies are held on december 10 to commemorate Nobel's invention

C. Politics plays an important role in selecting the winners.

D. Awards vary in monetary value

3. The passage implies that Nobel's profession was in ______.

A. Economics B. Sciences C. Peace D. Medicine

4. The word "world while" is closest in meaning to ______.

A. Economic B. Valuable C. Prestigious D. Trivial

5. What is the main idea of the passage ?

A. Alfred Nobel made lasting contribution to humanity

B. Alfred Nobel created awards in six categories for contribution to humanty

C. Alfred Nobel left all his money to science

D. Alfred Nobel became very rich when he invented dynamite

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I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest. 1. A. describe B. tidal C. mineral D. sight 2. A. which B. what C. whom D. where II. Circle the best answer to complete the following sentences. 1. I suggest ___________ some money for poor children. A. raise B. raising C. to raise D. raiseing 2. She didnt work hard enough,___________ she lost her job. A. so B. but C. and D. although 3. What __________ if there were a serious nuclear accident?...

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I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest.

1. A. describe B. tidal C. mineral D. sight

2. A. which B. what C. whom D. where

II. Circle the best answer to complete the following sentences.

1. I suggest ___________ some money for poor children.

A. raise B. raising C. to raise D. raiseing

2. She didn't work hard enough,___________ she lost her job.

A. so B. but C. and D. although

3. What __________ if there were a serious nuclear accident?

A. happens B. will happen C. happened D. would happen

4. Please phone this number for more ____________ .

A. inform B. informative C. information D. informatively

5. Mary's eyes are weak. _______________ she has to wear glasses.

A. But B. However C. and D. Therefore

6. We are __________ when the New Year's Eve is coming very near.

A. excitement B. excitedly C. excited D exciting

7. ____________ I was really tired, I couldn't sleep.

A. Although B. So C. Therefore D. However

8. I wish you ____________ us someday.

A. visit B. will visit C. vistied D. would visit

9. Let's ___________ somewhere for a drink!

A. go B. went C. going D. goes

10. My mother _________ teaching in a small village 12 years ago.

A. starts B. started C has started D. is starting

III. Give the correct forms of verbs in the following sentences.

l. My sister is interested in (read) _____________ magazines.

2. I would answer the question immediately if I (know) _____________ the key.

3. Trang usually (look) ____________ out of the window while the teacher is teaching.

4. They (work) ____________ in this company for two years.

5. When I came yeterday, my car (repair) _________________ .

IV. Rewrite the second sentence so that it has the same meaning.

1. The train was late because the fog was thick.

->Because of ...............................................................

2. I accepted the job although the salary was low.

->In spite of ..........................................................

3. Nick is often punished because he is lazy.

->Because of ..........................................................

4. He didn't come because he was sick.

->He didn't come because of.....................................................

5. The weather was bad, but we went to school on time.

->Although.......................................................................

6. They last visited their home village five years ago.

->They haven't....................................................................

VI Read the passage, then answer the questions.

After inventing dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who comes from Sweden, became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel prefered not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to humanity. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty years after the first awards ceremony.

Nobel's original legacy of nine million dollars was invented, and the interest on this sum is used for the awards, which vary from $30,000 to $125,000. Every year on December 10 the anniversary of Nobel's death, the awards (gold medal illuminated diploma and money) are presented to the winners.

1. Where does Alfred Nobel come from?

.......................................................................

2. Did he prefer people to remember him as the inventor of dynamite?

............................................................................................................

3. When are the awards presented to the winners every year?

.................................................................................................................

4. Alfred Nobel became a very rich man because _________________ .

A. He invented dynamite

B. He created a fund to be used for awarding prizes

C. He was a Swedish

D. He foresaw its universally destructive powers too late

5. The word "which" i the passage refers to _________________ .

A. funds B. awards C. interest D. dynamite

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Ánh Trương

5 tháng 9 2018 lúc 21:13

III. Read the following passage then answer the questions. (2ms) Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish scientist, was invented dynamite. He allowed his invention to be used in peace. However, he saw it being used in war to destroy things, he was very unhappy. On his death he left all his money to be spent upon a prize every year. The Nobel Prize is now one of the greatest prizes that a person can ever receive. It is given every year for the best work in one of the following subjects: phys...

