Question

Part 2:
For questions 1 – 10, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. 
Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

Rain making

        When it rains, it doesn’t always pour. During a typical storm, a comparatively small (1) _______________ of the locked up moisture in each cloud reaches the ground as rain. So the idea that human (2) _______________ – a rain dance, perhaps – might encourage the sky to give up a little (3) _______________ water has been around since prehistoric times. More recently, would-be rain makers have used a more direct procedure – that of (4) _______________ various chemicals out of aeroplanes in an effort to wring more rain from the clouds, a practice known as ‘cloud seeding’.

        Yet such techniques, which were first developed in the 1940s, are notoriously (5) _______________ to evaluate. It is hard to ascertain, for example, how much rain would have fallen anyway. So, (6) _______________ much anecdotal evidence of the advantages of cloud seeding, which has led to its adoption in more than 40 countries around the world, as far as scientists are (7) _______________ , results are still inconclusive. That could be about to change. For the past three years, researchers have been carrying out the most extensive and rigorous evaluation to (8) _______________ of a revolutionary new technique which will substantially boost the (9) _______________ of rainfall.

        The preliminary (10) _______________ of their experiments indicate that solid evidence of the technique’s effectiveness is now within the scientists’ grasp.

Answer 1

Hello, bạn có thể tham khảo cái này:

1.AMOUNT

2.INTERVENTION

3.MORE

4.SPRAYING

5. DIFFICULT

6. DESPITE

7. CONCERNED

8. DATE

9. VOLUME

10. RESULTS