Chosen as the nation's capital at the end of the American Civil War, ________ the city of over a million people.
A. Washington, DC is now
B. for Washington, DC,
C. Washington, DC,
D. now in Washington, DC
Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War, ______ the city of over a million people
A. Washington, DC is now
B. for Washington, DC,
C. Washington, DC,
D. now in Washington, DC,
Đáp án : A
Chọn A vì câu còn thiếu vị ngữ chính mà chỉ đáp án A mới có động từ “is”
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 35 to 42.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
It can be referred from the passage that the term “Foggy Bottom” in the second paragraph refers to a section of Washington. D. C that______.
A. used to be mostly swampland
B. lies at the bottom of Mount Vernon
C. has the lowest population in the district
D. used to be the site of the national weather station
Có thể suy luận từ đoạn văn rằng thuật ngữ Foggy Bottom ở đoạn 2 có liên hệ với khu vực ở Washington D.C là _________.
A. đã từng có phần lớn là đất đầm lầy
B. nằm ở chân đỉnh Vernon => không được nhắc đến trong bài
C. có dân số ít nhất trong đặc khu đó => không được nhắc đến trong bài
D. đã từng là địa điểm đóng của đài dự báo thời tiết quốc gia => không được nhắc đến trong bài
Chọn A
* 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 24 to 30.
MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY
A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By 2020 there could be 30.
Megacities are the result of the process of urbanization. After cities grew into crowded urban centres, people who could afford to move into suburbs at the edge of the city. When the suburbs in turn became crowded, people moved into villages and dormitory towns outside the city, but within commuting distance. In this way, for the first time since industrialisation, the countryside began to gain population, whereas cities lost their inhabitants. In the 1980s St Louis and Detroit in the America lost between 35 and 47 per cent of their populations and London lost 15 per cent in the 20 years to 1971.
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people. The largest of these is in America, called Boswash - a region over 300 miles long from Boston in the north to Washington, DC in the south with more than 44 million people. There are emerging megalopolises in Britain centred around London and the south-east, in Germany in the industrial region of the Ruhr and Japan in the Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto region.
(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013), Louis Harrison et al., Cengage Learning)
Which is the best title for paragraph 3?
A. Megacities around the world
B. What is a megacity?
C. The formation of megacities
D. Cities lose their people
ChọnD Câu đề bài: Đâu là tiêu đề phù hợp nhất cho đoạn 3?
A. Các siêu đô thị trên khắp thế giới
B. Một siêu đô thị là gì?
C. Sự hình thành các siêu đô thị
D. Các thành phố mất đi dân cư của mình
Thông tin trong bài: Bài đọc nói nhiều đến việc các thành phố khi trở nên đông đúc quá mức thì dân cư sẽ chuyển ra xung quanh, các thành phố mất đi dân cư nhưng lại hình thành các siêu đô thị do các khu vực cũng dần trở nên đông đúc và các khu vực này sát nhập lại với nhau.
* 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 24 to 30.
MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY
A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By 2020 there could be 30.
Megacities are the result of the process of urbanization. After cities grew into crowded urban centres, people who could afford to move into suburbs at the edge of the city. When the suburbs in turn became crowded, people moved into villages and dormitory towns outside the city, but within commuting distance. In this way, for the first time since industrialisation, the countryside began to gain population, whereas cities lost their inhabitants. In the 1980s St Louis and Detroit in the America lost between 35 and 47 per cent of their populations and London lost 15 per cent in the 20 years to 1971.
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people. The largest of these is in America, called Boswash - a region over 300 miles long from Boston in the north to Washington, DC in the south with more than 44 million people. There are emerging megalopolises in Britain centred around London and the south-east, in Germany in the industrial region of the Ruhr and Japan in the Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto region.
(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013), Louis Harrison et al., Cengage Learning)
A megacity is characterised by___________.
A. number of centres
B. high-rise apartment buildings
C. those who move from villages
D. low-level urban developments
Chọn D Câu đề bài: Một siêu đô thi được đặc trưng bởi _______.