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III. Read the following passage then answer the questions. (2ms)

Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish scientist, was invented dynamite. He allowed his invention to be used in peace. However, he saw it being used in war to destroy things, he was very unhappy. On his death he left all his money to be spent upon a prize every year. The Nobel Prize is now one of the greatest prizes that a person can ever receive. It is given every year for the best work in one of the following subjects: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

* Write true (T) or false (F) for each sentence. (1m)

1. Alfred Bernard Nobel was born in 1896.

2. The Nobel Prize is now one of the biggest prizes.

* Answer the following questions. (2ms)

1. What did Alfred Bernard Nobel invent?

........................................................................................................................................................................

2. Did he leave all his money for the Nobel Prize after his death?

........................................................................................................................................................................

3. Why was he very unhappy?

........................................................................................................................................................................

4. What subjects are the Nobel Prize given?

........................................................................................................................................................................

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Lê Yến Nhi

17 tháng 3 2020 lúc 15:47

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous nineteenth-century engineer. He (1) _________ born in 1806 in Portsmouth, a seaport in the South of England. In 1923, after studying (2) _________ two years in Paris, he started (3) _________ for his father, (4) _________ was an engineer and inventor. He had been born near Rouen in France but in 1792 had left France for the US and had later settled in England. Both father and son were responsible for the design (5) _________ construction of the first tunnel u...

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel went (8) _________ to design the Great Britain (1845), (9) _________ was the first large ship to be built (10) _________ iron instead of wood. It was powered (11) _________ steam and made regular crossings of the Atlantic. Remarkably, this ship is (12) _________ in existence. It (13) _________ been restored and can be seen in Bristol (14) _________ it was originally built. (15) _________ of Brunel’s great engineering achievements was the construction of the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol. He designed all the stations, bridges, tunnel and viaducts along the line.

Brunel’s ideas were ahead of his time and had difficulties in convincing people that they were realistic, and, indeed, some of his projects were very ambitious, but he (16) _________ determined to find (17) _________ to the (18) _________ difficult problems. Overwork ruined his health and he (19) _________ at the age of fifty-two in 1859. The work of Brunel, and his father, has always been highly regarded and Brunel University, founded in 1966, is (20) _________ after both of them.

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Hoàng Chí Vũ

11 tháng 3 2019 lúc 22:00

Put an appropriate word in each gap in the passage. The Lunar Roving Vehicle, or moon buggy, was the vehicle used by (1).......... when they explored the moon in the 1970s. It was considered Apollos Cadillac of lunar (2)......... and was developed by Boeing and General Motors. Moon buggies run by electricity and were specially designed to operate on the lunar surface. They measure 1.1 metres tall and 3 metres long. They (3)........ 210 kg but they can carry a payload for up to 490kg. The wheel...

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Put an appropriate word in each gap in the passage.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle, or moon buggy, was the vehicle used by (1).......... when they explored the moon in the 1970s. It was considered Apollo's Cadillac of lunar (2)......... and was developed by Boeing and General Motors.

Moon buggies run by electricity and were specially designed to operate on the lunar surface. They measure 1.1 metres tall and 3 metres long. They (3)........ 210 kg but they can carry a payload for up to 490kg. The wheels(4)...... also designed very carefully to resist the rocky moon surface which is covered in dirt. A lunar rover also has a controller, motors, brakes, and two (5)....... for astronauts to sit in.

Most Filipinos consider Dr. Eduardo San Juan, a NASA engineer, the inventor of the Lunar Rover. Howerver, San Juan was not listed as the (6).............. of the moon buggy in NASA documents. Officially, the vehicle was(7).............. and constructed by a group of space engineers. Nevertheless, it is claimed that he received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards (8).........., science and technology in 1978.

