Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach (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 skill is the 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 (33) ______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 much on 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 (34) ______ teach. The foundations for skill in expression have to be laidearly: an interest in and an ear (35) ______ language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the habit of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.

Question 34

A. quite

B. really

C. truly

D. hardly

Answer 1

Đáp án B

Giải thích:

A. quite (adv) khá là

B. really (adv) thực sự, dùng để nhấn mạnh

C. truly (adv) thành thật mà nói, dùng trong trường nghĩa thật - giả, không tương đương với really

D. hardly (adv) hiếm khi, gần như không xảy ra

Đọc đoạn sau thì ta thấy thực tế kĩ năng trình bày được dạy ở trường, nên cần điền từ khẳng định, không dùng từ phủ định hardly. Trong các từ còn lại chỉ có really là dùng được vì các từ khác không hợp nghĩa và không đúng trường nghĩa.