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 28
We can (25) _______ other people in many different ways. We can talk and write, and we can send messages with our hands and faces. There is also the phone (including the mobile!), the fax, and e-mail. Television, film, painting, and photography can also communicate ideas.
Animals have ways of exchanging information, too. Bees dance and tell other bees where (26) _______ food. Elephants make sounds that humans can’t hear. Whales sing songs. Monkeys use their faces to show anger and love. But this is nothing (27) _______ to what people can do. We have language - about 6,000 languages, in fact. We can write poetry, tell jokes, make promises, explain, persuade, tell the truth, or tell lies. And we have a sense of past and future, not just present.
Radio, film, and television (28) _______ a huge influence on society in the last hundred years. And now we have the Internet, which is infinite. But what is this doing to this? We can give and get a lot of information very quickly. But there is (29) _______ information that it is difficult to know what is important and what isn’t. Modem media is changing our world every minute of every day.
A. are having
B. have had
C. have
D. had
Đáp án B
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành dùng để diễn tả hành động bắt đầu ở quá khứ và đang tiếp tục ở hiện tại.
Dịch nghĩa: Radio, phim, TV có sức ảnh hưởng to lớn đến xã hội trong hàng trăm năm qua.