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Fiding mistakes in this paragraph :
I have lived in a small hometown called Vinh Thanh Hometown for 10 years . It means : I have lived here since I was 6 years old . So that , in 10 years ago until now , I saw all of changes of my hometown . Firstly , in the past , the road used to be the country road and have a lot of potholes , but now , it is getting beautiful and having blacktop . Not only that , on the roadsides , they also plant some trees and make some street lights . Moreover , the houses used to be small and ugly . But nowadays , they are getting spacious and nice . In addition , the schools uesd to have only one floor and look very fallen . Today , the schools have two floors , a big playground , mordern equipment and look very secure . In 2006 , people here were very poor . Most of them had only one bike , just 5 or 6 families had a motorbike . Besides , the environment was very clean . But in 2016 , people become richer than in the past . All of them have at least two motorcycles . And every children has a bicycle to go to school everyday . Furthermore , recent years , in my hometown , there are a lot of cars run on the road . Because of these , my hometown is getting polluted . Anyway , the changes of my hometown made me surprised a lot and i love my hometown very much.

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Linh Hoàng

25 tháng 7 2018 lúc 11:34

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Combine the following pairs or groups of sentences by means of relative pronouns, making any changes necessary. 1 You sent me a present. Thank you very much for it. (Thank you very much/or...) 2 She was dancing with a student. He had a slight limp. (two ways) 3 I am looking after some children. They are terribly spoilt, (two ways) 4 The bed has no mattress. I sleep on this bed. (The bed 1. . .) 5 Romeo and Juliet were lovers. Their parents hated each other. 6 There wasn't any directory in the telephone box. I was phoning from this box. 7 This is Mrs Jones. Her son won the championship last year. 8 I was sitting in a chair. It suddenly collapsed. (The chair . . .) 9 Mr Smith said he was too busy to speak to me. I had come specially to see him. 10 The man was sitting at the desk. I had come to see this man. 11 I missed the train. I usually catch this train. And I had to travel on the next. This was a slow train. (Make into one sentence.) 12 His girl friend turned out to be an enemy spy. He trusted her absolutely. 13 The car had bad brakes. We were in this car. And The man didn't know the way. This man was driving. (Make into one sentence.) 14 This is the story of a man. His wife suddenly loses her memory. 15 We'll have to get across the frontier. This will be difficult. 16 A man brought in a small girl. Her hand had been cut by flying glass. 17 The car crashed into a queue of people. Four of them were killed. 18 The roads were crowded with refugees. Many of them were wounded. 19 I was waiting for a man. He didn't turn up. (The man. . .) 20 Tom came to the party in patched jeans. This surprised the other guests. Most of the other guests were wearing evening dress. 21 The firm is sending me to York. I work for this firm. (The firm. . .) 22 The Smiths were given rooms in the hotel. Their house had been destroyed in the explosion. 23 I saw several houses. Most of them were quite unsuitable. 24 He wanted to come at 2 a.m. This didn't suit me at all. 25 This is a story of a group of boys. Their plane crashed on an uninhabited island. 26 They tie up parcels with string. This is so weak that the parcel usually comes to pieces before you get it home. (The string . ..) 27 He introduced me to his students. Most of them were from abroad. 28 He expected me to pay £2 for 12 eggs. Four of the eggs were broken. 29 He spoke in French. But the people didn't know French. He was speaking to these people. (Combine these last two sentences only.) 30 The boy was a philosophy student and wanted to sit up half the night discussing philosophy. Peter shared a flat with this boy. (two ways)

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29 tháng 3 2018 lúc 21:05

Read the passage and fill one suitable word in each blank. The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaptation and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where is was (1)__________ as a specialities tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use (2)__________ undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computation in unclear physics. (3)_________ World War Two computers were develope...

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Read the passage and fill one suitable word in each blank.

The history of the computer in the twentieth century is one of dramatic adaptation and expansion. The computer had modest beginnings in areas where is was (1)__________ as a specialities tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use (2)__________ undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computation in unclear physics. (3)_________ World War Two computers were developed in order to wage counter espionage and break codes used by the enemy. In the post-war war years the scope of computers was expanded to include the military industrial complex and academia. Obviously people needed to (4)________ around these institutions and so there was a needed for early network tools. In the 1960's an early version of the Internet, ARPPANET was used in computer science and engineering projects. However, only 10 years later computers were starting to change our lifestyle, the way we do business and many style things (Elliott, 1994) and by the late 1980's networks were expanding to embrace section of the general public. The (5)______ was born.

