Question

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.

 The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (31)__________  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 to learn 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 (32)__________  your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will both understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.

Of course, skill in expression is not enough by itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (33)__________  your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.

Expressing one’s thoughts is one skill that the school can really teach. The foundations for (34)__________  in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear for language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the (35)__________  of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.

Điền ô 35

A. habit 

B. routine

C. trend

D. hobby

Answer 1

A

Habit(n): thói quen

Routine(n): công việc thường nhật/ hoạt động hằng ngày

Trend(n): xu hướng

Hobby(n): sở thích

Cụm từ: habit of + danh từ: thói quen

trend for: có xu hướng

experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the (35)………. of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.

[ có kinh nghiệm trong việc tổ chức ý tưởng và dữ liệu, trong vi phát triển những ý có liên quan, và trên tất cả là thói quen dùng ngôn ngữ. Nếu bạn không hình thành được những yếu tố này trong những năm ở trường, bạn sẽ không bao giờ có lại cơ hội này nữa.]