A. số lượng trung tâm
B. các tòa nhà chung cư chọc trời
C. những người chuyển từ quê lên
D. các phát triển đô thị bậc thấp
Thông tin trong bài:
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments.
—» Tuy nhiên, sự dịch chuyển khỏi các thành phố này không có nghĩa là thành phố đang lụi tàn. Thực tế thì nó vẫn đang sinh sôi mở rộng. Từ thành phố cũ mọc lên một khu vực đô thị với nhiều sự phát triển đô thị bậc thấp.
* 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 24 to 30.
MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY
A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By 2020 there could be 30.
Megacities are the result of the process of urbanization. After cities grew into crowded urban centres, people who could afford to move into suburbs at the edge of the city. When the suburbs in turn became crowded, people moved into villages and dormitory towns outside the city, but within commuting distance. In this way, for the first time since industrialisation, the countryside began to gain population, whereas cities lost their inhabitants. In the 1980s St Louis and Detroit in the America lost between 35 and 47 per cent of their populations and London lost 15 per cent in the 20 years to 1971.
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people. The largest of these is in America, called Boswash - a region over 300 miles long from Boston in the north to Washington, DC in the south with more than 44 million people. There are emerging megalopolises in Britain centred around London and the south-east, in Germany in the industrial region of the Ruhr and Japan in the Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto region.
(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013), Louis Harrison et al., Cengage Learning)
Areas merging together form __________.
A. city spread
B. megacity
C. suburb movement
D. village movement
Chọn B Câu đề bài: Các khu vực sát nhập vào nhau tạo nên _____________.
A. sự trải rộng thành phố B. siêu đô thị
C. sự dịch chuyển vùng ngoại ô D. sự dịch chuyển ở làng quê
Thông tin trong bài:
From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people.
—» Từ thành phố cũ mọc lên một khu vực đô thị với nhiều sự phát triển đô thị bậc thấp. Khi những khu vực thành thị này sát nhập lại, chúng tạo nên những siêu đô thị với dân số trên 10 triệu người.
* 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 24 to 30.
MEGACITY: A NEW KIND OF CITY
A term 'megalopolis' (or megacity) was first used by French geographer Jean Gottman to describe the north-eastern United States in 1961. The term is used more widely now and is defined as an urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants dominated by a low-density housing. In 1995 there were 14 megacities. By 2020 there could be 30.
Megacities are the result of the process of urbanization. After cities grew into crowded urban centres, people who could afford to move into suburbs at the edge of the city. When the suburbs in turn became crowded, people moved into villages and dormitory towns outside the city, but within commuting distance. In this way, for the first time since industrialisation, the countryside began to gain population, whereas cities lost their inhabitants. In the 1980s St Louis and Detroit in the America lost between 35 and 47 per cent of their populations and London lost 15 per cent in the 20 years to 1971.
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people. The largest of these is in America, called Boswash - a region over 300 miles long from Boston in the north to Washington, DC in the south with more than 44 million people. There are emerging megalopolises in Britain centred around London and the south-east, in Germany in the industrial region of the Ruhr and Japan in the Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto region.
(adaptedfrom Archive IELTS (2013), Louis Harrison et al., Cengage Learning)
Movement away from cities creates________.
A. urbanization
B. dormitory towns
C. metropolitan areas
D. industrialisation
Chọn C Câu đề bài: Sự dịch chuyển khỏi các thành phố tạo nên_____________.
A. sự đô thị hóa B. các thị trấn vùng ngoại ô
C. những khu vực đô thị D. sự công nghiệp hóa
Thông tin trông bài:
However, this movement away from cities does not mean that the city is dying. In fact it is spreading. From the old city develops a metropolitan area with many low-level urban developments. When these metropolitan areas merge together, they form megacities which contain over 10 million people.