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Phuong Anh Nguyen

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MOTHER TERESA Mother Teresa of Calcutta has often been described as a saint. She devoted her whole life to charity work, looking after the poor and the sick. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in what is now Macedonia. From the age of 12, she said she knew that she wanted to dedecate her life to helping people. After her schooling and training she went to Calcutta in India where she would become famous for her good work. While teaching in a school she felt a strong desire to do more to help the si...

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MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa of Calcutta has often been described as a saint. She devoted her whole life to charity work, looking after the poor and the sick. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in what is now Macedonia. From the age of 12, she said she knew that she wanted to dedecate her life to helping people. After her schooling and training she went to Calcutta in India where she would become famous for her good work. While teaching in a school she felt a strong desire to do more to help the sick and dying people in Calcutta. In 1952, she set up a centre for the terminally ill. She wanted these people to have the best quality care in their last days.Her work inspired many people and her organization grew and grew. Originally she had twelve women working for her, but by the year 2000, there were more than 4000 people working for the organization running schools, orphanges and homes for the sick and poor all over the world. Even people who didn’t agree with all of her views could admire all of the good that she did.In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel peace prize and when she died, aged 87, the French president Jacques Chirac, said what many people were thinking : “This evening there is less love, less compassion, less light in the world".

77. Mother Teresa A.was not born in India B.was from Calcutta C.went to India when she was 12 D.wanted to become famous 78. Mother Teresa A.started teaching in 1952 B.earned a lot of money in India C.treated very sick people D.was not appriciated for her work 79. Her work made A.a big number of people want to help her B.mother Teresa rich by the year 2000 C.everyone agree with her D.many people dislike her 80. Mother Teresa A.died in 1979 B.was honoured for her work C.died in France D.was never well known

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Thắng Tran Duc

5 tháng 8 2017 lúc 8:36

I. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. 1. Dont make noise now. My parents (take)......................... their usual afternoon nap . 2. While I (have)...................... a bath, the telephone (ring)..................... . 3. He prefers (play)................................ computer games to (read).......................... books. 4. If we (not save) .............................energy, there will be a shortage in the next century. II. Read the passage a...

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I. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets.

1. Don't make noise now. My parents (take)......................... their usual afternoon nap .

2. While I (have)...................... a bath, the telephone (ring)..................... .

3. He prefers (play)................................ computer games to (read).......................... books.

4. If we (not save) .............................energy, there will be a shortage in the next century.

II. Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Alexander Fleming was bom in 1881 in Scotland. He to a small school in a village, and when he left school he didn't go to university. He worked for five years in an office. But his brother, Tom, was a doctor and helped Fleming to go to university and study medicine. So he went to London University and in 1906 he became a doctor. In 1915, Fleming mamied Sarah McElroy, an Irish woman. They had one son. During the First World War, many soldiers died in hospital because they didn't have the right medicines. So after the war, Fleming tried to find a drug that could help them. He worked for many years and in 192s he discovered a new drug and he called it "penicillin". He later worked with an Australian and a German scientist to develop a drug that doctors could use. In 1945, they won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on penicillin.

1. Where was Alexander Fleming bom?

...........................................................................................

2. Did he work in an office before he went to university?

...............................................................................................

3. What did he study at university?

..................................................................................................

4. When did he win the Nobel Prize in medicine? Rewrite the sentences

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III. Rewrite the sentences.

1. Mary always went swimming after school last year.

->Mary used to.............................................................

2. My daughter has studied English for two years.

-> My daughter started .....................................................

3. She wants to buy that villa but it's too far expensive for her.

->She wishes..............................................................................

4. It took Nam two days to have a trip to the countryside last week.

->Nam spent......................................................................................

5. They have changed the date of the meeting.

-> The date .....................................................................................

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