Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 27
Communication Skills
The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The school teach a (25) ____many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother (26) ____it.
This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate with people and to (27) _____your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (28) _______understand what you are driving at and be persuaded. Of course, skill in expression is not enough (29) _______itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends much on your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.
A. interpret
B. give out
C. transfer
D. present
Đáp án D
A. interpret: giải thích ý nghĩa, diễn giải
B. give out: phân phát, phân phối
C. transfer: truyền (từ người này sang người khác)
D. present (ideas, thoughts): trình bày ý tưởng, một cách trang trọng hoặc chính thức để mọi người xem xét, đánh giá
Do phía sau có cụm “so they will both understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.” nên động từ mang nghĩa cần người khác xem xét, suy ngẫm, quyết định về ý kiến mình đưa ra và thuyết phục được mọi người, nên đáp án thích hợp là “present”.