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What does the phrase 'the great British seaside' bring to mind? Most people, if asked to respond off the top of their heads, asociate going on holiday to places such as Blackpool or Torquay with poor weather, old, faded attractions and low standard of accommodation. These days, when people are more likely to go abroad to see the sights, traditional British seaside towns are surffering from an image problem. Now, finally, some of the resorts have decided to bring their images up to date in the hope that a change of derection will bring back the tourists. Many will need a lot of convincing, but those that do .come will find that today's Blackpool differs quite a bit from .the picture postcard past.

After years of neglect, Blackpool has to work hard to catch up with foreign destinations but that's precisely what it is doing. It's the first time so much hashappened to improve the place in such a short time. A massive building project, including a new casino and indoor entertainment centre, means that rainy days are no longer a problem. And it appears to be working. As the tourists start to make for the bright lights of Blackpool once again, it seems that the Great British seaside has a bright future ahead.

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What does the phrase 'the great British seaside' bring to mind? Most people, if asked to respond off the top of their heads, asociate going on holiday to places such as Blackpool or Torquay with poor weather, old, faded attractions and low standard of accommodation. These days, when people are more likely to go abroad to see the sights, traditional British seaside towns are surffering from an image problem. Now, finally, some of the resorts have decided to bring their images up to date in the hope that a change of derection will bring back the tourists. Many will need a lot of convincing, but those that do .come will find that today's Blackpool differs quite a bit from .the picture postcard past.

After years of neglect, Blackpool has to work hard to catch up with foreign destinations but that's precisely what it is doing. It's the first time so much hashappened to improve the place in such a short time. A massive building project, including a new casino and indoor entertainment centre, means that rainy days are no longer a problem. And it appears to be working. As the tourists start to make for the bright lights of Blackpool once again, it seems that the Great British seaside has a bright future ahead.

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

The film was taken apart on the grounds that it glorifies violence.

A. greatly admired

B. excellently cast

C. badly reviewed

D. criticized severely

Read the passage and fill each gap with one suitable word

Christiaan Huygens spends Christmas day, in the Hague in 1656, contructing a model of a clock on a new principle. The principle ______ hes been observed by Galileo, traditionally as a result of watching a lamp swing to and fro in the cathedral when he is a student in Pisa. Galileo later proves experimentally that a swinging supspended object takes the ______ time to complete each swing regardless of how far it travels.

This consistency prompts Galileo to suggest that a pendulum might bu useful in clock. But no one has been able to apply that insight, until Huygens______ that his model works.

A craftsman in the Hague makes the first full-scale clock on this principle for Huygens in 1657. But it is England______ the idea is taken up with the greatest enthusiasm.

By 1600 London clockmakers have already developed the characteristic shape which makes______ use of the new mechanism - that of the longcase clock, more affectionately known as the grandfather clock

Fairy tales are very good for children beacuse of some reasons. Firstly, they boost a child's imagination and cultural literacy. A child's imagation is a powerful and unique thing. It's not only used to make up stories and games, it;s a key factor in their creative thoughts and can define the type of education, career and life they have. Fairy tales often include difference cultures and ways of doing things. They teach children about cultural difference in the world outside. Then, they gift children a curiosity to learn new things and experience new places.

Secondly, fairy tales teach children right from wrong. It;s always in a fairytales's DNA to have a strong moral lesson, a fight between good and evil, love and loss, and these lessons rub off on our children. Fairy tales teach children that good persons will always win and, while this may not be true in aspects of the of the real world, the lesson is simple and important. Be the hero, not the villain, Learn to hope for better.

1. How many main advantages of fairy tales are mentioned in the passage?

2. What does the writer say about children's imagination?

3. According to the writer, what do fairy tales often include?

4. What do fairy tales tech children?

5. What does a fairy tale aways have?

Bài tập:Complete the text with the most suitable form of the adjectives in brackets.Add the when necessary:

New York City (NYC) is considered as one of (1)......(good) places to live in the world.The city of New York is (2)......(densely populated) in the US with a population of about 8.55 million spread over an area of 305 square miles.Although New York and San Francisco are probably two of (3)......(iconic) cities in America,the former seems to attract more tourists thanks to a wide range of landscapes and activities it offers.In addition,its standard of living is also a strong point.It's hard to believe,but rent is actually (4)......(cheap) than other cities.It's a fun fact that city life isn't just (5)......(good),it's (6)......(lengthy):NYC residents live about two years (7)......(long) than the national average.Remarkably,NYC has the second (8)......(large) Jewish population in the world - a massive influence on the city's identity.This is the city that most people surveyed said they would want to visit this year.

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 36 to 42.

The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous.

Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin when it isreleased and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it falls.

In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician's trick. The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available in any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment.

          The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret; as the cat rotates the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while nobody can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold.

The word “rotates” in line 19 is closest in meaning to

A. drops

B. turns

C. controls

D. touches

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 36 to 42.

The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous.

Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin when it isreleased and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it falls.

In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician's trick. The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available in any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment.

          The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret; as the cat rotates the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while nobody can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold.

The word “process” in line 10 refers to

A. the righting of a tumbling cat

B. the cat's fall slowed down

C. high-speed photography

D. a scientific experiment