Question

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

Silicon Valley is (1) _______ to hundreds of technology companies, so it comes as no surprise that San Jose has partnered with technological giant Intel to transform itself (2) _______ a smart city. San Jose and Intel will work (3) _______ to further the city's Green Vision initiative - a 15-year plan for economic growth, and improve (4) _______ which it launched in 2007. Intel expects to help San Jose create 25,000 clean-tech jobs, drive economic growth, and improve the city's environmental (5) _______. To achieve this (6) _______, Intel will work with the city to track real-time data on air quality, noise pollution, traffic flow, and other environmental and (7) _______concerns which it will then use to encourage (8) _______to reduce emissions by using public transportation or bicycles to get to work or school. Smart cities may sound like something of the distant future (9)_______ many people thought the same thing about smartphones and smart homes. Up to now, over 70 percent of American adults have owned a smartphone and 1.9 billion smart home devices have been installed.   If smart cities are (10) _______like these other smart innovations, we will see them appear in our communities sooner rather than later.

Question 2:

A. from

B. to

C. into

D. towards

Answer 1

Đáp án:

transform sth into sth: chuyển cái gì thành cái gì

=> so it comes as no surprise that San Jose has partnered with technological giant Intel to transform itself into a smart city.

Tạm dịch: do đó không có gì đáng ngạc nhiên khi San Jose hợp tác với gã khổng lồ công nghệ Intel để biến mình thành một thành phố thông minh.

Đáp án cần chọn là: C