—» Tuy nhiên, sự dịch chuyển khỏi các thành phố này không có nghĩa là thành phố đang lụi tàn. Thực tế là nó vẫn đang mở rộng. Từ thành phố cũ mọc lên một khu vực đô thị với nhiều sự phát triển đô thị bậc thấp. Khi những khu vực thành thị này sát nhập lại, chúng tạo nên những siêu đô thị với dân số trên 10 triệu người.
giúp với dịch nghĩa nhé cần gấp lắm:
One of the world's largest libraries is the United States' Library of Congress. It is in Washington D.C, the capital of the USA. It receives copies of all American books. It contains over 100 million books. It has about 1,000 km of shelves. It has over 5,000 employees
cảm ơn
Một trong những thư viện lớn nhất nước Mĩ của quốc hội. Nó nằm ở Wasington, thủ đô của nước Mĩ. Nó nhận nhiệm vụ sao chép tất cả sách ơ nước Mĩ. Nó bao gồm hơn 100 triệu cuốn sách với 1000 kilomet giá sách. Và nó co hơn 5000 người làm.
Xong phim
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One of the world's largest libraries is the United States' Library of Congress. It is in Washington D.C, the capital of the USA. It receives copies of all American books. It contains over 100 million books. It has about 1,000 km of shelves. It has over 5,000 employees.
=> Một trong những thư viện lớn nhất thế giới là Thư viện Quốc hội Hoa Kỳ. Nó là ở washington D.C thủ đô của Hoa Kỳ. Nó nhận được bản sao của tất cả các sách của Mỹ. Nó chứa hơn 100 triệu cuốn sách. Nó có khoảng 1.000 km kệ. Nó có hơn 5.000 nhân viên
Một trong những thư viện lớn nhất thế giới là thư viện Quốc hội Mỹ. Nó nằm ở Washington D.C, thủ đô nước Mĩ. Nó nhận tất cả bản sao của nước Mỹ. Nó chứa khoảng một trăm triệu quyển sách. Nó có khoảng 1000km giá sách. Nó có khoảng 5.000 nghìn nhân công.
Điền giới từ thích hợp vào chỗ trống
1. The science books are.......the left.
2. There are a lot of books, newspapers, magazines, etc..........the library.
3. Magazines and newspapers are.........the racks...........the middle.
4. Are there any English books..............the shelves next..........the study area?
5. You can find the physics books.........the back of the library.
6. The United States' Library of Congress is............Washington DC.
7. Those books are...........English.
8. Washington DC is the capital............the USA.
1. The science books are on the left.
2. There are a lot of books, newspapers, magazines, etc in the library.
3. Magazines and newspapers are on the racks in the middle.
4. Are there any English books on the shelves next to the study area?
5. You can find the physics books on the back of the library.
6. The United States' Library of Congress is in Washington DC.
7. Those books are in English.
8. Washington DC is the capital of the USA.
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1. The science books are. on the left.
2. There are a lot of books, newspapers, magazines, etc in.the library.
3. Magazines and newspapers are. on .the racks. in .the middle.
4. Are there any English books on the shelves next to .the study area?
5. You can find the physics books on the back of the library.
6. The United States' Library of Congress is in Washington DC.
7. Those books are in English.
8. Washington DC is the capital of.the USA.
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 35 to 42.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
The word “hotly” in paragraph 1 is closet in meaning to_____.
A.mildly
B.warmly
C.spicily
D.vehemently
Từ “hotly” trong đoạn 1 gần nghĩa nhất với _____.
A. mildly(adv): một cách dịu nhẹ
B. warmly(adv): một cách ấm áp, một cách nồng nhiệt
C. spicily(adv): liên quan đến gia vị
D. vehemently(adv): kịch liệt (có sựcáu giận với nhau)
Thông tin: Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves
Tạm dịch: Sau Cách mạng, các thành viên của Quốc hội đã tranh luận nảy lửa về câu hỏi về một ngôi nhà lâu dài cho chính họ
Chọn D