C
Kiến thức: Từ vựng
Giải thích:
announce (v): báo, giới thiệu denounce (v): tố cáo, lên án
pronounce (v): phát âm renounce (v): từ bỏ; bỏ
Tạm dịch: Đối với những người nói tiếng Ả Rập, nhiều hơn hai phụ âm với nhau có thể khó phát âm, vì vậy họ thường chèn một nguyên âm ngắn giữa chúng.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct wordfor each of the blanks.
Scientists say that (44) _______ the next thirty years we will not be able to tell the difference between the real people and the virtual people- that is, people created by computer. These virtual humans are already in films and computer games and engineers are setting up experiments to see if they can develop a (45) _______ feeling virtual people. And the prediction is that these virtual people will be better than us humans- because they are basically a machine, they can (46) _______ data and remember it much better than we can. In addition, they are starting to look much more like us. They are already used to (47) _______ research that may be dangerous for humans, such as on equipment for the army. The “virtuals” are very good at following procedures exactly so scientists can get reliable results. Engineers are carrying out further tests to find out how to get the virtual beings to understand conversation. Now, we can only “talk” to them by typing. But if you (48) _______ the internet, you will find more and more sites devoted to virtual humans- we are just at the beginning of what they can do.
Điền vào ô số 47
A. proceed
B. conduct
C. convey
D. lead
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct wordfor each of the blanks.
Scientists say that (44) _______ the next thirty years we will not be able to tell the difference between the real people and the virtual people- that is, people created by computer. These virtual humans are already in films and computer games and engineers are setting up experiments to see if they can develop a (45) _______ feeling virtual people. And the prediction is that these virtual people will be better than us humans- because they are basically a machine, they can (46) _______ data and remember it much better than we can. In addition, they are starting to look much more like us. They are already used to (47) _______ research that may be dangerous for humans, such as on equipment for the army. The “virtuals” are very good at following procedures exactly so scientists can get reliable results. Engineers are carrying out further tests to find out how to get the virtual beings to understand conversation. Now, we can only “talk” to them by typing. But if you (48) _______ the internet, you will find more and more sites devoted to virtual humans- we are just at the beginning of what they can do.
Điền vào ô số 44
A. within
B. for
C. about
D. during
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct wordfor each of the blanks.
Scientists say that (44) _______ the next thirty years we will not be able to tell the difference between the real people and the virtual people- that is, people created by computer. These virtual humans are already in films and computer games and engineers are setting up experiments to see if they can develop a (45) _______ feeling virtual people. And the prediction is that these virtual people will be better than us humans- because they are basically a machine, they can (46) _______ data and remember it much better than we can. In addition, they are starting to look much more like us. They are already used to (47) _______ research that may be dangerous for humans, such as on equipment for the army. The “virtuals” are very good at following procedures exactly so scientists can get reliable results. Engineers are carrying out further tests to find out how to get the virtual beings to understand conversation. Now, we can only “talk” to them by typing. But if you (48) _______ the internet, you will find more and more sites devoted to virtual humans- we are just at the beginning of what they can do.
Điền vào ô số 45
A. speculating
B. thoughtful
C. thinking
D. mindful
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct wordfor each of the blanks.
Scientists say that (44) _______ the next thirty years we will not be able to tell the difference between the real people and the virtual people- that is, people created by computer. These virtual humans are already in films and computer games and engineers are setting up experiments to see if they can develop a (45) _______ feeling virtual people. And the prediction is that these virtual people will be better than us humans- because they are basically a machine, they can (46) _______ data and remember it much better than we can. In addition, they are starting to look much more like us. They are already used to (47) _______ research that may be dangerous for humans, such as on equipment for the army. The “virtuals” are very good at following procedures exactly so scientists can get reliable results. Engineers are carrying out further tests to find out how to get the virtual beings to understand conversation. Now, we can only “talk” to them by typing. But if you (48) _______ the internet, you will find more and more sites devoted to virtual humans- we are just at the beginning of what they can do.
Điền vào ô số 46
A. gather
B. accumulate
C. amass
D. collect
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct wordfor each of the blanks.
Scientists say that (44) _______ the next thirty years we will not be able to tell the difference between the real people and the virtual people- that is, people created by computer. These virtual humans are already in films and computer games and engineers are setting up experiments to see if they can develop a (45) _______ feeling virtual people. And the prediction is that these virtual people will be better than us humans- because they are basically a machine, they can (46) _______ data and remember it much better than we can. In addition, they are starting to look much more like us. They are already used to (47) _______ research that may be dangerous for humans, such as on equipment for the army. The “virtuals” are very good at following procedures exactly so scientists can get reliable results. Engineers are carrying out further tests to find out how to get the virtual beings to understand conversation. Now, we can only “talk” to them by typing. But if you (48) _______ the internet, you will find more and more sites devoted to virtual humans- we are just at the beginning of what they can do.
Điền vào ô số 48
A. click
B. ride
C. seek
D. surf
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.
Who talks more - men or women? Most people believe that women talk more. However, linguist Deborah Tannen, who has the studied the communication style of men and women, says that this is a stereotype. According to Tannen, women are more verbal - talk more - in private situations, where they use conversation as the “glue’ to hold relationships together. But, she says, men talk more in public situations, where they use conversation to exchange information and gain status. Tannen points out that we can see these difference even in children. Little girls often play with one ‘best friend’ and their play includes a lot of conversation. Little boys often play games in groups, their play usually involves more doing than talking. In school, girls are often better at verbal skills, while boys are often better at mathematics.
A recent study at Emory University helps to shed light on the roots of this difference. Researchers studied conversation between children aged 3-6 and their parents. They found evidence that parents talk very differently to their sons than they do to their daughters. The startling conclusion was that parents use more language with their girls. Specifically, when parents talk with their daughters, they use more descriptive language and more details. There is also far more talk about emotions, especially with daughters than with sons.
Which can be used as a synonym of the word “feelings” ?
A. anger
B. emotions
C. thinking
D. worries
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.
One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth. We naturally expect that a doctor’s salary will be higher than a bus conductor’s wage. But the question becomes much more difficult to answer when we compare, say, a miner with an engineer, or an unskilled man working on an oil-rig in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor, the engineer and teacher have is many years of training in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We feel instinctively that these skills and these years, when they were studying instead of earning money, should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oil-rig laborer is both hard and dangerous, and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take.
Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man’s work is, regardless of the talents he may bring to it. Most people would agree that looking after the sick or teaching children is more important than, say, selling secondhand cars or improving the taste of toothpaste by adding a red stripe to it. Yet it is almost certain that the used car salesman earns more than the nurse, and that research chemist earns more than the schoolteacher.
Indeed, this whole question of just rewards can be turned on its head. You can argue that a man who does a job which brings him personal satisfaction is already receiving part of his reward in the form of a so-called “psychic wage”, and that it is the man with the boring, repetitive job who needs more money to make up for the soul-destroying monotony of his work. It is significant that that those jobs which are traditionally regarded as “vocations” - nursing, teaching and the Church, for example - continue to be poorly paid, while others, such as those in the world of sport or entertainment, carry financial rewards out of all proportion to their social worth.
Although the amount of money that people earn is in reality largely determined by market forces, this should not prevent us from seeking some way to decide what is the right pay for the job. A starting point for such an investigation would be to try to decide the ratio which ought to exist between the highest and the lowest paid. The picture is made more complicate by two factors: firstly by the “social wage”, i.e, the welfare benefits which every citizen receives; and secondly, by the taxation system, which is often used as an instrument of social justice by taxing high incomes at a very high rate indeed. Allowing for these two things, most countries now regard a ratio of 7:1 as socially acceptable. If it is less, the highly-qualified people carrying heavy responsibilities become disillusioned, and might even end up by emigration (the so-called “brain-drain” is an evidence that this can happen). If it is more, the gap between rich and poor will be so great that it will lead social tensions and ultimately to violence.
(Adapted from: "How much is job worth? ")
It can be inferred from the passage that a man who does a boring, repetitive job _____________.
A. should receive more money as a compensation for the drudgery of his work
B. has no interest in his work apart from the money he receives for doing it
C. receives less money than he deserves
D. can only expect more money if his job is a highly-skilled one
Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Who talk more - men or women? Most people believe that women talk more. However, linguist Deborah Tannen, who has studied the communication style of men and women , says that this is a stereotype . According to Tannen, women are more verbal - talk more - in private situations , where they use conversation as the "glue" to hold relationships together. But, she says, men talk more in public situations, where they use conversation to exchange information and gain status. Tannen points out that we can see these differences even in children. Little girls often play with one "best friend", their play includes a lot of conversation. Little boys often play games in groups; their play usually involves more doing than talking. In school, girls are often better at verbal skills, boys are often better at mathematics.
A recent study at Emory University helps to shed light on the roots of this difference. Researchers studied conversation between children age 3-6 and their parents. They found evidence that parents talk very differently to their son than they do to their daughters. The startling conclusion was that parents use more language with their girls . Specifically, when parents talk with their daughters , they use more descriptive language and more details. There is also far more talk about emotions, especially sadness, with daughters than with sons.
Which word in the reading passage can be used as a synonym of the word "feelings" ?
A. anger
B. emotions
C. worries
D. thinking
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Who talk more – men or women? Most people believe that women talk more. However, linguist Deborah Tannen, who has studied the communication style of men and women, says that this is a stereotype. According to Tannen, women are more verbal – talk more – in private situations, where they use conversation as the “glue” to hold relationships together. But, she says, men talk more in public situations, where they use conversation to exchange information and gain status. Tannen points out that we can see these differences even in children. Little girls often play with one “best friend”, their play includes a lot of conversation. Little boys often play games in groups; their play usually involves more doing than talking. In school, girls are often better at verbal skills, boys are often better at mathematics.
A recent study at Emory University helps to shed light on the roots of this difference. Researchers studied conversation between children age 3-6 and their parents. They found evidence that parents talk very differently to their son than they do to their daughters. The startling conclusion was that parents use more language with their girls. Specifically, when parents talk with their daughters, they use more descriptive language and more details. There is also far more talk about emotions, especially sadness, with daughters than with sons.
Which can be used as a synonym of the word “emotions” ?
A. thinking
B. anger
C. feelings
D. worries
